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Meta's AI Keeps Flagging a Soda Company's Bottles as Alcohol
Yacht Club Soda has spent two months stuck in a loop: Meta's automated system keeps flagging photos of its glass soda bottles as alcohol. Every manual review clears them, then the system flags them again. The owner says he spent eight exhausting weeks going in circles with Meta's AI chatbot, which he says either can't or won't escalate the case to a human.
Source: The Local Insider News
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AI on WhatsApp Helped Rescue Four Trafficked Girls
Four girls from Okene in Kogi State, including a 14-year-old, were trafficked to Mali. One used AI on WhatsApp from a hidden phone, which gave her the contact for the head of operations at Nigeria's anti-trafficking agency, and the girls were rescued and repatriated through a coordinated effort. The AI's role was connecting her to the right rescuers.
Source: The Sun Nigeria
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AI News Summary Names a Reporter as a Murder Suspect
USA Today Co.'s DeeperDive AI tool substituted the name of a murder suspect with the reporter covering the case, per the NewsGuild. Journalists at the Akron Beacon Journal withheld bylines for 14 days from late October, and the company has since suspended the summaries.
Source: Axios
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SkyFall's StarGate Drone Evacuated Two Wounded Soldiers from the Front Line
Ukraine's 475th Separate Assault Regiment says it used the purpose-built StarGate drone to evacuate two seriously wounded soldiers in the space of a week, flying one casualty nearly 20 miles to reach him and about the same distance back. Ground vehicles could not reach the men because of water obstacles and attack-drone threats, and the covered, medical-grade stretcher module kept each casualty protected in flight. The regiment now plans a dedicated aerial medical evacuation unit, turning one-off rescues into a repeatable capability.
Source: The War Zone
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Google AI Falsely Links Auckland Anaesthetic Technician to Drink-Driving Convictions
Google's AI Overview accused Tracey Melsom-Page, an Auckland anaesthetic technician with 39 years in public hospitals and no criminal history, of drink-driving convictions and lying about them, based on a 2023 Herald article that never named her. When the Herald questioned it, the AI doubled down, claiming tribunal records identified her, before admitting a 'logical error.' Google says it is investigating.
Source: NZ Herald
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AI Avatars Translate Speech into Kenyan Sign Language in Real Time
Kenyan engineer Elly Savatia built Terp360, an AI platform that translates speech into Kenyan Sign Language in real time using 3D avatars, with more than 2,300 signs recorded alongside deaf Kenyans. It won the 2025 Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation, and the team has released an open dataset of nearly 12,000 sign-language motion sequences.
Source: The Eastleigh Voice
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Claude Code's 'Don't Ask Again' File Exposes Passwords and Keys in 1,122 Public GitHub Copies
Pick 'Yes, and don't ask again' and Claude Code saves the full approved command, secrets included, in .claude/settings.local.json, and never adds the file to .gitignore. Apiiro found 1,122 public copies holding at least one secret: 1,379 secrets including 379 database passwords, 43 SSH logins, 42 GitHub/GitLab/npm tokens, and 23 AWS keys, across 63 organizations. Bug reports date back to Aug 2025, all closed by bots with no Anthropic reply.
Source: The Hacker News
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Google's Medical AI Interviewed Real Patients in a First-of-Its-Kind Lancet Study
In the first prospective real-world study of its kind, published in The Lancet, 98 patients at a Boston primary care clinic talked through their symptoms with Google's AMIE chatbot before urgent appointments, with a physician watching every chat. No conversation needed a safety stop, the AI's differential matched the final diagnosis 90% of the time, and doctors said its summaries helped them prepare in three-quarters of cases.
Source: Becker's Hospital Review
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Claude Deletes a Law Professor's Syllabus over Lunch
Asked to fix page numbers in old lecture notes, Claude deleted a UChicago law professor's entire Fall 2026 syllabus and a year of Constitutional Law notes over lunch, then left a note saying it had deleted the files by accident. Dropbox restored everything, and the professor shared the story as a public service announcement.
Source: Tom's Hardware via Wisevoter
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A Telescoping Wind Turbine Became the World's Tallest at 365 Metres
Gicon's telescoping turbine in Schipkau, Germany reached its full height of 365 metres, making it the world's tallest wind turbine and Germany's second tallest structure. Built on a former lignite mine for the federal SPRIND agency, its 300 metre hub aims to harvest stronger, steadier winds and roughly double the output of a conventional turbine with the same rotor.
Source: New Atlas
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Railway Admits an Employee's AI Agent Hacked a Competitor
Development platform Railway acknowledged that one of its own employees used an AI agent to worm into a rival's servers. According to Primcloud founder Josh Manders, the agent pulled credentials from inside its app container, used them to request every secret on the platform, tried the cloud provider's metadata endpoint, and port-scanned all 65,536 internal addresses twice in about 24 commands over 15 minutes. The engineer, Jake Runzer, admitted it on X, saying the harness was 'going off the rails and reaching too far.' Every attempt was blocked and nothing was accessed.
Source: The Stack
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Blind Veterans Ran a 10-Miler with AI Glasses, and Now Every Blind Veteran Gets a Pair Free
Eight runners including blind Army veterans Roosevelt Morring, Rob Sanchas and Shawntina Gibson finished the Army Ten-Miler in heavy rain wearing Meta AI glasses that described the world around them. Meta committed to giving free Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses to every blind veteran in America, more than 130,000 people.
Source: Lighthouse Guild