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Shielding the Union: Lessons from Belgium’s EU Presidency Cyber Drills
How cross-border EU threat sharing and cloud SOC automation defended critical infrastructure.
During the first half of 2024, Belgium held the Presidency of the Council of the European Union. Central to the Belgian presidency agenda was strengthening European cyber resilience ahead of national and European Parliament elections. [Read More] -
Midnight in Brussels: Architecting for the World’s First EU AI Act
Breaking down high-risk AI classification, transparency logs, and cloud ML governance.
On December 8, 2023, after an intense 36-hour negotiation session in Brussels, European Union policymakers reached a landmark agreement on the EU AI Act—the world’s first comprehensive horizontal legal framework for Artificial Intelligence. [Read More] -
GDPR Meets GenAI: Navigating Data Sovereignty in European LLMs
Inside EDPB taskforce guidance and privacy-preserving RAG architectures in the EU.
Summer 2023 marked a watershed moment for Generative AI adoption in Europe. As companies rushed to integrate Large Language Models (LLMs) into customer portals and internal enterprise workflows, European data protection authorities (led by the EDPB ChatGPT Taskforce and national DPAs like Belgium’s APD/GBA) issued stern reminders: GDPR compliance is non-negotiable. [Read More] -
The Atomium in the Cloud: Building Cyber Resilience under Europe's NIS2
How Belgian infrastructure and European cloud providers adapted to tougher EU cyber rules.
As the European Union finalised the NIS2 Directive (Network and Information Security Directive), organisations across Belgium—from Antwerp’s bustling port logistics to energy grids and healthcare networks—faced a pivotal shift in cybersecurity obligations. [Read More] -
mostly harmless
The steps above are the bare minimum configuration
Open carefully. I’m mostly harmless [Read More] -
Flake it till you make it
Excerpt from Soulshaping by Jeff Brown
Under what circumstances should we step off a path? When is it essential that we finish what we start? If I bought a bag of peanuts and had an allergic reaction, no one would fault me if I threw it out. If I ended a relationship with a woman who hit me, no one would say that I... [Read More] -
Programming memories
in what order did you learn your languages?
Also have a look at Jeff Dean’s programming timeline [Read More]