DEF CON
DEF CON appears in 94 analyzed articles across the measured technology press. Recent coverage is steady, counting every mention over recent months. This page shows the public snapshot: movement, coverage mix, recent sources, and what drove the latest change.
Compass measures press coverage, not DEF CON's product quality, business performance, or market value.
Counting every mention, coverage of DEF CON is steady — it appears in 94 analyzed articles across the technology press.
What DEF CON coverage is made of over time: story type, claim stage as reported, and press framing. This measures the coverage, not the product.
Across 50 classified coverage items, one item is 2 percentage points — read the shares below as the shape of a small sample, not as figures precise to the point.
Story type and claim stage are shares of the 50 classified coverage items in this window.
These labels describe the story, not the event. Coverage counted under “Launch” is coverage of a launch that mentions DEF CON — the label says what the story was about, never a claim about DEF CON itself.
How to read this
The stream below stacks each month's coverage by the lens you choose: Tone (how the press frames the story — promotional, skeptical, critical, or neutral), Story type (launches, funding, lawsuits, partnerships…), or Stage — how far the reported claim has gone: speculation → announcement → launch → results.
Taller bands mean more coverage that month; the dots beneath mark notable non‑neutral events. Every signal is sourced and dated.
How this is counted — why the article numbers differ
94 articles mention DEF CON across the corpus. The coverage make-up above is measured on the 45 of them that were read into dated, classified coverage items — and one article can produce more than one item, because story type, claim stage and framing are read separately.
- report The Xbow team discovered the vulnerabilities and built the attack chain during Black Hat and DEF CON.
As of 22 Oct 2026 · corpus coverage 94% · 372,758 articles. Correlational & coverage-limited.
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Full history & coverage trailMonth-by-month make-up & every cited source
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ConnectionsThe topics it's most often covered alongside
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