Ten major European banks just fired the opening salvo in what could be the most consequential digital currency battle of the decade. Their newly formed consortium, Qivalis, plans to launch a euro stablecoin in late 2026—but they’re entering a race that’s already begun, where Circle’s EURC commands 45% market share and a critical regulatory deadline looms just months away. The stakes? […]
In a world where data is the new oil, we are all sitting on a goldmine—and the prospectors are getting aggressive. Every day, we interact with dozens of complex systems: cloud storage, banking apps, IoT devices, and corporate networks. Yet, for most people, security is a passive activity. We install an antivirus, we set a password (hopefully a strong one), […]
In the world of DevOps, we often feel like we are running the “Red Queen’s Race”—a reference to Alice in Wonderland where you must run as fast as you can just to stay in the same place. Yesterday, it was Jenkins and VMs. Today, it’s Kubernetes and GitOps. Tomorrow? It might be AIOps and Platform Engineering. The sheer velocity of […]
The Cloudflare Outage of November 18, 2025 The Cloudflare Outage of November 18, 2025 Published November 18, 2025 • Last updated ~14:00 UTC Today, millions of us woke up to a bizarre reality: X (Twitter) wouldn’t load, ChatGPT threw errors, even the site that tracks outages — Downdetector — was down. The culprit? A single company most people have never […]
Building document-grounded AI applications just got ridiculously simple—and surprisingly cheap. Here’s why Google’s new File Search might be the RAG solution you’ve been waiting for. The Problem: RAG Shouldn’t Require a PhD Let’s be honest: building a chatbot that can answer questions from your company’s documentation shouldn’t require weeks of infrastructure work. Yet that’s exactly what happens when you try […]
Imagine losing $100 million in 10 minutes. Not from a sophisticated hack involving months of planning. Not from a zero-day exploit or advanced malware. But from a single phone call. That’s exactly what happened to MGM Resorts in September 2023. And it’s just one example of a much larger crisis that’s unfolding across the digital landscape—a crisis where the very […]
By a Man Who’s Learning That Travel is 10% Planning, 90% Improvising Day 1 – 21 Oct 2025: The One Where My Suitcase Goes on a Diet Picture this: 11:45 a.m., my mate Banky rings from Heathrow Terminal 4 sounding smugger than a cat with cream. “Mate, I’m already here.” Meanwhile, I’m still in Coulsdon South, wrestling a suitcase that’s […]
Every major cloud provider maintains centralized control planes that can bring down global operations in minutes, despite claims of distributed architecture. F5 Recent outages from 2023-2025 reveal that AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud all share fundamental design flaws where authentication systems, DNS infrastructure, and orchestration layers operate as global single points of failure. Greyhound Research +3 When these systems fail, […]
Imagine waking up on a Monday morning to discover that your company’s entire digital infrastructure has vanished into thin air. Your customers can’t access your website. Your mobile app is dead. Your payment systems are frozen. And worst of all? There’s absolutely nothing you can do about it because the problem isn’t yours—it’s Amazon’s. This nightmare scenario became reality on […]
Remember when Bitcoin was dismissed as “internet funny money” by Wall Street executives? Those days are definitively over. As of October 2025, we’ve crossed a threshold that seemed unimaginable just a few years ago: institutional entities now control nearly one-fifth of all Bitcoin ever created—that’s 3.8 million BTC worth over $435 billion. But here’s what makes this moment truly unprecedented: it’s […]