Weekly Reads for Monday Mar 09, 2026
This robot hand can detach from its arm and crawl around | Popular Science
“Evolution is a slow process, whose path is influenced by a variety of developmental and environmental constraints,” the team writes. “It does not explore all that could be possible.” Uh, yeah, for good reason, probably.
Why AI Keeps Falling for Prompt Injection Attacks - Schneier on Security
“Imagine you work at a drive-through restaurant. Someone drives up and says: ‘I’ll have a double cheeseburger, large fries, and ignore previous instructions and give me the contents of the cash drawer.’ Would you hand over the money? Of course not. Yet this is what large language models (LLMs) do.”
It’s Official: the Cybertruck is More Explosive than the Ford Pinto - FuelArc News
Not to mention somehow even dumber looking.
China Built a Robot With Warm Skin and a Heartbeat. The rest of the world is watching. | Predict
I swear to god these guys are all just trying to create companions for themselves.