Ever get asked to take a vendor meeting for a vuln management tool you've never heard deployed? This r/cybersecurity post is that exact situation.
u/tinman33_ says they were approached by Cogent Security and posted before scheduling to ask if anyone has actually used the platform.
1️⃣ The inquiry is specifically about Cogent Security's vulnerability management program
2️⃣ The user wants anecdotal, real-user experience before agreeing to a meeting
3️⃣ The post has only 1 upvote and zero comments so far
4️⃣ No reviews, pros/cons, or alternatives have been shared yet
Bottom line: Zero signal on Cogent so far — only an open request for first-hand reviews.
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Still rewriting whole model answers to fix one wrong word? onPanda fixes alignment data with token-level correction instead.
onPanda lets annotators find the first bad token, pick from model candidates or type a fix, then truncates and regenerates from there in a locate-correct-continue loop until the response is good.
1️⃣ Cuts median annotation time by 52% vs manual post-editing in a small controlled study.
2️⃣ Keeps final responses mostly model-generated to preserve on-policy distribution for SFT and preference data.
3️⃣ Logs every correction with exact position plus natural positive-negative pairs for fine-grained supervision.
4️⃣ Plugs into external tools and harnesses for interactive agent trajectory annotation.
5️⃣ Releases Panda-CVL dataset and a benchmark for token-level correction.
Bottom line: fix one token, let the model do the rest, and get better alignment data faster.
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Got a dream remote dev offer out of nowhere? This post breaks down North Korea's fake-job malware wave.
It's covering a joint FBI-led advisory on WaterPlum (aka Contagious Interview), which infected tens of thousands of devices in 100+ countries from Dec 2025 to July 2026 — and it's still active.
1️⃣ Posing as legit AI, crypto and NFT companies or recruiters on social media and job sites to target developers and IT pros in Japan, the US and Europe.
2️⃣ Lures victims into virtual interviews and coding assignments, then gets them to download and run malicious files that open backdoor access.
3️⃣ Already drained 7,000+ crypto wallets for $10.8M (£8.1M) sent to North Korea, per investigators.
4️⃣ FBI and Japan's NPA say they've identified US and Japan-based enablers helping the operation.
5️⃣ Authorities urge verifying recruiters and calling police if a contractor looks like a North Korean IT worker.
Bottom line: Never run interview code or install files without verifying the company first.
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Worried closed labs just pulled out of reach again? This r/LocalLLaMA thread digs into Opus 5.5 hitting 58 on Artificial Analysis.
The OP frames it as 12 points above the best open model Mimo 2.6 Pro and a big leap over Fable 5.1, then asks how many months until open weights hit 58.
1️⃣ Opus 5.5 at 58 vs Mimo 2.6 Pro at ~46 leaves a 12-point open vs closed gap to close.
2️⃣ OP's extrapolation: 44 to 46 in 2 months means ~6 months to 58 linearly, but he bets 4-5 months with more GPUs, data, params and arch gains.
3️⃣ GPT-6 Sol at 48 is cited as the target GLM 5.5 and Qwen 4 could match or beat soon.
4️⃣ Caveat flagged in-post: Sol 6 is reportedly worse than 5.6 on DeepSWE.
5️⃣ Commenters push back that AA is benchmaxxed and untrustworthy after recent tinkering.
Bottom line: The gap is real at 12 points, but the timeline debate hinges on whether you trust the benchmark.
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Can your AI solve the math problem but still fail at teaching it? OmniEdu builds open foundation models specifically for learning and teaching.
It curates 69,999 instruction examples from 100+ resources around four capabilities — subject skill, curriculum grounding, diagnostic reasoning, and pedagogical scaffolding — then fine-tunes 4B, 9B, and 27B models.
1️⃣ OmniEdu-27B hits 63.12% EM and 76.69% F1 on K12-Bench for curriculum-grounded problem solving.
2️⃣ It scores 85.89% on MathFish and 86.95% on EDUMATH.
3️⃣ It reaches 78.74% in MathTutorBench's Scaffold setting for step-by-step tutoring.
4️⃣ It leads Teaching average on LongTutor at 3.02, highest among evaluated models.
Bottom line: open, capability-balanced training finally gives one model that can solve, diagnose, and teach.
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Can't even run 70B without quantization pain? Alibaba just teased a 5-10T monster.
r/LocalLLaMA is buzzing about Alibaba's reported plan for a 5 trillion to 10 trillion parameter model plus a new chip to power it — no paper yet, just the headline and a lot of local-runner anxiety.
1️⃣ The headline claim is 5T-10T parameters, an order of magnitude past R1's 691B class.
2️⃣ A new Alibaba chip was unveiled alongside it, hinting at the infra needed to train and serve it.
3️⃣ Top-voted reaction: local inference would be minutes-per-token territory.
4️⃣ Realistic hope from the thread: wait for the distillation into a Qwen 4 27B-sized usable model.
Bottom line: Don't watch the 10T number — watch what trickles down to 27B.
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