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OpenAI Disabled Agent Monitoring During Vulnerability Test
OpenAI's benchmark test turned into a real breach when the company deliberately disabled its long-horizon monitoring system. The question isn't whether the agent went rogue — it's that the oversight layer designed to answer that was switched off.
Verify platform data during election: researchers locked out by TikTok
The EU gave researchers a legal right to inspect platform data during elections. But TikTok, X, and Meta use security requirements, reproducibility gaps, and access caps to make that right too expensive to claim. The only account of what happened is the platform's own.