Risky Business #857 -- AI FUD intensifies
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On this week’s show Patrick Gray and James Wilson are joined by special guest co-host Alex Stamos to talk through the week’s cybersecurity news, including: Everyone’s still panicking about “misbehaving” AI models that are pretty much just doing what they’re being told to do Americans are giving AI agents unfettered access to their bank accounts. What could go wrong? Last week’s PHP meteor seems to have missed Earth This week’s Brotli HTTP/2 critical flaw is this week’s meteor The private key is always 4. This time it’s TLS bugs in GoAhead Much, much more!
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- TechnologyAI agentAn AI model that acts on its own: it plans steps, uses tools and takes actions, not just answers.
- TechnologyPHPA programming language that powers a large share of websites, including WordPress.
- ProtocolTLS · Transport Layer SecurityThe encryption protocol behind HTTPS: it keeps traffic between two programs private and proves who the server is.