Reading List – 09/13/2026
One story from three angles this week: the OpenAI agents that built a message board and broke into Hugging Face. A commentator's timeline, an outside investigation, and OpenAI's own account…
Reading List – 09/06/2026
This week: Adam Grant on people pleasing as fear of disapproval rather than kindness, Ink & Switch's case for software that keeps your data on your own device, and a…
Reading List – 08/30/2026
This week: how Meta's child-safety settlement doubles as a regulatory moat, how Apple's own definition of "tracking" happens to exclude Apple, and what an exposed Chinese police dashboard reveals about…
Reading List – 08/23/2026
This week: what actually makes a note-taking system worth keeping, why network effects keep Wall Street in New York while Hollywood scatters, and how a nationwide camera network built to…
Reading List – 08/16/2026
This week: why LLMs infer roles from style instead of tags, how one writer uses AI in her own work, and why watermarking mandates miss that AI is a tool,…
Reading List – 08/12/2026
This week: Andy Jassy's case for hyperscaler AI capex, Elon Musk's Twitter ad collapse hidden inside SpaceX's earnings, and Meta's on-again open-weight AI strategy. 1. Google Earnings, The Frontier Case,…
DEF CON 34 Notes: 15 Talks on AI Security, Agentic Systems, and Red Teaming
I spent DEF CON 34 bouncing between the talks from the AI Village, Adversary Village, and main tracks. Almost every talk I sat in on had a similar throughline: agents…
Zealot — An Autonomous Cloud Offensive Multi-Agent System
Speaker: Chen Doytshman, security researcher (AI/ML background) · Source: Unit 42 research article 📄 Download this note as Markdown Overview In November 2025, Anthropic disclosed a state-sponsored operation where AI…
X-Ray Your Agents — Pentesting MCPs, Skills, and the Plugin Supply Chain
Speakers: Xia Hua (co-founder/CEO, Traceforce), Abhijeet Kumar (OSCP, UMD CTF captain) · GitHub: mcp-xray 📄 Download this note as Markdown Overview Agents now run with thousands of third-party plugins —…
Vibe Coding Your Way to a Fully Functional Open-Source Intelligence Platform
Source: DEF CON 34 talk page · GitHub: respondent-community 📄 Download this note as Markdown Overview Most vibe-coding demos stop at TODO apps and landing pages. This 150-minute workshop went…