Face it. The A.I., Privacy, and Security Weekly Update for the Week Ending July 14th. 2026

Face it. The A.I., Privacy, and Security Weekly Update for the Week Ending July 14th. 2026

From The AI, Privacy, and Security Weekly Update by R. Prescott Stearns Jr.

July 14, 2026 · 25 min · Season 7 · Episode 298

About this episode

This episode discusses various developments in AI, privacy, and security, including the implications of surveillance in UK shops and the job market dynamics influenced by AI.

In this week's update UK shops are about to call the police on you within four seconds of you walking through the door - and you don't have to do anything wrong first. A GitHub account sat completely silent for 19 months, then woke up and dropped a working mass-exploit kit within minutes - and age on the internet is not the same as trust. Fifty-five percent of Americans have quietly stopped posting on social media - and the reason isn't what the platforms want to admit. Recruiters say they can't find workers. New graduates say they can't find jobs. The economy says both of them are right - and AI is not actually the villain in this one. Applied AI engineering is becoming one of the hottest jobs in tech, and the skill that matters most is not writing clever prompts - it's building report cards for AI that catch the model when it quietly does something dangerous. The Pentagon opened a paid cybersecurity apprenticeship that requires no degree, no experience, and no prior skills - and 70,000 people showed up within days. Russian intelligence didn't hack into military networks to spy on NATO supply convoys - they just looked through the security cameras of ordinary homes with default…

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Host: R. Prescott Stearns Jr.

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Organizations: GitHub, Pentagon, Cloudflare

Places: UK, America, China

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