{
  "id": 449237,
  "title": "Demoralized developer's desperate hack came back to haunt him on LinkedIn",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/10/demoralized-developers-desperate-hack-came-back-to-haunt-him-on-449237",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-08-10T06:30:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Register",
    "slug": "the-register",
    "url": "https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/08/10/demoralized-developers-desperate-hack-came-back-to-haunt-him-on-linkedin/5284476"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "A script that shouldn't have worked, on a project that never ended, for a company that hardly cared",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "The Register Science",
        "title": "Demoralized developer's desperate hack came back to haunt him on LinkedIn",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/10/demoralized-developers-desperate-hack-came-back-to-haunt-him-on",
        "published": "2026-08-10T06:30:00.000Z"
      }
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}