MIT Tech Review
A reality check on the AI jobs hysteria
The narrative that AI is about to wipe out white-collar work en masse deserves more scrutiny than it typically receives. While high-profile layoffs at companies like Coinbase, Meta, and Cisco make for alarming headlines, the data behind sweeping predictions of knowledge-worker displacement remains far from settled. The reality of AI's labor market impact is likely more nuanced — and slower-moving — than the doomsayers suggest.
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I bypassed AWS API Gateway auth with a trailing slash. Got $12K bounty
A security researcher discovered that appending a trailing slash to API Gateway endpoints could completely bypass authentication controls, exposing protected resources to unauthenticated requests. The finding earned a $12,000 bug bounty, underscoring how trivially simple edge cases can produce critical vulnerabilities in widely-used cloud infrastructure. Teams relying on AWS API Gateway should audit their route matching configurations immediately.
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CVE-2026-28952: Apple macOS 26.5 Kernel Vuln found by Claude
A newly disclosed kernel vulnerability in Apple macOS 26.5 has been attributed to Claude, Anthropic's AI assistant, marking a notable moment in AI-assisted security research. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-28952, carries serious implications given that kernel-level vulnerabilities can enable full system compromise. Apple has yet to issue a public patch timeline, making this an active concern for macOS users.
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The AI bubble isn't like the internet bubble
The comparison between today's AI investment frenzy and the late-1990s dot-com boom is more complicated than it appears. Unlike the internet bubble, which at least built out real infrastructure that later underpinned a digital economy, AI's core costs — particularly energy and compute — don't follow the same deflationary curve that made the web's aftermath productive. That distinction matters for anyone betting on a similar "wreckage-fuels-future-growth" narrative playing out again.
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The Verge
Cox Media fined after bragging it spied on users through their phones
Cox Media Group and two marketing partners will pay $930,000 to settle FTC allegations that they falsely claimed to listen to users through smartphones and smart devices to target ads. The firms had publicly boasted about an "Active Listening" capability, but regulators found the claims were more fabrication than fact. The case marks a rare instance of a company being penalized not for actually surveilling consumers, but for lying about its ability to do so.
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