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Google Claims World First As AI Finds 0-Day Security Vulnerability

Google’s Project Zero hackers and DeepMind boffins have collaborated to uncover a zero-day security vulnerability in real-world code for the first time using AI.

In the case of this world first, the Big Sleep team says it found “an exploitable stack buffer underflow in SQLite, a widely used open source database engine.” “This effort will lead to a significant advantage to defenders,” Google’s Big Sleep team said, “with the potential not only to find crashing test cases, but also to provide high-quality root-cause analysis, triaging and fixing issues could be much cheaper and more effective in the future.” Concerns about deepfakes manipulating public opinion are high, with 74.3% extremely worried about potential misuse in political or social contexts.

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