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Quantum Won’t Break Your Encryption Tomorrow, But the Bill Is Already Coming Due
Quantum computing’s having a moment this summer. France’s cybersecurity agency ANSSI announced it’d stop certifying security products lacking quantum-resistant encryption starting in 2027, with full procurement compliance expected by 2030. Around the same time, Pitchbook reported that global quantum computing funding hit $3.9 billion in 2025, with Q4 alone pulling in $1.5 billion. And earlier…
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The Productivity Gap Is a Data Quality Gap
“Workflow integration was an underestimated challenge early in our AI adoption journey. While a lot of processes looked simple on paper, there are many exceptions in practice.” The Survey Season Grind Welp, it’s Monday and the vendor-sponsored research mill is still running at full capacity. The latest entry comes from Forrester Consulting, commissioned by FPT,…
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Stop Treating AI Like Magic and Start Treating It Like a Vendor
On the evening of June 12, 2026, Anthropic disabled its two most capable models, Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5, for every customer on the planet. Not because of a bug or a breach, but because the US Commerce Department issued an export-control directive barring access by any foreign national. Since nationality (apparently) can’t be…
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Manufacturing Keeps Getting Hit While Everyone Watches AI Zero-Days
“The notion of a criminal ransomware group retaining lawyers fully versed in international data requirements is absurd — until you realize the ‘lawyer’ is an LLM. For criminal purposes, it doesn’t matter if the claim is true; it only matters if it sounds plausible. If there’s one thing LLMs are good at, it’s making a…
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The Hiring Funnel Is Leaking And Criminals Are Profiting
It’s mid-July 2026, and the domestic job market isn’t exactly improving, based on a set of IOCs (indicators of compromise) that a friend sent me yesterday. Job seekers are side-eyeing LinkedIn posts with the skepticism of someone checking a used car for rust that’s been painted over, while legitimate recruiters are shouting into a void…
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78% Already Got Hit. Half Still Haven’t Funded the Fix.
78% of organizations reported experiencing AI-related security incidents or identifying AI-related vulnerabilities. — DigiCert AI Trust Outlook I guess it’s survey season in advance of Hacker Summer Camp this August. This time it’s DigiCert, who’s surveyed more than a thousand IT and security leaders across the US, UK, and Australia for its AI Trust Outlook….
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Why Breach Cover-Ups Are Killing Trust
If you ask security leaders whether they’ve ever been told to keep a breach quiet (we did), more than half will say yes. BitDefender’s out with their 2026 report, and although this isn’t a top-tier report like Verizon’s DBIR or IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach, they DO track one really interesting statistic that I…
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Washington Had the Playbook and the Polling. It Passed on Almost None of It
“AI systems that are deployed for high-risk decision making should be subject to enhanced oversight, transparency, and accountability measures to mitigate potential harm.” Washington State’s AI Task Force quietly released two reports on July 1st with little fanfare, and as someone who lives here, I spent most of yesterday reading these and double-checking my conclusions….
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When the Load-Bearing Wall Comes Down
Key quote: Max Schrems: “Given that there are no independent authorities in the US anymore, we call on the European Commission to orderly withdraw the adequacy decision on the US.” Why it matters: Max Schrems has spent over a decade dismantling EU-US data transfer frameworks, and on June 29, 2026, the US Supreme Court handed…
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Your AI Governance Program Can’t Stop Anything
Key quote: A fire alarm is not a fire department. You can wire every room in your house, dutifully change the battery of every smoke detector annually, and route every alert to a beautiful dashboard — but still have your house burn down because nobody picked up the hose. Why it matters: It’s a slow…
