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X is under scrutiny tonight after users across the platform began receiving unsolicited password reset emails, raising immediate concerns about a potential data breach. X engineers have acknowledged the unusual activity but stopped short of confirming any compromise to their systems, leaving millions of users in an uncomfortable state of uncertainty.
Meanwhile, a startup called Empirik is betting that the best time to fix an outage is before it ever happens. Backed by Sequoia and launching with twenty-one million dollars, the company is building AI-driven tools to predict infrastructure failures before they take systems down — drawing comparisons to what Cursor did for software development.
And on the topic of things breaking at inconvenient hours, a piece circulating today pulls back the curtain on Waymo's autonomous vehicle operation, where depot workers describe a surprisingly unglamorous reality — including, yes, cleaning up human waste left in robotaxis. It's a useful reminder that behind every seamless AI experience, there are real people doing real, sometimes unpleasant, work.
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