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Bitcoin Core speeds up patches after AI tools flag thousands of potential bugs

  • —Policy merged October 22: easily discoverable flaws get fixes and advisories without long embargoes
  • —Bitcoin Red Team review: 390 projects, 4,962 findings, including 85 critical and 635 high severity
  • —Medium- and high-severity flaws were previously kept private for up to a year
  • —Developers acknowledge faster releases may get less testing before reaching users
Why it matters: AI makes bug discovery faster, pushing Bitcoin infrastructure toward quicker patching — narrowing exposure windows but raising the risk of under-tested releases.
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Source: Coinpaper
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