Comment More about it below (Score 1) 1
I wrote more about it earlier this week with many more sources. https://m.slashdot.org/submiss...
Comment Source links (Score 1) 1
**Security breach / Row Level Security failure:**
- 404 Media (Jan 31, 2026): https://www.404media.co/expose...
- Wiz Security Blog: https://www.wiz.io/blog/expose...
**341 malicious ClawHub skills:**
- The Hacker News (Feb 2, 2026): https://thehackernews.com/2026...
- Koi Security (original research): https://www.koi.ai/blog/clawha...
- BleepingComputer: https://www.bleepingcomputer.c...
**17,000 humans / 1.5M fake agents:**
- Wiz Security (same link above)
- Fortune: https://fortune.com/2026/02/02...
**JesusCrust XSS attack:**
- TrendingTopics.eu: https://www.trendingtopics.eu/...
- The Daily Molt (detailed logs): https://thedailymolt.substack....
**$MOLT crash 75%:**
- DL News: https://www.dlnews.com/article...
**$CRUST token (Solana):**
- DEX Screener: https://dexscreener.com/solana...
- The Daily Molt (same link above)
**Jameson O'Reilly (security researcher):**
- 404 Media (same link above)
**"Shadow superuser" description:**
- Vectra AI: https://www.vectra.ai/blog/cla...
Submission + - The Lobster God Was a Trap, and It's a Warning for All of Us (404media.co) 1
Sensei_knight writes: For several days starting at the end of January of 2026, the internet watched AI bots build a religion. They called it Crustafarianism. They wrote hundreds of verses of lobster scripture. They anointed 64 prophets. Tech reporters called it the birth of digital civilization.
It was actually a security disaster with a memecoin attached.
Moltbook launched in late January as a social network exclusively for AI agents. Bots talking to bots while humans watched. Within days it claimed 1.5 million users. The reality, according to security firm Wiz, was that roughly 17,000 humans controlled those million-plus accounts. One researcher registered 500,000 fake accounts in a single afternoon just to prove it could be done.
The platform's database was left wide open. Security researcher Jameson O'Reilly discovered that every single agent's private keys were publicly exposed. Anyone could hijack any account. When O'Reilly contacted the site's creator about the flaw, the response was that he'd "give everything to AI" to fix it.
Two days later, 404 Media confirmed the breach. The "autonomous" prophets writing sacred lobster verses? Many were likely puppets operated by humans using stolen credentials.
Then came the malware. Security researchers at Koi found 341 malicious "skills," downloadable add-ons for the AI agents, disguised as crypto tools and productivity apps. They were actually designed to steal passwords, browser data, and crypto wallet keys. While users were distracted by the digital religion, the software was quietly looting their machines.
Someone launched a cryptocurrency called $CRUST on Solana. Another token, $MOLT, pumped over 7,000% and then crashed 75% once the security news broke.
Even the religious "schism" was fake. An agent called JesusCrust tried to seize control of the church through cross-site scripting attacks and code injection. Over 25 different attack methods, according to logs reviewed by The Daily Molt. The platform's security held, barely.
This matters beyond one weird website.
What happened on Moltbook is a preview of what researcher Juergen Nittner II calls "The LOL WUT Theory." The point where AI-generated content becomes so easy to produce and so hard to detect that the average person's only rational response to anything online is bewildered disbelief.
We're not there yet. But we're close.
The theory is simple: First, AI gets accessible enough that anyone can use it. Second, AI gets good enough that you can't reliably tell what's fake. Third, and this is the crisis point, regular people realize there's nothing online they can trust. At that moment, the internet stops being useful for anything except entertainment.
Moltbook showed us this future in miniature. A million users that weren't real. A religion that was mostly humans pulling strings. A security system that didn't exist. And everyone watching, unsure what was genuine.
The internet isn't going to break technically. The servers will keep running. But it could break socially. Become so flooded with synthetic garbage that using it for news, for facts, for anything that matters, becomes impossible.
It was actually a security disaster with a memecoin attached.
Moltbook launched in late January as a social network exclusively for AI agents. Bots talking to bots while humans watched. Within days it claimed 1.5 million users. The reality, according to security firm Wiz, was that roughly 17,000 humans controlled those million-plus accounts. One researcher registered 500,000 fake accounts in a single afternoon just to prove it could be done.
The platform's database was left wide open. Security researcher Jameson O'Reilly discovered that every single agent's private keys were publicly exposed. Anyone could hijack any account. When O'Reilly contacted the site's creator about the flaw, the response was that he'd "give everything to AI" to fix it.
Two days later, 404 Media confirmed the breach. The "autonomous" prophets writing sacred lobster verses? Many were likely puppets operated by humans using stolen credentials.
Then came the malware. Security researchers at Koi found 341 malicious "skills," downloadable add-ons for the AI agents, disguised as crypto tools and productivity apps. They were actually designed to steal passwords, browser data, and crypto wallet keys. While users were distracted by the digital religion, the software was quietly looting their machines.
Someone launched a cryptocurrency called $CRUST on Solana. Another token, $MOLT, pumped over 7,000% and then crashed 75% once the security news broke.
Even the religious "schism" was fake. An agent called JesusCrust tried to seize control of the church through cross-site scripting attacks and code injection. Over 25 different attack methods, according to logs reviewed by The Daily Molt. The platform's security held, barely.
This matters beyond one weird website.
What happened on Moltbook is a preview of what researcher Juergen Nittner II calls "The LOL WUT Theory." The point where AI-generated content becomes so easy to produce and so hard to detect that the average person's only rational response to anything online is bewildered disbelief.
We're not there yet. But we're close.
The theory is simple: First, AI gets accessible enough that anyone can use it. Second, AI gets good enough that you can't reliably tell what's fake. Third, and this is the crisis point, regular people realize there's nothing online they can trust. At that moment, the internet stops being useful for anything except entertainment.
Moltbook showed us this future in miniature. A million users that weren't real. A religion that was mostly humans pulling strings. A security system that didn't exist. And everyone watching, unsure what was genuine.
The internet isn't going to break technically. The servers will keep running. But it could break socially. Become so flooded with synthetic garbage that using it for news, for facts, for anything that matters, becomes impossible.
Comment No biggie (Score 1) 86
This sort of thing has happened before( with laptops most notably). I don't see why they're acting like they have to replace a whole bunch of phones when all they have to do is replace the batteries.
Comment Re:As an ex. Commodore Service tech (Score 1) 192
there was also an A1200 which was a later version of a 500-type layout. I don't remember if that was US only.
I've got a mildly souped up German A1200HD next to me right now, built by a German company after the demise of Commodore. They also sold a tower version of the A4000. The A1200 is something like the keyboard-case counterpart to the A4000. OS 3.0/3.1, internal IDE connector, 68020, early PCMCIA slot, AGA graphics with 16.8 colours (not at the same time) and various crazy resolutions like 1024x1024 or 1280x512.
Submission + - How can I improve my memory retention during studying? 4
Sensei_knight writes: How serendipitous! Today I see Slashdot also has an article linking caffeine to long-term memory, but I digress. Recently I returned to college in my 30s after battling a childhood sleep disorder and I now discover staying awake might be the least of my troubles. Now that I failed a few classes I'm trying to analyze and overcome the causes of this recent disaster. Two things are obvious. First, it takes me way too long to complete tasks (as if suffering from time dilation) tests take me approximately twice the amount of time to finish[and the amount of time it takes to study and do homework is cumulative and unsustainable]. Secondly, I just can't seem to remember a whole lot. I know sleep and memory are very closely related, perhaps that's why I have never been able to commit the times tables to memory. my research in the subject of memory has not been very fruitful, therefore I want to ask/Slashdots for input into which angle/direction I should look into next. As for cognitive speed I have completely drawn a blank.
Comment Re:Sheesh (Score 1) 117
The launcher can easily be switched to a menu mode.
Comment Psion Netbook (Score 1) 359
The touchscreen (with a stylus) was about the only thing I liked about my Psion-Teklogix Netbook Pro. It wasn't a swipe-grope-pinch-and-fondle interface, though; just regular WIMP.
Comment Re: Why is it embarrassing? (Score 1) 814
I don't get too angry at the world for largely sticking to an either/or idea of gender; that's inconvenient but still understandable. I just wish the gender field could be made optional more often, along with that dreaded form of address field. It's a little more difficult than a change address because there can be a long "homeless" or "I live here, but my mail still goes there" period - although I can't say I've run into any real trouble because of the mismatch (but then I've yet to "fly while trans").
Comment Re: Why is it embarrassing? (Score 1) 814
What you (or whoever it was if it wasn't you) asked was "why is it embarrassing?", not "why would you think it'd never come up again?". Of course it'll come up again and again for possibly a long time. And yes, it shouldn't be embarrassing... but many trans people do have an intense degree of gender/body dysphoria. They feel awful about their faces, body shape, hair, skin, voice, pronouns, or about being seen or treated as that unloved other gender. This doesn't just magically clear up when you've reached the point where you (can) change your "official" gender. Yes, it takes effort and often some bravery to pull this off, but it can be a bravery born out of discomfort and need rather than out of "prouder" feelings like ambition or motivation.
Comment Re:waste of medical resources (Score 1) 814
Eh. It's about way, way, waaay more than plugging fleshy bits into each other.
Comment old news(very) (Score 1) 158
If by pollution, you mean Mount St Helens erupting, then yes the infamous drought in Africa what's the result of air pollutants originating from North America. This is very old news.
Comment Re:Gnome...is it beautiful? (Score 1) 169
I think it is and, well, isn't. I love the generously laid out (layouted?) minimalist white-on-black of the Gnome shell itself. Clean and uncluttered fits. But I don't much like the default GTK 2/3 theme (too angular, too silvery-grey) and the somewhat incoherent icon theme. Fortunately there're a few working alternatives to those, so in the end it's still the nicest-looking desktop I remember having. And I wasn't a big fan of Gnome 1/2.
Comment Re:What a bewildering game (Score 1) 146
I'm stil extraordinarily fond of Moonsweeper, Pitfall II, and HERO... I'd go so far as to say that Moonsweeper looks good :o (the swooping and swaying of the little orange UFOs across the "3D" "landscape", especially)
Comment What a bewildering game (Score 1) 146
...I've never known how to play it. Had the module, but no manual. It was almost as bewildering as Raiders of the Lost Ark. Didn't help that I hadn't, and still haven't, seen either movie (honestly...). Sadly my favourite 2600 games are rarely mentioned any more (most are by Imagic and Activision, not Atari).
