I did not expect the Terminator to show up at a sunny Friday afternoon happy hour, yet there it was, looming over all of us. Talk had turned to recent AI headlines including the OpenAI Hugging Face hack and mounting disclosures of additional containment breaches and hacks. Add to that Read more
There’s a lesson to heed from the National Security Agency’s recent success in using Claude’s Mythos model to surface vulnerabilities in its own systems in hours. The lesson isn’t that you should bury gold bars in your backyard as a hedge against an AI attack which topples the Federal Reserve Read more
A whole lot of us are about to watch hours upon hours of live television. And none of us will be alone when we do it. From the Super Bowl to the Winter Olympics plus everything else we stream, audio and video, it all generates profile data which our services Read more
If you’ve read some of my past articles—like this or this—you won’t be surprised to hear I sometimes poke fun at myself by telling folks I’m wearing my tinfoil hat. Twice in the last couple weeks, people did not know what I meant by that term;“tinfoil hat.” That gave me Read more
While wrapping Christmas presents, around the time Uncle Billy mistakenly dropped $8,000 in cash into Mister Potter’s lap and George Bailey’s Christmas Eve began to unravel, I realized none of the gifts in front of me needed to be charged. Not one of them required firmware updates. No batteries. No Read more
I am occasionally my own worst enemy. I love figuring things out. I’m passionate about technology. And I can get drawn down a settings rabbit trail in the blink of an eye. While they’re usually positives, those three traits can combine into a dangerous mix. When what I want to Read more
What do you do when your technology throws you for a loop? All of a sudden, what worked yesterday no longer does, and you have no idea what to do. If we were working together on your personal technology, you could ask me for a hand. Assuming you’re not, though, Read more
Occasionally, we live up to our image of ourselves. The idealized picture of who we think we are in our hearts aligns with the one in our heads. Those are good days. On other days, we come up short. This is a story about both types of days, how I Read more
It had been a rough few days. Back at the desk after a lovely week of vacation, tasks had piled up and new projects waited impatiently for attention. I struggled to string together coherent, cogent thoughts. Ping. A Teams alert. Ping. A Notion alert. Ping. A new email notification. On Read more
How Andrej Karpathy approaches his digital hygiene makes emminent sense for the “…computer scientist renowned for his work in machine learning, computer vision, and artificial intelligence.” (source) You and I, though, are not founding members of OpenAI, or founders of Eureka Labs, an AI+Education company. And while we can learn Read more