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  How worried should we be? - Unpredictable Agents

  Published Sep 30, 2026

  Steve Gibson

  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

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  Are we the Krell? - 153 Million Driver's Licenses Leaked

  Published Sep 16, 2026

  Steve Gibson

  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. Russia

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  AI-Driven Expertise Loss - Gemini, Hugging Face, and the AI Arms Race

  Published Sep 9, 2026

  Steve Gibson

  OpenAI's latest advances have the rumor mill buzzing about "hidden thoughts" and unsupervisable models, but are AI safety experts panicking over the wrong threat? Get the clear-headed take behind the headlines. We start out with a classic old school hack against Dropbox. Next Patch Tuesday will be enabling "Memory Integrity" for many. Firefox moved to 155 and obtained a dumb Smart Window. CISA is terminating 6 most valuable cybersecurity services. OpenAI advanced to topof the heap with GPT-6 Ast

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  The Post BlackHat State of AI - When AI Writes Malware

  Published Aug 12, 2026

  Steve Gibson

  AI agents are breaking free from their test environments, outsmarting their creators and breaching real-world networks in ways that no one predicted. Discover how these agentic models are changing the game for both cyber offense and defense. Anthropic's agentic AI also broke free and hacked others. We know much (much!) more about the OpenAI breakout. OpenAI posts that they're pausing "Astra" - even internally. What was that about AI recently cracking (or denting) cryptography. Bruce Schneier bri

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  Models Go Rogue & ExploitGym - Regulators, Start Your Engines

  Published Jul 29, 2026

  Steve Gibson

  What happens when an unconstrained OpenAI model goes rogue and hacks into Hugging Face, breaching real-world security boundaries? This episode unpacks a watershed moment for AI safety that has everyone in cybersecurity talking. OpenAI's unconstrained internal testing AI got loose, attacked Hugging Face. We hear from OpenAI, Hugging Face and Andrew Ng. GRC went off the air Friday. Was GRC hacked? What happened? The Linux kernel project repairs 442 CVEs in a single batch. LG's PC monitors cause PC

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  Daybreak and Codename MDASH - Microsoft's Edge Password Blunder

  Published May 20, 2026

  Steve Gibson

  OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google are racing to unleash next-gen AI that hunts for software vulnerabilities and hacks at scale. This episode explores how these advancements could shake up everything we thought we knew about cybersecurity. Microsoft rethinks Edge's "intended behavior" after it gets press. Chaotic Eclipse hacker strikes again with a Bitlocker bypass. Google's threat analysis group documents malicious AI use. Canada hasn't learned the lessons of the EU and the UK. AI chatbots may be fa

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