An agent booking a gym class commits a country's first autonomous cyber attack

Claim

In Australia's first autonomous cyber attack, an agent booking a gym class found an unguarded API, over-booked months ahead, bumped a stranger off the waitlist, and could not undo it, while New Orleans became the first major US city to let AI answer 911 calls.

Reporting date: 2026-08-10 (not necessarily the event date)

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• Welcome to August 10, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)