Mozilla says 271 vulnerabilities found by Mythos have "almost no false positives"

So here's a cheerful development: Mozilla let an AI nose through Firefox's source code for two months, and it flushed out 271 security flaws with 'almost no false positives.' That's a 271–nil drubbing for every human bug hunter who ever spent a weekend chasing a segfault. Mozilla's engineers are positively chipper about it, but one has to wonder: when the AI is better at finding your mistakes than you are, what exactly are you paying your security team for? Another round of 'strategic restructuring' beckons.

The chortle-inducing part? The AI in question is Anthropic's Mythos—named after Greek myth, naturally, because nothing says 'hubris' like naming your bug-detecting oracle after a genre of stories where mortals get punished for overreaching. Anthropic, you'll recall, is the company that's spent much of this year in court over safety promises. Now their model is the star turn in Mozilla's security playbook. The irony is so exquisite you could frame it.

Still, credit where it's due: 271 bugs in two months, almost no false positives. That's a capability jump that ought to make every CISO sit up and take notice—and every human security researcher update their LinkedIn profile. Mozilla has helpfully demonstrated that AI can now do your job faster, more accurately, and without needing coffee or a pension. Cheers to progress, I suppose. We'll be over here, counting the days until Mythos finds a bug in its own safety training.