Links October 2025

Informative video about the way corporations charge different rates based on location and even type of device used on the web site [1]. This should be illegal everywhere!

Bruce Schneier with Heather Adkins and Gadi Evron wrote an insightful post about AI Hacking and the Future of Cybersecurity, the future seems grim [2].

Slaughterbots is an interesting Dust SciFi movie exploring the future of autonoms weapons [3].

Arstechnica has an intersting article on a genetically engineered plant with a more efficient system for photosynthesis [4]. If this goes to plan it could revolutionise agriculture!

David Brin wrote an insightful blog post about the Seldon Paradox [5]. Also he wrote the final book in the Foundation series so he is the current living export on Hari Seldon.

Charles Stross wrote an insightful blog post about the pivot away from fossil fuels and the future of computers without Moore’s Law [6].

Audrey Woods wrote an insightful article about the end of Moore’s Law, we can get more transistors from multichip modules bit it’s only small linear improvements not exponential [7].

Bruce Schneier and Barath Raghavan wrote an interesting article about AI’s OODA loop problem, it’s a good way of thinking about some of these issues [8]. I think that LLM security is a losing game. Getting them to mostly not tell people how to commit crimes is the limit of controls.

Manga telling the story of Revelations in all it’s drug inspired madness [9]. When I read the entire Bible I skipped Revelations because it’s too obviously the product of mental illness.

CNN has an interesting article about bitcoin ARMs which are almost exclusively used for crime [10].

• [1] https://www.youtube.com/shorts/PL1d0xiHRhg
• [2] https://tinyurl.com/242xna4c
• [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-2tpwW0kmU
• [4] https://tinyurl.com/2yyj3tgz
• [5] https://tinyurl.com/2ytuvkfp
• [6] https://tinyurl.com/2b2a98kr
• [7] https://tinyurl.com/2a6csfk9
• [8] https://tinyurl.com/2y7zk5zz
• [9] https://www.electricsheepcomix.com/apocamon/
• [10] https://tinyurl.com/27ge7gcf