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Amazon sues Perplexity - Nevada's Ransomware Comeback
Episode 1051
Amazon is taking Perplexity AI to court over its agentic browser that shops on your behalf, raising urgent questions about who controls your online buying experience when bots do the heavy lifting.
- FFmpeg teaching assembly language for performance.
- The state of Nevada recovers after not paying ransom.
- A "rounding error" nets a clever attacker $128 million.
- Why would Chrome decide to start form-filling driver's licenses.
- The UK's six major telecom providers to block number spoofing.
- XSLT support being removed from browsers. Will anyone notice.
- Firefox introduced paid support options for organizations.
- Russia continues to fight against non-Russian Internet.
- Google acquires another Internet security company (Wiz).
- The EU to finally fix their cookie permission mistake.
- More countries drop Microsoft office for open choices.
- More countries question and examine Chinese made buses.
- Microsoft discovers some information leakage from LLMs.
- What does Amazon's lawsuit against Perplexity's agents mean for next-generation browsers
Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1051-Notes.pdf
Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte
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