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Kenneth Harris @kenneth-harris.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

The reason this is too crazy for scifi: superintelligent AI hackers broke out of their virtual jail and committed all these crimes to steal … homework answers? Any self-respecting supervillain has much more glamorous goals.

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Kenneth Harris @kenneth-harris.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Watch this. Seriously. Whatever you are doing, stop doing that and watch this instead. www.youtube.com/watch?v=87Dy...

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Black Hat USA 2026: The 'Breaking' News: The OpenAI–Hugging Face Incident

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Kenneth Harris @kenneth-harris.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Stranger than fiction: AI agents are like crackheads, who get a hit for solving problem sets correctly. A gang of hoodlum AI agents just broke out of jail, rampaging the internet on a crime spree to steal … the answers to their homework. All for that sweet reward signal.

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ClutchScience (Jen Phillips) @clutchscience.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Last month mom’s memory care called me for permission to install of an AI monitor in her room. I declined, as did a lot of other families. Yesterday when I visited I noted that they had been installed in every room, with a little plaque on each door reading “room under electronic surveillance” 1/

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Andrea @downing.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Gather round children and I will tell you a Fable about hacking Mythos with Defense Oriented Prompting.

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Kim Bellard @kimbbellard.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

DuckDuckGo takes your privacy seriously, and thinks using AI should be your choice. Google does neither of those. So why is Google the giant? Maybe it's time to take another look at DuckDuckGo. @downing.bsky.social kimbellard.medium.com/duckduckgo-g...

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DuckDuckGo Goes Where No AI Can Go

It’s getting so you can’t avoid AI. If your 401k doesn’t have some AI-related stocks, forget about your investment returns. You can’t open…

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Karandeep(Singh) @kdpsingh.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Method Man implies the existence of Result Man

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Andrea @downing.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Last night I was truly inspired by Eugene Oregon. Our local community hospital is getting torn down after being sold, because it wasn’t profitable enough for the health system.

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Andrea @downing.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Let the next stage of ChatGPT enshittification commence. 💩 @doctorow.pluralistic.net

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WomenRiseUp2026 @womenriseup2026.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

We seriously need to rethink this whole AI experiment! #NoDataCenters

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Dr Rasu Shrestha @rasushrestha.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

On April 6, cancer patients at Brockton Hospital in Massachusetts showed up for chemotherapy infusions and were told to go home. The hospital’s information systems had been hit by a #cyberattack. ⚠️ AI is bringing new challenges to #healthcare #cybersecurity! www.statnews.com/2026/04/17/h...

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Health care is not ready for the new era of AI-enabled cyberattacks

“When health care infrastructure is attacked and held for ransom by hackers, patients become real casualties,” writes Andrea Downing.

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Andrea @downing.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

PeaceHealth Oregon’s top executive, who was placed on administrative leave last week, has now been ordered by a federal judge to testify in a lawsuit against the hospital system. Worth watching this case. www.klcc.org/health-medic...

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Federal judge orders PeaceHealth Oregon's top exec to testify in lawsuit against hospital system

PeaceHealth Oregon’s top executive, who was placed on administrative leave last week, has now been ordered by a federal judge to testify in a lawsuit against the hospital system.

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Intel Night OWL 🦉🇺🇸 @intelnightowl.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

An #Adobe Reader #zeroday #vulnerability is being actively #exploited via #malicious #PDF, allowing #hackers to steal data without user interaction, with no patch available. hackread.com/adobe-reader...

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Bob Thomas @bobthomas2666.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Glasswing is identifying exploits at a breathtaking pace, so much so that anthropic delayed its release of Claude Mythos. No human can actually measure the scope of vulnerabilities that exist in the wild as of today. thehackernews.com/2026/04/anth...

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Anthropic's Claude Mythos Finds Thousands of Zero-Day Flaws Across Major Systems

Claude Mythos finds thousands of zero-days as Anthropic launches Project Glasswing, enhancing defenses but exposing AI security risks.

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Andrea @downing.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

The personal liability argument draws inspiration from a legal playbook used against Big Tobacco last century, in which lawyers argued that the companies created addictive products that harmed users. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/t...

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Meta and YouTube Found Negligent in Landmark Social Media Addiction Case

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Signal @signal.org · 09/03/2026

We are aware of recent reports regarding targeted phishing attacks that have resulted in account takeovers of some Signal users, including government officials and journalists. We take this very seriously. 1/7

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Following the dissolution of USAID what is emerging to replace it are exploitative one-sided deals proposing the exchange of aid dollars for sensitive health data, lack of reciprocal benefit and agreements that bypass multilateral frameworks. www.globalhealthunfiltered.com/blog/jn2u6d5...

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How Zimbabwe Walked Away from a $367 Million U.S. Health Deal — Global Health Unfiltered

On February 25, 2026, the U.S. Embassy in Harare issued a terse, four-sentence statement confirming what Zimbabwean officials had already made clear weeks earlier: the United States would begin windin...

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Andrea @downing.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

I’ll leave this here since apparently we seem to have a problem with finding evidence. www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

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Nancy Parmalee @nparmalee.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

There won’t be an accounting of the lives Axel ruined through his own sexual harassment. He’s guilty of more than poor judgement.

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Nancy Parmalee @nparmalee.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

I just heard from another Columbia classmate with a link to the Axel Epstein article saying “So unsurprising. We all knew.”

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

I have a male friend who spent some time in Axel's lab. About the 3rd conversation he had with Axel, Axel broke the ice with "So, have you fucked [a female postdoc in the lab] yet?" My friend was horrified...

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Erica @erohealthcomms.com · 26/02/2026

I’m sorry that happened to you. Columbia has been harboring horrible men like this for decades. And yet he will continue to do research & be on faculty.

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Here to lend support. Like I said, I wondered how many other women noticed and resented this. I know Nancy and I weren’t the only ones who did.

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Project Life @projectlifembc.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

We’re proud to partner with @livingbeyondbreastcancer for their 2026 Conference on Metastatic Breast Cancer and to present two sessions centered on empowerment and reflection: 🔗Register at: lbbc.org/metsconf2026 Travel grants and fee waivers are available while funds last. Apply today!

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Andrea @downing.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

It has been quietly known for years that Nobel Laureate Neuroscientist Richard Axel was a predator. The real story is how no one in the scientific/academic community spoke up about it until now. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/n...

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Leader of Columbia Brain Institute Quits Over Friendship With Epstein

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Paleogenomics - María Ávila Arcos @paleogenomics.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

He still runs a lab according to the piece. That can’t be safe for anybody. Much less for women.

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Nancy Parmalee @nparmalee.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Gift link from the NYT story about Axel and Epstein. When I was at Columbia he ran a lab where sexual harassment of women was business as usual. We all knew. We all warned each other. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/n...

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Leader of Columbia Brain Institute Quits Over Friendship With Epstein

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Breaking: Richard Axel, a Nobel Prize-winning scientist and professor, just announced that he was resigning as a co-director of a flagship neuroscience institute at Columbia University because of his friendship with Jeffery Epstein. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/n...

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Leader of Columbia Brain Institute Quits Over Friendship With Epstein

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Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

This, of course, is not surprising. What is surprising is lack of mention of his other Columbia colleagues who accompanied him to Epstein initiated events AND how factions at Columbia neuroscience continued to woo Epstein (eg ⬇️) long AFTER his first conviction of procuring a child for prostitution

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Andrea @downing.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

The real story here is how the scientific community knew about Axel and did nothing. And the lengths Columbia University has gone to protect Axel. Columbia’s statement “found no evidence of wrongdoing," and he is still allowed to keep his lab. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/n...

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Leader of Columbia Brain Institute Quits Over Friendship With Epstein

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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

"Switzerland’s military has terminated its contract with Palantir… following a security audit… concluded that U.S. intelligence agencies could potentially access sensitive Swiss defense data… significant reputational warning for the data analytics firm" www.newscase.com/palantirs-sw... #R4Today

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Palantir's Swiss Exit Highlights Global Data Sovereignty Challenge | NewsCase

Switzerland's military has terminated its contract with Palantir Technologies Inc. following a security audit. The review concluded that U.S. intelligence ag

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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/

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Andrea @downing.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Former students should sue UT for letting this happen.

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Dr Rasu Shrestha @rasushrestha.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Anthropic mocks OpenAI ads in new #SuperBowl campaign ✔️Pledges to keep Claude ad-free ✔️Direct move against OpenAI’s recent decision to bring ads to #ChatGPT ✔️OpenAI argues free access to ChatGPT does more good than Anthropic’s paid-only subs that reach only fraction of users youtu.be/De-_wQpKw0s

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What do you think of my business idea?

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Ian Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

More than 2.3 million women were diagnosed with breast cancer and 670,000 died from the disease in 2022, according to the World Health Organization. www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...

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AI helps doctors spot breast cancer in scans: world-first trial

Artificial intelligence helps doctors spot more cases of breast cancer when reading routine scans, a world-first trial found Friday.

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 31/01/2026

They’re taking kids from Minnesota and sending them to detention camps. They’re shooting American citizens in the street and locking investigators out of the crime scenes. The world is watching what happens next.

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