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The Human Actuator Layer
RentAHuman makes the handoff visible. The harder problem begins when AI agents can recruit people through email, job boards and social platforms.
3 hrs ago
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Steve Zenone
The Lab Bench Is Becoming an API. Physics Still Gets a Vote.
Anthropic's new Model Hardware Standard gives AI agents a common interface to lab equipment. The hard part starts when the world doesn't behave like…
Sep 4
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Steve Zenone
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August 2026
The Benchmark Became Part of the Attack Surface
Frontier cyber evals are no longer passive measurement. If the subject can exploit the harness, the harness has to be secured like production.
Aug 28
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Steve Zenone
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The Control Channel Never Went Away
Apple-CAT modems, BBS g-files and phone phreaking taught an old lesson: when data can impersonate control, somebody eventually tests the assumption.
Aug 21
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Steve Zenone
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The Agent Is Authenticated. The Action Still Isn't Authorized.
Agent identity answers who made the call. It doesn’t tell you who authorized this action, under which delegation, or whether that authority still made…
Aug 14
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Steve Zenone
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The Runtime Is the Bug
AI security keeps staring at the prompt. Eleven vulnerabilities disclosed across six agent frameworks show the deeper risk is often the code underneath…
Aug 6
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Steve Zenone
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July 2026
The Attenuating Chain
An autonomous agent broke into a major platform this month with no human at the keyboard. The defense isn't trusting agents more. It's handing them…
Jul 24
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Steve Zenone
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The Confused Deputy: AI Agents and Delegated Authority
AI agents act through authority assigned by people and systems. When that authority crosses company boundaries, its origin, scope and owner can…
Jul 17
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Steve Zenone
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The Driver I Didn't Install
I paid the ROCm tax to train on this box. For inference I skipped it: Qwen3-30B on llama.cpp over Vulkan, about 80 tokens a second, nothing leaving the…
Jul 10
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Steve Zenone
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The Slow Channel: Writing by Hand in the AI Era
Why handwriting still matters when AI can write anything. On note-taking by hand, cognitive offloading, and the one channel a model can't think in for…
Jul 10
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Steve Zenone
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Who Answers for the Agent: AI Accountability
Your logs prove an AI agent acted. They can't say who authorized it or why. Accountability needs a decision-level record and a named human owner.
Jul 1
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Steve Zenone
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June 2026
Kill Conditions: Stopping an AI Agent Before It's Too Late
Everyone adds a kill switch. The button you reach for under fire is already too late."
Jun 25
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Steve Zenone
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