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Perplexity Bumblebee is an open-source developer security program.

Bumblebee doesn't require AI or a subscription.

The program aims to spot problems on programmers' laptops.

If you're a programmer, you're painfully aware that there's been a flood of successful malicious attacks on your software supply chain . These attacks include the Axios npm package compromise , the PyPI LiteLLM AI attack , and the CanisterSprawl npm assault .

What's a programmer to do when they can't even trust the very building blocks of their program?…