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Terrence O'Brien
Terrence O'Brien
OpenClaw is scanning AI skills after hundreds of malicious add-ons were found on ClawHub.

Researchers raised alarms when over 400 malicious skills were uploaded to ClawHub and GitHub in just one week. That prompted an outcry, so OpenClaw partnered with VirusTotal to scan third-party skills. The company acknowledges it’s not a “silver bullet,” but it should provide at least some reassurance to concerned users.

The second-gen AirTags are a scatterbrain’s best friend

As someone who can never remember where I put my keys, the louder chime and extended range are godsent.

Victoria Song
Terrence O'Brien
Terrence O'Brien
MST3K is coming back. Again.

Instead of Jonah Ray, Mike Nelson (from the show’s original run) will be donning the jumpsuit. Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett will also be reprising their roles as Servo and Crow. The focus of MST3K: The RiffTrax Experiments will be on “classic bad” movies and it’s already blown past its Kickstarter goal.

Terrence O'Brien
Terrence O'Brien
Moody is a teleprompter that lives in the notch on your Mac.

Sure, you could just load a script up in a window on your laptop, but then you wouldn’t be looking into the camera, which makes things feel awkward and amateurish when you’re recording a video. Moody solves that by putting the prompter in the notch right next to the lens.

Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
An advisor to Prince Andrew tried to pitch Epstein on EV investments.

David Stern suggested Epstein invest in multiple EV startups, including Lucid Motors, Faraday Future, and Canoo, TechCrunch reports. Stern was also an advisor to Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and worked with Epstein for nearly a decade, calling him his “mentor.” He also pitched Epstein on buying farmland in Russia and the news organization Al-Jazeera.

Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
Giannis Antetokounmpo claims “We all on Kalshi now.”

First, no, we’re not, and second, I’d be happier if he said he was joining the Celtics than joining the prediction markets mess, as the still-on-the-Bucks superstar says he’s “joining Kalshi as a shareholder.”

Is this better or worse than the days when every athlete was pitching an NFT scheme/scam?

Image of Giannis with a note about joining Kalshi
Image: Giannis Antetokounmpo
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Dominic Preston
Jay Peters
Jay Peters
The iPhone 18 Pro Max might be even more of a battery champ.

The iPhone 18 Pro Max will have a battery capacity of around 5000 mAh for the version with a SIM slot and around 5200 mAh for versions with eSIM, according to a post from leaker Digital Chat Station reported on by 9to5Mac. I’ll always take more battery.

Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
Gemini becomes an AI interior decorator in Google’s Super Bowl ad.

The “New Home” commercial features nostalgic piano music and a heartfelt voiceover of a mother and son envisioning their new house with some help from Gemini. Notably, it steers clear of fact-focused prompts like the Gouda cheese stat Gemini got wrong in one of last year’s Super Bowl ads.