Adversarial Engineering

The 3D Globe That Gives You the Same Live Intel as a Spy Agency – For Free

Velocity is a keyless 3D globe that fuses 15 live intel feeds – from flight radar to seismic activity – into a single, open-source interface. It gives anyone the same real-time situational awareness as a state intelligence agency, without API keys or paywalls. A radical democratization of OSINT.

China’s ‘Copycat’ Rocket Just Broke SpaceX’s Monopoly. The West Should Be Terrified.

China’s successful recovery of a reusable rocket first stage isn’t just a cheap SpaceX knockoffβ€”it’s a strategic masterstroke. By skipping the R&D phase and copying a proven model, China is building a state-backed launch ecosystem poised to undercut the West. The monopoly on cheap space access is over, and the battle for orbital infrastructure has just begun.

Anti-Piracy Bots Are Out of Control. Just Ask the Best-Selling Author They Just Nuked.

Automated copyright enforcement was supposed to protect creators. But when a best-selling author’s own GitHub repo gets nuked by their publisher’s anti-piracy bot, it exposes a terrifying truth: these systems prioritize takedown volume over accuracy, making the very IP owners they claim to defend their biggest victims.

Apple’s Lawsuit Against OpenAI Isn’t About Theft. It’s About Buying Time.

Apple’s trade secret lawsuit against OpenAI isn’t about stolen IP β€” it’s a strategic delay tactic. By forcing OpenAI into legal defense mode, Apple buys critical time for its own AI rollout while sending a chilling message to the talent market. The real stakes aren’t in the courtroom; they’re in who controls the AI layer of the next decade.

Stop Blaming the Spam Filter. Your Fear of Your Own Boss Is the Real Security Vulnerability.

The real cybersecurity vulnerability isn’t a zero-day exploitβ€”it’s the fear of bureaucracy. Employees click fake invoices not because they’re careless, but because they’re terrified of missing a deadline. We don’t need better spam filters; we need cultures that make it safe to question.

The Deadliest Weapon Ever Invented Isn’t a Bomb. It’s a Picture.

David Langford’s 1988 story ‘BLIT’ describes a fractal image that crashes the human brain like bad code crashes a program. It sounds like fiction β€” until you realize we’ve built an entire civilization on the untested assumption that information is inherently safe. In an age of algorithmic feeds and viral patterns, the line between Langford’s horror and your daily scroll is vanishingly thin.

Your AI Safety Guardrails Are a Joke. Here’s the Real Threat.

A Hacker News post asking how to strip AI of its moral guidelines exposes a massive blind spot in AI safety. The real threat isn’t top-down misalignment; it’s a bottom-up shadow economy of users actively reverse-engineering models to bypass ethical constraints, turning AI’s own reasoning capabilities against its guardrails.

Cpp2Rust Promises Safe Rust Automatically. That’s Exactly the Problem.

Cpp2Rust promises to automatically translate legacy C++ into safe Rust. But Rust’s safety isn’t syntax β€” it’s a philosophy of ownership that C++ was never designed to express. Automated translation risks producing code that looks safe, compiles clean, and carries the Rust label while preserving the same invisible assumptions and race conditions that made the original C++ dangerous in the first place.