{"title":"Spoiledlunch","description":"Nerdy Stuff. Tech Talk. Zero Freshness.","subtitle":"Analysis and commentary on GRC, security, and AI.","articles":[{"title":"Why Retrieval Quality Is Becoming a Governance Problem","url":"/articles/2026-05-01-why-retrieval-quality-is-becoming-a-governance-problem/","date":"2026-07-21","summary":"Retrieval quality is often discussed like a tuning problem.\nImprove chunking. Improve ranking. Improve metadata. Improve the prompts wrapped around the retrieved context. All of …"},{"title":"World Emoji Day: Pure Manufactured Awareness Theater","url":"/articles/2026-07-17-world-emoji-day-the-purest-form-of-manufactured-awareness-theater/","date":"2026-07-17","summary":"Today is World Emoji Day, which means it\u0026rsquo;s time to celebrate\u0026hellip; what exactly? Unicode standardization? Digital communication evolution? The commodification of human …"},{"title":"Internal PKI Problems Keep Becoming Outage Risks","url":"/articles/2026-05-01-why-internal-pki-problems-keep-quietly-becoming-outage-risks/","date":"2026-07-14","summary":"Internal PKI has a special talent for being treated as somebody else\u0026rsquo;s plumbing right up until it breaks something important.\nThen everyone remembers, very suddenly, that …"},{"title":"The Problem With Single Pane of Glass Security","url":"/articles/2026-07-08-the-problem-with-single-pane-of-glass-security-platforms/","date":"2026-07-08","summary":"Every generation of security platform marketing rediscovers the same pitch: too many tools, too much context switching, analysts drowning in disconnected consoles. The solution is …"},{"title":"Asset Inventory Is Still an Embarrassing Problem","url":"/articles/2026-05-01-why-asset-inventory-is-still-the-most-embarrassing-security-problem-in-large-organizations/","date":"2026-07-07","summary":"For an industry that loves the word visibility, security remains remarkably bad at answering the oldest infrastructure question in the room: what do we actually have?\nThat should …"},{"title":"Global Information Security Day: A Vendor-Made Holiday","url":"/articles/2026-06-30-global-information-security-day-how-the-security-industry-invented-a-holiday-for-itself/","date":"2026-06-30","summary":"Today is Global Information Security Day, an awareness holiday you\u0026rsquo;ve probably never heard of despite eleven years of \u0026ldquo;global\u0026rdquo; celebration. That\u0026rsquo;s because …"},{"title":"AI Usage Discovery Is the New Shadow IT Problem","url":"/articles/2026-05-01-why-ai-usage-discovery-is-becoming-the-new-shadow-it-problem/","date":"2026-06-30","summary":"For years, shadow IT meant unsanctioned SaaS, unmanaged devices, and business teams adopting systems faster than central governance could track them.\nNow the same pattern is …"},{"title":"AI Incident Response Is Underbuilt Almost Everywhere","url":"/articles/2026-05-01-why-ai-incident-response-is-still-underbuilt-almost-everywhere/","date":"2026-06-23","summary":"Most organizations now have some language about responsible AI.\nFar fewer have a credible answer to a simpler question: what happens when an AI system causes a production problem …"},{"title":"The SIEM Did Not Fail; Your Data Model Did","url":"/articles/2026-05-01-the-siem-did-not-fail-your-data-model-did/","date":"2026-06-16","summary":"Security teams love to declare that the SIEM failed them. It is a clean story. The platform was noisy, expensive, slow, or hard to operate. Leadership understands vendor …"},{"title":"The KEV Catalog Is Useful, Not Prioritization Strategy","url":"/articles/2026-05-01-the-kev-catalog-is-useful-but-it-is-not-a-prioritization-strategy/","date":"2026-06-09","summary":"The Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog is one of the better things to happen to enterprise vulnerability management in years. It gives defenders a cleaner signal than generic …"}],"news":[{"title":"Founders of Celsius Network Ordered to Pay $16.5 Million to Resolve FTC Charges","url":"/news/2026-07-20-founders-of-celsius-network-ordered-to-pay-16-5-million-to-resolve-ftc-charges/","date":"2026-07-20","summary":"Summary: Alexander Mashinsky, the former CEO of cryptocurrency platform Celsius Network Inc.\nWhy it matters: This matters if it changes how teams think about …"},{"title":"Safety and alignment in an era of long-horizon models","url":"/news/2026-07-20-safety-and-alignment-in-an-era-of-long-horizon-models/","date":"2026-07-20","summary":"Summary: OpenAI shares lessons from deploying long-running AI models, highlighting new safety risks, observed failures, and improved safeguards through …"},{"title":"EDPB calls for legal basis for cross-regulatory information sharing","url":"/news/2026-07-17-edpb-calls-for-legal-basis-for-cross-regulatory-information-sharing/","date":"2026-07-17","summary":"Summary: Dublin, 17 July– At a high-level meeting in Dublin on 16 and 17 July 2026, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) called for a clear legal basis for …"},{"title":"A scorecard for the AI age","url":"/news/2026-07-17-a-scorecard-for-the-ai-age/","date":"2026-07-17","summary":"Summary: Sarah Friar, CFO of OpenAI, introduces a practical AI scorecard to measure ROI through useful work, cost per successful task, dependability, and return …"},{"title":"Why teens deserve access to safe AI","url":"/news/2026-07-16-why-teens-deserve-access-to-safe-ai/","date":"2026-07-16","summary":"Summary: Learn how OpenAI is making ChatGPT safer for teens with age-appropriate protections, learning tools, parental controls, and expert partnerships.\nWhy it …"},{"title":"SEC Proposes New E-Delivery Approach to Make Information More Readily Accessible and Useful for Investors","url":"/news/2026-07-16-sec-proposes-new-e-delivery-approach-to-make-information-more-readily-accessible-and-useful-for-investors/","date":"2026-07-16","summary":"Summary: The Securities and Exchange Commission today proposed Regulation E-Delivery, a new rule that would expand the ability of issuers, broker-dealers, …"},{"title":"AutomationDirect Productivity Suite","url":"/news/2026-07-16-automationdirect-productivity-suite/","date":"2026-07-16","summary":"Summary: View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker with local or physical access to cause memory corruption, …"},{"title":"CISA Adds Three Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog","url":"/news/2026-07-16-cisa-adds-three-known-exploited-vulnerabilities-to-catalog/","date":"2026-07-16","summary":"Summary: CISA has added three new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation.\nWhy it …"},{"title":"NASA Core Flight System (cFS) Health ＆ Safety (HS) Application","url":"/news/2026-07-16-nasa-core-flight-system-cfs-health-safety-hs-application/","date":"2026-07-16","summary":"Summary: View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to cause a denial-of-service condition.\nWhy it matters: This …"},{"title":"Rockwell Automation 1756-EN2, 1756-EN3, and 1756-ENBT","url":"/news/2026-07-16-rockwell-automation-1756-en2-1756-en3-and-1756-enbt/","date":"2026-07-16","summary":"Summary: View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to cause a denial-of-service condition.\nWhy it matters: This …"}]}