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My BeCPP talk video posted: “C++ — Growing in a world of competition, safety, and AI”

Herb Sutter

BeCPP just posted this video of my talk at their March 30 Symposium. This is the first time I’ve given this material on camera — it’s extension of themes in my New Year’s Eve blog post, with major updates because some big industry changes happened in the first quarter of 2026. This talk...

Lessons learned from The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage (No Spoiler)

Groundblue

This 80's book of espionage story still brings attention to modern cybersecurity professionals, and remains surprisingly relevant to today’s world. The book is made up of many easy-to-read short to medium-sized chapters, and things start to get really thrilling around chapter 29. I could be biased...

This blog got ransomwared

Phillip Rhodes

I'm generally a big believer in "learning in public" and emphasizing transparency, for numerous reasons. I won't detail those reasons now, but that might make a good blog post in its own right. But for now, I'm just going to share something that happened to me in the process of setting up this...

C++ safety, in context

Herb Sutter

Scope. To talk about C++’s current safety problems and solutions well, I need to include the context of the broad landscape of security and safety threats facing all software. I chair the ISO C++ standards committee and I work for Microsoft, but these are my personal opinions and I hope they will...