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07.04 2026
№ 54
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
№ 53
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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26.03 2026
№ 48
Dark Pattern Design Responsabile Dipendenza Digitale Filosofia

Your kids are not your users

A manifesto for people who build tech and are also parents: on engagement, attention extraction, and a simple rule—build as if your child were the user.

8′ reading time
1.865 words
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25.03 2026
№ 47
AI Act Digital Addiction EU Regulation Humanism

Progress Is Not a Direction: Anatomy of a Dangerous Misconception

When people shout that the state is "holding back progress," are they really talking about progress: or something else entirely?

29′ reading time
6.442 words
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24.03 2026
№ 46
Tech Career Consulting IT Services IT Sourcing

From developer to partner: a career in IT services

Three roles, three lenses on the IT market: corporate, startup, and a client portfolio. A non-linear path that clarifies what really matters in sourcing.

8′ reading time
1.678 words
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23.03 2026
№ 45
IT Advisory IT Services Sourcing Consulting

What an IT Provider Knows That a Sourcing Analyst Doesn't

The structural blind spot of the IT services advisory market—and why closing it is urgent, before sourcing decisions keep going wrong at scale.

5′ reading time
1.140 words
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20.03 2026
№ 44
AI Anthropic Coding Agents Developer Tools

Who Owns the Workbench

OpenAI buys Astral, Anthropic bought Bun. The quiet colonization of the development stack has already begun, and it's not about open source.

8′ reading time
1.684 words
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