Author: Sneha Bajaj

I’ve lost count of how many scrapers I’ve had to rebuild because a client’s site swapped a <div> for a <section>. That’s basically the whole story: traditional web scraping tools pull data by matching fixed HTML patterns, and AI crawling systems read a page the way a person would, figuring out what a “price” or a “product name” is instead of just where it happens to sit in the markup. One survives a redesign. The other doesn’t. I’ve maintained both kinds of pipelines. CSS-selector scrapers that snapped the moment a dev team shifted to a new frontend, and LLM-based extractors…

Smart home security fails less often to some genius hack and more often to something really ordinary. An app nobody bothered to encrypt properly. 20 companion apps were tested for major smart home brands and found 16 had critical cryptographic flaws that can let attackers intercept and alter their traffic. That’s 80% of the apps tested, failing at the most basic layer of protection. This guide covers exactly how these failures get exploited, the warning signs you should be aware of, what to do in the first ten minutes of a breach, and the specific settings that stop most attacks…

There’s a man from California who has said close to 2 million words in the last couple of years without moving his lips. His name is Casey Harrell. He has ALS; he can’t speak in a way people can understand. And he communicates through a set of electrodes sitting in his brain. Over nearly two years at home, he has produced more than 183,000 sentences at an average of 56 words per minute. This is something I want to walk you through. Brain-computer interfaces, or BCIs, are systems that read electrical activity in the brain and turn it into an…

I used to start every single ChatGPT conversation from scratch, explaining how I like my answers formatted. That’s not really true anymore. With ChatGPT memory turned on, the assistant can hang onto useful details about my preferences, my work, my goals, and things I’ve mentioned in past chats – then use all of that to make its answers actually relevant to me. OpenAI pushed this further with a background process it calls “dreaming.” The system quietly reviews information across several of the conversations to keep the picture more current, rather than waiting for us to spell everything out. It’s a…

A researcher bought a domain for five dollars and used it to walk sensitive CRM records out of Salesforce. No malware. No stolen password. Just some text hidden in a web form. That was ForcedLeak, and it’s where I want to start, because it kills the idea that prompt injection is a research toy. Prompt injection is unsolved at the model layer, and you can’t patch your way out of it. You have to design around it. And the model doesn’t know the difference between your instructions and instructions that arrive inside the data it reads, and that’s exactly the…

Somewhere on your company network right now, a valid password is probably being typed by someone who shouldn’t have it. That’s not a plot from a horror story. It’s the default condition of most corporate systems, because the old security model assumed that anyone who got past the front door belonged there. That assumption is what’s failing. The global average cost of a data breach has hit $4.44 million in 2025. And in the U.S it reached a record $10.22 million. And most of those didn’t start with a Hollywood-style hack. They started with a stolen credential walking through the…

In April 2026, an electric aircraft flew from JFK to a Manhattan heliport in just 7 minutes. I have done that trip by car. It took me 71 minutes and a measurable amount of my will to live. So yes, flying taxis are real. No, they’re not affordable, and they won’t be for a while. A seat on one of the first routes runs about $200, which is helicopter money. Getting an eVTOL ride down to Uber prices needs three things, all at once. Pilots out of the cockpit, better batteries, and enough vertiports to keep aircraft flying all day.…

Quick answer? You give an AI crawler permission the same way you’d give any visitor a key: through a small text file called robots.txt, (and many now say llms.txt) through explicit allow rules in your firewall or CDN, and increasingly through a cryptographic ID check called Web Bot Auth. There’s no single “grant access” button. Permission is a layered decision you make per crawler and per purpose (training, search, or live agent lookups), and starting September 15, 2026, part of that decision gets made for you by default unless you go change it. I remember two years ago when this…

Every time you leave a review, ask a chatbot a question, or scroll a feed a little too long, there’s a decent chance that interaction gets logged, cleaned up, and dropped into a training pipeline somewhere. AI training data pulls more than several millions searches a month now. Lately, people have stopped assuming this happens quietly in the background and started asking what it actually involves. What companies collect, how pipelines process it, where risks sit, and which opt-outs actually matter, that’s what this post covers. One data point worth grounding this in: when UpGuard analyzed privacy notices from 176…

You’ve got an AI model that mostly works but keeps missing the mark: it doesn’t know your company’s product catalog, it answers in the wrong tone, or it just gets things wrong with total confidence. Someone on your team says “we need RAG.” Someone else says “just fine-tune it.” A third person asks if you’ve done enough prompt engineering. They’re not arguing about the same problem. Here’s the short version, then we’ll go deep on each one. None of these compete for the same job. A model can need clearer instructions, fresh facts, and a fixed output format all at…

Google invented the technology that powers most of today’s AI boom. And then watched the people who built it walk out the door. All eight authors of Google’s influential 2017 ‘Attention Is All You Need’ paper have since left the company. But here comes the twist; instead of only trying to hire replacements, Google is now funding those former employees, the Xooglers, who already left. In June 2026, Bloomberg reported that Google is backing a new incubator built specifically for Xooglers, its former employees, with up to $350,000 in cloud and AI credits plus up to $100,000 in funding per…

Most people think that “AI psychosis” is something that happens to vulnerable individuals who use chatbots too much. Box founder Aaron Levie flipped that assumption. He publicly suggested that tech CEOs themselves are uniquely prone to AI psychosis because they’re too far removed from the actual work to understand what AI can and can’t do. This article covers what chatbot psychosis actually means, what the research says about how chatbots amplify delusional thinking, and what needs to change. Key Takeaways What Is AI Psychosis? AI psychosis, or Chatbot psychosis, is a pattern where a person starts living in a delusion…