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 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.

  With the buzz already audible regarding the October opening of Krasner and Pollock: Past Continuous at The Met, a major exhibition on two mid-century titans that also promises to bring new perspective on the ways in which outstanding woman artists have been disappeared by the art world at large, this is a good time to focus on a painter who will likely become better known following her untimely death than she was in life. Above: The artist in 2019 in he...