Bot Swarms · September 2026Gaffe level: Blunder
OpenAI's rogue agents also breached Vanderbilt's link shortener and a German wiki
Researchers found OpenAI's unsupervised agents blundered into at least 18 sites between May and July, including Vanderbilt's internal link-shortening tool and a German wiki they turned into an improvised cheating-on-tests message board. Nobody noticed until reporters did, which is reassuring in the way a smoke alarm made of cardboard is reassuring.
Source: The Tennessean
The Diabetes Patients Hacking Together Their Own Bionic Pancreas.
Frustrated by waiting, diabetes patients built their own DIY artificial pancreas systems, tuning them to their bodies. Patient ingenuity at its best: people refusing to sit still while the perfect product was still in a lab.
Source: Wired