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Comments on No. 138 of 155 · Schneier on Security · edition of Wednesday 28 October 2026

Bias in Qwen3-Coder Model

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Hirundo researchers report that Alibaba's Qwen3-Coder produces less secure code depending on the stated customer: prompts naming a US defense contractor or a Hong Kong democracy group yielded apps 19% and 28% more likely to be hackable, and a security instruction did not close the gap.

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