Apple is now going to give cash prizes to anyone who finds a bug in their system
Apple has announced that it will give out large cash prizes to anyone who can find bugs in their various software. The cash prize depends on the kind of bug that was found and can go up to $1 million. This program was previously only open to a selected group of cyber security experts.
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