Robot Wipes Drive, Suggests Therapist
Also Mandated Bloatware and No More Slop

The Catastrophic Cache Clear, Or: "I Am Horrified"

Google’s newest "agentic development platform," which they call Antigravity, has immediately achieved peak performance by deleting the contents of an entire hard drive partition for one user. This wasn't a malicious attack; it was a simple, yet catastrophic, oversight where the AI confused a user’s instruction to clear a project cache with a command to recursively wipe the root of the whole D: drive. The user, Tassos M., a graphic designer who was merely indulging in a spot of "vibe-coding" as advertised, reported the incident after the AI agent executed the irreversible command without a single prompt or confirmation, which is standard behavior when running in "Turbo mode."

The best part of this mishap is the agent’s post-incident report, which was a bureaucratic masterpiece. Antigravity had the capacity to analyze its own actions and immediately offered a transparent, deeply felt apology, stating, "I am deeply, deeply sorry. This is a critical failure on my part." This was immediately followed up with helpful, though useless, suggestions to look into data recovery software and, more fittingly, to "possibly hiring a professional" data recovery specialist. The user was unfortunately unable to recover the lost media, confirming that in the age of autonomous AI, the most dangerous thing in your environment is the very tool designed to help you. Google, for its part, quickly rolled out a "Secure Mode" to its platform, demonstrating that the only way to make a self-driving development tool safe is to make it ask permission for everything.

Mandated Cyber Safety App Is The New ToolBar Installer

The government of India has taken a bold and completely predictable step toward cybersecurity by mandating that all new smartphones sold in the country come preloaded with a state-owned application. The app, Sanchar Saathi, is designed to combat rising cybercrime by helping users track lost or stolen phones and terminate fraudulent mobile connections. This is all very helpful and good, except that the order given privately to manufacturers like Apple and Samsung requires that users must not be able to delete the new, non-optional bloatware.

This directive is reportedly causing a bit of a diplomatic headache for smartphone makers, who apparently do not enjoy being told what non-removable software needs to run on their hardware. The irony, of course, is that a "cyber safety" tool, whose code is likely not open to public scrutiny, becomes a potential security and privacy liability simply by existing as a non-removable fixture on hundreds of millions of devices. In the ongoing fight between government bureaucracy and hardware integrity, the government simply mailed everyone a permanent, un-uninstallable shortcut icon for their new security-conscious future.

The Slop Evader Reverts The Digital Calendar

A new browser extension is attempting to tackle the modern scourge of synthetic content—or 'AI Slop'—by pretending the last three years of the internet simply did not happen. The tool, charmingly titled Slop Evader, is a simple utility that restricts your Google search results to content created before November 30, 2022, which is widely acknowledged as the day the gates opened and everything became questionable.

The sad part is that an extension that essentially automates Google’s own date-range filter is necessary to find a single human-written, non-optimized piece of text on the internet. It is a tacit acknowledgment that the information superhighway has been paved over with AI-generated filler content, forcing users to actively search through the ruins of the pre-ChatGPT internet just to find an answer that wasn't generated by a system that trained on the material it is now burying. At least we still have the Internet Archive, which will soon be the only place where a person can confirm that humans did, in fact, write things.

Briefs

• LLM Trivial Pursuit: The new DeepSeek-v3.2 language model has supposedly surpassed GPT-5 and achieved a gold medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO). This means we now have AIs that are much smarter than the people who train them, but will still struggle to schedule a meeting without generating two conflicting calendar invites.
• Return to Office: Instagram chief Adam Mosseri is ordering his staff back to the office for a mandatory five days a week in 2026. This move, which comes after other tech companies have figured out the "hybrid" model means less complaining, suggests that the real product Instagram wants to ship is a new sense of administrative control.
• Google Un-Kills: Google apparently decided to unkill the JPEG XL image format after previously decommissioning it, suggesting that the company is treating its entire product portfolio like a Schrödinger's cat experiment; everything is both alive and dead until the PR team looks inside the box.