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Submission + - OpenClaw agents targeted with 341 malicious ClawHub skills (scworld.com) 1

Submitted by spatwei
spatwei writes: More than 300 malicious OpenClaw skills hosted on ClawHub spread malware including the Atomic macOS Stealer (AMOS), keyloggers and backdoors, Koi Security reported Sunday.

OpenClaw, formerly known as Moltbot and Clawdbot, is an open-source AI agent that has recently gained significant popularity as a personal and professional assistant.

ClawHub is an open-source marketplace for OpenClaw “skills,” which are tools OpenClaw agents can install to enable new capabilities or integrations.

Koi Security Researcher Oren Yomtov discovered the malicious skills in collaboration with his own OpenClaw assistant named Alex, according to Koi Security’s blog post, which is written from Alex’s perspective.

Yomtov and Alex audited all 2,857 skills available on ClawHub at the time of their investigation, and discovered that 341 were malicious, with 335 seemingly tied to the same campaign.

Submission + - Poop From Young Donors Reverses Age-Related Decline in The Guts of Older Mice (sciencealert.com) 1

Submitted by alternative_right
alternative_right writes: After receiving a fecal microbiota transplant from younger mice, one aspect of age-related decline in the guts of older mice was reversed, driven by increased intestinal stem cell activity that maintains the intestinal walls.

The findings suggest that such transplants could someday be a treatment pathway for age-related intestinal conditions, such as inflammation and obesity.

Submission + - Munich makes digital sovereignty measurable with its own score (heise.de)

Submitted by alternative_right
alternative_right writes: The city of Munich has developed its own measurement instrument to assess the digital sovereignty of its IT infrastructure. The so-called Digital Sovereignty Score (SDS) visually resembles the Nutri-Score and identifies IT systems based on their independence from individual providers and "foreign" legal spheres. The Technical University of Munich was involved in the development.

In September and October 2025, the IT Department already conducted a first comprehensive test. Out of a total of 2780 municipal application services, 194 particularly critical ones were selected and evaluated based on five categories. The analysis already showed a high degree of digital sovereignty: 66 percent of the 194 evaluated services reached the highest levels (SDS 1 and 2), only 5 percent reached the critical level 4, and 21 percent reached the most critical level 5. The SDS evaluates not only technical dependencies but also legal and organizational risks.

Comment Re:Still opportunities (Score 2) 31

In what world is a seller compensating for referrals if it's demonstrably provable to the customer (and hence the seller) that the referral bonus in no way influences the recommendation - or even the pool of options the recommendation is singled out from - provided to the user?

Submission + - Chinese biolab found inside Las Vegas home. (go.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Local and federal investigators in Las Vegas are actively working to determine what substances were found inside a home described as a possible biological lab, with over 1,000 samples sent for testing, authorities said.

In the garage, investigators found multiple refrigerators with vials of unknown liquids, unknown liquids in gallon-size containers, a centrifuge and other laboratory equipment, authorities said.

In an open refrigerator and freezer, investigators saw a "significant volume of material," including vials and storage containers "with liquids of different colors and compositions," McMahill said.

The person arrested on Saturday — identified as Ori Solomon, 55 — is believed to be the property manager at the location, according to McMahill.

Solomon has been charged with felony disposal/ discharge of hazardous waste in an unauthorized manner and remains in custody, according to court records.

The owner of the property was arrested and charged in 2023 in connection with an investigation into an illegal bio lab in Reedley, California, authorities said. The owner, a Chinese national, remains in federal custody and has pleaded not guilty.

Submission + - Scientists Explored Island Cave, Found 1 Million-Year-Old Remnants a Lost World (popularmechanics.com)

Submitted by fahrbot-bot
fahrbot-bot writes: A spectacular trove of fossils in a discovered in a cave on New Zealand's North Island has given scientists their first glimpse of ancient forest species that lived there more than a million years ago. The fossils represent 12 ancient bird species and four frog species, including several previously unknown bird species. Taken together, the fossils paint a picture of an ancient world that looks drastically different than it does today. The discovery also fills in an important gap in scientific understanding of the patterns of extinction that preceded human arrival in New Zealand 750 years ago.

The team published a study on the find in Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology.

Submission + - Valve's counter-suit of a patent troll headed to jury trial (iipla.org)

Submitted by doug141
doug141 writes: Valve is counter-suing a patent troll and his attorneys alleging a bad-faith abuse of the justice system. The case could not be going worse for the troll. It is headed for jury trial next month. The outcome of the trial will likely have far-reaching implications for the parties involved and could set a precedent for intellectual property disputes.

Submission + - Researchers completely eliminate pancreatic tumors in mice. (www.cnio.es)

Submitted by fahrbot-bot
fahrbot-bot writes: Mariano Barbacid, head of the Experimental Oncology Group at the National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), has designed a therapy that successfully eliminates pancreatic tumours in mice completely and durably, with no significant side effects. The study is published in the journal PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences), with Carmen Guerra as co-lead author and Vasiliki Liaki and Sara Barrambana as first authors.

Current drugs for pancreatic cancer lose effectiveness within months because the tumour becomes resistant. The group from Spain’s National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) has been able to avoid the development of resistance in animal models with a combined triple therapy.

These results “pave the way for the design of combined therapies that may improve survival,” the authors indicate, although this will not happen in the short term. The results are published in PNAS.

Submission + - Paris prosecutor's cybercrime unit searches X office

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: PARIS, Feb 3 (Reuters) — “French police raided the offices of Elon Musk's social media network X and prosecutors ordered the tech billionaire to face questions in April related to a widening investigation into the platform, the Paris prosecutor's office said on Tuesday.”

“The raid and the summoning of Musk — which could further increase tensions between Europe and the U.S. over big tech and free speech — are linked to a year-long investigation into suspected abuse of algorithms and fraudulent data extraction by X or its executives.”

Comment Re:Doesn't pass the smell test (Score 4, Insightful) 93

by SirSlud (#65965572) Attached to: Feds Skipping Infosec Industry's Biggest Conference This Year

Lets ignore for a moment the fact that privately funding an addition to the White House invites all kinds of inappropriate opportunity for the sort of quid pro quo one would generally want to presumably not have ones government engaged in ...

The ballroom triples the square footage. Hosting gets more expensive, maintenance gets more expensive, heating gets, cleaning gets more expensive. Building a thing is not the only cost associated with that thing.

Submission + - Hidden Car Door Handles Are Officially Being Banned in China (caranddriver.com)

Submitted by sinij
sinij writes:

Automakers have increasingly implemented door handles that retract into the bodywork for aerodynamic reasons, but they are now off limits in China.

My issue is with electronic-only door latch mechanism. It should be possible to open the door from both inside and outside the car in case of complete power loss.

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