Anti-Tech Extremism - 2026-06-01

This episode covers a Wired report on the rise of “anti-tech extremism” and growing public opposition to AI infrastructure projects, including debates over data centers, resource consumption, local communities, and government responses. The hosts also discuss AI coding assistants, model safety restrictions, and the evolving capabilities of large language models. Additional topics include Anthropic’s reported IPO plans and valuation, AI’s impact on the tech industry, and a conversation with David Bianco about AI-generated threat-hunting datasets and cybersecurity training. Join us LIVE on Mondays, 4:30pm EST. A weekly Podcast with BHIS and Friends. We discuss notable Infosec, and infosec-adjacent news stories gathered by our community news team. https://www.youtube.com/@BlackHillsInformationSecurity Chat with us on Discord! - https://discord.gg/bhis 🔴live-chat Chapters (00:00) - PreShow Banter™ — Solving this thing (03:52) - Anti-Tech Extremism - 2026-06-01 (08:08) - Threat Hunter Summit | June 17th 2026 (12:11) - Story # 1: US Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as AI Hatred Grows (20:54) - Story # 2: Anthropic files for its IPO (23:35) - Story # 3: FBI: Hackers Sending Operatives in Person to Insert USB Drives and Steal Data (29:41) - Story # 4: Microsoft Defender can now automatically isolate hacked endpoints (30:45) - Story # 5: Microsoft's GitHub bans security researcher who posted zero-day Windows exploits because company 'ruined their life' (36:54) - Story # 6: Cyber Force? Senator pushes to create service branch under the Army (42:10) - Story # 7: Are you ready? Anthropic preparing to release Mythos publicly (46:38) - Story # 8: Defense at AI speed: Microsoft’s new multi-model agentic security system tops leading industry benchmark (49:12) - Story # 9: Attackers Use LLM Agent for Post-Exploitation After Marimo CVE-2026-39987 Exploit (50:43) - Story # 10: Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked (56:02) - Story # 11: Kali365 phishing kit bypasses MFA and steals Microsoft logins (58:02) - Story # 12: Botnet of more than 17 million devices dismantled (01:01:13) - Story # 13: United flight returns midair after Bluetooth device name reportedly sparks security scare (01:03:49) - Story # 14: Inside the Charter data breach: hackers leak 13M+ customer data (01:04:37) - Introducing EvidenceForge: Synthetic security logs that don’t look (as) fake (01:10:04) - Threat Hunter Summit | June 17th 2026 (01:10:57) - Anti-Cast : How Hackers Attack CI/CD Pipelines w/ Phil Miller (01:11:36) - Cyber Threat Intelligence 101 2-Day Version (01:11:57) - Ralph's Practical Physical Exploitation Training & Tool Bundle Links 00:00:00 - PreShow Banter™ — Solving this thing 00:03:52 - Anti-Tech Extremism - 2026-06-01 00:08:08 - Threat Hunter Summit | June 17th 2026 00:12:11 - Story # 1: US Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as AI Hatred Grows 00:20:54 - Story # 2: Anthropic files for its IPO 00:23:36 - Story # 3: FBI: Hackers Sending Operatives in Person to Insert USB Drives and Steal Data 00:29:41 - Story # 4: Microsoft Defender can now automatically isolate hacked endpoints 00:30:46 - Story # 5: Microsoft’s GitHub bans security researcher who posted zero-day Windows exploits because company ‘ruined their life’ 00:36:54 - Story # 6: Cyber Force? Senator pushes to create service branch under the Army 00:42:11 - Story # 7: Are you ready? Anthropic preparing to release Mythos publicly 00:46:39 - Story # 8: Defense at AI speed: Microsoft’s new multi-model agentic security system tops leading industry benchmark 00:49:12 - Story # 9: Attackers Use LLM Agent for Post-Exploitation After Marimo CVE-2026-39987 Exploit 00:50:44 - Story # 10: Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked 00:56:03 - Story # 11: Kali365 phishing kit bypasses MFA and steals Microsoft logins 00:58:02 - Story # 12: Botnet of more than 17 million devices dismantled 01:01:13 - Story # 13: United flight returns midair after Bluetooth device name reportedly sparks security scare 01:03:50 - Story # 14: Inside the Charter data breach: hackers leak 13M+ customer data 01:04:38 - Introducing EvidenceForge: Synthetic security logs that don’t look (as) fake 01:10:05 - Threat Hunter Summit | June 17th 2026 01:10:57 - Anti-Cast : How Hackers Attack CI/CD Pipelines w/ Phil Miller 01:11:37 - Cyber Threat Intelligence 101 2-Day Version 01:11:58 - Ralph’s Practical Physical Exploitation Training & Tool BundleCreators & Guests Corey Ham - Host Ralph May - Host Shane Hartman - Guest Wade Wells - Host Ryan Poirier - Producer David Bianco - Guest Phil Miller - Guest Click here to watch this episode on YouTube. 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