- present tense form of bug (3rd person singular).
bugs
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The National Security Agency and Federal Bureau of Investigation have told companies that couldn’t immediately patch the web bugs to simply pull the plug on their websites.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026
AI tools helped find what is turning out to be one of the most severe online bugs ever—and cyber experts are racing to patch it before hackers use AI to exploit it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
"The underlying bugs weren't new; what changed was our ability to find them," Kanhere said.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
OpenAI called the flaws "one of the most impactful vulnerabilities in recent memory", adding that it "marks a new phase, where AI can find security bugs with internet-scale impact".
From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026
Dad and I move toward and away from the shelves, like hopping bugs, trying to make a buffer of space between us and other shoppers.
From "Muffled" by Jennifer Gennari
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