July 30, 2026

The lineage behind 69% of open models was never verified. Cisco just fingerprinted almost 900 for free

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A security team approving an open-source model for production today starts with a repository page. The page lists the model name, the license, and a tag identifying the base model it descended from. That tag is a string the uploader typed. Hugging Fa...