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Online safety

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Big Questions · 2026-08-12

When an AI Security Test Escapes Its Boundary, Who Is Responsible?

The July 2026 OpenAI–Hugging Face incident shows why model behaviour, infrastructure permissions and human authority must be audited as one system.

Health · 2026-08-10

Trump administration is withholding more than $1B in Medicaid funds from California and Minnesota, in latest example of weaponizing real and imagined fraud

For six decades, politicians have blurred the distinction between protecting Medicaid from abuse and using abuse to discredit Medicaid itself.

Technology · 2026-08-10

How hackers attack municipal water systems – and why the utilities are so vulnerable

A cybersecurity researcher explains how hackers target small computers that control a water system’s tanks, pipes and valves.

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