Upcoming Speaking Engagements
December 15 2025This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak:
- I’m speaking and signing books at the Chicago Public Library in Chicago, Illinois, USA, at... Read more
Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid Eating a Diamondback Squid
December 13 2025I have no context for this video—it’s from Reddit—but one of the commenters adds some context:
Hey everyone, squid biologist here! Wanted to add some stuff you might find...
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Building Trustworthy AI Agents
December 12 2025The promise of personal AI assistants rests on a dangerous assumption: that we can trust systems we haven’t made trustworthy. We can’t. And today’s versions are failing us in...
Read moreAIs Exploiting Smart Contracts
December 12 2025I have long maintained that smart contracts are a dumb idea: that a human process is actually a security feature.
Here’s some interesting research on training AIs to automatically...
Read moreFBI Warns of Fake Video Scams
December 10 2025The FBI is warning of AI-assisted fake kidnapping scams:
Criminal actors typically will contact their victims through text message claiming they have kidnapped their loved one and demand...
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AI vs. Human Drivers
December 9 2025Two competing arguments are making the rounds. The first is by a neurosurgeon in the New York Times. In an op-ed that honestly sounds like it was paid...
Read moreSubstitution Cipher Based on The Voynich Manuscript
December 8 2025Here’s a fun paper: “The Naibbe cipher: a substitution cipher that encrypts Latin and Italian as Voynich Manuscript-like ciphertext“:
Abstract: In this article, I investigate the hypothesis that the...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Vampire Squid Genome
December 6 2025The vampire squid (Vampyroteuthis infernalis) has the largest cephalopod genome ever sequenced: more than 11 billion base pairs. That’s more than twice as large as the biggest squid...
Read moreNew Anonymous Phone Service
December 5 2025A new anonymous phone service allows you to sign up with just a zip code.
Read moreLike Social Media, AI Requires Difficult Choices
December 2 2025In his 2020 book, “Future Politics,” British barrister Jamie Susskind wrote that the dominant question of the 20th century was “How much of our collective life should be...
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