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AI hacking liability, N-able's patch bypass, Bouncy Castle CVEs - August 4, 2026

Lawyers try to fit autonomous AI intrusions into a 1986 hacking statute, N-able patches a bypass of its own patch while half its fleet stays exposed, Samsung bans smart TV apps that rent out your home internet, and an 80B model runs on a Mac in 4.3 GB.

Chapters

  1. Intro

  2. Bouncy Castle ships thirty two CVE fixes at once

    https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2026/q3/402
  3. What open source means when a model reads the code

    https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/3/devtools-must-be-open-source-exedev/
  4. Self-improvement is mostly harness engineering

    https://lilianweng.github.io/posts/2026-07-04-harness/
  5. An eighty billion parameter model in four gigabytes

    https://github.com/leonickson1/Swiftlet
  6. Sign-off

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