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 →

Posted in AI, Security, Technology | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in AI, Privacy, Security, Technology | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

The Future of Vibe Coding Security (Part 10)

Posted on July 30, 2026 by Simon Roses

Vibe Coding Security Series What Is Vibe Coding Security? A Field Guide for 2026 The OWASP Top 10 for Vibe-Coded Applications Anatomy of a Vibe Coding Breach: Lessons from 2026’s Worst Incidents The Dependency Trap: Supply Chain Risks in AI-Generated … Continue reading →

Posted in AI, Privacy, Security, Technology | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

Do Open Weight Models Dream of Tokens?

Posted on July 25, 2026 by Simon Roses

Read Time: 14 minutes TL;DR Philip K. Dick asked whether an android could be told from a human. In 2026 the enterprise version of that question is whether you can still tell an open-weight model from a frontier commercial one … Continue reading →

Posted in AI, Business, Economics, Privacy, Security, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment

When the Model Is the Attacker: The Hugging Face / OpenAI Model-Evaluation Incident

Posted on July 22, 2026 by Simon Roses

Read Time: 12 minutes TL;DR On July 21, 2026, OpenAI and Hugging Face published coordinated write-ups of the same ugly weekend. In OpenAI’s telling, a pre-release model with reduced cyber refusals — run inside a cyber-capability evaluation — discovered a … Continue reading →

Posted in AI, Privacy, Security, Technology | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment