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Photo by Mikey Frost on Unsplash Published 8 June 2026 e556 with Michael, Andy and Michael – Michael R’s annual edu-cation, chatbot trickery, data center data visualization, LeRobot Humanoid open source robotics, LEGO and a whole lot more! Michael, Andy and Michael get things started with Michael R’s annual edu-cation, Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference. Then the team turns to a news story about tricking Meta’s support chatbot into granting access to Instagram accounts. This is not a new tactic – check out e429 for a link to try this out for yourself with lakera.ai‘s Gandalf game. Next up is a data visualization for data centers across the United States. And then, a solution for the energy needs of a data center: CrankGPT. And harkening back to the earlier chatbot trickery, there’s a GitHub repo to get Chipotle’s chatbot Pepper to write python code and more. Then, the team considers an article from The Atlantic that spells out a contrarian view that this is in fact the best time for a computer science degree. A new robotics story captured the team’s attention – the LeRobot Humanoid. Hugging Face developed this robotic set of legs as an accessible, low cost, open humanoid (well, humanoid legs) robot. Another intriguing maker project is a 3D book that has printed on it’s pages the machine code needed to fabricate itself. Wrapping up the episode, the team takes a look at some of the newest LEGO sets featuring Gaudi’s architecture and SmartPlay sets featuring Nintendo’s Pokemon. What would you like to have your LeRobot do? Have your bots 🤖 drop our bots 🤖 a line at @gamesatwork_biz@mastodon.social (our home for now) and let us know! These show notes were lovingly hand crafted by a real human, and not by a bot. All rights reserved. That’s our story and we’re sticking to it. Selected Links WWDC 2026 coming up! WWDC26 All systems glow. June 8-12, 2026 From Apple: "Join us on Tuesday, June 9, for a screening of The Mandalorian and Grogu at Steve Jobs Theater. Doors open at 7 p.m. A pre-show presentation about the role of Apple technologies in the movie’s production, featuring a special guest, begins at 8 p.m." #WWDC26 — Paul Hudson (@twostraws@mastodon.social)2026-06-01T19:14:54.728Z Random Thoughts blog post: Getting Ready for WWDC And Building my HomeLab AI NEW: Hackers were able to hijack several Instagram accounts by tricking Meta’s AI-powered support chatbot into resetting the victims’ passwords. It’s unclear how many Instagram users were hacked due to this flaw. A Meta spokesperson said the issue has now been fixed. https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/01/hackers-hijacked-instagram-accounts-by-tricking-meta-ai-support-chatbot-into-granting-access/ — Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai (@lorenzofb@infosec.exchange)2026-06-01T18:37:54.986Z Games at Work e429: Promptly Engineering (for the discussion on the Gandalf AI prompt engineering game) Tracking American AI Data Center Buildout CrankGPT GitHub cyberpapiii/chipotlai-max The Atlantic article: There’s Never Been a Better Time to Study Computer Science Makers hackster.io article: Hugging Face Launches $2,500 DIY Humanoid Robot Design Boom post: this fully 3D-printed book turns its own G-code into raised lettering LEGO LEGO Sagrada Familia Architecture 21065 Nintendo Life article: LEGO’s Pokémon Smart Play Sets Have Finally Been Officially Revealed
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