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30.06 2026
№ 76

AI Digital Sovereignty Philosophy of Technology AI Act China Politics of Technology Compliance

The Name of the Future

On artificial intelligence as a political fact before a technical one, on the translation that never quite lands, and on what a country loses when it imports the words along with the machines.

11′ reading time

2,433 words

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24.06 2026
№ 75

Digital Sovereignty Open Source Supply Chain Cybersecurity EU Regulation CRA Compliance

Sovereignty Doesn't Live in the Data Center

On the Cloud and AI Development Act, on the ten thousand repositories dressed up as honest projects, and on the distance between being inspectable and actually being inspected.

13′ reading time

2,976 words

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17.06 2026
№ 74

AI Act Compliance EU Regulation AI SME GDPR Digital Sovereignty

The Digital Omnibus Is Not an Amnesty

Brussels moved a few AI Act deadlines and confirmed everything else. For a small or mid-sized IT company that had just started getting serious about compliance, this is the moment to accelerate, not to slow down.

14′ reading time

2,915 words

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16.06 2026
№ 73

Antitrust Meta AI Act EU Regulation Digital Sovereignty AI DMA

Before It Becomes Irreparable

On June 9 the Commission ordered Meta to reopen WhatsApp to rival AI assistants within five days. It is the rarest interim measure in European competition law, and it is a meditation on time disguised as an administrative order.

10′ reading time

2,210 words

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10.06 2026
№ 72

DMA Apple Digital Sovereignty Privacy Politics OF Technology

Other People's Privacy

Apple says it can't bring Siri AI to Europe because it has to protect our privacy. The technical problem it invokes is real. The way it uses that problem is not—and the press release is a round of ammunition in a war that has stopped being merely regulatory.

15′ reading time

3,380 words

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04.06 2026
№ 71

Fatherhood Family Generations

In Deeds, Not Words

My father never once told me he loved me. He showed me, and that was all, and it took me forty years and a child of my own to understand it. For once I am not writing about code or European rules.

6′ reading time

1,362 words

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27.05 2026
№ 69

AI AI Act Digital Sovereignty Compliance Ethics Humanism

The Human Is a Stance

I am an atheist, I come from philosophy, I work in European compliance. Leo XIV's first encyclical on artificial intelligence is not something I signed, it is something I argued with. And I found in it a vocabulary that Brussels still lacks.

10′ reading time

2,096 words

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13.05 2026
№ 67

AI Act AI Compliance EU Regulation IT Market Work

Twelve Jobs in Search of a Market

The first national European standard on AI professional profiles was published on 30 April. It is worth taking seriously, and it is worth mistrusting in the right way.

6′ reading time

1,312 words

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08.05 2026
№ 66

Responsible Design Parenting Attention Economy Digital Addiction Ethics

I Say No at Night, I Use the Same Tools in the Morning

At night I say no to my three-year-old who wants the tablet for a little longer. I say it for one specific reason, and from that reason a free book was born.

8′ reading time

1,727 words

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07.05 2026
№ 65

Compliance Italian Market IT Advisory Digital Sovereignty ACN

The Compliance Hourglass

A map of the Italian compliance market drawn from the inside: specialist advisory at the top, platforms at the bottom, the middle layer crushed between them. And the one specifically Italian piece—ACN—that bends the rules.

7′ reading time

1,768 words

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