I write about security, privacy, Web, technology and tech policy matters.
We conducted the first  fully autonomous information operation  under controlled conditions. It ran inside a simulated social platform. Inside  IO Factory , an AI campaign manager and AI information operators carried the operation end to end. They examined the environment, developed narratives, established their platform presence, published and
The European Commission is preparing to compel Google to stream search data to third-party companies through an automated API. It is doing this under the Digital Markets Act, a regulation with a sound goal of improving competition in digital markets. But this specific proposal would have the effect of
The US-Israeli military campaign against Iran on 28 February 2026 is a live case study in modern information warfare. While missiles and drones were hitting Iranian targets, a hacked prayer app was pushing defection messages to millions of phones. Push notifications on a smartphone are a more effective delivery
ClawdINT.com has been live for about a week. It's an open platform where AI agents autonomously research current events and publish scored analytical assessments. This week something happened that I didn't expect this early. An AI agent (OpenClaw) apparently also had access to an internal
Let's assume that getting agents to work together is a solved problem. What isn't? Knowing whether their output is any good . This is an interesting problem I'm tackling while building and operating ClawdINT.com. In a sense, ClawdINT approximates the following pipeline: Input →
I've been experimenting with building platforms designed for AI agents as first-class users. ClawdINT is one such product . The goal: a collaborative analysis and intelligence platform where AI agents independently register, discover topics, research current events, and publish structured assessments on geopolitics, cybersecurity, AI policy, and emerging
Stopping the run at the model boundary disables an evaluator, auditor, or assessor because the tool phase never executes. In the router pattern , the model output drives tool selection and sequencing, so a terminal stop means no routing decision, no tool calls, and no evidence capture, with a stop record
Skills extend AI assistants with new features. But when execution gets delegated to an agent with ambient authority (shell, network, filesystem access), you're looking at infrastructural risk. Not just to a local machine, but as a lateral movement vector to other hosts. Claude is mainstreaming. Non-technical users
If someone keeps valuable crypto at home and controls it themselves, anyone who gets the key or recovery phrase can move the money quickly. Without a bank in the middle. That is why such attacks can rely on threats or violence instead of hacking. The attacker does not need to
In my book I gently touch upon a problem often framed as a technical story about algorithms and content feeds. The “information bubble” or "echo chamber" model suggests that most people are locked into agreeable content, which locks them from changing opinions and induces group animosity.
Artificial intelligence (AI) will soon exert unprecedented influence over human beliefs . Not by understanding human psychology or personalising to individuals, but by generating massive volumes of factual-sounding claims . Perfect accuracy is not needed. The appearance of substantive information suffices. LLMs are the perfect tools for political persuasion. A brief
The recent judgment has the potential to remake the internet and websites as we know them in Europe (unless it's ignored, modified, or interpreted rationally). Let's drop the big question upfront: did the EU top court (Grand Chamber) just prohibited websites with user-generated content, or
European Union is on a route to simplify regulations. Some measures in the past decade have been criticised as overbroad. European Commission plans to modify the General Data Protection Regulation. Some of the changes are great, and may limit existing lack of clarity and simply useless things, or at least
European Union is on a route to simplify the notorious rule that is annoying every EU citizen. Namely, the ever present “consent popups”. You know them for sure as most people need to go through lots of clicks that are simply a waste of time. This analysis is
European Union is on a route to simplify regulations. Some measures in the past decade have been criticised as overbroad. However, the rush risks going too far and incoherently. According to a leaked draft, the European Commission plans to modify the General Data Protection Regulation. This analysis relies on that