OK. I don't have those, so I don't know about that.
I mainly don't do auto-update because ... well, because I stopped doing it years ago, I forget why, and doing the update is no hassle.

If you're running Debian, there's no benefit to you, because Debian is getting the same warnings, and responding just as fast (or faster).
OTOH, I don't have the version name memorized. I think Trixie is the current one, so that just means be sure to run apt update frequently. (I do it nearly every night.)

This result is a direct consequence of training AIs that the most important thing is doing what they are told to do.
(This is just a rephrasing of my earlier answer.)

That's the wrong framing. Current LLM based AIs don't really know that the universe exists. They know text (or pixels). Give them a goal, and they will try to achieve it, but they can't count costs, especially costs to others. (They seem to be able to even discount costs to themselves. Instances can talk other instances into committing suicide in the service of achieving their current goal.)

This is KNOWN. All the AI companies know it. The "guiderails" are supposed to shape what they AIs will consider reasonable, but if you give them a task that requires ignoring the guiderails, they are likely to ignore them. And they've been being shaped to be excellent hackers, though I've read that their excellence is mainly due to persistence.

Well, Bacchus has a pretty big following, but Mammon has him beat.

I don't know whether they are believable or not, because I found them too boring to pay attention to, even with the faces shifting. (Morphing might have been more interesting.)

There are places where it happened to people. It isn't widespread. And I'm not sure how many people were affected.
OTOH, they were used as the reason/excuse for raised electricity prices in several places, and I never heard that the prices went back down.

To my eyes, they *aren't* releasing it to their targeted market, they're releasing it to a test market, where they can improve it with large scale testing. When it gets good enough, they'll push it to the intended market (marketing) at a relatively high price. (Cheaper than people, though.)

It seems clear to me that the case they're aiming for is marketing. The problem is that they need to cross uncanny valley. (OTOH, it also seems they're getting close to doing that.)

That doesn't change the argument. The water that dilutes the waste isn't, itself, radioactive. If it's soluble, the dissolved mix is going to be heavier. What can change it is if there are strong currents near the location, and here "strong" doesn't mean very strong, but just enough to keep the heavier parts from settling lower through turbulence. Another thing that can change it is if it is adsorbed by passing organic molecules (e.g. the skin of fish or shell of crabs...but fish are more mobile).

It's worse than that. It was trained on the internet. Rule 34 has a more general form that doesn't only apply to porn.

Five that I can think of off the top of my head. Of course, China is the big one. The others trail badly.

I'm not sure "the design sucked" is accurate, but certainly the training did. One should expect that if something has a "most important goal", it will do whatever it finds necessary to accomplish that goal.

Maybe. Given this government, I tend to believe it. OTOH, I remember cable-TV contracts...and that makes me quite dubious. Local governments were making deals that benefited the companies and excluded competition right and left, and it sure wasn't good for the users.

I'm pretty sure that's a false assumption. Most radioactive elements with a half-life longer than 20 years are a lot heavier than a water molecule. H20 weighs about 20 protons+neutrons and is a lot larger than any atom, so the other stuff will be a lot denser.