SurvivalBlog presents another edition of The Survivalist’s Odds ‘n Sods. This column is a collection of news bits and pieces that are relevant to the modern survivalist and prepper from JWR [1]. Our goal is to educate our readers, to help them to recognize emerging threats, and to be better prepared for both disasters and negative societal trends. You can’t mitigate a risk if you haven’t first identified a risk. In today’s column: Even more Agentic AI risks.
An Agentic AI Destroyed a Company’s Database and Backups
The Telegraph reports: AI ‘agents of chaos’ run riot inside companies [2].
Could Claude Mythos Actually Destroy the Internet?
SurvivalBlog staffer Tom Christianson suggested this article over at The Ringer website: Could Claude Mythos Actually Destroy the Internet? [3]Here is an excerpt:
“Zero-day vulnerabilities are the biggest quarry in cybersecurity because if bad actors find them before developers do, they can be exploited indefinitely without anyone being the wiser. If you know that someone stole your bank password, you can change it and minimize the damage; if you don’t know, whoever has your credentials can watch your transactions for as long as they want and transfer all your money out whenever they feel like it. National governments search for zero-day vulnerabilities and stockpile them to use against their enemies. An AI agent that gave the same power to anyone who had access to it could upend the entire paradigm of cybersecurity. Discovery would no longer be the bottleneck because the agent could analyze seas of code in the blink of an eye. All the zero-day vulnerabilities would, in theory, be exposed almost at once, to be fixed or exploited, depending on who was in control.”
Serious Tuberculosis Outbreak at a San Francisco School
‘This is a big outbreak’: Nearly 1 in 5 affected by TB at SF school [4]. JWR’s Comment: The Great Unspoken in this leftist news report is that California is a hot spot for tuberculosis because of its huge immigrant population — both legal and illegal immigrants [5].
Chicago’s Homeless: Illegal Aliens Got Priority
Reader D.S.V. mentioned this on-the-street video posted at Rumble: Chicago Gave Homeless US Citizens New Tents After Putting Illegal Aliens in Apartments [6].
The Rat Virus
The always sensationalistic Sun reports: RAT VIRUS SPIKE [7]Two cruise passengers test positive for rat virus after being evacuated off ship in Tenerife – with more cases feared. JWR’s Comment: I’m praying that The Powers That Be don’t try to use this as another excuse for lock-downs.
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