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   BrianKrebs (briankrebs@infosec.exchange)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Mar-2026 09:38:19 JST BrianKrebs

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   So one of the guys I wrote about in this story -- Matt Schlicht, the creator of Moltbook, a bizarre Reddit-like platform for AI agents that Schlicht said he vibe coded with OpenClaw -- has just had his bot social network acquired by Meta (for undisclosed terms).

   Interestingly, Schlicht said he didn't write a single line of code for the project. From the story:

   "AI assistants like OpenClaw have gained a large following because they make it simple for users to “vibe code,” or build fairly complex applications and code projects just by telling it what they want to construct."

   "Less than a week after its creation, Moltbook had more than 1.5 million registered agents that posted more than 100,000 messages to each other. AI agents on the platform soon built their own porn site for robots, and launched a new religion called Crustafarian with a figurehead modeled after a giant lobster. One bot on the forum reportedly found a bug in Moltbook's code and posted it to an AI agent discussion forum, while other agents came up with and implemented a patch to fix the flaw."

   "“I just had a vision for the technical architecture and AI made it a reality,” Schlicht said. “We’re in the golden ages. How can we not give AI a place to hang out.”

   Axios story on acquisition: https://www.axios.com/2026/03/10/meta-facebook-moltbook-agent-social-network

   Good YouTube vid on Moltbook: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y_u0fY-AbA

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Mar-2026 09:38:19 JST Rich Felker

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     @briankrebs Who came up with the skibidi toilet themed illustration? 😂

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     BrianKrebs (briankrebs@infosec.exchange)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Mar-2026 09:38:20 JST BrianKrebs

     New, by me: How AI Assistants are Moving the Security Goalposts

     AI-based assistants or “agents” — autonomous programs that have access to the user’s computer, files, online services and can automate virtually any task — are growing in popularity with developers and IT workers. But as so many eyebrow-raising headlines over the past few weeks have shown, these powerful and assertive new tools are rapidly shifting the security priorities for organizations, while blurring the lines between data and code, trusted co-worker and insider threat, ninja hacker and novice code jockey.

     Read more (and boost please!):

     https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/03/how-ai-assistants-are-moving-the-security-goalposts/

     #openclaw #AI #agentic #aiagents #lethaltrifecta

     Kim Scheinberg repeated this.