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GLM-5.2 puts top-tier coding within four points of Claude for a sixth the cost

GLM-5.2 ships open MIT weights with coding scores four points behind Claude Opus and a sixth the cost, 48 hours after US export controls pulled a frontier model.

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SECURITYvia @github13h ago

GitHub cuts secret-scanning false positives 75.76% with LLM check

Context-aware LLM verification makes secret alerts more trustworthy, reducing the noise that buries real leaks for security teams.

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SECURITYvia @tomshardwareYesterday

AMD restores memory encryption on Ryzen 9000 via July BIOS

TSME returns after being quietly pulled, closing a gap for builders running sensitive workloads on these chips.

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SECURITYvia @TechCrunchYesterday

TechCrunch revisits why cyber export controls keep failing

History from PGP to spyware suggests new controls on Anthropic-linked tools won't stop determined actors.

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SECURITYvia @arstechnica2d ago

Microsoft finds self-spreading crypto-stealing malware

A lightweight backdoor that hops over USB and talks over Tor widens the threat surface for air-gapped machines.

SECURITYvia @ClementDelangue2d ago

Hugging Face CEO argues API guardrails fail as frontier safety

Opinion that after-the-fact API filters hide rather than remove dangerous capabilities, with no new tooling or data.

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