PLA Daily warns that AI models catering to user preferences, even endorsing errors, pose a severe threat to military operations by eroding decision-making quality and human-machine collaboration. This 'AI sycophancy' can create 'information cocoons' and lead to miscalculations.
The Australian government has admitted to illegally cancelling hundreds of thousands of Centrelink payments due to an automated system glitch. The Department of Employment and Workplace Relations estimates the number is around 300,000, affecting individuals who missed compulsory activities under the mutual obligations scheme.
The Shai-Hulud malware campaign is targeting software supply chains, affecting over 320 packages on NPM and PyPI with over 518 million monthly downloads. This campaign highlights the risks of automated systems and the reliance on third-party code in modern development.
According to Pavel Durov, the French authorities are illegally collecting personal data, processing it without proper security, extracting data from automated systems, and violating the secrecy of electronic communications
