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.

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Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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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.