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AI Bug Report Slop Floods Apple And Hides A $200K MacOS Flaw

Generative AI has drastically lowered the bar for finding software vulnerabilities, but it has simultaneously unleashed a flood of machine-generated noise that is overloading security teams and breaking bug bounty programs.

According to a recent Financial Times report, one of the companies dealing with these challenges is none other than Apple. In fact, Cupertino has had to limit the number of active bug reports individual researchers can keep open at one time, enforcing strict submission limits and temporary cooldown periods. The policy change comes after Apple's security engineers were inundated with waves of AI slop reports, i.e. low-quality, highly convincing reports containing entirely made-up flaws or purely theoretical risks.

While the new barriers are designed to protect engineers from burnout, they are already creating dangerous security blind spots. To wit, Italian cybersecurity startup Bynario revealed that it used OpenAI’s ChatGPT-5.5 via its Atlas platform to uncover more than 50...

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Unpopular Kindle DRM changes aren't making anyone happy — especially sleepy readers like me — but there's an easy workaround, if we even need one

Hear me out: what if our outrage over an apparent AmazonKindle Software update and DRM for ebooks is wildly overblown? I'm not talking about the recent Kindle update that reportedly strips away the ability to remove DRM (Digital Rights Management) from downloaded books. While you might argue that

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Huge 66-ft Turkish drones are hunting million-dollar Chinese UAVs in Africa in another war barely anyone talks about

* Sudan's army has destroyed at least six Chinese-made CH-95 drones since June 2026 * The Akıncı costs roughly $25 million, twelve times more than the CH-95 * Armed drones are now the leading cause of civilian deaths in Sudan Sudan's civil war has continued since April 2023, when

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Learn what VCs actually want, from a founder who’s raised $1B

From the collection Build Mode 4:32 PM PDT · August 20, 2026 43 min Loading the player… Investors want founders who understand the financial reality of their business. Messy data, misunderstood metrics, or waiting until you’re nearly out of cash to start fundraising can cost founders leverage, valuation, and

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Google’s Pixel 11 Is Predictably Slick but All the Same as Last Year’s Phone

I was delighted to get Hibiscus (otherwise known as hot pink), but there’s also a more subtle Pistachio (warm green), and the usual Frost (white) and Obsidian (black). I’m sad they cut Indigo (surely everyone’s favorite from last year). Like Apple, Google seems to save the fun

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Unpopular Kindle DRM changes aren't making anyone happy &mdash; especially sleepy readers like me &mdash; but there's an easy workaround, if we even need one

Huge 66-ft Turkish drones are hunting million-dollar Chinese UAVs in Africa in another war barely anyone talks about

Learn what VCs actually want, from a founder who’s raised $1B

Google’s Pixel 11 Is Predictably Slick but All the Same as Last Year’s Phone

Unpopular Kindle DRM changes aren't making anyone happy — especially sleepy readers like me — but there's an easy workaround, if we even need one