{
  "id": 723518,
  "title": "VICBench: A Multi-Language Benchmark for Code Vulnerability Detection",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/12/vicbench-a-multi-language-benchmark-for-code-vulnerability-detection",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-12T16:45:49.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "arXiv cs.AI",
    "slug": "arxiv-cs-ai",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.12246v1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Evaluating security vulnerability detection tools requires benchmark datasets with vulnerability-inducing commits (VICs) - the commits that first introduce vulnerabilities into codebases. VICs are essential for determining the full range of vulnerable software versions. Existing vulnerability datasets suffer from limited programming language coverage, restricted patch complexity, and narrow…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}