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27.04 2026
№ 59

Compliance EU Regulation AI Act CRA Philosophy OF Technology Architecture Strategy

The Shape of Constraint

Treating regulatory compliance as the adversary of the technical project means you haven't understood what the technical project is. An essay on the category error weakening Europe's software industry — and on how the European framework, read as a system rather than as a list, configures a structural competitive advantage for those who learn to inhabit it.

16′ reading time

3.842 words

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21.04 2026
№ 58

Compliance GDPR EU Regulation Philosophy OF Technology

DPIA as a Genre, Not a Form

The EDPB's DPIA template, released in April, isn't a longer form. It codifies a form. On the shift from module to genre, and what changes for anyone who writes compliance as continuous writing practice.

26′ reading time

6.514 words

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19.04 2026
№ 57

Software Development Software Philosophy OF Technology Technical Debt

Cruft, Not Patina

Buildings learn, Stewart Brand argued. Software, instead, accumulates comments that apologize. On why digital objects can't grow old — and what that says about the civilization that has put them at its center.

23′ reading time

5.180 words

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18.04 2026
№ 56

Compliance PLD EU Regulation Philosophy OF Technology

Mrs. Donoghue's Last Bottle

Why the «product» on which modern liability law is built no longer exists in contemporary software — and what we might put in its place.

30′ reading time

7.401 words

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17.04 2026
№ 55

Wellbeing AI Work Organization

The Last Gasp and AI's First Problem

Agents do more work, but we work more too. The real bottleneck isn’t productivity: it’s the body—sleep, limits, and finite time.

9′ reading time

1.949 words

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07.04 2026
№ 53

AI Act Behavioral Biometrics Biometric Data Continuous Authentication

Behavior Is the New Credential. And That's a Problem.

Cybersecurity is undergoing a transition that deserves more attention than it gets: online authentication is shifting from what you know to how you behave.

10′ reading time

2.226 words

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06.04 2026
№ 52

AI Act Compliance Microsoft Copilot PLD

Microsoft Wrote the Perfect Confession—and You'll Pay the Bill

It’s tempting to dismiss it as a legal team slip-up. It isn’t. Terms of Use aren’t written by accident—and every word is meant for court.

19′ reading time

4.112 words

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30.03 2026
№ 51

AI Act Compliance Cyber Resilience Act Governance

The advisory blind spot: what an IT vendor knows that an analyst doesn't

A few weeks ago I received an advisory report on IT services in our segment. It was solid, but it missed what only delivery-side vendors learn.

6′ reading time

1.365 words

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28.03 2026
№ 50

Complexity Epistemology European Regulation Philosophy OF Technology

Incompetence as a Structural Condition of the Present

Nobody knows what they’re doing—not as a cliché, but as a structural fact: our technical systems are now too complex for any single person to understand.

12′ reading time

2.707 words

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27.03 2026
№ 49

Attention Economy Innovation Minimalism Product Design

Most software that exists shouldn't exist at all

And the people who build it for a living are the last to admit it.

8′ reading time

1.676 words

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