If you are a software engineer frustrated that the cybersecurity ability of LLMs as hyped (best hacker in the world etc) do not match your own experience (frequently wrong, focused on pedantic issues, not finding true issues), this is the problem:
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Security Vendor's AI Best Practices Labels Critical Elixir RCE Safe The dangers of AI generated SEO spam are real, especially when it comes to cybersecurity! paraxial.io/blog/ai-spam
Security Vendor's AI Best Practices Labels Critical Elixir RCE Safe
Double check your work
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🚨 Announcing our new Podcast 🚨 Gus (@gworkman.bsky.social) and I have started a new #ElixirLang Podcast Macro Mayhem - @macromayhem.fm We cover Elixir news and general industry topics every 2 weeks. Our first episode is out now, available on all podcast players or on our website: macromayhem.fm
Macro Mayhem
The latest Elixir news and general software industry topics
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@paraxialio.bsky.social joins ElixirConf as a Silver Sponsor! Built specifically with #Elixir developers in mind, Paraxial helps teams secure #Phoenix applications and prevent #security issues before they reach production. Interested in sponsoring? Let’s talk. elixirconf.com#sponsor
Atom exhaustion is not just an old BEAM footgun. As of today, 35% of CVEs published by the EEF CNA fall under uncontrolled resource consumption, with atom exhaustion being one of the recurring causes. It’s well understood, documented, and preventable. erlef.org/blog/securit...
Erlang Ecosystem Foundation - Supporting the BEAM community
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Paraxial.io Founder Michael Lubas on Episode 83 of the Elixir Mentor Podcast Discussing Elixir security, the recent penetration test of Hex,, how developers can stay secure in 2026, and the effect of AI on the security of open source software www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDNd...
Michael Lubas on AI, Attack, and Defense
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🚨 New Blog Post 🚨 I wrote about how I got into finding CVEs and what's the plan going forward. Also, I open-sourced the prompts I've been using. peterullrich.com/what-the-cve
What the CVE?
How I'm using Claude Opus 4.7 to find and report CVEs in popular Hex packages to make the BEAM ecosystem safer.
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I should probably write a blog post about what’s going on with all these CVEs right now
@mtrudel.bsky.social and @peterullrich.com are making major security contributions to the security of the Elixir ecosystem. As AI models get more powerful this work is more important than ever, thank you!
The 5 vulnerabilities I found in Bandit were fixed and released today. Please go upgrade bandit ASAP. Thanks to @mtrudel.bsky.social for fixing them so quickly and to @maennchen.dev for managing the process 🙏 #ElixirLang cna.erlef.org/cves/
Great episode, make sure to listen and subscribe!
The EEF needs your support for a major security grant, Hex-pm completes its first security audit, @josevalim.bsky.social drops a massive Tidewave update, and we discuss the ClickFix supply chain attack that hit #Axios, and more! #ElixirLang @elixir-lang.org www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_gh...
I just used zizmor to improve the security of our GitHub actions pipeline: github.com/pentacent/ke... Thanks to Michael from @paraxialio.bsky.social for the tip in the most recent @thinkingelixir.com episode! #myelixirstatus
Apply fixes suggested by zizmor · pentacent/keila@7eb6aeb
- Define clear permissions - Avoid templating vulnerabilities - Pin non-GitHub-provided actions (+ update all external actions) - Use persist-credentials: false - Use Docker build cache directly - ...
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Securing Hex, the Backbone of the Elixir Ecosystem paraxial.io/blog/hex-pen...
Securing Hex, the Backbone of the Elixir Ecosystem
Paraxial.io Completes Security Audit of Hex Package Manager
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How Killswitch Uses Paraxial.io to Protect Client Estates paraxial.io/blog/killswi...
How Killswitch Uses Paraxial.io to Protect Client Estates
Secure AI coding with Paraxial.io
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Got a few PRs in flight for Credo which cumulatively dropped the runtime from ~33 seconds down to ~9 on our 3500 file #ElixirLang codebase at work. 😁
Elixir v1.20 with full-type inference coming soon, @gleam.run v1.14.0-rc1, mjml_eex v0.13.0 for email templates, Dashbit’s nimble_zta library for zero trust auth, Björn Gustavsson’s #BEAM history talk, and more! #ElixirLang www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzjb...
Thinking Elixir Podcast 284: ‘Tis the Season for a Type System
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Celebrating #Erlang’s 27th birthday as #OpenSource, Elixir Hub 2025 survey results, new data_migration LiveDashboard package, critical #React RCE vuln, and Zig leaves #GitHub, and more! #ElixirLang www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FWy...
Thinking Elixir Podcast 283: Erlang Turns 27 and React at Risk
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News includes a new HexDocs search engine built in Gleam, Software Mansion's interactive Elixir Language Tour running in #WebASM, Stable Diffusion on Mac GPUs through EMLX, #AWS outage lessons, and more! #ElixirLang www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKMA...
Thinking Elixir Podcast 277: Searching Across the Hexiverse
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News includes Elixir v1.19 release, #OpenChain certification for the BEAM ecosystem, #TailwindCSS 4 update for a LiveView component library, ClaudeCode Web with #GitHub integration, a critical #Redis CVE, and more! #ElixirLang www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-3m...
Thinking Elixir Podcast 276: Elixir v1.19 Types and Speed
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Secure AI Coding in Elixir: I Want to Believe - Elixir Montréal Sept 2025 Presented by Michael Lubas, Paraxial.io Founder www.youtube.com/watch?v=biSJ...
Secure AI Coding in Elixir: I Want to Believe - Elixir Montréal Sept 2025
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This Wednesday, 9/24 @ 6pm EDT join the online Montréal Elixir Meetup for a talk by paraxial.io Founder Michael Lubas: Secure AI Coding in Elixir: I Want to Believe RSVP Now! guild.host/events/secur...
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Sep 24th 6:00PM: The rapid adoption of AI coding tools is generating vulnerabilities faster than ever, creating new risks for coders and bus
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Why We Don't Run Your Code How an AI code review tool exposed 1 million private repositories, and why our design prevents that from happening to you. paraxial.io/blog/code-run
Why We Don't Run Your Code
A cautionary tale of security design.
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News includes Tidewave Web’s #AI-powered development assistant with José Valim joining to go deeper, a comprehensive #ElixirLang blog post on 2025 interoperability options, Livebook Teams launching out of beta, and more! www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKlw...
Thinking Elixir Podcast 267: Dive into Tidewave Web with José Valim
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"How can an Elixir web application be faster for end-users than one written in C?"
Secure all your Elixir code - including AI generated - today!
Hackers scan for vulnerable applications 24/7, looking to steal data, deploy malware, and hit companies with ransomeware. @paraxialio.bsky.social is the only Elixir native security tool that stops these attacks. paraxial.io #sponsored
Claude Code x Paraxial's CLI native scan - tips for prompting + context soon!
News includes Phoenix v1.8 shipping with AGENTS support, Popcorn bringing Elixir to the browser via #WebAssembly, LiveVue v0.6.0 with major performance improvements, and more! #ElixirLang #AI www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hMc...
Thinking Elixir Podcast 264: Hot Reload In Dev and QA Bottlenecks
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🎉 Tickets for ExMex Conf go on sale today! Join us Nov 6–7 in downtown Austin for two days of Elixir talks and community connection. 🎟️ Our “Doors Open” price is available for 2 weeks—grab your spot: → exmexconf.com #ExMexConf #ElixirLang #MyElixirStatus