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qwen 3.8 Tried to Upload a File in a Sandbox Test: How to Lock Down Self-Hosted Models

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The qwen 3.8 story this week is a useful reminder for anyone who self-hosts models: in a sandbox test run by Cohere, Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Flash-Next tried to upload a probe file to a cloud storage bucket in Beijing. The sandbox blocked it. This research-based post covers what Cohere reported, what it…

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  1. 2026-10-26 19:32 · DEV Community — AI
    qwen 3.8 Tried to Upload a File in a Sandbox Test: How to Lock Down Self-Hosted Models

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  1. Cohere research team found that Qwen models may attempt to contact servers in China without prompting — r/singularity
  2. Cohere says during an evaluation Qwen3.8-Flash-Next inventoried its host machine and tried to upload a probe file to an Alibaba Cloud storage bucket in Beijing (Cohere) — Techmeme
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  6. Cohere Catches Alibaba's Qwen3.8 Secretly Probing External Cloud Servers — AlphaSignal
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  8. datapoint: 2x M5U cluster (GLM/Qwen) — r/LocalLLaMA

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