Artificial General Intelligence and The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update for the Week Ending April 8th., 2025

EP 237. 

DeepMind just released a 108-page manual on not getting wiped out by our own invention.  Highlighting the fact that planning for an AI apocalypse could now be a core business line function.
Sigstore machine learning model signing - AI models are finally getting digital signatures, because “mystery code from the internet” just wasn't a scalable trust strategy.
Turns out your AI  programmer can be tricked into writing malware.  Helping us understand that “copilot” isn't necessarily synonymous with “competent”.
Italy’s anti-piracy tool is blocking legit services like it’s playing "whack-a-mole" blindfolded, but in this case the moles are  cloud storage, like your Google drive.
The EU wants Europol to act like the FBI because privacy for our citizens is important, except when we want to read their encrypted messages.
Hackers hit Aussie retirement funds, proving the only thing scarier than blowing through all your retirement money is someone else blowing through it all for you.
Oracle’s been hacked again—because who doesn’t love a sequel with worse security and a bigger cleanup bill?
OpenSNP just quit the internet after realizing DNA + authoritarian vibes = one dystopia too many.
This week is a wild ride, so saddle up and hold on tight!