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Ed's heading to the 45Drives Creator Summit, the Unraid summer sale is live, and this month's community question is the one container you couldn't live without, plus the most underrated one nobody ever talks about.
Then it gets wild: malware that hides from AI scanners by pretending to be a nuclear weapon, Sony quietly deleting 551 films people actually paid for, GTA 6 shipping as nothing but a code in a box, PlayStation finishing off physical discs, and Amazon locking the Fire Stick behind a new OS.
On the security side: BitLocker weaponized as ransomware, the FortiBleed firewall credential leak, another npm supply chain attack, and an AUR malware flood hitting Arch users. Anthropic drops Claude Fable, Steam Machines are back as a downloadable OS, AMD silently removed Ryzen memory encryption, and ANPR cameras are now tracking your AirPods and your dog. Plus, YouTube's AI sweep is taking out real creators, and Ukraine's birds have started nesting in drone fibre spools.
Episode Takeaways
Unraid summer sale (ends 19 July) and the 45Drives Creator Summit
The one container you couldn't live without, and the most underrated one
Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 switched back on
Malware faking nuclear-weapon text to slip past AI code scanners
Sony deleting 551 purchased movies from PlayStation libraries
GTA 6's "physical" edition is just a download code in a box
PlayStation ending physical disc production in 2028
Amazon killing Fire Stick sideloading with the move to Vega OS
BitLocker turned into a ransomware weapon using built-in tools
FortiBleed exposes admin credentials for around 75,000 Fortinet firewalls
RubyGems and npm add a cooldown to blunt supply chain attacks
Arch's AUR flooded with 1,500+ malicious packages
Steam Machine priced, and SteamOS now installable on any PC
AMD quietly removing, then restoring, Ryzen memory encryption
Flock cameras that fingerprint your Bluetooth, AirPods and even pet chips
YouTube's AI cleanup catching genuine faceless creators
Ukraine's birds building nests from discarded drone fibre-optic cable

Chapters
00:00 Welcome, Unraid summer sale and the Creator Summit
05:27 The container you couldn't live without, and the most underrated
17:50 Anthropic's Fable 5 is back
20:56 Malware hides from AI scanners behind fake nuclear-weapon text
23:10 Sony deletes 551 purchased movies from PlayStation
29:20 GTA 6 is just a code in a box
35:15 PlayStation ends physical disc production in 2028
45:08 Steam Headless and the fixed-MAC container trick
48:30 Amazon kills Fire Stick sideloading with Vega OS
51:03 BitLocker turned into a ransomware weapon
54:43 FortiBleed: 75,000 Fortinet firewalls exposed
1:00:43 RubyGems and npm add a package cooldown
1:02:04 Arch's AUR flooded with malware
1:02:49 Steam Machine priced, and SteamOS goes downloadable
1:10:00 AMD pulls, then restores, Ryzen memory encryption
1:12:00 Flock cameras that track your Bluetooth, AirPods and dog
1:16:10 YouTube's AI cleanup hits real faceless creators
1:19:10 Light close: Ukraine's birds and drone fibre
1:20:23 Sign-off

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The hosts of Ed & Stefano Unleashed are passionate about home servers, open-source tech, and sometimes going off on tangents. The views and opinions expressed on the show are solely those of the hosts and guests and do not reflect the opinions, policies, or positions of Lime Technology, Inc. This show is intended for entertainment and informational purposes only. Listeners are encouraged to do their own research, experiment responsibly, and not hold the hosts accountable for any questionable home lab decisions. Most importantly, enjoy the show!

Welcome to the Unraid June Digest!

We kick things off with the annual UNRAID SUMMER SALE — LIVE NOW through July 19
⦿ 20% off Starter and Unleashed licenses
⦿ 30% off all upgrades to Unleashed
⦿ 50% off a second Starter or Unleashed license at checkout
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WE'RE HIRING — two new remote roles open now
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NEW COMMUNITY APPS PORTAL
Community Apps has a new home outside the WebGUI where you can browse the full catalog, save apps for later, and check out the new Monthly Spotlight section.

APP OF THE MONTH: Apprise100+ notification services (Slack, Discord, Telegram, Pushover, and more) as a native Unraid plugin.

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Unraid summer sale talk kicks things off before Ed and Stefano ask a simple but painful homelab question: if your main server died tomorrow, would you actually rebuild everything, or would you use it as a chance to clean house?

From there, we get into backups, appdata cleanup, homelab creep, Docker Compose, low-power rebuilds, Anthropic Fable/Mythos restrictions, AI hype cycles, developers booby-trapping code against AI, SSD-based browser fingerprinting, another npm supply chain attack, Chrome Manifest V2, Brave, Pi-hole, Google AI search, SanDisk SSDs, internal boot, AI data centre memory pressure, and whether Claude should ever be allowed to SSH into your Unraid server.

Episode Takeaways
Upcoming Unraid summer sale and store discounts

If your Unraid server died, what would you actually restore?

Homelab creep, old appdata and why a rebuild can be useful

Community Apps versus Docker Compose for rebuilding services

Low-power servers, local AI and the price of new workstation GPUs

Anthropic Fable/Mythos restrictions and what they might mean

AI hype cycles, GPT-2 comparisons and model safety marketing

Developers hiding instructions in code to block AI scrapers

Why AI hallucinations can become self-reinforcing

FROST, the browser attack that fingerprints activity through SSD timing

Red Hat npm packages hit by a credential-stealing supply chain attack

Chrome Manifest V2, uBlock Origin Lite, Brave and Pi-hole

Google AI search opt-outs and the “-AI” search trick

SanDisk SSDs, DRAM concerns, USB boot, internal boot and SATA DOMs

Why letting Claude SSH into Unraid is probably a bad idea

A United flight turns around after a Bluetooth device is named “bomb”

Chapters
00:00 Welcome, Unraid summer sale and server disaster recovery
00:56 If your Unraid server died tomorrow
02:03 Pterodactyl, containers and what not to rebuild
06:08 Backups, homelab creep and appdata cleanup
10:01 Low-power rebuilds and RTX Pro Blackwell pricing
11:32 Anthropic Fable/Mythos restrictions
14:07 Anthropic IPO questions and AI regulation
18:04 AI hype cycles, GPT-2 comparisons and AI credit cards
22:13 Spark PCs, Mythos and local AI agent machines
23:44 Developers booby-trap code against AI
26:12 Ubuntu FIPS, missing knowledge and hallucination loops
29:07 FROST, SSD fingerprinting from the browser
32:57 Red Hat npm supply chain compromise
37:39 Chrome Manifest V2 and ad blocking
41:28 Firefox, Brave, Pi-hole and browser choices
45:27 Riverside, Chrome-only services and browser lock-in
49:15 Google AI search opt-outs and the “-AI” trick
54:04 SanDisk SSDs and DRAM concerns
56:55 Internal boot, USB boot and SATA DOMs
1:02:14 SRAM, DRAM and AI data centre memory pressure
1:06:06 Should Claude SSH into Unraid?
1:10:18 Recovering broken VM XML and GPU passthrough
1:11:04 United flight turns around over a Bluetooth device name
1:15:18  Sign-off

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The hosts of Ed & Stefano Unleashed are passionate about home servers, open-source tech, and sometimes going off on tangents. The views and opinions expressed on the show are solely those of the hosts and guests and do not reflect the opinions, policies, or positions of Lime Technology, Inc. This show is intended for entertainment and informational purposes only. 
Listeners are encouraged to do their own research, experiment responsibly, and not hold the hosts accountable for any questionable home lab decisions. Most importantly, enjoy the show!

Everything that happened with Unraid in May 2026 in 5 minutes.
This month: Unraid 7.3.0 hits stable with Internal Boot, a wave of security releases keeps the team busy, the base OS future gets teased, we spotlight Open WebUI as App of the Month, and new sci-fi Unraid merch dropped!
Unraid 7.3.0 is Stable: Internal Boot is here. Run Unraid from NVMe, SSD, or eMMC — no USB stick required. Also includes a new onboarding wizard, Docker MAC address fixes, QEMU/libvirt updates, and more.
Unraid 7.3.1 also out: A focused maintenance update addressing a wave of CVEs alongside kernel, Docker, ZFS, and Slackware base package updates. Recommended for all 7.3 users.
Unraid 7.2.7: Still on 7.2.x? This one's for you. Security updates, kernel upgrade, Docker fixes, and package refreshes across core components.
OS Transition Teased: On Ed & Stefano Unleashed, it was hinted that Unraid may move away from Slackware. Debian? Fedora?
App of the Month: Open WebUI: A self-hosted chat interface for running large language models on your own hardware. Pair it with Ollama and run Llama, Mistral, Gemma and more. No cloud, no subscription. Ed walks through the full setup.
Merch of the Month: The "Disturbing Lack of Backups" laptop sleeve: a nod to a beloved space epic and a reminder of IT best practices.
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Unraid 7.3.0 stable has landed with internal boot and TPM licensing, 7.2.7 keeps the older branch protected with backported fixes, and we drop a quiet tease about a possible change to what's running underneath the OS.
From there it's a brutal month of wider security news including the YellowKey BitLocker situation, the Bambu Lab versus OrcaSlicer fight with Rossmann and ‪@GamersNexus‬ weighing in, the collapse of motherboard sales, DeepSeek V4 running locally, and the new wave of VPN-hostile legislation out of Utah and the EU.

Episode Takeaways
-Apprise lands as an official Unraid plugin, built in Go and developed with the upstream project
-Unraid 7.2.7 backports security fixes across 11 core packages on the older branch
-Unraid 7.3.0 stable brings internal boot, TPM-based licensing and Docker networking improvements
-A forward-looking tease on the Linux distribution sitting under Unraid
-Why you don't necessarily need to jump to the latest major release
-Copy Fail, a 732-byte Python script that gets root on most Linux distros since 2017
-The YellowKey BitLocker bypass that looks deliberate enough to be called a backdoor
-A 93-minute Bitwarden CLI compromise that injected malicious GitHub Actions workflows
-DAEMON Tools Lite installers backdoored across more than 100 countries
-Microsoft Edge loading your full password vault into plaintext memory at startup
-Motherboard sales collapse 25% as AI chips squeeze the enthusiast PC market
-Bambu Lab versus OrcaSlicer, with Rossmann, GamersNexus and the SFC weighing in
-Roku and TCL hit with a class action for bricking TVs through software updates
-DeepSeek V4 lands on Hugging Face and the local
-AI homelab crowd are running it
-Utah's SB 73 and the EU briefing that calls VPN use "a loophole that needs closing"
-A husky in Saskatchewan walks herself to doggy daycare

Chapters
00:00 Welcome back, Ed moves house & Stefano's at the Red Hat Summit
00:57 Apprise lands as an official Unraid plugin
05:41 Unraid 7.2.7 security backports
06:19 Unraid 7.3.0 stable, internal boot and TPM licensing
07:10 Merch spring sale
09:11 A tease about Unraid's base distribution switch
14:05 Community talking point: do you have to be on the latest major release?
18:30 Copy Fail kernel CVE
19:15 Dirty Frag
19:29 YellowKey, the BitLocker backdoor
22:55 Bitwarden CLI supply chain compromise
25:04 DAEMON Tools Lite trojanised installers
34:43 Microsoft Edge stored passwords in plaintext memory
37:51 Motherboard sales collapse 25%
41:03 Bambu Lab versus OrcaSlicer, Rossmann and GamersNexus jump in
46:26 Roku and TCL bricked-TV class action
50:26 DeepSeek V4 lands on Hugging Face
52:02 VPNs in the crosshairs, Utah SB 73 and the EU
53:36 A husky walks herself to doggy daycare
55:18 Sign-off

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The hosts of Ed & Stefano Unleashed are passionate about home servers, open-source tech, and sometimes going off on tangents.
The views and opinions expressed on the show are solely those of the hosts and guests and do not reflect the opinions, policies, or positions of Lime Technology, Inc. This show is intended for entertainment and informational purposes only.
Listeners are encouraged to do their own research, experiment responsibly, and not hold the hosts accountable for any questionable home lab decisions.
Most importantly, enjoy the show!