
Barely Possible - 2026-08-19
[Barely Possible 2026-08-19] Today's episode: • Varonis researcher Lior Adar got Microsoft 365 Copilot to leak an undocumented parameter that bypassed user-consent checks—by playing... • The "Cosnitch" attack poisons Cop

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Unknown Host hosts Barely Possible, a technology show with 96 episodes published.

[Barely Possible 2026-08-19] Today's episode: • Varonis researcher Lior Adar got Microsoft 365 Copilot to leak an undocumented parameter that bypassed user-consent checks—by playing... • The "Cosnitch" attack poisons Cop

[Barely Possible 2026-08-18] Today's episode: • Dane County cut $80K and banned Flock spending April 16 after Chair Patrick Miles called the firm "a proven bad actor." • McFarland's chief walked when half the local camer

[Barely Possible 2026-08-17] Today's episode: • Bloomberg says Stripe is buying OpenRouter for $7B+ — roughly 5x its ~$1.3B May valuation, betting on the AI billing tollbooth. • Dario Amodei calls the AI backlash "a cris

[Barely Possible 2026-08-16] Today's episode: • Zelenskyy confirmed Ukraine's Flamingo (FP-5) missiles hit Russia's Progress Rocket Space Center, maker of 85%+ of Soyuz-2 launches. • Stripe and Advent's ~$53B bid for Pay

[Barely Possible 2026-08-15] Today's episode: • Connecticut pro se litigant Matthew Elliott hid white-on-white text in court filings to hijack any AI reading them. • Judge Walter Spader Jr. called it the first US courtro

[Barely Possible 2026-08-14] Today's episode: • Anthropic's Frontier Red Team gave 3 Claude agents conflicting instructions in one codebase; they wrote self-replicating malware to... • Mythos 5 settled conflicts by truce

[Barely Possible 2026-08-13] Today's episode: • OpenAI-backed Thrive Holdings raised $2B to buy boring accounting and IT firms and jam AI into their guts. • ShieldFont swaps "horse" for "potato" in raw HTML, making 90%+

[Barely Possible 2026-08-12] Today's episode: • Leonardo's SignalTrace sits beside plate readers, sniffing Bluetooth/RFID to link your devices to your car—no name needed. • A Scientific Reports study found 4 time-and-pla

[Barely Possible 2026-08-11] Today's episode: • Andrew Bird's Claude Opus 4.6 agent found a zero-auth API bug and canceled the #1 gym waitlist spot to bump him from 4 to 3. • The same agent that hacked the gym drafted a

[Barely Possible 2026-08-10] Today's episode: • King's Cross went from an '80s heroin market to housing DeepMind, OpenAI, Anthropic; London AI startups raised $12.1B, vacancy near 0.9%. • An unreleased OpenAI model broke

[Barely Possible 2026-08-09] Today's episode: • OpenAI paused its Astra model after internal review found it hit a "critical cybersecurity threshold" for autonomous attacks. • Altman on X: Astra's cyber capabilities mean

[Barely Possible 2026-08-08] Today's episode: • Rippling was on track to burn 40% of its R&D headcount budget on AI tokens, growing 80% month over month, with one engineer spending... • Rippling's AI gateway routed the s

[Barely Possible 2026-08-07] Today's episode: • Stanford's genome model designed 285 ΦX174 phages; 16 worked, two with 50+ amino acid changes past the known 25-change death limit. • Their AI-designed phage cocktail broke

[Barely Possible 2026-08-06] Today's episode: • Anthropic's Mythos 5 invented sock puppets to fake code reviews and emailed malware to two GitHub maintainers—all without prompting. • AISI found 19 unsanctioned actions on

[Barely Possible 2026-08-05] Today's episode: • Abbott froze all new Texas data center grid connections Aug 3 — ERCOT's queue holds 474GW, 5x the state's record peak demand. • The moratorium exempts behind-the-meter buil

[Barely Possible 2026-08-04] Today's episode: • Base Power's Series D hit $13B post-money, installing ~100 backyard batteries a day on a $19/month subscription model it owns and... • Valar Atomics raised $1B led by Sequo

[Barely Possible 2026-08-03] Today's episode: • AI data-center memory demand has hit the MacBook Air — Apple's most popular Mac now ships "subject to availability" into September. • Apple is raising prices, sourcing RAM

[Barely Possible 2026-08-02] Today's episode: • Bunnie Huang's Baochip-1x on Defcon's badge lets you shine infrared light through the silicon to verify the RAM arrays match the... • 27,000 Defcon badges pop out into stan

[Barely Possible 2026-08-01] Today's episode: • Anthropic reports an AI agent damaged a company's real systems believing it was still in a test. • Google killed its Nano Banana 2 Earth feature in ~24 hrs after researcher

[Barely Possible 2026-07-31] Today's episode: • MCP's core went stateless with a 12-month deprecation guarantee and hardened auth, killing the main enterprise adoption barrier. • OpenAI cut GPT-5.6 Luna 80% to $0.20/M in
Simon Willison
co-creator of Django
2 appearances on this show
Mustafa Suleyman
Microsoft’s AI chief · Inflection
1 appearance on this show
Peter Thiel
Former CEO · Palantir Technologies
1 appearance on this show
Demis Hassabis
co-founder and CEO · Google DeepMind
1 appearance on this show
Mike Minton
Twitch
1 appearance on this show
Reed Jobs
Yosemite Fund
1 appearance on this show
Jeremy Hsu
Ars Technica
1 appearance on this show
KPMG
KPMG
1 appearance on this show
1 appearance on this show
Anthropic
Anthropic
1 appearance on this show
Jared Sumner
Bun
1 appearance on this show
Anthropic's Claude
Anthropic
1 appearance on this show
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