On 10 December, You Have to Say It Out Loud
From 10 December 2026, Australian organisations must publish in their privacy policy what their automated systems decide about people. Most can’t produce that list, and the obligation isn’t about AI.
Security by Antiquity: Why the Oldest Thing in Your Building Might Be the Safest
Older technology is sometimes safer from attack, not because it is stronger but because nobody is looking at it. Ireland is keeping its radio beacons alive, Australia quietly kept 200 navaids at 124 airports, and San Francisco is paying 212 million dollars to leave floppy disks behind. Underneath the jokes sits a question most boards have never been asked: you bought capability, but did you ever buy resilience?
When Trust Breaks Down in Organisations, It’s Never the Trust That Broke
AUSTRAC found the same names across unrelated loan files. When trust breaks down in organisations it’s never the trust that broke. It’s the layer nobody checks.
I Was Wrong About the Middle
A permit clerk in Washington DC decided last month that part of the public footpath now belongs to a commercial robot fleet. Nobody voted on it. No board paper was written. No strategy session preceded it. A clerk, doing a job, processed a form, and the street changed. I want to sit on that clerk […]
Same Data, Three Directions
The Reserve Bank held. CBA and ANZ read the same data toward different conclusions, and so did the Fed, the ECB, the Bank of Japan and the Bank of England. Morris Misel on what happens to a decision when the institutions you’ve delegated judgement to stop agreeing.
The World’s Fastest-Growing Megacities Are Now in Africa, and the Ripple Effects Are Already Here
Of today’s 100 largest cities, only 24 will still be growing by 2100. Twelve are in Africa. Morris Misel on the ripple effects of the world’s urban gravity shift, and what it means for Australian organisations.
