• The word of the day is ClickFix, the favourite tool of lazy hackers everywhere.  (Microsoft)
  
  They don't need to hack you if they can convince you to hack yourself, usually by copying a command and running it in Windows Powershell - though the attack in the general case will work against any operating system, because the target is the human and not the machine.
  
  Just lately this has been spreading MacOS malware via instructions fed through AI tool Claude, malicious JavaScript to steal your cryptocurrency spread through Pastebin, and a remote access tool (a RAT) targeting Windows machines spread through DNS lookups.  (All Bleeping Computer)
  
  If someone tells you to copy something and paste it in to your computer, shoot them.

• You can get a Seasonic 1600W power supply for just 33 cents per watt.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  That works out to...  Carry the twelve...  Horribly expensive.  And pointless for almost everyone.
  
  
  
• Speaking of horribly expensive and pointless, Western Digital has sold its entire production capacity of hard drives for 2026.  (WCCFTech)
  
  And it's February.
  
  
  
• Ars Technica has retracted that article about a rogue AI bot because it turns out to have been written by a rogue AI bot.  (Ars Technica)
  
  Not just retracted, but erased utterly from the face of the web except of course that it's still up on the Wayback Machine though they don't seem to have the comments.
  
  
  
• Rivian's stock has soared 27% after shocking investors by actually making a profit.  (MSN)
  
  Gross profit was $144 million for 2025, which is not huge for a carmaker but compares well with a $1.2 billion loss in 2024.
  
  
  
• Apple has fixed a zero day security flaw in iOS.  (Security Week)
  
  Though I'm not sure that zero day is the correct term here since the bug has been present for ten years.

Posted by: Rick C at Monday, February 16 2026 08:27 PM (1zWbY)

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