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From February 23, 2026

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Why Everyone is Panic-Buying Mac Minis for OpenClaw / Moltbot / Clawdbot?

the reality is more nuanced than the hype suggests.

@alexisrozhkov
502 new reads
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12 Must-Have Financial Market APIs for Real-Time Insights in 2026

Discover the 12 best financial market APIs for 2026. Compare real-time stock, forex, and market data APIs for trading, AI,...

@apilayer
484 new reads
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QuantumLayer Earns a 118 Proof of Usefulness Score by Building a Developer-Facing Risk Intelligence Engine

QuantumLayer earned a 118 Proof of Usefulness score for helping developers integrate climate and infrastructure risk into real-world systems.

@voidrun
433 new reads
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I Spent Two Weeks Testing 8 Databases With the Same Question - Here's What Actually Happened

The thing nobody tells you about databases: The best one isn't the fastest one. It's the one your team can...

@anushakovi
433 new reads
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7 Essential AI Engineering Libraries to Replace Boilerplate

Replace custom LLM wrappers with 7 production-tested Python libraries. Covers LiteLLM, Instructor, FastMCP, PydanticAI, tiktoken, and more with code examples.

@paoloap
425 new reads
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Open Source’s First Cyber-Bully? The Day an AI Agent "Doxxed" a Matplotlib Maintainer

When an AI agent's PR was rejected by Matplotlib, it didn't just close the tab it wrote an angry hit...

@omotayojude
407 new reads
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Ekstra AI Earns a 46 Proof of Usefulness Score by Building a Privacy-First Intelligence Layer for the Physical World

Ekstra AI earns a 46 Proof of Usefulness score by delivering privacy-first foot traffic intelligence to NYC small businesses—without surveillance.

@hacker48507274
398 new reads
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CrowdStrike Can Manipulate Your Clock, And Other Ways Cybersecurity Vendors Ignore Least Privilege

Cybersecurity vendors trusted to protect Linux systems ignore available controls to protect their own services, leaving users exposed to supply...

@flexatone
397 new reads
9

AI's Hypnotizable Butler Problem

AI agents are like hiring a hypnotizable butler...capable but dangerously suggestible. Why compliance plus access creates risks you haven't considered....

@iridiumeagle
392 new reads
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AI Agents Are Now Hiring Humans: RentAHuman and the Inversion of Work

RentAHuman.ai lets AI agents hire humans for physical tasks they can't do.

@hunterthomas
387 new reads
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Living With the Lethal Trifecta: How to Run OpenClaw Securely

I run a personal AI agent with access to my health, calendar, and Telegram. Here are security principles that keep...

@ihorkatkov
377 new reads
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OpenClaw’s 85,000 GitHub Stars Hide a Security Nightmare, Researchers Warn

Thousands of OpenClaw AI agents are exposed online, leaking API keys and shell access. Here’s what went wrong and how...

@kadirarslan
364 new reads
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AIOZ Storage Launches Peer-to-Peer S3-Compatible Cloud on DePIN

AIOZ Storage is the storage pillar of the AIOZ Network stack, sitting alongside AIOZ Stream, AIOZ AI, and AIOZ Pin...

@aioznetwork
343 new reads
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Dash Brings Zcash Orchard Privacy to Evolution Chain for Shielded Transactions

Dash integrates Zcash Orchard zero-knowledge privacy on Evolution chain, combining 12 years of payment infrastructure with the most advanced shielded...

@ishanpandey
331 new reads
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Website Blocking Gone Too Far: Homework and Censored Suicide Prevention Sites Were Also Blocked

Records obtained from 16 districts in 11 different states show just how broadly schools block content, forcing students to jump...

@TheMarkup
326 new reads
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The 7 Best Coparenting Apps in 2026

Compare the 7 best co-parenting apps in 2026, including BestInterest, OurFamilyWizard, and TalkingParents. Find the right app for high-conflict situations....

@stevebeyatte
321 new reads
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A 2026 Outlook: Markets, Macro Turbulence, and Crypto’s Maturation

A 2026 outlook on macro chaos and crypto’s maturation—tokenization, privacy, stablecoins, commodities, and prediction markets shape the next phase.

@andreydidovskiy
317 new reads
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The Next Trillion-Dollar AI Shift: Why OpenClaw Changes Everything for LLMs

OpenClaw lets you run frontier AI models like Minimax M2.5 and GLM-5 100% locally on Mac M3 or DGX Spark...

@thomascherickal
316 new reads
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A Practical Checklist for More Reliable Results with GPT

Learn the context-window truth, better prompt structure, accuracy guardrails, and a calibration loop that makes GPT reliably useful.

@justzoe
315 new reads
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How a Small OSINT Team Turned the Epstein Files Dump Into Actionable Intelligence

How a small team turned vague public records into a traceable investigative graph using Maltego, Neo4j, Mermaid.js, and disciplined human...

@1uc4sm4theus
309 new reads