2026-06-18
Welcome to your new telco job – here's sudo access to a database with full customer info stored in the clear
It happened at a major US telco in the early 2000s
Major US carrier stored credit card info in the clear, employee learned on first day
It happened at a major US telco in the early 2000s
How to get the fishing rod in Dave the Diver: In the Jungle
After years of catching fish, Dave can finally do some proper fishing.
Leveraged on being right
A friend once shared an essay with me for feedback. It struck me as mistaken and terribly naive, and I said so, which they did not take well.(They didn't say...
I Patented a Four-Sided Box. It's the Best Mental Model I Have for Building Agents.
Every time my AI agents broke in production, my instinct was to reach for a bigger model and it almost never worked. A method I patented years ago in chaotic...
Designing a Unified Digital Thread Across PLM, ALM, ERP, MES, and QMS
Most digital transformation programs fail not because systems are missing, but because authority over product data is fragmented across them. A true digital thread is not integration. It is a...
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra: The Shovel Seller Starts Mining for Gold Itself
NVIDIA’s Nemotron 3 Ultra is more than an open-source model. It is a strategic move to make AI workloads flow back to NVIDIA hardware.
Paywalled Creativity: What Happens When New Knowledge Stops Being Free
For thirty years the open web ran on a bargain: publish freely, and attention flows back to you. AI search breaks that bargain, it answers with your work and the...
Germany Has a Mandatory Psychological Test for Drunk Drivers. Here's How It Actually Works.
Germany's MPU isn't triggered only at 1.6 Promille. Learn what the fitness-to-drive assessment really measures, who gets ordered in, and how to prepare.
Designing SLOs for LLM-Powered Applications: What Breaks When Your Service Is Probably Correct
Standard SLOs can't measure LLM correctness. Split reliability into operational, structural, and semantic layers; each needs different metrics and ownership.
Healthcare AI Has a Reliability Problem Nobody Talks About
Healthcare AI is often evaluated on accuracy, but reliability is just as important. Small changes in patient data can sometimes lead to unstable predictions or inconsistent explanations. This article argues...
Capturing Continuous Touchpad Input on Windows 10
Capturing continuous touchpad gestures in C++ on Windows 10 is complex due to poorly documented APIs, deprecated methods, and hardware inconsistencies.
The Hidden Risk of Polished AI Language
The most dangerous AI-generated statement in a company is not always the obviously false one. It is often the sentence that sounds so complete, neutral, and professionally written that nobody...
Why Ancient Roman Law is a Hack for AI Regulation
Can AI agents be regulated with old rules related to slavery?
Tabnxt
AI tab manager that suspends background RAM hogs Discussion | Link
Software Architecture and Essay Structure Are the Same Problem
The planning mistakes that ruin essays are identical to those that ruin software projects. Thesis statements are requirements documents. Here's why.
AI Companies Need Governance Before Autonomy
AI is moving from output to action. Before we give systems more autonomy, we need controls around memory, permissions, audit trails, state tracking and human override. Governance is not something...
How eSIM provisioning works: eUICC, SM-DP+, QR codes, and security
eSIM provisioning is the hidden flow that turns a QR code or activation code into a working mobile line. The phone’s LPA contacts the SM-DP+ server, authenticates through GSMA-backed certificates,...
Can a Hilbert Curve Gelp Solve Shikaku puzzles? I Benchmarked an Old Obsession
I rebuilt an old dissertation idea as a C#/.NET benchmark to test whether Hilbert curve ordering helps solve Shikaku puzzles. Pure Hilbert ordering beats row-major scanning, but MRV is far...
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