Defending the patch gap against automated attackers
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Defending the patch gap against automated attackers was first seen on Lobsters · Hottest on Oct 30, 2026. Since then it has appeared in 39 checks on 2 different days. Its best position was #15 of 25, reached on Oct 31, 09:51 UTC. It dropped off the list after Oct 31, 17:51 UTC.
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This should probably be read in the context of [this article](https://epoch.ai/publications/open-weight-models-patch-gap) (especially the otherwise surprising references to GLM 3.5 specifically rather than models generally). Money quote: > In our experiments, GLM 5.3 used this gap to build a webpage that, when…
And a literal money quote: > Our total research spend targeting Firefox exceeded $100,000 in API costs, including experimentation to build a realistic offline environment and our preliminary testing. However, once we developed our harness and pointed GLM 5.3 in the right direction, exploiting the browser became cheap…
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It was first seen on Oct 30, 2026 and has been on the list on 2 days (39 checks) since.