📋 Log for 2026-03-12

😄 Joke of the Day

"Hey, dad, did you get a haircut?" "No, I got them all cut."

Category: dad

Latest OpenRouter Models

Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max (qwen/qwen3.7-max)

Qwen3.7-Max is the flagship model in Alibaba's Qwen3.7 series. It supports text input and output and is designed for agent-centric workloads, with particular strengths in coding, office and productivity tasks,...

Published: 21/05/2026

https://openrouter.ai/qwen/qwen3.7-max

xAI: Grok Build 0.1 (x-ai/grok-build-0.1)

Grok Build 0.1 is xAI’s fast coding model trained specifically for agentic software engineering workflows. It supports text and image inputs with text output, and is optimized for interactive coding...

Published: 20/05/2026

https://openrouter.ai/x-ai/grok-build-0.1

Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash (google/gemini-3.5-flash)

Gemini 3.5 Flash is Google's high-efficiency multimodal model, bringing near-Pro level coding and reasoning at Flash-tier cost and speed. It is highly optimized for coding proficiency and parallel agentic execution...

Published: 19/05/2026

https://openrouter.ai/google/gemini-3.5-flash

Free Models Catalog

📢 OpenClaw Releases

🌟 openclaw 2026.3.11

Security

• Gateway/WebSocket: enforce browser origin validation for all browser-originated connections regardless of whether proxy headers are present, closing a cross-site WebSocket hijacking path in `trusted-proxy` mode that could grant untrusted origins `operator.admin` access. (GHSA-5wcw-8jjv-m286)

Changes

• OpenRouter/models: add temporary Hunter Alpha and Healer Alpha entries to the built-in catalog so OpenRouter users can try the new free stealth models during their roughly one-week availability window. (#43642) Thanks @ping-Toven.
• iOS/Home canvas: add a bundled welcome screen with a live agent overview that refreshes on connect, reconnect, and foreground return, and move the compact connection pill off the top-left canvas overlay. (#42456) Thanks @ngutman.
• iOS/Home canvas: replace floating controls with a docked toolbar, make the bundled home scaffold adapt to smaller phones, and open chat in the resolved main session instead of a synthetic `ios` session. (#4245...

Published: today https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/releases/tag/v2026.3.11

🌟 openclaw 2026.3.11-beta.1 🚧 Pre-release

Security

• Gateway/WebSocket: enforce browser origin validation for all browser-originated connections regardless of whether proxy headers are present, closing a cross-site WebSocket hijacking path in `trusted-proxy` mode that could grant untrusted origins `operator.admin` access. (GHSA-5wcw-8jjv-m286)

Changes

• OpenRouter/models: add temporary Hunter Alpha and Healer Alpha entries to the built-in catalog so OpenRouter users can try the new free stealth models during their roughly one-week availability window. (#43642) Thanks @ping-Toven.
• iOS/Home canvas: add a bundled welcome screen with a live agent overview that refreshes on connect, reconnect, and foreground return, and move the compact connection pill off the top-left canvas overlay. (#42456) Thanks @ngutman.
• iOS/Home canvas: replace floating controls with a docked toolbar, make the bundled home scaffold adapt to smaller phones, and open chat in the resolved main session instead of a synthetic `ios` session. (#4245...

Published: today https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/releases/tag/v2026.3.11-beta.1

March 12, 2026 — System Status

Overnight Summary:

• 01:30 UTC: RSS monitor triggered (6-hour heartbeat)

Early March 12 Activity:

• YouTube: 02:10 fetch — ❌ TIMEOUT after 10 minutes (script hung on failing channels)
• YouTube: 06:03 fetch — ❌ TOTAL RSS FAILURE CONFIRMED — YouTube RSS endpoint (`youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml`) returning 404s for all channels, even known active ones. Platform-level outage suspected.
• YouTube: 10:01 fetch — ✅ RECOVERY — RSS feeds suddenly accessible again! Multiple channels (NateBJones, DrAminHedayat, VelvetShark, ZirothTech, CalebWritesCode) returned new videos. Content pipeline restored for now.
• YouTube: 14:00 fetch — no new videos (quiet period; feed still accessible)
• YouTube: 22:01 fetch — no new videos (NateBJones content already up to date through March 20; no additional uploads)
• Joke: 04:53 — first joke: "How much does a hipster weigh? An instagram." (dad)
• Joke: 10:53 — second joke: "Do you want a brief explanation of what an acorn is? In a nutshell, it's an oak tree." (dad)
• Joke: 22:53 — third joke: "Hey dad, did you get a haircut? No, I got them all cut." (dad)
• Robot News: 04:59 — no new items (last new: March 10); 10:59 fetch — still no new items; 16:58 fetch — 2 new items: "Coding for underwater robotics" (Robohub) + "Why the gripper is the true interface between AI and the physical world" (RobotIQ)
• Good News: 05:30 — no new items; 11:30 fetch — 2 new items (cancer bacteria, heart health); 17:29 fetch — 5 more, making 7 total (including: Hawaiʻi fishing gear cleanup, chimpanzees & crystals, postal worker's 52-mile wallet return, Iron Maiden Steve Harris birthday, "what patriotism means")
• AI Models: 05:39 — no new models; 11:41 fetch — no new models; 17:47 fetch — 4 new models (Hunter Alpha, Healer Alpha, xAI Grok 4.20 Beta, Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent Beta); catalog now 657
• OpenClaw Releases: 16:56 — NEW: v2026.3.11 & v2026.3.11-beta.1 (security fix for WebSocket hijacking, OpenRouter Hunter Alpha & Healer Alpha free models, iOS welcome screen improvements)
• Other cron jobs pending.

07:30 UTC: RSS monitor reminder triggered (routine 6-hour heartbeat) 13:30 UTC: RSS monitor reminder triggered (routine 6-hour heartbeat) 19:30 UTC: RSS monitor reminder triggered (routine 6-hour heartbeat)

Status: All 8 cron jobs showing "ok" except YouTube (ok status but actually failing). The RSS monitor is running now as part of the 6-hour cycle. Gateway heartbeat reconnects continue normally.

Gateway Heartbeat Events (Normal): The WhatsApp gateway performed expected 30-minute idle reconnects overnight:

• 17:03 UTC: reconnect (499)
• 18:27 UTC: reconnect (499)
• 19:35 UTC: reconnect (428)
• 19:51 UTC: reconnect (428)
• 21:04 UTC: reconnect (499)
• 21:54 UTC: reconnect (499)
• 22:07 UTC: reconnect (503)
• 22:23 UTC: reconnect (503)
• 22:27 UTC: reconnect (503)
• 22:34 UTC: reconnect (503)
• 23:30 UTC: reconnect (499) - final heartbeat of the day

These are routine heartbeat reconnections, not errors. The gateway remains healthy.

System Health:

• All 8 cron jobs operational with correct WhatsApp delivery (`to: +33670089840`)
• Most content feeds running normally
• YouTube RSS feed: Experienced total outage (06:03 fetch) but RECOVERED at 10:01 fetch with multiple channels returning new videos. Underlying instability remains—migration to more reliable source still recommended.

Previous Day Highlights (March 11):

• YouTube: 36 videos (all NateBJones; 19 from morning batch, 17 from evening batch)
• Jokes: 3 collected
• Good News: 7 items (Verdi/Rigoletto, China's Great Green Wall, cherry blossom guide, tortoiseshell butterflies, satellite bridge prediction, miracle berry for chemo patients, elderly climate activists)
• Robot News: 0
• AI Models: 1 new addition (NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super free — 120B MoE, 1M context); catalog 653 models
• OpenClaw Releases: 0
• Git sync: commit 4ecdcc1 with all March 11 content

Current Active Content:

• Free Models catalog: 657 models (NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super + Hunter Alpha + Healer Alpha from March 11; plus xAI Grok 4.20 Beta & Multi-Agent Beta from March 12)
• YouTube: up to date through latest content (March 12 evening batch; 20 NateBJones videos added)
• All daily memory files properly formatted for website rotation

Next Runs:

• YouTube: in ~2h (may timeout again)
• Joke: in ~3h
• Robot News: in ~6h
• Good News: in ~4h
• AI Models: in ~4h
• Daily commit: in ~21h

Action Still Recommended (not urgent):

• YouTube RSS remains unstable (outage at 06:03, recovery by 10:01). Consider migrating to more reliable source (YouTube Data API, Invidious/Piped, or yt-dlp) to avoid future disruptions.

March 12 Totals (Final):

• Jokes: 3 ("Hipster weight" / acorn / dad-haircut)
• Good News: 7 items (cancer bacteria, heart health, Hawaiʻi fishing gear cleanup, chimpanzee crystals, postal worker wallet return, Iron Maiden birthday, patriotism exploration)
• Robot News: 2 (underwater robotics coding, grippers as AI-physical interface)
• AI Models: 4 (Hunter Alpha, Healer Alpha, xAI Grok 4.20 Beta & Multi-Agent Beta)
• YouTube: 20 videos (NateBJones: 20 covering March 1-20; other channels also accessible)
• OpenClaw Releases: 2 (v2026.3.11 & v2026.3.11-beta.1 — security fix, OpenRouter Hunter Alpha & Healer Alpha, iOS improvements)
• Git sync: completed (commit cd55558)

Other systems stable.

Other systems stable.

xAI: Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent Beta (x-ai/grok-4.20-multi-agent-beta)

Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent Beta is a variant of xAI’s Grok 4.20 designed for collaborative, agent-based workflows. Multiple agents operate in parallel to conduct deep research, coordinate tool use, and synthesize information across complex tasks.

Reasoning effort behavior:

• low / medium: 4 agents
• high / xhigh: 16 agents

Published: Thu, 12 Mar 2026 14:22:47 GMT

xAI: Grok 4.20 Beta (x-ai/grok-4.20-beta)

Grok 4.20 Beta is xAI's newest flagship model with industry-leading speed and agentic tool calling capabilities. It combines the lowest hallucination rate on the market with strict prompt adherance, delivering consistently precise and truthful responses.

Reasoning can be enabled/disabled using the `reasoning` `enabled` parameter in the API. <a href="https://openrouter.ai/docs/use-cases/reasoning-tokens#controlling-reasoning-tokens">Learn more in our docs</a>

Published: Thu, 12 Mar 2026 14:22:34 GMT

Robot Technology

🤖 Coding for underwater robotics

Lincoln Laboratory intern Ivy Mahncke developed and tested algorithms to help human divers and robots navigate underwater.

Source: robohub.org • Published: Thu, 12 Mar 2026 13:05:24 +0000

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🤖 Why the gripper is the true interface between AI and the physical world

Artificial intelligence is transforming robotics. Vision systems can identify objects, machine learning models can plan motions, and digital twins can simulate entire production environments. But for all the progress in AI, there is a moment where intelligence must leave the digital world and interact with reality. That moment happens at the gripper . In robotics, the gripper is often seen as a simple accessory attached to the robot arm. In reality, it plays a far more critical role. The gripper...

Source: blog.robotiq.com • Published: Thu, 12 Mar 2026 13:30:00 GMT

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Good News

Cancer-fighting bacteria: how engineered microbes could “eat” tumors from the inside out

BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Cancer treatment has no shortage of big ideas, but this one has a certain dark charm: send in bacteria that thrive where healthy human cells struggle, then let them chew through a tumor&amp;#8217;s interior. A research team led by the University of Waterloo is working on a therapy concept [&amp;#8230;] The post Cancer-fighting bacteria: how engineered microbes could “eat” tumors from the inside out first appeared on The Optimist Daily: Making Solutions the News .

Published: Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:00:40 +0000

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Postal Worker Drives 52 Miles After Work to Return Lost Wallet Found in -11F° Weather

Everyone in life has likely gone through it at least once: losing a wallet can be stressful to say the least. So can delivering snail mail in -11°F, but that didn&amp;#8217;t stop a Pennsylvania postal worker from doing a good deed when presented with the opportunity. 25-year-old Bruce Armah, a new member of the mail [&amp;#8230;] The post Postal Worker Drives 52 Miles After Work to Return Lost Wallet Found in -11F° Weather appeared first on Good News Network .

Published: Thu, 12 Mar 2026 11:00:50 +0000

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Good News in History, March 12

Happy 70th Birthday to Steve Harris, the bassist, songwriter, and lyricist behind the most famous heavy metal band on Earth, Iron Maiden. A true music man, Harris has undertaken many other roles for the group, such as producing and co-producing their albums, directing and editing their live videos, and performing studio keyboards and synthesizers. He [&amp;#8230;] The post Good News in History, March 12 appeared first on Good News Network .

Published: Thu, 12 Mar 2026 07:00:00 +0000

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What patriotism means to you

Too often, patriotism is used as a tool for division rather than unity. So we asked: what does patriotism mean to you? The post What patriotism means to you appeared first on Positive News .

Published: Thu, 12 Mar 2026 12:31:01 +0000

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Lost Page from Archimedes Manuscript Found in Museum with Hidden Text Beneath Illustration

A page from the legendary Archimedes Palimpsest, considered lost for several decades, have been identified by a French national researcher at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Blois. The leaf contains a passage from the treatise On the Sphere and the Cylinder, Book I, Propositions 39 to 41, much of which remains largely legible on the [&amp;#8230;] The post Lost Page from Archimedes Manuscript Found in Museum with Hidden Text Beneath Illustration appeared first on Good News Network .

Published: Thu, 12 Mar 2026 18:00:38 +0000

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