Faster Than the Fix. The AI, Privacy, and Security Weekly Update.
EP 317. Every security team has a fix. Most of them arrive a little too late. This week, Google built chips designed to keep sensitive data encrypted even while AI is using it. Motorola shipped a $1,600 phone that promises to drop Google's services entirely. A PwC security chief warned companies against buying fifty AI security tools that nobody knows how to configure. An AI agent spent two weeks inside a European telecom, and when one tool got blocked, it wrote a new one on the fly. European regulators decided that the companies selling us our technology are now national security problems. CrowdStrike unveiled a kill switch for rogue AI agents. A Linux flaw let attackers log in with a password so long it broke the check, and the password they used was one nobody had set. And the Federal Aviation Administration, in the middle of replacing its floppy disks, discovered that parts of its supply chain now run on eBay. Attackers are moving faster tha...
