Category Archives: Security

Information Warfare Strategies (SRF-IWS): Spyware as Statecraft — How States Blackmail States

Posted on August 28, 2026 by Simon Roses

Read Time: 15 minutes TL;DR Commercial spyware collapsed the price of the oldest move in statecraft: know what the other side knows, and hold something over the people who decide. A mid-sized state can now rent zero-click capability that used … Continue reading →

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When a Missing Patch Becomes a Defective Product: The New EU Product Liability Directive

Posted on August 14, 2026 by Simon Roses

Read Time: 13 minutes TL;DR On December 9, 2026 — a few months from now — the new EU Product Liability Directive ((EU) 2024/2853, “PLD”) starts applying to products placed on the EU market. For the first time, software is … Continue reading →

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The Day the AI Act Grew Teeth: GPAI Enforcement Goes Live

Posted on August 8, 2026 by Simon Roses

Read Time: 13 minutes TL;DR On August 2, 2026, the part of the EU AI Act everyone was quietly ignoring became enforceable: the AI Office can now fine providers of general-purpose AI models up to 3% of global annual turnover … Continue reading →

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