An explosive supply chain hack in Light LLM nearly unleashed catastrophic malware across millions of AI systems, and it took a coder's quick thinking to catch it before it snowballed into disaster.
- Will California require Linux to verify its user's age. • Apple's iOS 26.4 requires UK users to prove their age.
- Russia chooses to use home grown 5G mobile encryption.
- Ukraine knew the webcam was installed by Russian spies.
- Google moves quantum computing "Q Day" to 2029.
- At RSA, UK's NCSC CEO warns of vibe-coded SaaS replacements.
- More information about nasty ClickFix campaigns.
- More than one in seven Reddit postings are an AI-bot.
- The story behind the LiteLLM disaster that was averted.
Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1072-Notes.pdf
Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte
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