Month: June 2026

Imagine asking a travel agent to find flights from San Francisco to London. They present three detailed options, and you follow up with a simple request: “Book the second one, but change the departure to the morning.” If they stare at you blankly and ask, “Which flight are you referring to, and where are you … Read more

American economic policy is facing a crisis that cannot be solved simply by an election. The biggest economic problems of the moment, workforce shortages, small business fragility, and innovation gaps between regions, are stubbornly resistant to the usual solutions. More government alone does not fix them, and more markets alone does not fix them. Something … Read more

Abstract: Classical Design by Contract (DbC) implicitly relies on the “Memory Axiom”—the assumption that human collaborators possess persistent contextual memory. The emergence of stateless AI agents as primary code-producers invalidates this axiom. We propose that in an agentic workflow, the contract must transcend its role as a correctness specification and become a complete, self-contained reconstruction of system … Read more

A contained honeypot impersonating a small internet-facing energy site collected 54 days of traffic – roughly 1.7 million events from 16,568 unique sources, discovered within the first hour. Most was commodity automation, but a thin tail spoke real Modbus, including 392 device-identity reads with zero write or control attempts. On ATT&CK for ICS the industrial … Read more