Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte discuss a record-breaking Patch Tuesday with 973 Windows fixes, driven by AI-assisted bug discovery. The episode covers a classic Dropbox hack via legacy Lenovo integrations, Microsoft’s upcoming default enablement of Memory Integrity, and CISA’s scaling back of critical infrastructure assessments due to staffing shortages. They also analyze OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra, which achieved a perfect score on exploit benchmarks, and address the topic of AI-driven expertise loss with a nuclear safety engineer.
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