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Cyber’s Lehman Moment, Could 2026 Mark a Turning Point for Digital Systemic Risk?
I still live in hope, that 2026 will mark the point at which cyber security is no longer treated as a technical or compliance function, just a security issue but accepted in its true global economy role as a core pillar of trust, resilience and macro-economic stability a systemic risk. Helped in no small part […]
Posted in: ai, Cloud Computing, Computers and Internet, Cyber Security, Home Computing, Privacy, Risk, Security
Are Stablecoins The Silent Expansion of Dollar Power Beyond the Reach of Control?
May 18, 2026
This is very much a consolidated response to comments received following my earlier post (Full Visibility, Zero Control – How Crypto Exposes the Illusion of Financial Power) challenged the spectre of Stablecoins sidelining Crypto like Bitcoin. So to be a bit more focused on that point, in a world characterised by trust erosion without a […]
The Great AI Inversion, When Optimisation Eats the Hyperscalers
May 17, 2026
Another weekend and another headline prophesying the AI bubble is nigh. Much of the current AI bubble debate it appears to me is still focused on the visible layer, that of GPU shortages, hyperscaler capex, power consumption, small modular reactor (SMR) nuclear powered data centres and trillion-dollar semiconductor valuations. The market narrative largely assumes the […]
Full Visibility, Zero Control – How Crypto Exposes the Illusion of Financial Power
May 15, 2026
There was a time when Bitcoin was dismissed as the preserve of hoodie wearing anarchists and fringe actors and was misunderstood to be empowering the individual with financial anonymity. Today, it is monitored with such analytical precision that one could almost imagine His Majesties revenue & Customs (HMRC) preferring to audit the ledger itself rather […]
From Cloud to Orbit, The Next Trust and Resilience Challenge
May 10, 2026
Elon Musk’s SpaceX has confidentially filed a draft prospectus to regulators, which could mean it’s considering an Initial Public Offering (IPO) as soon as July 2026. The race to build orbital data centres and space-based AI infrastructure has now truly begun. As SpaceX seeks permission to launch up to 1 million solar‑powered satellites engineered as […]
You Secured the Device … Who Secured the Decision?
May 4, 2026
The conversation around AI agents is accelerating but so is a fundamental misconception. Following a recent IDC dinner, one theme stood out in an AI Agent discussion, a conflation of AI agents with IoT. They are not the same thing. IoT senses and acts, AI agents decide. That distinction matters. AI agents are not devices, […]
Posted in: ai, Cloud Computing, Computers and Internet, Cyber Security, Privacy, Risk, Security, Skills
Digital Sovereignty Is a Condition, Own the Terms of Trust
April 29, 2026
Following a series of stimulating discussions with IDC last week, I have been reflecting on the intersecting themes of sovereignty, cloud platforms and AI (Agentics, projection of 1.2B serving over 217B daily actions by 2029) issues now firmly at the top of Europe’s strategic agenda. The conversation, however, is often framed in terms of ownership, […]
Posted in: ai, Cloud Computing, Computers and Internet, Cyber Security, Privacy, Risk, Security, Skills
Faster at Failing, is Your SOC at Risk of Becoming Security Theatre?
April 27, 2026
The traditional Security Operations Centre (SOC) has been built around alert-driven firefighting ingesting signals, triaging noise, and responding to incidents after conditions have already degraded. This model assumes that compromise is a detectable event. In practice, modern environments are in constant flux, where risk accumulates gradually through configuration drift, identity sprawl and unvalidated change. From […]
Duty of Care in a Post-Mythos World, When Continuous Evidence Replaces Static Assumption
April 22, 2026
Further to my earlier post following the arrival of Mythos class AI capable of surfacing vulnerabilities and weaponising them by chaining them at machine speed. I would like to explore further and more explicitly how this has reset the baseline for organisational accountability and risk, whether this is acknowledged yet by some is only a […]
Posted in: ai, Cloud Computing, Computers and Internet, Cyber Security, Legal, Privacy, Risk, Security, Skills
Death and The State’s Cold Hand on Grieving Families
April 19, 2026
This is a bit of a departure from my usual themes but it reflects the original purpose of my blogging, an outlet to test, refine and challenge my own thinking. On this occasion, it is also deeply personal. Acting as an executor of a will is often presented as an honour, a mark of trust […]
Posted in: Computers and Internet
Mythos and the Cyber Event Horizon, When Visibility Outpaces Control
April 17, 2026
It feels a bit like we have crossed a cyber event horizon with the release of Anthropic’s latest Mythos AI, an LLM optimised for vulnerability detection. Much of the noise centres on whether it enables better hacking at machine speed, which I believe is a bit of a distraction from the practical impact. The more […]
Posted in: ai, Cloud Computing, Computers and Internet, Cyber Security, Home Computing, Legal, Risk, Security, Skills
How Screens Have Been Quietly Rewriting Intelligence
April 15, 2026
For most of the 20th century, intelligence appeared to be rising. The so called Flynn effect saw IQ scores climb steadily across the Western world, driven not by genetics but by environment, education, nutrition and critically, the spread of literacy and abstract thinking through books. That trend has now reversed. A large Norwegian study of […]
Posted in: ai, Cloud Computing, Computers and Internet, Cyber Security, Privacy, Risk, Security, Skills
What is The Most Dangerous Layer in AI, Where Trust Is Won or Lost?
April 13, 2026
The AI conversation has been dominated by model size, training breakthroughs and eye-watering infrastructure spend but I get a real sense that this is increasingly the wrong lens. For me the true battleground is not where AI is built, it is where it is used and that place is inference. Inference is where AI models […]
Posted in: ai, Cloud Computing, Computers and Internet, Cyber Security, Legal, Privacy, Risk, Security
The Illusion of Efficiency, Why Cheaper AI Will Consume More of Everything
April 12, 2026
Another week, another reminder that in AI, efficiency rarely means contraction, more likely expansion. As explored previously (When Less Becomes More,When Less Becomes More, Can AI Algorithmic Minimalism Topple GPU Dominance?), we are now seeing technical constraints being worked around in ways that will materially reshape the trajectory of AI’s evolution. The emergence of TurboQuant, […]
Are You Defending the Right Battlefield?
April 11, 2026
For most organisations and even those in the Cyber security industry itself, they still imagine their digital adversary as a system intruder. Firewalls are hardened, endpoints instrumented, identities wrapped in layers of conditional access and on and on … Yet the majority of losses are not coming from breached systems, they are flowing through human […]
Posted in: ai, Cloud Computing, Computers and Internet, Cyber Security, Legal, Privacy, Risk, Security, Skills
May 20, 2026
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