The intelligence that sees what we couldn't

Claude Mythos found a 27-year-old vulnerability in critical internet software. Twenty-seven years. That bug was introduced when the web was young, when the engineers who would eventually maintain it were still in school, when the infrastructure it would become load-bearing for — financial systems, medical records, power grids, military communications — was still a speculative essay in Wired magazine. Automated testing tools scanned the code millions of times. Security researchers audited it. Bou ...