With millions racing to embrace AI assistants and cybercriminals pivoting to new, high-stakes tactics, the episode tackles the dizzying pace of change and asks: just how worried should we be? The discussion pulls back the curtain on AI’s unpredictable power, the escalation of digital extortion, and why the next breach may hit closer to home than you think.

Muse has a bad 0-day

The regularity of "Irregular"

More rogue OpenAI breaches

The Seven Deadly Sins (TSDS) hacker group

Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) cargo ship hacked

The FBI offended ShinyHunters's delicate sensibilities

Canonical switches to an every–2-weeks release cadence

Axios’ AI 101: AI Explainer for normal people

How worried should we be?

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1098-Notes.pdf

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