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Google Pauses OSS Bug Bounty for Product Vulns After AI-Spam Surge
- Engineer — Learn: Vulnerability reports for Google OSS products like Go, Angular, and Protocol Buffers are no longer rewarded, which may reduce incentivized security research on widely-used dependencies; supply-chain compromise reports remain in scope, so no change to patch posture today.
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- Leader — Learn: A shift in Google’s OSS vulnerability incentive structure could affect the cadence of security fixes in widely-used open-source projects; worth noting in supply-chain risk conversations but no immediate leadership action required.
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