This is the Daily Tech News for Monday, February 2nd, 26. We tell you what you need to know.

We gave you important context. We helped each other understand. Today, Clonbot became MoldBot,

then it became OpenClaw, but its security is controversial, and the agents that make it work

now have their own social

network. That last one's pretty wild. I'm Tom Merritt. And I'm Rob Dunwood. Let's start with what

you need to know with the big story. Yeah, last week I thought, uh, we, I was feeling pretty good

because we jumped on the Claudebot and we talked a little bit about Moldbot. But man, that story just snowballed over the weekend to catch you up. OpenClaw is the

new name for what was originally Claudebot. And then Claude complained that it was too

close to CLA, U-D-E, even though it was C-L-A-W. So it was briefly called Maltbot.

Whatever you call it, though, OpenClaw is a free and open source system for running agents

yourself that you configure and you just pay for what LLM you want to provide an API for.

So you get a free API, you can not pay anything, but you're

probably going to have to pay a little bit to somebody, which you then configure to run on

your own machine. And that can be a local machine, it could be a virtual host, it could be a container.

Lots of folks are trying different things. One of the more popular ways to run OpenClaw is Mac Mini.

Just buy a Mac Mini and then run OpenClaw on that with nothing else.

You just kind of, you know, make a isolated server for it.

Some people use virtual private servers the same way.

However you do it, you are in charge of everything it does. That's the

upside. Like, I can make it do whatever I want. I got no restrictions. The downside is you are in

charge of everything it does, the maintenance, the security. In fact, I described it to a friend

who's a high school teacher who was asking me about it, it's like maintaining your own car.

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