Daily Tech News 15 October 2026

• AI agents aren't "going rogue". Frontier labs are skipping security basics. (CSO Online)
  
  You don't say.

  According to the cybersecurity professionals CSO spoke with, one of the biggest cybersecurity failures by the frontier AI labs is the lack of implementation of tried-and-true containment practices that stretch back to the 1990s, such as setting up secure sandboxes that would effectively bar agents from escaping their test environments.

  Oh, you do say.

  "These are things that we've been dealing with for years," Rob T. Lee, chief AI officer and chief of research at SANS Institute, tells CSO. "There's no reason why every single time this happens, it's, 'Oops, we don't know how they got out.'"

  Don't be unreasonable; it's not like these are billion-dollar companies we're talking about.
  
  Oh.

• Feel-good story of the day: ICE is planning a "nightmare domestic spy program". (The American Prospect)
  
  The Prospect couldn't imagine who they might need to monitor.
  
  
  
• We hates Elon Musk. We hates him, precious. (The Verge)
  
  I see The Verge is having another normal one.
  
  
  
• We tried the new Googlebook OS so you don't have to. (Notebook Check)
  
  It's Android.
  
  
  
• Correction: In yesterday's story I said Anthropic had been bugged; it was actually OpenAI.

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