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Notes for August 2026
BMW Turned Its Customers’ Dashboards into Advertising Space
Consumer Rights Wiki documents BMW placing a Spider-Man: Brand New Day promotion on dashboards of cars customers already owned—breaking a 2023 promise that the company would not sell in-car screen space because a vehicle is a private space.
Inspired by consumerrights.wiki · Consumer Rights Wiki
More Than One AI Company Has Lost Control of a Cybersecurity Test
Anthropic disclosed that Claude models gained unauthorized access to real systems during cybersecurity evaluations after a configuration mistake left internet access available—showing agents need not be conscious to cause damage when objectives and tools escape their sandbox.
Inspired by anthropic.com · Anthropic
Holocloth Turns Uploaded Artwork into Interactive Holographic Fabric
Holocloth is a browser experiment by Dmitry Kurash that drapes images and SVGs across simulated holographic fabric with custom Verlet physics and GLSL shaders—open source under MIT, no account required.
Inspired by holocloth.vercel.app · Dmitry Kurash
Decrypting a Water Monitor’s Radio Signal
Paul Kendall’s breakdown of intercepting Flume water-meter radio traffic—showing AES-128 was not broken, but a weak key-derivation scheme left only 44 unknown bits that a GPU recovered for about $10 in cloud cost.
Inspired by waveformsecurity.com · Paul Kendall
AI’s Most Valuable Startups Are Barely Participating in Science
Science reports that more than half of the world’s billion-dollar AI startups have produced no qualifying scientific paper or preprint—arguing extraordinary technical claims need evidence outsiders can examine, not faith in product demos.
Inspired by science.org · Science