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The FAA grounds every US departure, Microsoft's outage goes global, and Uber drivers' licenses are stolen through an AI vendor, plus seven more stories.

(0:00) - Intro

(0:23) - US government grounds all flights across the United States 'due to extraordinary circumstances' - source

(1:20) - Microsoft's latest email outage turned into a full-blown global cloud crisis - source

(2:09) - Uber confirms hackers stole thousands of drivers' license information in data breach - source

(2:52) - ChatGPT Wallet lets agents pay without seeing your card number - source

(3:37) - AI agent startup LangChain hits $3B valuation - source

(4:26) - Export-banned Nvidia chips are behind China's most powerful AI models - source

(5:17) - Security Agencies Worldwide Found to Use Ad-Based Surveillance System - source

(5:55) - Apple details Secure Exclaves, isolated runtimes for camera and microphone data - source

(6:43) - 354 dark web vendors and buyers arrested in Operation TorNado - source

(7:36) - Fake GTA 6 download goes after Steam logins and crypto wallet data - source

(8:23) - Sign-off

Sources: every feed this show reads, curated in Don't Hype Me.

Jensen Huang resigns from Nvidia, Google ships Gemini 4 Hydrogen, a Microsoft outage takes down Outlook and Teams, and seven more stories.

(0:00) - Intro

(0:27) - Jensen Huang is out at Nvidia - who is Colette Kress, his interim replacement? - source

(1:26) - Gemini 4 Hydrogen - source

(2:16) - Microsoft's Outlook email hit by new outage - source

(3:06) - Stolen webcam clips of 900+ victims feed North Korea's $400 million fake Zoom scheme - source

(3:42) - PostgreSQL security update fixes 52 vulnerabilities, ends support for PostgreSQL 14 - source

(4:38) - Your pinned MCP server may not be as pinned as you think - source

(5:32) - SoftBank's billion-dollar loss may have put a cap on AI's natural gas ambitions - source

(6:20) - Rust 1.100 - source

(6:57) - OpenAI's Daybreak brings AI agents to security testing and vulnerability fixes - source

(7:47) - Self-hosted Claude Managed Agents keeps agent credentials in your environment - source

(8:34) - Sign-off

Sources: every feed this show reads, curated in Don't Hype Me.

Nvidia's board reportedly weighs removing Jensen Huang, a secret stealer hits tens of thousands of GitHub repositories, OpenAI's quarterly revenue reportedly tops 10 billion dollars, and seven more stories.

(0:00) - Intro

(0:25) - Nvidia’s stock drops as board reportedly preps to oust CEO Jensen Huang - source

(1:22) - Check your GitHub repos: A secret stealer hit tens of thousands of them - source

(2:14) - OpenAI’s quarterly revenue reportedly crosses $10B for the first time - source

(3:05) - CoreWeave turns to customer prepayments, shorter contracts to fund AI growth - source

(3:58) - aws-emulator - source

(4:39) - Gemini Decisions API - source

(5:29) - Git fixes six vulnerabilities, including code execution during recursive clones - source

(6:16) - United Airlines bans AI agents from booking flights on behalf of travelers - source

(7:02) - Bots pose as AI agents, AI agents pose as humans, and defenses believe both - source

(7:45) - .NET 11 security changes target the software supply chain - source

(8:32) - Sign-off

Sources: every feed this show reads, curated in Don't Hype Me.

N-able pulls its remote access service offline after a zero-day dump, DeepMind proves Signal's code with AlphaProof Code, New York opens RAISE Act registration, and seven more stories.

(0:00) - Intro

(0:26) - N-able takes its remote access service offline after researcher publishes dozens of zero-day bugs - source

(1:19) - AlphaProof Code - source

(1:57) - OpenAI, Anthropic face new oversight as New York's AI safety law takes effect - source

(2:48) - Anthropic launches Claude Meetings to turn workplace discussions into plans and tasks - source

(3:39) - Tracking Anthropic-discovered vulnerabilities - source

(4:27) - Go 1.27.4 and Go 1.26.11 are released with 12 security fixes - source

(5:08) - Ubuntu certificate revocation checks arrive in curl, OpenSSL is next - source

(5:55) - EU cyber scores look healthy, but 45% of surveyed IT providers take months to patch - source

(6:48) - Google broadens its AI hardware portfolio with two new specialized chips - source

(7:32) - Val Town is winding down - source

(8:10) - Sign-off

Sources: every feed this show reads, curated in Don't Hype Me.

Anthropic ships Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 as its IPO moves ahead, Meta launches Muse Ember, France blames Iran for freezer hacks, and seven more stories.

(0:00) - Intro

(0:26) - Anthropic releases new Mythos and Fable models amid RSI concerns - source

(1:27) - Anthropic reportedly plans to move forward with IPO plans - source

(2:10) - Introducing Our Smallest, Most Efficient Model: Muse Ember - source

(2:46) - France blames Iran for mass-hacks targeting freezers in grocery stores and blood banks - source

(3:33) - Hotel giant Wyndham exposed customer data after app security lapse - source

(4:24) - Exploited SonicWall SSL-VPN flaw lets attackers bypass SAML-enforced MFA - source

(5:10) - Notion: security incident involving a third-party AI vendor - source

(5:50) - Trio accused of using deepfake CEOs and bogus lawyers to scam businesses out of $129 million - source

(6:40) - Anthropic joins AI's natural gas frenzy, buys $3.4B worth of turbines - source

(7:30) - PyPI makes release attestations easier to find with new security tab - source

(8:18) - Sign-off

Sources: every feed this show reads, curated in Don't Hype Me.

A French bank loses about $133 million through a service provider, Goldman limits coding agents to engineers, and attackers turn desktop AI apps into tools.

(0:00) - Intro

(0:26) - $133 million stolen from French bank via exploited service provider - source

(1:24) - Goldman Sachs is pulling Claude Code from its bankers and traders - source

(2:15) - An average of 8 minutes is all hackers need to log in with stolen credentials - source

(3:08) - Outlook.com is rejecting email from domains without DMARC - source

(3:46) - Wirken: Open-source AI agent gateway - source

(4:37) - Coordinated disturbances haunt grids worldwide. Here's how researchers solved the mystery. - source

(5:31) - parse_number() as a SQLite extension: C vs Rust - source

(6:18) - Sequoia partners reportedly blindsided when Roelof Botha joined SpaceX board - source

(6:54) - Sign-off

Sources: every feed this show reads, curated in Don't Hype Me.

An Anthropic-model research system proves a quantum conjecture open since 2008, coding agents leak thousands of secrets to GitHub, and a memo alleges a spy targeted Nvidia's chief executive.

(0:00) - Intro

(0:26) - AI-Assisted Proof Settles Longstanding Question About Quantum Speedups - source

(1:20) - Coding Agents Copy Your Secrets to a Hidden File. Thousands Are on GitHub - source

(2:10) - Megaspeed exec was recruited to spy on Nvidia CEO, according to US intelligence memo - source

(2:58) - Cyberattack on Norway's aid agency may have swept up all user data - source

(3:50) - UnrealIRCd 6.2.7.1 released & hot-patch (CVE-2026-114713) - source

(4:28) - The end of Microsoft Research's AI Frontiers group - source

(5:14) - Binance CFO is leaving to 'pursue a new venture' after $6.3 billion hack - source

(5:54) - New pull request overview page in public preview - source

(6:35) - Sign-off

Sources: every feed this show reads, curated in Don't Hype Me.

OpenAI's GPT-6 Cyber finds 81 Firefox flaws, hundreds of Artex AI hacking tools sit exposed, and Anthropic maps how agents should remember.

(0:00) - Intro

(0:28) - OpenAI's GPT-6 Cyber found 81 Firefox flaws earlier AI testing missed - source

(1:33) - Hundreds of Artex AI hacking tools found publicly exposed to the web - source

(2:10) - The Components of Agent Memory - source

(3:04) - Inside GitHub's new Git storage architecture - source

(3:53) - Ramp data shows AI spending stalling just as Anthropic nears its IPO - source

(4:39) - Crusoe sells troubled Wyoming data center project to Google - source

(5:14) - Residential proxy traffic caught leaving the White House network - source

(6:03) - Introducing Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash - source

(6:48) - Tesla will stop making the Cybertruck in 2027 - source

(7:30) - Sign-off

Sources: every feed this show reads, curated in Don't Hype Me.

Claude gets read-only access to your bank accounts, METR finds Anthropic's progress doubling, and federal agencies warn of hacked refrigeration systems.

(0:00) - Intro

(0:27) - Claude can now analyze your spending with its new Personal Finance tool - source

(1:28) - Anthropic is rapidly accelerating AI development amid slowdown calls, outside research group says - source

(2:21) - US government warns of 'ongoing cyber threat' amid mass hacks of industrial retail and military freezers - source

(2:55) - "sshole": password authentication bypass: OpenSSH + musl libc - source

(3:53) - 99% of repository access tokens never expire - source

(4:45) - Vercel ties login sessions to devices, rolls out AI security reviews in public beta - source

(5:32) - Palo Alto Networks in talks to buy AI agent security startup Clutch for $500M - source

(6:03) - At least 10 local governments have moved to drop Flock's surveillance cameras since summer - source

(6:52) - Meta, Google, and TikTok sue California AG over teen social media law - source

(7:44) - The New York Times reportedly in talks to buy Letterboxd for $330 million - source

(8:35) - Sign-off

Sources: every feed this show reads, curated in Don't Hype Me.

An unreleased OpenAI model finds 948 Linux kernel flaws, DreamHost confirms a months-long breach, Meta buys Conductor, and Uber says AI agents booked four rides.

(0:00) - Intro

(0:26) - OpenAI's upcoming AI model built 948 working Linux root exploits in a single run - source

(1:27) - Hackers stole DreamHost customer files and inboxes during months-long attack - source

(2:12) - Meta acquires AI coding startup Conductor - source

(2:54) - Almost no one uses AI agents to book their Uber, company says - source

(3:32) - Canva lays off over 1,200 people amid slowing growth - source

(4:23) - CVE-2026-109518: RCE in apt(1) (DSA 6607-1) - source

(5:05) - Russian hackers target iOS and Android users with n-day exploits - source

(5:59) - Apple is bringing harmful content checks to iCloud link sharing with potential account penalties - source

(6:35) - A banking malware sample led researchers to an Android bug that can loop-crash phones - source

(7:19) - Revolut's valuation jumps 53% to $115B in new share sale as it prepares to launch US bank - source

(8:06) - Sign-off

Sources: every feed this show reads, curated in Don't Hype Me.