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19.04 2026
№ 57

Software Development Software Philosophy OF Technology Technical Debt

Cruft, Not Patina

Buildings learn, Stewart Brand argued. Software, instead, accumulates comments that apologize. On why digital objects can't grow old — and what that says about the civilization that has put them at its center.

23′ reading time

5.180 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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17.04 2026
№ 55

Wellbeing AI Work Organization

The Last Gasp and AI's First Problem

Agents do more work, but we work more too. The real bottleneck isn’t productivity: it’s the body—sleep, limits, and finite time.

9′ reading time

1.949 words

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07.04 2026
№ 53

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
№ 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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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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