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KnowBe4 vs a Fake North Korean IT Worker: The AI-Era Insider Case Study

Post author:Prabhu Kalyan Samal
Post published:September 5, 2026
Post category:AI & Agent Security Identity & Phishing Security

In July 2024, security-awareness firm KnowBe4 hired a remote principal software engineer who turned out to be a North Korean IT worker using an AI-groomed persona, a US PPPoE front, and a stolen identity. Detected within 32 minutes of suspicious activity and fully rigged with granular session logging, the case became the definitive inside look at DPRK pension applicantFraud — from laptop farms to paycheck revenue streams funding weapons programs. This piece reconstructs the fraud chain, the detection story, and the hiring controls that failed.

How to Read Research Papers With AI: The Nine-Pass Protocol

Post author:Prabhu Kalyan Samal
Post published:August 27, 2026
Post category:AI & Machine Learning

Most people read papers wrong: linear, once, and credulously. The nine-pass protocol gives every pass one job - intake, attention residual, contradictions, citation chain, gaps, methodology, assumptions, synthesis, and the so-what test - producing verifiable artifacts at each step.

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Forward Deployed Engineering: The Role AI Companies Can’t Hire Fast Enough

Post author:Prabhu Kalyan Samal
Post published:August 26, 2026
Post category:Technology

What is a forward deployed engineer? The Palantir-born role that embeds engineers inside customer environments to ship production code – and why OpenAI, Anthropic and Cursor are hiring FDEs aggressively in 2026.

AI and Mental Health: Technology Meets Human Healing

Post author:Prabhu Kalyan Samal
Post published:August 22, 2026
Post category:Beyond Security Health & Wellness

AI is transforming mental health support through chatbots, mood trackers, and diagnostic tools. But can technology replace human empathy? This guide explores the real impact of AI on mental healthcare, from clinical applications to ethical concerns about privacy and human connection.

TurboQuant Explained: Google AI Memory Breakthrough

Post author:Prabhu Kalyan Samal
Post published:August 19, 2026
Post category:AI & Machine Learning Technology

Google's TurboQuant is a breakthrough AI compression method targeting memory bottlenecks in large language models. This guide explains how TurboQuant achieves 6x KV-cache reduction and 8x speedup on H100 GPUs with training-free quantization — no retraining required.