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COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- Grammy Award winner Kacey Musgraves will return to central Ohio this fall as part of her newly announced North American tour, according to an announcement on Wednesday. Musgraves is scheduled to perform on Sept. 9 at the Schottenstein Center as part of the "Middle of Nowhere" tour. The arena run kicks [...]

LOGAN, Ohio (WCMH) — Federal court documents detail the arrest of a two-time convicted sex offender who was found in southeastern Ohio with a girl reported missing over from North Carolina. According to the federal prosecutors, the man reportedly told deputies that the 12-year-old was a friend, called her a midget, attempted to type a [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- Ohio's new cannabis law adds criminal punishments for giving marijuana to anyone under the age of 21. Senate Bill 56, a new Ohio law with sweeping changes to cannabis use, adjusted the law to create harsher punishments for distributing cannabis to someone underage. Now, knowingly giving an underage person cannabis can [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – The state is set to call more witnesses on Wednesday in the second murder trial for Jason Meade, a former Franklin County sheriff’s deputy who fatally shot Casey Goodson Jr. in 2020.  Meade, 47, is charged with murder and reckless homicide in connection with the death of Goodson, 23.  He is [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- Ohio lawmakers have introduced legislation aimed at regulating how artificial intelligence is used in workplace decisions, as part of a broader push to address emerging technologies at the Statehouse. House Bill 828, introduced on April 21 by Reps. Ismail Mohamed (D-Columbus) and Veronica Sims (D-Akron), would establish requirements for employers using [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- Former Ohio State President Ted Carter's financial records sparked debate online, but his fiscal requests far exceeded his actual spending. According to university records, Carter spent $57,352.04 in university money on travel and other expenses between Jan. 1, 2025, and Carter's abrupt resignation on March 8 of this year. Records show [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- Rising gas prices have been hurting drivers all over Central Ohio, but they’re really putting a dent in the wallets of those who drive for a living. Amid already high prices, the cost of fuel skyrocketed overnight. “Shock is really what I’m feeling,” said Uber Driver Ade Mahadzir. The average price [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – Alzheimer’s disease kills more Americans each year than breast cancer and prostate cancer combined, and one in three older Americans dies with some form of dementia. Those troubling statistics brought hundreds of people to the Ohio Statehouse on Tuesday for Alzheimer’s Advocacy Day, and the big push is for House Bill [...]

What if your engineering calculations secretly sabotaged your nation's best efforts? This week, we reveal how a newly uncovered 21-year-old NSA rootkit quietly corrupted scientific research in hostile states and why it changes everything you think you know about cyberwarfare.

• Bitwarden's CLI hit with a supply-chain attack.
• Commercial routers in Iran fail shortly before the war.
• Meta logging all employee activity to train replacement AI.
• GRC's DNS Benchmark Release 5.
• Two miscellaneous AI thoughts.
• A bunch of terrific listener feedback.
• Unraveling the diabolical history of "fast16.sys"

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1076-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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DUBLIN, Ohio (WCMH) -- Dublin City Schools has restarted its high school redistricting process, with board members working to finalize the criteria that will guide new attendance boundaries for the district’s three high schools.  At a school board meeting on Monday, members discussed potential priorities for the new map, including proximity, future growth and minimizing [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — In an effort to prevent accidental shootings, Columbus Public Health has given thousands of community members gun lock boxes over the past few years. The program started in March of 2023, according to Columbus Public Health Commissioner Dr. Mysheika Roberts. “We really started looking at the data and hearing and seeing [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- State lawmakers are considering how Ohio communities should handle situations where an elected official is called up for military service. Earlier this month, state Reps. David Thomas (R-Jefferson) and Ty Mathews (R-Findlay) introduced House Bill 823, called the Military Service Elected Office Protection Act. That legislation would lay down some new [...]

Restaurant chain Smokey Bones has closed both of its remaining Columbus-area locations.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- The popular gaming site Roblox is rolling out new safeguards to protect its youngest users. Internet crime experts call it a good step forward, but warn parents that it’s not a full safety net. Hundreds of millions of people use Roblox each month, and many of those are children. Elize Jacobs, the vice president of safety product policy for [...]