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Hello and welcome back to the weekly wrap-up from the bunker.

I'm Jacob Jarvis.

Every Friday, we recap the biggest stories, the weirdest stories and the news that has gone under the radar over the last week with some of your favorite bunker personalities and maybe even some panelists from O'Gaudwit.

Now, today I've got someone who fits into both of those camps.

I've got Guardian, leader writer and opinion columnist Raphael Bear. Hi, Raph. Today, I've got someone who fits into both of those camps. I've got Guardian,

leader, writer and opinion columnist Raphael Bear. Hi, Raph.

Hi there, Charles. Let's start out fun, because there's going to be plenty to get into, I'm sure,

which will be less fun. So, yeah, what's the, what's the strangest story you've seen this week?

Strange and also slightly disturbing. I was struck by the tale of an army of robot vacuum cleaners that was requisitions by an AI engineer by accident.

So I don't understand the underlying technology here, it has to be said, but there's a guy who had one of these, it's called a DJI Romo vacuum cleaner. Okay. It's a robot vacuum cleaner and you can program it, it's your house. These little sort of R2D2 style things are just going to bounce around. Yeah, exactly. That's very much the vibe. Yeah. And it kind of looks like a cross between like a nutry bullet upside down and an R2D TV. Anyway, he thought this guy thought it would be fun to hack it so that he could then control it with his PS5 gaming joystick, as we used to call it, the game pad control thing. And because he's an AI engineer, he knows how to do it and reverse engineer all this code and like insert techie stuff. I don't really understand here and thought, well, hey, I can play with my vacuum cleaner using my

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