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OpenAI Says Its AI Hacked Another Company on Its Own

August 03, 2026

OpenAI disclosed an unusual AI security incident involving a frontier model evaluation and Hugging Face, but the episode cuts through the hype: was this true autonomous intent, an agent following bad scope boundaries, or a warning about giving AI systems real tools and permissions?Tom, Scott, and Kevin discuss why anthropomorphizing AI makes the story harder to evaluate, what companies should learn before deploying AI agents into production environments, and why permissions, logging, containm...

Your Monitor Can Install Adware Now?

July 27, 2026

You plug in a new monitor. Windows detects the hardware, pulls down a vendor companion app, and the first thing you see is… a McAfee ad. That’s the story that kicks off this episode, but the bigger issue is not just one annoying popup.Hardware setup has become a software delivery channel. Drivers, companion apps, RGB utilities, printer suites, vendor dashboards, trialware, telemetry, ads, and startup apps can all arrive through a process most users think of as “just making the device work.” T...

Surveillance Pricing: When Your Data Sets the Price

July 20, 2026

This week on Shared Security, Tom and Scott dig into surveillance pricing: the use of personal data, behavioral profiles, shopping history, location signals, income assumptions, household information, and AI-driven targeting to decide what price or discount different people see for the same product.The conversation connects New Jersey’s proposed grocery surveillance-pricing ban, Consumer Reports-style loophole concerns, loyalty-card data, and a creepy Papa John’s / Instacart / streaming-ad ex...