An explosive supply chain hack in Light LLM nearly unleashed catastrophic malware across millions of AI systems, and it took a coder's quick thinking to catch it before it snowballed into disaster.

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Russia chooses to use home grown 5G mobile encryption.
Ukraine knew the webcam was installed by Russian spies.
Google moves quantum computing "Q Day" to 2029.
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More information about nasty ClickFix campaigns.
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The story behind the LiteLLM disaster that was averted.

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Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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