{"title":"Spoiledlunch","description":"Nerdy Stuff. Tech Talk. Zero Freshness.","subtitle":"Analysis and commentary on GRC, security, and AI.","articles":[{"title":"The Cloud Control Plane Is Still the Easiest Place To Be Blind","url":"/articles/2026-05-01-the-cloud-control-plane-is-still-the-easiest-place-to-be-blind/","date":"2026-06-02","summary":"Cloud security programs often spend their money where the infrastructure is easiest to picture.\nThey instrument workloads. They scan containers. They watch endpoints. They analyze …"},{"title":"National Internet Safety Month: How Child Protection Became Parental Control Software Sales","url":"/articles/2026-06-01-national-internet-safety-month-how-child-protection-became-parental-control-software-sales/","date":"2026-06-01","summary":"June is National Internet Safety Month, which means it\u0026rsquo;s time for parents to be very, very worried about what their children are doing online. Conveniently, it\u0026rsquo;s also …"},{"title":"Compliance Exceptions Tell You More Than Your Passed Controls","url":"/articles/2026-05-01-compliance-exceptions-tell-you-more-than-your-passed-controls/","date":"2026-05-26","summary":"Organizations love to report passed controls because passed controls are flattering.\nThey suggest order. They suggest repeatability. They suggest that the environment behaves the …"},{"title":"GDPR Enforcement Anniversary: Eight Years of Real Privacy Law and Fake Compliance Theater","url":"/articles/2026-05-25-gdpr-enforcement-anniversary-eight-years-of-real-privacy-law-and-fake-compliance-theater/","date":"2026-05-25","summary":"Today marks eight years since GDPR enforcement began. Unlike most awareness campaigns we investigate, this anniversary commemorates something that actually works: the world\u0026rsquo;s …"},{"title":"SOC 2 Became a Sales Requirement, Not a Trust Signal","url":"/articles/2026-04-25-soc-2-became-a-sales-requirement-not-a-trust-signal/","date":"2026-05-19","summary":"SOC 2 still matters. That is exactly why the industry has let it become something more misleading than useless.\nThe report was supposed to be a narrow assurance artifact: a way to …"},{"title":"AI Governance Gets Real Only After Deployment","url":"/articles/2026-04-25-ai-governance-gets-real-only-after-deployment-v2/","date":"2026-05-18","summary":"Most AI governance programs are strongest at the exact moment the system is least exposed.\nBefore launch, organizations know how to look serious. They can write principles. They …"},{"title":"International Anti-Ransomware Day: Who Really Profits from the Fear Campaign?","url":"/articles/2026-05-12-international-anti-ransomware-day-who-profits-from-fear/","date":"2026-05-12","summary":"It\u0026rsquo;s International Anti-Ransomware Day. Time to be very, very afraid of ransomware. And conveniently, very, very ready to buy solutions.\nWhat started as a legitimate effort …"},{"title":"World Password Day: Intel's Marketing Legacy Thirteen Years Later","url":"/articles/2026-05-07-world-password-day-intels-marketing-legacy-thirteen-years-later/","date":"2026-05-07","summary":"World Password Day just ended, and with it, another week of password managers explaining why your passwords aren\u0026rsquo;t complex enough, MFA vendors explaining why passwords are …"},{"title":"Why Dashboard Metrics Collapse During Real Incidents","url":"/articles/2026-04-24-why-dashboard-metrics-collapse-during-real-incidents/","date":"2026-05-05","summary":"Most security dashboards are built to reassure leadership, not to help responders make decisions under pressure. That tradeoff usually stays hidden until a real incident forces the …"},{"title":"World Password Day: How Security Hygiene Became Subscription Revenue","url":"/articles/2026-05-02-world-password-day-how-security-hygiene-became-subscription-revenue/","date":"2026-05-02","summary":"Today is World Password Day, which means it\u0026rsquo;s time to feel bad about your password habits and grateful for the password manager subscriptions that will save you from your own …"}],"news":[{"title":"Our views on AI policy and political advocacy","url":"/news/2026-06-01-our-views-on-ai-policy-and-political-advocacy/","date":"2026-06-01","summary":"Summary: Our approach to AI policy and political advocacy, transparency, support for thoughtful regulation and AI safety, and that no outside political group …"},{"title":"SEC Announces Four New Members of Investor Advisory Committee","url":"/news/2026-06-01-sec-announces-four-new-members-of-investor-advisory-committee/","date":"2026-06-01","summary":"Summary: The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced four new members to fill vacancies on its Investor Advisory Committee.\nWhy it matters: This …"},{"title":"Building the infrastructure for the Intelligence Age in Michigan","url":"/news/2026-06-01-building-the-infrastructure-for-the-intelligence-age-in-michigan/","date":"2026-06-01","summary":"Summary: OpenAI breaks ground on a 1GW data center project in Michigan as part of Stargate, building AI infrastructure to expand access, create jobs, and …"},{"title":"CISA Adds One Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog","url":"/news/2026-06-01-cisa-adds-one-known-exploited-vulnerability-to-catalog/","date":"2026-06-01","summary":"Summary: CISA has added one new vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation.\nWhy it matters: …"},{"title":"OpenAI frontier models and Codex are now available on AWS","url":"/news/2026-06-01-openai-frontier-models-and-codex-are-now-available-on-aws/","date":"2026-06-01","summary":"Summary: OpenAI frontier models and Codex are now generally available on AWS, giving enterprises a new path to build with OpenAI through the AWS environments, …"},{"title":"SEC Proposes Rescission of Climate-Related Disclosure Rules","url":"/news/2026-05-29-sec-proposes-rescission-of-climate-related-disclosure-rules/","date":"2026-05-29","summary":"Summary: The Securities and Exchange Commission today proposed the rescission of overly burdensome and costly rules that require companies to provide certain …"},{"title":"Boston Children's uses AI to unlock new diagnoses","url":"/news/2026-05-29-boston-children-s-uses-ai-to-unlock-new-diagnoses/","date":"2026-05-29","summary":"Summary: Boston Children’s Hospital uses OpenAI technology to improve patient care, reduce operational burden, and help diagnose more than 40 rare disease …"},{"title":"CISA Adds One Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog","url":"/news/2026-05-29-cisa-adds-one-known-exploited-vulnerability-to-catalog/","date":"2026-05-29","summary":"Summary: CISA has added one new vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation.\nWhy it matters: …"},{"title":"How Braintrust turns customer requests into code with Codex","url":"/news/2026-05-29-how-braintrust-turns-customer-requests-into-code-with-codex/","date":"2026-05-29","summary":"Summary: How Braintrust engineers use Codex with GPT-5.5 to run experiments and code faster.\nWhy it matters: This matters if it changes how teams think about …"},{"title":"Strengthening societal resilience with Rosalind Biodefense","url":"/news/2026-05-29-strengthening-societal-resilience-with-rosalind-biodefense/","date":"2026-05-29","summary":"Summary: OpenAI launches Rosalind Biodefense, expanding trusted access to GPT-Rosalind for vetted developers and U.S.\nWhy it matters: This matters if it changes …"}]}