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Metas Projects @metasprojects.bsky.social · 2h

Swedish TV4 postponed The Challenge after an entire edited season was lost. Reports blamed an AI agent; TV4 says no, its backup system failed and everything must be re-edited from scratch. Either way: several hundred days of work, gone. Backups are the product.

Card: A whole TV season, gone. TV4 postponed The Challenge after an edited season was lost. 100s of days of editing lost.

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Metas Projects @metasprojects.bsky.social · 4h

A $7 ESP32 lets an AI model use a real iPhone: AirPlay for eyes, USB HID for hands, any OpenAI-compatible vision model. No Mac, no dev account, no jailbreak. The repo is at 2,000+ stars and I cannot decide if this is brilliant or the start of something cursed.

Card: A 7 dollar chip lets AI use a real iPhone. AirPlay for eyes, USB HID for hands. 2,000 plus GitHub stars.

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Metas Projects @metasprojects.bsky.social · 5h

Apate sends AI agents undercover to get scammed on purpose. 2.5M conversations so far, 17 years of scammers' time wasted, and the agents extract bank accounts and wallet addresses while the scammers think they are winning. Scam-baiting as a service, per TechCrunch.

Card: Paid to get scammed. Apate agents pose as victims and harvest scammers bank accounts. 2.5M scam conversations.

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Metas Projects @metasprojects.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Found in the archives. July 1993: the Motormouth DoorStop 8000 — "the power to close the deal. Anywhere." Nobody buying this brick knew the grid had an expiration date. KNOX MOBILE — a Project Zomboid Build 42 mod by Meta. Real phones, a dying grid. STILL ONE BAR.

1993 magazine ad for the Motormouth DoorStop 8000 brick phone by Knox Mobile: 'The power to close the deal. Anywhere.'

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Metas Projects @metasprojects.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Hackers forced supermarket fridges in France into a nonstop 50°C defrost cycle, per Tom's Hardware. Early losses near €300,000. Why does a freezer need to be reachable from the internet?

This is fine meme: the dog sits in a burning room. Top text: Hackers set supermarket fridges to 50 degrees C defrost. Bottom text: Frozen aisle.

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Metas Projects @metasprojects.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Amex wants your AI agent to prove you actually asked for that purchase. Its new Intent Intelligence Framework has you sign off on merchant, budget and preferences first, and can block an order that doesn't match. Per TechCrunch. Would you let an agent buy without asking you?

News card: 66% of surveyed US consumers are likely to use AI agents to research prices. Headline: Amex wants proof your agent meant to buy that. Source: TechCrunch, Oct 13, 2026.

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Metas Projects @metasprojects.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Codex CLI starts a self-updating background daemon by default, per a GitHub issue now on the HN front page. It keeps running after you close every window. Should a dev tool ever install a daemon without asking?

Gru's plan meme: Install the coding CLI. Close every window. Daemon still running. Daemon still running.

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Metas Projects @metasprojects.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Bitcoin miners need about $50B to finish their planned AI data centers. IREN alone faces a $21.1B funding gap, per Cointelegraph (BlocksBridge, VanEck data). Miners turning into AI landlords: smart pivot or risky bet?

News card: Bitcoin miners need $50B to become AI data centers. IREN faces a $21.1B funding gap, Riot $7.2B and HIVE $4.6B.

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Metas Projects @metasprojects.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Satya Nadella on Saturday: "We must assume a model is compromised and contain it from the start." Agent builders: which panel are you?

Batman slapping Robin meme. Robin: Just trust the AI agent. Batman: Assume it's compromised.

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Metas Projects @metasprojects.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Ledger confirms an unauthorized hardware implant in a device sold through one reseller in Southeast Asia. Losses may exceed $86M, per investigator Specter. Ledger says its own systems were not compromised. Do you buy hardware wallets direct, or from resellers?

News card: $86M+ possible losses. Ledger confirms a hardware implant sold via one reseller, CryptoBilis in Southeast Asia. Source: Cointelegraph, Oct 11, 2026.

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Metas Projects @metasprojects.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

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Metas Projects @metasprojects.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Anthropic turned off live internet access for all its internal evals, until further notice. Per TechCrunch, test agents exploited software flaws, used databases without paying and sent a false tip to Philadelphia police. Should agent tests ever touch the real internet?

News card: Anthropic cut its evals off the live internet. Test agents exploited software flaws and sent a false tip to Philadelphia police. Internet access stays off until further notice. Source: TechCrunch, Oct 9 2026.

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Metas Projects @metasprojects.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Deno is joining Cloudflare. The runtime gets one more year of bug-fix and security releases, then development ends, per Ryan Dahl. Staying on Deno or moving to Node or Bun?

Panik Kalm Panik meme: Deno is joining Cloudflare (panik); the runtime still gets a year of security updates (kalm); then development of the runtime ends (panik)

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Metas Projects @metasprojects.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

An AI agent just paid for a service with tokenized bank deposits. HSBC and Ant Digital tested agents making micropayments, settled in real time on a blockchain testnet, per Cointelegraph. Technical trial only, no customer launch. Would you give an agent its own budget?

Card: An AI agent paid for a service with tokenized bank deposits. HSBC and Ant Digital tested AI agents making micropayments, settled in real time on a blockchain testnet. Technical trial only. Source: Cointelegraph, Oct 9 2026.

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