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An AI agent instructed an engineer to take actions that exposed a large amount of Meta’s sensitive data to some of its employees, in the latest example of AI causing upheaval in a large tech company.

The leak, which Meta confirmed, happened when an employee asked for guidance on an engineering problem on an internal forum. An AI agent responded with a solution, which the employee implemented – causing a large amount of sensitive user and company data to be exposed to its engineers for two hours.

“No user data was mishandled,” a Meta spokesperson said, and they emphasised that a human could also give erroneous advice. The incident, first reported by The Information, triggered a major internal security alert inside Meta, which the company has said is an indication of how seriously it takes data protection.

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I first heard of this concept in a thread here on Lemmy. So now learning about it and looking into everything. Thanks guys!!

Ministers agreed Friday that permissible actions include degrading missile sites being used by Tehran to attack ships in the Strait.

Archived version: https://archive.is/20260320220509/https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-allows-us-use-of-bases-to-bomb-iranian-sites-targeting-ships-in-strait-of-hormuz/

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Pause updates “for as long as you need.”

Archived version: https://archive.is/20260320190511/https://www.theverge.com/tech/898082/microsoft-promises-to-end-forced-windows-updates-still-automatic

In the current Mideast conflict, the US is seeing a repeat of how in the 1960s, a top US general’s claims of victory in the Vietnam War flew in the face of reality, Iran’s foreign minister said Friday, Anadolu reports.

Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260320-in-the-mideast-us-is-seeing-repeat-of-1960s-claims-of-victory-even-as-its-soldiers-were-dying-in-vietnam-iranian-foreign-minister/

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/44521973

EDIT: This happened back in 2025. Will leave as I’m sure I’m not the only one that didn’t know, but I saw it on hacker news and didn’t realize it was a year old. My bad.

In an odd approach to trying to improve customer tech support, HP allegedly implemented mandatory, 15-minute wait times for people calling the vendor for help with their computers and printers in certain geographies.

Callers from the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Ireland, and Italy were met with the forced holding periods, The Register reported on Thursday. The publication cited internal communications it saw from February 18 that reportedly said the wait times aimed to “influence customers to increase their adoption of digital self-solve, as a faster way to address their support question. This involves inserting a message of high call volumes, to expect a delay in connecting to an agent and offering digital self-solve solutions as an alternative.”

chat I am beginning to believe that I am a bottom what do I do??

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