What I Learned from Scanning Dozens of Small Government Websites (and Why the Same Bugs Keep Coming)

Legacy CMSes, tiny IT teams, and the same five security mistakes on repeat. Most of the security work I do is not glamorous. There are no red team hoodies, no zero-days, no dramatic “we hacked the mainframe” moments. Instead, there’s a lot of curl, headers, and very old PHP. I’m based in Chicago and I’ve … Read more

The AI Agent Reality Check: What Actually Works in Production (And What Doesn’t)

As we close out 2025, everyone’s been calling this “the year of AI agents.” But here’s what nobody wants to admit: most of these agents aren’t actually working. I’ve spent the last year building production AI systems—speech recognition for enterprise clients, fraud detection models, RAG chatbots handling real customer queries. And the gap between what … Read more

Why Your Product Is Scaling Faster Than Your Story Can Handle

When narrative throughput lags system throughput, scale turns breakable. Most teams expect scaling problems to show up in familiar places. Infrastructure starts to strain. Hiring gets messy. Latency creeps in. Reliability slips. But in practice, I’ve seen the first subsystem to fail is rarely technical. It’s semantic. The product keeps scaling. n The story doesn’t. … Read more

Who is Picea Robotics, Roomba’s new owner?

The 3i S10 Ultra is the flagship robot vacuum from Picea, the company that will own iRobot. iRobot, the owner of the Roomba robot vacuum, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, stating that it will be acquired by its contract manufacturer, Picea Robotics. The Chinese-based company assumed iRobot’s $190 million loan earlier this month and, … Read more

SASE Meets Edge AI: Why Security Will Be Decided in the First Millisecond

Enterprise security is shifting to the edge, where the first millisecond of every connection determines trust, performance, and risk. Traditional SASE cannot keep pace with encrypted traffic, global latency, and attacker speed. Edge AI changes the model by making sub-millisecond, context-aware decisions directly at ingress, turning security into an instantaneous, distributed judgment system.

The Full-Stack Artist: How L.S. Toy Turns Economics, Law, and Surveillance into Creative Code

L.S. Toy is a London-based conceptual artist who merges economics, legality, currency systems, and conflict architecture into procedural artworks. With a dual background in Economics (LSE) and Fine Art (RCA), he builds projects that function like financial instruments, legal artifacts, or system-level documents. Operating outside traditional galleries—often in warehouses—Toy challenges how value, legitimacy, and power … Read more

The TechBeat: How a Demo Page for my Abandoned Open Source SDK Accidentally Found Product Market Fit (12/15/2025)

How are you, hacker? 🪐Want to know what’s trending right now?: The Techbeat by HackerNoon has got you covered with fresh content from our trending stories of the day! Set email preference here. ## Exploiting EIP-7702 Delegation in the Ethernaut Cashback Challenge — A Step-by-Step Writeup By @hacker39947670 [ 18 Min read ] How to … Read more

iRobot files for bankruptcy

After 35 years, the maker of the Roomba robot vacuum filed for bankruptcy protection late Sunday night. Following warnings issued earlier this year that it was fast running out of options, iRobot says it is entering Chapter 11 protection and will be acquired by its contract manufacturer, the Chinese-based Picea Robotics. The company says it … Read more

Experiment Log: Validating Echo-Stabilized Recursive Routing on IBM Heron

This report documents the successful deployment of a quantum memory architecture that combines dynamical decoupling (Hahn Echo) with mid-circuit qubit recycling. The experiment was executed on the IBM ibm_torino processor. The data confirms that a qubit state can be actively stabilized against dephasing while the surrounding circuit resources are reset and reused in real-time. The … Read more

How to Accidentally Build a Programming Language While Cleaning Redis

Every programming language starts with a grand vision. Or at least, that’s what I told myself. Well mine started with Redis. More specifically, it started with a message that sounded so harmless I didn’t even bother writing notes: We need to clean Redis programmatically. No compiler theory. No syntax design. No intention of creating anything … Read more

PBIX Is Not Going Away – But PowerBI Will Never Work the Same Again

For years, the “.pbix” file was PowerBI. n Not because it was perfect, but because it made everything feel simple. One file contained everything: the report layout, semantic model, measures, metadata and visual definitions, all packaged into a single binary artifact. It was portable and approachable. It also quietly limited how PowerBI could scale inside … Read more