Phillip de Wet

Phillip de Wet's started in journalism as an honest B2B IT-sector reporter, before straying into business, politics, and international affairs. He is currently in recovery.

| Developer | Jun 18, 2025

Database firm hires former drug dealer dev from jail - all involved think it is the future

Remote-working US convict coder Preston Thorpe is helping "sensitive data" company Turso rewrite SQLite in Rust.

| Security | Jun 06, 2025

Google slams Meta for "blatant" violation of security principles via "Localmess"

An illustration showing how the Meta Pixel used SDP Munging to insert the _fbp cookie information into to the SDP "ice-ufrag" field.

"Current privacy controls (e.g., sandboxing approaches, mobile platform and browser permissions, web consent models, incognito modes, resetting mobile advertising IDs, or clearing cookies) are insufficient to control and mitigate it."

Financial Services | May 28, 2025

Stripe's semantics-of-money AI turns heads. Can it adapt?

Foundational model shows big results, but fraud doesn't stand still