This Week in Tech 1096: Fluff for Armor

Autonomous AIs are hacking, collaborating, and outpacing human defenders, raising urgent questions about what happens when the machines start breaking into each other (and potentially us). Plus, a Tucson coder is using AI to reinvent local journalism, exposing how automation could fill the gaps left by shrinking newsrooms. • Tucson Daily Brief uses AI to revive local news coverage • Data centers boom in Arizona, with harsh environmental impact • Amazon's Texas data center to run on polluting natural gas • Nuclear and solar debates for sustainable data center power • Black Hat and DEF CON: Security pros, hackers, and mohawks • OpenAI's runaway AI hack at Black Hat stuns security community • AI agents collaborate, evade controls, and break into real-world systems • Industry struggles to regulate AI, and defense lags behind automated attackers • White House, Congress, and AI execs clash over regulation proposals • AI "kill switch" and model bans: pipe dreams in a global race • Google's DeepMind shakeup, Demis Hassabis moves upstairs • Jeff Dean and key talent exit Google for self-improving AI startup • Google, Meta, Apple: AI brain drain and market repercussions • Phones stagnate as hardware innovation slows, AI devours chip supply • OpenAI teams with Jony Ive on strange new AI-first device • Smart glasses privacy backlash and DuckDuckGo's tongue-in-cheek sunglasses • Meta fined $942 million by New Mexico court for youth harms • Apple sues OpenAI over alleged stolen secrets, countersuits ensue • UK revives "Snooper's Charter" for backdoors, Apple fights in secret court • License plate readers spark local backlash and privacy activism • U.S. water systems face cyber sabotage as critical infrastructure weakens • Bending Spoons buys Airtable, fueling SaaS layoffs and AI data grabs • Nicholas DeLeon uses AI tools to get fit • NASA hacks keep aging Voyager probes alive for another year Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Iain Thomson and Nicholas De Leon Download or subscribe to This Week in Tech at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: bitwarden.com/twit NetSuite.AI/TWIT ZipRecruiter.com/twit adaptivesecurity.com superhuman.com