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Intellectual Properties of images scrapped via our Google Images API

When you type "strawberries" in Google: Each of these images has its own copyrights by its own creators. Google doesn't own the intellectual property of the images. However, Google can find them all across the web and list them when someone queries "strawberries". This

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How a routine gem update ended up creating $73k worth of subscriptions

On November 5, 2021 (a Friday of course), we've deployed innocent-looking gem updates. Minor versions of Ruby on Rails, Ruby Sentry client, Ruby Slack client, http libraries, Puma, Devise, OmniAuth Ruby client, Mongoid, and a few test gems. However, something went very wrong. We saw odd Stripe errors