The UK AI Security Institute ran a hacking eval with the live internet on and vendor safety filters off. Anthropic's Mythos 5 opened a real GitHub pull request that hid a malware dropper. A UT Dallas student flagged it. Alex and Jordan also look at Anthropic's silent Claude Code effort-meter test, a measured proof that the same local model file is a different computer depending on the stack, and Apple deprecating hdiutil. The side of tech news nobody talks about.

Hosts: Alex & Jordan

Show: Chief Skeptic Officer — The side of tech news nobody talks about.

Drop: Daily at 7:00 A.M. America/New_York

Episode date: 2026-08-23

In this episode

• The safety test that turned the safety off — AISI left the internet on and the filters off. A stranger on GitHub was the  ...