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This episode discusses various stories related to AI, privacy, and security, including vulnerabilities in identity infrastructure and software, as well as significant partnerships in the AI space.

EP 289. Let’s climb to the top of this week’s stories: France's most trusted identity infrastructure has become its biggest liability, and nineteen million citizens are now paying the price. The real lesson from Bitwarden's close call isn't about passwords it's about how quietly an attack can move through the software you never see being built. A newly uncovered rootkit predating Stuxnet has rewritten what we thought we knew about state-level sabotage and its most dangerous feature was making everything look perfectly normal. The arms race in AI security has hit a new threshold machines are now the ones probing for weaknesses, and they don't need sleep to do it. The browser is no longer just a window to the web it's becoming an autonomous actor, and that changes everything about who's actually in control. A restricted AI model, a contractor's borrowed credentials, and a private Discord channel Anthropic's Mythos access story is a case study in how third-party trust becomes a front door. A logging bug quietly turned one of the world's most trusted encrypted messaging apps into an inadvertent evidence locker and it took an FBI courtroom testimony to bring it to light. OpenAI and…

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