By Daniel W. Rasmus

Many factors can derail “trends”, and a bias toward seeing a trend can blind trend watchers from recognizing other patterns, especially contradictory ones. The year-end trend posts are less about prophecy than pattern recognition. The useful question isn’t “What’s next?” It’s “What changed in the operating conditions that will impact decisions I make in the near-term?” For 2026, the answer is blunt: AI stops being a tool story and becomes an infrastructure story. That shift pulls budgets, governance, architecture, skills, geopolitics, and energy into the same room, and they don’t necessarily all get along.

By Rex M. Lee, Security Advisor & Tech Journalist

Security Advisor and Tech Journalist Rex Lee explains how Rush, Queensrÿche, Orwell, Tron, and The Matrix foresaw today’s AI-driven surveillance state.

By Rex M. Lee, National Security Advisor

National Security Advisor Rex Lee explains how the modern influence economy has fused with fraud, bot networks, and foreign operations—creating a weaponized digital ecosystem that manipulates narratives, distorts reality, and threatens national security.

By Daniel Rasmus, Serious Insights for Techspective.com 

In many boardrooms, a dangerous delusion is taking hold. Executives are championing artificial intelligence by painting illusions of a seamless, frictionless future where knowledge workers become instantly more productive, creative, and compliant. In this case, however, it is AI that’s….

By Rex M. Lee – Security & Privacy Advisor, Investigative Tech Journalist
My Smart Privacy

Cybersecurity expert and Investigative Tech Journalist Rex Lee warns how the United States faces unprecedented AI-driven cyber threats from foreign adversaries at the very moment its top cyber-defense agencies remain stalled without Senate-confirmed leadership.

By Rex M. Lee, Security Advisor

Cybersecurity expert Rex Lee dives into how SIM and eSIM technologies have evolved from passive identifiers into active cyber battlegrounds—fueling global “SIM farm” operations, large-scale fraud, and infrastructure attacks that demand zero-trust security from chip to cloud.

TechTalk Summits

Featuring Executive Dinners, Networking Events, and Summits Across Key North American Markets
BOSTON, Oct. 29, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- TechTalk Summits and Data Connectors announced today a strategic partnership to produce invite-only executive dinners, networking events, and summits across key North American markets. The collaboration pairs Data Connectors' long-standing cybersecurity community with TechTalk Summit's premium, intimate venue formats to create practical conversations for senior IT executives and CxO security leaders.

By Rex M. Lee, Security Advisor, My Smart Privacy

Cybersecurity expert Rex Lee warns that NVIDIA’s DGX Spark AI Supercomputer, though highly powerful and affordable, presents serious national security and data-sovereignty risks due to Chinese-origin components and software, necessitating full air-gapping and rigorous hardening before deployment.

By Rex M. Lee, Security Advisor

Cybersecurity expert Rex Lee spoke at the 2025 Regional Cybersecurity Week Summit in Rabat, Morocco, representing Smart Africa and sharing strategies for cybersecurity and digital sovereignty.

By Robert Enderle, Enderle Group

The entertainment world has been set ablaze by the “Tilly Norwood” controversy and for good reason. The revelation that a beloved character in a well received show was not a real person but a fully AI-generated “synthetic actor” has become a flashpoint for a debate raging in Hollywood (AI Commissioner example). For many actors, it represents an existential threat that their craft is on the verge of being rendered obsolete by code. While their fear is understandable, history shows us that trying to ban a transformative technology is a fool’s errand.