InfoSec News Nuggets 8/22/2025
DARPA: Closing the Open Source Security Gap With AI Open source components continue to cause huge problems for security practitioners, and AIxCC was created to determine whether automation could help close the gap. At DEF CON 33, DARPA announced the winners of its AI Cyber Challenge (AIxCC), a two-year program in which teams were tasked with using AI technology to secure the open source technology underlying critical infrastructure. Teams developed "cyber reasoning systems" (CRSes) to remediate vulnerabilities during a…