mythos ai destroys apple m5 chips
From Peter Saddington - AGILE, STARTUPS, SELF-IMPROVEMENT! by PETER SADDINGTON
May 16, 2026 · 3 min
About this episode
The episode discusses how two researchers exploited Apple's M5 chip's security in just five days with the help of AI.
Two researchers from a small Palo Alto outfit drove up to Apple's Cupertino headquarters to hand-deliver something the bug bounty queue would have buried. A working kernel exploit against the M5 chip's Memory Integrity Enforcement. Built in five days. With AI help. Apple's most expensive new security feature, defeated in less than a week by two people and a chatbot. The defender has to be right everywhere. The attacker only needs one path. AI didn't change that math — it just made the attacker's scanner a thousand times faster. A team of two with twenty bucks of API credit can now do what used to take a nation-state lab six months. Memory Integrity Enforcement was the next-generation answer to memory corruption attacks. Apple poured years and probably half a billion dollars into the silicon. The M5 is brand new. Five days. Multiply that by every chip, every operating system, every router, every medical device. The attack surface didn't expand. The time-to-discover collapsed. The five-day exploit isn't the story. The bug bounty queue is. The page used to look like a defense layer. It looks like a triage room now. Two people drove to Cupertino with their findings. They knocked…
People in this episode
Host: Peter Saddington
Topics covered
- cybersecurity
- AI
- vulnerability
- exploitation
- technology
- Apple
- memory integrity
Keywords
- M5 chip
- Apple
- AI
- exploit
- cybersecurity
- memory integrity
- bug bounty
- vulnerability
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Apple, Palo Alto, AI
Products: M5 chip
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