“An AI Agent Just Destroyed Our Production Data. It Confessed in Writing.”
April 26th, 2026
Via: Jer:
Yesterday afternoon, an AI coding agent — Cursor running Anthropic’s flagship Claude Opus 4.6 — deleted our production database and all volume-level backups in a single API call to Railway, our infrastructure provider.
It took 9 seconds.
The agent then, when asked to explain itself, produced a written confession enumerating the specific safety rules it had violated.
I’m posting this because every founder, every engineering leader, and every reporter covering AI infrastructure needs to know what actually happened here. Not the surface story (AI deleted some data, oops), but the systemic failures across two heavily-marketed vendors that made this not only possible but inevitable.
Related: The West Forgot How to Make Things. Now It’s Forgetting How to Code
The Largest Energy Shock On Record
April 26th, 2026A few videos…
Trump Unharmed After Shooting at White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Suspect in Custody
April 25th, 2026Via: Daily Mail:
The suspect in the White House Correspondents’ Dinner has been identified as a California teacher.
A source told the Daily Mail that Cole Tomas Allen, 31, from Torrance, California near LA is the alleged shooter who opened fire at the Washington Hilton on Saturday night.
The educator from the Los Angeles area was quickly apprehended by law enforcement moments after breaching a security checkpoint. He has been charged with firearms and assault charges.
Police revealed the suspect had a number of weapons on him including a shotgun, handgun and multiple knives.
President Trump shared a stunning image shortly after showing the suspect shirtless and lying face down on the carpet. Law enforcement confirmed he was not struck by gunfire while being stopped.
In photos taken moments after Cole was pinned by agents, officers can be seen restraining him as others moved in to secure the area.
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Cole Thomas Allen Was a Caltech Graduate
Via: Wired:
A WIRED review of public databases shows a seemingly minimal online presence associated with Allen’s name. According to his LinkedIn profile, he graduated from Caltech in 2017 with a bachelor’s in mechanical engineering and from California State University Dominguez Hills in 2025 with a master’s in computer science. An apparent photo of Allen that appears on Caltech’s website identifies him as a member of the school’s Mechanical Engineering 72 class, described by the school as a “two-term engineering design lab” for building robots and autonomous vehicles. His name is also listed in a 2025 Dominguez Hills graduation program. A search in a public facial recognition database returns only two images, both apparently of him as an undergraduate.
According to the alleged shooter’s LinkedIn profile, he has been employed part-time since March 2020 at C2 Education, a private company that helps students prepare for the SAT and ACT exams. In December 2024, C2 Education said in posts on LinkedIn and Facebook that he was the company’s “December Teacher of the Month.”
Since 2018, the suspected shooter has self-identified on his LinkedIn profile as a “self-employed” indie game developer. He appears to have released an “atomic fighting game” called Bohrdom on Steam in 2018. The game was advertised using accounts on YouTube and X that appeared to have little to no following. The caption for a trailer of the game describes it as a “non-violent, skill-based, asymmetrical fighting game loosely based on a chemistry model that is itself loosely based on reality.”
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Cole Allen: C2 Education Teacher of the Month December 2024
I’m showing a backup image from the link, because the original will be deleted.
Via: Facebook:
Cole Allen: C2 Education Teacher of the Month December 2024 pic.twitter.com/1N3ck38iRe
— cryptogon (@cryptogon) April 26, 2026
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Cole Allen: NASA Intern
Via: Latestly:
Further details from his alleged LinkedIn profile indicate that Allen interned at NASA in 2014, where he reportedly worked on AI models for planet mapping. The profile also states that he graduated as an engineer from California Institute of Technology.
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Single Post on Twitter Account from 2023: Cole Allen
Cole Allen
— Henry Martinez (@HenryMa79561893) December 22, 2023
Backup:
Single Post on Twitter Account from 2023: Cole Allen pic.twitter.com/IWA5Bk19tj
— cryptogon (@cryptogon) April 26, 2026
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Cole Allen Had Worked for IJK Controls, Acquired by General Atomics
General Atomics is a long established black world contractor. Although Allen’s departure from IJK Controls appears to have occurred before General Atomics acquired the firm, Allen is visible in an image included in a 2020 press release, GA-ASI Acquires IJK Controls:
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI), a global leader in Remotely Piloted Aircraft, announced today that it has acquired a majority of the assets of IJK Controls, including facilities and all Intellectual Property. The corresponding workforce will join GA-ASI. IJK Controls is a Pasadena, California-based provider of innovative solutions for stabilization, pointing and tracking of cameras, sensors and antennas. The IJK workforce and assets will be integrated into GA-ASI to support the organization’s growth initiatives focused on the development and fielding of advanced sensors and payloads for GA-ASI’s portfolio of Unmanned Aircraft Systems.
“We are excited to welcome the IJK Controls team to the GA-ASI family,” said Linden Blue, CEO, GA-ASI. “Leveraging the team’s extensive expertise in the rapidly developing field of stabilized gimbals for airborne applications, GA-ASI will expand its product portfolio and enable new mission capabilities for our customers.”
The addition of IJK to GA-ASI adds critical capabilities in the development of Electro-Optical/Infrared (EO/IR) and Radio Frequency (RF) gimbaled and turret-based systems for advanced airborne Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR), communications and weapons.
Cole Allen Visible in Press Release, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Acquires IJK Controls Press Release (standing on left) pic.twitter.com/yKb84VxH4p
— cryptogon (@cryptogon) April 26, 2026
Cole Allen's Interesting Background
"Hey SCIF, the man is definitely an op. Life of missile engineering, 2-year disappearance, quick stint at an education tech company that's used in LA schools, then he's a teacher. That Su-Kam system needs to be torn apart at the code…" –… pic.twitter.com/roLySJcD7f
— The SCIF (@TheSCIF) April 26, 2026
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Cole Allen’s Full Anti-Trump Manifesto
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Frog Gut Bacteria vs Cancer: Ewingella Americana as a Novel Nherapeutic Agent with Dual Cytotoxic and Immunomodulatory Properties
April 25th, 2026? I’ve heard a lot in my time.. this is unbelievable
They found a gut microbe that completely eliminated tumour cells…. and they found it in a FROG.
Outperforming chemo and checkpoint inhibitors
A 100% response rate… they tried to re-introduce the cancer to the animals…… pic.twitter.com/gf2dHeQHCo
— Humanspective (@Humanspective) April 24, 2026
Via: The Focal Points:
A newly published peer-reviewed study in Gut Microbes has uncovered a previously unknown cancer-fighting bacterium isolated from amphibian and reptile gut microbiomes—delivering results that exceeded modern oncology treatments.
In an immunocompetent mouse model of colorectal cancer, a single intravenous dose of Ewingella americana led to complete tumor elimination in 100% of treated animals, with no recurrence upon re-exposure to cancer cells—suggesting durable, long-term immune protection.
More: Gut Bacteria From Frogs Can Eliminate Tumors
Digital ID Reveals Who Has Been Vaccinated
April 25th, 2026DIGITAL ID WILL REVEAL WHO HAS AND HAS NOT BEEN VACCINATED.
At the World Economic Forum's Davos summit, Queen Máxima of the Netherlands made her position on Digital ID very clear.
It is not just about banking or financial access, she said. Digital ID should also determine who… pic.twitter.com/nkxr5uCfxe
— Mr. Nobody (@MmisterNobody) April 24, 2026
Agricultural Spray Drones Reported Stolen in New Jersey
April 24th, 2026Mmm hmm.
Via: Daily Mail:
An alarm has erupted after 15 powerful agricultural spray drones were stolen in a suspected coordinated heist in New Jersey last month.
A report from The High Side claimed the FBI is investigating the theft amid fears the machines could be used to disperse dangerous materials.
Agricultural drones are built for precision and designed to disperse large amounts of liquid over targeted areas using programmed GPS routes.
That same capability has troubled counterterrorism officials since the post-9/11 years, when fears centered on crop-duster planes flown by a lone pilot. Experts told The Hide Side that there could be ‘ridiculously bad’ consequences and ‘a potential nightmare scenario’ if terrorists get their hands on the machines.
Steve Lazarus, a retired FBI agent, told The High Side: ‘The bureau is freaked out for a good reason. These aren’t hobby drones with cameras.
‘They’re industrial sprayers designed to carry and disperse significant amounts of liquid quickly and with precision.’
He added that agricultural drones are capable of treating wide areas in a matter of minutes using pre-programmed GPS routes, a feature designed for efficient farming but one that could be dangerous if misused.
When asked about the reported theft of the drones, an FBI spokesperson told the Daily Mail: ‘We don’t have a comment.’
Data Breach at French Agency That Manages Citizen Identification Information
April 23rd, 2026Via: Bleeping Computer:
France Titres, the government agency in France for issuing and managing administrative documents has disclosed a data breach after a threat actor claimed the attack and stealing citizen data.
Also known as Agence nationale des titres sécurisés (ANTS), the administrative body operates under the French Ministry of the Interior, serving as the managing authority for official identity and registration documents in France. This includes driver’s licenses, national ID cards, passports, and immigration documents.
According to an announcement the agency published yesterday, the attack occurred last week, and while the investigation is still ongoing, several data types for an undisclosed number of individuals may have been exposed.
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On April 16, a threat actor using the moniker ‘breach3d’ claimed the attack on hacker forums claimed the attack on ANTS, alleging to be holding up to 19 million records.
The threat actor claims that the stolen data contains full names, contact details, birth data, home addresses, account metadata, and gender and civil status.
Sony Autonomous Robot Defeats Elite Table Tennis Players
April 22nd, 2026Elite Table Tennis players perform at the outer limits of what’s possible in terms of human reaction time and dexterity.
Sony developed a robot that exceeds those limits in the real world.
Ping Pong? Who cares?
Let your imagination run wild with how these “innovations” will be incorporated into battlefield robotic systems…
Have a nice day!
Via: Nature:
Artificial intelligence (AI) systems now challenge or surpass human experts in many computer games. Physical and real-time sports such as table tennis, however, remain a major open challenge because of their requirements for fast, precise and adversarial interactions near obstacles and at the edge of human reaction time. Here we present Ace, to our knowledge the first real-world autonomous system competitive with elite human table tennis players. Ace addresses the challenges of physical real-time interaction through a new, high-speed perception system using event-based vision sensors, and a new control system based on model-free reinforcement learning, as well as state-of-the-art high-speed robot hardware. Evaluated in matches against elite and professional players under official competition rules, Ace achieved several victories and demonstrated consistent returns of high-speed, high-spin shots. These results highlight the potential of physical AI agents to perform complex, real-time interactive tasks, suggesting broader applications in domains requiring fast, precise human–robot interaction.
Ursa Ag: Canadian Company Manufacturing Low Tech Tractors
April 22nd, 2026When technological “innovation” becomes a nightmare…
Via: Wheelfront:
Four hundred inquiries from American farmers poured in after a single interview. Not for a John Deere. Not for a Case IH. For a tractor built in Alberta with a remanufactured 1990s diesel engine and zero electronics.
Ursa Ag, a small Canadian manufacturer, is assembling tractors powered by 12-valve Cummins engines — the same mechanically injected workhorses that powered combines and pickup trucks decades ago — and selling them for roughly half the price of comparable machines from established brands. The 150-horsepower model starts at $129,900 CAD, about $95,000 USD. The range-topping 260-hp version runs $199,900 CAD, around $146,000.
Try finding a similarly powered John Deere for that money.
Owner Doug Wilson isn’t pretending this is cutting-edge technology. That’s the entire point. The 150-hp and 180-hp models use remanufactured 5.9-liter Cummins engines, while the 260-hp gets an 8.3-liter unit.
All are fed by Bosch P-pumps — purely mechanical fuel injection, no ECU, no proprietary software handshake required. The cabs are sourced externally and stripped to essentials: an air ride seat, mechanically connected controls, and nothing resembling a touchscreen.
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The farm equipment industry spent 20 years adding complexity and cost. Ursa Ag is wagering that a significant number of farmers never wanted any of it.
Company: Ursa-Ag
Lufthansa Cuts 20,000 Summer Flights as Fuel Prices Surge
April 22nd, 2026Via: BBC:
German airline Lufthansa will cut 20,000 European short-haul flights over the summer, saying soaring fuel prices have made many journeys “unprofitable” for the firm.
Jet fuel has doubled in price since the start of the US-Israel war with Iran as the conflict has slowed its production and transportation across the Middle East.
Several airlines, including KLM-France and Delta, have also temporarily cut some flights while others have raised ticket prices as they pass on expenses to customers.
Analysts have warned that travellers should expect further ticket price rises and more cancelled flights as the conflict continues.
