Canonical is giving Ubuntu Pro users early access to AI-generated patches for known security flaws, available through a new opt-in archive called Edge. To get fixes out faster to customers and users, the company has built a multi-agent system called Surge to backport fixes for vulnerabilities in ‘userspace’ software packages. The machine-generated patches land in the Edge archive. This is opt-in and not enabled by default. Ubuntu Pro users who want fixes before they receive full testing or ‘qualification’, will need to manually enable the Edge archive on supported systems. Surge is not being used to patch kernel vulnerabilities (though […]
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