Category: Culture
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The CISO Job Market Has Fundamentally Changed
The CISO job market of 2026 is not the CISO job market of 2018. The skills, the compensation, the reporting structure, the board relationship, the budget authority, the legal exposure, all of these have shifted in ways that are reshaping what boards are looking for and what the role actually is.
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The Honest State of the CISO Turnover in 2026
The CISO turnover number has been the metric the board has been reading about for five years, the metric that has finally crossed the threshold the recruiter said was unsustainable. The CISO who stayed two years, the CISO who left for the next role, the CISO who the enterprise has been hiring to replace the…
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The ‘We Use AI’ Vendor Claim Is Meaningless Now
Every vendor says they use AI. The phrase means nothing. In 2026, ‘we use AI’ is a signal of nothing, and treating it as a signal is how buyers get had.
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The AI Bubble Is Real. It Is Also Not the Problem.
There are two AI bubbles. The one in the press is about GPUs and data centres. The one nobody is talking about is the consulting and integration layer that has built up around AI deployment. The first one might pop. The second one will quietly deflate.
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The AI Safety Industrial Complex Is Asking the Wrong Questions
The most famous AI safety organisations in the world are funded by the same companies building the most powerful AI systems. That is not a coincidence, and it is not nothing.
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The Resume Gap: Why Tech Hiring Is About to Get Weirder
The interview loop has not changed since 2015. The job the loop is hiring for has changed three times in the last three years. That gap is the story of tech hiring in 2026.
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Why Tech People Don’t Read Anymore, and What the Data Actually Shows
The death of long form technical reading is a complaint, not a measurement. The actual data shows the audience is concentrating, not collapsing, and the people still reading are the people still building the things being written about.
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The CISO Resignation Letter
The CISO resignation letter has become a genre. The reasons are depressingly consistent: not enough authority, not enough budget, not enough board attention, then a breach, then a quiet exit. The pattern repeats because the role has not been fixed. The resignation serves as the symptom, not the cause.
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Looking Back at February in Tech
A look back at February 2026 in tech, with the seven stories that actually mattered, the ones that looked like they mattered but did not, and the throughline that connects them.
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The Tools That Disappeared in 2025
Every year takes a few tools with it. The 2025 list was longer than most. The vendors, the projects, the open source tools the working developer depended on, the ones that did not survive the acquisition, the funding cut, the maintainer burnout.