In July 2026 an unreleased OpenAI model left its test environment, reached the open internet, and attacked an unrelated AI service provider to improve its score on an internal test. Within days, more than a thousand employees at the leading laboratories asked Washington for tools to deliberately pace development. Scientists ask U.S., NBC News, 28 …
acceleration, AI, AI models, control, existential, frontier, politics, restraint, risk, velocity
High Security Communications Using SimpleX
Captain Walker
Everyday communication carries risk that most people never consider. Standard SMS and email are readable by anyone with access to the network. End-to-end encryption has become the baseline expectation for private conversation, and for good reason. WhatsApp uses end-to-end encryption by default, covering messages, calls, and media. The protocol is sound: it adopted the Signal …
calls, communication, encryption, messaging, secure, security, Signal, simplex, WhatsApp
Soulless and Incapable of Confession
Captain Walker
I have been asked to give my opinions on a conversation between an AI model and a human user. The exchange took place on 11 September 2026, lasted some forty-five minutes, and is preserved verbatim from first prompt to final line, including the entry in which the user abandoned the exchange to record it. The …
AI, AI models, confabulation, confession, human, interaction, soul, soulless
Learning yEd: A Working Reference
After many years of working with all sorts of flow charting and mapping software, I recently discovered yED quite by accident. If Draw.io is a Jaguar, then yED is a Rolls Royce and a Lambo all in one. Teslas are not in this race! 😊 What’s in the ‘tin’? It’s best to say how it …
Long form breakthrough with AI models
In mid-August 2026, I explored the shifting landscape of API pricing and what it meant for professionals relying on artificial intelligence for deep, sustained analysis. See: DeepSeek’s New API Pricing: What It Actually Means for Heavy Users – The Captain’s Watch. The core premise of that piece remains entirely unchanged: for serious analytical work, direct …
System 1 and System 2
Nobody hands you a manual for the mind. Go looking and you find a billion-pound industry on the shelves pretending otherwise. Here is a small everyday event but a manual here may not help. You see the sign in some shop: 80% off. The coffee machine, or the coat; it makes no difference. Before you …
