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• Fake AI Intelligence Almost Made the US Military Start a War With China

  19-09-2026 19:34 via news.slashdot.org
  U.S. military intelligence received an inaccurate report this spring that a Chinese ship in the Middle East was transporting components of a nuclear weapons program, reports CNN.
  "The US military swung into action with plans to intercept the vessel, according to four sources familiar with the episode."Armed members of the US military were preparing to board the ship [according to two of the sources]. Military planes were in the air, one of those sources and another source familiar with the incid
  
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• US Air Force F-16 Crashes in Michigan After Pentagon Orders More Flyovers

  19-09-2026 15:04 via news.slashdot.org
  The F-16 "experienced an incident," the Texas Military Department said in a statement, adding that "The pilot successfully ejected the aircraft and is receiving care at a nearby hospital."
  ABC News reports:A Texas Air National Guard F-16 crashed in Michigan during a training mission on Thursday afternoon, sparking an hourslong evacuation near the crash site, according to officials.The incident prompted the evacuation of homes and businesses within 1 mile of the crash site due to a "hazardous che
  
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• Gemini Breached Three Outside Systems, and Claude-Using Researchers Breached OpenAI

  19-09-2026 10:34 via slashdot.org
  "Software security researchers used Anthropic's Claude AI platform to hack OpenAI's ChatGPT tool," reports CBS News.Using Claude, "On July 25, 2026, we chained two critical vulnerabilities to compromise multiple OpenAI employees' ChatGPT accounts," write researchers at security platform Hacktron AI. "With these accounts, we could then access internal OpenAI repositories, and potentially many other connectors... Until two months ago, any user or OpenAI employee logging into OpenAI's own help foru
  
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• Has the James Web Space Telescope Discovered a New 'Black Hole Star'?

  19-09-2026 06:04 via science.slashdot.org
  The James Webb Space Telescope has been picking up little red dots in almost every image,
  writes Quanta magazine. And now two teams of astronomers propose they're looking at a new astronomical object: a black hole star. It shines with the light of billions of suns — and hides a black hole in its core.
  But Quanta adds that "not everyone agrees with this bold interpretation."[Two Webb telescope surveys of distant objects included little red dots] for hours at a time. They tabulated precisely
  
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• AI Insiders Issue New Warnings - Including Former Anthropic Engineer Jacob Coxon

  19-09-2026 01:34 via slashdot.org
  Neither OpenAI or Anthropic is acting responsibly, warned AI researcher Jacob Coxon when resigning last week from Anthropic. But just hours earlier, OpenAI VP of Research Aidan Clark had posted "For the first time, I am asking myself if things are moving too fast. I'm honestly not sure, but I am sure that it would be good for us to have an answer to 'What would a successful pace look like?'"
  CNN noted Wednesday they're just some of the many AI insiders who are now concerned about the speed of re
  
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