A human who has seen the source code cannot be part of the team producing a clean room implementation. They will taint the project with their general knowledge of the system they try to rebuild.

20 years ago BonziBuddy could do the same, and people were losing their mind if they encountered it on a system

Could always run for president of the USA

And who had to dig through those false positives to find the actual issues.

Further more, the article doesn't mention the security issues, nor the software it was found in. Just the number 500.

JPEG XL was also an image format Google worked on.

cookie consent policies have been an annoying and unavoidable part of browsing the web

Just don't track your users can send the data to a gazillion other parties. (Or let shady companies like Google or Facebook do the tracking if your visitors for you.)

Simple, let GPT5.1 Thinking do it.

It does not matter how broken the DRM is, circumventing it is still illegal according to copyright laws.

Getting it to run on Mars. If one of those Mars rovers stop driving... let it run Doom.

It's to communicate with the nazi base on the dark side of the moon

I'm pirating stuff to train my Al, so it's all good.

Fancy CEO without a degree, selling snake oil, tells that snake oil makes degrees matter less

robots.txt works quite well. After disallowing a shitload of scrapers they never return. Instead I now get a shitload of outdated and weird chrome version visiting my site from datacenter IPs.

Watson.

They basically walked away unharmed when they shoved Teams down everybody's throat. It was ruled anti-competitive, but they received no penalty because they promised to "restore fair competition".

Now they are going to do the same with their spicy auto-complete.