Technology

• The memory manufacturers have all moved toward long-term agreements with longer terms and capacity than previously
• Amazon has publicly stated that more users than ever will consider its cloud services due to the rising costs of on-location hardware
• Micron, Samsung, and SK Hynix have diverted a flood of memory away from consumers

Meta launched Muse on September 8 as a personal AI agent, marketing it as “a safe, secure, private” assistant built “from the ground up” to handle all your errands. It has since surged to become the No. 1 free iPhone app in the U.S. While early reviews have mostly focused on how Muse handles its users’ own data, an investigation by Hunterbrook Media revealed a darker capability: what the agent can do with other people’s data. Over two days of testing, Hunterbrook found that Muse can be easily prompted to compile dossiers on Facebook and Instagram accounts belonging to members of vulnerable groups – including undocumented immigrants, transgender teachers, poll workers, Iranian dissidents, and women who said they had ordered abortion pills in states with abortion bans. Many of the accounts belonged to private individuals with no public persona.

Data sent by vehicles and companion apps included locations, VINs, and other identifiers. Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft were among the top receivers of driver data.

Video.

Deepdive.

It chains a WebKit browser bug with a kernel use-after-free race to seize kernel read/write, then loads payloads for homebrew and game backups

Research.

AI needs 2 things. It needs capital-intensive resources. But it also needs an uneducated population that cannot think, that is not educated, that relies on it so that they can sell cognition back to us.

Hacker News.

Our AI agent spent weeks inside nested KVM, built a 14,338-line kernel exploit harness, and made Google’s live host hand back the flag.

Lobste.rs.