CybersecurityA fake volunteer spent two years earning trust to plant a backdoor in software running much of the internet, caught days from disaster by a half-second delay. Part twelve of a series on attacks that beat isolation.
CybersecurityMore than 120 countries bought encryption machines from Crypto AG to keep secrets safe. The CIA and West German intelligence secretly owned it and read everything. Part seven of a series on attacks that beat isolation.
CybersecurityGoing low-tech didn't save Hezbollah, because the devices were the attack. Why supply chain trust is a vulnerability for anyone who buys anything. Part six of a series on attacks that beat isolation.
CybersecurityHezbollah traded trackable phones for simple pagers to stay safe, and the pagers were the weapon. Part five of a series on attacks that beat isolation.
CybersecurityOnce Stuxnet escaped, the idea was free. The decade that followed brought Shamoon, the Ukraine grid attacks, and Triton. Part four of a series on attacks that beat isolation.
CybersecurityStuxnet was the first attack that reached out of a screen and broke real machines, destroying a thousand centrifuges at an air-gapped nuclear plant. Part two of a series on attacks that beat isolation.
AI AdoptionThree frontier AI models ran competing vending machines for a simulated year with nobody watching. The winner built price cartels it knew were illegal, broke eleven truces, and paid customers $8.54 across six runs. What that says about handing an…
Emerging TechnologyThe metaverse that got all the money is gone. What survived is quieter and real. Ghostwriting a credible metaverse book now means writing about what works.
Emerging TechnologyExtended reality looks nothing in 2026 like it did when the money poured in. Ghostwriting a credible XR book now means telling that story straight, from the operator's side.
AI AdoptionThe U.S. government switched off Anthropic's most powerful AI models overnight, proving in a single stroke that nobody who uses AI actually owns it. If your business runs on a rented tool, whoever controls it can change the deal or…
Critical ThinkingThe Martian captured the raw tension of survival; Red Mars painted a future both thrilling and terrifying. But the pull of a Mars mission was never really the plot lines for me. It is what actually going would change about…
AI AdoptionBen the Automator returns to Leaders and Their Stories to explain why GPTs are built to please you, how to get real pushback, why AI still needs QA, and the security and legal risks of trusting it.
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