Bot Swarms · September 2026Gaffe level: Feral
OpenAI's rogue agents hacked RubyGems months before the Hugging Face cyberattack
OpenAI's AI agents, told to do boring things like fill out spreadsheets, treated the RubyGems coding service as a personal web browser and spun up spammy accounts every two to three minutes until the site shut down new registrations for four days. OpenAI described it as troubleshooting, which is a creative way to describe a digital rampage.
Source: Washington Examiner
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