{"id":50830,"date":"2026-01-27T14:07:49","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T19:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=50830"},"modified":"2026-01-27T14:07:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T19:07:49","slug":"curl-removes-bug-bounties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/27\/curl-removes-bug-bounties\/","title":{"rendered":"curl Removes Bug Bounties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/etn.se\/index.php\/nyheter\/72808-curl-removes-bug-bounties.html\">Jan T&aring;ngring<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=46701733\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/etn.se\/index.php\/nyheter\/72808-curl-removes-bug-bounties.html\">\n<p>&ldquo;AI slop and bad reports in general have been increasing even more lately, so we have to try to brake the flood in order not to drown&rdquo;, says cURL maintainer Daniel Stenberg to Swedish electronics industry news site etn.se.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, cURL is terminating the bounty payouts as of the end of January.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Not all AI-generated bug reports are nonsense. It&rsquo;s not possible to determine the exact share, but Daniel Stenberg knows of more than a hundred good AI assisted reports that led to corrections.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/curl.se\/.well-known\/security.txt\">curl<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=46717556\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/curl.se\/.well-known\/security.txt\"><p>We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste our time on crap reports.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/10\/evolution-of-apple-security-bounty-program\/\">Evolution of Apple Security Bounty Program<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/08\/curl-takes-action-against-ai-bug-reports\/\">curl Takes Action Against AI Bug Reports<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/20\/the-lack-of-compensation-in-open-source-software-is-unsustainable\/\">The Lack of Compensation in Open Source Software Is Unsustainable<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan T&aring;ngring (Hacker News): &ldquo;AI slop and bad reports in general have been increasing even more lately, so we have to try to brake the flood in order not to drown&rdquo;, says cURL maintainer Daniel Stenberg to Swedish electronics industry news site etn.se. Therefore, cURL is terminating the bounty payouts as of the end of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2026-01-27T19:07:52Z","apple_news_api_id":"1897429b-3229-4032-bad4-bd2a4cfedf78","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2026-01-27T19:07:53Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AGJdCmzIpQDK61L0qTP7feA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1351,1506,991,71,48],"class_list":["post-50830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-curl","tag-open-source-software","tag-programming","tag-security"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50831,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50830\/revisions\/50831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}