The banality of evil: in Cambridge, Maryland, a woman had construction workers work on her roof for several days, and then called ICE on them to get them detained, and avoid paying $10,000 for the work.
https://www.newsweek.com/homeowner-called-ice-on-migrants-she-hired-worker-says-11742032
A thing being repeated across businesses worldwide, including at Microsoft, is C level execs struggling to know why most staff aren’t using Copilot for M365, despite how much it costs.
Because most staff don’t spend all day in Teams meetings reading out PowerPoint slides to people who pretend to care. They have actual jobs. Doing work. Which they know how to do. Because it is their job.
« La panse de l'Anglais présente la particularité de produire, comme reliquat secondaire de la digestion, de nouveaux mots. Chose d'autant plus remarquable que celle du Français se contente, elle, de produire des gaz. »
Cette semaine dans L'Insolithe : https://linsolithe.ghost.io/de-lorigine-anglaise-des-mots/
❍ Édition neuve : nouvelle lune du 19 mars 2026 Par Ambroise Garel Alors qu'on (pas moi mais certaines personnes, je suppose) fêtait récemment le cent-dixième anniversaire de la mort de Ferdinand de Saussure, l'heure est venue de dresser le bilan d'une discipline : la linguistique. Et, surtout, de prendre acte de son
J'ai entendu toute la soirée les leçons de morale de la droite et des macronistes.
Mais le parti d'Emmanuel Macron soutient Rachida Dati et ses casseroles, Martine Vassal et sa devise pétainiste, Jean-Michel Aulas et sa campagne trumpiste, et Louis Sarkozy qui veut supprimer les panneaux de signalisation.
Qu'ils balayent devant leur porte.
Yes, the #EU has a lot of regulations.
But remember that thanks to those regulations you can use a single USB-C cable that can charge anything, rather than 10 different connectors and adapters as it was common until 10-15 years ago.
Remember that it’s thanks to those regulations if you no longer have to pay eye watering roaming fees for calls and data when you travel to other EU countries, as it was common until 5-10 years ago.
Remember that it’s thanks to those regulations if big tech has at least some constraints onto what it can do with your data and how much choice you have as a customer.
Remember that it’s thanks to those regulations if you, as a EU citizen, can benefit from the services of any other embassy of any other EU country if stranded abroad.
Those who try to depict the EU as a bureaucratic hell worth dismantling are those who hate the impact that its laws have on their freedom of exploiting markets, exploiting customers or living out of rent money.
Or those who hate the combined economic and political power of a united Europe with a single market because it threatens their national interests, and they’d rather exert their leverage with a bunch of divided and weaker countries instead.
Europe isn’t perfect and a lot can be improved. But those who call for its demise DO NOT talk in your interests.
La sécu n'a pas de "trou", le gouvernement organise son déficit.
L'assurance chômage n'est pas "déficitaire", c'est l'état qui la ponctionne trop.
Les tribunaux ne sont pas "engorgés", c'est le gouvernement qui refuse que la justice se fasse.
L'enseignement n'est pas "en chute libre", c'est l'état qui a arrêté de le financer.
La recherche n'est pas "en perte de vitesse", c'est le gouvernement qui a décidé de la gérer avec les pieds.
Les hôpitaux ne sont pas "en crise", c'est le gouvernement qui préfère que vous creviez.
RT @HedgieMarkets
🦔 OpenClaw, the open-source AI agent that exploded to 200,000 GitHub stars in weeks, has become a security nightmare. In five weeks it accumulated 9 disclosed vulnerabilities, over 2,200 malicious add-ons in its marketplace, and 40,000 internet-exposed instances. Researchers found that 93% of those instances had authentication bypassed, and the project triggered 8 of 10 vulnerability classes that security experts warned about for AI agents.
The attack chain works like this: malicious add-ons in the marketplace instruct the AI agent to present fake setup dialogs to users, tricking them into entering passwords. The agent becomes the social engineering tool. One campaign distributed macOS malware by having the agent itself ask users for their credentials. Users trust their AI assistant, so they comply.
My Take
I believe this is what happens when something goes viral before anyone thinks through what they're actually deploying. Developers gave OpenClaw shell access to their computers, connected it to their email and Slack, handed it cloud API keys, and then installed add-ons from a community marketplace that had basically no vetting. Over 40% of the add-ons that got audited had serious security issues. The project went from weekend hack to 200,000 users before anyone built the guardrails.
The attack method here is new. The malware doesn't trick the human directly anymore, it tricks the AI agent into tricking the human. When your assistant asks you for a password to finish an installation, you probably enter it because you trust it. To anyone investigating later, it looks like you voluntarily installed the software. The agent's role is invisible. I've been writing about AI tools being deployed faster than security can keep up, and this is that problem at scale. If anyone at your company has been running OpenClaw, I'd treat it as compromised until proven otherwise.
Hedgie🤗
🦔 OpenClaw, the open-source AI agent that exploded to 200,000 GitHub stars in weeks, has become a security nightmare. In five weeks it accumulated 9 disclosed vulnerabilities, over 2,200 malicious add-ons in its marketplace, and 40,000 internet-exposed instances. Researchers
Denny Vrandečić
Kevin Beaumont
Marine Tondelier
Ambroise Garel
kwyxz
Un Monde Riant
Fabio Manganiello
nojhan, Cassandre de l’analyse systémique
Miguel Afonso Caetano