speckxFeb 5

Opus 4.6 uncovers 500 zero-day flaws in open-source code

https://www.axios.com/2026/02/05/anthropic-claude-opus-46-software-hunting

Exclusive: Anthropic's new model is a pro at finding security flaws

The AI company sees the model's advancements as a major win for cyber defenders in the race against adversarial AI.

Axios
Show threadfred_is_fred
Is the word zero-day here superfluous? If they were previously unknown doesn't that make them zero-day by definition?
Feb 5 at 6:55pmWeb
Show threadtptacekFeb 5
It's a term of art. In print media, the connotation is "vulnerabilities embedded into shipping software", as opposed to things like misconfigurations.