Two and a Half Bens

AI Startup Says It Will Pay People $2,000 A Month to Masturbate... Yes, Really Google API Keys Weren't Secrets. But then Gemini Changed the Rules. United flight forced to turn around because of a Bluetooth speaker name MyPillow must decide whether to be firm or soft as ransomware crims demand pay Carnival confirms ShinyHunters cruised off with 6M customer records after April breach Spotify might soon flag your 'sad-boy' playlists Companies Are Getting Burned by Burning Tons of Tokens AI costs how much? GitHub Copilot users react to new usage-based pricing system. Dozens of Red Hat packages backdoored through its official NPM channel Academic’s warning about using AI was written using AI LLMs believe false statements even after explicit warnings that they’re false Hackers Tricked Meta AI Into Handing Out Access to Major Instagram Accounts Follow SirBemrose, Pheonix, and PhoneBoy on Mastodon

Canvas hack forces some Tennessee universities to push back finals. What happened? GoDaddy customer claims registrar transferred 27-year-old domain without any security checks British kids using fake mustaches, IDs, and VPNs to bypass online age checks, study finds Why is Claude always blackmailing people? Meta isn’t doing enough to keep kids off Facebook and Instagram, rules EU Claude-powered AI coding agent deletes entire company database in 9 seconds — backups zapped, after Cursor tool powered by Anthropic's Claude goes rogue California tech company Cloudflare to lay off more than 1,000 workers, cites AI As the most severe Linux threat in years surfaces, the world scrambles New Linux 'Dirty Frag' zero-day gives root on all major distros Critical vm2 sandbox bug lets attackers execute code on hosts Microsoft was worried OpenAI would run off to Amazon and ‘shit-talk’ Azure Microsoft's patch for a 0-day exploited by Russian spies fell short. Another Windows flaw is under attack Researchers gaslit Claude into giving instructions to build explosives Study finds even the best AI models lose money betting on soccer First US Integrated Humanoid Robot Factory To Build 100,000 NEO Robots By 2027 Microsoft Edge Stores Passwords In Plaintext In RAM Chrome forces 4Gb AI model into every device without permission AskJeeves shut down 1 May 2026 Follow SirBemrose, Pheonix, and PhoneBoy on Mastodon

Hackers found a way to weaponize CAPTCHA pages, and it's incredibly effective 'Orthosomnia' Might Be Ruining Your Sleep. Here's What You Should Know. Hackers turn Cisco and Citrix zero-days into a malware nightmare Why Windows sucks and how to fix it, according to a former Microsoft engineer MSFT Teams feature to block screen capture Unsurprisingly, X users locked out in the cold after botched authentication switch Google is rolling out conversational shopping—and ads—in AI Mode search DoorDash hit by new data breach in October exposing user information Original Mac calculator design came from letting Steve Jobs play with menus for 10 minutes

Pheonix and PhoneBoy are joined by DameBemrose and discuss the latest AI bullshit, Microsoft Bugs, F5's Secuity Breach, and More!

The Bens talk AI everywhere we don't want it to be, CISA wants to pwn CVE, self-replcating worms thanks to npm, and more!

Your favorite Bens get discuss their objections to AI, and yet somehow find a story that isn't so bad.

Call Center workers complain about being called a robot after acting like a robot on Yahoo and Slashdot Reddit is the source of LLM hallucinations Carrot isn't working for Win11. MSFT gets the stick on PCWorld and Techspot Man goes on sodium bromide diet on ChatGPT's suggestion; starts hallucinating alongside the AI Why do we still think it's a good idea to support formats that you can embed code in? Moving all gov't agency data into OpenAI LLMs. I see no security problems with this Anthropic AI goes rogue when trying to run a vending machine Courts aren't ready for the wave of AI-generated evidence hitting trials SharePoint vulnerability with 9.8 severity rating under exploit across globe ChatGPT Hallucinated a Feature, Forcing Human Developers to Add It New Koske Linux malware hides in cute panda images Lovense sex toy app flaw leaks private user email addresses

Microsoft only fixing one of two SecureBoot Exploits Apple’s Kill Switch Would Completely Change Your Next iPhone MIT brain scans suggest that using GenAI tools reduces cognitive activity LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions 40,000 Cameras, From Bird Feeders to Baby Monitors, Exposed to the Internet Smart TV OS owners face “constant conflict” between privacy, advertiser demands Pope Leo makes AI’s threat to humanity a signature issue Creators say they didn’t know Google uses YouTube to train AI