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Every article we’ve published, organized by topic and date. Use this as your reading list, your reference desk, or your way to find what you missed.

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• Jun 29, 2026 AI-Generated Code Is Now in Your Production Stack. Here’s How to Review It. The useful question is no longer whether developers should use AI-generated code. They already do. The question is whether teams review it with the same discipline they would apply to code written by…
• Jun 16, 2026 Why Most AI Agents Aren’t Actually Agents Every vendor with a generative AI product is calling it an agent. Most of them are not. Calling a workflow an agent is a marketing choice, and the difference matters.
• May 27, 2026 The New AI Stack: How Modern Companies Are Really Building AI Products The marketing version of building an AI product in 2026 is ‘just call GPT.’ The reality is closer to standing up a small internal platform.
• Apr 12, 2026 How to Tell if an AI Image is Fake (Without Going Down a Rabbit Hole) AI image generators are good now. Scary good. Here is a practical 30-second checklist for catching fakes before you share them.
• Feb 24, 2026 What “Human in the Loop” Actually Means (And Why Most AI Products Get It Wrong) A human is not meaningfully in the loop because a product displays an approval button. Real oversight requires context, time, authority, and evidence. Many products include the human only to absorb…

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• Jul 7, 2026 Inside a Modern Ransomware Attack Modern ransomware is not a virus. It is a business process. The attackers run it like a company, with departments, SLAs, and customer support for the victims.
• Apr 28, 2026 The Internet’s Biggest Security Problem Isn’t AI. It’s Forgotten Infrastructure The loudest story in security is AI. The quietest one is the same problem we have had for twenty years: someone forgot to turn off a server.
• Apr 21, 2026 Supply Chain Attacks: When the Software You Trust Is the Problem Traditional security assumes the dangerous code arrives from somewhere obviously untrusted. Supply chain attacks invert that model. The malicious component may arrive through a signed update, a…
• Jan 29, 2026 The Phishing Email That Works in 2026 (And Why Your Filters Won’t Save You) Phishing has not improved because filters got worse. It has improved because attackers can produce clean, context-aware messages, imitate legitimate login flows, proxy sessions, and exploit normal…

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• Jun 23, 2026 Small Business Security: 25 Things You Can Fix This Weekend You do not need a CISO, a six-figure security budget, or a vendor pitch deck to dramatically improve your company’s security posture. You need a weekend, a checklist, and the discipline to…
• Mar 9, 2026 Backups: The One Thing That Will Save You, and Why Most People Set Them Up Wrong We have backups is often the last reassuring sentence spoken before an organization discovers the backups were incomplete, online, encrypted with everything else, or impossible to restore in time.

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• Jul 26, 2026 Open Source Is Holding Up the Internet, and Most Companies Don’t Even Know It The internet runs on open source. Not metaphorically, literally. The TLS that secures your bank’s website, the kernel that runs most of the cloud, the package manager that built the app on your…

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• Jul 20, 2026 Cloud Doesn’t Mean Secure We moved to the cloud, so we are secure now. It is the most common sentence in boardroom security briefings. It is also, almost always, wrong.

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• Jul 14, 2026 The Week in Tech: Signal vs. Noise The first entry in a weekly series: a short, sharp filter for the tech week. The goal is to surface the few things that actually matter and skip the rest.

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• Jun 9, 2026 The Quiet Death of Passwords The password is dying. Not in a flashy way. In a slow, decade-long, regulatory-driven way that most users will not notice until one day they realize they have not typed a password in a year.

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• Jun 5, 2026 Hardware: The Quiet Death of Repair, and Why It Matters The average American household owned 21 connected devices in 2024. The same household replaced a primary device every 2.7 years. The average lifespan of the discarded device was 4.1 years. We are…

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• May 14, 2026 Every Major Data Breach of 2026 Explained in Plain English A living tracker of the major 2026 data breaches. Per-incident evidence, attack types, attribution and defensive lessons. Updated as disclosures land.

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• May 9, 2026 Vibe Coding: When You Stop Writing Code and Start Prompting It Vibe coding is software development where the human contributes intent and judgment, the model contributes code, and the human accepts most of what the model produces without line-by-line review.

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• Mar 22, 2026 AI Music in 2026: What Suno and Udio Actually Built Two companies, Suno and Udio, are at the center of every argument about AI music. Both have generated more tracks in the last 18 months than the entire recorded history of rock, jazz, and hip-hop…

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• Feb 14, 2026 The State of Viruses in 2026: A Clear-Eyed Look at Modern Malware Around 450,000 new malicious programs are detected every day. That number has been roughly stable for three years. What is changing is the distribution.

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• Jan 18, 2026 The Slow Death of the Open Web, in Numbers The open web is not dead. But it is no longer where most people spend their time, and the gap is widening.