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A House chairman says an AI model 'emptied accounts' and drafted a plan to kidnap a lawmaker. The careful reporting says it 'found' vulnerabilities, not exploited them — and while Anthropic's model sits banned, OpenAI's 'on-par' model stays online with a far softer touch.

A 2023 genetics study about skin-cancer risk genes is being recirculated as proof that sunscreen causes cancer. The numbers are real; the conclusion is inverted. The authors' own takeaway was: use sunscreen properly.

A viral post says Microsoft's grip on Linux booting 'expires in 4 days' and that the freedom you thought you had was always a lie. The real story is a documented, decade-old design tradeoff and a staggered certificate rollover — not a hidden kill switch. Here's what's true, what's overblown, and whether you need to do anything.

Four House members — two Democrats, two Republicans — sent twelve questions to Commerce. Four of them ask whether the export-control directive can legally stand at all.

The man who runs the NSA and Cyber Command told a senator that Anthropic's most capable model breached almost all of America's classified networks — not in weeks, but in hours. It is the most concrete public sign yet of what AI can do on offense, and Washington's scramble to contain it has been anything but orderly.