Technology

Via Reuters.

America has lost more than 200k jobs in “creative” industries over the last four years, with roughly 50k lost within the last year alone. That makes for one of the worst stretches for media employment in modern US history, with similar job loss intensity and duration occurring only during the major economic recessions of 2001 and 2008. Yet there’s no generalized recession today—instead, this period of job loss coincides with the rise of AI systems that can compose wholesale novels, photorealistic images, soundalike music, and practically every other form of digital art, en masse and at extremely low costs. Is this the fall of the Creative Class?

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.

After Apple Confirms DOJ Demanded Removal of ICEBlock, Raskin Requests Full Accounting of Apps Removed at the Administration’s Behest

• 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.

Like Claude Mythos Preview, GLM-5.3 has strong capabilities for autonomously building end-to-end cyber exploits

Research.

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

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.