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Re:Claude Opus wrote a Chrome exploit for $2,283 by localhoster on Saturday April 18, 2026 @05:57AM (#47814598)
> "A week of back and forth, 2.3 billion tokens, $2,283 in API costs, and about ~20 hours of me unsticking it from dead ends. It popped calc."

Corrent me if I'm wrong, I'm not a security researcher, but 20 hours, a week of work, 2283$ spent and over 2 trillion tokens, is not very 10x-ing as we were promised. Especially if you take into account that the guy is at least half capable for this take.

I dunno

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Re:Claude Opus wrote a Chrome exploit for $2,283 by 0xy on Saturday April 18, 2026 @08:50AM (#47815513)
Chrome exploits (obviously that can be used to compromise people) go for $1,000,000 on the black market so anything cheaper than that to generate is impressive.
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Re:Claude Opus wrote a Chrome exploit for $2,283 by BearOso on Saturday April 18, 2026 @02:12PM (#47818095)
This was using an exploit already fixed in a recent version and publicly known. It's worthless on the black market or as a bug bounty.
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Re:Claude Opus wrote a Chrome exploit for $2,283 by Mohansrk on Monday April 20, 2026 @01:56AM (#47830846)
it is not worthless unfortunately! the point of whole blog is about patch gaps in chromium ecosystem.
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Re:Claude Opus wrote a Chrome exploit for $2,283 by Mohansrk on Monday April 20, 2026 @01:55AM (#47830839)
people who can do this is supply constrained, now you can throw tokens at the problem and with nudging towards the goal you can get working exploit much faster, its probably not 10x but way faster than before
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