Making frontier cybersecurity capabilities available to defenders

See latest writings about software security and a little miscellania. Kohnfelder, Loren. Designing Secure Software: A Guide for Developers. No Starch Press, 2021.

Claude Opus 4.6 discovered 22 Firefox vulnerabilities in two weeks, including 14 high-severity bugs, as nearly 20% of all critical Firefox vulnerabilities were fixed in 2025. The AI also wrote working exploits for two bugs, demonstrating emerging capabilities that give defenders a temporary advantage but signal an accelerating arms race in cybersecurity.

AI-based assistants or "agents" -- autonomous programs that have access to the user's computer, files, online services and can automate virtually any task -- are growing in popularity with developers and IT workers. But as so many eyebrow-raising headlines over…

Previously. Problem statement: enable auto-sync to AnkiWeb. First layer: enable sync on open/close: Preferences > Syncing > Automatically sync on profile open/close Second layer: for manual syncs, press y (source). Third layer: install and enable an auto sync add-on such as this one: This addon will automatically synchronize your collection with AnkiWeb at time intervals you can choose. It will never interrupt you while you are using Anki. By default, the first sync will start 1 minute after your last activity. While Anki is sitting idle in the background, it will sync every 10 minutes. You can change those settings in the options dialog.

Cybersecurity stocks took a dive after Anthropic released a blog post titled “Making frontier cybersecurity capabilities available to def...

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In 2026, LLM-powered code scanners are uncovering security vulnerabilities in open source projects at 10x the historical rate. Here's what OSS maintainers and users need to do about it.