Amazon is taking Perplexity AI to court over its agentic browser that shops on your behalf, raising urgent questions about who controls your online buying experience when bots do the heavy lifting.

• FFmpeg teaching assembly language for performance.
• The state of Nevada recovers after not paying ransom.
• A "rounding error" nets a clever attacker $128 million.
• Why would Chrome decide to start form-filling driver's licenses.
• The UK's six major telecom providers to block number spoofing.
• XSLT support being removed from browsers. Will anyone notice.
• Firefox introduced paid support options for organizations.
• Russia continues to fight against non-Russian Internet.
• Google acquires another Internet security company (Wiz).
• The EU to finally fix their cookie permission mistake.
• More countries drop Microsoft office for open choices.
• More countries question and examine Chinese made buses.
• Microsoft discovers some information leakage from LLMs.
• What does Amazon's lawsuit against Perplexity's agents mean for next-generation browsers

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1051-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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AI-powered web browsers are hitting the scene fast, but Steve and Leo unpack why these smart assistants could usher in an era of security chaos most users aren't ready for. Brace yourself for the wild risks, real-world scams, and the privacy questions no one else is asking.

• Secret radios discovered in Chinese-made busses.
• Edge & Chrome introduce LLM-based "scareware" blocking.
• A perfect example of what scareware blocking hopes to prevent.
• Aardvark: OpenAI's new vulnerability scanner for code.
• Italy to require age verification from 48 specific sites.
• Russia to require the use of only Russian software within Russia.
• Russia further clamping down on non-MAX Telegram and WhatsApp messaging.
• 187 new malicious NPM packages. Could AI help with that?
• BadCandy malware has infiltrated Australian Cisco routers.
• Github's 2025 report with the dominance of TypeScript.
• Windows 11 gets new extra-secure Admin Protection feature.
• A bunch of interesting feedback and listener thoughts.
• And why the new AI-driven web browsers may be bringing a whole new world of hurt

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1050-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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Just when you thought DNS cache poisoning was a thing of the past, Steve and Leo reveal why this 17-year-old bug is making a dramatic comeback—and why most DNS resolvers still can't manage high-quality random numbers after all this time.

• The unsuspected sucking power of a Linux-based robot vacuum.
• Russia to follow China's vulnerability reporting laws.
• A pair of Scattered Spider UK teen hackers arrested.
• Facebook,Instagram and TikTok violating the EU's DSA.
• Microsoft Teams bringing user WiFi tracking bypolicy.
• You backed up. That's great. Did you test that backup?
• Coveware reports all-time lowransomware payment rate.
• Ransomware negotiator reports how the bad guys get in.
• Lots of listener thoughts and feedback about NIST passwords.
• And against all reason and begging credulity, it seems we still haven't managed to put high-quality random number generators into our DNS resolvers.

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1049-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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