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Nobody Got Breached by a False Positive

The security industry spent a decade worrying about noise. The thing that actually gets you is silence, and QA figured that out a long time ago.

Shqiperim Krasniqi

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Research

Nobody Got Breached by a False Positive

The security industry spent a decade worrying about noise. The thing that actually gets you is silence, and QA figured that out a long time ago.

Shqiperim Krasniqi

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AI Security

When should an AI say no?

Ask a large language model for malware, attacks, or dangerous instructions, and it will usually refuse: a behavior known as refusal, which is often exactly what we want.

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THE PLATFORM

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Explore how Ares turns adversarial testing into evidence.

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Engineering

The Harness Wars

The Next Competitive Frontier Isn't Model Size. It's What You Wrap Around It.

Alissa Knight

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Research

The $6.6 Billion BOLA

What Lovable's 48-Day Exposure Tells Us About the Collapsing Economics of Human Penetration Testing

Alissa Knight

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Field Notes

Mythos Is Not Your Red Team

What the Cybersecurity Industry Is Getting Wrong About Anthropic's New Model

Alissa Knight

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