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Trail of Bits’ Codex Backporting Turns Stable-Kernel Security Into a Review-Hours Problem, but 143 of Its 206 Deliveries Look Like Plain Cherry-Picks and the Bug Behind the OpenAI Hack Had No CVE

Trail of Bits says Codex-assisted work delivered fixes for 149...

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