This is a random message on random Fridays about random topics. Typing fast, so pardon my random typos. Today’s Focus: Hacks. • A major hacking tool has leaked online, putting millions of iPhones at risk. Here’s what you need to know: New issues, old solutions. As always… update your phone. • Axios Supply Chain Attack Pushes Cross-Plat...

This is a random message on random Fridays about random topics. Typing fast, so pardon my random typos. Today’s Focus: Philosophy. • Why Are Tech Bros Obsessed with Stoicism? with Ryan Holiday: Almost an hour interview by Hasan Minhaj. For the 1% thinking about stoicism today! • The Stoics Are Wrong - Nietzsche, Schopenhauer. Counterpo...

This is a random message on random Fridays about random topics. Typing fast, so pardon my random typos. Today’s Focus: Starting up, and securing it. • How to Succeed with a Startup: A 7-year presentation by Sam Altman that is just 16 minutes. • The Call is Coming from Inside the House (And It’s Watching Netflix). Not an easy read, but ...

This is a random message on random Fridays about random topics. Typing fast, so pardon my random typos. Today’s Focus: the Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. • The Eternal Promise: A History of Attempts to Eliminate Programmers: An interesting review of this saga, so far, by Ivan Turkovic. • Amazon wins court order to block Perplex...

This is a random message on random Fridays about random topics. Typing fast, so pardon my random typos. Today’s Focus: News, and memories. • XZ Utils backdoor: If you were waiting for the article to become a movie, thanks to Veritasium — go watch it. • Amazon's vibe-coding tool Kiro reportedly vibed too hard and brought down AWS: We've...

This is a random message on random Fridays about random topics. Typing fast, so pardon my random typos. Today’s Focus: Telecommunications and coordination. • The Way to Edge AI: Slides that I presented during the LLMday NYC Q1 today. • What is Open RAN? Thanks for Jeffrey Snover for showing this architecture that is key not only for th...

This is a random message on random Fridays about random topics. Typing fast, so pardon my random typos. Today’s Focus: Cybersecurity and privacy. • A Vast Trove of Exposed Social Security Numbers May Put Millions at Risk of Identity Theft. As if this never happened before… • Google expands tools to let users remove sensitive data about...

This is a random message on random Fridays about random topics. Typing fast, so pardon my random typos. Today’s Focus: Tech job market • Tech Layoffs Are NOT About AI: An Insider View from a Former Amazon Manager. Don’t know if this 7-minute video is not AI. Yet, most of what is said matches what I witnessed in some teams. • Employers ...

This is a random message on random Fridays about random topics. Typing fast, so pardon my random typos. Today’s Focus: AI Friday. • Over 100 Free New York Times Articles About How A.I. Is Changing Our World. That is a lot of articles! May AI help you to summarize all that! • The Physical Turing Test: Jim Fan on Nvidia's Roadmap for Emb...

This is a random message on random Fridays about random topics. Typing fast, so pardon my random typos. Today’s Focus: Management, infrastructure, and robotics. • What makes a good or bad manager? An interesting 15-minute video on the differences. From one of my previous good managers! • AWS's inevitable destiny: becoming the next Lume...

This is a random message on random Fridays about random topics. Typing fast, so pardon my random typos. Today’s Focus: Data, APIs, and Taxonomies. • APIs, Agents, and AI: Preparing Your APIs for Safe, Reliable Agent Consumption: Most of the advice in this sponsored presentation is quite useful. • The Myth of Fungible Data: Some good po...

This is a random message on random Fridays about random topics. Typing fast, so pardon my random typos. Today’s Focus: Robotics basics. • Self-Supervised Learning, JEPA, World Models, and the future of AI. For the theoretical basis, check this 1-hour presentation by Yann LeCun. • VLA (Visual Language Action): Further explanation about ...

This is a random message on random Fridays about random topics. Typing fast, so pardon my random typos. Today’s Focus: Data • The $1B AI Drug Lab That Can't Touch Its Own Data. Interesting article about the “details” of data access when talking about pharma data. • Website metadata. Curious about all that goes into having a simple site...

This is a random message on random Fridays about random topics. Typing fast, so pardon my random typos. Today’s Focus: The future! • The AI-assistant asks for your permission. And then… See what may happen, in this post from Philip Su: AI Demolished My OS and Forced a Reinstall. • The Edge AI is coming. New devices, like the Tiiny.ai, ...

This is a random message on random Fridays about random topics. Typing fast, so pardon my random typos. Today’s Focus: The future! • Surf it promptly. The droids are coming! My own blog post on “Surfing the AI Shoring waves”. • The fall out of my Fallout experiment: I watched the TV series and … my review is mixed. Great production. Th...

This is a random message on random Fridays about random topics. Typing fast, so pardon my random typos. Today’s Focus: Trends. • Glassdoor’s Worklife Trends 2026: Six trends coming from job and workplace data. • The Top 26 Security Predictions for 2026: this article from GovTech.com is interesting because it reviews several reports fro...

This is a random message on random Fridays about random topics. Typing fast, so pardon my random typos. Today’s Focus: Holiday fun! • The Battle of the Books, by Jonathan Swift: It is hard to imagine this text was written around 1700. • Coding with a CoPilot: Some notes from one of my experiences and the state of the art for AI-assiste...

This is a random message on random Fridays about random topics. Typing fast, so pardon my random typos. Today’s Focus: AI and AR. • Navigating the Evolving Challenges of AI Security: Google Cloud and Mandiant shared this 45 minute session. I like the terminology explanation. The advice looks a bit generic. • Google’s Hot New AI Coding ...

This is a random message on random Fridays about random topics. Typing fast, so please pardon my random typos. Today’s Focus: Technical Debt • Swimming in Tech Debt: There is a new, interesting, and inexpensive book on this topic. You can find some of the insights for this short (but still substantial) article on The Pragmatic Engineer...

This is a random message on random Fridays about random topics. Typing fast, so pardon my random typos. Today’s Focus: Software correctness • Erdos problems: Paul Erdos left many Math problems and conjectures that are now listed on this site. Some have attached monetary prizes. • Why does Math matter? While we can have fun with Alterna...

This is a random message on random Fridays about random topics. Typing fast, so pardon my random typos. Today’s Focus: Software and Cryptography • The Post-Quantum Cryptography race: My own blog post (mirror) about the recent developments. • IT+Security: I rarely attend conferences, and like a small percentage. Yet, I got good insights...

This is a random message on random Fridays about random topics. Typing fast, so pardon my random typos. Today’s Focus: Reports, and no cover… • 2026 Engineering Reality Report: An interesting report from a survey by Chainguard. • Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign. Good disclosure by Anthropic. The A...

This is a random message on random Fridays about random topics. Typing fast, so pardon my random typos. Today’s Focus: AI, CUDA, and the Hardware Connection • Updating an old project: Indeed, today’s focus is exactly the title of what is now a 4 years old experiment in my public GitHub. I'm updating to new libraries, showing interestin...

This is a random message on random Fridays about random topics. Typing fast, so pardon my random typos. Today’s Focus: Halloween edition during the final day of the cybersecurity awareness month. • Aisuru Botnet Shifts from DDoS to Residential Proxies: This is a good review of how computing power is "acquired" and then rented to cyberc...

This is a random message on random Fridays about random topics. Typing fast, so pardon my random typos. Today’s Focus: data extraction and code execution. • Unseeable prompt injections in screenshots: more vulnerabilities in Comet and other AI browsers. An article from a series about issues with agentic browsers. • CometJacking: How On...

This is a random message on random Fridays about random topics. Typing fast, so pardon my random typos. Today’s Focus: yet more content about cybersecurity during this awareness month. • Black Hat USA 2025 Keynote. It is a 1 hour long video, with an interesting review of three decades in cybersecurity by Mikko Hypponen. • The Five Laws...

This is a random message on random Fridays about random topics. Typing fast, so pardon my random typos. Today’s Focus: AI cybersecurity risks. • Guardians of the Agents, Formal verification of AI workflows. An article looking at the risks of autonomous agents. • Poisoning Attacks on LLMs Require a Near-constant Number of Poison Samples...

This is a random message on random Fridays about random topics. Typing fast, so pardon my random typos. Today’s focus: October is the Cybersecurity Awareness Month • First: Why We Focus on Trivial Things: The Bikeshed Effect. Use just 4 minutes on this article about the importance of focusing on the important topics! • On the enterpris...

This is a random message on random Fridays about random topics. Typing fast, so pardon my random typos. Today’s focus: Developer productivity hacks… • Give Me 12 Minutes and I’ll Give You 30 Years of Productivity Advice. Hooray! I don’t even need to announce the length of this video. Productivity… • Moving Faster by Not Breaking Things...

This is a random message on random Fridays about random topics. Typing fast, so pardon my random typos. Today’s focus: Cognition and biases…. • The Einstellung Effect: This short video explains the problem commonly known as “if you succeed with a hammer, everything will look like nails”! • MIT Sloan research finds stereotypes about ast...