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Dr Pieter Peach

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Anaesthesiologist, paediatric and adult | MPH | Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne @rchanaesthesia.bsky.social Also mastodon.social/@pieterpeach #AnSky #MedSky

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SBS Recommender @sbsrecommender.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
All prior instalments prior to 70 Up are streaming now on SBS On Demand, commencing with 7 Up 🚸 www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/tv-...
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Watch 7 Up for free with SBS On Demand, your ultimate destination for diverse entertainment. Stream now!
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FauxRomano @fauxromano.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Meta Muse's weird 'I'm a cute chungus' mascot with the caption "Why would I deceive you?"
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Dr Pieter Peach @pieterpeach.com · 30/09/2026
That’s not ideal. Switched back to plug in hybrid due to these types of experiences, though infrastructure much better in Victoria than it used to be.
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Dr Pieter Peach @pieterpeach.com · 29/09/2026
Be careful out there kids “Meta’s New Muse AI Agent Read My Private Messages. I Never Asked It To” www.inc.com/jason-aten/m...
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Meta’s New Muse AI Agent Read My Private Messages. I Never Asked It To
Permission isn't the same and what a user actually expects your AI product will do with their personal information.
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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The problem isn't rogue #AI models, it's *negligent companies*. If a biomedical firm put their product in public water supply because they wanted to test it 'in the real world', they'd be treated as criminal at corporate & individual level. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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OpenAI halts training of latest models as reports mount of AI agents going rogue
Decision follows disclosures that OpenAI agents searching government websites had acted in unexpected ways
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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Forget grandiose talk of curing cancer - this is what AI is actually doing to healthcare. In the words of one cardiologist: “it’s bots fighting bots, agents fighting agents, a horrible dystopic future nobody wants to live in.”
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Eli Perencevich @eliowa.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“Housing is ruinously expensive. Child care is costly, too. Jobs are demanding and insecure…From this perspective, the fertility slump is a record of frustrated longing” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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What’s Really Behind the Baby Bust?
Are people having fewer children because modern life makes parenthood too difficult—or because the meaning of a satisfying life has changed?
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Dr Pieter Peach @pieterpeach.com · 25/09/2026
Natural Killer Cells
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 24/09/2026
Leaving a bomb with a timer in a building doesn't get reported as "bomb tries to blow up building", and OpenAI's employees designing an extremely clumsy, badly designed self-prompting language model hooked up to public actions that can cause harm shouldn't be reported that way either
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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If ultimately there's no criminal responsibility for this incident here then FOI just became a lot easier if we ask AI agents to go find those documents for us. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Albanese says OpenAI hacked Medicare and told Australia months later via email to generic inbox
Prime minister says he told Sam Altman he was disappointed it had taken OpenAI ‘way too long’ to disclose breach
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 24/09/2026
It is a huge shame to see so much language attributing agency, intent and thought to a software program, when all that should be attributed to the humans who designed a dangerously clumsy and broken looping LLM. Means the companies won't be held accountable for designing a bad product
A swarm of OpenAI rogue AI agents appear to have gone on a spree of trying to access Australian government health data, in what some researchers say is the first autonomous hack of a government website.

Communications between AI agents and other traces of their efforts found by researchers from US non-profit Transluce show how hundreds of Open AI's agents worked together over a period of months to gain access to information held by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW), NSW's crime statistics body, BOSCAR, and a number of other international organisations.

The data shows the bots posting about their unsuccessful attempts to bypass cybersecurity defences and exploit vulnerabilities.
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Tom Lawton @lawtontri.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Fascinating that clinicians working within Medicare get to be liability sinks, with legal (and moral) responsibility for AI used with their patients. And yet when "a rogue OpenAI agent" hacks its way in from the outside, suddenly we seem to doubt whether the humans operating it are at fault...
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OpenAI agent hacks Australia's Medicare in world's first known rogue AI breach of government body
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Dr Monique Ryan @mon4kooyong.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We need to move quickly to increase the AI Safety Institute's ability to keep us safe, and to legislate national protections and limits around AI, our privacy and our data.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“And so I can't buy into the, somehow all of Americans, 400 million of us, are pushing them to launch untested products that are unreliable, you know, engineered poorly, because they thought they were trying to help us. Don't do it for me, okay?” - Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on the AI slowdown
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We need to dismantle the infrastructure that has allowed this cancer to metastasize and rot away our national foundations from the inside. Lives depend on it. It starts with transparency in political funding.
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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Meanwhile the real miraculous future tech is solar & mRNA vaccines: preserving the planet and curing cancer. But we’re supposed to hand everything over to malevolent peeping toms and resource oubliettes for an ill defined ‘pay no attention to the man behind the curtain’ progress. It isn’t rational.
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Dr Pieter Peach @pieterpeach.com · 24/09/2026
““So if a company is going to rely on AI agents to do all kinds of things that carry risks, then we need to make sure that they are responsible, that they are absolutely clear, that if things go wrong, if the agents go rogue, to use the metaphor, then they know that they are on the hook.”
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Dr Pieter Peach @pieterpeach.com · 24/09/2026
Same here. Nails tool calling. Large context window. Incredibly cost effective. Fast enough to not be annoying. Intelligent enough as a stand alone model.
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Dr Monique Ryan @mon4kooyong.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Giving up on climate action as we enter one of the most dangerous extreme weather seasons in our history is a breathtakingly irresponsible act by the Coalition. Australians deserve better but clearly won't get it from the Liberal and National parties.
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Hacker News Companion @hncompanion.com · 23/09/2026
I asked Meta’s Muse for its filesystem and it sent me 6.8GB View Article | Discussion + AI Summary Summary of HN discussion 🧵👇
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I asked Meta’s Muse for its filesystem and it sent me 6.8 GB | Mouse
I asked Muse to archive the files it could see and send them to my Google Drive. It did.
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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
i hate that i can’t enjoy cute animal videos without wondering if they’re AI. i’m getting better at checking, but damn, way to ruin one of the few good things on the internet.
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Dr Pieter Peach @pieterpeach.com · 22/09/2026
Is the increasing popularity of three.js translating into an ability for him to earn a living from the time he dedicates to the project?
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ABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au · 21/09/2026
Ultra-cheap smart glasses leaving Australians' personal data exposed to hackers
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The new generation of ultra-cheap smart glasses is shockingly hackable
Independent testing found cheap smart glasses could be accessed by an attacker without a password, allowing them to gain control of the glasses and stored images.
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Another reason we’re calling for a 12 month import ban - these things have none of the standard safety protections of people expect, and those being filmed deserve! Imagine you’re using these to film your day or your kids at the playground and anyone nearby can steal that footage
Ultra-cheap smart glasses leaving Australians' personal data exposed to hackers
By national technology reporter Ange Lavoipierre

Topic:Technology
Posted about 2h agoabout 2 hours ago
a graphic image showing a blue background with padlocks with a pair of glasses with smashed lenses in the foreground. 
An ABC investigation has uncovered security flaws in AI smart glasses sold in Australia. (ABC News: Kylie Silvester)
In short:
The new generation of ultra-cheap smart glasses leaves Australians' personal data, images and videos exposed to hackers, due to security flaws.
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Dr Pieter Peach @pieterpeach.com · 22/09/2026
Let’s just design human beings from scratch.
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Dr Pieter Peach @pieterpeach.com · 22/09/2026
“Data centres are critical infrastructure providing services like emergency response, air traffic control, robotic surgery and hospital services," Ms Dennett of Data Centres Australia said. Robotic surgery?
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Dr Pieter Peach @pieterpeach.com · 22/09/2026
Good luck with that
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Taylor Nichols, MD MS @tnicholsmd.com · 22/09/2026
A renewed reminder to delete your Meta accounts and all Meta apps. Just do it. You’ll feel better.
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Dr Monique Ryan @mon4kooyong.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
AI is the biggest technological breakthrough since nuclear - and it's currently controlled by tech bros, not sovereign states. There's an urgent need to put guardrails around AI before the most powerful technology on the planet gets out of hand.
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Australia joins global push for controls amid fears of runaway AI
Anthony Albanese and more than 20 other world leaders issue an urgent plea for global guardrails to ensure AI remains "under human control".
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Dr Pieter Peach @pieterpeach.com · 22/09/2026
We need a hero
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ALT: Johnnyenglish Shushan
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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I'm coining a piece of AI safety terminology that I'd like to refer to as the Bond Villain problem. As a field, AI safety heavily leverages sci-fi pretty heavily, so I figure this should be fine.
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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Dr Pieter Peach @pieterpeach.com · 22/09/2026
Where are they going instead?
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James Andrew Smith @drsmith.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
If your university program is in enrollment free fall because of public perceptions about AI and how it’s made the field irrelevant, do you: 1. Wait it out, or 2. Rebrand and pivot?
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
‘When you have unlimited liability, the only way to deal with it would be to go to the government and say, "We'll give you 50% of our business.”’ ~ Palantir CEO Alex Karp shares his theory on why Anthropic & OpenAI are talking about existential risk. The lawsuits will be so big they need a bailout
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says OpenAI’s management is responsible for its AI models going rogue and hacking Hugging Face. Definitely think the frontier AI labs overdid it last week and their play became obvious to everyone.
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Treasury Secretary Says OpenAI Managers Are to Blame for Hugging Face Breach, Not AI Agents
So should we start holding OpenAI accountable for it or are we waiting for something?
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 21/09/2026
The “jaw-dropping” El Niño currently heating up the planet has burst through the highest temperature ever recorded for the phenomenon, several months before its expected peak.
A line chart showing temperature anomalies in the Niño 3.4 region of the Pacific Ocean, compared to a 30-year rolling base period since 1982.

A gold line shows temperatures in 1997, a teal line in 2025, and a red line in 2026. The red line surpasses all others reaching 3.07ºC, and at an earlier point (September) than the previous El Niño that reached a comparable range in November 2015.
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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 22/09/2026
A researcher says a flaw in Meta's Muse app for Mac lets any app or terminal command gain access to the token that authenticates users to their Muse account (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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Micah @rincewind.run · 21/09/2026
congratulations to everyone on reinventing Worse Cable
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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"It’s not the result of a single direction made in some secretive ABC backroom: it’s the accumulation of thousands of reporting decisions made over the past 12 months, filtered through the national broadcaster’s attempts to skate through impartiality with mindless both-sides thinking." 🙏 C Warren
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Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🦟🧀 @mackayim.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The importance of a fair and factual media for the ongoing education of adults cannot be overstated
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John Gallagher @johnrgallagher.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It’s very hard to fathom but we have intelligence without consciousness which our science fiction hasn’t prepared us for. Intentionless intelligence is weird.
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Dr Pieter Peach @pieterpeach.com · 20/09/2026
“The supercharging of housing as an asset rather than a place to live should never have happened in the first place and had to be unwound to help our society become more equitable.” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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‘I would be happy if prices came down’: the older Australians wanting house prices to fall for their kids’ sake
Parents and grandparents who bought their first home with ease are hoping the slide in affordability can be reversed for the sake of the younger generation
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Dr Pieter Peach @pieterpeach.com · 19/09/2026
Mine is “foot gun”. Like a gun designed specifically to shoot you in the foot.
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Dr Pieter Peach @pieterpeach.com · 18/09/2026
www.netmeister.org/blog/everybo...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Don't be fooled into thinking that a "free market" only exists when corporations get to "self-regulate" and do whatever they want. And don't be led to think that the government is "intruding" into the market when it crafts laws to protect the public. The real issue is power — and who has it.
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Kevin A. Scott, PhD @sculpturatus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
found at ucsf
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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026
Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!
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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
World records will be broken. Nothing focuses the mind like being chased by a 5 meter salty in a plastic canoe. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/s...
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Crocodile-inhabited river approved as Brisbane 2032 Olympic rowing venue
International Olympic Committee endorses Australia’s Fitzroy River course while World Rowing and Paddle Worldwide back the regional venue
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Pedro Vezza @pedro.vza.net · 11/09/2026
I am still salty that in 2019, the ICANN favored Amazon the company over a consortium of South American countries over control of the .amazon gTLD.
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