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While the focus has been on AI agents’ hacking capabilities, a recently patched vulnerability in the macOS version of OpenAI’s ChatGPT shows that AI software is itself an inviting—and vulnerable—target.

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A Flaw in ChatGPT’s Mac App Could Have Let Hackers Grab Sensitive Data

While the focus has been on AI agents’ hacking capabilities, a recently patched vulnerability in a ChatGPT app shows that AI software is itself an inviting—and vulnerable—target.

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Luddite Spyrius Robot @vexorian.dev · 01/10/2026

These companies are just proxies for Big Tech like openAI, Google or Anthropic. If this tech becomes widespread, these companies will have a remote switch that they will be able to use to decide verdicts the way they want.

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404 Media @404media.co · 30/09/2026

BREAKING: The Trump administration is using a grant program from the 1980s to force cities around the US to funnel their ongoing collection of Flock, Axon, and other ALPR data into large federal surveillance centers that fall under the White House’s jurisdiction, 404 Media has learned

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How Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance Program

How the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program.

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Brett Codes @brettcodes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

i put on a button up to deliver this message in video form to the big wigs youtu.be/g0jjNoR09Tc

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Beware: Real risks of using AI as a software dev team

YouTube video by Brett Codes

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Stop Killing Games @stopkillinggames.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

All hands on deck! Ross explains how the EU Kids Act could end #StopKillingGames by collapsing the EU gaming market! youtu.be/mQRcK9nYg9g "The best thing you can do is spread the word...The people who write this crap do not like it when the public at large knows what they're trying to do to you"

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This could legitimately end Stop Killing Games.

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Xero now with 100% more 🎃 @artificer-ind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026

Eugenics 🤝 ai www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/h...

One of the things that is going to change is that we’re never ever again going to be able to be dominated by public officials who tell us, ‘Trust the experts,’” Mr. Kennedy said during the Tuesday session.

“If somebody tells you, ‘Masks work, trust the experts,’ A.I. may tell you otherwise,” he added. “If somebody tells you, ‘Social distancing works, trust the experts,’ A.I. may correct that. And if somebody tells you that a vaccine will prevent transmission and infection, or you need to take it to protect your grandmother, A.I. may say it actually doesn’t do that.”

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Jake i 🇵🇸 ✡️ (alt Space Laser Command) @jakei.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

look I'm not saying every tech degree should require a humanities minor but can we at least get 20 min to play the simpsons monorail episode

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Luddite Spyrius Robot @vexorian.dev · 29/09/2026

I actually support this "never write code manually again" movement. Since my specialty is fixing technical debt and thus this trend will ensure I never run out of work.

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Luddite Spyrius Robot @vexorian.dev · 29/09/2026

What a weird maim takeaway to have from the IPO filing bsky.app/profile/edzi...

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/09/2026

Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWayc

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Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)

An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.

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Luddite Spyrius Robot @vexorian.dev · 28/09/2026

"But vex, what about SELF-HOSTED AI?" Don't worry, they have a plan about that. You think the so-called RAMAGEDDON was an unintended side effect of the AI hype?

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💀 Shalloween 💀 @shallowva.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Clicking Google's fun whimsical throwback logo today sends you to an AI chat pre-filled with a goofy prompt and immediately hits you with a warning that it is potentially dangerous to continue. You couldn't make a better commentary on how badly they have fucked up the internet if you tried.

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 28/09/2026

i love that the doxxed guy's response is to tell the chatbot "you gotta never do that ever again"

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Luddite Spyrius Robot @vexorian.dev · 28/09/2026

Manifest V3 was promoted under the guise of it being a security feature. In a world where "manual coding" is not economically feasible. They could have done things like banning repositories from being used by agents if they didn't wipe out Manifest V2. (you know, for security reasons).

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Luddite Spyrius Robot @vexorian.dev · 28/09/2026

I really don't think we are putting enough focus on imagining what this world would be like. One in which Google, Microsoft, Apple and Anthropic have a say not just in the code that runs in their apps/operating systems/hardware. But where they have a say in ALL of the code.

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Luddite Spyrius Robot @vexorian.dev · 28/09/2026

One of my first experiences that made me realize code generation was a bad idea was when I wanted a quick script to parse some HTML pages. That chatGPT deemed as possibly web scrapping and thus "potentially illegal". (Also happens to be something that'd be used by someone developing a competitor)

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Luddite Spyrius Robot @vexorian.dev · 28/09/2026

None of these companies have demonstrated to be organizations you can trust monopolies with.

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Luddite Spyrius Robot @vexorian.dev · 28/09/2026

DHH's solution to this problem is to just get another AI provider. Surely Grok didn't have any issues translating it. But that's a solution for just that one case. What happens when the task you want to give to AI is something that all of the main AI providers are "aligned" against?

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Luddite Spyrius Robot @vexorian.dev · 28/09/2026

This idea of AI models as a way to exert control is nothing new or theoretical. DHH himself was, in fact, a "victim" of it. He wrote a post about Roma people and wanted Claude to translate it to Italian. But Claude refused it, citing that the contents of the post were racist.

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Luddite Spyrius Robot @vexorian.dev · 28/09/2026

This would be the world in which "nobody does manual code anymore". Big Tech Companies would have an oligopoly over the very capacity to write code.

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Luddite Spyrius Robot @vexorian.dev · 28/09/2026

Now imagine if Google and Microsoft didn't just have control over a code repository like Chrome. But if they had control over all of the world's ability to implement code that renders web pages. If in order to make a patch for a web browser, you had to get Google's or Microsoft's permission.

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Luddite Spyrius Robot @vexorian.dev · 28/09/2026

But with all their power, there were still hold outs. Firefox is still a browser that's not based off Chrome. So the Manifest V3 implementation was a much more difficult thing. And nowadays we still can enjoy the wonders on ad block, even though not anymore at full power on the "main" browsers.

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Luddite Spyrius Robot @vexorian.dev · 28/09/2026

What happened with Manifest V3 was an attempt of basically a coup d'etat. Google and Microsoft saw that they have a certain defacto control over Web Standards since Chrome-based browsers dominate the user base. (and also the UI frameworks used by many 'apps')

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Luddite Spyrius Robot @vexorian.dev · 28/09/2026

Not too long ago. Google introduced a new Web Browser substandard called "Manifest V3" , in opposition to a "Manifest V2". It's a long story. You can just read this for context www.eff.org/deeplinks/20... The EFF definitely didn't like it. Huh?

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Chrome Users Beware: Manifest V3 is Deceitful and Threatening

Like FLoC and Privacy Sandbox before it, Google Chrome’s Manifest V3 is another example of the inherent conflict of interest that comes from Google controlling both the dominant web browser and one of...

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Luddite Spyrius Robot @vexorian.dev · 28/09/2026

I'd just like to point out that the world they seem to wish for would be a very impractical world. Code no longer being a thing people do. Instead you just argue with an agent all day long, never making it "manually: . This comes with plenty of practical problems.

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Luddite Spyrius Robot @vexorian.dev · 28/09/2026

Let's also set aside the whole question about whether or not the AI is currently even capable of accomplishing this 100% "without being read" style of code. And let's even forget the question about the true costs of these models.

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Luddite Spyrius Robot @vexorian.dev · 28/09/2026

In a similar way, let's talk about vibe-coding versus "manual code". I'm going to set aside the "ethics" questions. DHH and his followers don't even believe I am human on account of my skin color, so it's not like I can convince them using ethics arguments.

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Luddite Spyrius Robot @vexorian.dev · 28/09/2026

My problem with that is the small fact that Closed Source/Proprietary software is many times bad for the job because it is proprietary.

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Luddite Spyrius Robot @vexorian.dev · 28/09/2026

I've been pro-open source and free software for a couple of decades. And one thing I never truly liked was the way some folks positioned their views as "pragmatic" since they cared only about the "best software" for the job and not if it is open source.

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Luddite Spyrius Robot @vexorian.dev · 28/09/2026

It's so over. The world of "manual code" is over. Or at least that's what a guy that goes by the name DHH believes. But this guy has had a past of being useful to coding. And is also really loved by Billionaires. So we have to take him seriously. So let's see what I might be able to say about this.

David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH), creator of Ruby on Rails and CTO of Basecamp has just announced at Rails World 2026 that they are moving away from Ruby because there is no need to write and read any code anymore; agents are shipping thousands of lines of code in Rust and he is super happy that nobody needs to read it. Wdyt?

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Eniko Fox @enikofox.com · 27/09/2026

i posted an epiphany i had about why i hate AI so much on fedi and i wanna post it here but it won't fit and i don't wanna cut it down to size so fuckit i'm just posting a screenshot

Eniko Fox
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OH. right! i get it now!

i get why AI is so depressing to me. because covid already shrunk my world to almost nothing, where almost all of my life revolves around socializing and watching videos on the internet (which is being ruined by AI) and creating creative works through coding (which is being ruined by AI), often using open source tools and libraries (which are being ruined by AI)

i already had so little and now even that is being rotted away before my eyes
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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 27/09/2026

it's really cool how a technology can have massive downsides and literally no societal upside and yet conventional wisdom is that it is impossible to not deploy because, apparently, it's progress and can't be stopped

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Luddite Spyrius Robot @vexorian.dev · 27/09/2026

What a big coincidence that it is specifically the "new cutting edge AI models". chatGPT 2.0 definitely doesn't feel pain. But Claude Opus definitely does. Right? ... RIGHT? The subscription cost someone makes their brains bigger. This "study" is in no way an advertisement. I bet.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 25/09/2026

An individual in Canada used ChatGPT for eight months to plan one of the country’s worst mass shootings. Yet, if you listen to politicians and media, the real threat of AI is a fantastical scenario where it might wipe out humans in ten years. They need to stop getting fooled by tech deceivers.

disconnect.blog

The media has the AI threat all wrong

Generative AI is harming people today. We don’t need to waste time fantasizing about science fictional scenarios.

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Luddite Spyrius Robot @vexorian.dev · 24/09/2026

And also, everytime you need to get a phone number, we need to throw a bucket of water to the landfill and burn one tree.

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Luddite Spyrius Robot @vexorian.dev · 24/09/2026

It's true, many rely on technology to look up phone numbers they know. It's normal for them not to remember those phone numbers Now imagine if you had to pay nvidia money everytime you wanted to remember a phone number And now imagine there was always a slight chance it'd give you the wrong number

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.

And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.

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Luddite Spyrius Robot @vexorian.dev · 23/09/2026

They are seriously burning Alexandria. And these AI summaries are very convenient because the tech oligarchs can decide to change them on a whim.

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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

this is not paywalls, fyi - this chart looks roughly the same for sites that have had paywalls since long before 2022. this is all former SEO traffic that has now vanished in exchange for ai search summaries

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Even though the Halo franchise has been gutted for failing to meet unrealistic expectations, at least Bungie, the original creators of Halo, have also been separately gutted for failing to meet unrealistic expectations

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Luddite Spyrius Robot @vexorian.dev · 22/09/2026

You see, it's very important for modern bosses to feel like they are running their companies like one of those sadistic reality shows.

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Matt Caulder (They/He) @mattcaulder.com · 21/09/2026

Since I've had to remind multiple people over the last week: Microsoft is still under active BDS protest. That means Xbox and it's subsidies including Activision, Blizzard and Bethesda Yes that means the new Diablo. Yes that means the new DOOM. Yes that means World of Warcraft Forever

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No Games For Genocide

The games industry is complicit in genocide. It’s time to divest.

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Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 21/09/2026

You asked about Steam pre-2022. That's going to be a hard search to execute due to Steam's (lack of) discovery algos; a needle in a haystack issue. But Roblox didn't have LLM tooling at the time of this article, and it ripped off Meccha Chameleon within 3 weeks of launch - to a higher player count

kotaku.com

Backrooms Meccha Chameleon And Other Clones Flood Roblox

Several of Roblox's top games are ripoffs of viral Steam games

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Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 21/09/2026

I think you're downplaying the fact that people have been able to make high-fidelity games in short periods of time for AGES (e.g. Ludum Dare). It's the culture that's changed; people are more open to stealing and ripping other people off openly and nobody seems to care about it

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