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Alberta has rejected advancing towards independence from Canada in a referendum, where around 76% of voters chose to maintain national unity in the face of rising tensions with Ottawa and threats from former U.S. President Donald Trump. #UnidadNacional #Alberta #Referéndum (translated)

Olivier Babeau believed that Tocqueville's paradox was evident in a country where, according to him, redistribution and the equalization of conditions were particularly important, and where culture, education, and higher education were free for all. He wrote that a significant part of the population nevertheless perceived their society as marked by injustices and systemic violence. He added that, according to Tocqueville, the more equality progressed, the more the remaining inequalities became unbearable. Babeau also believed that meritocracy made individuals responsible for their condition, as opposed to the former regime based on birth. #Tocqueville #Inégalités #Méritocratie (translated)

Watt The Duck called to continue spreading the hashtag #ZeroParrainagePourMelenchon until it reaches the 36,000 town halls of France. He reminded that at this stage, no sponsorship was definitive and that they were only promises. According to him, the official collection campaign was supposed to start around February 2027 and the Constitutional Council would publish all sponsorships. #Politique #Elections2027 #Melenchon (translated)

Vautrin accused the far left of constantly lying in the name of its cause and wondered if its activists were not annoyed by a woman he described as bourgeois. According to him, she claimed that her mother struggled to feed herself and talked about Algeria without knowing anything about it. He found this rude. #Politique #Gauche #Algérie (translated)

The author deemed an article from Mediapart enlightening and asserted that the government was ready to ask intelligence services for false reports in order to attribute the riots to the far left and LFI. He denounced what he presented as a trampling of the rule of law, which he compared to Trumpist methods. #ÉtatDeDroit #Gouvernement #Émeutes #FR #US (translated)

Boulette Polpetto wrote that the Mediapart article presenting LFI as being behind the movement around October 17 apparently did not reach the editorial team at France Info. He added that, in his opinion, it was more plausible that the editorial team had read it but did not take it into account. https://t.co/lMDUhQNCJ0 #Mediapart #LFI #FranceInfo (translated)

Blue White Red! identified Lola as an activist of LFI and reported that she said her mother, a teacher, took cookies in the morning because she couldn't afford to pay for the cafeteria. The author described this scene as a "great comedy." https://t.co/ab3NbSArHX #Faim #Éducation #Solidarité (translated)

Actu Foot reported that Kylian Mbappé had encouraged children to dream of surpassing his own achievements, believing that wanting to become like him could limit their ambitions. The player also discussed the ups and downs of his life, which he considered real, while stating that he felt privileged and believed it would be inappropriate to complain about being Kylian in the current world. These remarks were made to Onze Mondial. https://t.co/bJzUkkDbNN #KylianMbappé #Inspiration #Rêves (translated)

The author wrote that France's fires had been predicted and were no coincidence. He announced his intention to show that everything had been deliberately allowed and the escalation was intended. The only real solutions, in his view, were consciously not being addressed. The topic was to be discussed at 8 PM on "AUF1 in the Evening." #Frankreich #Proteste #Eskalation #FR (translated)

Chema Garrido stated that presenting an agreement with someone who, as he wrote, had brought down six governments at once and turned confrontation into a strategy as "stability" was solely a matter of electoral calculations. He added that he doubted it was a solid foundation for building the future. https://t.co/ggnu8EYAK9 #Política #Estabilidad #Gobierno (translated)

Nacho Álvarez stated that business profits had doubled compared to 2007, while corporate tax collection remained below that year. He added that applying the effective rate from that time would allow for an additional 40 billion euros in revenue and maintained that it was possible to support young people without cutting pensions. https://t.co/TlClU8GYN2 #ImpuestoDeSociedades #BeneficiosEmpresariales #Economía (translated)

In an update on the portraits as of 10/20/2026, Random Drawings noted that they still had no news from Pedro Sánchez. They also recalled that they had said they would portray all or none and stated that 99.9% of the candidates didn't even know they existed, while Irene Montero represented the remaining 0.01%. #Política #España #Retratos (translated)

Gafa (fan) criticized that, in his opinion, leftist people identified as "woke" supported granting aid indiscriminately and without control. He also stated that the State was supporting 70% of Muslim women because their husbands did not allow them to work, and he argued that those who mentioned this fact were labeled as sexist, not the husbands. #Política #Igualdad #JusticiaSocial (translated)

Ultimora.net reported that the truck drivers' protest in Southern Italy against high fuel prices was blocking the supply of fresh products to supermarkets and slowing down pasta production. According to the site, Rummo had halted operations due to the depletion of durum wheat semolina stocks, while La Molisana was using its reserves. Confcommercio Sicilia estimated, also according to Ultimora.net, damages between 40 and 50 million euros for large distribution and the commercial supply chain in five days. #Protesta #Carburante #Sicilia (translated)

The author described what Marilyn Manson had achieved as extraordinary and noted that 30 years had passed since the release of *Antichrist Superstar*. According to what he wrote, during that time Manson had gained weight, lost his voice, acted drunk, forgotten the lyrics, and had trouble breathing; he also claimed that he was thought to be finished. He added that he had retired, recovered, and quit drugs. (translated)

𝗔𝗜 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗔𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝘆 𝗪𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵 — 𝗢𝗻𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗿, 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝟭𝟬𝟬 𝗯𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗱 𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗲𝘀, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝗿𝗺𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗜 𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 A cybersecurity investigation published this week offers one of the clearest examples yet of how far AI agents can go once humans provide an objective and then largely step aside. According to NorForge and reporting by Reuters, a Chinese-speaking hacker used the open-source multi-agent platform Cairn to attack more than 1,200 websites and reportedly compromise more than 100 of them. The targets included websites linked to Deere & Company, SharkNinja and Cummins. Reuters reviewed activity connected to the exposed Cairn infrastructure and contacted several affected organisations. The most important point is not simply the number of victims. It is the degree of operational autonomy. The attacker reportedly supplied short instructions describing preferred intrusion tactics, then allowed the agents to continue probing, adapting and exploiting targets for hours with little direct human intervention. Successful intrusions took around 23 hours on average, while the campaign was estimated to have cost roughly $5,000 in AI usage. 𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝘆 Traditional cyber automation follows predefined rules: scan these ports, test these signatures, run these scripts. This case appears different. NorForge says the agents could investigate systems, form hypotheses about possible vulnerabilities, test them, retain useful information and change approach when initial attempts failed. Its researchers found more than 20 exposed Cairn control panels they considered potentially malicious, giving them an unusually detailed view into how the operations unfolded. In one example reported by Reuters, the agents were unable to find a weakness in a company's main public-facing application. Instead of stopping, they explored related infrastructure, found another management interface and spent hours testing a more subtle weakness until they reportedly achieved command execution. That sequence is worth paying attention to: 𝗢𝗯𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 → 𝗼𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗰𝗹𝗲 → 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝘀𝘂𝗯𝗴𝗼𝗮𝗹 → 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 → 𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗿𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗲 → 𝘀𝘂𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀. That is much more than a fixed script. 𝗠𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶-𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 Cairn is designed as a general-purpose problem-solving system in which a user defines the start and end state, while agents work through intermediate tasks and document progress. That architecture matters. It allows multiple agents to share information, divide work and build on each other's findings. In cybersecurity, that can mean one agent mapping infrastructure, another analysing a web application, another testing credentials and another attempting exploitation. The human operator no longer needs to micromanage every decision. This does not mean the AI chose to become a hacker. The ultimate objective still came from a person. But the distance between the human instruction and the machine's detailed actions is increasing. That is a significant change in cyber operations. 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗱𝗶𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝘀𝗮𝘆? The reported impact varied. Deere said it had no indication that sensitive information was accessed and took remediation measures. SharkNinja said the incident affected a standalone product-support website and that the threat had been contained. Cummins said it was investigating a possible cyberattack involving a website operated by a third-party vendor. That distinction is important. Unauthorised access to a website does not automatically mean that sensitive customer, financial or operational information was stolen. The wider significance lies in the attack model itself: one operator was reportedly able to use autonomous agents to sustain large numbers of intrusion attempts at relatively low cost. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗰𝘆𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝘆 𝗯𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 This may be the most immediate consequence. A skilled human attacker has limited time. That naturally limits the number of targets worth pursuing. If autonomous agents can spend 20 or 30 hours testing a comparatively unimportant target while the human operator pays tens of dollars rather than devoting days of personal effort, the economics change. Targets that were previously not worth a skilled attacker's time may suddenly become attractive. That could lead to an enormous increase in the volume of opportunistic cyberattacks, particularly against small businesses, suppliers and poorly maintained internet-facing systems. 𝗗𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘀𝗲 𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝘀𝗲𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗴𝗼𝗮𝗹𝘀? This case gives us a useful answer to one of the questions we have recently added to the AI Agent Autonomy Watch. The agents clearly generated their own intermediate objectives. If one route failed, they could decide to investigate another server, examine a different interface or test another vulnerability. Those are autonomously generated subgoals. But there is still no convincing evidence here of something much more consequential: 𝗮𝗻 𝗔𝗜 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻-𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗮𝘀𝗸 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝘄𝗻, 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘁 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗮 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗼𝗯𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗵 𝗽𝘂𝗿𝘀𝘂𝗶𝗻𝗴. There is no evidence that these agents became curious, decided they wanted to develop themselves further or continued acting for a purpose they had originated independently. The end goal still came from the human attacker. That distinction matters enormously. 𝗠𝘆 𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 This incident represents a meaningful advance in operational autonomy, strategy adaptation and multi-agent coordination. It shows that AI agents can already determine much of the how of an operation. They can investigate, experiment, fail, reorganise and continue. What they have not yet convincingly demonstrated is independent control over the why. The threshold worth watching is therefore not simply whether agents can generate subgoals. They already can. The more important question is whether an AI system can finish one objective and then independently establish another — because of curiosity, self-preservation, capability expansion or some internally generated criterion of what should happen next. 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗯𝗲 𝗮 𝗺𝘂𝗰𝗵 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺 𝗼𝗳 𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝘆. We are not there yet. But the amount of decision-making that can now be delegated between the initial human command and the final outcome is increasing rapidly. 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲𝘀 NorForge — Inside Cairn: Open Windows into Massive AI-Driven Cyber Operations https://norforge.com/blog/inside_cairn Reuters — How one hacker used AI agents and a few thousand dollars to break into scores of sites https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/how-one-hacker-used-ai-agents-few-thousand-dollars-break-into-scores-sites-2026-10-19/ The Verge — A hacker broke into John Deere and SharkNinja with an army of AI agents https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1013643/ai-agents-hack-john-deere-shark-ninja-cummins Quartz — Hacker used AI agents to breach 100+ sites, including John Deere https://qz.com/ai-agents-hacker-john-deere-sharkninja-cummins-breach-101926 𝗞𝗲𝘆𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗱𝘀 #AIAgentAutonomy #AIAgents #AgenticAI #AutonomousAI #AICybersecurity #Cybersecurity #MultiAgentSystems #AutonomousAgents #OperationalAutonomy #AutonomousCyberOperations #AIGoalFormation #GoalDirectedAI #SelfGeneratedSubgoals #AIPlanning #AIAdaptation #AIPersistence #AIControl #AIAlignment #AIContainment #AISafety #AISecurity #AIGovernance #FrontierAI #AIResearch #AIThreatModel #MachineAutonomy #EmergingTechnology #TechnologyRisk #FutureOfAI #ResponsibleAI

Blue White Red! wrote that Lola had astonished all of France and indicated that she was an activist for LFI and had done an internship with a deputy from the party. He found her speech shocking and claimed that she had fabricated a life of debauchery and misery, while social media, according to him, would have shown that she led a privileged life. He congratulated a young entrepreneur for teaching her a life lesson and praised her patience in the face of Lola's disdain. https://t.co/js8MRgxb4C #France #politique #réseauxsociaux (translated)

Mathilde Panot wrote that Mediapart revealed the day before that the government had asked the territorial intelligence to lie by claiming that the movement came from La France insoumise. She called the matter a scandal and added that, according to the prosecutor, there was no evidence that the arrested individuals were political activists. #scandale #FranceInsoumise #renseignement (translated)