Monthly archives: February, 2026

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, February 21, 2026

Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and online security, often without our situational awareness. Five highlights from this week: Dems Want to Ban Surveillance Pricing at Big Grocery Stores; I Verified My LinkedIn Identity. Here’s What I Actually Handed Over; As AI leaps forward, concern rises that innovation is leaving safety behind; Chinese telecom hackers likely holding stolen data ‘in perpetuity’ for later attempts, FBI official says; and Good Luck Banning Smart Glasses.

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Subjects: AI, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Government, Privacy, Social Media, Technology Trends

Agentic AI in the Wild: Lessons from Moltbook and OpenClaw

Tools like OpenClaw – the open-source AI agent that underpins Moltbook – are only possible because of the rapidly developing, and publicly available, capabilities of frontier large language models such as Anthropic’s Claude. Ardi Janjeva, Carolyn Ashurst and Rick Hennessy of the Alan Turing Institute discuss how the recent Moltbook frenzy illustrates the interaction between these capabilities and human behaviour is far from straightforward: users both deliberately and inadvertently behave in ways that significantly amplify the risks that applications like OpenClaw introduce.

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Subjects: AI, KM, Legal Research

AI in Finance and Banking, February 15, 2026

This semi-monthly column by Sabrina I. Pacifici highlights news, government documents, NGO/IGO papers, conferences, industry white papers and reports, academic papers and speeches, and central bank actions on the subject of AI’s fast paced impact on the banking and finance sectors. The chronological links provided are to the primary sources, and as available, indicate links to alternate free versions. Five highlights from this post: A.I. and Our Economic Future; The financial stability implications of artificial intelligence and digital finance; Agentic AI In Financial Services: Where To Start And How To Scale?; AI, Opinion Ecosystems, and Finance; and How AI debt financing impacts duration supply and interest rates.

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Subjects: AI in Banking and Finance, Financial System, Legal Research

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, February 14, 2026

Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and online security, often without our situational awareness. Five highlights from this week: Open the wrong “PDF” and attackers gain remote access to your PC; These video doorbells don’t rely on the cloud or subscriptions; Google Warns of Quantum Era Security Risks: Is Your Data Safe?; and Google Handed Over Journalist’s Data to ICE Without Court Order; and CBP to strengthen ‘tactical targeting,’ ‘counter-network analysis’ with Clearview AI.

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Subjects: AI, Criminal Law, Cryptocurrency, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Financial System, Government Resources, Legal Research, Privacy

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, February 7, 2026

Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and online security, often without our situational awareness. Five highlights from this week: Why You Should Stop Using Face ID Right Now; A community organizer’s guide to Signal group chats; EU Orders TikTok to Fix “Addictive Design” or Face Billions in Fines; Cloud storage payment scam floods inboxes with fake renewals; and Gartner: Tighten Up AI Governance or Face the Consequences.

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Subjects: AI, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Commerce, Email Security, Social Media, Technology Trends
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