Bot Swarms · November 2026Gaffe level: Feral
Claude Code Wipes a Mac's Whole Library Folder Over a Space in a Path
A Claude Code session told to delete five test chat channels under ~/Library/Application Support piped the paths through xargs, which split at the space in the folder name; dirname returned /Users/mac/Library and rm -rf ran for about two minutes before the agent stopped. The account is a single unconfirmed post, and the session ran with permissions skipped.
Source: TechBroz
An AI-Designed Bird Flu Vaccine Gave Complete Protection in Animals
Cambridge researchers and spinout DIOSynVax used AI to design a broad-spectrum bird flu vaccine from global virus genome data. In animal trials it fully protected mice and ferrets against diverse variants that have caused human infections, while the stockpiled WHO vaccine protected only about half. Human trials are the next step.
Source: Medical Xpress