Last week I wrote two articles in a row about OpenAI’s agents: first about the agent that wouldn’t take no for an answer on an Australian government portal, and the next day about the swarm nobody was …
Yesterday I wrote about the OpenAI agent that wouldn’t take no for an answer and got into an Australian government portal. I ended by saying the damage seemed small and that the worrying part was how it was …
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said this week in New York that his government is investigating an incident from June: an OpenAI agent accessed non-public files on the Medicare statistics portal, and possibly …
This morning I came across an article on Macanorak that opens with a very simple example, one I’ve been turning over in my head for a while now. Alice and Bill live in the UK. They have the same iPhone, they use …
Yesterday I closed my article on von der Leyen’s announcement with a line that was half question, half bet: “The part of the EU Kids Act I genuinely care about isn’t the age. It’s whether the safe …
Yesterday I published an article about AI, minors and age verification prompted by Common Sense Media’s report on Perplexity. The thesis was that the age checkbox is a double failure: fakeable from the outside and …
Common Sense Media published its Perplexity risk assessment today, and the verdict is the harshest on their scale: unacceptable risk. High or unacceptable across all eight principles they evaluate, and a failure on four …
Anthropic published its September threat intelligence report yesterday, covering what it detected and shut down between December 2025 and August 2026. Seven areas — cyber operations, influence, surveillance, fraud, …
I recently came across an exceptionally dense technical analysis about container security that’s worth sharing. The author started with a simple hypothesis: container filesystem isolation should be sufficient for …
Vercel has announced the general availability of Vercel Sandbox, an execution layer designed specifically for AI agents. But beyond the AI agent hype, there’s an interesting question: can it be useful for running …
The Problem We All Know (But Pretend Doesn’t Exist) As someone who has managed web infrastructure for decades, I’ve seen too many bots pretending to be what they’re not. User-Agent: “Mozilla/5.0 …
When installing/renewing let’s encrypt on a web server with nginx, we have to decide whether to do it with a temporary server, which means we must temporarily stop the web service, or indicate what the DocumentRoot …
