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Tech CEO's Negative Coverage Vanished from Google via Security Flaw

3 weeks 3 days ago
Journalist Jack Poulson accidentally discovered that Google had completely removed two of his articles from search results after someone exploited a vulnerability in the company's Refresh Outdated Content tool. The security flaw allowed malicious actors to de-list specific web pages by submitting URLs with altered capitalization to Google's recrawling system. When Google attempted to index these modified URLs, the system received 404 errors and subsequently removed all variations of the page from search results, including the original legitimate articles. The affected stories concerned tech CEO Delwin Maurice Blackman's 2021 arrest on felony domestic violence charges. In a statement to 404 Media, Google confirmed the vulnerability and said it had deployed a fix for the issue.

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AI Code Generators Are Writing Vulnerable Software Nearly Half the Time, Analysis Finds

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BrianFagioli writes: AI might be the future of software development, but a new report suggests we're not quite ready to take our hands off the wheel. Veracode has released its 2025 GenAI Code Security Report, and the findings are pretty alarming. Out of 80 carefully designed coding tasks completed by over 100 large language models, nearly 45 percent of the AI-generated code contained security flaws. That's not a small number. These are not minor bugs, either. We're talking about real vulnerabilities, with many falling under the OWASP Top 10, which highlights the most dangerous issues in modern web applications. The report found that when AI was given the option to write secure or insecure code, it picked the wrong path nearly half the time.

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