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SN 1096: Are we the Krell? - 153 Million Driver's Licenses Leaked

Sep 16, 2026 · 2h 50m

Summary

Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte analyze Microsoft’s record-breaking Patch Tuesday, which included nearly 1,000 security fixes driven by AI-assisted discovery, while noting the operational strain on enterprises. They contrast this with Anthropic’s Project Glasswing, where only a tiny fraction of AI-discovered vulnerabilities have been confirmed or fixed due to human triage bottlenecks. The episode also covers California’s data broker deletion laws, a massive Russian data breach, and concludes with a sci-fi analogy suggesting that AI risks resemble the Krell’s accidental self-destruction rather …

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