I launched a companion newsletter to Found in the Machine.
Notes from the Machine: scripts, cut content, sources, and a note from me with each episode. For listeners who want to go further than the audio.
notes.foundinthemachine.com

The Apollo Guidance Computer's memory had to be woven. Wire by wire, through rings smaller than shirt buttons, by women whose names never made it into NASA's reports. The computer also needed integrated circuits. Those were built by Navajo women who were deemed well-suited to the task given their "innate" rug weaving skills.
The newest episode of Found in the Machine is about the weavers. 🧵🌕 https://foundinthemachine.com/episodes/9-the-weavers-memory-and-the-moon/

Newest episode of Lore in the Machine is about the CAPTCHA. But it's really about what happens when the Turing Test flips. And what we were unknowingly building while we squinted at blurry letters. https://loreinthemachine.com/episodes/8-i-m-not-a-robot-the-internet-s-human-test/

NVIDIA's most powerful AI chip is named after a Cold War mathematician most people have never heard of. That story is episode 7 of Lore in the Machine https://loreinthemachine.com/episodes/7-the-silent-duel-david-blackwell-and-the-math-inside-ai/

Four times a year, strangers fly to a secure facility, enter a metal cage inside a signal-proof room, and turn keys in unison to keep the internet from being poisoned. The DNSSEC Root Key Signing Ceremony has over 100 scripted steps, a self-destructing lockbox, and a laptop with no hard drive, no battery, and no memory of its own.
New episode of Lore in the Machine 🎧
loreinthemachine.com/episodes/6-a-ritual-to-secure-the-internet
#infosec #DNSSEC #cybersecurity #podcast #techhistory

Devs type "foo" but few know it comes from a 1930s comic strip. I've been collecting stories like this for ages without knowing what to do with them. So I made a show. Lore in the Machine tells the strange stories behind the tools we use every day. Trailer is up. Hope you enjoy: https://loreinthemachine.com/

I recently made a few YouTube shorts explaining what different parts of LLM file names mean, so if you've ever wondered what something like q4_0_L or 8B means, these are for you! #learnAI #genAI https://www.youtube.com/shorts/WzCom3dRzgE

I recently wrote a deep dive exploring some of the reasons why security teams get blindsided by vulnerabilities in Python packages. If you're dealing with alert fatigue or wondering why your team spends hours validating false positives this one's worth your time.
https://www.anaconda.com/blog/python-dependency-architecture-security-alert-fatigue
#Python #OpenSource #Security #Dependencies #DevSecOps