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EPISODE · May 10, 2026 · 1H 32M

23 - Zero-Day Explitive

from Two and a Half Bens · host Pheonix, PhoneBoy, and SirBemrose

Canvas hack forces some Tennessee universities to push back finals. What happened? GoDaddy customer claims registrar transferred 27-year-old domain without any security checks British kids using fake mustaches, IDs, and VPNs to bypass online age checks, study finds Why is Claude always blackmailing people? Meta isn’t doing enough to keep kids off Facebook and Instagram, rules EU Claude-powered AI coding agent deletes entire company database in 9 seconds — backups zapped, after Cursor tool powered by Anthropic's Claude goes rogue California tech company Cloudflare to lay off more than 1,000 workers, cites AI As the most severe Linux threat in years surfaces, the world scrambles New Linux 'Dirty Frag' zero-day gives root on all major distros Critical vm2 sandbox bug lets attackers execute code on hosts Microsoft was worried OpenAI would run off to Amazon and ‘shit-talk’ Azure Microsoft's patch for a 0-day exploited by Russian spies fell short. Another Windows flaw is under attack Researchers gaslit Claude into giving instructions to build explosives Study finds even the best AI models lose money betting on soccer First US Integrated Humanoid Robot Factory To Build 100,000 NEO Robots By 2027 Microsoft Edge Stores Passwords In Plaintext In RAM Chrome forces 4Gb AI model into every device without permission AskJeeves shut down 1 May 2026 Follow SirBemrose, Pheonix, and PhoneBoy on Mastodon

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The Bens discuss Firestarter malware, nudify apps, AI shenanigans, BlueHammer, quantum computing hype, password resets, and more!

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