The story of the great vac hack of 2026 has taken a twist, adding to a very weird winter for Chinese tech giant DJI. The company, best known for making drones, escalated its fight against a U.S. drone ban in February by suing the FCC. Then the internet erupted over an entirely different DJI device: The Romo robot vacuum. Thousands of Romo vacuums and their live cameras worldwide were reportedly hacked -- not by an evil mastermind sitting in a room surrounded by screens, but by a guy trying to get his PS5 controller to control his robot vacuum. Now DJI will pay the accidental hacker a $30,000 bug bounty for discovering a critical security flaw in the vacs.

  Friday, March 13, 6:30pm: Leanne Shapton and Jason Fulford Talk at Dashwood Dashwood Projects presents In Cars: On Diana, an exhibition of paintings on paper by artist and writer Leanne Shapton. The work is based on photographs of Princess Diana getting out of cars. In Shapton’s hands, Diana is abstracted and turned into shades of grey reducing her to form and motion, exploring themes of celebrity, identity and facsimile. Dashwood Books published In Cars: On Diana&...