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End of bug bounty programs

November 2, 2026 matt Comments 0 Comment

More people are ending their bug bounty programs. Most cite because there’s been a flood of AI generated bug reports.

Intel: Ended its paid bug bounty program (which offered up to $100,000) in September 2026, replacing it with a no-reward vulnerability disclosure program.
Google: Paused product vulnerability submissions for its Open Source Software Vulnerability Reward Program (OSS VRP) starting October 1, 2026, with a planned review/update by Q1 2027.
cURL: Terminated its bug bounty payouts at the end of January 2026
Nextcloud: Terminated its bug bounty program

Many early bug bounty programs cited a flood of worthless AI generated reports, but that is increasingly becoming less true. Curl originally stopped in January because of a flood of low-quality AI-generated submissions that was rarely a bug, but now the tide has turned and Curl’s Daniel Stenberg is now getting good quality bug reports. Everyone from Microsoft to the Linux have had dramatic 2x-10x increases in CVE fixes each release.

So, I suspect everyone is trying to absorb the mass of AI discovered bugs (Project Glasswing) and then we’ll likely return to a more normal bug bounty environment. That pre-supposes the number of bugs AI finds will actually decrease over the next few months…

Vibe coded Microsoft and Adobe apps

November 2, 2026 matt Comments 0 Comment

We like it when we vibe-code your apps, but not when you do it.

It does leave people like Microsoft in a pinch. You want to push how amazing your AI is at generating code and apps; but suddenly realize now everyone can replace your apps with better ones without paying you much of anything.

Or worse, when you fire all your employees and they can all get AI tools like Claude for relatively cheap, or increasingly for free with local LLMs, perhaps your engineers will be the ones going off and making those new companies and ideas – and forget all about you.

Why do you have the worst schools in the country?

November 2, 2026 matt Comments 0 Comment

Actual sign here in Portland. People wonder why Oregon schools are consistently ranked in the bottom 5 states. Portland Public Schools have had a history of wasted funds, underperformance, and will soon be closing up to 10 schools due to a net population decline for several of the last years as people move away from the widespread homeless problems as well as some of the highest taxes in the country.

I guess it really helps when your teachers are high too.

A good reminder of where true joy comes from

November 1, 2026 matt Comments 0 Comment

The joy that many saints describe cannot be found in electronic devices, spending hours in front of a screen, endlessly scrolling on social media every day. These activities waste precious time we could spend cultivating authentic friendships, spending quality time with family, and prayer. Joy can not be found through drug or alcohol use, promiscuity, superficial relationships, obsessions about our image. Neither can it be found in wealth, beauty, and fame – for ultimately we leave this all behind.

In the end, only your personal and real relationship will remain when you die. How are you and God doing if you met Him today?

Fans say AI made Doctor Who is better than BBC has made in years

October 31, 2026 matt Comments 0 Comment

Want to see where AI is taking us? How about allowing fans to actually take over a show heading down the tubes and generate better shows than the BBC. The Unmade Season (website) created a 100% AI generated 50 minute episode of Doctor Who that takes off after David Tennant’s reign called “The Curse of Kilmorag”

Even more amazing, he did it largely at his own home setup with local versions of LTX 2.5 and MiniMax models, using minimal amounts of external data centre resources.

The BBC’s new director general has described a 50-minute AI-generated episode of Doctor Who as “pretty good,” and suggested that the technology now enabled the creation of content “at the standard of a Hollywood studio.”

What does this say about current professional Hollywood and TV show runners when a fans are so upset at what you’re generating that they now start making episodes that rival professional productions on their home PC’s? When one fan creates an episode at home that gets over a million views when you spent literally millions on an episode of the actual show and only got a total of 3.48 million views (including later streaming watches).

World Humanoid Robot Games 2026

October 31, 2026 matt Comments 0 Comment

The World Humanoid Robot Games got a lot of press and internet meme videos on their sometimes comical failures, but these achievements are nothing to scoff at. Robots are performing amazing acts of agility and speed – beating the human world record 100 meter sprint by over a second. Boxing, soccer, running, high jumps, tai chi – these are some pretty impressive feats.

Instead of just random clips, I wanted to see the whole show and managed to dig up these full clips for the various days competitions.

Fuzzy Childhood memory unlocked

October 30, 2026 matt Comments 0 Comment

I remember catching these short animations as part of PBS when I was a kid. The catchy little song about Simon and his pictures taking him over the ladder were part of a series based on the children’s books by Edward McLachlan and originally shown on British Thames Television.

More lives of laid off tech workers

October 29, 2026 matt Comments 0 Comment

Jae Park was laid off after 18 years at a leading tech firm – ironically after leading the internal AI taskforce. He’s trying to make a crowdsourced app in a last desperate attempt to get income going.

His story is becoming all too common in high tech as wave after wave of layoffs take jobs away, and AI reduces the need for big teams down to just 2-3 developers.

It’s worth seeing how real lives are being affected by this massive industry shift.