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Google has temporarily frozen product flaw submissions to its Open Source Software Vulnerability Reward Program due to a surge of invalid reports generated by AI tools. Engineers and open-source maintainers have been overwhelmed by thousands of low-quality submissions that waste time and resources.
The company plans to implement updates to the program by the first quarter of 2027 to better filter submissions and reduce noise from automated sources.
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