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Open-source command-line tool and library (libcurl) for transferring data over URLs using HTTP, FTP, and other protocols; widely embedded in software.
Cohere signed a letter of intent on Oct. 15 to buy Prague-based Aisle, an AI security startup with about 50 staff. Cohere's stated reason is a sovereign platform for customers.
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Anthropic's OSS Scanner sends maintainers Mythos findings before its researchers review them, with about 6,000 of 29,000-plus candidates triaged. The service is free and opt-in, and reports carry reproduction steps and proposed fixes where available.
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Curl ended its bug bounty in January 2026 after AI-written reports cut its confirmed rate below 5%, a dev.to post says. The post's own shares and rates explain only a small part of that drop.
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curl 8.23.0 shipped 24 security fixes nine months after the project closed its bug bounty over low-quality reports. The explanation on offer, a human check before each submission, is one auditor's reading.
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Anthropic's Claude flagged more than 29,000 candidate open source vulnerabilities in six months, and upstream projects have patched 516 of them. Maintainers praise the reports, but each fix still ships only as fast as the project that tests and releases it.
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Anthropic announced a Critical Infrastructure Defense Program that pairs Claude with outside security firms, CrowdStrike among them. Alongside it, Anthropic is running a free, opt-in scanning service for open-source maintainers directly, CyberScoop reported.
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Anthropic expects more than 90% of the unreviewed vulnerability reports its new OSS Scanner sends to open source maintainers to be real. Opt-in projects get findings faster and take on the work of catching the errors, such as wrong severity ratings.
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Google stopped taking product vulnerability reports for its open-source bug bounty on October 1 after a flood of invalid AI-generated submissions. Any team that takes outside security reports faces the same imbalance, with reports now cheap to write and as costly as ever to check.
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TECH VEDA counts 36 actionable device CVEs across 14 non-kernel packages in September, two of them Chromium V8 bugs on CISA's exploited list. How many apply to a given fleet depends on each image's SBOM and on which scorer a team trusts.
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Microsoft says China-linked operators have used NeedyMantis since at least October 2025 to keep access to telecom, university and government-linked networks. It goes in after the break-in, so defenders have to hunt for it inside networks already breached.
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The IETF published RFC 10008 in June 2026 and IANA registered QUERY as safe and idempotent, so a structured read no longer has to travel as a POST. Whether the response stays cacheable depends on the caches on the path.
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Fabian Hedin, Lovable's CTO, said two-thirds of the Fortune 500 use the tool because staff found it themselves, and put current revenue at $600m. The permissions work starts after the apps are running.
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The five options that decide which private key opens a client certificate lived in a struct libcurl's connection-reuse check never reads, so two handles sharing a pool could share one authenticated connection. Commit 7541ae5 moves them.
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A site logged twenty requests for its unreachable /.env file from a client naming itself ClaudeBot. GreyNoise counted 824 addresses scanning under forged AI crawler names, and saw no request for robots.txt in the whole campaign.
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An architecture record for a health-data service spends one log event per deployment attempt, deriving the key fingerprint under an audit key held outside the log pipeline and holding the trail to 90 days.
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A dev.to harness stamps connect, TTFB, body, patch and test time on every generate call. In live mode the first two clocks come from one expression, so curl still names the handshake, and the published numbers are synthetic.
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A dev.to walkthrough reproduces a coding agent that followed curl --netrc out of a small repo and quoted homedir credentials into the chat. The author ships a CI gate for it and says plainly it is not a sandbox.
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The case that generated code fails without the usual warning signs comes from two practitioner accounts, while the only measured series is curl's inbound bug reports, and Daniel Stenberg stopped taking those in January 2026.
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A dev.to runbook for slow Linux virtual servers orders the read-only evidence, putting timestamps, per-CPU sampling and /proc/pressure ahead of any load test, because utilisation hides the waiting that users feel.
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Webhooks, image proxies, link unfurlers and PDF renderers all pass a user's string to an HTTP client that sits inside your private network, where the cloud metadata endpoint answers an unauthenticated GET and hands back IAM credentials.
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