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Meta is facing some awkward questions today after launching an AI optimism campaign set to David Bowie's Five Years — a song, it turns out, about humanity learning it has five years left before the apocalypse. The irony wasn't lost on observers, and it raises a real question about who exactly is reviewing these campaigns before they go live.
Meanwhile, a serious security vulnerability is drawing attention in California, where researchers at the University of California San Diego have found that at least two point two million vehicles fitted with dealer-installed security systems can be compromised via nearby Bluetooth attacks — allowing bad actors to unlock doors or disable a stopped car entirely. The full research drops in August, but the early findings are already alarming.
On the infrastructure side of AI, the Model Context Protocol — the open standard Anthropic released last year for connecting AI applications to external systems — is undergoing a significant architectural rethink. What worked fine on a developer's laptop has struggled to scale into cloud-based enterprise environments, and the protocol's maintainers are now preparing a meaningful break from its stateful design origins.
Three stories, three reminders that technology is always a negotiation between ambition and consequence. Keep surfing. Tech Beat out.
