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Spokenhttps://youtu.be/uL3YDTw0bKU Who is Linus Torvalds? Linus Torvalds is a Finnish-American software engineer best known for creating the Linux kernel and later inventing Git, the versi…
Introduction The detection of content generated by AI has changed from a theoretical issue to a regulatory obligation under the European Union’s AI Act. As of August 2, 2026, it will be necessa…
Traditional cybersecurity tends to treat a secret as an object. It is a document, password, database record, piece of source code or collection of classified files. Once the object has been identified…
During World War II, Americans were warned that a careless conversation could expose troop movements, sailing schedules or other information useful to the enemy. “Loose Lips Might Sink Ships” was not …
Go is an ancient strategy game with simple rules and almost incomprehensible complexity. Over centuries of play, Go players documented recurring sequences of moves called joseki. A joseki is a studied…
The history of software development is, in large part, the history of moving up a ladder of abstraction. At each rung, programmers have surrendered some direct control over the machine in exchange for…
Tales of apocalypse has always been useful. From Cold War strategists to the War on Terror, every age finds its own end of the world and every age concludes that extraordinary threats demand the suspe…
Consider a crisis in Venezuela. A mob is gathered outside the American embassy and threatens to storm the barriers. The security team has integrated a Claude-based system into its workflow to summariz…
This piece is a response to several classical liberal public figures who have begun advocating for controls on AI systems. I think there are serious misconceptions in their arguments about both the fe…
New Concept Layer: Open Wrapper Infrastructure Josekihttps://josekiwrapperhub.com/ is premised on the following observation: many AI products encode much of their value in the way they instruct,…
At the Tel Aviv AI conference, I watched a presenter build an AI music video with Suno in real time. The presenter nudged prompts, regenerated, tweaked, and regenerated again, not because they could f…
In every major computing era, new capabilities create a new kind of complexity and there is always opportunity in figuring out how to visualize it and navigate it. In the late 1990s, the web was explo…
Large Language Model LLM-enhanced authorship is accelerating at an extraordinary pace. Within academia, the share of papers crediting an LLM tool or model has grown exponentially since 2023. In softwa…
Update This topic has reemerged in the news faster than I expected. The open-source versus closed-source AI debate is no longer a niche fight inside AI policy circles. Major American tech…
Problem: Information Reachability Take a pile of information: documents, websites, photos, posts, meeting agendas, job ads, public filings. Some of it is clean. Most of it is messy. Reachability…
The Idea Security Verification Framework, or ISVF, is a draft verification framework for semantic leakage, cross-domain inference, and LLM-enabled information exposure. The core problem is that …
Update The East Wing reconstruction project is back in the news, and people are now speculating that technological infrastructure may be built out on premises as part of the project. While the …
In Go or Baduk in Korean, sente means having the initiative. It is the posture of making moves that set the tempo and force responses, rather than spending your turns reacting. The opposite is gote, w…
The premise of this paper is that we can do something like "map the information space". What is reachable based on a given training corpus and what is not? How can we reach classified and proprietary …
In 2000, President Bill Clinton famously looked at Beijing’s early internet controls and quipped: “Good luck. That’s sort of like trying to nail Jell-O to the wall.” <br So far he’s been proven wrong.…
It has become strangely normal to watch a screen write back at you. An email client offers to draft the first paragraph. A meeting ends and a summary appears, neatly packaged with action items. A cust…
Strategy Protection in the LLM Era <br Why LLM Use is a Necessity <br Across industry and government, the pressure to adopt LLMs like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Copilot is real. Timelines are tighter…
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