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AI-generated code is flooding the industry, but researchers reveal that almost half of it contains critical vulnerabilities. This week, we unpack what happens when the race for automation outpaces security best practices.

A possible means for preventing prompt injection abuse.

Clear evidence of Chinese-made router malicious intent.

A cool before and after SpinRite graph of SSD performance.

How about adding unpredictable hashes to role tags?

What did Claude make of last week's podcast?

Could much better harnesses prevent prompt injection?

A listener wants us to stop saying AI "thinks".

AI designers ignore well-understood security concepts.

Can we explain LLM AI using conventional computer terms?

A listener strongly dislikes the term "rotating credentials".

The land of AI is being filled with "meat proxies".

Researchers exhaustively test frontier model vulnerability remediation. (hint: It does not go well.)

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1094-Notes.pdf



Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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John Ternus is officially Apple CEO as of September 1st. Apple pushes back against OpenAI's attempts to delay its lawsuit against the AI company. What will Apple unveil at its upcoming September 'Surprise and Shine' event? And is Apple's immersive baseball event a hit?

John Ternus is now the CEO of Apple.

Tim Cook, the man who grew Apple by trillions of dollars.

Apple's Ternus takes the reins as CEO, with AI as job No. 1.

OpenAI's lawsuit delays cause more harm every day, says Apple.

Potential Apple RAM supplier CXMT sues feds to take it off the supplier blacklist.

China's CXMT makes breakthrough in advanced memory chips.

Apple announces iPhone 18 Pro and foldable iPhone Ultra event: 'Surprise and shine'.

What to expect from Apple's 'Surprise and shine' iPhone 18 Pro event on September 9.

Leaker says iPhone Ultra will come in these colors, with one surprise.

Apple takes first immersive baseball swings from the on-deck circle.

Picks of the Week

Christina's Pick: GroxConnect/GroxStudio

Andy's Pick: Lenovo ThinkVision M14

Jason's Pick: Better Desktop by Knightscape in the Discord

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, Jason Snell, and Christina Warren

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As AI-generated video blurs reality and new Macs hit five-figure price tags, the conversation digs into who's left behind in the race to automate and whether "democratizing" tech actually delivers on its promise. Find out how NVIDIA, Meta, and even Apple are reshaping the tech game, and why it might not be good news for everyone.

Brief independent investigation of agents' behavior, reasoning and collaboration in the OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident

NVIDIA's Profit Doubles to $59.69 Billion Thanks to A.I. Spending

Bill Gates Is Warning That A.I. Is More Dangerous Than Big Tech Will Admit

Apple Introduces M6 and M5 Ultra Chips, in New Mac Mini and Mac Studio

How Apple Stumbled Into AI Hardware Success With the Mac

Meta reaches $16.68 billion settlement over social media harms to children

Meta Just Paid Nearly $17 Billion To Make Sure It Gets To Write The Kid Safety Rules For Every Other Social Media Platform

The Meta Settlement Makes Big Tech Bigger

'Darth Vader' Wants You to Know He Definitely Supports Flock Surveillance

The Data Center Backlash Bursts Into the Midterms

With the Snip of a Gene, Scientists Hope To Erase High Cholesterol For Life - Slashdot

Skynet went live yesterday

Amazon service Bezos once called 'artificial artificial intelligence' is shutting down

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Jacob Ward, Harry McCracken, and Molly White

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In this episode of Hands-On Tech, Mikah answers Joyce's question about why so many everyday smart devices now require downloading an app & creating an account, and how to opt out of sharing personal data without giving up the products' functionality

Send in your questions for Mikah to hot@twit.tv, and he'll answer them in a future episode!

Host: Mikah Sargent

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We're celebrating Christmas a little early by looking forward to predicted HDMI 2.1 support at the end of the year. Chromium is testing Flatpacks, Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund wants in on the Flatpak action, and there's a new Multikernel in town. Ardour has a new release, and Debian has voted to allow "responsible" AI use. For tips, we have linecast for weather in the terminal, CLOUDMOUNT for mounting and unmounting cloud shares, and readelf for looking inside Linux binaries. The show notes are at https://bit.ly/3SjFS0d and Happy Linuxing!

Host: Jonathan Bennett

Co-Hosts: Rob Campbell and Ken McDonald

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