This week the timing did the talking. Two weeks ago Richard spent a segment encouraging people to try Anthropic's Fable 5 on their GitHub Copilot licences before the pricing changed. By the time that episode published, a US government export control directive had switched Fable off worldwide for every customer. So he comes back to it here, not to repeat the blog post he wrote in the meantime, but to draw out the bit that matters: every data sovereignty control any of us has ever built would have done precisely nothing to keep that model running. Keeping a backup model from another vendor does not help either when Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft all answer to the same export jurisdiction.

David opens the episode with two pieces from Microsoft Research. Vega uses zero knowledge proofs to let you prove a fact from a government credential, that you are over eighteen, say, without handing over the document itself, which becomes a great deal more interesting once agents are filling in forms on your behalf. Then MagenticLite and the Fara 1.5 model family, Microsoft Research's attempt to run capable agentic AI on small models locally, and David's own cynical read on why that local capability might not get pushed as hard as it could be when everyone's revenue depends on metered cloud tokens.

Richard also covers Akrites, the Linux Foundation effort to coordinate open source vulnerability disclosure now that AI has compressed discovery from weeks to minutes, and the new Frontier Transformation Engineer badge for anyone weighing up Microsoft AI certifications this year. Cyrus takes the second half with his usual sweep through Intune, Entra, Defender, and Purview, including endpoint DLP device scoping for burner devices, plus the RoguePlanet Defender zero day (CVE-2026-50656) that is public and unpatched, and Commando VM as a free Windows offensive lab for testing against Microsoft estates without breaching your contract with Microsoft.

Recorded Friday 27 June 2026. A heat wave, four fans, and no melted hosts.

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