Update "About CodeQL" to cover the information needs of security researchers better #17383
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When this article was originally written, it needed to be all things to all people. Now that the CodeQL docs site is firmly focused on security researchers and anyone else who wants to learn how to write CodeQL queries, we can make the content more focused.
These updates aim to answer the following needs of security researchers:
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