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🛡️ Microsoft has updated the .NET Bounty Program, expanding scope and increasing maximum payouts to $40,000 for high-impact vulnerabilities. The program now covers all supported versions of .NET and ASP.NET (including Blazor and F#), repository templates, and GitHub Actions in .NET repositories. Awards are now tied to explicit severity and report quality criteria, with higher payments for complete, exploit-backed reports.

🛡️ Over the coming weeks Google will begin a limited U.S. rollout of age assurance, a system designed to distinguish users under 18 from adults and apply age-appropriate protections across its products. For accounts identified as minors Google will enable defaults such as YouTube Digital Wellbeing tools, disable Maps Timeline, turn off personalized advertising, and block adult-only apps on Google Play. The approach combines machine-learning age estimation based on existing account signals with optional age verification — including a government ID or a selfie — when users dispute their estimated age, and Google will notify users and provide options for adult verification.