Dateline: August 13 2026

Now that we’re all connected on the internet of everything, together with our cars, homes, robots, and city amenities, it’s bound to happen that things go wrong sometimes. But whoever heard of someone being attacked by their washing machine? In a recent spate of 911 calls, the caller has identified the assailant as ... a machine...

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