ROBOTS WITH RIFLES GOT BEHIND THE WHEEL OF AN OFF-ROAD CAR, AND THEIR BIGGEST WEAKNESS JUST DISAPPEARED
A small open off-road car tears over gravel and sand hills in a quarry. Armed robots sit in the seats, and one of them is at the wheel.
The weak spot of humanoid robots has always been speed. On foot most of them move about as fast as a person walking, around 5 km/h, and the battery runs out long before they get anywhere far.
A car fixes both problems at once. Something like this does around 100 km/h over rough ground, and the robots get where they are going without burning their own charge on the way.
Nothing about the car had to change. No special cab, no custom robot vehicle. It uses the same seat and the same wheel that were built for a person.
That means every jeep and truck an army already owns turns into a way to move robots fast. A robot that walks can only reach the next field. A robot that drives can show up anywhere within an hour.
A walking robot is a curiosity. A robot behind the wheel is a raid.
Claude Code hacked my website in 35 seconds and found 7 security flaws, including a way user data could be exposed
I gave Claude one job: think like an attacker, go through my backend, and find everything you can break
it started tracing authentication, following user input through the code, and checking how database queries were built
35 seconds later I had a list I didn't want to read
> an access control flaw that could expose other users' data
> a SQL injection risk buried in a database query
> a dangerous command execution path
> credentials sitting in the codebase
> missing security headers
> weak input validation
> insecure file access
the command execution issue caught my attention first
Claude followed user input into a function that could execute system commands, then explained why the code was dangerous and what would need to be tested before calling it an exploitable vulnerability
then it found a route that checked whether someone was logged in, but never verified whether they had permission to access the requested resource
anyone authenticated could pull anyone else's data
you don't need a sophisticated zero day when a missing authorization check is all that stands between an attacker and your users' records
I asked it to go through the findings again, explain the evidence, rank the severity, and recommend fixes
it turned everything into a report with affected files and specific remediation steps
7 findings, one session, zero manual line-by-line review
the world's first claude code run on the iPhone Duo. and i think it's the best setup anyone can carry in a pocket right now…
and here's why this combo is the biggest leap for solo founders since the laptop itself:
> two screens, two jobs · claude code on the left, messages, mail and X on the right. no switching apps, no losing your place
> a real keyboard when you need it · unfold it flat and the bottom half turns into a full keyboard. it's a tiny laptop with a 2-second boot
> the mac does the heavy lifting · you have literally 2 incredibly powerful devices · claude code runs on the mac mini at home. the phone just steers, so the battery barely moves
> it works while you sleep · fold it, put it on the nightstand, and claude code keeps building on the mac until morning
> it's always on you · your laptop stays at home. this is in your pocket at dinner, in the car, in line for coffee
would you want this combo for yourself? ↓
About 99% of microbes have never been grown in a lab. Not because they are rare - because nobody knows what to feed them.
Sequencing found them decades ago. They sit in soil, in seawater, in your gut, and die the moment they touch standard agar.
The field calls it microbial dark matter and quietly works around it.
A model was aimed at the problem backwards: stop designing the organism, design the medium it is missing.
It reads a genome and lists every pathway the organism cannot run itself. Each gap is something the plate has to supply.
What one genome came back needing:
> Carbon - not glucose, a sugar it cannot process
> Cofactor - vitamin B12, it has no genes to make it
> Oxygen - a narrow band, roughly 2-5%
> Neighbour - an amino acid another species excretes
That last line is the real finding. Many of these never grew alone because they were never alone.
Standard practice isolates one strain and treats contamination as failure. For a large share of them, contamination was the condition for life.
Several recipes have now been tested. Some grew nothing. Others produced colonies from samples that had refused to culture for years.
Every antibiotic class in use came from something we could grow. The untested majority has never been screened for anything.
The recipes, the genome gaps behind them and what grew are in the article below ↓