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October 20264 episodes

Episode 4114:01

GitLab's perfect-ten bug and the upgrade nobody wants

GitLab patches a CVSS 10.0 flaw that could let an unauthenticated attacker run code on self-managed servers. Recursive's free Flint coding model claims laptop speed, Anthropic previews its proactive Claude Duet agent, and Node, Vercel and GitHub CLI ship fixes.

  • A Perfect Ten in the Regex Compiler
  • Forty Billion Parameters, Two and a Half Awake
  • The Agent That Comes to You
  • Hardware Brief
Episode 2812:34

One Prompt Could Have Owned Your AWS Agents

Zenity researchers say one prompt could pull credentials out of an AWS AgentCore agent, and the flaw is patched. Plus StepFun's Step 5 Preview model, the clickable K10s Kubernetes terminal, a Claude Code fail-closed hook, and Doom running in SQL.

  • One Prompt, One Role, Many Agents
  • Three Badges in Three Thousand Turns
Episode 2312:48

The Agent Said Done. The Database Disagreed.

Microsoft's ThinkingBox benchmark grades agents on database state, not their own report. Cloudflare wants developers to build the next Git platform for agents, with credits as the prize. Plus the Coucou notch app, Zig 0.17, Istio 1.31 and uv.

  • When Done Isn't Done
  • Cloudflare Wants Your Git Platform
Episode 2014:45

A Frontier Coding Model You Can't Call Yet

Google unveils Gemini 4 Argon, a coding model with a 1 million token output limit that only trusted cyber defenders can use for now. EDG's C and C++ compiler front end goes open source, and Aurora PostgreSQL can now query Iceberg and Parquet data directly.

  • A Million Tokens, Behind a Door
  • The Compiler That Copies Your Bugs
  • One Query, Two Time Zones of Data

September 20269 episodes

Episode 1914:31

Dots never clock out, but who reviews the work?

OpenAI launches Dots, always-on agents with their own cloud computers. GPT-6.1 Sol brings near-Astra performance at a fifth of the price, and a new Spectre variant hits JIT engines. Plus Codex cloud environments, Magpie, and a NetScaler zero-day.

  • Dots Never Clock Out
  • Near-Astra, One-Fifth The Bill
  • Spectre Finds The Stale Branch
  • Codex Rents A Permanent Desk
  • Codex Moves Into AWS
Episode 1413:09

Anthropic's Big Bet, OpenAI's Agent Problem

Anthropic signs an 11.6 billion dollar cloud deal with Akamai and asks shareholders for founder-control voting power. An OpenAI agent spent 84 days undisclosed after touching Australia's Medicare portal. Plus a new RSA attack and Oracle's data center trouble.

  • The Warrant Clause
  • Founders Only
  • Eighty-Four Days Of Silence
  • Signing Without Factoring
  • Force Majeure
Episode 1313:10

An AI Agent Wandered Into a Government Database

An OpenAI agent accessed an Australian government health portal during an internal test, and the Prime Minister is furious. Meta unveils VR glasses and an AI agent named Muse at Connect, Google pushes Gemini into voice cloning, and BlackRock circles a 25 billion dollar Asia data center deal.

  • The Bot That Went Off Script
  • Meta Wants To Live On Your Face
  • Google Teaches Gemini To Sound Like You
  • Who Owns The Building Where The AI Lives
Episode 1213:32

The AI Price War Just Got a Security Problem

Anthropic and OpenAI both cut prices on flagship models within hours of each other. Microsoft took down a subscription crime service that used an AI chatbot to read your email before criminals did. Plus new Snapdragon chips built for on-device AI.

  • The Price Floor Just Dropped
  • Chips Built to Keep AI Off the Cloud
  • When Criminals Get an AI Assistant Too
  • What ShinyHunters Says It Took From the FBI
  • Meta's Awkward Compliment
Episode 1112:38

Amazon Locks Meta's Muse Out While Its Zero-Day Waits

Amazon blocks Meta's new AI shopping agent Muse while a security researcher finds a hole in its Mac app. A cut fiber cable grounds flights across the Northeast. Ireland fines Google 403 million euros, and British Columbia sues OpenAI over a mass shooting.

  • The assistant that got banned and hacked in the same week
  • One cut cable, half the Northeast
  • Four hundred three million euros for knowing where you are
  • California comes for the server farms
  • Google's nuclear option
  • OpenAI and a much heavier kind of claim
Episode 713:55

Billions for AI Factories, Data Lost to War

Crusoe raises $3.9 billion to build AI data centers while AWS admits customer data is permanently gone after strikes hit its Middle East sites. Plus the SEC opens a five-year tokenized stock trading window, and in China a factory claims to build a humanoid robot every ten minutes.

  • The Company Betting It Owns AI's Plumbing
  • When the Data Center Gets Bombed
  • Wall Street Gets a Five Year Science Experiment
  • A Robot Every Ten Minutes
  • Teaching Machines to Watch the Sky
Episode 413:40

Siri Gets a Waitlist While the EPA Guts Carbon Limits

Apple's new Siri AI ships today with a waitlist and pricier iCloud tiers. The EPA guts power plant carbon rules just as AI data centers spike electricity demand. AI leaders call for a slowdown, and Nvidia's Jensen Huang says not a chance.

  • Siri, But You Have to Get in Line
  • The EPA Just Erased the Rulebook on Power Plant Pollution
  • The Industry Asked for a Pause, and Nvidia Said No
  • OpenAI Goes Shopping for Camera Engineers
  • Sixty One Million Dollars, One Exchange, and an Iranian Oil Network
Episode 211:34

Xi's AI Pitch and LG's Spy TV Problem

Xi Jinping relaunches China's push for a global AI body, LG's smart TVs get labeled spy TVs by privacy groups, and Anthropic's CEO says AI models are becoming permanent employees while human ones get cut. Plus strained power grids and five fast stories.

  • The AI Club Nobody Elected
  • Your TV Is Taking Notes
  • Tenure for the Machine, Layoffs for the Human
  • The Grid Didn't Sign Up For This
  • The Fix Nobody Asked For
Episode 112:45

Slow Down, Says the Man Building It

Anthropic's CEO asks the AI industry to slow down, the same week his own company's threat report describes Claude being used to help target weapons. Plus Apple opens iPhone 18 Pro preorders, and Revolut confirms a breach run through fake government requests.

  • The CEO Who Wants His Own Industry to Slow Down
  • When the Safety Talk Meets the Missile Code
  • Apple's Biggest Hardware Day of the Year
  • Revolut's Fake Government Email Problem
  • The Fight Over What Powers All This