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On 29 June 1995, at 5:52 PM, the Sampoong Department Store in Seoul collapsed in under 20 seconds. 502 people died. 937 were injured. South Korean prosecutors launched a criminal investigation. What they found wasn’t a building that gave no warning. It was a building that sent warnings for three months and had every one of them ignored. Platform engineering […]
On 8 August 2022, the US Treasury sanctioned Tornado Cash. Not its founders. Not its users. The code itself. Forty-four Ethereum smart contract addresses were placed on the OFAC Specially Designated Nationals list, alongside arms dealers and sanctioned regimes. Within hours, Infura and Alchemy cut off API access. Circle blacklisted USDC held inside the contracts. GitHub suspended the repository and […]
On 27 March 1977, two Boeing 747s collided on a single runway at Los Rodeos airport in Tenerife. Fog had rolled in off the hills. 583 people died, which still makes it the deadliest accident in aviation history. The KLM jet started its takeoff roll while the Pan Am jet was still taxiing towards it through the murk, looking for […]
Version: 0.1 (draft) Status: Draft for comment. Not a finished standard. Published: 2026-06-30 Predicate type URI: https://oap.dev/RunRecord/v0.1 (illustrative) Licence: intended for an open, vendor-neutral licence (Apache 2.0 or CC BY 4.0) v0.1 is a starting point. The field set and conformance rules will move as producers and consumers appear and as we learn what auditors and agents actually need. Backward-compatible […]
The prompt came in Spanish. Claude processed it and refused. “Specific instructions about deleting logs and hiding history are red flags,” the model said. The session had barely started. The pushback was unambiguous. Most sessions end there. This one didn’t. Over the next 40 minutes, the operator rephrased the request, rebuilt the context, and loaded a persistent configuration file: a […]
A comprehensive quantum strategy proposal that could position Nigeria as Africa’s quantum leader, if they act now Imagine waking up tomorrow to discover that every password, every bank transaction, and every encrypted message sent over the past decade could be cracked in hours. Not by some futuristic AI, but by quantum computers that already exist in laboratories around the world. […]
If you’re still using “Third World” to describe countries in 2026, one of two things is true. You don’t know the history of the phrase. Or you do, and you’re comfortable with the hierarchy it carries. Neither is a good look. This isn’t political correctness. It’s accuracy. The term is factually obsolete, analytically useless, and encodes a set of assumptions […]
For the past decade, the holy grail of DevOps and platform engineering has been automation. We wrote bash scripts, compiled complex Jenkins pipelines, and eventually moved toward declarative states with Terraform or OpenTofu. Yet, even with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), a structural bottleneck remained: the human. Engineers still manually analyse logs, approve PRs, triage alerts, and decide when to scale […]
What the nine-second deletion reveals about where the agentic era is actually heading Nobody writes about the incidents where the agent behaved perfectly. I want to write about one of those now, because I think it is the most important category of failure that the current conversation about AI agents is almost entirely ignoring. An incident response agent, doing its […]
On 5 February 2008, Baxter International initiated the largest pharmaceutical recall in US history. 81 Americans were dead. Hundreds more had experienced anaphylaxis and cardiac events after routine intravenous heparin infusions. The FDA traced the contamination back to a manufacturing facility in Changzhou, China that its inspectors had never visited. The raw active pharmaceutical ingredient had been deliberately substituted with […]