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AMD denied a $10,000 bug bounty to researcher Paul LaRosa after he discovered a critical HTTP vulnerability in AMD's Windows auto-updater, allowing man-in-the-middle attacks; the company took 124 days to fix the issue and still uses weak CRC32 checksums.

A user thanks for the GEPA tool, highlighting its natural workflow for LLM programs, fast iteration, and ability to bias optimization with data-derived priors.

A tweet contrasts the roles of researchers (studying potentially unsolvable problems) and engineers (solving solvable problems).