Buckle up, Buttercup, AIxCC’s scored round is underway!

Summary: DARPA's AI Cyber Challenge Finals scored round has begun, with Trail of Bits' Cyber Reasoning System, Buttercup, competing against six other teams to find and patch the most software vulnerabilities. Winners will be announced on the DEFCON 33 main stage on August 8, with $4 million for the top system and $3 million and $1.5 million for the next two runners up.
Key Takeaway: Each competing system is tasked with finding and patching vulnerabilities in dozens of real-world open-source programs drawn from the most heavily used C and Java code, including SQLite, Nginx, Apache Tika, Jenkins, and the Linux Kernel - and the winner is meant to prove it can scale to securing the open-source ecosystem those programs underpin.

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