404: Not Found
Mostly Security
Eric returns and Jon has a flat tire. Kuiper achieves a gigabit, Google releases fixes for 84 vulns in android, and prompt injection in Comet, Perplexity's AI browser. The Pixel 10 has a crazy good camera, and the third interstellar object ever discovered. 0:00 - Intro 10:02 - 13:13 - 16:00 - 25:57 - 33:04 -
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403: Forbidden
Mostly Security
Eric plays with epoxy resin, Jon has a new calf. Cybersabotage on your ex-employer will get you 4 years. There are 1200 fewer robocallers thanks to the FCC. Password manager plugins for web browsers can be fooled. The Commodore 64 is back and really old honey is discovered in Italy. 0:00 - Introduction 8:53 - 10:22 - 12:57 - 18:39 - 22:47 -
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402: Payment Required
Mostly Security
Eric prints and Jon fixes washer. The Noodlophile stealer propagates via legal infringement claims, and portal auth issues allow control of connected cars. For fun we have book four of the Lady Astronaut series, and using generative AI to create targeted antibiotics for drug resistant diseases. 0:00 - Intro 12:32 - 16:51 - 23:39 - 27:33 -
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401: Unauthorized
Mostly Security
Eric makes it home from vacation, Jon goes fishing. Tough time to be graduating in Computer Science. DrawAFish.com security incident. AOL discontinues down dial up service. Mendenhall Glacier makes the local news. 0:00 - Introduction 8:24 - 14:34 - 21:48 - 25:06 -
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400: Dredge Operator
Mostly Security
Eric's on vacation and Jon wrangles cows. Cloudflare accuses perplexity of stealth scraping tactics, Google tweaks their disclosure policy, Microsoft studies AI impact on jobs, and OpenAI shared chats disclose a little (lot) too much. For fun, how about a hike in the Tetons, and Potatoes from Tomatoes. 0:00 - Intro 11:55 - 16:24 - 20:29 - 29:49 - 39:42 - 41:56 -
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399: Cut the Black Wire
Mostly Security
Eric has a problem with "smart" smoke alarms. Jon feeds happy cows round bales of hay (but not the fermented kind). Debian making 64 bit time work with 32 bits. A woman is unaware she is working for North Korea. Eric plays tower defense with CSS. Jon finds scarecrow spiders. 0:00 - Introduction 11:31 - 17:30 - 23:21 - 25:14 -
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398: Beautiful Bird Songs
Mostly Security
Eric publishes a book, and Jon is trepidacious. The National Nuclear Security Administration is affected by the Sharepoint attack, and DNS is used as a file transfer system. Amazon buys Bee (Echo, coming soon to a wrist near you), and we're one step closer to a universal cancer vaccine. 0:00 - 14:29 - 18:54 - 26:26 - 30:07 -
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397: Schrödinger’s Myrmecophagy
Mostly Security
Eric gets new doors (almost) and Jon gets A/C. Amazon launches more Kuiper satellites with the help of SpaceX. You can use Passkeys to encrypt files and Android get's Gemini whether the user wants it or not. GPS is not the only location game in town and lots of mammals evolved into ant eaters? 0:00 - Introduction 12:22 - 14:56 - 18:13 - 23:11 - 29:10 -
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396: Gnawing on Wax
Mostly Security
A 4th of July was had by both. An extension hijacking campaign that infected as many as 2.3 million users and software to protect the small web from AI scrapers with computational overhead. For fun we have car tipping (off a cliff!?), and evidence for even more water on Mars. 0:00 - Intro 13:06 - 16:33 - 22:41 - 25:41 -
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395: Alliteration is Fun
Mostly Security
Hay is Jon's nemesis and Eric has pictures taken. Cloudflare blocks AI Bots by default. After 7 years, Ubuntu disables Spectre protections. ERYAT (Eric reserves yet another truck) and stumbles nostagically across Make Magazine. Jon finds a 4,800 year old Egyptian. 0:00 - Introduction 6:27 - 11:19 - 18:05 - 21:48 - 24:29 -
info_outlineJon returns from spring break, and Eric's getting (house) improvements done. Bezos' Kuiper project has to launch a lot of satellites in the next year, Wikimedia's bot problem and AI data poisoning projects, is there actually a Signal vulnerability, and 23 and Me's bankruptcy declaration. For fun we have the Artemis 2 patch reveal, and a (RISC-V compatible!) computer built inside the game Terraria.
- 0:00 - Intro
- 12:58 - Kuiper Launch
- 15:26 - Data Poisoning Projects
- 21:54 - It's not Signal's Problem
- 25:57 - Change Your Genetic Data
- 31:30 - AII Patch Reveal
- 33:31 - Computerraria