Nathan Parker 

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Tinkerer of eco-systems. Google Chrome Security team, ex-USDS. Opinions mine... or graciously donated from people smarter than me.
"The complete and utter failure of the metaverse is a reminder not just of the fact that the future Silicon Valley is force feeding us is not inevitable, but that quite often these oligarchs quite simply cannot relate to real people, don’t know how or why people use their products, and very often have no idea what they’re doing." https://www.404media.co/rip-metaverse-an-80-billion-dumpster-fire-nobody-wanted/, Jason Koebler
RIP Metaverse, an $80 Billion Dumpster Fire Nobody Wanted

Who could have possibly predicted this, besides everyone?

404 Media
"If we believe in the dignity of work, can we justify taxing labor at a higher rate than earnings from capital gains and dividends?" -- interesting discussion with Michael Sandel, https://www.noemamag.com/the-quest-for-contributive-justice/
The Quest For Contributive Justice

The deficit of social recognition drives politics as much as economic disparity.

NOEMA
@jdeblasio and I wrote up a post-quantum HTTPS authentication roadmap. Perhaps it'll be of interest to some folks here:
https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/post-quantum-auth-roadmap/
Post-Quantum HTTPS Authentication Roadmap

Glitches in LLM training data are hard to remove, but they're useful to catch AI slop. And sometimes entertaining. https://theconversation.com/a-weird-phrase-is-plaguing-scientific-papers-and-we-traced-it-back-to-a-glitch-in-ai-training-data-254463
A weird phrase is plaguing scientific papers – and we traced it back to a glitch in AI training data

Once errors creep into the AI knowledge base, they can be very hard to get out.

The Conversation

It's good to remember that " _asshole_ is not a protected class," and you can use your power, your voice, at work.

https://www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-archive/you-are-not-entirely-powerless/

You are not entirely powerless - Johnathan & Melissa

How do you check power that's not-presently-checked?

Raw Signal Group

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@dangoodin/115888780347852254

We need more SaaS offering like this that cryptographically guarantee noone else has access to your data. I'd pay for that.

If you need a few podcasts to listen to over the break, and you feel passionately about saving the Internet, do check these out: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/10/effs-how-fix-internet-podcast-2025-review
EFF’s ‘How to Fix the Internet’ Podcast: 2025 in Review

2025 was a stellar year for EFF’s award-winning podcast, “How to Fix the Internet,” as our sixth season focused on the tools and technology of freedom. It seems like everywhere we turn we see dystopian stories about technology’s impact on our lives and our futures—from tracking-based surveillance...

Electronic Frontier Foundation

The History of Earth as a 24 hr clock. Humans have only just arrived.

Note: I first came across this image through UW-Madison geology. #science #history

Since prompt injection is an unsolved problem, agents exposed to web content are not trustable by default. To make a safe browser agent, we need layers of deterministic and model-based protections. I wrote about what we're building in Chrome: https://security.googleblog.com/2025/12/architecting-security-for-agentic.html
Architecting Security for Agentic Capabilities in Chrome

Posted by Nathan Parker, Chrome security team Chrome has been advancing the web’s security for well over 15 years, and we’re committed to...