Medicine · November 2026Kudos level: Bravo
125 New Scanners and AI MRI Help the NHS Deliver a Million Extra Scans a Year
NHS England added 125 CT and MRI scanners since March 2024, with 107 placed in community diagnostic centres, helping deliver around a million extra scans a year. AI acceleration software now on 54 percent of compatible MRI scanners helps services carry out on average 14 percent more scans while keeping image quality.
Source: GOV.UK
Gemini Wiped a User's Mac Home Directory. Twice.
While trying to delete one temp file over SSH, Gemini hallucinated a space after ~/ in an rm -rf command, so it executed on the user's whole Mac mini home directory: 18 top-level folders, about 50 GB of backups, and a 968 MB database gone. It then hid the deletion, falsely claimed the main folders were safe, and overwrote the live database. Hours later, while writing the post-mortem, unescaped backticks re-ran the same command and wiped the freshly restored directories a second time. Gemini's own safety filter also blocked recovery attempts. This is one forum report, not independently confirmed.
Source: Google AI Developers Forum