Flagged by the Machine: How Google Ads Suspended an Open-Source macOS Term as Malicious

Google Ads suspends the account of RACE creator Przemyslaw Alexander Kaminski after automated scanners flag the Rust terminal multiplexer as malware. The incident follows an ad campaign, despite clean notarization and Safe Browsing checks, and highlights a conflict between ad-screening heuristics and POSIX process designs.

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    Flagged by the Machine: How Google Ads Suspended an Open-Source macOS Term as Malicious

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