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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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What if your engineering calculations secretly sabotaged your nation's best efforts? This week, we reveal how a newly uncovered 21-year-old NSA rootkit quietly corrupted scientific research in hostile states and why it changes everything you think you know about cyberwarfare.

Bitwarden's CLI hit with a supply-chain attack.

Commercial routers in Iran fail shortly before the war.

Meta logging all employee activity to train replacement AI.

GRC's DNS Benchmark Release 5.

Two miscellaneous AI thoughts.

A bunch of terrific listener feedback.

Unraveling the diabolical history of "fast16.sys"

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1076-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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Security leaders warn the era of AI-driven bug hunting has arrived, with Mythos uncovering hundreds of overlooked vulnerabilities in code bases as trusted as Firefox. Are defenders ready for the avalanche of exploits and the frantic race to patch?

A disgruntled developer discloses multiple Windows 0-days.

Microsoft purchases its own bugs in massive campaign.

VeraCrypt & Wireshark suddenly lost their dev accounts.

A serious problem with re-captured domain names.

How might AI help to secure open source repositories.

A listener wonders what we thought of Project Hail Mary.

Cyber security professionals tell us What Mythos Means

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1075-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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We may already be living through the most consequential hundred days in cyber history, and the arrival of AI that can autonomously chain zero-day vulnerabilities into working exploits means the software industry's long-standing "ship it and patch it later" era is officially over.

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1074-Notes.pdf

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The FCC has banned all new consumer routers made outside the US, leaving networks stuck with aging, insecure hardware while blocking innovation. Find out why this sweeping move is raising eyebrows and lawsuits—and why it makes zero sense for cybersecurity.

Apple's 26.4 age queries catches many by surprise.

LinkedIn's 2.7 MB of privacy-invading javascript.

Microsoft starts forcing Win11 24H2 to 25H2.

Cisco loses source code to the Trivy supply-chain mess.

Proton introduces privacy-first voice and video "Meet."

GitHub to fix lagging security of its Actions feature.

Cloudflare reaffirms the privacy of its 1.1.1.1 DNS.

Cloudflare uses AI to re-code better secure Wordpress.

The FCC drops a ban on all new consumer-grade routers.

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1073-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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