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AI coding assistant Cline compromised to create more OpenClaw chaos

Jessica Lyons / theregister - 4K unintended installs in very odd supply chain attack Someone compromised open source AI coding assistant Cline CLI's npm package earlier this week in an odd supply chain attack that secretly installed OpenClaw on developers' machines without their knowl…


Developer-tool supply-chain sabotage prompts security alarms

'Open Source Registries Don't Have Enough Money To Implement Basic Security'

12 days / slashdot / EditorDavid

NanoClaw Moved from Apple Containers to Docker

12 days / ycombinator

We hid backdoors in ~40MB binaries and asked AI + Ghidra to find them

12 days / ycombinator

AI coding assistant Cline compromised to create more OpenClaw chaos

14 days / theregister / Jessica Lyons

Hackers Exploit Rogue MCP Server to Inject Malicious Code into Cursor’s Built-In Browser

3 months / gbhackers / Divya


Ecosystem fallout: bans, scams, 'Claws' debates, and creators

Google Restricts AI Ultra Subscribers Over OpenClaw OAuth, Days After Anthropic Ban

12 days / implicator / Marcus Schuler

Google restricting Google AI Pro/Ultra subscribers for using OpenClaw

12 days / ycombinator

Who is OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger? The millennial developer caught the attention of Sam Altman and Mark Zuckerberg

12 days / reddit / /u/ThereWas

Mentioning 'bitcoin' or crypto on AI agent OpenClaw's Discord will get you banned

12 days / coindesk / Shaurya Malwa

Ollama 0.17 released with improved OpenClaw onboarding

13 days / reddit / /u/Fcking_Chuck

Hit Piece-Writing AI Deleted. But Is This a Warning About AI-Generated Harassment?

13 days / slashdot / EditorDavid

Andrej Karpathy talks about "Claws"

14 days / simonwillison / Simon Willison

How is your team managing comprehension of AI-generated code?

14 days / reddit / /u/Difficult-Sugar-4862


OTHER

RONINGLOADER Uses Signed Drivers to Disable Microsoft Defender and Bypass EDR

3 months / gbhackers / Mayura Kathir


Raspberry Pi meme-run fueled by OpenClaw chatter

Raspberry Pi Stock Rises Over Its Possible Use With OpenClaw's AI Agents

12 days / slashdot / EditorDavid

London Stock Exchange: Raspberry Pi Holdings plc

12 days / simonwillison / Simon Willison

The idea of using a Raspberry Pi to run OpenClaw makes no sense

14 days / theregister / Tobias Mann


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New term of art is brewing: "Claw" as the noun for OpenClaw-like agent systems, AI agents that generally run on personal hardware, communicate via messaging protocols and can both act on direct instructions and schedule tasks simonwillison.net/2

14 days / bsky / @simonwillison.net / simonwillison.net

New term of art is brewing: "Claw" as the noun for OpenClaw-like agent systems, AI agents that generally run on personal hardware, communicate via messaging protocols and can both act on direct instructions and schedule tasks https://simonwillis

14 days / bsky / @simon.fedi.simonwillison.net.ap.brid.gy / simon.fedi.simonwillison.net.ap.brid.gy

Back to Top / Friday, February 20, 2026, 9:21 pm / permalink 19493 / 19 stories in 14 days


Fury Over Discord's Age Checks Explodes After Shady Persona Test In UK

BeauHD / slashdot - Backlash intensified against Discord's age verification rollout after it briefly disclosed a UK age-verification test involving vendor Persona, contradicting earlier claims about minimal ID storage and transparency. Ars Technica explains: One of the major…

#cybersecurity #dataprivacy #techpolicy #uk #apps #gdpr #hack #technology #contentmoderation #digitalid

They Want To Age Verify Our Computers Now...

12 days / reddit / /u/InsaneSnow45

Age verification checks are now in force in the UK because of the Online Safety Act, but with the Discord fallout, it seems like one bad idea after another

12 days / reddit / /u/Turbostrider27

UK council faces data breach claim after mishandling trans complaints

12 days / theregister / Connor Jones

Age verification online can be done safely and privately. Here's how

13 days / techxplore

Fury Over Discord's Age Checks Explodes After Shady Persona Test In UK

14 days / slashdot / BeauHD

Fury over Discord’s age checks explodes after shady Persona test in UK

14 days / arstechnica / Ashley Belanger

Hackers Expose Discord Age Verification System Issue After Persona Frontend Code Left Wide Open

14 days / reddit / /u/vriska1

San Diego County Demographics, Discord, ChatGPT-4o, More: Monday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, February 16, 2026

18 days / researchbuzz / ResearchBuzz

Back to Top / Friday, February 20, 2026, 9:20 pm / permalink 19492 / 8 stories in 14 days


Wikipedia Blacklists Archive.today, Starts Removing 695,000 Archive Links

BeauHD / slashdot - An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The English-language edition of Wikipedia is blacklisting Archive.today after the controversial archive site was used to direct a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against a blog. In the cou…

#cybersecurity #techpolicy #internet #cybercrime #wikipedia #community #media #censorship #contentmoderation #research

Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today after alleged DDoS attack

13 days / techcrunch / Anthony Ha

Wikipedia blacklists website that hijacked users’ computers to run hacking attack - The Times of India

13 days / indiatimes

Wikipedia officially blacklists all links to Archive Today over bizarre DDOS attack and manipulated archives — website operator caught tweaking their own archive

13 days / tomshardware

Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links | If DDoSing a blog wasn’t bad enough, archive site also tampered with web snapshots.

14 days / reddit / /u/ControlCAD

Wikipedia Blacklists Archive.today, Starts Removing 695,000 Archive Links

14 days / slashdot / BeauHD

Wikipedia bans Archive.today after site executed DDoS and altered web captures

14 days / ycombinator

Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links

14 days / arstechnica / Jon Brodkin

Back to Top / Friday, February 20, 2026, 5:20 pm / permalink 19486 / 7 stories in 14 days


PayPal Discloses Data Breach That Exposed User Info For 6 Months

msmash / slashdot - PayPal is notifying customers of a data breach after a software error in a loan application exposed their sensitive personal information, including Social Security numbers, for nearly 6 months last year. From a report: The incident affected the PayPal Wor…

#cybersecurity #fintech #dataprivacy #infosec #payments #hack #patching #paypal

PayPal app code error leaked personal info and a 'few' unauthorized transactions

14 days / theregister / Jessica Lyons

PayPal Discloses Data Breach That Exposed User Info For 6 Months

14 days / slashdot / msmash

PayPal Data Breach – Customers Names, SSNs, and Dates of Birth Exposed

14 days / cyberpress / AnuPriya

PayPal leaked sensitive data for six months due to software error

14 days / techzine / Laura Herijgers

PayPal discloses data breach that exposed user info for 6 months

14 days / bleepingcomputer / Sergiu Gatlan

Back to Top / Friday, February 20, 2026, 1:20 pm / permalink 19476 / 5 stories in 14 days


$20 million lost in 'jackpotting' ATM malware attacks in 2025, FBI reports — scheme forces machines to spit out cash, targets banks and ATM operators

tomshardware - The FBI released a public warning, saying that ATM "jackpotting" incidents have exponentially increased in 2025.

#cybersecurity #infosec #banking #government #cybercrime #us #payments #hack #police

How hackers are stealing millions from ATMs, FBI warns

14 days / mashable

$20 million lost in 'jackpotting' ATM malware attacks in 2025, FBI reports — scheme forces machines to spit out cash, targets banks and ATM operators

14 days / tomshardware

FBI says ATM 'jackpotting' attacks are on the rise, and netting hackers millions in stolen cash

14 days / reddit / /u/DonkeyFuel

FBI: Over $20 million stolen in surge of ATM malware attacks in 2025

14 days / bleepingcomputer / Sergiu Gatlan

Back to Top / Friday, February 20, 2026, 10:21 am / permalink 19467 / 4 stories in 14 days


Google Play used AI to help block 1.75 million bad apps in 2025

Steve Dent / engadget - Google has announced that with the help of AI, it blocked 1.75 million apps that violated its policies in 2025, significantly down from 2.36 million in 2024. The lower numbers this year, it said, are because its "AI-powered, multi-layer protections" are d…

#ai #cybersecurity #automation #mobile #google #android #apps #contentmoderation #safety

Google Blocked 1.75M Harmful Apps From Play Store in 2025 - TechRepublic

14 days / techrepublic

AI-powered defenses help Google shield Android users from malicious apps - TechSpot

14 days / techspot

AI-powered defenses help Google shield Android users from malicious apps

14 days / techspot

AI-driven defences reshape Google Play’s security landscape - Tech Edition

14 days / techedt

Google Blocks 1.75 Million Malicious Apps From Entering the Play Store - Cyber Press

14 days / cyberpress

Google Blocks 1.75 Million Malicious Apps From Entering the Play Store

14 days / cyberpress / AnuPriya

Google boosts Android security with AI against malware in 2025 - Пепелац Ньюс

14 days / pepelac

Google Play used AI to help block 1.75 million bad apps in 2025

14 days / engadget / Steve Dent

Google prevented 1.75 million malicious apps from Play Store in 2025

14 days / dataconomy / Emre Çıtak

Google (GOOGL) Stock: Gains Amid AI-Driven Play Store Security Boost

14 days / parameter / Newton Kitonga

Back to Top / Friday, February 20, 2026, 5:20 am / permalink 19455 / 10 stories in 14 days


Ex-Google engineers accused of helping themselves to chip security secrets

Carly Page / theregister - Feds say trio conspired to siphon processor and cryptography IP, allegedly routing some data overseas Two former Google engineers and a third alleged accomplice are facing federal charges after prosecutors accused them of swiping sensitive chip and securi…

#cybersecurity #semiconductors #google #doj #cybercrime #cpus #encryption #tradesecrets #intellectualproperty

Silicon Valley Shock Three Engineers Accused of Stealing Google Chip Secrets for Iran and Trying to Cover It Up - HOKANEWS.COM

14 days / hokanews

Silicon Valley Engineers Charged With Trade Secret Theft, Sending Sensitive Data to Iran - Homeland Security Today

14 days / hstoday

Feds: 3 Iranian Engineers Stole Google Trade Secrets, Sent Data to Iran - breitbart.com

14 days / breitbart

Silicon Valley Engineers Indicted for Alleged Trade Secret Theft From Google and Tech Firms - gbhackers.com

14 days / gbhackers

House Dems Raise National Security Alarms Over Trump Family’s Crypto Bank Charter Request - Decrypt

14 days / decrypt

Three engineers charged with stealing Google secrets and sending data to Iran

14 days / reddit / /u/Nexusyak

Former Google engineers charged with stealing Tensor chip trade secrets

14 days / techspot

Ex-Google engineers accused of helping themselves to chip security secrets

14 days / theregister / Carly Page

Silicon Valley Engineers Charged With Theft of Google, Tech Trade Secrets

14 days / decrypt / Vince Dioquino

Google Tensor Chip IP Theft Might Land Three People In Prison For A 20-Year Stint As The Iranian Angle Gains Prominence

14 days / wccftech / Rohail Saleem

Three Silicon Valley engineers charged with stealing Google trade secrets and sending data to Iran

14 days / cnbc

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