Editor’s Note: For the first time, London and Brussels imposed sanctions under their respective cyber regimes on the same day, and they did it while jointly attributing to the FSB a destructive attack on Polish energy infrastructure that failed to interrupt electricity generation or heat delivery but that the UK assessed could have cut power…

Editor’s Note: Nine transactions through July 13 tell a bigger story than their count suggests. eDiscovery dealmaking has slowed in 2026, and the announced mix has favored AI capability and legal talent additions over platform combinations. The pattern matters well beyond the deal tables. For cybersecurity teams, consolidation is reshaping the forensics and incident response…

Editor’s Note: Many operating leaders will recognize the deal review where the quarter and the strategy give opposite orders, and organizations without an explicit ranking tend to resolve the conflict the same way: whichever gravity is loudest that week wins. The companion article The Unanimous Launch Review Is a Strategic Warning Sign argues that the…

Editor’s Note: A launch review that ends in quick, complete agreement should make leaders pause. Launch failure is hard to measure, and the widely cited statistics are directional rather than definitive, but the pattern they point toward recurs: launches can falter because of campaign design and narrowed decision-making, not only because of product quality. This…

Editor’s Note: NATO’s members have spent a decade answering the question the 2014 Wales Summit left open: what does it mean, in practice, that international law applies in cyberspace? A new CCDCOE analysis by Agnes Kasper and Karine Veersalu compiles the answers and finds 27 of 32 allies now on the record, individually or through…

Editor’s Note: Employee-driven Data Subject Access Requests are reshaping the operational reality of privacy compliance for European employers and the legal, compliance, and IT teams that support them. With DSAR volumes reportedly increasing at annual rates of 40–60%, organizations can no longer treat access requests as isolated administrative tasks or purely reactive legal obligations.
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Editor’s Note: AI adoption in eDiscovery just posted its fourth consecutive climb, and for the first time the survey series has a number for what comes next: governance. The 1H 2026 survey from ComplexDiscovery OÜ and EDRM finds 69.39 percent of organizations deploying LLMs and GAI while 57.14 percent document how; cross-tabulation shows roughly three…

Editor’s Note: Russia’s summer offensive has stalled on the ground, so the Kremlin has shifted weight to the layer where it still moves freely: information. In the first week of July, as missiles hit Kyiv and diplomats gathered for a NATO summit in Turkey, Russian operators kept a parallel campaign running against the systems that…

Editor’s Note: Forty-one second requests in fiscal year 2025 sounds like a quiet number until you price what each one carries: months of compliance work, millions of documents, and eDiscovery engagements that anchor entire provider practices. The FTC and DOJ released the 48th annual Hart-Scott-Rodino report July 2, and the decade of data inside it…

Editor’s Note: European venture investors delivered a blunt self-assessment in Tallinn: the continent can build globally competitive technology companies but still struggles to fund them at scale without American capital. During the LP-GP Meetup at Latitude59, fund managers and allocators ranging from Mubadala to the Cambridge University Endowment Fund described a deep pipeline of scale-ready…

Editor’s Note: A removal-power ruling issued in Washington on June 29 reached Brussels within a day. The Supreme Court’s decision in Trump v. Slaughter overruled Humphrey’s Executor and eliminated the for-cause removal protections that anchored the FTC’s status as an independent regulator, and noyb answered with a same-day public demand, then a formal letter dated…

Editor’s Note: The deadlock narrowed. Last autumn’s three-way tie among data volumes, data types, and budgets resolved this spring into a two-issue race, with the diversity of modern data claiming the top of the eDiscovery issue table at 30.61 percent, one respondent ahead of budget pressure and that issue’s strongest reading in four editions of…