There's an article in the October 2026 issue of Scientific American about using AI to do what used to be a highly-skilled and very labourious task - re-engineering software written for one hardware platform (typically an old and lomg-disused one) so that it works on a modern platform where the hardware structure and the CPU op-codes are entirely different. See https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/an-exclusive-conversation-with-the-developer-of-rea-the-viral-ai-reverse-engineering-tool/ It quotes James Grimmelmann, a law professor at Cornell Tech, woho said “This is going to pose a crisis for trade secret and copyright law…”. Morluto (a pseudonym) is a software engineer from the video-game industry who, using AI, has developed a software tool to reverse engineer anything - REA. See https://github.com/morluto/rea He says that tech has become an industry full of walled gardens, and thanks to AI, “their walls were not as robust as they had thought.”. It seems that hackers have used this tool to bring old video games back to life and modify the working (and user interface) of quite mundane tech such as printers and TVs.

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