Regulatory compliance

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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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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01.05 2026
№ 63

Compliance PLD AI Act CRA EU Regulation

The Contract's Deception

On why the software supply contract, as we have known it, has stopped being the central instrument of the relationship between vendor and client — and how much it costs to keep pretending it still is.

19′ reading time

4.180 words

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01.05 2026
№ 62

Compliance Work Software Development AI Act Labour Market

The Rise of the Compliance Engineer

On the figure now emerging from the gap between software engineering and European regulation, and on why almost no one is noticing in time.

16′ reading time

3.520 words

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01.05 2026
№ 61

Compliance AI Act PLD Technical Debt Philosophy OF Technology

The Specification Debt

On why the document that certifies the system ages worse than the code that implements it, and why the next generation of civil software-liability cases will be fought over the specification.

19′ reading time

4.420 words

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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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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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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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17.03 2026
№ 43

Compliance EU Regulation AI Act Architecture

EU compliance 2026: it's architecture, not just legal

Over the next 18 months CRA, AI Act, PLD, NIS2 and EAA will reshape European software. Compliance isn’t a checkbox: it’s designed into architecture.

11′ reading time

2.331 words

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17.03 2026
№ 43

Compliance EU Regulation Cybersecurity Software Development

Compliance Is Your Problem

Between 2026 and 2027, software becomes a product with legal liability. If the client only wants go-live, the risk stays with everyone.

7′ reading time

1.560 words

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17.03 2026
№ 43

Compliance Cybersecurity AI SME

The Smallness Paradox: Long Live European Regulation

Between the AI Act, CRA and NIS2, Europe is rewriting the rules: it’s not who runs fastest that wins, but who builds serious, secure, accessible software.

11′ reading time

2.311 words

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17.03 2026
№ 41

Compliance Career Technical Leadership Software Development

Things I've Stopped Doing Over the Last Fifteen Years of Work

Notes on the things it took me at least 15 years to unlearn—habits about code, stacks, business, compliance, hiring, language, and leadership.

9′ reading time

1.897 words

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24.02 2026
№ 29

API Compliance Digital Product Software Development

Don't Add AI to Your Products. Rethink Them from Scratch.

Adding a chatbot isn't enough. If half the interactions are going to flow through AI agents, you have to rethink software, APIs, trust, and compliance.

8′ reading time

1,580 words

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18.02 2026
№ 21

Compliance Cybersecurity Digital Law Software Development

Software Is a Product. Now What?

From 9 December 2026, the new EU Product Liability Directive treats software as a product. What changes for roadmaps, contracts, releases, and open source.

10′ reading time

2,150 words

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