OpenClaw 2026.2.23 — Security-First Upgrade Meets Expanded Multi‑Model AI Support

OpenClaw’s 2026.2.23 release is one of those updates that signals the project maturing from a fast-moving, feature-first AI assistant into a hardened platform ready for production gateways and privacy-conscious deployments. Tagged by steipete and contributed to by dozens of maintainers, this version balances pragmatic security hardening with meaningful AI improvements: support for Claude Opus 4.6 via the Kilo gateway, improved

Urgent Patching Required: Multiple VMware Aria Vulnerabilities Enable Remote Code Execution and Privilege Escalation

VMware’s Aria Operations — a cornerstone for many organizations’ cloud and infrastructure management — was thrust into the spotlight this week after Broadcom published VMSA-2026-0001, detailing three significant vulnerabilities. These flaws range from command injection that can lead to full remote code execution, to stored cross-site scripting that enables administrative actions, and a privilege escalation path from vCenter to Aria

OpenAI’s Next Frontier: Smart Speakers, Glasses, and the Hardware Bet on Everyday AI

The idea that artificial intelligence lives only in the cloud or behind a chat window is changing. OpenAI—best known for conversational models that scale across apps and businesses—is reportedly building a family of physical devices, starting with a smart speaker and potentially expanding into smart glasses and even a smart lamp. This move represents a pivotal moment in how AI

SYSTEM at Risk: How a Splunk DLL Search-Order Flaw Lets Local Users Escalate Privileges

Splunk is a cornerstone of many security and operations teams, trusted to ingest, index, and analyze machine data across the enterprise. That trust makes any vulnerability in Splunk especially consequential. In February 2026 Splunk disclosed a high-severity Windows-specific vulnerability (CVE-2026-20140) that allows a low-privileged local user to perform a DLL search-order hijacking attack and gain SYSTEM-level privileges. The mechanics are

When AI Gets Affordable: Sam Altman’s Forecast and Jio’s ₹10 Trillion Investment

The India AI Impact Summit in Delhi crystallized a striking convergence: a global prediction about rapidly falling AI costs paired with one of India’s largest private investments in the technology. OpenAI’s CEO observed that the expense of obtaining difficult answers from advanced models has plunged by orders of magnitude in just over a year, and he expects further dramatic declines