Andrea Margiovanni — EN

On Monday 14 September the Spanish data protection authority published on its blog something it had never published before: a notification of a personal data breach in which the incident, according to the organisation that suffered it, was carried out by…

On Friday 11 September 2026 a form went live.

Today, September 8, 2026, Mistral announced a €3 billion Series D at a post-money valuation of “more than €21 billion”, led by Samsung Electronics, with the EQT-managed Scaleup Europe Fund and PSG Equity as co-leads.

Just after three in the morning on October 31, 2025, on the eastbound Loop 202 near the Dobson Road exit in Mesa, Arizona, a Tesla Model 3 is sitting still in a travel lane.

The client says a sentence that seems impossible to argue with: I don’t want to pay for hours, I want to pay for the result.

On Friday, a development team received a piece of news that concerned none of its systems.

There is a conversation that has started repeating itself in insurance brokers’ offices, and it is worth imagining in full.

Somewhere inside Meta there is a dashboard that spent this summer telling a magnificent story.

For a few years we told ourselves that every company was sitting on a gold mine called proprietary data.

Picture a company that did everything right.

A maintainer gets a pull request on a project they have looked after for years.

An employee opens their company’s internal assistant at 11.40 at night and types a question they would not ask a colleague.

Someone opens Spotify on their iPhone and takes out a subscription.

On August 14 the Chinese lab Z.ai announced GLM-5.3, and alongside the model it announced something worth more attention than the model.

On July 31 ENISA published a factsheet and two step-by-step guides for the Single Reporting Platform, the tool through which, from September 11, manufacturers of software and connected products must report actively exploited vulnerabilities and severe inc…

There is a reasonable objection to the whole argument about rethinking processes and roles, and it deserves to be taken seriously, because most of the time it is right.

There’s a reasonable objection that deserves to be taken seriously: every wave of automation has arrived accompanied by predictions of occupational extermination that never came true.

The Comfort of a Number On July 13, 2026, ENISA published the SME Cyber Resilience Maturity Assessment Model.

There’s a sigh of relief going around these days among the people who build software for healthcare.

I already know the objection, because I raise it myself every time I hear the word inventory.

This is a line of reasoning about the name we give technologies, and about how heavily that name weighs on a country’s future.

The Cloud and AI Development Act, which the Commission published on June 3 inside its technological sovereignty package, lends itself to a comfortable reading.

There’s a precise moment, in these weeks, worth looking at closely.

The law usually arrives late.

Two Irreconcilable Versions On June 8, 2026, the same day as the keynote that introduced Siri AI to the world, Apple posted a release on its Newsroom that isn’t a release.

This morning I woke Daniele while he was still warm with sleep, the warmth only small children have when you lift them out of bed and for a moment they don’t quite know where they are.

I Come From Philosophy, and I Stayed an Atheist I come from philosophy.

The Norm Lands on 30 April 2026 The first reaction to the publication of UNI 11621-8, the Italian standard that defines the twelve professional profiles of artificial intelligence, should be suspicion.

Eight in the Evening Eight in the evening, more or less.

A Map Drawn from the Inside A large client in a regulated sector asked us, a few months ago, to put the platform on a secure footing.

The Spectre Is Us A spectre is haunting Europe, and for once it is not the one Marx had in mind.

A contract between the wrong people The contract had been signed at the end of 2023, and from the prime vendor’s standpoint it was a clean, well-structured contract, with all the safeguard clauses the legal department had insisted on over the years.

The confused job posting The job posting had appeared in February on one of those boards where mid-size Italian companies look for technical people without being too sure what they are looking for.

The clinical audit There are documents that get opened only at the wrong moments.

The suspended Wednesday It’s Wednesday afternoon.

“The more constraints one imposes on oneself, the more one frees oneself of the chains that shackle the spirit.” — Igor Stravinsky, Poetics of Music The story we’ve been told A story has settled, in recent years, at the centre of the European debate about…

The EDPB template dropped publicly last week.

Thirty-two years ago, Stewart Brand published a book called How Buildings Learn.

On 26 August 1928, a Glasgow woman named May Donoghue walked into a café in Paisley, a town about seven miles from the city centre, with a friend.

A few days ago, a swyx newsletter on Latent.Space happened to catch my eye.

Cybersecurity is going through a transition that deserves more attention than it’s getting.

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