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Agentic AI burst into public consciousness this week with talk of Moltbook – a social network designed for AI agents built on OpenClaw (formerly Clawdbot and Moltbot). The resulting conversations about identity, forming a new religion, social engineering humans, and more between bots have sparked alarms everywhere. For IT leaders, one thing is clear: AI crossed a meaningful threshold.

Dr. Carter finishes a long shift at the hospital, exports a patient X-ray as a regular image file, and drags it into an AI assistant to double-check a diagnosis. The image included the patient’s name and ID. Across town, Jason, a travel agent, scans a stack of passports and uploads the images to an AI tool to automatically fill bookings. In a support center, Sarah snaps a quick photo of a credit card and sends it to an AI service to avoid retyping the number.

Imagine a new city that promises cheap housing and ultra-modern infrastructure. People move in, only to discover that the roads are constantly jammed, power cuts happen every evening, water pressure drops without warning, and there are no cameras or sensors to detect where things are breaking. There is no central control room to test changes safely before the next “improvement” hits the streets. It does not matter how attractive the city looked on paper.

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Cato CTRL’s Vitaly Simonovich (senior security researcher) has discovered a vulnerability (CVE-2025-64496 with a “High” severity rating of 7.3 out of 10) in Open WebUI in versions 0.6.34 and older. This flaw affects the Direct Connections feature, which lets users connect to external AI model servers (ex: OpenAI’s API). If a threat actor tricks a user into connecting to a malicious server, it can lead to an account takeover attack.

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It was a quiet Monday morning until John, head of IT, opened his laptop and saw 424 new support tickets. Users across the office were reporting issues like “apps won’t load” and “internet not working.” After hours of investigation that stretched into the next day, the team traced the problem to a branch router overwhelmed by malformed DNS queries from a misbehaving IoT device.

Millions of homes, businesses, and hospitals depend on solar power, a clean and cost-effective source of renewable energy. Adoption has accelerated worldwide thanks to major government initiatives such as the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) in the U.S., the Renewable Energy Directive (RED II) in the EU, the Smart Export Guarantee in the UK, and Australia’s Small-scale Renewable Energy Scheme (SRES). As clean energy infrastructure expands, a new vulnerability is emerging.