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

Posted by bob on Jan 22, 2026 4:46 AM EDT
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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.…

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