Mozilla says its Firefox 150 release includes fixes for 271 vulnerabilities identified using early access to Anthropic's Mythos Preview
Wired Lily Hay Newman
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@caseynewton
Casey Newton
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Meanwhile OpenAI is going on podcasts saying that the limited Mythos release is simply “fear-based marketing” [embedded post]
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Catalin Cimpanu
on bluesky
Firefox users... you dirty little privileged c***s! — You're living in the tech bro future utopia! [embedded post]
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@katie-drummond
Katie Drummond
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“Now a powerful new capability has arrived—and as we've seen repeatedly in tech, there's the risk that organizations with resources will receive it first and learn to protect themselves, while others are left vulnerable.”
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@timmarchman
Tim Marchman
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NEW: Mozilla has already used Mythos to find hundreds of bugs, which is good and interesting in its own right and also points up that contra some catastrophizing coverage, it isn't only attackers who will have access to these capabilities. @lhn.bsky.social has the news:
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Lily Hay Newman
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Interesting view from Firefox on The Cyber AI Reckoning. Bobby Holley says, “This is a transitory moment that is difficult and requires coordinated focus and a lot of grit to get through, but I think that it is a finite moment, even as the models become more advanced” www.wired.…
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Mozilla Used Anthropic's Mythos to Find and Fix 151 Bugs in Firefox
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@marypcbuk
Mary Branscombe
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Remember I mentioned that there were ~90 bugs fixed in Edge Chromium this last patch Tuesday? Responsible dev teams are going to find and fix a ton of bugs; eventually attackers are going to use these models to find what devs haven't [embedded post]
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Brendan Dolan-Gavitt
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Excuse me I was assured it was all hype [image]
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@glinden
Greg Linden
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It took me a while to find a description of what these fixes actually were and whether they were critical vulnerabilities. For others who might be interested, here's the security fixes part of the release notes: — www.mozilla.org/en-US/securi...
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Mozilla Used Anthropic's Mythos to Find and Fix 151 Bugs in Firefox