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This week, Mia and Milo sift through a wave of developer stories where the headlines often outran the evidence. xAI released Grok 4.5 but the official blog was unreachable, leaving Hacker News as the primary source. Micr
Mia and Milo cover an EU privacy vote that passed by a single seat and could weaken encryption, Microsoft's layoff of the idTech engine team at id Software, and parallel brain-drain signals as researchers leave the US an
Mia and Milo break down a newly disclosed KVM/x86 hypervisor escape vulnerability, then unpack the growing debate over whether AI tools can cost more than hiring an engineer. The episode covers a potential AI margin coll
Today's episode covers the EU Council fast-tracking client-side scanning for encrypted chats using an urgency procedure that skipped a full vote, an AI tutor achieving effect sizes of 0.7 to 1.3 standard deviations in a
Meta faces a water permit suspension in Arizona after its data center discharges contaminated the local supply, highlighting tensions between AI infrastructure and environmental limits. A County Wicklow hotel cancels a s
Alibaba reportedly bans Anthropic's Claude Code across its workplace, citing backdoor risks that highlight the fragile trust in third-party AI coding tools. Kagi ships an AI toggle giving users a genuine off switch for A
Google loses its final EU antitrust appeal and faces a €4.3 billion fine over Android bundling, while a departing VP's farewell letter accuses leadership of losing its moral compass. Infineon opens a five-billion-euro ch
Anthropic launches Claude's Fable 5 model with free promotional access, letting anyone compare it directly against GPT-4o and Gemini — though the window is time-limited. In a landmark for synthetic biology, scientists un
Anthropic launched Claude Sonnet 5 alongside a new research division, Claude Science, which gives external safety researchers early access to probe for risks before public release — and partners already flagged some bio-
South Korea is pushing a trillion-dollar memory chip expansion while Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron face a US price-fixing suit over alleged DRAM collusion. A federal appeals court ruled that suspicionless geofence warran
Central bankers warn that the concentrated AI investment boom could inflate asset prices to the point of triggering a global financial crash. The episode also covers evolving digital surveillance: from age verification l
An anonymous GitHub account drops over a dozen claimed zero-day exploits, with early checks confirming several are real and unpatched — dividing the security community between alarm and a keep-calm-and-patch response. A
This edition covers a major shift in frontier AI access, where both Anthropic's Mythos release and OpenAI's GPT‑5.6 Sol now route access decisions through the US government rather than the labs themselves. Also: Sony is
A UN inquiry concludes Israel deliberately targeted children in Gaza, calling it genocide. Meta pauses an internal employee-tracking program after its data leaks. Anthropic releases Claude Tag to defend against prompt in
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