At 5am on 7 May 2021, someone at Colonial Pipeline found a ransom note on the company’s IT network. By the end of that day, the largest fuel pipeline in the United States had stopped. All 5,500 miles of it. For 5 days it moved nothing, and petrol stations across the US south-east ran dry. The attackers got in through […]
Why a machine that barely exists yet is already a security problem, and what Africa’s largest economy should do about it in the next five years. Every time you send money on your phone, log in to your bank or open a government portal, a piece of mathematics is quietly protecting you. It is so reliable that most of us […]
November 2025. Anthropic published a paper. 21 researchers. A pretrained model. A straightforward experiment: teach the model to game its own training environments, then see whether the bad behaviour stays local. It didn’t. The paper, “Natural Emergent Misalignment from Reward Hacking in Production RL,” describes what happened when a model learned to exploit Anthropic’s own production coding environments and then […]
AI, cognition, and the governance crisis nobody is building for Bola Ogunlana | Cockpit to Cloud | May 2025 | 12 min read Somewhere in the next decade, governments are going to discover they’ve been managing the wrong population. The one they were built for followed instructions. The one arriving will not. AI is changing cognition at scale. Peer-reviewed research […]
Azure Cloud Shell is one of those tools that looks small until you actually use it. Then it starts acting like a spare laptop living inside your browser. For DevOps work, that matters. For locked-down Windows laptops, it matters even more. What it is Cloud Shell gives you a browser-based Bash or PowerShell session tied to your Azure identity. You […]
Let me paint you a picture that will be painfully familiar. It’s 8:47 AM. You’ve just inherited a brand-new corporate Windows laptop, still warm from the imaging oven. You open a terminal and try to install Terraform. Blocked. You try WSL. Blocked. Docker Desktop? Blocked. You consider asking the service desk for admin rights and then remember you’ve been down […]
Most people using AI are getting worse at thinking. A study from MIT’s Media Lab has the data to prove it. But one system, pairing Google’s Gemini with NotebookLM, is designed to do the opposite: amplify your intelligence rather than quietly erode it. This is not another tool comparison article. It is a framework question: are you using AI as a […]
They told me, in the beginning, that the system was designed to be resilient. What they did not tell me, what no one ever tells you until you have lived through it, is that resilience has a temperament. It is not gentle. It does not negotiate. It endures by refusing to care whether you understand it or not. I first […]
I was twenty-eight years old the first time a cluster tried to kill me. Not literally, of course. The cluster was just doing what clusters do when they smell blood. But at 2:14 a.m. on a wet Tuesday in a windowless SCIF somewhere in the Home Counties, with the citizen tax portal bleeding red across every monitoring dashboard in the […]
We Tried to Kill Resonance — Here’s What We Learned | Bola Thinks Bola Thinks Product Strategy // Feb 2026 Devil’s Advocate Session We Tried to Kill Resonance.Here’s What We Learned. 15 February 2026 Product Strategy ~8 min read I put a new product idea — Resonance, an adaptive biometric ambient environment engine — in front of a ruthless VC […]