A GitHub Copilot co-author read a Snowflake workflow and called it all-clear. Anyone with an account could open an issue whose title ran as a command and stole a Jira password. It sat open five days. Alex and Jordan also look at a twelve-day-old think tank built for chatbots to quote, Google buying a dead airline's email out of bankruptcy, and an AirTag that followed rare books to an Amazon scan warehouse. 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: 2026-08-18

In this episode

• Copilot / Snowflake — The tools sold as the check signed off. Another company's hunter found it.
• Hanover Institute — Funding is on the About page. The audience is the chatbot. ...