A Letter to Myself
The Weekend Piece The letter that follows is brief. The form is old. Older than corporate self-improvement by about nineteen centuries. Marcus Aurelius wrote his to himself on a campaign tent on…
Microsoft’s Goats
On the Need for Another Mind Adrian de Wynter, a Microsoft researcher, has just released a paper whose title alone would be worth the price of admission: If LLMs Have Human-Like Attributes,…
The Withdrawal Button
Brussels Reinvents the Door There are certain dates, in the long calendar of European Union legislation, that should be celebrated with confetti, marching bands, and a small civic moment of silence for…
Three Days for Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5
European Digital Sovereignty, and the Pattern of Consolation Prizes On June 9, 2026, Anthropic announced Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5, presented as the "with safeguards built-in" versions of its frontier…
Ten Mistakes a CISO Should Not Make in Cybersecurity Risk Management, in 2026
The 2025 IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report records a global average breach cost of 4.44 million dollars, with United States organisations now averaging 10.22 million dollars per incident, an all-time…
The Seventy Percent: Why IT Transformation Has Remained Statistically Difficult for Twelve Years
The headline statistic about enterprise IT transformation, in 2026, is a number that has not meaningfully changed in twelve years. Seventy percent of declared transformation projects fail to deliver their stated objectives.…
Mythos in AI Sauce: When Italian Business Journalism Tucks #Cybersecurity Into Bed
#IlSole24Ore is, openly, one of the very few Italian newspapers I still bother to read. Owned by Confindustria, the Italian employers' federation, and you can tell. But it writes about the economy…
May 26, 2026
The Day European Digital Sovereignty Convened to Discuss a Model It Cannot Access ....and don't say I didn't warn you. On Tuesday, May 26, 2026, the European Central Bank convenes a meeting…
The Great Equaliser
Why the Attacker's AI Has Already Taken the Human Out of the Loop The defender, in 2026, has artificial intelligence with a human in the loop. The attacker, in 2026, has artificial…
Eighteen Minutes
How the AI Industry's Software Supply Chain Was Compromised in May 2026 Three weeks ago, between May 11 and May 18, 2026, the software supply chain that sustains the artificial intelligence industry…