The speaker highlights the benefits of analyzing successful exploits and understanding the vulnerabilities and techniques used by contestants to develop them. The process involves recognizing and appreciating the effort put into finding the vulnerabilities, escaping the sandbox, and successfully executing the exploit without user interaction.
The speaker shares his experience of actively exploiting vulnerabilities and hacking into companies to test their security systems, despite the risks involved.
Wade hosts this week and introduces the theme of the roots of werewolf mythology and folklore.
A poker bot was created by Noam Brown and his team, named 'Pluribus' that beat humans at a variety of poker games. By the end, the bot had won for three days straight and proved to be the better player than its human opponents.
Competitors in a poker championship work to find weaknesses in a bot's game plan in order to beat it through over-aggressive betting options. They discovered that the bot struggled with certain sizes of bets.
In a podcast interview with a game developer, they share stories and insights into the psychological and technical aspects of game development including a bug in a game that stopped it from growing.