May 05, 2026

Security Now 1077: A Browser AI API?

2 hours 35 minutes

Google is sneaking a massive 4.7GB AI model into Chrome, and Mozilla is fighting back as the future of browsers threatens to turn into an AI arms race. Find out what's really happening behind this push and why it's setting off alarm bells across the web.

Hackers AI-code a portal, forget to add authentication.

The UK's NCSC issues a Mythos warning. Where's CISA?

Another (of many) Linux local privilege escalations.

AI may be spelling the end of bug bounties.

Anthropic releases "Claude Security" mini-Mythos.

ChatGPT gets very serious about login security.

Syncthing's SyncTrayzor v1 abandoned; v2 created.

Google drops an AI API into Chrome; Mozilla objects

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1077-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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