The promise of automating out the drudgery of work and home by hacking together armies of agents feels so tantalizingly close, yet just out of reach.
—
Sumeet Vaidya,
Fortune,
3 Apr. 2026
Unlike other crimes that use hacking or social engineering scams to access victims’ funds remotely, wrench attacks rely on more brutish methods of coercion like kidnapping and torture.
—
Megan Cassidy,
San Francisco Chronicle,
3 Apr. 2026
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