David Bombal

Big thanks to Cisco & Splunk for sponsoring my trip to .Conf 2026 and also for sponsoring this video.

AI agents are changing cybersecurity. Sunil Potti joins David Bombal to discuss AI safety, open source AI, and the skills that could shape your career in 2027.

How do defenders keep up when attackers use AI? Sunil explains why security systems need continuous testing and self-improvement, and why the data behind an AI agent matters as much as the model deployed in a customer environment.

We also discuss his vision for bringing Cisco security and Splunk together, the role of trust as AI becomes more accessible, and why physical AI raises the stakes from stolen data to potential physical harm.

Want to get into cybersecurity or AI? Hear Sunil's advice on going deep in a technical specialty or building broad knowledge across disciplines, and why he sees long-term opportunity in AI safety and security.

What are you learning for 2027? Share your plans in the comments.

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// MENU //
0:00 - Intro
0:31 - Sunil Potti background
01:50 - Democratization of AI
05:21 - AI robots
07:36 - AI defenders vs AI attackers
09:38 - Worry about AI agents attacking
10:43 - Future of Cisco and Splunk
13:17 - Making Cisco products more simple
14:37 - Getting into cybersecurity in 2027
18:20 - Conclusion

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Why does the USB Rubber Ducky look like a normal flash drive but behave like a keyboard? Darren Kitchen, founder of ‪@hak5‬, tells David Bombal how a tool for fixing printers became a famous hacking device.

‪@DarrenKitchen‬ shares the story behind the USB Rubber Ducky, from hiding early circuit boards inside actual rubber ducks to building DuckyScript and developing a security tool used for automation, awareness training, and authorized red teaming.

We explore why computers accept input from USB keyboards, how keystroke injection works, and why an apparently harmless device can issue commands much faster than a person. Darren also explains Keystroke Reflection, a technique that uses keyboard indicator signals such as Caps Lock, Num Lock, and

Scroll Lock to transfer small amounts of data without relying on a normal network connection, when the host and access conditions permit it.

In this conversation:
• Why the Rubber Ducky originally helped Darren fix printers and network shares
• How a USB device can identify itself as a human interface device (HID)
• What DuckyScript does and how it evolved
• The security implications of high-speed keystroke injection
• How Keystroke Reflection works in principle, including air-gapped scenarios
• Darren's stories about the Rubber Ducky appearing in television and film
Learn more about the USB Rubber Ducky: https://shop.hak5.org/products/usb-ru... Hak5's explanation of Keystroke Reflection: https://shop.hak5.org/blogs/usb-rubbe...

What surprised you most: that it started as an IT shortcut, or the keyboard LED technique? Let us know in the comments. This interview discusses security research and authorized testing. Only use security tools on systems you own or are explicitly permitted to assess.

// Darren Kitchen SOCIAL //
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// MENU//
0:00 - Intro
0:30 - Hak5 Rubber Ducky origins
01:28 - What is a Rubber Ducky?
04:07 - Proton VPN sponsor segment
06:54 - How it works + origin story
12:03 - How the Rubber Ducky was created
13:40 - DuckyScript
17:48 - A powerful tool for automation
19:02 - Keyboard vulnerability // Rubber Ducky payload
23:58 - Rubber Ducky in media // Conclusion

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Big thanks to Cisco & Splunk for sponsoring my trip to .Conf 2026 and also for sponsoring this video.

What happens when shooting an enemy in a Doom game deletes a real Kubernetes pod? Splunk built a Doom clone that does exactly that, then tracks the chaos in live dashboards. In this video, Heath shows me Metric Mayhem, a Doom-style game connected to a live e-commerce demo application running on Kubernetes. Enemies represent pods in the application, so playing the game creates real failures for Splunk to monitor.

We also look at Trace Invaders, Splunk’s take on Space Invaders, and how Chaos Mesh adds CPU stress, memory stress, and latency to the environment. Heath explains how the team captures game events as logs and turns them into dashboards showing deleted pods, player scores, boss defeats, and finish times.

In this video:
How game enemies map to Kubernetes pods

What happens in the demo when a pod is deleted and replaced
How Chaos Mesh introduces stress and latency
How Splunk Observability Cloud shows the impact on the application
How game logs power Splunk dashboards and leaderboards
Why an interactive game makes a monitoring demo easier to understand

If you’re learning Kubernetes, chaos engineering, or observability, this is a fun way to see how failures become useful data.
Would you try this in your own test lab? Let me know in the comments.

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// MENU //
0:00 – Introduction
0:29 – Why Splunk Built a Video Game
01:03 – “DOOM” and Trace Invaders
01:45 – Chaos Engineering with Chaos Mesh
02:26 – Splunk Observability Cloud
03:27 – How the Game Was Created
04:24 – The Splunk Gaming Dashboard
05:18 – How Game Data Gets Into Splunk
05:41 – Gamifying Splunk
06:17 – What Data Can Splunk Ingest?
06:30 – What Does “Being Splunky” Mean?
07:12 – Gaming Chaos Meets Business Value
07:24 – Monitoring Kubernetes Metrics
07:47 – Building Custom Splunk Dashboards

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// MENU //
0:00 - Coming Up
0:49 - Why Privacy Matters Even If You Have Nothing to Hide
01:49 - How Much Are We Being Surveilled?
02:52 - How Companies Collect and Sell Your Personal Data
05:43 - Sponsor: Proton Drive
07:32 - Who Is Buying Your Personal Data?
08:34 - How Streaming Services and Smart TVs Track You
10:19 - Why Mobile Apps Are a Privacy Risk
11:41 - How Easy Is It to Find Someone's Personal Information?
13:11 - Doxxing, Scams and the Dangers of Exposed Data
14:32 - How Hackers Use Personal Data to Attack Companies
16:03 - How Is Mass Surveillance Legal?
17:01 - License Plate Readers and Location Tracking
18:13 - Are Smart TVs Spying on You?
19:03 - What Can I Actually Do?
21:55 - Does DeleteMe Really Work?
25:50 - Can You Ever Be Anonymous Online?
28:02 - Which Operating System Is Best for Privacy?
31:31 - How to Audit Your Apps and Permissions
33:36 - The Best Privacy-Focused Web Browsers
34:40 - Outro

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What happens when NVIDIA's AI drives a Mercedes-Benz CLA through Berlin traffic? David Bombal rides along to see how Alpamayo and the Halos safety stack work together.

At GTC Berlin, I ride in a Mercedes-Benz CLA running a development version of NVIDIA's Alpamayo driving software. We encounter cyclists, pedestrians, narrow roads, unusual junctions, parked cars and unpredictable drivers while the car handles much of the driving under human supervision.

We look at what is actually happening behind the scenes: an end-to-end AI model proposes a driving path, a separate classical safety stack checks the environment and rules, and a trajectory arbiter decides when to allow the plan or fall back. The car uses on-board NVIDIA DRIVE Orin computing, cameras, radar and ultrasonic sensors.

We also discuss training with US and European driving data, simulation with NVIDIA Cosmos, the difference between this development vehicle and NVIDIA's downloadable Alpamayo research models, and what it takes to adapt the system to different vehicles and countries.

In this video:
• A live AI-assisted drive through busy Berlin streets
• How Alpamayo and the classical Halos safety stack work together
• Why narrow roads, cyclists and German traffic lights are difficult cases
• The cameras, radar, ultrasonic sensors and DRIVE Orin hardware
• How real-world data and Cosmos simulation help train and test driving models
• Which Alpamayo research models you can explore yourself Important: this demonstration is a supervised Level 2 driver-assistance system.

The person in the driver's seat remains attentive and responsible; this is not an unsupervised robotaxi. Would you trust AI-assisted driving in a busy city? Which situation would you want it to handle first?

NVIDIA Alpamayo: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/solution...
NVIDIA Halos: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/ai-trust...

Alpamayo research downloads: https://developer.nvidia.com/drive/do...

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0:00 - Intro
0:39 - Not a normal Mercedes
01:42 - How the Alpamayo stack works
02:52 - Levels of self-driving cars
04:01 - How the cameras work
05:10 - Difference between Alpamayo and Halos
07:49 - Self-driving cars in the future
08:30 - Alpamayo vs standard LLM
10:00 - Going for a drive // Training the AI model
14:52 - Alpamayo and Halos working together
15:38 - Left side and right side driving
16:21 - Smooth driving behaviour
18:47 - Petrol (Gas) vs electric cars
19:47 - Real-world scenario driving
21:16 - Petrol (Gas) vs electric cars continued
22:56 - Unique traffic laws
25:49 - The future of Aplamayo and Halos
26:49 - Difference to other self-driving cars
28:45 - Aplamayo on Hugging Face
30:35 - Trusting self-driving cars
33:02 - Handling unusual scenarios
34:17 - Adjusting acceleration based on the vehicle
37:05 - Hardware explained
38:43 - Self-driving cars in the future pt.2
39:57 - How the model is trained
41:38 - Conclusion

#NVIDIA #AutonomousDriving #Alpamayo