Google to pay $40,000 "consolation prize" to Pinkie Pie for not-quite breaking into Chrome OS
Renowned Chrome hacker Pinkie Pie, who scooped the prize at last year’s Pwnium competition, didn’t quite get across the line this year.
But Google will pay him a one-third-sized consolation prize anyway, for “honoring the spirit of the competition.”
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