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Security2026-06-19 · source-backed
Zibaeirad and Vieira (arXiv:2606.20502) find that strong benchmark scores on LLM vulnerability detection can reflect pattern-matching on contaminated data rather than genuine security reasoning. That's a direct caution for the 2026 wave of autonomous CVE-discovery agents. Treat benchmark-leading vuln-detection models skeptically and test for data contamination and out-of-distribution generalization before you trust one to gate your security pipeline.
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A public DSN. That's all the attacker needs. Not your credentials, not a compromised dependency, not a phishing link. The same write-only Sentry key that's sitting in your frontend bundle right now, by design, so the browser can report errors. Tenet Security and the Cloud Secu...
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0.35 adds gpt-6-astra to the CLI's OpenAI provider, so llm -m gpt-6-astra works against the same logging, template and fragment machinery as every other model in the tool. For anyone scripting cross-model evals, that means a new frontier model needs zero new plumbing to enter...
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