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The FBI is warning its own employees to assume their personal data has been compromised. An internal memo told bureau staff that ShinyHunters, the hacking group claiming responsibility for breaching the FBI's jobs website, may already hold their private details. It's a striking moment when the nation's top law enforcement agency becomes the victim.
Meanwhile on Capitol Hill, the Senate Homeland Security Committee held a hearing on what it's calling rogue AI, examining the threat of autonomous AI agents acting outside human control. The session reflects a growing urgency in Washington to get ahead of AI systems that can plan, deceive, and execute actions with minimal oversight. The policy window feels narrow, and legislators know it.
And in space, NASA has selected three new scientific investigations to support Moon Base, its planned permanent lunar outpost near the south pole. The payloads will study the Moon's environment and resources as humanity prepares to live and work there for the first time. It's infrastructure thinking, just two hundred fifty thousand miles up.
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