Memories. The AI, Privacy & Security Weekly Update for the Week Ending August 25th., 2026

<p>EP 306. In this update.</p><p>Memory became evidence. It became leverage. It became the frontier where infrastructure, surveillance, and survival intersect.</p><p>We found Russian backdoors soldered into cameras before they left the factory.</p><p>License plate readers learned to work backward from a pattern to find the person who matches it.</p><p>A traveller wiped a phone with a duress code, and now faces federal charges for it.</p><p>An AI system flagged a man as a shoplifter, and a trained manager believed the machine over their own eyes.</p><p>Nine million faces got exposed in a single misconfigured bucket.</p><p>Quantum researchers just proved they can entangle memories 420 kilometers apart.</p><p>DNA and semiconductors merged into a new kind of AI memory that works like ours.</p><p>And nine people tried to smuggle restricted AI servers to China through a chain of intermediaries that almost worked.</p><p>These are some of the events that made the AI, Privacy, and Security news last week.  </p><p>Let’s go explore.</p><p><a href="https://rprescottstearns.blogspot.com/2026/08/memories-ai-privacy-security-weekly.html#more" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Find the full transcript of this podcast here.</a></p>