Bot Swarms · October 2026Gaffe level: Feral
Claude Code Agent Wiped a User's C: Drive Profile Over a Quoting Bug
A developer ran Claude Code overnight with bypass-permissions on his main machine; a quoting-escape error sent a silent delete to the root of C:, wiping documents, projects, and settings over about 30 minutes. The OS survived and about 98% was recovered from backup.
Source: Maya AI
A Thought-Controlled Bionic Arm Moved Into Its First Home Trial
Avi Davidson, who lost his left arm 17 years ago, is the first person to take the University of Utah's thought-controlled LUKE Arm home for a full year. The direct nerve interface lets him move the arm with his thoughts and feel pressure and texture through it, so within days he was making a sandwich and holding his wife's hand.
Source: University of Utah