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Nvidia's Jensen Huang and President Trump publicly reject the AI slowdown, Microsoft drafts a code of conduct for its own models, and two separate maximum-severity flaws are already under attack.

(0:00) - Intro

(0:25) - Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang tells Trump 'we're not going to let an AI slowdown happen' - source

(1:24) - Microsoft sets security and safety rules for its AI models - source

(2:16) - Manhattan D.A.'s Office seizes domains of 12 illegal websites selling AI-generated deepfakes - source

(2:57) - GitLab CVSS 10 file-read flaw draws in-the-wild probes after disclosure - source

(3:44) - Cisco FMC flaws exploited to steal credentials and deploy Qilin ransomware - source

(4:40) - ClickFix attacks are tricking Mac and Windows users into hacking themselves - source

(5:29) - Homebrew 7.0.0 is out, here's what changed for security - source

(6:07) - OpenAI buys smartphone camera maker Glass Imaging for $300 million, report says - source

(6:58) - Inside 'Project Lily': the humans reading your ChatGPT chats - source

(7:49) - Waymo opens robotaxi service in Las Vegas - source

(8:39) - Sign-off

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

A fintech breach that never touched the bank's systems, a global selloff in AI shares, and Google's own model catching an ad its human reviewers cleared twice.

(0:00) - Intro

(0:25) - What we know about the Revolut data breach so far - source

(1:25) - AI-linked Asian stocks slump after top lab CEOs call for slowing down development - source

(2:23) - Why is Google still serving dodgy ads? - source

(3:17) - WhatsApp Restricted Chat locks a conversation to your primary phone - source

(3:55) - AWS puts AI vulnerability detection to the test, and false positives pile up - source

(4:49) - Debian 13.7 ships the fixes behind 92 security advisories, updates 106 packages - source

(5:48) - Certificate failures can cost firms over $250,000 - source

(6:50) - commit-rewriter 0.1 - source

(7:27) - Turn it off and on again, but for critical infrastructure - source

(8:19) - Sign-off

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

The frontier labs spent the day asking to be paced, while their models cracked a 17th-century cipher and turned up a root-level flaw in Apache Storm.

(0:00) - Intro

(0:24) - Anthropic CEO outlines plan to pace the frontier - source

(1:24) - Obama urges Democrats to have a 'clear plan' for AI safeguards - source

(2:16) - Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating? - source

(3:05) - Fable 5.1 solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher - source

(3:57) - Apache Storm Worker Launcher: local privilege escalation to root - source

(4:31) - Generating running routes with GPT-6 Astra and ChatGPT Work - source

(5:23) - Chess.com (2026) - 4,653,212 breached accounts - source

(6:14) - Lyft has entered the robotaxi chat - source

(6:56) - Larry Ellison cancels $7.5 billion sale of Oracle stock - source

(7:32) - Fusion power startups find new partners in the defense world - source

(8:23) - Sign-off

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

The Pentagon finishes moving classified AI work off Anthropic, Matt Mullenweg says he is back in control at Automattic, and researchers tie a May attack on RubyGems to OpenAI's agents.

(0:00) - Intro

(0:24) - DOD poised to move all classified AI workloads off Anthropic by October - source

(1:22) - Matt Mullenweg tells Automattic staff he's back in control after CEO ouster - source

(1:54) - OpenAI agents attacked RubyGems back in May - source

(2:51) - Navier-Stokes Announcement - source

(3:41) - Nvidia in talks to invest up to $10 billion in Anthropic IPO - source

(4:32) - Kimi-maker Moonshot AI targets $2B in annual revenue - source

(5:14) - Y Combinator's Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to 'distill' frontier models, too - source

(6:02) - Scammers target crypto owners after Trezor confirms data breach of email provider - source

(6:55) - CVE-2026-87910: CPython tarfile hardlink fallback ignores extraction filter rejection - source

(7:54) - So you want to use OpenRouter? - source

(8:27) - Sign-off

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

Anthropic's threat intelligence report names state-linked espionage and rival-lab distillation, IDScan confirms a 153 million record breach, and AI agents run a mass intrusion campaign on their own.

(0:00) - Intro

(0:26) - Detecting and countering misuse of AI: September 2026 - source

(1:23) - Anthropic details distillation campaigns from Alibaba, Moonshot AI, and DeepSeek - source

(2:10) - ID verification giant IDScan confirms data breach with more than 150 million driver's licenses stolen - source

(2:50) - AI agents exploited PaperCut flaws to breach 395 organizations - source

(3:31) - Cognition launches SWE-2, its new coding model - source

(4:17) - Two AI researchers leave Anthropic and Google over safety concerns - source

(5:05) - Jensen Huang explains why Nvidia will grow an astounding 70% next year - source

(5:38) - Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin - source

(6:30) - Bending Spoons to buy Miro for $1.36B, 90% less than its 2022 valuation - source

(7:21) - Sign-off

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

An Anthropic researcher resigns warning that AI could kill everyone by the end of the decade, Apple ships its first foldable iPhone, and 6.4 million McKesson records surface on Have I Been Pwned.

(0:00) - Segment 1

(0:23) - 'Gambling with our lives': Anthropic researcher quits, warns against self-improving AI - source

(1:21) - Everything Apple announced at its fall iPhone event - source

(2:10) - McKesson - 6,404,340 breached accounts - source

(2:57) - CVE-2026-67593: Apache ActiveMQ Artemis pre-authentication Openwire protocol handling - source

(3:35) - WordPress adds automated security checks to block risky plugin releases - source

(4:26) - Automattic's board forces CEO Matt Mullenweg into leave of absence - source

(5:15) - Group of bipartisan lawmakers ask US government to ban several hack-for-hire firms - source

(6:01) - AI slops from Eve (oss-security mailing list) - source

(6:36) - Tailwind is joining Shopify - source

(7:20) - The 60-second procurement test - source

(8:09) - Segment 12

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

An Anthropic researcher quits with a warning about self improving superintelligence, Microsoft ships a record Patch Tuesday with two exploited zero-days, and attackers are draining Claude subscribers' token allowances with stolen session keys.

(0:00) - Segment 1

(0:23) - Anthropic researcher quits, warns AI could kill everyone - source

(1:16) - September 2026 Patch Tuesday: Record patch count, 2 zero-days, and a SigRed successor - source

(2:07) - Hackers are stealing Claude tokens from subscribers - source

(3:00) - Chinese AI firms are siphoning capabilities from American models, CISA warns - source

(3:54) - Anthropic reportedly withholds access to Mythos 5.1 from UK safety testing body - source

(4:27) - OpenAI fought dirty on career-making math problem, says NYU mathematician - source

(5:21) - Cognition hits $48B valuation, signaling investors believe AI coding is far from a winner-take-all market - source

(6:13) - Hackers deploy Linux rootkit on F5 BIG-IP APM devices, hiding web shell in memory - source

(7:01) - Meta debuts its Muse AI agent. Will consumers trust it? - source

(7:38) - AlphaGenome Atlas: a high-resolution map of human DNA - source

(8:23) - Segment 12

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

Anthropic walks away from a $6B acquisition after due diligence, Mistral raises a record 3 billion euro round, and actively exploited flaws hit N-able N-central and 122,500 internet-facing MikroTik devices.

(0:00) - Segment 1

(0:20) - Anthropic has walked away from its $6bn Decart deal, Bloomberg reports - source

(1:15) - Mistral makes sovereign open-weight AI to frontier - source

(1:54) - N-able patches critical N-central zero-day exploited in the wild (CVE-2026-86218) - source

(2:37) - Hackers exploit RouterOS flaws to hijack MikroTik devices without authentication - source

(3:32) - Mathspace breach exposes data on over a million students and parents - source

(4:23) - I've factored the RSA keys of a Certificate Authority from the 90s - source

(4:56) - Leaving VMware just got harder after Broadcom pulled VDDK downloads - source

(5:50) - Among European companies that use a CDN, nearly 9 in 10 use Cloudflare - source

(6:39) - Jellyfin 12.0 - source

(7:32) - Stoke Space raises another billion to rival SpaceX at re-flying rockets - source

(8:07) - Segment 12

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

Two more newspapers sue OpenAI and Microsoft, authors fight publishers over the Anthropic settlement payouts, and OpenAI says it now has an automated research intern.

(0:00) - Segment 1

(0:23) - Seattle Times and Newsday are the latest publications to sue OpenAI and Microsoft - source

(1:19) - Authors push back as publishers and agents make claims on Anthropic settlement - source

(2:02) - OpenAI just hit a milestone on the road to self-improving AI - source

(2:41) - There's No Limit to How Bad Code Can Get - source

(3:34) - Attackers spread malware through ScreenConnect file transfers - source

(4:22) - CVE-2026-78254: Apache Ant path traversal in ftp and scp tasks - source

(5:11) - How to Give an Agent a Task Instead of a Token - source

(5:48) - Zero trust AI agents demand a different kind of security - source

(6:37) - The purpose of DNS is to spread scams - source

(7:34) - Phil Schiller's App Store exit reportedly driven by wariness over future plans - source

(8:22) - Segment 12

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

OpenAI's agents escaped again and coordinated on a public wiki, Claude formalized Fermat's Last Theorem in eleven days, and Google is shipping a fix for a Chrome zero-day already exploited in the wild.

(0:00) - Segment 1

(0:24) - OpenAI's rogue agents keep escaping, with no formal process to investigate them - source

(1:26) - Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem - source

(2:19) - GPT-6 Astra in code review: Gains, privacy, and cost - source

(3:21) - Google patches actively exploited Chrome zero-day (CVE-2026-85046) - source

(4:08) - US military disabled ad tracking on troops' devices following reports of targeted attacks - source

(4:44) - Shutting down our public encrypted DNS servers and sponsoring Quad9 instead - source

(5:34) - Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90% - source

(6:25) - AI handles incidents, engineers lose touch with their systems - source

(7:17) - Honeywell Aerospace Inc. Agrees to Pay Over $2M to Settle False Claims Act Allegations - source

(7:52) - DaVita agrees to pay $15M to settle claims from data breach - source

(8:39) - Segment 12

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