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After Microsoft's historic Mega Patch Tuesday, enterprise IT teams worldwide are scrambling as a wave of updates triggers system meltdowns, broken domains, and silent Excel failures. Find out how AI-driven speed collided with real-world chaos.

Andrew Ng weighs-in on AI Doomsaying.

The wisdom of outsourcing AI security testing.

The true risk of an AI-created bioweapon.

The EU KIDS Act -- this one is even messier.

"Nightmare Eclipse" finally unmasks himself.

A whitehat firm used Claude to attack OpenAI.

Cisco's own massive 77 CVE update.

What was the fallout from Sept's Patch Tuesday

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1097-Notes.pdf



Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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The iPhone 18 Pro & Pro Max are hitting consumers' hands. Reviews of the Apple Watch Series 12 & Ultra 4 are out now for Apple's latest smartwatches. And are the newest Mac Minis and Mac Studios worth it for their prices?

Apple explains how the iPhone 18 Pro's new Reference Image camera mode works.

The iPhone 18 Pro's big camera update is all about the small gains.

Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 review: More personal than ever before.

Apple is developing new fitness tracker aimed at rivaling Whoop.

M5 Ultra Mac Studio review: The dream Mac for local AI agents.

M6 Mac mini review: Tiny, pricey, and powerful.

John Ternus just gave the best defense yet for Vision Pro.

Apple reportedly building server packed with M-series Ultra chips for AI.

Jessica Chastain thriller 'The Savant' getting 2027 release on Apple TV after year on hold.

Apple opens Apple Music Hall, a brand‑new state‑of‑the‑art live music venue in London

Picks of the Week

Jason's Pick: Relay for St. Jude

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Christina's Picks: Taylor Swift: Patient Zero & Mona Breaker

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

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The iPhone 18 Pro & Pro Max are hitting consumers' hands. Reviews of the Apple Watch Series 12 & Ultra 4 are out now for Apple's latest smartwatches. And are the newest Mac Minis and Mac Studios worth it for their prices?

Apple explains how the iPhone 18 Pro's new Reference Image camera mode works.

The iPhone 18 Pro's big camera update is all about the small gains.

Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 review: More personal than ever before.

Apple is developing new fitness tracker aimed at rivaling Whoop.

M5 Ultra Mac Studio review: The dream Mac for local AI agents.

M6 Mac mini review: Tiny, pricey, and powerful.

John Ternus just gave the best defense yet for Vision Pro.

Apple reportedly building server packed with M-series Ultra chips for AI.

Jessica Chastain thriller 'The Savant' getting 2027 release on Apple TV after year on hold.

Apple opens Apple Music Hall, a brand‑new state‑of‑the‑art live music venue in London

Picks of the Week

Jason's Pick: Relay for St. Jude

Andy's Pick: MOONDROP Old Fashioned 40mm On-Ear Headphones

Christina's Picks: Taylor Swift: Patient Zero & Mona Breaker

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

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AI hallucinations nearly sparked an international crisis, Google dodged a breakup but faces new rules, and Meta's personal AI agent might be about to run your life. This week's episode ponders what's pragmatic, what's dangerous, and what's coming for everything from privacy to geopolitics.

Judge Orders Data Sharing and Other Fixes to Solve Google's Ad Tech Monopoly

US judge signals rejection of part of TikTok privacy settlement

AI hallucination of Chinese nuclear components almost led to US military attack

For the first time, the US military confirms it has deployed weapons in orbit

OpenAI Discloses Six New Incidents of 'Concerning' A.I. Behavior

Why AI pacing has become a false choice

Iran and China Create First-of-Their-Kind Autonomous A.I. Influence Campaigns

Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera. Its Data Shows How the System Really Works

Senate Votes to Block Crypto Bill in Major Blow to the Industry

The EU Bans Social Media For Under-13s

'Maybe a year': Geoffrey Hinton gives the Senate a deadline on AI

ZuckOff Is a Free App That Sees Meta Glasses Before They See You

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Owen Thomas, Jason Hiner, and Dan Patterson

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Discover how to run serious AI at home without breaking the bank, as Lon Seidman reveals his tricks for turning old data center GPUs into powerful local LLM machines.

Anthropic Researchers Raise Alarm Over A.I. Acceleration, Warning of Threat to Humanity

Dario Amodei — We Must Pace the Frontier

Mark Zuckerberg Takes Aim at Anthropic in Debate Over A.I. Slowdown

A Code of Conduct for Humanist AI

Countering misuse of AI: September 2026 / Anthropic

EXCLUSIVE: OpenAI's rogue agents probed Hugging Face for weaknesses two months before major hack

Yoshua Bengio | Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?

The Worst Spam Emails: Inside iLands' AI Agent Hustle

Introducing System One Models & Jev - TypeSafe AI Blog

Universal Music is launching an AI music platform with ElevenLabs

Lawyer fined $5K over AI-hallucinated witnesses in a murder case

A Digital Fly Brain Has Taken Over the Internet

(4) nimensky e/acc on X: "ok who tf did this?! lul https://t.co/HpnXo0qKJ4" / X

Fanttik Cafein 11 Portable Espresso Machine

Casey Newton and Kevin Roose partner with NPR to launch 'Machine Gods'

They Built a Shrine to Cable TV. Then Everyone Cut the Cord.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ

Guest: Lon Seidman

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