Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte discuss a record-breaking Patch Tuesday with 973 Windows fixes and the upcoming mandatory enablement of Memory Integrity. The episode covers a classic Dropbox hack via legacy integrations, CISA’s scaling back of critical infrastructure assessments, and OpenAI’s release of GPT-6 Astra, which achieved a perfect score on exploit benchmarks. They also address Nvidia’s acquisition of Hugging Face and conclude with a discussion on the long-term risks of AI-driven expertise loss in safety-critical engineering.
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