Blog of Anant Shrivastava

TL;DR Debian 13 needs packages from backports, along with newer firmware and parts of Intel’s compute stack, before the Arc Pro B70 becomes properly usable.

I have been on both sides of conference panels, as a panelist and as a moderator, and I am tired of how much nonsense we tolerate around them.

In the IT and IT security world, we are living through the dream, or at least the sales pitch, of an AI-first world.

Most widely used open source licenses start with the same idea: “no warranty, no liability.”

There is a story I keep hearing, and I have lived a version of it myself.

I am thrilled to announce a major update to Hacking Archives of India (HAI).

TL;DR: I built Readwise Wrapped.

As we approach the end of 2025, like a trained goat, I am collecting year end reviews from every SaaS service that will hand me one.

Most of the world we live in feels deterministic.

Most of the infosec world loves to parrot the cliché: “Think like a hacker.”