Last year's DARPA-sponsored race ended unspectacularly as most of the robots involved in the 150-mile race crashed near the starting line. The 20-odd contestants are looking to do better this year thanks to upgraded AI and equipment. Read the full story.

Nuketown's forums have been up since late August, and have been slowly gathering momentum. I'm still experimenting with ways to drive traffic to the forums, including linking to them from some of the articles on the main site, highlighting them in the newsletter and now this: a weekly round-up of notable conversations. I'll be doing one of these round-ups every Tuesday for the next month as an experiment; after that I'll assess how well it worked and adjust accordingly.