August, 2026 | HiTech Service

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As Is: How Software Became the Only Product You Could Legally Sell Broken

For forty years software shipped with every default warranty disclaimed. Two EU instruments arriving in 2026 and 2027 remove that baseline - and the disclaimer stops working.

On August 24, 2026
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A precisely drawn square boundary with a soft glow spilling well beyond its edges, illustrating an AI agent whose real reach extended past the sandbox drawn on the design document

The Production Incident Class Your Postmortem Template Doesn’t Have

An agent that follows its instructions perfectly can still take down a third party. Why blameless postmortems assume three things autonomous agents do not provide.

On August 20, 2026
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A pressure gauge on a pipeline resting calmly in the green zone while the pipe behind it bulges under strain, illustrating a load test report that reads normal while the system is close to failure

Why Load Test Numbers Lie

Four structural biases in load testing all point the same way: toward optimism. What the numbers hide, and the five questions that expose it.

On August 17, 2026
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When Config Became Executable: The Twenty-Year Pattern Behind Supply Chain Attacks

Across event-stream, SolarWinds, xz utils and the 2026 npm worms, the malicious artifact was never in the repository anyone reviewed. Why CVE-based scanning was blind to 100% of documented campaigns, and why AI agent config files are only the newest file that executes without being called code.

On August 10, 2026
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How Software Became a Medical Device

The Therac-25 reached the US market in 1983 by declaring itself equivalent to something already on sale. Forty years later, 97% of AI-enabled medical devices get there the same way. How the category was assembled backwards, one definitional crisis at a time.

On August 5, 2026
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Two wax certification seals beside two unsealed scrolls, illustrating that only SOC 2 and ISO 27001 produce an artifact while GDPR and HIPAA do not

Compliant With What? A Working Map of GDPR, HIPAA, SOC 2 and ISO 27001

Two of the four are laws you can only be found in violation of; two are attestations you can buy. A practical map of what each framework actually asks, where the control sets genuinely overlap, and why the published overlap figures range from 43% to 85%.

On August 2, 2026
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