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DefCon Chronicles: Short Story Contest
A little known part of DefCon is its short story contest. A different theme is provided each year and anyone can submit. The winner gets two free tickets and some recognition, as they say, time...
Exclusive Report: New Appellate Court Opinions on Artificial Intelligence and Hallucinations
unearthed important new case law this week that has never been seen before or discussed. This article gives an exclusive report of three appellate court opinions that discuss artificial intelligence and hallucinations. This is a...
DefCon Chronicles: My Dad’s Personal Story and the WWII Origin of Hackers
This Chronicle shows how Hackers have their origin in WWII techs and engineers like my father. There were at least five Villages of DefCon Dad would have liked: Soldering Skills, Crypto-Privacy, Ham Radio, Recon, and...
DefCon Chronicles: Quick Glimpse of the Thirty-Two Villages
There were Thirty-Two Villages at DefCon 31, each with their own mission and culture. Cybersecurity hackers from all over the world went in and out of these villages. It was a peaceful, controlled chaos of...
DefCon Chronicles: The Hacker Olympics – ‘Capture The Flag’ Games with 1,828 Competing Teams
The DefCon “Capture The Flag” competition is the Olympics of hacker team competition, but even bigger. It had one thousand, eight hundred and twenty eight – 1,828 – CTF teams. The Summer Olympics has 206...
DefCon Chronicles: Sven Cattell’s AI Village, ‘Hack the Future’ Pentest and His Unique Vision of Deep Learning and Cybersecurity
In the world of cybersecurity and artificial intelligence, the DefCon conference is a beacon of innovation and discovery. At DefCon 31, one event stood out – the AI Village, spearheaded by Sven Cattell, a mathematical...
DefCon Chronicles: Hackers Respond to President Biden’s Unprecedented Request to Come to DefCon to Hack the World for Fun and Profit
Hackers responded to the White House call by the thousands, including reporter-AI-hacker Ralph Losey, to try to break existing software in open contests. Ralph joined in the AI hack attack, but there were many other...
DefCon Chronicles: Where Tech Elites, Aliens and Dogs Collide – Series Opener
From Boris to Bots: Our First Dive into the DefCon Universe. This begins a series of blogs chronicling the infamous DefCon event in Las Vegas. I attended DefCon 31, on August 10-15, 2023, as independent...
Surprising Admissions by OpenAI Leaders Made in Recent Interviews
OpenAI’s head scientist, Ilya Sutskever, revealed in an interview by a fellow scientist near his level, Sven Strohband, how the emergent intelligence of his neural-net AI was the surprising result of scaling, a drastic increase...
White House Obtains Commitments to Regulation of Generative AI from OpenAI, Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Inflection, Meta and Microsoft
In a landmark move towards the regulation of generative AI technologies, the White House brokered eight “commitments” with industry giants Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Inflection, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI. The discussions, held exclusively with these companies,...
What Lawyers Think About AI, Creativity and Job Security
This article continues the Ai creativity series and examines current thinking among lawyers about their work and job security. Most believe their work is too creative to be replaced by machines. The lawyer opinions discussed...
Creativity and How Anyone Can Adjust ChatGPT’s Creativity Settings To Limit Its Mistakes and Hallucinations
Small, full bodied robot on desk collaborating with female lawyer, computer open, coffee on desk