In November 2023, a cyberattack shut down emergency rooms  at numerous hospitals across three U.S. states. No missiles were fired. No bombs fell. Yet ambulances were diverted to other cities, lives were at risk, and professionals were unsure for a long time what sensitive patient data had been involved in the incident. This scenario illustrates the growing risk faced by today's policymakers, lawyers, and IT professionals: cyberspace can cause real-world harm. One could argue that it...

In September 2025, when Albania unveiled Diella as the " Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence ," it became the first country in the world to give an AI system a cabinet-level role. Diella started as a virtual assistant on the e-Albania portal, helping citizens navigate online services, but now has a formal mandate to oversee public procurement and, over time, take a central role in awarding tenders. Diella signals that AI agents could be embedded in decision-making structures within...

During the October 20, 2025, Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage , when parts of the internet blinked off, the ripple effects were evident to everyone, from commuters asking Alexa for the weather to businesses trying to process payments. A single problem in an AWS region in the U.S. cascaded across popular apps and services worldwide before engineers resolved it.  Technological incidents are bound to happen. Complex systems fail sometimes. But this incident didn't just affect one company; it...