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Jan 21 2026 Curl shutters bug bounty program to remove incentive for submitting AI slop

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Maintainer hopes hackers send bug reports anyway, will keep shaming ‘silly' ones The maintainer of popular open-source data transfer tool cURL has ended the project’s bug bounty program after maintainers struggled to assess a flood of AI-generated contributions.... [...]

Posted by Simon Sharwood on Wed 21 January 2026 in The Register.

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