Feds freaked over Fable 5 after simple 'fix this code' prompt, not jailbreak

Re:Feds freaked over Fable 5 after simple 'fix this code' pr... by embedding-shape on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @07:25AM (#48553545)

> “‘Fix this code,’ plus several manual steps to generate test scripts,

Feels like the title isn't really giving the full context of what they ended up actually seeing, despite what the lede implies multiple times.

Still, ban seems stupid... Still no actual leak of the full "third-party research paper"?

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Re:Feds freaked over Fable 5 after simple 'fix this code' pr... by readred on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @08:10AM (#48553982)

that won't be leaked, because then we'd know what vulnerabilties they don't want patched that they are so willing to go as far as fuck over the worlds leading company in the worlds most important industry

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Re:Feds freaked over Fable 5 after simple 'fix this code' pr... by scotty79 on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @09:18AM (#48554860)

If what your patch fixes is a vulnerability bug then the test for it is basically an exploit.

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Re:Feds freaked over Fable 5 after simple 'fix this code' pr... by anuramat on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @11:19AM (#48556640)

isn't there a pretty big gap between a segfault and an rce? I thought that was the entire point -- that mythos closed the gap

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