Broken Face and the AI, Privacy, and Security Weekly Update for the Week ending July 21st 2026
EP 301. In this week's update: The world's biggest AI model repository just got broken into, and for the first time, nobody was typing the commands. OpenAI's flagship model has a filing cabinet problem, and the fix looks a lot like "please stop giving it root." A ransomware gang built malware that doesn't just lock your files - it goes hunting specifically for your AI models, because those are worth more. Somewhere on corporate networks right now, a calendar invite dated the year 2050 might be quietly talking to a spy. One missing digit on a license plate turned an innocent man's night into a month in jail - and the AI reading the plate never caught its own mistake. Britain just spent two years and £1.8 billion building a national digital ID scheme. It's about to be scrapped in a single afternoon. For years, the Pentagon's cloud support ran through China - and the paperwork Microsoft filed with the government never mentioned the word. And after ...
