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SN 1056: Australia - AI Coding Blunders Exposed

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Australia's nationwide social media ban has put tech's age verification tools under the spotlight, exposing the flaws and privacy risks in today's facial detection systems and sparking worldwide debate about what's coming for the rest of us.

  • Home Depot's puzzling reluctance to close a bad hole.
  • GNOME's shell extension manager is unhappy with AI.
  • How attacks on open source repositories compares in 2025.
  • China's researchers have taken aim at the US power grid.
  • How bad has the React2Shell vulnerability turned out to be.
  • More new React vulnerabilities.
  • Apple moves to iOS 26.2.
  • Let's Encrypt's crosses into one billion servers managed.
  • A DNS Benchmark update.
  • Some interesting listener feedback, then...
  • How things going with Australia's social media ban and what we are learning

    • https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1056-Notes.pdf

    Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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