Phil Venables
@philvenables
All about cyber, resilience, risk, AI - at scale. Partner - Ballistic Ventures / Google - Strategic Advisor / 4 x CISO / Board Director / Chief Risk Officer
OSS-Rebuild from Google. Another tool in the toolbox for mitigating open source software risks. security.googleblog.com/2025/07/introd…
Decoding Cybercrime's True Scope: Beyond the Trillion-Dollar Hype A new @theNASEM report reveals the truth about #cybercrime stats: our data is fragmented, inconsistent, & underreported. We can't fight what we can't accurately measure. The path forward is a coordinated data…
SUSE on Confidential Computing VMs. Defense in depth at the infrastructure layer. cloud.google.com/blog/products/…
Well this is going to be amusing and not in a good way.
In a joint paper with @OwainEvans_UK as part of the Anthropic Fellows Program, we study a surprising phenomenon: subliminal learning. Language models can transmit their traits to other models, even in what appears to be meaningless data. x.com/OwainEvans_UK/…
Chain of Thought is Not Explainability. Fascinating paper that, in many ways, negates the naive use of chain of thought exposition to provide hard evidence of explainability of model reasoning and output. aigi.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/upl…
1yr ago… most news was RE: airline disruptions ✈️ … most of my calls were RE: patient care disruptions 🏥
Of those, more than 200 appear to have had outages of services related to patient care following CrowdStrike’s disastrous crash, researchers have revealed. wired.com/story/at-least…
Great memories of this street. Mainly because after a Rugby League cup final in Edinburgh many years ago my friend Paul found a very large (like 5 foot wingspan) dead seagull there and then carried it around all the many pubs we visited that night. It was very popular.
Bug bounties in the cloud.
Had an amazing time at Google Cloud bugSWAT in Sunnyvale! Got to meet and learn from some truly brilliant minds. Massive thanks to @GoogleVRP - not just the best BBP, but a team that genuinely empowers researchers, builds community, and sets the bar for the whole industry 🦄
As cyber resilience emerges as a top business priority, @philvenables emphasizes why board members should expand their technical knowledge around cyber threats, privacy, and risk on The Cyber Savvy Boardroom. 🎧 Listen now → bit.ly/46fDhZM
“Quantum mechanics is the operating system that other physical theories run on as application software.” The whole book worth it for that one line.
Insurance and AI. Underwriting intelligence. underwriting-superintelligence.com
Surprising (for many) result re the [lack of] productivity boost of AI in aspects of development. Be interesting to see comparable studies for security activities - to see which are boosted or not for what skills and circumstances. metr.org/blog/2025-07-1…
![philvenables's tweet image. Surprising (for many) result re the [lack of] productivity boost of AI in aspects of development. Be interesting to see comparable studies for security activities - to see which are boosted or not for what skills and circumstances.
metr.org/blog/2025-07-1…](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gv5e4nLWIAEuQnr.jpg)
