This year, I skipped the main stage tracks at DEF CON to catch what promised to be interesting talks at some of the villages—and to be clear, some of those talks were interesting! Unfortunately, r...

Three years ago I, like many others, predicted what would happen as AI gained capabilities. ChatGPT 3.5 was less than two months old when I wrote the following: There will be winners and losers...

Well, it’s that time of year again where I share all of the interesting reads I encountered over the last 340 some-odd days. In compiling this year’s edition, I’ve gathered over 170 blog posts, boo...

I recently published the following content on my newsletter (https://thought.dev) under the title “The AI bubble”, and recognize that it probably deserves a more permanent home here on my blog. As ...

I’ve been a “terminal jockey” for many years, and just can’t stand the experience of a complicated user interface. The sheer simplicity of writing and editing code in Vim (and more recently, Neovim...

Recently the CEO at Anthropic (Dario Amodei) stated that AI could wipe out half of all entry-level white collar jobs in the next five years. l can only imagine how disheartening this statement must...

As a knowledge worker in the field of Information Security, there are few things more frightening than losing my mental faculties as a result of catching an airborne virus. As such, I’ve mostly avo...

When was the last time you thought critically about Large Language Models (LLMs)? Amidst all of the money, marketing, and hype surrounding LLMs, it’s our responsibility as security professionals t...

Earlier this year, Dave Aitel—famous for his work on fuzzing and security research from the early 2000’s (and someone that I profoundly respect and admire)—wrote an interesting post called “(the ro...

When a charlatan gives you their predictions, they try to keep things purposefully vague in order to claim they were correct at some point in the future. In order to avoid feeling like a charlatan,...