Lyra Rebane receives $1,333,337 Chrome bounty

Security researcher Lyra Rebane describes how she accidentally gained edit access to Google's Buganizer platform and changed her Chromium vulnerability bounty to a record-breaking $1,333,337. After posting a joke about the incident on Twitter, AI-generated community notes, automated news podcasts, and AI search tools erroneously picked up the stunt as factual, demonstrating the fragility of modern information channels against disinformation. Open article →