{
  "id": 2834998,
  "title": "I spent $266 and four AI models to own my tablet. GLM-5.3 finished it in a day",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/23/i-spent-266-and-four-ai-models-to-own-my-tablet-glm-5-3-finished-it-2834998",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-23T14:23:09.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Hacker News Best",
    "slug": "hacker-news-best",
    "url": "https://ericpardee.github.io/fire-hd-ownership/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "My Amazon Fire HD tablet, bought new and sealed on eBay for $114.26 in November 2022, cost an additional $266.15 to fully own. Kimi K3 discovered an exploit for $164.25, GLM-5.2 identified its bugs for $21.90, and GLM-5.3 completed the task in one day during an $80 subscription period. The total expense equaled the cost of purchasing the tablet twice. Although Kimi K3 ultimately failed to create a successful exploit, GLM-5.3 ultimately succeeded in finding a vulnerability. With the help of Claude Code, I spent months on the process, testing various methods to gain full control of the device. The exploit worked due to a use-after-free vulnerability (CVE-2022-38181) in the Arm's Mali kernel driver, which was fixed by Amazon in June 2024. However, my tablet was running on a previous version of Fire OS, making it vulnerable. After a long process, I successfully owned my tablet using an LLM (large language model).",
  "summary": "Article URL: https://ericpardee.github.io/fire-hd-ownership/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49409073 Points: 3 # Comments: 0",
  "key_points": [],
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      {
        "outlet": "Hacker News",
        "title": "I spent $266 and four AI models to own my tablet. GLM-5.3 finished it in a day",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/23/i-spent-266-and-four-ai-models-to-own-my-tablet-glm-5-3-finished-it",
        "published": "2026-08-23T14:23:09.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}