A researcher finds a WordPress RCE for $500,000 with GPT-5.6 for $25
The marginal cost of discovering a critical exploit falls below the threshold of an evening of research - the discovery/reward market ratio explodes.
Jul 20, 2026 at 16:39 19 14
AWS multi-region: the pre-flight discovery call that blocked global failover
InfoQ publishes the analysis of a pre-flight discovery call, present in every customer session for years, revealed as an obstacle to global failover during AWS regional outages. A lesson in systems more than a patch.
Jul 13, 2026 at 17:27 29 7
Copyright vs. training data: the NYT vs OpenAI dispute, and Google's AI ad-disclosure rule
The New York Times is asking a court to sanction OpenAI over training-data discovery; Google now requires advertisers to disclose generative AI use in ads. Two regulatory pincers on the same problem: what "AI-generated" means when the law wants a source of truth.
Jul 11, 2026 at 11:41 5 8