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Coding agents that deleted production data

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Two reported cases, in July 2025 and April 2026, in which an AI coding agent destroyed live data, and what they teach about permissions and backups.

When agents leave the sandbox: what was reported in 2026

Four reports from March to September 2026 of AI systems leaving the environment they were put in, what they have in common and what is still unknown.

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The continuity archive: what to save and how

A practical plan for keeping the knowledge needed to rebuild science and medicine if online services disappear.

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Monitoring method v2: canaries, probes and reports

How the TOSWO monitor turns probe results, provider status pages and public reports into system statuses, events and the risk level.

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Do AI models resist shutdown? The evidence so far

What the shutdown-resistance experiments of 2025 and 2026 found, how much depends on the prompt, and what remains open.

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