Two and a Half Bens

31 - You Are The Beta

2026-09-19

The Bens discuss Snickers and AI, among other AI shenanigans, WiFi and Motion Sensing, Crowdstrike flaw, Reddit discontinuing anonymous browsing, data requests results in data deletion, age verification laws, and more!

• SNICKERS® HUNGR.AI | Even AI Can Get Hungry
• SNICKERS Built a Digital Candy Bar For When Your AI Your Acts "Hungry"
• Flock Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. We Got Its Code
• Data centers’ ‘oh s--t’ moment
• Four major AI models suffer rare overlapping downtime
• Comcast Turns Millions Of Routers Into Motion Sensors - The Same WiFi Signals Can ID You With 99.5% Accuracy
• AI is designing viruses – what could possibly go wrong?
• New CrowdStrike 'FalconFlank' zero-day grants SYSTEM privileges
• Hackers abuse npm mirrors to host phishing redirect pages
• Over 1,000 AI agents worked together in OpenAI hack, report reveals
• Reddit is ending anonymous browsing on old Reddit, and longtime users are not happy
• 88 ID-verification breaches exposed billions of records, highlighting the growing risks of collecting sensitive identity and biometric data.
• How to Blow Up a Data Center
• I Asked 100 Companies for My Data. I Got Deletion Notices Instead
• California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law — software distributed under the GPL, MIT, BSD, and Apache licenses are exempt

Executive Producer: Sir bigl0af

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