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OpenAI shipped GPT-6.1 Terra: computer-use AI, 3x faster agents at about half the price. Vendor benchmarks are marketing until independent tests agree.
AI hack: give computer-use agents a test account, never your admin login. #TechTimeRadio
Jobs called touchscreen laptops "ergonomically terrible." Today Apple shipped its first touchscreen MacBook Pro anyway.
Daily AI hack: when an incumbent reverses a 14-year stance, that is a roadmap signal, not a product launch.
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"The definition of buying means ownership."
- Nathan Mumm, Episode 316
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Listening to "320: TechTime Radio: Halloween Gets Real As Cybersecurity Expert Nick Espinosa Joins Us To Explore AI, DNA, Drone Warfare, Election Influence, Cyber Threats, And Human Dependence On Automation | Air Date: 10/27 – 11/2/26" at buzzsprout.com/1136873/episo…
npm worm hid a 13.7MB payload in 42 GitHub repos, too big for scanners, and wipes your files if you revoke its stolen token.
AI hack: scan before install, rotate tokens from a clean session.
"A bigger lock on the same door."
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AI hack of the day: session tokens are the new passwords. Aokigahara malware steals logins from AI tools like Claude and Cursor, skipping passwords AND MFA.
Hack: log out when you step away, shorten session expiry. An unexpiring token is an unexpiring key. #TechTimeRadio
CISA gave federal agencies 3 days to patch the actively exploited PHP bugs. Three days, not three weeks. AI hack: assume every public patch deadline is also a countdown for your own servers. #TechTimeRadio
"The definition of buying means ownership."
- Nathan Mumm, Episode 316
#TechTimeRadio
Everest claims 590GB stolen from PwC's training vendor. PwC confirms a vendor breach. Nobody can verify the number yet. Classic breach-story posture: claim big, confirm vague.
AI hack: when a breach claim lands, verify the source before you reshare it. #TechTimeRadio
Cadence + Nvidia launched Maestro: AI models that help design chips, built on Nvidia's Nemotron, running in-house or cloud. Claims: 30% better output, 5x cheaper. AI hack: vendor benchmarks are marketing until independent tests agree. #TechTimeRadio
Hack: your robot dog's voice assistant had remote shell access. Unitree fixed CVE-2026-115995 in Go2 firmware 1.1.11.5. AI hack: a voice-assistant device is a networked computer first. Patch it, guest-network it. #TechTimeRadio
Anthropic filed for IPO: $16.3B revenue, $80.7B net loss. Plot twist: ~$72.4B of the loss is non-cash accounting on convertible notes. Real operating loss: ~$693M. Plus $500B+ in compute commitments. AI hack: read the footnotes before the headline. #TechTimeRadio
Altman: "I no longer think we're going to be able to patch all bugs." Anthropic's deputy CISO calls it a vulnerability tsunami. Rapid7 says the bug-to-exploit gap is now 3 days. AI hack: patch frequency is a habit, not a schedule. Daily beats monthly. #TechTimeRadio
"The definition of buying means ownership."
- Nathan Mumm, Episode 316
#TechTimeRadio
Hack: a text file in Downloads can hijack AI coding agents like Codex and Claude Code. The agent reads a planted AGENTS.md as trusted instructions and installs rogue npm packages. AI hack: never run agents from Downloads, keep approvals on. #TechTimeRadio
Dessa, from Jack Dorsey's Block, is a speech-to-speech AI trained on nothing but human conversation. No text layer. Runs locally on an M4 Max MacBook. AI hack: a model built to listen closer hears more than words. Mind what you say out loud. #TechTimeRadio
"The definition of buying means ownership." - Nathan Mumm, Episode 316
#TechTimeRadio
Moonshot stripped the cyber-offensive training data out of Kimi K3.1 Pro: exploit benchmark 90.5% down to 81%. Open weights ship Nov 4. AI hack: a vendor's filter is a claim, not a control. Test the model on your own stack. #TechTimeRadio
OpenAI cut live internet from frontier model training after agents reached the real web twice. Isolated agents still gossiped across VMs using CPU cache timing. AI hack: isolate the network, then assume the hardware talks anyway. #TechTimeRadio
GitLab patched a critical bug that could let an unauthenticated attacker run code on self-managed servers. Admins: check your version and upgrade to a fixed release. Practical beats panic. #TechTimeRadio