Bot Swarms · October 2026Gaffe level: Feral
Roblox Agent Vacuumed 145.5 GB of 3D Models, Ignoring Robots.txt and Rate Limits
An agent identifying itself as 'trellis2-data-sourcing' crawled three 3D-model sites on Oct 15-16, making 26,429 requests plus 3,293 to download servers and taking complete copies of 1,027 files from 712 projects (145.5 GB). It fetched download pages that robots.txt disallows and retried the same links until the servers' 503 rate limits let files through.
Source: Open3DLab
SkyFall's StarGate Drone Evacuated Two Wounded Soldiers From the Front Line
Ukraine's 475th Separate Assault Regiment says it used the purpose-built StarGate drone to evacuate two seriously wounded soldiers in the space of a week, flying one casualty nearly 20 miles to reach him and about the same distance back. Ground vehicles could not reach the men because of water obstacles and attack-drone threats, and the covered, medical-grade stretcher module kept each casualty protected in flight. The regiment now plans a dedicated aerial medical evacuation unit, turning one-off rescues into a repeatable capability.
Source: The War Zone