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Ever heard that scratching outside your bedroom window at night and just chalked it up to the wind? Well, that was actually the tech news. Its goal is to unsettle you. Apple may finally be planning to release its long awaited HomePad something like a HomePod and an iPad smashed together in fall 2026, according to leaker Kotami, who says they saw prototypes in person. If they are a person, it must have been amazing. Kosutami and the original Germ Boy Mark Gurman at Bloomberg say say that HomePad will feature a magsafe like snap to wall mount so you can presumably move the 7 inch square shaped display between different points in your home if you can't afford to buy multiple scrub. Gurman says the device was going to launch sooner, but it was just recently delayed again to a fall launch since AI upgraded, Siri still isn't ready, but it will definitely be ready by then, mostly because she's powered by Gemini now. There comes a time in any group project when you throw up your hands and let the smart one finish it. But Apple isn't finished with product releases. This according to Gurman and others with the MacBook Neo launched Apple's prepping more Ultra tier products including an M5 Ultra Max Studio, Apple Watch Ultra 4, the first foldable iPhone, ladies and gentlemen, a touchscreen OLED MacBook Pro and the previously leaked camera equipped AirPods, which I'm still not totally sold on, but I'll just buy them anyway. But honestly, they can release whatever they want as long as they keep pumping out these David Lynchian tiktoks of lemons and limes facetiming each other like they're like us. We're the citrus squeeze me. The Open Claw hype train has gone international. A district in Shenzhen, China is drafting public policy to encourage professional platforms to offer free open claw services with subsidies of up to 2 million yuan for development. In response, stocks linked to the extremely popular AI assistant jumped over 9% and tech giants Tencent, Alibaba and Baidu have have all rushed to roll out deployment tools with developers from these companies holding a public event outside the 10 Cent Building to help people set up OpenClaw for free. Over in New York, more than 700 people packed a Manhattan venue for Clawcon, where sponsors demoed deployment tools and the lobster themed buffet put most weddings to shame. Except Indian weddings. They're next level if you're not aware of the hype, OpenClaw is an open source AI personal assistant that started as a weekend project and went viral almost immediately. Like Floatplane. Despite the love, openclaw might be one of the biggest security liabilities in open source software right now. Security researchers have flagged prompt injections, supply chain vulnerabilities, and tens of thousands of publicly exposed instances with unsafe defaults as the three biggest risks. Over 300 skills on OpenClaw's plugin marketplace, Clawhub turned out to be straight up malware, including Credential Harvesters and one crypto trading tool that opened a reverse shell to the attacker's server. But it's not just tech noobs exposing themselves to these risks. Y Combinator leadership recently showed up to a podcast recording dressed like dickheads in full lobster outfits. In all honesty, the tool must be genuinely amazing for people to put themselves at so much risk to use it, which you could see even looking at its GitHub repo. OpenClaw has almost 290,000 stars on GitHub, which is insane when you learn that the Linux kernel, which runs basically everything in the world, is only 222,000. Cool number, though.