CNN — 29/11/2025

How does trust translate to social media use by children? Does it mean a ban on their access? Australia decided that children under the age of 16 are not allowed on social media. Companies are complying and installing age verification mechanisms to avoid fines. I'm looking forward to seeing how this large-scale experiment turns out.

IEEE Spectrum — 23/11/2025

Leading IT projects is a very difficult task, and the difficulty only increases with the size of the project. Sometimes it feels like most of the failures involve government projects, but this article also presents business cases that went awry. There is a lot of evidence on how to do better; unfortunately this requires competent people at the right places.

The Verge — 25/11/2025

AI is often anthropomorphized, with terms like 'hallucinations' having entered technical jargon. All the more striking that when the capabilities of popular models today are discussed, 'intelligence' is reduced to one set of benchmarks or another, but seldom considered in a holistic way. I liked this article for putting the human, and not the machine, back into the center of the discussion of what 'intelligence' in AI actually is (or isn't).

Anthropic — 13/11/2025

Improvements in agentic AI and increasing competency of hackers are driving more sophisticated cyber attacks, from mere AI-augmented intrusions to ever more autonomous operations. While this is deeply concerning, such efforts can only succeed when infrastructure is vulnerable. Investing in the cybersecurity of our infrastructures has never been more pressing.

Krebs on Security — 20/11/2025

Software developers and users share vulnerability information through standardized formats and processes (e.g., CVEs) to alert affected parties. Users can check their Software Bills of Materials to identify and fix vulnerabilities. I wonder whether the same will eventually happen with governance vulnerabilities such as this one. How can affected parties be notified of such trust vulnerabilities? This may be crucial as ecosystems grow more complex with increasing dependencies between services.

The Guardian — 18/11/2025

Last month’s outage of Amazon's AWS US-East-1 barely became yesterday's news when another outage, this time chez Cloudflare, took down major parts of the internet again. Not only do these incidents show just how brittle the Internet's underlying infrastructure is becoming, they also serve as a stark reminder of how much it relies on only a handful of providers. While this in itself is worrisome, it also gives a taste of our collective exposure should these - mostly American - companies become less friendly. Those calling for increased digital sovereignty would do well to remember that any genuine move towards more digital sovereignty must start by breaking the market hold of these companies and moving the Internet back to its roots as a decentralised network.

noyb — 22/11/2025

Although the target audience of this legal analysis from noyb of the European Commission's 'Digital Omnibus' proposal is clearly lawyers, it still gives the layperson a good overview of the proposed changes to the GDPR and their practical implications.