Short, checked, cited where we can. The announcements, the moves and the things worth a look.
Follow @uctodaynewsGoogle has paused its Open Source Software Vulnerability Reward Program as of 1 October, citing a sharp rise in automated, mostly invalid AI-generated submissions. The pause will run until at least Q1 2027. It's the latest sign that AI-generated "slop" reports are straining security triage resources across the open source ecosystem, following similar action by Curl earlier this year.
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File it at the news desk →@uctodaynews on X ↗Primary source · date · number · named spokesperson. Two of the four and we will usually run it.
