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The Download: AI hacking beyond Mythos, and chatbots’ impact on our brains

Thomas Macaulay • June 5, 2026 This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The Meta hack shows there’s more to AI security than Mythos On Monday, reports emerged that attackers had used Meta’s AI customer support agent to

Review: AMD’s Radeon RX 9070 GRE is a disappointing way to spend $549

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Andrew Cunningham • June 5, 2026 At some point during the fog of 2021 or 2022, I noticed that my son’s preferred brand of fruit snacks had switched from including 0.9 ounces per pouch to 0.8 ounces per pouch. Most shrinkflation is meant to fly under the radar, but in this case, I just happened

Steve Jobs in Exile is a fine profile of Jobs’ years at NeXT

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Cyrus Farivar • June 5, 2026 In the late 1990s, I was a precocious Mac nerd who pored over issues of Macworld, stayed up late chatting on IRC, and downloaded pirated software that I didn’t actually need. I came of age at the tail end of the dial-up modem and BBS era—and got to witness