Eric tracks hack attempts and Jon trades blood for pinball. Shai-Hulud is back, Calendly invite scam, Rust for good and evil. Giving Machines for the holiday season and Spores in Space!

• 0:00 - Introduction
• 13:48 - Shai-Hulud is back
• 16:59 - Calendly Invite Scam
• 19:11 - Rust for Good and Evil
• 24:33 - Giving Machines
• 28:00 - Spores in Space

Eric and Jon prep for Thanksgiving. Will blue and green bubbles coexist in peace and harmony? Will the airlines stop sharing flight data with the IRS? And is monitoring every car, everywhere, at all times 'unreasonable search'? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Have some Ozone and a Honey chaser.

• 0:00 - Intro
• 8:11 - QuickShare + AirDrop
• 12:14 - Travel Intelligence Program
• 18:34 - 'Suspicious' Travel Patterns
• 25:16 - 5th Smallest (is good?)
• 32:40 - Honey Tasting

This week's roundup features a mix of personal updates, major tech news, and scientific intrigue. Eric is super late to the Minecraft party while Jon gets his bushes trimmed. In tech, a massive WhatsApp security flaw exposed data for up to 3.5 billion users, while Google announced the release of Gemini 3 Pro and the new "Deep Think" reasoning mode. Cybersecurity concerns also rose with the global spread of the TamperedChef malware, delivered via malvertising and fake software installers. On the innovation front, MIT researchers developed a new lipid nanoparticle that dramatically enhances the effectiveness of mRNA vaccines, promising cost savings and better seasonal flu shots. Finally, in a fascinating natural observation, a wild gray wolf in British Columbia was documented using a buoy line to haul a crab trap ashore, potentially marking the first documented tool use by a wild canid. This summary of today's podcast brought to you (mostly) by Gemini 3.

• 0:00 - Introduction
• 9:10 - Nanoparticle mRNA
• 12:36 - Gemini 3
• 17:24 - Tampered Chef
• 22:48 - Nanoparticle mRNA
• 26:48 - Smart Wolves

Eric goes to Nateland and Jon goes flying. Another javascript worm, and automatic license plate reader records declared public in Washington. For fun we have a repo of annual security reports and Jon suffering memory loss and search ineptitude, but fig wasps are still cool.

• 0:00 - Intro
• 17:20 - Glassworm
• 21:50 - Conclusions of Law
• 28:55 - Nate Bargatze
• 29:26 - Annual Security Repo(rts)
• 30:43 - Shy figs

Eric drills a door and Jon disagrees and commits to an electrical fix. Aisuru makes the Cloudflare Top 10. The Louvre had a bad week, while furniture trucks had a good one. Gemini used to write malware. Rivers in Alaska are orange.

• 0:00 - Introduction
• 14:11 - Aisuru makes the Top 10
• 16:25 - Louvre Password
• 20:03 - PROMPTFLUX
• 24:12 - The Böcker Agilo
• 26:45 - The Pink Panther
• 28:26 - Orange Rivers in Alaska

Remote Eric Assist and Jon enjoys ... hockey(??). More prompt injections, the most damaging UK cyber event (so far), and residential proxy use for fun and training data. Will Agentic AI bring back micropayments, and how is Costco's pumpkin pie so good?

• 0:00 - Intro
• 10:47 - Death, Taxes, and Prompt Injections
• 16:56 - Economically Damaging
• 19:32 - Veneer of Legitimacy
• 24:34 - Original Sin (??)
• 29:49 - Six Million Pies

Travel Adventures, AI Advancements (and Challenges), Satellite Security Concerns, Machine Learning Insights, and De-Extinction Efforts for the Giant Moa.

• 0:00 - Introduction
• 4:49 - AI-Infused Siri?
• 9:15 - Leaky Satellites?
• 14:41 - Reinforcement Learning?
• 20:02 - Giant Moa!

Family weekends for Eric and Jon. A new side channel for pixel sniffing on Android, malware abusing github + steganography for configuration, and Apple doubles many of its security bounties. For fun, long live(d) the naked mole rat, and warp drives move from the irrational (negative energy ftw!) to the theoretically possible.

• 0:00 - Intro
• 8:55 - Pixnapping
• 12:59 - Asteroth Steganography
• 16:16 - Apple Security Bounties Doubling
• 23:08 - Naked Eusocial Mole Rats
• 27:15 - Warp Drive Maths