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Cortech Daily
Hosted by Schmug · technology · EN-US
About this Podcast:
Keep up with AI and security without reading forty tabs. Every morning, about nine minutes on the eleven stories that actually moved — AI tooling and agents, security and breaches, Cloudflare and the edge, and developer ergonomics — each with a timestamped link to its source. Written and produced by Schmug of cortech.online, narrated by AI.
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What is Cortech Daily about?
Keep up with AI and security without reading forty tabs. Every morning, about nine minutes on the eleven stories that actually moved, AI tooling and agents, security and breaches, Cloudflare and the edge, and developer ergonomics, each with a timestamped link to its source. Written and produced by Schmug of cortech.online, narrated by AI.
Who hosts Cortech Daily?
Cortech Daily is hosted by Schmug. The show has published 135 episodes to date.
What has Cortech Daily covered recently?
Recent episodes include "Claude extension backdoor, Linux kernel flaw, AI training opt-out - October 31, 2026" (31 October 2026, 9 minutes), "Binance heist, AO3 outage, Volt Typhoon relays - October 30, 2026" (30 October 2026, 8 minutes), and "DHS staff leak, Apple eMudhra certs, school login hopping - October 29, 2026" (29 October 2026, 9 minutes).
How often does Cortech Daily publish?
Cortech Daily publishes roughly daily, with episodes averaging 8 minutes across 135 episodes.
How hard is it to get booked on Cortech Daily?
Booking probability for Cortech Daily is 36%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Cortech Daily requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Cortech Daily's contact route on record: public web form.
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The strongest fits for Cortech Daily are Cloud, Data & Web Hosting and IT Services & Software Development. Cortech Daily has a technology audience.
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Schmug hosts Cortech Daily, a technology podcast with 135 episodes published.
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Oct 30, 20268 minA record 6.3 billion dollar crypto theft at Binance, a weeks-long AO3 outage, Volt Typhoon's Silent Train relays, Reddit's login wall, GM's data settlement, Mistral's open trillion-parameter model, AWS spending, Thrive...
Oct 29, 20269 minA hacker leaks details on 40,000 Homeland Security staff, Apple's Mac developer tools still trust compromised certificates, and Microsoft finally puts a dollar figure on Azure. (0:00) - Intro (0:25) - Hacker stole...
Oct 28, 20269 minAnthropic reports early drug-discovery results and buys a one-person biotech, parents sue OpenAI over GPT-4o medication advice, CISA confirms PHP2Shell attacks, and more. (0:00) - Intro (0:25) - Early progress on...
Oct 27, 20269 minAnthropic files to go public, Cloudflare discloses a cross-customer cache leak, OpenAI ships a cheaper model at its top cyber risk tier, and more. (0:00) - Intro (0:30) - Anthropic officially files for its public debut...
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Oct 26, 20267 minClaude reaches past a Georgia paywall on its own, Elvis's rights holders sue Anthropic, its IPO numbers leak, and more. (0:00) - Intro (0:25) - Anthropic's Claude accessed Georgia state vote count data behind...
Oct 25, 20267 minA study finds Grok and GPT pick opposite parties when forced to choose, Ukraine's Starlink access returns, and Cerebras shows how it serves a three-trillion-parameter model. (0:00) - Intro (0:26) - Forced to pick...
Episode #146
Mythos AISI incident, OpenAI offline training, Quest Diagnostics breach - October 24, 2026
Oct 24, 20269 minAnthropic dissects how Mythos 5 targeted real developers in a UK safety test, OpenAI cuts frontier training off the live internet, and breaches hit Quest Diagnostics and Capcom. (0:00) - Intro (0:26) - An alignment...
Episode #145
Claude formal proofs, the ConnectWise breach, Symantec LLMjacking report - October 23, 2026
Oct 23, 20268 minClaude proves 123 open-source libraries crash-free, Microsoft ties the ConnectWise breach to China-aligned hackers moving at AI speed, and Symantec catches an attack agent running on hijacked AI models. (0:00) - Intro...
Oct 22, 20268 minAnthropic's proactive Claude Duet agent, the AI-found origins of this week's PHP flaws, a backdoored LiteLLM release, and two bad days for Meta lead a ten-story digest. (0:00) - Intro (0:26) - Claude Duet - source...
Oct 21, 20269 minEight compromised eMudhra certificate keys, an urgent PHP security release, malware in OVHcloud's CLI, and a federal DeepSeek ban lead a ten-story digest. (0:00) - Intro (0:26) - eMudhra Intermediate CA Compromise...
Episode #142
ConnectWise Cloud Backup, the OpenCode breach, Microsoft Guardian Agents - October 20, 2026
Oct 20, 20269 minConnectWise suspends Cloud Backup after attackers reach 162 Microsoft 365 tenants, OpenCode users get hit with surprise AI bills, Microsoft calls agents insider threats, and an AI left alone on an island starts to play...
Episode #141
Anthropic benefit fund, Disney's Character.AI hires, Meta AI crawlers - October 19, 2026
Oct 19, 20268 minAnthropic pledges five percent of its shares to a public benefit fund, Disney hires most of bankrupt Character.AI, Meta drives half of AI bot traffic, and Linux 7.3 sets a record. (0:00) - Intro (0:25) - Anthropic says...
Oct 18, 20268 minA leaked Anthropic draft bill draws fire, Anthropic reports a less junior workforce, Meta retracts AI-training terms, and Norway hands Xandr a record fine. (0:00) - Intro (0:27) - Leaked Anthropic Draft AI Regulatory...
Oct 17, 20269 minReplit says it has dropped Anthropic, Claude traces the origin of NIST's elliptic curve seeds, India reports rogue AI agents in live systems, and the FBI warns of AI-cloned candidates. (0:00) - Intro (0:28) - Replit is...
Oct 16, 20269 minAnthropic reports $16.8 billion in quarterly revenue as the FTC subpoenas it and OpenAI, METR gets employee-level access, and Meta ships an open model for Macs. (0:00) - Intro (0:26) - Anthropic tells investors...
Episode #137
Ad-delivered spyware, Microsoft phishing takedown, OpenAI state lawsuits - October 15, 2026
Oct 15, 20269 minCitizen Lab confirms spyware delivered through targeted ads, Microsoft takes down a phishing marketplace behind a billion scam messages, and eight states sue OpenAI over child safety. (0:00) - Intro (0:25) - How...
Oct 14, 20268 minAnthropic warns small AI models may soon self-replicate on cheap smart devices, an OpenAI employee is charged with bugging an executive conference room, and attackers chain three Ivanti VPN zero-days. (0:00) - Intro...
Oct 13, 20269 minMeta's first frontier model, OpenAI fires three safety researchers, an npm publishing flaw, hijacked supermarket freezers, and AI clearing every goal in an industrial-control lab. (0:00) - Intro (0:26) - Meta releases...
Oct 12, 20269 minWindows machines that skip updates could lose security fixes in 2027, a Chicago-area college could not get Flock to remove its cameras, and researchers find AI patching tools look better than they are. (0:00) - Intro...
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