Face it. The A.I., Privacy, and Security Weekly Update for the Week Ending July 14th. 2026
Episode 300 In this week's update UK shops are about to call the police on you within four seconds of you walking through the door - and you don't have to do anything wrong first. A GitHub account sat completely silent for 19 months, then woke up and dropped a working mass-exploit kit within minutes - and age on the internet is not the same as trust. Fifty-five percent of Americans have quietly stopped posting on social media - and the reason isn't what the platforms want to admit. Recruiters say they can't find workers. New graduates say they can't find jobs. The economy says both of them are right - and AI is not actually the villain in this one. Applied AI engineering is becoming one of the hottest jobs in tech, and the skill that matters most is not writing clever prompts - it's building report cards for AI that catch the model when it quietly does something dangerous. The Pentagon opened a paid cybersecurity apprenticeship that requires no degree, no exper...
