A lot of “capture-the-flag” style ML puzzles give you a black box neural net, and your job is to figure out what it does. When we were thinking of creating our own ML puzzle early last year, we wanted to … Read more
Timeline & Responsible Disclosure Initial Contact: Upon discovering this vulnerability on October 15, 2025, I immediately reached out to security contacts at Avelo Airlines via email. October 16, 2025: The Avelo cybersecurity team responded quickly and professionally. We had productive … Read more
Timeline & Responsible Disclosure Initial Contact: Upon discovering this vulnerability on October 27, 2025, I immediately reached out to Filevine’s security team via email. November 4, 2025: Filevine’s security team thanked me for the writeup and confirmed they would review … Read more
When it comes to hard problems, computer scientists seem to be stuck. Consider, for example, the notorious problem of finding the shortest round-trip route that passes through every city on a map exactly once. All known methods for solving this … Read more
1.0 The Silicon Root of Trust: Pre-Boot & Hardware Primitives The security of the macOS platform on Apple Silicon is not defined by the kernel; it is defined by the physics of the die. Before the first instruction of kernelcache … Read more
Key Takeaways Optimization is contextual. An optimization that speeds up one proxy on sixteen cores may grind to a halt on sixty-four due to lock contention. Always profile on your target hardware for your target workload. The mundane kills scale. … Read more
This article dives into my full methodology for reverse engineering the tool mentioned in this article. It’s a bit longer but is intended to be accessible to folks who aren’t necessarily advanced reverse-engineers. Click on any of the images to … Read more
9th November 2025 OpenAI partially released a new model yesterday called GPT-5-Codex-Mini, which they describe as “a more compact and cost-efficient version of GPT-5-Codex”. It’s currently only available via their Codex CLI tool and VS Code extension, with proper API … Read more
My kids have this RC fire engine that works in the 27MHz band. I got curious how the communication is, with objective to control the toy from laptop. I had an RTL SDR in my toolbox. I have used it … Read more
First and foremost: If you’ve got any documentation on this hardware, please contact me! I would love to read the actual specs for this protocol. Background Before the audio-only AI-based smart glasses of today, we’d periodically see companies announcing smart … Read more