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Government orders audits of “legacy technology” after AI agent hacks
Oct 2, 2026SOURCE: theguardian.com
SO WHAT
In the thousand-day window, legacy stack failures turn AI rollouts into fiscal and sovereignty risk; audits may slow fragmentation or harden centralized control depending on who funds fixes.
Australia’s Home Affairs is directing agencies to review legacy systems after AI-related incidents. The wire frames a repair bill, but the deeper phase transition is governance catching up to the inversion.
This is Negative Resistance’s reframed reading of a reported signal. The headline and analysis above are our interpretation through the thousand-day-window lens. The original reporting lives at the source linked above.