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WIRED has published an investigation, by Vittoria Elliott on 29 October 2026, that alleges an Accenture contractor connected a personal Claude Code account to a system used by the Department of Defense. (That’s the Department of War to some but that’s not important.)
AI is now hacking other AI!!!Breathless headlines. I’m doing radio and tv interviews. NerdNews takes a breath and asks ‘what really happened’ when some AI got out of its sandbox’?
The claim is that a peace deal has been brokered. Truth is only time will tell. But one thing we do know. 20 years ago the US went about the whole “let’s disrupt Iran’s nuke program” a completely different way.
