A security lab just found 21 zero-days in FFmpeg for about $1,000 of compute. Work that used to take a research team a year now costs less than a MacBook Pro, and it's the reason critical vulnerability reports across Apple, Microsoft, AWS, and Google went from under 100 a month to over 600 since spring. Those flaws were sitting in the code all along, some for a decade. What collapsed this spring was the price of finding them. Google's Big Sleep agent found 20 zero-days in open source projects…

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Cyber is having a moment Across 21 major software companies, including Apple, AWS, Microsoft, and Google: - Reported critical vulnerabilities never cleared 100 per month in four years - Since spring they've jumped to over 600 per month Charts of the Week: https://www.a16z.news/p/chart-of-the-week-experience-skills