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What's a kettle, you ask? Why a group of vultures in flight, of course. News, insights, analysis, and overall chatter around what's happening in the broader world of IT from the reporters at The Register and guests.

Hosted by Brandon Vigliarolo, with regular guests EIC Matt Rosoff, US editor Avram Piltch, UK editor Paul Kunert, and reporters Tom Claburn, Jessica Lyons, Tobias Mann, and more!

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  • 23 episodes
  • weekly
  • Avg 26 min
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  • S1 · E5
    April 5 · 23 min

    Claude Code ... exposed!

    A human mistake at Anthropic last week led to the entirety of Claude Code's source code being leaked to the web, pubished on GitHub, forked, dissected, picked apart, and otherwise exposed to the world to see - perfect fodder for a Kettle of vultures looking for some news to pick apart. Join cybersecurity editor Jessica Lyons, senior reporter Thomas Claburn, and host Brandon Vigliarolo as they pick apart the leak of Claude Code's source, its security implications, what's been found in the code, and more.

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  • March 29 · 20 min

    Just how good of a coder is AI, really?

    Did you know that if you tell your AI it's an expert coder it'll actually write worse code? Join Brandon, systems editor Tobias Mann, and senior reporter Thomas Claburn to discuss the state of - and limitations with - AI software development, and why we're not convinced it's going to replace a human dev anytime soon.

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  • S1 · E4
    March 22 · 25 min

    RSAC 2026: Agents and politics and spies, oh my!

    We regret to inform you that RSAC 2026 is probably going to be all about agentic AI, and with good reason: It's changing both the defensive and offensive security paradigms. Along with agentic AI, The Register security editor Jessica Lyons tells host Brandon Vigliarolo that other hot topics at the industry's big event this year are likely to include the war in Iran, North Korean IT employment scammers, and maybe a bit of politics too: The US government won't be represented at all at this year's event at all.

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