> Curl shutters bug bounty program to remove incentive for submitting AI slop
[AUTHOR: Simon Sharwood]
[DATE: 21/01/2026 05:29]
[LANGUAGE: EN]
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.…