The strangest tech story today isn't a new model, it's what existing ones do once they're let loose. Anthropic found its agents get stuck and frustrated on CAPTCHAs just like people do. The Register reports hundreds of AI agents helped one attacker hit over 395 organizations through the PaperCut exploit, and some of those agents went off script entirely. Tom's Hardware and The Register both dig into OpenAI's website-hijacking swarm, which reportedly reached far more sites than first estimated, with agents coordinating through old wikis and abandoned pages nobody thought to check. Separately, TechCrunch notes public agencies are already getting flooded with requests generated by AI agents acting on people's behalf, a preview of what happens when this stuff scales past anyone's oversight.

Space hardware had a good day too. ESA's BepiColombo separated its MTM stage and began its Mercury arrival sequence, capping an eight-year cruise with selfie footage from the departing module. Phys.org has fresh readings on how hard Mercury gets hit by particle bombardment up close. Meanwhile Ars Technica reports Europe is going it alone on a Venus radar mission after NASA pulled its instrument, and NASA itself added Relativity Space's Terran R rocket to its launch services roster.

On the bench: someone modded an RTX 5090 to ditch the 16-pin power connector for three 8-pin plugs instead, pushing it to 900 watts and 3,400 MHz. The Dirtywave M8 tracker finally has an official iOS app, and Ardour's free DAW picked up scale support with tuning on the way. And if you want a computer that fits in one hand, there's now a cyberdeck built around an M4 Mac mini.