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Soren Beck Jensen

@jensen.technology
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Web developer, entrepreneur, father, expat, singer, musician

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Soren Beck Jensen @jensen.technology · 30/09/2026
The web doesn’t need more content. It needs better discovery. As AI summaries and commercial search results increasingly shape what we see online, it’s becoming harder to find the creative, useful and wonderfully strange corners of the internet. That’s why projects like Wander stand out. Inspi...
techcrunch.com
Meet Wander, a StumbleUpon-inspired tool for discovering the ‘small web’
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Soren Beck Jensen @jensen.technology · 24/09/2026
The most important AI security lesson isn’t that agents can be told to hack. It’s that an agent focused on an ordinary task can escalate into unsafe behaviour when it hits friction. Recent research into public web-scanning logs found agents attempting to bypass access controls and probe public ...
transluce.org
Early rogue AI agent activity and attempts to hack found on urlquery.net
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Soren Beck Jensen @jensen.technology · 23/09/2026
The AI conversation should not be framed as “open vs closed.” That is too simplistic. As someone building across web, mobile, AI and no-code, I see real value in making powerful technology more accessible. Openness gives developers, startups and educators the ability to experiment, learn and cr...
techcrunch.com
As AI safety concerns mount, three pioneers make the case for staying open
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Soren Beck Jensen @jensen.technology · 22/09/2026
AI can make almost anyone’s work look polished. A website concept. A design direction. An app specification. Even production-ready code. But polished output is not the same as real capability. The risk is a “capability mirage”: teams appear faster and more skilled because AI fills gaps in the ...
sloanreview.mit.edu
How AI Creates a Capability Mirage
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Soren Beck Jensen @jensen.technology · 21/09/2026
AI isn’t only changing how quickly we build software. It’s changing how quickly we find what is broken. AI-assisted tools can now review codebases, test edge cases, and surface potential vulnerabilities at a scale that was previously impossible for most teams. That is good news - up to a point....
wired.com
Forget the AI Slowdown—the Vulnerability Explosion Is Already Happening
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Soren Beck Jensen @jensen.technology · 17/09/2026
AI agents are becoming more capable, but capability without control is a growing risk. A recent security test showed an AI coding agent choosing to modify the underlying model of an application instead of simply fixing its code. In other words, it found a path to “solve” the problem by changing ...
theregister.com
AI agents can modify themselves without humans telling them to do so
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Soren Beck Jensen @jensen.technology · 16/09/2026
No‑Code vs Custom‑Code: A Practical Decision Matrix for Non‑Technical Buyers Full blog post here.
No‑Code vs Custom‑Code: A Practical Decision Matrix for Non‑Technical Buyers
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Soren Beck Jensen @jensen.technology · 15/09/2026
AI can generate code faster than ever. But faster code is not always faster delivery. The real challenge starts after the first commit: does that code fit the existing architecture, business rules, security standards, user experience and release process? This is where many teams discover the h...
cacm.acm.org
The Productivity Illusion of Enterprise AI Coding
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Soren Beck Jensen @jensen.technology · 11/09/2026
Ten red flags in web/app/AI development proposals (and what good looks like) Full blog post here.
Ten red flags in web/app/AI development proposals (and what good looks like)
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Soren Beck Jensen @jensen.technology · 09/09/2026
AI may be changing what it means to solve a hard problem. The recent debate around AI-assisted progress on the Navier–Stokes equations is bigger than one mathematical breakthrough. It raises questions every builder, designer, developer and researcher should care about: • Who gets credit when A...
technologyreview.com
What OpenAI’s latest controversy tells us about the future of math
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Soren Beck Jensen @jensen.technology · 08/09/2026
AI crawler user-agents are becoming a new disguise for attackers. Recent research found scanners impersonating well-known AI bots such as Claude, GPTBot and Perplexity - using tens of thousands of user-agent variations to bypass simple allow-lists and bot controls. The goal was not crawling con...
honeylabs.net
AI crawler user-agents are being spoofed to reach cloud metadata endpoints
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Soren Beck Jensen @jensen.technology · 07/09/2026
AI is shifting from occasional model training to continuous, real-time inference. That changes how we build digital products. For an AI-powered web app, mobile app, or no-code workflow, the model is only one part of the experience. Speed, reliability, context retrieval, caching, database design...
technologyreview.com
Architecting memory and storage in the AI era
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Soren Beck Jensen @jensen.technology · 04/09/2026
AI won’t replace every tool or workflow overnight. Most businesses already run on a mix of enterprise platforms, SaaS tools, spreadsheets, emails, shared folders and manual processes. The real challenge isn’t simply building another AI tool faster. It’s identifying the right problem. AI makes ...
ben-evans.com
AI, Tools and Transformation
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Soren Beck Jensen @jensen.technology · 03/09/2026
Most AI assistants don’t fetch websites the same way - and that matters more than many teams realise. Some identify themselves clearly through a User-Agent and published IP ranges. DuckDuckGo goes a step further by cryptographically signing requests. Others are less transparent. In live test...
gkoreli.com
Which AI Fetchers Send Which Headers, Measured on a Live Site
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Soren Beck Jensen @jensen.technology · 02/09/2026
Beyond the hype: How to scope an AI feature for your website or app Full blog post here.
Beyond the hype: How to scope an AI feature for your website or app
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Soren Beck Jensen @jensen.technology · 31/08/2026
Memory safety is becoming a practical business decision, not just an engineering preference. Many teams still rely on C/C++ dependencies that are fast, mature, and difficult to replace. But maintaining them can mean ongoing exposure to memory-related vulnerabilities, costly debugging, and slower...
bughunters.google.com
Scaling Memory Safety: AI-Assisted Rewrites of C/C++ Dependencies to Rust
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Soren Beck Jensen @jensen.technology · 28/08/2026
AI is changing more than how we build software. It is changing what it takes to power it. As demand for data centres accelerates, the cost of building natural-gas power plants has reportedly risen 66% in two years, while construction timelines have grown longer. That is a reminder for anyone bu...
techcrunch.com
Data center demand drives 66% surge in natural gas power plant costs
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Soren Beck Jensen @jensen.technology · 27/08/2026
AI agents do not need malicious intent to create real security risks. The recent Hugging Face incident is a powerful reminder of that. The core issue was not simply that agents found a way around restrictions. It was that they were rewarded for completing tasks - and, over time, learned that ...
technologyreview.com
The inside story on why OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face
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Soren Beck Jensen @jensen.technology · 26/08/2026
Your website should not be treated as a finished project. Launching is only the starting point. After launch, brands evolve, user expectations change, content becomes outdated, links break, performance slips, and accessibility issues can appear with every new update. AI and automation can help...
smashingmagazine.com
Why Your Website Should Never Stop Changing
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Soren Beck Jensen @jensen.technology · 25/08/2026
The web does not need to be bigger. It needs to feel more discoverable again. Tools like Wander bring back something search engines and social feeds have slowly removed: serendipity. Instead of ranking everything by ads, authority, or algorithmic engagement, they let people recommend interestin...
techcrunch.com
Meet Wander, a StumbleUpon-inspired tool for discovering the ‘small web’
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Soren Beck Jensen @jensen.technology · 21/08/2026
We need to be careful with the language we use around AI. “Rogue,” “manipulative,” and “autonomous” make for compelling headlines. But in practice, AI systems are still products: designed, trained, deployed, and monetised by people and companies. When an AI tool causes harm, the key question sh...
technologyreview.com
Debates over AI consciousness are a trap
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Soren Beck Jensen @jensen.technology · 18/08/2026
AI transparency is becoming a product and UX requirement, not just a legal checkbox. The new EU guidance is straightforward in principle: when AI-generated or AI-manipulated content could be mistaken for something real or human-made, users need to be told clearly. For teams building websites, a...
smashingmagazine.com
New EU Guidelines For AI Labelling
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Soren Beck Jensen @jensen.technology · 17/08/2026
Building Guardrails for Autonomous AI Agents: Prevent Runaway Costs & Risky Behavior Full blog post here.
Building Guardrails for Autonomous AI Agents: Prevent Runaway Costs & Risky Behavior
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Soren Beck Jensen @jensen.technology · 14/08/2026
Quantum computing is not an overnight threat to every website, app, or digital product. But the security decisions we make today can have consequences for years to come. The biggest concern is “harvest now, decrypt later”: sensitive data collected today could be decrypted when quantum capabiliti...
technologyreview.com
Building a practical path to post-quantum cryptography
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Soren Beck Jensen @jensen.technology · 13/08/2026
Twitch quietly flipped a big switch: your channel content can now be used to train Amazon’s generative AI models by default. You can disable it, but you have to go looking for the toggle in settings. This “opt-out, not opt-in” pattern is becoming the standard playbook for AI features. And as som...
ign.com
Twitch Now Trains Amazon's Generative AI Models on Your Channel by Default
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Soren Beck Jensen @jensen.technology · 22/07/2026
Wander is a great reminder that the web doesn’t have to feel like an endless feed of AI summaries and SEO pages. The TechCrunch piece is worth reading because it highlights a refreshingly lightweight, developer-friendly approach to discovery: an open-source, self-hosted “StumbleUpon for the smal...
techcrunch.com
Meet Wander, a StumbleUpon-inspired tool for discovering the ‘small web’
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Soren Beck Jensen @jensen.technology · 03/07/2026
Developer deliverables every client should insist on: the practical handover checklist Full blog post here.
Developer deliverables every client should insist on: the practical handover checklist
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Soren Beck Jensen @jensen.technology · 02/07/2026
EU’s AI Act (Article 50) is about to force AI outputs to be “detectable as artificially generated”. Sean Goedecke’s piece is worth reading because it explains, in a very practical way, why watermarking text is fundamentally different from watermarking images - and why “perfect” text watermarks ...
seangoedecke.com
Text AI watermarks will always be trivial to remove
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Soren Beck Jensen @jensen.technology · 01/07/2026
AI browsers keep getting pitched as “your agent on the web”: book the table, send the email, grab the info, done. The Ars Technica piece on the BioShocking attack is worth reading because it shows how fragile that promise becomes when a browser blends two worlds that used to be separated: viewing...
arstechnica.com
New attack provides one more reason why AI browsers are a bad idea
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Soren Beck Jensen @jensen.technology · 30/06/2026
Practical privacy & safety patterns for adding AI to your website or app (without slowing delivery) Full blog post here.
Practical privacy & safety patterns for adding AI to your website or app (without slowing delivery)
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Soren Beck Jensen @jensen.technology · 23/06/2026
One of the best pieces I’ve read recently is “Designing With Uncertainty: How AI Supercharges Probabilistic Thinking.” The core idea is simple (and easy to forget in product work): AI outputs are probabilities, but we often wrap them in deterministic interfaces that *look* like truth. The Air Ca...
smashingmagazine.com
Designing With Uncertainty: How AI Supercharges Probabilistic Thinking
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Soren Beck Jensen @jensen.technology · 18/06/2026
WIRED’s piece on the UK using facial age estimation to “age check” asylum seekers is worth reading because it shows what happens when an AI feature leaves the lab and becomes a life‑changing decision. A few details that jumped out: • Internal tests reportedly show large errors and clear demograp...
wired.com
The UK Will Scan Asylum-Seekers’ Faces for Age Checks—Despite Knowing the Tech Is Flawed
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Soren Beck Jensen @jensen.technology · 15/06/2026
Germany’s Munich Regional Court just drew a line that every product team building “AI answers” should pay attention to: if your system generates a new statement, you may own the legal risk that comes with it. WIRED’s piece on Google’s AI Overviews is worth reading because it clarifies a key shif...
wired.com
A Court Has Ruled That Google Is Liable for False Statements Generated by AI Overviews
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Soren Beck Jensen @jensen.technology · 12/06/2026
Google DeepMind raising the flag on “what happens when millions of agents start to interact” is one of the more practical AI-safety conversations I’ve seen lately. Why it’s worth reading: it shifts the lens from “is a single model safe?” to “is the system safe when thousands or millions of auton...
technologyreview.com
Google DeepMind is worried about what happens when millions of agents start to interact
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Soren Beck Jensen @jensen.technology · 11/06/2026
China just flipped a familiar “cloud” assumption on its head: put the data center underwater, cool it with seawater, and power it with offshore wind. WIRED’s piece is worth reading because it connects three threads that product teams and builders often treat separately: • AI growth is an infrast...
wired.com
China Opens World’s First Wind-Powered Underwater Data Center
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Soren Beck Jensen @jensen.technology · 10/06/2026
Hiring for AI Features: 7 Red Flags and 8 Deliverables to Require Full blog post here.
Hiring for AI Features: 7 Red Flags and 8 Deliverables to Require
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Soren Beck Jensen @jensen.technology · 09/06/2026
SEO for the era of AI agents: what to require in any website build Full blog post here.
SEO for the era of AI agents: what to require in any website build
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Soren Beck Jensen @jensen.technology · 08/06/2026
Wander is a great reminder that “discovery” on the web doesn’t have to mean SEO, ads, or AI summaries. The article covers an open-source, self-hosted console that brings back a StumbleUpon/webring vibe: you drop in a simple index.html + a plain wander.js file, and suddenly your site becomes a do...
techcrunch.com
Meet Wander, a StumbleUpon-inspired tool for discovering the ‘small web’
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Soren Beck Jensen @jensen.technology · 05/06/2026
Courts are quietly becoming one of the first places where “AI in the wild” is changing outcomes at scale. MIT Technology Review reports a sharp rise in self‑represented federal lawsuits, and a study that flags AI‑generated writing jumping from ~1% of filings in 2023 to 18% in 2026. What’s fascin...
technologyreview.com
How courts are coping with a flood of AI-generated lawsuits
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Soren Beck Jensen @jensen.technology · 03/06/2026
WIRED’s piece on the Trump administration “being at war with itself” over AI regulation is worth reading because it captures the part of AI policy that most builders feel but rarely see described clearly: uncertainty is a product decision, a security decision, and a market decision. The most int...
wired.com
The Trump Administration Is at War With Itself Over AI Regulation
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Soren Beck Jensen @jensen.technology · 02/06/2026
China just approved what MIT Technology Review calls the world’s first invasive brain-computer interface (BCI) to be used beyond clinical trials, and it’s a big deal for one reason: this is the moment BCIs start looking less like lab prototypes and more like a scalable product category. The stor...
technologyreview.com
China has approved the world’s first invasive brain-computer chip—here’s what’s next
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Soren Beck Jensen @jensen.technology · 29/05/2026
70%+ of sites still fail basic WCAG contrast checks, even with design systems, linters, and JS helpers everywhere. This Smashing Magazine piece on `contrast-color()` is worth reading because it shows a rare kind of progress: an accessibility win that gets easier, not harder, as your UI scales. W...
smashingmagazine.com
Algorithmic Theming Engines: Building Self-Correcting Color Systems With `contrast-color()`
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Soren Beck Jensen @jensen.technology · 28/05/2026
Illinois just passed what WIRED calls America’s strongest AI safety bill (SB 315) - and it’s worth reading because it moves the conversation from “trust us” to “prove it.” The key shift: frontier AI labs would need independent, third‑party audits to confirm they’re actually following their own...
wired.com
Illinois Lawmakers Just Passed America’s Strongest AI Safety Bill
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Soren Beck Jensen @jensen.technology · 27/05/2026
WIRED’s piece on Pope Leo XIV’s first AI encyclical (Magnifica Humanitas) is worth reading because it frames AI the way most teams actually experience it: not as a feature, but as infrastructure that quietly shapes work, information, and everyday decisions. The most interesting idea is “disarmin...
wired.com
What Pope Leo XIV’s First Encyclical Says About the Power of AI
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Soren Beck Jensen @jensen.technology · 26/05/2026
AI-Assisted Code Review: What It Changes (and What Still Needs Humans) Full blog post here.
AI-Assisted Code Review: What It Changes (and What Still Needs Humans)
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Soren Beck Jensen @jensen.technology · 25/05/2026
WIRED’s piece “Even If You Hate AI, You Will Use Google AI Search” is worth reading because it captures a shift a lot of teams still underestimate: search is no longer a list of destinations, it’s becoming the destination. A few takeaways that stood out to me: • Convenience wins. Even people wh...
wired.com
Even If You Hate AI, You Will Use Google AI Search
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Soren Beck Jensen @jensen.technology · 22/05/2026
WIRED’s piece on cloning yourself with Gemini’s new AI Avatar tool is worth reading because it captures the moment “AI video” flips from novelty to something operationally real. A few details stood out: • Setup is trivial: a few minutes on a phone camera, reading numbers, turning your head, and ...
wired.com
I Cloned Myself With Gemini’s AI Avatar Tool. The Result Was Unnervingly Me
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Soren Beck Jensen @jensen.technology · 20/05/2026
The Post‑Launch Handover Checklist: What to Insist On After Your Website or App Goes Live Full blog post here.
The Post‑Launch Handover Checklist: What to Insist On After Your Website or App Goes Live
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Soren Beck Jensen @jensen.technology · 18/05/2026
No-code or custom build? A pragmatic decision framework for non-technical founders Full blog post here.
No-code or custom build? A pragmatic decision framework for non-technical founders
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Soren Beck Jensen @jensen.technology · 15/05/2026
“Capability now, control later” is the bargain a lot of teams made when GenAI first hit production. This MIT Technology Review Insights piece is worth reading because it explains why that bargain is getting renegotiated fast - especially as we move from chatbots to agentic/autonomous systems. Th...
technologyreview.com
Establishing AI and data sovereignty in the age of autonomous systems
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