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Google has open-sourced a tool called Mantis, an AI agent framework built to tackle one of the persistent headaches in software security — false positives. Conventional AI scanning tools hallucinate vulnerabilities that aren't there, wasting engineer time and eroding trust. Mantis aims to automate the full vulnerability lifecycle, from detection through validation and fix, with far greater precision.
Shifting to a story with real civil liberties weight, Flock Safety's AI search platform for law enforcement has been reverse engineered and made partially public. The system, which ties into roughly one hundred twenty thousand license plate readers and cameras across the United States, includes built-in warnings about potential errors — which raises an obvious question about how seriously those warnings are taken when officers are under pressure.
And on a lighter note, physical music is making a genuine comeback. The Recording Industry Association of America reports that US recorded music revenue hit six billion dollars in the first half of two thousand twenty six, up nearly seven percent. But the real headline is that CD sales surged fifty nine percent and vinyl climbed eighteen percent — suggesting a growing number of listeners are pushing back against the stream-everything model.
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