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Open-source security is a mess - IBM and Red Hat bet $5 billion and 20,000 engineers can fix it

  • Steven Vaughan-Nichols--ZDNet
  • published date: 2026-05-29 16:26:00 UTC

Project Lightwell is an AI‑powered initiative to find and fix vulnerabilities in open-source software at an industrial scale. Here's what we know so far.

PeterPhoto123 via Shutterstock Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways <ul><li>Lightwell is a huge effort to safeguard open-source software.</li><li>IBM and Re… [+7901 chars]