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RoboGators, HBOMAX, Microsoft, DAS, Horsebot 3000, Aaran Leyland does AI, and More – SWN #616

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List of Articles

Doug White

  1. Hackers hijack HBO Max Reddit account to push malware in ClickFix ads
  2. Microsoft warns of cloud storage attacks, financial fraud scams targeting customers
  3. Most people who quit M365 for Google do it out of spite, but there’s no ROI in that
  4. I went looking for surveillance cameras in my neighbourhood: I found so many more than I thought
  5. AI Security Risks: Cyber Experts Separate Threat From FUD
  6. I spent $4,000 on a robot dog from China

Aaran Leyland

  1. We Must Pace the Frontier
    1. MAIN ARTICLE: We Must Pace the Frontier — Dario Amodei, 12 September 2026 https://darioamodei.com/post/we-must-pace-the-frontier
    2. Anthropic researcher says AI has over 10% chance to kill all humans within next decade — Fox Business, 9 September 2026 https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/anthropic-researcher-says-ai-has-over-10-chance-kill-all-humans-within-next-decade
    3. The ‘Godfather of AI’ says it is not unreasonable to believe there is a 10% chance the technology will end humanity — Business Insider/Yahoo, 10 September 2026 https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/articles/godfather-ai-says-not-unreasonable-154905798.html
    4. Factbox: What Amodei, Altman and Musk have said about AI risks — Reuters, 14 September 2026 https://www.aol.com/articles/factbox-amodei-altman-musk-said-155837000.html
    5. The 2026 AI Index Report — Stanford HAI, 2026 https://hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/2026-ai-index-report
    6. International AI Safety Report 2026 — 3 February 2026 https://internationalaisafetyreport.org/publication/international-ai-safety-report-2026
    7. China-Based AI Companies Conducting Industrial-Scale Distillation Campaigns — CISA/NSA/FBI, 8 September 2026 https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/cybersecurity-advisories/aa26-251a
    8. Advancing U.S.–UK Cooperation to Secure Frontier Artificial Intelligence — RAND, 8 June 2026 https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA4764-1.html
    9. How Artificial Intelligence Could Reshape Four Essential Competitions in Future Warfare — RAND, 22 January 2026 https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA4316-1.html
    10. Facing the Artificial Intelligence–Cyber Nexus — RAND, 13 November 2025 https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA4250-1.html
    11. Energy and AI: Energy demand from AI — IEA, 2025 https://www.iea.org/reports/energy-and-ai/energy-demand-from-ai
    12. Artificial intelligence for quantum computing — Nature Communications, 2 December 2025 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-65836-3
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