This week’s kitchen sink for May 29, 2026 (with meme from Gates Dogfish) discusses cyber threats galore, the “AI tech job slaughter” & more!

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Here is the kitchen sink for May 29 of ten-ish stories that I didn’t get to this week, with a comment from me about each:

We’re up to 1,501 AI hallucination cases and counting. Here’s a tip for you: if you do use AI and it hallucinates, don’t delete your ChatGPT account to hide the evidence.

Note: Today is the last day for Rob Robinson’s 1H 2026 eDiscovery Business Confidence Survey, with more AI and business-related questions! Consider taking the survey here – it’s a terrific barometer on eDiscovery business trends!

What marketing confidence actually looks like: Speaking of Rob, if anybody knows what marketing confidence looks like, it’s him – he’s the best! A must-read for any marketing professional.

7-Eleven data breach exposes personal information of 185,000 people: “Oh, thank heaven” just became “Oh, bloody hell”. 😉 Have I Been Pwned analyzed the data leaked by the ShinyHunters cybercrime group and said the breach exposed the data of 185,300 people, including names, dates of birth, unique email addresses, phone numbers, and physical addresses.

Millions of AI agents imperiled by critical vulnerability in open source package: Millions of AI agents and tools around the world have been imperiled by a critical vulnerability in Starlette, an open-source framework that its developer says receives 325 million downloads per week. Thousands of other open-source projects are also vulnerable because they require Starlette to work. Gulp! 😟

Fake ChatGPT and Claude installers on GitHub are dropping Deno RAT malware: Let’s just get all the cyber threat stories out of the way, shall we? Attackers are hosting counterfeit installers and plugins on GitHub and SourceForge that pose as widely used software, including ChatGPT, Claude, AutoTune, Kontakt, Ableton Live, and ZENOLOGY. The downloads deliver a backdoor called DinDoor, which then loads a remote access Trojan built on the Deno JavaScript runtime, according to Malwarebytes. Yeesh.

This AI-coded malware apparently leaked its own GitHub private token: It reached 676 downloads before being unmasked, after the apparently AI-coded malware leaked its own GitHub private token. Somebody referred to it as “Infostealer/Malware-Slop”. Oopsie! 🤣

EEOC’s Tenacious Pursuit of Discovery Bore Fruit: Michael Berman’s coverage of this case on the EDRM blog discusses a terrific example of how to hold a party responsible for discovery deficiencies. The key quote: “GEM’s methodologies, search terms, dates (undisclosed), and custodians (also undisclosed) are manifestly unreasonable and EEOC has demonstrated with specific evidence that the resulting production is deficient.” Lots of details on how they did it in the post.

Amazon Launching AI Creators Fund, Picks Up Three Animated Prime Video Shows That Use Its New Tech: This week’s sign of the apocalypse? The company’s Amazon MGM Studios and Amazon Web Services divisions announced a GenAI Creators Fund that will offer filmmakers, digital creators and startups funding and access to Amazon’s AI tools in order to create “high-quality cinematic entertainment.” Pretty soon, even Leo the Lion will be AI-generated. 😉

YouTube to begin automatically labeling AI video: After debuting wishy-washy AI content labeling in 2024, Google will begin using more prominent labeling for AI videos, and the site will no longer rely entirely on uploaders to divulge when they use AI tools to create a video. This is a good thing. 😁

The AI tech job slaughter gets real: According to the article, of the 37,638 tech job cuts so far this year, 47.9% — almost half —  can be tracked back to AI. Followed by: “On the other hand, despite all the AI hype and hysteria, no one has yet proven that AI is, generally speaking, really all that helpful for businesses.” Making matters worse, it’s an open secret that IBM, Google, and Meta are having their employees train their AI replacements. As a popular meme puts it, workers are now “building your own coffin.” Don’t read this article if you’re already depressed, just sayin’. 😟

Nudge Security adds browser-based discovery for shadow AI agents: Nudge Security announced that its AI security platform offers discovery of shadow AI agents via the browser, extending its agent discovery capabilities to cover platforms that do not provide a public API for agent identity and inventory. Sounds like a good thing.  But why are they called “Nudge Security”? Sounds like a Monty Python skit. 🤣

Anthropic Is Now the Most Valuable AI Startup: Anthropic said Thursday it raised $65 billion in a deal that pegs its valuation at $900 billion, topping OpenAI’s most recent valuation of $730 billion. Pretty soon, we’ll be talking real money! 🤣

Hope you enjoyed the kitchen sink for May 29, 2026! Back next week with another edition!

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