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The Linux political wars have been percolating for more than a month now, and depending on what side you belong to, the decision by Red Hat to restrict source code distribution for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is either a business decision that needed to happen or an act of betrayal.  Three episodes ago we interviewed Gregory Kurtzer, Founder of Rocky Linux and CEO of CIQ, and this week we are joined by Gunnar Hellekson, the General Manager and Vice President of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Mike McGrath, the Vice President of Core Platforms at Red Hat to bring us their view of what is happening.

Executives targeted in Microsoft 365 phishing attacks, why you need an AI Red team, San Francisco's AI boom fuels office market recovery and bots outperform humans in cracking captcha tests

Zoom goes two for two – getting on the wrong side of customers and employees.  Social media misinformation could be solved with the right incentives. The U.S. government offers a multi-million dollar prize for AI solutions to cybercrime and yes, once again, Google appears to say it has a god given right to your data.

A cyber attack disrupts hospital Systems across U.S. states.  Can you hypnotize an AI? A research team claims you can. And why is there a generative AI like your brother-in-law at Christmas dinner?

Zoom allows AI to train using certain customer data. Can AI replace architects?  U.S. government scientists claim nuclear fusion achieves a net energy gain for the second time.  And Elon Musk has a secret move for his cage match with Mark Zuckerberg.  I am the Walrus.

Scams that rely on social engineering are increasing despite all the publicity they are receiving. How can people continue to be fooled when they get a call asking for money to bail a family member out of jail for example? Trend Micro has a new study called Virtual Kidnapping and Jon Clay, their VP of Threat Intelligence, joins us to discuss its findings.

Meta releases AI to create music from text, Microsoft makes some licensing concessions for non-Microsoft cloud providers, and researchers discover how to jailbreak added features on a Tesla

The brain drain moves north to Canada. North American banks are leading in AI and the hackers at Cult of the Dead Cow develop some new tools to enable more user privacy.

It’s official – Canada is persona news grata on Meta.  Chinese hackers may be deep in North American infrastructure and a fake Android app may be stealing data from apps you think are for secure communication.

Will AI hit higher paying jobs first?  We might not be as eager to get humanoid robots as you might think. First there was WormGPT, now there’s FraudGPT.  And finally something we call the X-Files – The Musk is out there.