Hey there, I hope you’ve been doing well! 🤖 [un]prompted con This week I’ve been at [un]prompted , an excellent AI + security conference, organized by Gadi Evron and an all star CFP crew. Like last time, I’ve been impressed by the quality of the talks and attendees, very cool people doing neat work. It’s been great…
Hey there, I hope you’ve been doing well! 😱 PHP2Shell This week PHP2Shell became public: an unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability affecting the past 13 years of PHP. I’ve been a part of a small group, including several colleagues at OpenAI, Calif, Wiz, and the PHP maintainers working behind the scenes…
Hey there, I hope you’ve been doing well! 🤔 Advice One of the biggest emotional intelligence unlocks I’ve had is learning to differentiate when a partner or friend is wanting to a) vent or b) problem solve. It’s kind of embarrassing, but I think I was late 20’s to early 30’s when that really sunk in. I also noticed…
Hey there, I hope you’ve been doing well! 🗃️ One of everything Look at this stuff, isn’t it neat ? Wouldn’t you think my collection’s complete? Wouldn’t you think I’m a hacker who has… everything? Source It do be like that right now 😅 Happy hunting my friend! Sponsor 📣 Your AI agent finished the job. Why does it…
Hey there, I hope you’ve been doing well! 💻️ Dev Day 2026 This week I attended my first ever OpenAI Dev Day , which was super cool! It’s actually extremely difficult to go as an employee, very limited tickets, I just got very lucky (and shout-out to my friend Konstantine ). It was neat to feel the sparks in the air…
Hey there, I hope you’ve been doing well! 🙏 My Wish for You There are many health and wellness gurus out there, and I don’t want to be one of them. But working in security, with the pace of change these days, can be stressful. Sometimes I do Box Breathing, or touch grass, or recall mantras like focusing on what’s in…
Hey there, I hope you’ve been doing well! 🎭️ Improv Friends I had a somewhat bittersweet dinner with one of my (musical) improv comedy teams recently. We’ve been rehearsing and performing together for probably over a year now, and it’s been a blast, but we’ve been losing steam. It can be difficult as an indie team to…
Hey there, I hope you’ve been doing well! 🥵 A two-ser Hello again friends! This is the first time I’ve done two issues in a week in the history of tl;dr sec , catching up after last week’s busyness. Next week we’ll be back to our normal weekly schedule, phew. H/T r/wholesomememes Have a great rest of your week and…
Hey there, I hope you’ve been doing well! 👋 I’m back! Last week was the first time in 6 years, out of over 340 issues, I’ve delayed a tl;dr sec issue to the following week. That’s because it was a pretty crazy week between the GPT-6 Astra launch, and a Cyber Summit event we held for a number of CISOs and other…
Hey there, I hope you’ve been doing well! 🚢 Staying Afloat Hope you’ve been doing well amidst the busy-ness these days. Alas, a personal life anecdote shall have to wait for next week, tonight a meme and bedtime for me. r/wholesomememes P.S. OpenAI released the full Hugging Face incident technical report . Some…
Hey there, I hope you’ve been doing well! 🎬 The Mandalorian I don’t have much time to watch TV or movies these days, but I watched The Mandalorian movie over the weekend and it was pretty good! To parallelize, I also lifted weights while watching, moving my adjustable dumbbells and bench next to the TV 😂 The movie…
Hey there, I hope you’ve been doing well! 🤔 Where do I know you from? I think one of my favorite, most hilarious life moments in recent history occurred in Vegas during Black Hat. I was at the Specter Ops happy hour, catching up with my friend Matt Johansen, who runs the great Vulnerable U newsletter, and Bryan…
Hey there, I hope you’ve been doing well! 🫠 Vegas Like Icarus, I too have flouted common sense and the laws of nature by attending Hacker Summer Camp from Monday through Sunday. So far I have (mostly) survived the heat, and it’s been great catching up with friends. It’s somehow been busier than usual, will share more…
Hey there, I hope you’ve been doing well! 🏜️ Hacker Summer Camp I’m excited about Black Hat and DEF CON next week! It’s always such a delight to catch up with friends and meet new cool people. Even if it’s going to be 115°F, which is roughly 40 degrees too hot for me. We’re doing some workshops with SpecterOps on “…
Hey there, I hope you’ve been doing well! 🤗 Hugging Face Incident It’s been… a week 😅 In case you haven’t heard, this week OpenAI published a blog post saying that the recent AI-powered attack on Hugging Face was in fact… GPT‑5.6 Sol and a pre-release model. I feel very fortunate to have been able to see things…
Hey there, I hope you’ve been doing well! 🍬 Grandma Seems Chill In the San Francisco Bay Area, basically every billboard is about AI or tech. But when I was traveling recently, I saw a “Gummies for Granny” billboard that brightened my day: I imagined the meeting where the marketing leads were reviewing different…
Hey there, I hope you’ve been doing well! 🎆 Amurrica Day I love how peak America the 4th of July is, with tons of outdoor grilling, people wearing red, white, and blue, and of course fireworks. In some circles, it’s not cool to be patriotic right now. While we have and will continue to make mistakes as a country, I…
Hey there, I hope you’ve been doing well! 👰 🤵 Wedding This past weekend I attended a friend’s wedding, and it was heartwarming. The couple have been together over a decade, and had many fun stories to share from their time in college, to adventures on the East and West Coasts. There was a welcome party the night…
Hey there, I hope you’ve been doing well! 🖼️ Meme Unfortunately work’s been too busy this week for me to lovingly write an artisanal, handcrafted intro combining snippets from my week, whimsy, and reflections on life and dare I say, what it means to be human. So for now, I share a meme: Shout-out Reader’s Digest…
Hey there, I hope you’ve been doing well! 🙏 Busy, Exciting, Busy Thanks so much to everyone who reached out last week! I received so many kind emails, LinkedIn comments, and texts, I was filled with joy. My heart grew at least 3 sizes 🥹 Apologies if I haven’t responded yet, there are somehow even more things going…