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Claude flagged 493 security issues across 25 open-source projects, covering 5M+ lines of C, C++, Java, PHP, and Python code; one went unnoticed for 21 years

Claude flagged 493 security issues across 25 open-source projects, covering 5M+ lines of C, C++, Java, PHP, and Python code; one went unnoticed for 21 years Over the past year, we've published lots of data that shows that frontier AI models are more than capable of discove…

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  1. 2026-10-21 15:39 · The Next Web
    Anthropic set Claude on 25 open-source projects and it found 493 flaws
  2. 2026-10-21 14:15 · Techmeme
    Claude flagged 493 security issues across 25 open-source projects, covering 5M+ lines of C, C++, Java, PHP, and Python code; one went unnoticed for 21 years

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