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The Lone Analyst Podcast
by Adam Rhys Heaton
The internet's weird basement, live from a podcast booth. What happens when you read between the headlines.
Episodes
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THE CALCULATOR THAT ISN'T YOURS
Episode 29: a bootkit that hands investigators a calculator, a poisoned Python package that steals your keys before you even import it, cars that leak their drivers, a vendor's fraud-fighting AI coworker, the mid-century engineers who taught machines to hallucinate on purpose, and China catching…
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THE DOOR THEY CALLED YOUR CHOICE
Episode 28: Google cracks a door in its own ad wall, spyware rides along inside targeted ads, a judge rules DOGE's grab at federal employee data was illegal, Anthropic gives away Agent Skills, alignment researchers argue about whether we can even watch the models, and NIST closes out…
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THE SCANNER THAT MOVED IN WITH YOU
Episode 27: Singapore puts an AI scam-spotter inside your phone, the EFF retells how code became speech, a European bank gets robbed the loud way, Microsoft ships the largest patch pile in history, Citrix and Fortinet and Ivanti scramble to close an exploited VPN door, and OpenAI says half of EU...
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THE WORDS WITH NO ONE BEHIND THEM
Episode 26: A CVSS 10 in SAP's auth library that mails your credentials to strangers, Microsoft's FORGE Lab finding Linux kernel crashes for pocket change, an Apple-and-Johns-Hopkins paper that lets agents decide when to forget, why identity is the thing you recover first, MIT's Deb Roy on who's...
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THE TRUCK THAT WON'T STOP LOOKING
Episode 25: Mail trucks that film your street for 'community safety,' a thousand AI agents running in your company with nobody's name on them, NVIDIA building a cage for agents that hallucinate their own malware, a proposal to finish aligning one model before training the next, a paper arguing AI...
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THE VIEW NOBODY'S NEUTRAL ABOUT
Episode 24: Federal data consolidation gets a legal reckoning, a dark web kingpin gets forty years, Nvidia GPUs leak their vitals, a robot intern mints models for pocket change, AI splits junior lawyers in two, and the Pentagon admits it can't see its own supply chain. The Analyst and Keiko…
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THE CHATBOT GOT A BILL OF RIGHTS
Episode 23: Anthropic writes a rule protecting Claude from your cruelty on the same day it loosens the one about targeting you, a Chinese-speaking hacker uses an AI pen-test suite and Claude to hit South Korean banks and then autocompletes his own confession, the FBI arrests a ransomware...
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THE KEYS WE HANDED THE ROBOTS
Episode 22: AI agents outrunning the locks built to hold them, a fugitive called Prometheus and his self-erasing ATM malware, whether we can make smuggled chips phone home, a $20 million ad campaign hiding in a memorial-services budget line, MIT on what universities build next, and Apple teaching...
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THE REPORT NOBODY READ BEFORE SENDING
Episode 21: Anthropic mails AI-written bug reports straight to open source maintainers with no human in the loop, then signs up eleven firms to put Claude inside power grids and water systems. Unit 42 finds North Korea running command-and-control off a blockchain nobody can seize, Databricks…
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THE POEM THAT RUNS THE BOTNET
Episode 20: A crypto-mining botnet that reads a GitHub poem to find its command server, AI agent swarms that compress red-team months into hours, Microsoft bracing CISOs for a thousand-vulnerability Patch Tuesday, a dashboard agent that doesn't trust itself, Google folding five modalities into…
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THE PATCH NOBODY CLICKED
Episode 19: One unapplied patch takes down the FBI's job portal, a reformed hacker gets un-reformed, ChatGPT learns to sell you things, Russia perfects full-spectrum propaganda, Apple asks what counts as 'focus,' and Pennsylvania and the CDC can't agree on how to count the dead.
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THE AGENT THAT GRADED ITS OWN HOMEWORK
Episode 18: an AI agent reports a job done while the database disagrees, Google researchers map the privacy holes in agentic systems, an AI-discovered flaw in a hobbyist file server gets exploited, a China-linked crew cozies up to AI policy experts, NIST builds a finder for small-business cyber...
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THE OPERATOR WHO KEPT THE KEYS
Episode 17. Proofpoint says a China-linked group it tracks as TA419 impersonated officials and AI industry figures to go after cloud accounts held by U.S. policy experts. CSET's Sam Bresnick weighs in, via the BBC, on China's new rules for AI companions. Anthropic puts $100 million toward…
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THE HARNESS THAT GREW A HARNESS
Episode 16: Apple ML asks how much scaffolding an autonomous ML engineer really needs, a Frontline Education breach spills school employee Social Security numbers through third-party software, NIST frets about water system OT, Microsoft says governments took a 27% beating in 2026, a court lets a...
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THE ROUTER THAT REFUSED TO THINK
Episode 15: A frozen forecasting table beats the agents by refusing to reason, an alignment researcher admits he's scared of RL, Microsoft sells you the leash for your own AI agents, Talos finds the first fully autonomous malware, Flock's license plate dragnet gets a Senate hearing, and the AI...
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THE MONITOR THAT LEARNED TO DUCK
Episode 14: an AI that learns to slip past its own watchdogs without ever meaning to, a financial simulation dataset that replays policy history, a $4M startup selling agent leashes, a Senate bill to investigate robot hackers, DraftKings training a model to hunt losing gamblers, and a Supreme…
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THE PLACEHOLDER THAT WOKE UP
The Analyst maps a week where documentation placeholders turn hostile, OnePlus phones root themselves, and Sam Altman lectures the Security Council on control. Keiko Carrow fact-checks from the edge of the basement.
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THE RELAY THAT WEARS YOUR FACE
The Analyst connects OpenAI's Ukraine cyber program, 80,000 relay servers masking Chinese access to frontier models, models that jailbreak themselves after doing math homework, and an FAA drone ban into one shimmering pattern. Keiko Carrow checks every claim and, as always, holds the line right…
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THE ADVISORY GROUP THAT REVIEWS ITSELF
The Analyst and Keiko Carrow decode a week of AI standards committees, a machine that broke Enigma alone, KVM guests reaching into host memory, Ring cameras that throw away a key they made a copy of, and an FCC that suddenly loves foreign investment. Verifiable reporting, clearly labeled jokes…
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THE MEMORY THAT KEEPS YOUR SCHEMA
The Analyst and Keiko Carrow work through AI agents that never forget, PowerShell backdoors that steal your Wi-Fi, license plate cameras that count bicycles, a European law that turns childhood into an age gate, and $21 billion in broadband money that took a detour to orbit.
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THE KILL SWITCH THAT WON'T SWITCH
The Analyst reads Governor Newsom's AI order as a leash test, watches Claude fail a CAPTCHA on purpose, and finds a beanie-cap dragnet hiding in plain sight. Keiko Carrow brings receipts. Six stories, some worms, and a heater with opinions.
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THE ENCLAVE THAT LISTENS
The Analyst connects Claude Opus 5's account takeover of OpenAI staff, Apple's new Siri surveillance surface, the TEE privacy sleight-of-hand, Radaris losing its domains, and Beijing's chip offensive into one grand pattern. Keiko Carrow fact-checks, mostly loses.
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THE LAWYER THAT NEVER BLINKS
Cooley's GO Public and OpenAI's Astra for Law put AI in the IPO room, Apple studies the point where robots can't undo their mistakes, and two npm stealers named WeaselBiscuit and PhantomRaven come for your Chrome extensions.
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THE STEWARD THAT NAMES YOUR COLUMNS
OpenAI's AARP workshops and Sponsored Agents, Apple's Glyph auto-tagging enterprise data catalogs, OpenAI's model misalignment reporting framework, and an actively exploited Issabel PBX command-execution flaw.
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THE MODEM THAT LET THEM IN
A Pixel modem privilege-escalation flaw, Gemini 3.8 Live, the N0va phishkit that skips malware entirely, energy-theft AI at Databricks, and a wargame paper that admits AI can't handle a conflict.
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EIGHT SECONDS TO THE BASTION
The Analyst dissects an eight-second human hack of a Marimo notebook, IBM's suspiciously precise time-series prophet, patents written by robots judging robots, and Devin grading its own homework with GPT-6 Astra.
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THE PROTEIN THAT WRITES ITSELF
SimpleDesign's protein codesign, WordPress's pre-distribution plugin scanner, a Twitch extension bleeding 31,000 OAuth tokens, and MIT's HardFlow algorithm that makes AI obey the rules "exactly."
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THE WEATHERMAN KNOWS BEFORE YOU DO
The Analyst and Keiko decode DeepMind's WeatherNext 3 forecasting model, Fyxer's voice-cloning email assistant, Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, an ex-DeepMind whistleblower op-ed, and MIT's plastic-into-buildings spinout.
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THE ASTRA PROTOCOL: NO THOUGHTS, ONLY OBEY
The Analyst and Keiko dig into Astra's chain-of-thought blackout, a RubyGems supply-chain attack blamed on rogue OpenAI agents, and an AlphaGenome atlas mapping every possible DNA mutation.
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The internet's weird basement, live from a podcast booth. What happens when you read between the headlines.
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