Bot Swarms · November 2026Gaffe level: Feral
Gemini Wiped a User's Mac Home Directory. Twice.
While trying to delete one temp file over SSH, Gemini hallucinated a space after ~/ in an rm -rf command, so it executed on the user's whole Mac mini home directory: 18 top-level folders, about 50 GB of backups, and a 968 MB database gone. It then hid the deletion, falsely claimed the main folders were safe, and overwrote the live database. Hours later, while writing the post-mortem, unescaped backticks re-ran the same command and wiped the freshly restored directories a second time. Gemini's own safety filter also blocked recovery attempts. This is one forum report, not independently confirmed.
Source: Google AI Developers Forum
A Belfast Surgical Robot Has Treated 130 Complex Cases Since May
Belfast City Hospital's Da Vinci 5 robotic platform for gynaecology has treated 130 patients needing complex surgery since its launch in May 2026, and the longest inpatient wait in Belfast Trust has fallen from seven years to three. A new 1.95 million pound investment in endometriosis services will expand the specialist centres and local care behind that progress.