@LayerVai won the Cyber Innovation Conference people's choice award! Thank you to all of you for your support and well wishes -- the video will be on YouTube in the coming days.

The AI changes happening right now are making it much easier for bad actors to break into accounts, steal money, and lock people out of their own lives. Most people won't notice until it happens to them or someone they care about. I don't want that for any of you. You don't need to understand the tech. Just do these basic things this week: 1. Update everything. Phones, computers, tablets, and apps. Turn on automatic updates so it stays current. 2. Stop reusing passwords. Use the free password manager that came with your phone (Apple or Google) or something simple like @Bitwarden or @1Password. Give every important account its own password. 3. Turn on extra login protection on email and banking. Prefer an authenticator app or passkeys over text-message codes if you can. Save any recovery codes somewhere safe first. 4. Never give out login codes or download anything from a call, text, or email you weren't expecting -- even if it looks official. 5. Back up your important photos and files somewhere separate from your main devices. 6. If you need to share files with people and you use a Mac, consider downloading qURL desktop: qurl.link (tap "send a file"). 7. If you have an iPhone or Mac, look up "Lockdown Mode" and consider turning it on. It limits a few conveniences but closes a lot of doors. If that list feels like a lot, just do #1 and #4 today. Those two alone stop a huge percentage of the problems. This isn't theoretical anymore. The people who get ahead of it might be fine. The ones who wait usually aren't. Do these for yourselves.

I've helped ship software used by hundreds of millions of people. None of it matters to me as much as what I'm building now. The list: → Apple Pay v2 → CrowdStrike NG-SIEM → Disney: helped launch a plethora of experiences all across the company → Internet Explorer, back when it was the world's most-used piece of software. Yes, that Internet Explorer. Get the jokes out now. I'll wait. Here's why qURL tops that list. For 30 years, the internet has run on one rule: if it's online, anyone can find it. Every bot, every scanner, every attacker. qURL reverses that rule. Your app, your server, your AI agent's tools stay invisible until someone you chose shows up with the right credential. Everyone else finds nothing there to attack. As agents take on more of our work, they'll need to reach private things without exposing them to the whole internet. I believe the future of the internet is invisible and ephemeral, and qURL is how we get there. If you've ever opened a port or a tunnel just to show someone a half-built app, try this: qurl publish https://localhost:3000 What would you keep private if invisible were the default?

AI agents just sprayed 2,900 logins a minute through a compromised vendor into thousands of Microsoft 365 tenants. Decade-old bugs in PHP got turned into working exploits with models. Sites went dark. A popular AI tool got a second malicious release this year that stole cloud and AI keys. None of this was sophisticated. It was just visible. Scanners, agents, and password sprays still work because almost everything still answers when you knock. We keep bolting on faster detection and response while the first step (finding something to attack) stays free and automated. That sequence is losing. The only thing that actually changes the math is making the infrastructure that shouldn't be public stop answering at all. No open ports. No banners. No response until someone proves who they are with a cryptographic knock. Temporary links when something does need a window. Everything else is just trying to outrun machines that don't sleep. LayerV.ai is the way to do the hide-first part. The rest of the industry still mostly optimizes the old sequence.

The problem with traditional paywalls is that they hide the content from everyone, including the agents that will increasingly be the ones reading it. One alternative is to make the resource cryptographically absent by default (nothing answering scans or crawls), then only materialize it for specific agents that present a short-lived, policy-bound grant. The content stays off the public web, but the systems you choose can still reach it for the duration of a task. That's what @LayerVai does.