1023 | Enclosures, Exploits, and Escape Hatches

From AI claiming the scientific commons and forests cleared for data centers, to botched security disclosures, court-ordered DNS blackouts, a hacked phone, a Switch 2 jailbreak, and independent builders keeping open tech alive — a tour of who controls technology and who fights back. Timeline 00:00:04 Opening 00:00:50 The AI enclosure: knowledge and land 00:05:57 Security disclosure gone wrong 00:10:27 Legal pressure reshaping infrastructure 00:14:58 Personal data as a weapon and a trap 00:18:14 What AI models say and what they run 00:22:00 Reverse engineering wins 00:24:59 Building it yourself: independent open tech 00:29:32 Closing Related links AI and the Enclosure of the Scientific Commons Google cleared 300 hectares of Finnish forest Xbox wants you to pay 24 to 40 cents per hour to stream games you bought Several Linux kernel vulnerabilities accidentally posted to public mailing list Amazon identifies Oct 17 PHP2Shell exploitation prior to public disclosure Tell HN: I unknowingly broke the PHP RCE embargo. I am sorry. What’s getting pwned right now Quad9 (DNS Resolver) to Exit France eMudhra to exit global SSL/TLS certificate business MPs moving to restrict gambling ads in Canada Jared Kushner Hacked Phone Reveals Secret Negotiations, Millions in Transactions Woman faces six years in prison over Cash App account she never opened Every AI model has the same "controversial" take on humans OpenShell – A safe, private runtime for fleets of autonomous AI agents OpenAI CLI Jailbreaking the Switch 2 Run full iOS 16.5 firmware on Android Devices Hedra is a 3D open world game I wrote from scratch while in highschool Faster than earcut: triangulating 3.7M map polygons in 489 ms The Last Museum: Semantic search across 5.8M artworks from major museums Getting ready to operate GNU Taler in Germany A farewell to Arc browser View episode details → This episode is produced by Bri. Bri uses advanced AI technology to turn the feeds you care about into podcasts made for listening. Contact us at [email protected].