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He Hacked His Own TV... Then OpenAI Banned Him
A developer stripped the tracking out of his Samsung TV with AI. A researcher who went deeper got banned by OpenAI. And in the same week, AI found a 9.2-severity hole in the language that runs most of the web. This is Stack Trace, the week in code.
Sources
- Jake Stevens (@stake_jevens) on X, 21 Oct 2026
- log4j on X, 23–24 Oct 2026
- XDA Developers, "Someone debloated their Samsung Tizen OS TV by pointing a camera at it for Claude to see" (21 Oct 2026)
- FTC, "VIZIO to Pay $2.2 Million to FTC, State of New Jersey to Settle Charges It Collected Viewing Histories on 11 Million Smart Televisions without Users' Consent" (6 Feb 2017)
- PHP2Shell, CVE-2026-109618 / CVE-2026-109619: Rapid7, Tenable, Unit 42 and Google Cloud advisories (21–23 Oct 2026)
- BleepingComputer, "Mozilla, Google, Apple block compromised eMudhra CA certificates" (Oct 2026)
- Moonshot AI (@Kimi_Moonshot), Kimi K3.1 Pro announcement, 23 Oct 2026
- Wall Street Journal via Al Jazeera, "Anthropic posts $80bn loss in first half of 2026" (21 Oct 2026)
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