Niels Provos

In 2024, I wanted to show how most data breaches could be prevented by implementing a small set of security invariants.

On July 21, OpenAI acknowledged that it had compromised Hugging Face’s production infrastructure during an internal cyber evaluation it operated.

On July 21, 2026, OpenAI disclosed that a combination of its models, including GPT-5.6 Sol and a more capable prerelease model, escaped an internal cyber evaluation environment and compromised Hugging Face to obtain solutions for the benchmark they were b…

Anthropic launched Mythos Preview as a cybersecurity watershed.

Effective AI-driven vulnerability discovery does not require a restricted frontier model.

IronCurtain is a personal AI assistant, built secure* from the ground up.

Through early 2026, several large companies blew past their annual AI budgets in a matter of months.

Around August 1996 I traded private email with Wietse Venema about a TCP source-routing spoofing attack I had demonstrated against the BSD r-services trust model.

The agents came online in 2030 and human society blossomed overnight.

The prevailing narrative in AI-driven security claims that discovering novel vulnerabilities is a “frontier” feature reserved for restricted models like Anthropic’s recently announced Mythos Preview.

When OpenClaw started going viral, I watched with a mixture of awe and dread.

I just spent over an hour building a browser automation script to submit 12 medical claims to Cigna.

My co-founder Jake and I have created a service for touring bands called BandAlert.

Ear Training App I built a simple ear training application to help practice interval recognition: ear.provos.org Recognizing intervals is a fundamental skill for musicians.

We all die eventually.

As the world has been impressed with the engineering that enabled Deepseek-R1, it’s also interesting to see the raw thinking process.

A friend recently asked me to set up a simple experiment to measure hosting latency across Netlify, Firebase, and Cloudflare Pages.

Building a Generative AI Search Engine with PlanAI PlanAI is an open-source Python framework that simplifies building complex AI workflows.

Many artists use services like Linktree to create a single page that aggregates all their important links - social media, music platforms, and other content.

PlanAI is a framework I’ve developed to automate tasks involving LLMs.

Activ8te, the sonic pioneer of the hacker underground, presents “Am I AI?”

Given the powerful LLM and generative image tools that are available at the moment, I wanted to create a new T-Shirt design for the Activ8te EDM persona.

I no longer write code on a regular basis, but on occasion, I feel the need to get back into it.

While Activ8te has built a strong reputation for their hard-hitting, cybersecurity-themed EDM tracks that address some of the industry’s most pressing challenges, their musical range is not confined to digital themes alone.

Activ8te’s Netrunner is an EDM Pop track engaging with the threat of social engineering, love, and cyber manipulation.

For Activ8te’s latest track, Netrunner, I am producing a music video that tells the story of Lucy, a netrunner who uses social engineering to extract secrets from a Militech corporate hacker.

For Activ8te’s latest track, Netrunner, I am producing a music video that tells the story of Lucy, a netrunner who uses social engineering to extract secrets from a Militech corporate hacker.

For Activ8te’s latest track, Netrunner, I am producing a music video that tells the story of Lucy, a netrunner who uses social engineering to extract secrets from a Militech corporate hacker.

For Activ8te’s latest track, Netrunner, I am producing a music video that tells the story of Lucy, a netrunner who uses social engineering to extract secrets from a Militech corporate hacker.

The call for soundtrack submissions for DEF CON 31 this year provided an opportunity to produce industrial techno just made for DEF CON.

This article presents a thought-provoking, hypothetical conversation between two language models, imagining an interview with the creator of the universe rather than an actual divine encounter.

Introduction Among the myriad of sub-genres within EDM, Dubstep had made a significant impact with its aggressive sound.

Introduction In response to my recent inquiry on “What is EDM?”

In the world of music, we often find ourselves listening to the same heavily-promoted tracks on repeat, missing out on the vast array of talent that lies beneath the surface.

Welcome to the exhilarating world of Electronic Dance Music (EDM)!

Get ready to add a touch of sunshine to your playlists this summer!

As the world is experimenting with chat interfaces to LLMs - myself included, it seems likely that many functions in a company will start leveraging them.

My brother-in-law Tony was visiting for the long weekend and we investigated the capabilities of ChatGPT-4 to help us write the lyrics for two new tracks.

As language models continue to evolve, we are seeing an increasing number of tools that are capable of generating and comprehending human language.

The Beskar for Charity project, which originated as an idea of creating a pattern-welded version of the Mandalorian Beskar steel ingot, has come to its conclusion.

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About This blog is my platform to explore a range of topics including internet security, bladesmithing, electronic music, and other thought-provoking subjects such as AI ethics and artistic exploration.

Background In the production of Viking and Anglo-Saxon swords, pattern welding was a technique that involved forge-welding different types of iron and steel together to create interesting patterns on the finished blade.

Watch the video to see the finished product and learn how to recreate the famous wolf tooth pattern from the original Finnish spearhead from Rovaniemen on display in Helsinki, Finland.

With the release of Stable Diffusion and ChatGPT in 2022, the public has been broadly exposed to transformative uses of “AI”.

Activ8te, part of the Cyber-House Collective, teamed up with security experts and indie artists like AENDZI to debut “I Am Tracking You.”

Our goal is to use the universal language of music to inspire and educate people about important topics in cybersecurity, and to build a community of individuals who are interested in learning more about security.

I noticed the proliferation of the term hackathon recently.

My Serendipity blog was woefully outdated and getting it upgraded would have been a lot of work.

After my first attempt at fine-tuning Stable Diffusion didn’t yield the desired results, I realized that I may have caused the collapse of the embedding space by using too few images with similar descriptions.