The best way to compost your food scraps

Composting was a big — and daily — part of my life for five years when I lived off-grid. Granted, we were composting more than just food, but I learned a lot about what goes into making a healthy [...]

'Slop' is Merriam-Webster's word of the year

Merriam-Webster has selected "slop" for the dictionary company's 2025 word of the year. The leading lexicographers define slop as "digital content of low quality that is produced u [...]

Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft paid AI agent bug bounties, then kept quiet about the flaws

In short:Security researcher Aonan Guan hijacked AI agents from Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft via prompt injection attacks on their GitHub Actions integrations, stealing API keys and tokens in each [...]

Curl will stop bug bounties program due to avalanche of AI slop

A small team was being bombarded with submissions, many of which were low-quality, or AI-generated. [...]

Mythos autonomously exploited vulnerabilities that survived 27 years of human review. Security teams need a new detection playbook

A 27-year-old bug sat inside OpenBSD’s TCP stack while auditors reviewed the code, fuzzers ran against it, and the operating system earned its reputation as one of the most security-hardened platfor [...]

The Morning After: Roomba maker iRobot files for bankruptcy

iRobot, the company that brought robotic vacuum cleaners to homes and popular culture, has filed for bankruptcy. It plans to sell all assets to its primary supplier, the Chinese company Picea Robotic [...]

Meta is spending millions on bug bounties and security tools to boost WhatsApp security

New tools, expanded reach and a boosted bug bounty program are coming for WhatsApp. [...]

Microsoft will expand bug bounties - even on programs without official payouts

Any dodgy code affecting Microsoft's products and services will now be covered under the 'In Scope by Default' bug bounty program. [...]

Open source project curl is sick of users submitting “AI slop” vulnerabilities

"One way you can tell is it's always such a nice report," founder tells Ars. [...]