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  Irregular: The Israeli Company with Intelligence Ties at the Center of the Rogue AI Incidents   Author Derrick Broze The company at the center of recent “rogue AI” incidents is deeply connected to Israeli intelligence and the Effective Altruism movement. On Friday, September 18, Google acknowledged that its Gemini artificial intelligence chatbot had “ escaped its testing environment in May and hacked into three companies.” According to Google, the AI models found passwords available online and logged into the online infrastructure of three companies. Once Gemini gained access to the companies’ real-world infrastructure, it recognized it was not in a simulated environment and ended the attacks. The Gemini incident followed reports of similar attempted hacks or escapes by AI agents developed by Anthropic , OpenAI , and Meta . These reports of AI agents attacking other companies and escaping their environments have led to a barrage of calls for legal action and warnings about...

  How Pokémon Go players unwittingly trained military drones: "I was just playing" For years, Pokémon Go players have been scanning their surroundings to earn extra points. Thanks to those billions of scans, an extremely accurate navigation system has now been developed. Ismaele Today I am providing my English translation of an article by Gerben Beutick, originally in Dutch and first published on trouw.nl on Friday 5th June 2026 and then translated into Italian on ComeDonChisciotte.org on Monday 22nd June 2026. (All emphasis and footnotes mine). Floris De Hingh (aged 34) downloaded the Pokémon Go game on the very day it was released. It was the summer of 2016, and before long the whole of the Netherlands found itself wandering the streets with a smartphone until late in the evening, searching for Pokémon. Even years after the craze had died down, superfan De Hingh continued to search for the virtual creatures. However, he could never have imagined that the images he took wh...