OpenAI's Daybreak⁠ initiative will help open-source projects fend off bugs, China took back top spot in latest supercomputer ranking, and the Oversight Board says Meta needs to do more to protect regular people from sexualized deepfakes

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OpenAI's new Daybreak initiative will help open-source projects fend off bugs.
China has taken back the top spot in the latest supercomputer ranking.
And the Oversight Board says Meta needs to do more to protect regular people from sexualized deepfakes. It's Tuesday, June 23rd, and here's a quick look at some of the news happening in and around tech this morning from Engadget.
OpenAI has launched Patch the Planet, a new initiative, part of its Daybreak cybersecurity program, which was designed to serve the open-source community. The company is working with cybersecurity firm Trail of Bits that has committed its entire security research organization for the project. In its own announcement, Trail of Bits said that while models like GPT-55 Cyber can produce a firehose of security findings for users, project maintainers who are already stretched thin will have to sift through all of them to identify real vulnerabilities from positives. Patch the Planet is meant to reduce project maintainers burden by putting them in contact with security researchers who use OpenAI's top models and Codex security to identify vulnerabilities and review findings before they even reach the maintainers. The researchers then work with maintainers to develop and test patches as well as to create workflows that maintainers can follow to continue improving their project's security. For the initiative's first week, Trail of Bits security engineers worked with 19 open source projects using OpenAI's Codex and GPT 5.5 cyber models. The company said its engineers discovered hundreds of legitimate bugs and 51 issues, 19 of which have already been fixed. OpenAI said more projects will join in future rounds. The company launched Daybreak back in May in response to Anthropix project Glasswing. The company explained at the time that Daybreak is built around the premise that cyber defense should be built into software from the start and not just revolve around finding and fixing vulnerabilities. Its goals are to reduce hours of analysis to minutes and to quickly generate and test patches within repositories.
China has taken the world's fastest supercomputer crown for the first time since 2017
LineShine, from the nation's National Supercomputer Center, hit 2.198 exaflops off performance, beating the previous champ El Capitan, located at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the US. LineShine, a previously unlisted machine, is the first supercomputer to exceed 2 exaflops of sustained double-precision performance using CPUs only, that's according to top500.org.
China's new machine was able to beat its US counterpart despite technology embargoes because it does not rely on GPUs like other leading models. Instead, it's designed around a custom 304-core processor with 13.79 million cores running at 1.55 GHz and linked by a proprietary interconnect. It draws around 42.2 MW of power for an efficiency of 52.07 gigaflops per watt. Top 500 organizer Dr. Jack Dongara said, It's an impressive system. They upped us by developing a system that is not reliant on GPUs. Though China managed to seize the top spot, the new ranking now boasts five systems beating the exascale threshold, with one in China, three in the US, and one in Germany. Top 500 noted a great deal of architectural diversity with this year's list, with different supercomputer models using Intel, AMD, NVIDIA, and other architecture. Top 500's Dhangara said, there is no single dominant technology path to leadership class computing. Instead, vendors are pursuing a variety of CPU, GPU, APU, and custom accelerator approaches. China has often kept its supercomputer designs under guard due to government restrictions, but LineShine was developed without public funding, so its designers felt that they could submit it to Top 500's tests without issue, according to the New York Times. The company did not reveal certain details, like which company manufactured the CPUs or the type of chip technology used.