The Hacking Humble Bundle
No Starch Press has once again worked with Humble Bundle to release a Hacking bundle which is a hell of a deal and raises money for a good cause. We’ve teamed up with No Starch Press for our newest bundle! Get ebooks like Hacking APIs, Bug Bounty Bootcamp, and The Hardware Hacking Handbook.
Read moreWe Have Link Posts Now
Going forward there will be a new post type on C33: The Link Post. This change won’t make much of a difference to readers, but will allow me to post more frequently and comment on various items that aren’t worthy for a full post. Link posts will show on the home page (but not in related or featured story lists) and their headlines will link out to the external referenced source.
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Ventura + Keyboard Maestro + iCalBuddy = Confusion
Early this year I setup a bunch of calendar related automations with my Macs, Keyboard Maestro, and the iCalBuddy script and they’ve been very successful. I have a button on my Steam Deck that shows when my next meeting is, and I have serval automations triggered when I’m currently in a meeting such as turning on a red light outside of my home office door.
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Virtual Influencers - From Cartoons to Deep Fakes
Studio71 Germany has recently launched not one but two virtual influencers and they’ve done a great job with the implementation and marketing around this project (disclosure: I am the global CTO of Studio71). I’ve been thinking about it a lot and on the one hand this idea of a “fake” or “virtual” influencers comes and goes over the years and every time it comes back we all like to pretend that it’s a crazy idea.
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The Story of My Slightly Funny Coolio Joke
Coolio, the rapper who absolutely slayed the 90s, sadly died today at the age of 59. Coolio, the West Coast rapper whose gritty music and anthemic hits like “Gangsta’s Paradise” helped define hip-hop in the 1990s, died on Wednesday in Los Angeles. He was 59. His longtime manager, Jarez Posey, confirmed his death.
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The Topsy Project for DEFCON 30
This year at DEFCON, the hacker convention, I joined the Hard Hat Brigade with Topsy, a hard hat that entertains while scanning the wifi environment. Here’s a video I made walking through the basics: I didn’t cover it specifically in the video, but you might be asking: “Um, why?” My answer is: “Why not?
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