Topic summary
18%16 analyzed articles/videos13,151 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Vulnerabilities results contain 47 faulty reasoning types, including Hasty Generalization, Appeal to Authority, and Availability Heuristic, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 6.3% saturation with 3,868 hits. Analysis detected 25,452 faulty-reasoning hits from 61,572 analyzed words across 16 articles, generating a BS Score of 0.9% and a BS Rank of 3% (22,891 of 23,409 topics). This Vulnerabilities is better (less manipulative) than 97.80% of the peer group.

Ranking context

Position among analyzed topics

2% percentile
02550751002.2% percentile
0.9% BS Score16 analyzed articles61.6K analyzed words

Reasoning profile

Selected profile versus the sitewide rate

TopicSitewideShared scale 0–50%
0.0%10%20%30%40%50%Framing EffectSitewide 26.9%Topic 2.1%2.1%Appeal to EmotionSitewide 15.9%Topic 1.0%1.0%Negativity BiasSitewide 19.2%Topic 6.3%6.3%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide 11.1%Topic 2.6%2.6%In-Group BiasSitewide 6.9%Topic 0.1%0.1%Availability HeuristicSitewide 9.1%Topic 2.4%2.4%Halo EffectSitewide 6.7%Topic 0.2%0.2%Confirmation BiasSitewide 7.5%Topic 1.5%1.5%Optimism BiasSitewide 6.0%Topic 0.8%0.8%Hasty GeneralizationSitewide 8.1%Topic 3.0%3.0%

Sitewide departure map

Above the diagonal means this profile uses the pattern more often

0.0%0.0%10%10%20%20%30%30%40%40%50%50%Framing Effect: Topic 2.1%, sitewide 26.9%Negativity Bias: Topic 6.3%, sitewide 19.2%Appeal to Emotion: Topic 1.0%, sitewide 15.9%Appeal to Authority: Topic 2.6%, sitewide 11.1%Availability Heuristic: Topic 2.4%, sitewide 9.1%Hasty Generalization: Topic 3.0%, sitewide 8.1%Confirmation Bias: Topic 1.5%, sitewide 7.5%In-Group Bias: Topic 0.1%, sitewide 6.9%Halo Effect: Topic 0.2%, sitewide 6.7%Optimism Bias: Topic 0.8%, sitewide 6.0%Biased Writer Voice: Topic 2.1%, sitewide 5.3%Anecdotal: Topic 1.3%, sitewide 5.2%Overconfidence Bias: Topic 1.2%, sitewide 4.6%Anchoring Bias: Topic 0.3%, sitewide 4.0%Self-Serving Bias: Topic 0.4%, sitewide 3.7%Post Hoc (False Cause): Topic 1.3%, sitewide 3.3%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias: Topic 0.5%, sitewide 3.1%Fundamental Attribution Error: Topic 0.3%, sitewide 2.7%Recency Bias: Topic 1.0%, sitewide 2.7%Loss Aversion: Topic 0.4%, sitewide 2.5%Bandwagon: Topic 0.1%, sitewide 2.2%Status Quo Bias: Topic 0.6%, sitewide 2.2%Ad Hominem: Topic 0.2%, sitewide 2.2%Representativeness Heuristic: Topic 0.8%, sitewide 1.9%Framing EffectSitewide rateTopic rate

Analyzed articles and videos

New Zapscape KVM Flaw Could Let Privileged L1 Guest Code Escape to Linux Hosts5%
The Hacker News31%By Swati Khandelwal20%8/6/2026, 10:58:00 AM
Framing…4%Self-Se…4%Special…3%
Chinese-Made Zbtlink Routers Ship With Backdoor That Opens Unauthenticated Root Shells2%
The Hacker News31%By Ravie Lakshmanan21%8/6/2026, 1:05:00 AM
Thousands of servers can be backdoored by exploiting buggy motherboard controllers23%
Ars Technica44%By Dan Goodin31%8/5/2026, 3:35:20 PM
Keyv-Linked npm Worm Poisons Hundreds of Packages, Plants Claude Code and VS Code Hooks2%
The Hacker News31%By Swati Khandelwal20%8/4/2026, 6:30:00 AM
New cPanel Critical Flaw Could Let Hosting Customers Run SQL as Database Root16%
The Hacker News31%By Swati Khandelwal20%8/4/2026, 3:36:00 AM
ThreatsDay: AI-Powered Hacking, 370 Chrome Flaws, SonicWall Attacks, DNS Hijacking + 22 More Stories4%
The Hacker News31%By Ravie Lakshmanan21%7/30/2026, 8:25:00 AM
New lawsuit alleges unpatchable Apple chip exploit was developed using stolen trade secrets32%
9to5Mac75%By Marcus Mendes50%7/24/2026, 5:53:03 PM
How AI guardrails are impeding the work of offensive cybersecurity researchers56%
TechCrunch72%By Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai64%7/23/2026, 6:00:00 PM
Researchers replace downloaded macOS apps with evil twins, Apple shrugs53%
The Register59%By Thomas Claburn59%7/23/2026, 4:24:27 PM
Year-long Russian attacks infect users as soon as they look at an email55%
The Register59%7/23/2026, 9:47:02 AM