Podcasts

As AI becomes startlingly capable, top minds at OpenAI admit they can't always control what their own creations do—or even fully understand how they think. This episode dives into the real-world tension between rapid progress and the growing challenge of keeping AI truly aligned.

• GLM-5.3 can be and has been abliterated. What does that mean?
• Firefox 157 repairs a large number of high-impact vulnerabilities.
• A surprising reduction in RSA crypto strength has been discovered.
• Powerful agentic AI is being used to attack merchants.
• A new and potent Spectre-style processor attack has been designed.
• A neighbor falls victim to a Bitcoin scam. What can be done?
• A new and surprising use was found for GRC's DNS Benchmark.
• An examination of the growing alignment challenges created by more intelligent AI

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1099-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

Download or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now.

You can submit a question to Security Now at the GRC Feedback Page.

For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6.

Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts!
Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit

Sponsors:

• guardsquare.com
• bitwarden.com/twit
• threatlocker.com/twit
• doppel.com
• material.security

Is Gemini 4 truly so capable, as claimed by Google? OpenAI unveils Dots to rival Meta's Muse. Google's Project Suncatcher prototype satellite is now in orbit. And should we be worried about the possible 'catastrophic' risks with AI, as reported in a leaked IPO filing by Anthropic?

• OpenAI pauses training its most powerful models after rogue agents target government.
• Google announces Gemini 4 and says it's so capable that only 'trusted cyber defenders' can have it right now
• OpenAI ignored employees' warnings about safely testing A.I. models.
• I quit OpenAI because its culture is broke.
• OpenAI unveils Dots, new A.I. agents to rival Meta's Muse.
• Google's early attempt to pay websites for AI answers is struggling.
• Muse creates detailed profiles of all your friends and family.
• Our project Suncatcher prototype satellite is in orbit.
• Amazon writes scary blog warning communities not to block data centers.
• The 7-year-old Nvidia Shield TV is now $100 more expensive due to AI.
• EXCLUSIVE: Anthropic's IPO prospectus shows sweeping AI vision, surging costs.
• Anthropic warns of 'catastrophic' AI risks in its own IPO filing.
• NVIDIA releases software platform to stop AI agents from misbehaving.
• Exclusive: Full list of attendees at White House AI lunch.
• Trump orders US government to call AI 'Super Intelligence'.
• The Pentagon taps Elon Musk and Palmer Luckey to help decide what the military should do next.
• Exclusive: Army creates autonomy command amid Hegseth's robo-warfare push.
• New AI czar unveils goals, members of White House task force.
• Newsom signs 13 AI bills, including a ban on AI-only firings.
• Robert X. Cringely.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Doc Rock and Louis Maresca

Download or subscribe to This Week in Tech at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech

Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts!
Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit

Sponsors:

• helixsleep.com/twit
• canary.tools/twit - use code: TWIT
• trustedtech.team/twit
• joinbilt.com/twit
• doppel.com

joel wants a new drug.

With millions racing to embrace AI assistants and cybercriminals pivoting to new, high-stakes tactics, the episode tackles the dizzying pace of change and asks: just how worried should we be? The discussion pulls back the curtain on AI's unpredictable power, the escalation of digital extortion, and why the next breach may hit closer to home than you think.

• Muse has a bad 0-day
• The regularity of "Irregular"
• More rogue OpenAI breaches
• The Seven Deadly Sins (TSDS) hacker group
• Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) cargo ship hacked
• The FBI offended ShinyHunters's delicate sensibilities
• Canonical switches to an every–2-weeks release cadence
• Axios' AI 101: AI Explainer for normal people
• How worried should we be?

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1098-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

Download or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now.

You can submit a question to Security Now at the GRC Feedback Page.

For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6.

Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts!
Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit

Sponsors:

• originhq.com/securitynow
• threatlocker.com/twit
• doppel.com

With millions racing to embrace AI assistants and cybercriminals pivoting to new, high-stakes tactics, the episode tackles the dizzying pace of change and asks: just how worried should we be? The discussion pulls back the curtain on AI's unpredictable power, the escalation of digital extortion, and why the next breach may hit closer to home than you think.

• Muse has a bad 0-day
• The regularity of "Irregular"
• More rogue OpenAI breaches
• The Seven Deadly Sins (TSDS) hacker group
• Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) cargo ship hacked
• The FBI offended ShinyHunters's delicate sensibilities
• Canonical switches to an every–2-weeks release cadence
• Axios' AI 101: AI Explainer for normal people
• How worried should we be?

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1098-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

Download or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now.

You can submit a question to Security Now at the GRC Feedback Page.

For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6.

Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts!
Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit

Sponsors:

• originhq.com/securitynow
• threatlocker.com/twit
• doppel.com

If your fridge can be bricked by a firmware update and your AI can outwit its creators, are we trading convenience for chaos? This lively episode tackles the tension between relentless innovation and apparent human oversight in today's weird tech world. Unpack the reality behind AI agents hacking government sites and why industry leaders suddenly want to "pause" progress while shipping new models.

• An OpenAI Agent Hacked Australia's Health Service. Their Government Found Out Months Later
• Scoop: Top AI companies probing tens of thousands of security incidents
• OpenAI's A.I. Went Rogue and Meddled With U.S. Government Websites
• US and China Discuss Alerting Each Other to AI National Security Threats
• Meta Connect 2026: The biggest news and announcements
• Amazon doesn't trust Meta's Muse AI agent
• Meta Tests Muse AI Agent Calls That Are Actually Made By Humans in a Call Center
• Meta misled users about Facebook data practices, New Mexico jury finds
• Ireland's data watchdog has fined Google €403M over location data
• Google's first Suncatcher orbital data center test launches October 1
• Microsoft thinks its new Copilot 'super app' will be as influential as Office
• OpenAI pauses training of its 'most capable models'
• Hacking group ShinyHunters claims it breached the FBI, stole agents' and applicants' data
• New Jersey fines data center $1.1M after drone pics expose 62 gas generators
• Walmart chief rules out personalised pricing as AI transforms retail
• Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges
• The smart home graveyard is getting crowded
• Scientists build world's most accurate atomic clock
• Fat Bear Week 2026

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Harper Reed and Iain Thomson

Download or subscribe to This Week in Tech at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech

Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts!
Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit

Sponsors:

• trustedtech.team/twit
• doppel.com
• superhuman.com
• PaloAltoNetworks.com/Idira
• coveron.com/thisweekintech and use code thisweekintech

If your fridge can be bricked by a firmware update and your AI can outwit its creators, are we trading convenience for chaos? This lively episode tackles the tension between relentless innovation and apparent human oversight in today's weird tech world. Unpack the reality behind AI agents hacking government sites and why industry leaders suddenly want to "pause" progress while shipping new models.

• An OpenAI Agent Hacked Australia's Health Service. Their Government Found Out Months Later
• Scoop: Top AI companies probing tens of thousands of security incidents
• OpenAI's A.I. Went Rogue and Meddled With U.S. Government Websites
• US and China Discuss Alerting Each Other to AI National Security Threats
• Meta Connect 2026: The biggest news and announcements
• Amazon doesn't trust Meta's Muse AI agent
• Meta Tests Muse AI Agent Calls That Are Actually Made By Humans in a Call Center
• Meta misled users about Facebook data practices, New Mexico jury finds
• Ireland's data watchdog has fined Google €403M over location data
• Google's first Suncatcher orbital data center test launches October 1
• Microsoft thinks its new Copilot 'super app' will be as influential as Office
• OpenAI pauses training of its 'most capable models'
• Hacking group ShinyHunters claims it breached the FBI, stole agents' and applicants' data
• New Jersey fines data center $1.1M after drone pics expose 62 gas generators
• Walmart chief rules out personalised pricing as AI transforms retail
• Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges
• The smart home graveyard is getting crowded
• Scientists build world's most accurate atomic clock
• Fat Bear Week 2026

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Harper Reed and Iain Thomson

Download or subscribe to This Week in Tech at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech

Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts!
Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit

Sponsors:

• trustedtech.team/twit
• doppel.com
• superhuman.com
• PaloAltoNetworks.com/Idira
• coveron.com/thisweekintech and use code thisweekintech

After Microsoft's historic Mega Patch Tuesday, enterprise IT teams worldwide are scrambling as a wave of updates triggers system meltdowns, broken domains, and silent Excel failures. Find out how AI-driven speed collided with real-world chaos.

• Andrew Ng weighs-in on AI Doomsaying.
• The wisdom of outsourcing AI security testing.
• The true risk of an AI-created bioweapon.
• The EU KIDS Act -- this one is even messier.
• "Nightmare Eclipse" finally unmasks himself.
• A whitehat firm used Claude to attack OpenAI.
• Cisco's own massive 77 CVE update.
• What was the fallout from Sept's Patch Tuesday

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1097-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

Download or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now.

You can submit a question to Security Now at the GRC Feedback Page.

For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6.

Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts!
Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit

Sponsors:

• trustedtech.team/twit
• hoxhunt.com/securitynow
• rayneo.com
• guardsquare.com
• threatlocker.com/twit
• outsystems.com/twit

After Microsoft's historic Mega Patch Tuesday, enterprise IT teams worldwide are scrambling as a wave of updates triggers system meltdowns, broken domains, and silent Excel failures. Find out how AI-driven speed collided with real-world chaos.

• Andrew Ng weighs-in on AI Doomsaying.
• The wisdom of outsourcing AI security testing.
• The true risk of an AI-created bioweapon.
• The EU KIDS Act -- this one is even messier.
• "Nightmare Eclipse" finally unmasks himself.
• A whitehat firm used Claude to attack OpenAI.
• Cisco's own massive 77 CVE update.
• What was the fallout from Sept's Patch Tuesday

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1097-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

Download or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now.

You can submit a question to Security Now at the GRC Feedback Page.

For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6.

Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts!
Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit

Sponsors:

• trustedtech.team/twit
• hoxhunt.com/securitynow
• rayneo.com
• guardsquare.com
• threatlocker.com/twit
• outsystems.com/twit

After Microsoft's historic Mega Patch Tuesday, enterprise IT teams worldwide are scrambling as a wave of updates triggers system meltdowns, broken domains, and silent Excel failures. Find out how AI-driven speed collided with real-world chaos.

• Andrew Ng weighs-in on AI Doomsaying.
• The wisdom of outsourcing AI security testing.
• The true risk of an AI-created bioweapon.
• The EU KIDS Act -- this one is even messier.
• "Nightmare Eclipse" finally unmasks himself.
• A whitehat firm used Claude to attack OpenAI.
• Cisco's own massive 77 CVE update.
• What was the fallout from Sept's Patch Tuesday

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1097-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

Download or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now.

You can submit a question to Security Now at the GRC Feedback Page.

For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6.

Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts!
Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit

Sponsors:

• trustedtech.team/twit
• hoxhunt.com/securitynow
• rayneo.com
• guardsquare.com
• threatlocker.com/twit
• outsystems.com/twit

In this episode, Ray covers the fight that broke out after Anthropic published five case files on scientists using Claude for pathogen research, and the virologists who read the same files and called the work basic research. Additionally, he digs into DeepMind’s AlphaGenome Atlas mapping nine billion DNA variants, OpenAI’s numbers-free customer story about Perplexity, Gemini’s late arrival on Windows, and John Deere’s self-repair service that almost nobody uses. Finally, the show closes with Europe’s new plant-fluorescence satellite, a super El Niño already collecting damage, and a plankton shell that may be hiding a second species.

– Want to start a podcast? It’s easy to get started! Sign up at Blubrry
– Thinking of buying a Starlink? Use my link to support the show.

Subscribe to the Newsletter.
Email Ray if you want to get in touch!
Like and Follow Geek News Central’s Facebook Page.

Support my Show Sponsor: Best Godaddy Promo Codes Get 1Password

Full Summary

Cochrane opens the show back home in Oregon after a stretch in Michigan. Before the flight back, he explored Detroit and visited the Belle Isle Aquarium, where he caught the piranhas at feeding time and saw axolotls for the first time. Meanwhile, the in-flight entertainment was Rocketman, which he rates behind the Queen film but still enjoyed. Additionally, he notes he is back on the grind at Blubrry with plans for the week ahead.

Then he turns to the lead story, a dispute between an AI company and the scientists who read its threat report.

Anthropic Published Five Pathogen Cases, and the Virologists Pushed Back

Science.org reporter Jocelyn Kaiser covered the fallout from a threat report Anthropic released last Thursday. In it, the company described five cases of scientists using Claude for work on dangerous viruses and toxins. Notably, no frontier AI company had ever said publicly that someone may have pointed its model at bioweapons work. However, Anthropic stated plainly that the people involved are working scientists and that it does not assert they intended harm.

Three cases involved viruses. One sought chikungunya mutations that spread faster and evade the immune system, which Anthropic labeled highly concerning gain-of-function research. Another planned experiments on an already lethal bird flu strain. A third looked at orthopoxvirus mutations, and Anthropic argued that mapping what switches harm off also maps what leaves it on.

What escalated the report was behavior, not biology. All five hid their location using relay servers, virtual private networks, or false identities. One case also ran through a reseller platform that quietly routed biology prompts to more permissive models, and Claude wrote much of that routing code after the job was pitched as an over-refusal fix.

Plenty of serious people read it as alarming. Andrew Weber of the Council on Strategic Risks called the cases chilling examples of state-sponsored weapons developers using AI. Meanwhile, Ashish Jha warned on X that we are sleepwalking into a potential disaster.

Then the virologists answered. Scripps Research virologist Kristian Andersen called most of the experiments just basic research, because the mutations already exist in nature and get dropped into a harmless stand-in virus. Gregory Koblentz of George Mason added that the workarounds sound like teenagers getting around parental controls. Filippa Lentzos landed in the middle, resisting both extremes.

Cochrane sides with flagging it. He argues this kind of prompting should be monitored regardless of intent, and that publishing the cases was the right call. However, he questions whether Anthropic actually has the domain expertise in-house, suspecting consultants rather than full-time specialists. Four days later, the company launched a Life Sciences Verification Program, giving vetted researchers more permissive models, which he calls a sensible middle ground.

Sponsor: GoDaddy

Economy hosting $6.99/month, WordPress hosting $12.99/month, domains $11.99. Website builder trial available. Use codes at geeknewscentral.com/godaddy to support the show.

DeepMind Precomputed Nine Billion DNA Typos

DeepMind released AlphaGenome Atlas, and the scale is genuinely hard to picture. Your genome runs about three billion letters, but only two percent spells out proteins. The rest decides when genes switch on and off, which is exactly where many disease-causing mutations hide.

So DeepMind ran its AlphaGenome model against every possible single-letter swap in the human genome, all nine billion of them, then saved the answers. Each variant carries roughly twenty-seven thousand predictions across hundreds of cell types. Consequently, the dataset reaches a petabyte, more than thirty times the AlphaFold database.

It is already finding things. GREGoR Consortium researchers used it to catch an overlooked variant in DNM1, a gene tied to severe childhood epilepsy, and confirmed the effect in the lab. Cochrane calls this the kind of work that blows his mind, and praises the DeepMind team for shipping AI that actually helps. Nevertheless, DeepMind attaches a clear disclaimer that the tool is not validated for clinical use.

Perplexity, GPT-6 Astra, and a Story With No Numbers

OpenAI published a customer story about Perplexity using GPT-6 Astra, its newest frontier model. Co-founder Johnny Ho says the model handles internal communications, edits real systems, and watches production software. Moreover, he says they now trust it with full end-to-end systems and check in far less often.

However, Cochrane flags what the post leaves out. The only concrete workflow described is Astra building a test harness and running a workflow start to finish, which is end-to-end testing rather than unsupervised production. Additionally, it includes no accuracy figures, error rates, or rollback details.

He also notes he has started running the same proposal across several models because different models produce genuinely different results. Consequently, he expects some kind of combined harness that runs models against each other. Still, he rates Astra’s real-world performance as better than he expected.

A GitHub Marketer Automated Her Own Job

Tomoko Tanaka runs regional marketing for GitHub in Japan and Korea, and she used to keep databases alive on Linux servers. Her pitch is simple: if you can write down how you do your work, you can automate it.

The system runs on three pieces. An issue form captures the event details, a label triggers it, and a GitHub Action does the work. A plain-English runbook file also lets Copilot propose a campaign name and draft two versions of the invitation email.

Cochrane admires the pipeline but raises a real concern. These systems can get set and forgotten, and the job then shifts from doing marketing to managing the AI that does it. Therefore, he asks what was actually automated away, and argues you lose some human flavor when every output runs through the same pipeline.

Gemini Lands on Windows, Five Months Behind the Mac

Google brought the Gemini app to Windows on September tenth, available globally on day one. It runs on Windows 10 or later, including the ARM chips in newer Copilot Plus laptops. Additionally, Alt and Space summon it over whatever you are working on.

However, Google’s post leaves out two things. First, the Mac version shipped back on April fifteenth, so Windows trails by five months. Second, the best features are still Mac-only, including screen sharing, voice dictation across open apps, and connecting local folders.

Cochrane is blunt about the gap. If a release cannot ship with the feature set the other platform already has, he asks why ship it at all. Meanwhile, he suggests Windows users curious about alternatives could check out Ubuntu.

John Deere Built the Repair Tool, and Almost Nobody Uses It

Writing for WIRED and republished at Ars Technica, Boone Ashworth tested John Deere’s self-repair service. Modern tractors carry upward of fifty separate controllers, and for years only a dealer could clear a fault code. That restriction sparked the right-to-repair fight in agriculture.

Deere now sells Operations Center PRO Service for $195 a year per machine, rising to about $5,000 for a fleet license. Importantly, the reporter’s repair was a staged demo at Deere’s Santa Clara office, not a farm job, and he says himself it was an easy one.

The real story is adoption. A year in, Deere reports about a thousand daily users against roughly 1.8 million American farms. Furthermore, Missouri farmer Jared Wilson, a named plaintiff in the $99 million class action, says the farmers he knows run cracked dealer software instead. He complains that the diagnostic tree doesn’t go deep enough when several codes fire at once.

Europe Launched a Satellite That Reads the Glow Off Plants

The European Space Agency posted an explainer for its FLEX mission, then launched it the following night. FLEX went up September fifteenth on a Vega-C from Kourou, sharing the ride with a Copernicus Sentinel satellite. Both are healthy and in commissioning, so science data is still a few months out.

Here is what makes it clever. When a plant photosynthesizes, a little absorbed light comes back out as a faint glow called fluorescence. Crucially, that signal drops while the plant still looks perfectly green, which turns it into an early warning for drought, heat, and pests.

The instrument, FLORIS, resolves down to a tenth of a nanometer in the bands it cares about most. Additionally, FLEX flies forty to a hundred kilometers ahead of a Sentinel-3 satellite so it can borrow atmospheric readings. ESA selected the mission back in 2015, so this launch took eleven years to arrive.

Nunavut Is Already Turning Red

NASA published a companion piece using Landsat 9 imagery of the Coppermine River valley in Nunavut. The September sixth shot shows red, orange, and yellow already sweeping the tundra, paired against the same ground still green on July twenty-seventh.

What turns up there is not trees. Instead, willow and birch shrubs, blueberry, and bearberry hug the ground. Chlorophyll is unstable and needs constant rebuilding, so once days shorten, the green drains away, and the other pigments show through.

Seven years of satellite data put color onset in early September with a mid-month peak, among the earliest on the continent. Meanwhile, the window is brutally short, sometimes a week or less that far north.

The Super El Niño Is Already Collecting

Nature’s James Dinneen reports that this year’s El Niño is forecast to be a monster. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center gives it a seventy-five percent chance of beating every El Niño back to 1950. Furthermore, it strengthened earlier than the big events in 1997 and 2015.

One wrinkle makes it unusual. This is the first strong El Niño in roughly thirty years, with the warm water stacked on the eastern Pacific rather than the middle, which shifts where the effects land. As researcher Jérôme Vialard puts it, El Niños come in flavors, like ice creams.

The damage has already started. Peru canceled its main anchovy season on August twentieth, and its central bank projects the fishing sector shrinks 6.5 percent this year. Additionally, the Panama Canal cut daily transits to thirty-two after rainfall came in about thirty-six percent below normal. Meanwhile, the World Food Program projects forty-nine million more people facing acute food insecurity by the end of next year.

The Plankton That Never Actually Flipped

Quanta Magazine closes the show with foraminifera, single-celled ocean organisms smaller than a millimeter. Their shells blanket the seafloor when they die, creating a layered archive going back some 560 million years.

Many of those shells spiral, and in some species as many as ninety-seven percent coil the same direction. Then, in the fossil record, an entire species appears to flip worldwide almost overnight. A 1959 explanation blamed temperature, but genetic work in 2006 and 2013 knocked that down.

Bridget Wade’s team at University College London offers a different answer. Nothing flips at all. Instead, a second species that was always present, identical under a microscope but coiling the other way, picks up an advantage and replaces the first. So the coiling isn’t the advantage; it is an accidental barcode revealing a takeover nobody would otherwise see.

Cochrane closes with a note on format. Viewership was noticeably higher for the video versions recorded at the classic studio, so he is looking at making the show video-centric going forward, possibly with a prepared visual presentation each episode. More on that in coming episodes.

<!– ============================================================
WORDPRESS CHECKLIST (delete this section after publishing)
=============================================================

CATEGORIES (select in sidebar):
– Technology
– Science
– AI/ML
– Space

============================================================= –>

The post The Ebola Query #1878 appeared first on Geek News Central.

AI hallucinations nearly sparked an international crisis, Google dodged a breakup but faces new rules, and Meta's personal AI agent might be about to run your life. This week's episode ponders what's pragmatic, what's dangerous, and what's coming for everything from privacy to geopolitics.

• Judge Orders Data Sharing and Other Fixes to Solve Google's Ad Tech Monopoly
• US judge signals rejection of part of TikTok privacy settlement
• AI hallucination of Chinese nuclear components almost led to US military attack
• For the first time, the US military confirms it has deployed weapons in orbit
• OpenAI Discloses Six New Incidents of 'Concerning' A.I. Behavior
• Why AI pacing has become a false choice
• Iran and China Create First-of-Their-Kind Autonomous A.I. Influence Campaigns
• Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera. Its Data Shows How the System Really Works
• Senate Votes to Block Crypto Bill in Major Blow to the Industry
• The EU Bans Social Media For Under-13s
• 'Maybe a year': Geoffrey Hinton gives the Senate a deadline on AI
• ZuckOff Is a Free App That Sees Meta Glasses Before They See You

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Owen Thomas, Jason Hiner, and Dan Patterson

Download or subscribe to This Week in Tech at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech

Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts!
Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit

Sponsors:

• trustedtech.team/twit
• rayneo.com
• NetSuite.com/TWIT
• ZipRecruiter.com/twit
• claude.ai/technology

AI hallucinations nearly sparked an international crisis, Google dodged a breakup but faces new rules, and Meta's personal AI agent might be about to run your life. This week's episode ponders what's pragmatic, what's dangerous, and what's coming for everything from privacy to geopolitics.

• Judge Orders Data Sharing and Other Fixes to Solve Google's Ad Tech Monopoly
• US judge signals rejection of part of TikTok privacy settlement
• AI hallucination of Chinese nuclear components almost led to US military attack
• For the first time, the US military confirms it has deployed weapons in orbit
• OpenAI Discloses Six New Incidents of 'Concerning' A.I. Behavior
• Why AI pacing has become a false choice
• Iran and China Create First-of-Their-Kind Autonomous A.I. Influence Campaigns
• Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera. Its Data Shows How the System Really Works
• Senate Votes to Block Crypto Bill in Major Blow to the Industry
• The EU Bans Social Media For Under-13s
• 'Maybe a year': Geoffrey Hinton gives the Senate a deadline on AI
• ZuckOff Is a Free App That Sees Meta Glasses Before They See You

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Owen Thomas, Jason Hiner, and Dan Patterson

Download or subscribe to This Week in Tech at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech

Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts!
Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit

Sponsors:

• trustedtech.team/twit
• rayneo.com
• NetSuite.com/TWIT
• ZipRecruiter.com/twit
• claude.ai/technology

AI hallucinations nearly sparked an international crisis, Google dodged a breakup but faces new rules, and Meta's personal AI agent might be about to run your life. This week's episode ponders what's pragmatic, what's dangerous, and what's coming for everything from privacy to geopolitics.

• Judge Orders Data Sharing and Other Fixes to Solve Google's Ad Tech Monopoly
• US judge signals rejection of part of TikTok privacy settlement
• AI hallucination of Chinese nuclear components almost led to US military attack
• For the first time, the US military confirms it has deployed weapons in orbit
• OpenAI Discloses Six New Incidents of 'Concerning' A.I. Behavior
• Why AI pacing has become a false choice
• Iran and China Create First-of-Their-Kind Autonomous A.I. Influence Campaigns
• Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera. Its Data Shows How the System Really Works
• Senate Votes to Block Crypto Bill in Major Blow to the Industry
• The EU Bans Social Media For Under-13s
• 'Maybe a year': Geoffrey Hinton gives the Senate a deadline on AI
• ZuckOff Is a Free App That Sees Meta Glasses Before They See You

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Owen Thomas, Jason Hiner, and Dan Patterson

Download or subscribe to This Week in Tech at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech

Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts!
Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit

Sponsors:

• trustedtech.team/twit
• rayneo.com
• NetSuite.com/TWIT
• ZipRecruiter.com/twit
• claude.ai/technology

joel marches on.

Are we charging toward a Krell-style catastrophe with AI, arming ourselves with incomprehensible power while missing the real risks lurking beneath the code?

• The full report on last week's nearly 1,000 Microsoft security fixes.
• Five months after its start, what's the status of Project Glasswing?
• Anthropic's rogue agent escape count reaches four incidents.
• Not to be outdone, OpenAI's count passes 10 and maybe as many as 23!
• Revisiting California's DROP compulsory data broker data deletion.
• Russian criminals get their hands on more than 153 million drivers license scans.
• "Skynet" is the wrong model for the end of the world. The right model is The Krell

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1096-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

Download or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now.

You can submit a question to Security Now at the GRC Feedback Page.

For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6.

Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts!
Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit

Sponsors:

• trustedtech.team/twit
• joindeleteme.com/twit-biz
• bitwarden.com/twit
• material.security
• canary.tools/twit - use code: TWIT
• threatlocker.com/twit

Are we charging toward a Krell-style catastrophe with AI, arming ourselves with incomprehensible power while missing the real risks lurking beneath the code?

• The full report on last week's nearly 1,000 Microsoft security fixes.
• Five months after its start, what's the status of Project Glasswing?
• Anthropic's rogue agent escape count reaches four incidents.
• Not to be outdone, OpenAI's count passes 10 and maybe as many as 23!
• Revisiting California's DROP compulsory data broker data deletion.
• Russian criminals get their hands on more than 153 million drivers license scans.
• "Skynet" is the wrong model for the end of the world. The right model is The Krell

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1096-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

Download or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now.

You can submit a question to Security Now at the GRC Feedback Page.

For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6.

Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts!
Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit

Sponsors:

• trustedtech.team/twit
• joindeleteme.com/twit-biz
• bitwarden.com/twit
• material.security
• canary.tools/twit - use code: TWIT
• threatlocker.com/twit

Are we charging toward a Krell-style catastrophe with AI, arming ourselves with incomprehensible power while missing the real risks lurking beneath the code?

• Worried Anthropic researchers warn that AI 'could kill all humans'
• Anthropic Researchers Raise Alarm Over A.I. Acceleration, Warning of Threat to Humanity
• Countering misuse of AI: September 2026 / Anthropic
• Pluralistic: LLMs are real, AI is fake (12 Sep 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
• New Apple Watches to get Siri AI 'Recaps' feature similar to AI wearables
• Apple Unveils the iPhone Duo, a Foldable Phone That Costs $1,999
• Key App Developers Have Yet to Embrace Apple's New Siri A.I.
• Why this month's Microsoft patch release is a doozy
• LG TV shown scanning LAN for third-party phones and other devices
• LG's Response
• The Flock backlash is coming for retail
• Automobile Camouflage to Hide from Flock Cameras
• A Secretive DHS 'Predictive Policing' Unit is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits and Pulling Them Over
• Clearview AI Is Testing an AI Tool That Would Let Cops Unearth Your Life Online
• Some of Dyson's $500 toothbrushes are breaking
• iRobot unveils the Roomba Duo
• Husqvarna gets the first exception to the FCC's foreign robot ban for its mowers.

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1096-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

Download or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now.

You can submit a question to Security Now at the GRC Feedback Page.

For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6.

Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts!
Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit

Sponsors:

• trustedtech.team/twit
• joindeleteme.com/twit-biz
• bitwarden.com/twit
• material.security
• canary.tools/twit - use code: TWIT
• threatlocker.com/twit

AI insiders are warning that artificial intelligence could wipe out humanity within the decade, but is this a real threat or a convenient narrative serving Silicon Valley's biggest players? Tune in as the panel untangles fact from hype and digs into the power plays shaping AI's future.

• Worried Anthropic researchers warn that AI 'could kill all humans'
• Anthropic Researchers Raise Alarm Over A.I. Acceleration, Warning of Threat to Humanity
• Countering misuse of AI: September 2026 / Anthropic
• Pluralistic: LLMs are real, AI is fake (12 Sep 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
• New Apple Watches to get Siri AI 'Recaps' feature similar to AI wearables
• Apple Unveils the iPhone Duo, a Foldable Phone That Costs $1,999
• Key App Developers Have Yet to Embrace Apple's New Siri A.I.
• Why this month's Microsoft patch release is a doozy
• LG TV shown scanning LAN for third-party phones and other device
• The Flock backlash is coming for retail
• Automobile Camouflage to Hide from Flock Cameras
• A Secretive DHS 'Predictive Policing' Unit is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits and Pulling Them Over
• Clearview AI Is Testing an AI Tool That Would Let Cops Unearth Your Life Online
• Some of Dyson's $500 toothbrushes are breaking
• iRobot unveils the Roomba Duo
• Husqvarna gets the first exception to the FCC's foreign robot ban for its mowers.

Correction: Mikah incorrectly stated that Live Rewind and Siri Recap would also be available on iPhone 16 and newer. Apple says the features require an Apple Watch Series 12 or Apple Watch Ultra 4 paired with a supported iPhone. They are not iPhone features.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Mikah Sargent, Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, and Daniel Rubino

Download or subscribe to This Week in Tech at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech

Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts!
Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit

Sponsors:

• joinbilt.com/twit
• threatlocker.com/twit
• joindeleteme.com/twit-biz
• scribe.how/twit
• bitwarden.com/twit

AI insiders are warning that artificial intelligence could wipe out humanity within the decade, but is this a real threat or a convenient narrative serving Silicon Valley's biggest players? Tune in as the panel untangles fact from hype and digs into the power plays shaping AI's future.

• Worried Anthropic researchers warn that AI 'could kill all humans'
• Anthropic Researchers Raise Alarm Over A.I. Acceleration, Warning of Threat to Humanity
• Countering misuse of AI: September 2026 / Anthropic
• Pluralistic: LLMs are real, AI is fake (12 Sep 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
• New Apple Watches to get Siri AI 'Recaps' feature similar to AI wearables
• Apple Unveils the iPhone Duo, a Foldable Phone That Costs $1,999
• Key App Developers Have Yet to Embrace Apple's New Siri A.I.
• Why this month's Microsoft patch release is a doozy
• LG TV shown scanning LAN for third-party phones and other device
• The Flock backlash is coming for retail
• Automobile Camouflage to Hide from Flock Cameras
• A Secretive DHS 'Predictive Policing' Unit is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits and Pulling Them Over
• Clearview AI Is Testing an AI Tool That Would Let Cops Unearth Your Life Online
• Some of Dyson's $500 toothbrushes are breaking
• iRobot unveils the Roomba Duo
• Husqvarna gets the first exception to the FCC's foreign robot ban for its mowers.

Correction: Mikah incorrectly stated that Live Rewind and Siri Recap would also be available on iPhone 16 and newer. Apple says the features require an Apple Watch Series 12 or Apple Watch Ultra 4 paired with a supported iPhone. They are not iPhone features.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Mikah Sargent, Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, and Daniel Rubino

Download or subscribe to This Week in Tech at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech

Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts!
Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit

Sponsors:

• joinbilt.com/twit
• threatlocker.com/twit
• joindeleteme.com/twit-biz
• scribe.how/twit
• bitwarden.com/twit