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On 6 October 2026, the French National Assembly pulled from its agenda the bill that is meant to transpose NIS2, two years after the deadline set by Brussels. Within the hour, professional networks were calling it a disaster for small and medium businesses, abandoned by politicians who are not doing their job. Not one of the measures that law will require needs it in order to be applied on Monday morning.

In October 2024, an attacker left Free's information system with the data of 24 million subscriber contracts, IBANs included. In January 2026, the French data protection authority fined the operator 42 million euros for elementary security failings and for keeping, without justification, the data of millions of former subscribers. My data is in that file, and no decision by the regulator will take it out.

On 25 September the Académie Goncourt withdrew Thélyson Orélien's novel, four days after he was accused of having written it with an artificial intelligence. Since then, texts he signed and other people wrote have surfaced almost daily, from a 2010 poem lifted from a Zen monk to opinion pieces translated from the Philippine press. All of it could have been checked for sixteen years with a search engine and a local library, and not one of his publishers bothered.