Daniel Stenberg stated, "does not seem to slow down. On the contrary, it seems that we have recently not only received more AI slop but also more human slop."
Curl creator mulls nixing bug bounty awards to stop AI slop
The general trend so far in 2025 has been way more AI slop than ever before (about 20 percent of all submissions) as we have averaged about two security report submissions per week.
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To handle timeout and retry logic effectively in PHP cURL, use both CURLOPT_TIMEOUT for the overall request timeout and CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT for the connection timeout, then implement a retry loop.
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