Security Now 1095: AI-Driven Expertise Loss

OpenAI's latest advances have the rumor mill buzzing about "hidden thoughts" and unsupervisable models, but are AI safety experts panicking over the wrong threat? Get the clear-headed take behind the headlines.

• We start out with a classic old school hack against Dropbox.
• Next Patch Tuesday will be enabling "Memory Integrity" for many.
• Firefox moved to 155 and obtained a dumb Smart Window.
• CISA is terminating 6 most valuable cybersecurity services.
• OpenAI advanced to topof the heap with GPT-6 Astra.
• But... is it now hiding some of its thinking from monitoring?
• Nvidia is acquiring Hugging Face. Who's that good for?
• Google releases Gemini 3.8 Flash and Cyber. Is it good?
• Chinese cyberespionage is using AI to become more slippery.
• Matthew Green proposes a fascinating take on AI bug drought.
• A lifelong safety engineer contemplates AI-driven loss of expertise.

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1095-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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