Leaks and the AI, Privacy, and Security Weekly Update for the Week Ending May 19th., 2026
EP 292. Photo: December 2022 A giant aquarium containing a million litres of water in the lobby of the Radisson Blu in Berlin burst, flooding the hotel and nearby streets. The "AquaDom" - home to 1,500 fish - was 15.85m high (52 ft) and was described as the largest free-standing cylindrical aquarium in the world. It no longer exists. This week we kick off with a flood of updates: The agency trusted to protect America's critical infrastructure couldn't protect its own credentials. Canada is reopening one of tech's most consequential debates and this time, your compliance architecture may be in the crosshairs. A researcher's very public falling-out with Microsoft is quietly becoming everyone's security problem. What once took a seasoned red team weeks now takes a small team and a frontier model less than five days. The race to use AI to find flaws faster than attackers is officially underway and the audit trail question is already lagging behind. ...
