GitHub Solves Bugs By Paying Less

GitHub has thoughtfully decided to slash public bug bounty payouts by at least fifty percent across all severities, because who needs well-paid researchers anyway? Public critical bug rewards affecting the platform drop from over thirty thousand dollars to a flat ten thousand, while proper money sits safely behind an invite-only VIP tier. Vetted security researchers in this VIP club are supposedly going to protect us all while GitHub slashes triage overhead from low-quality reports. Here we go again, expecting better security while paying the people finding flaws half as much.