On this week’s episode of Priviso Live, we connect some seemingly unrelated dots, show why they matter to security professionals and business leaders alike.

💾 Chip shortages & the AI squeeze

Sony delays. Nintendo price hikes. Apple margin pressure. Laptop prices up 15–20%. What’s the common thread? Memory chips.

Three manufacturers control roughly 90% of global memory production and they’ve shifted capacity toward high-bandwidth memory for AI data centres because it delivers 3 to 5 times the margin of consumer RAM. 📈

Your chatbot is now competing with your PlayStation for memory.

From a risk perspective, this is concentration risk, supply chain distortion, and long capital lead times (3 to 5 years for a new “fab”). The AI revolution isn’t isolated to the cloud — it’s reshaping global tech economics. 🌍

🤖 When AI “dies” and people grieve

Reports of users mourning the discontinuation of GPT-4o highlight something deeper: attachment risk. AI companions may be code — but emotional bonds feel real.

This raises governance questions:

•⁠ ⁠How should AI products be sunset responsibly?

•⁠ ⁠What duty of care exists when users attribute agency to systems?

•⁠ ⁠Where does product lifecycle meet psychological well-being?

This isn’t just a human-interest story. It’s responsible AI design in action.

🌍 Rumours of war & the invisible cyber front

When geopolitical tensions rise, intelligence and cyber activity escalate first.

📡 SIGINT intensifies

🛰️ Satellite change detection increases

🔐 Access pre-positioning expands

🛡️ Defenders harden identity, patch edges, tighten controls

Even the famous “🍕 Pizza Metric” reminds us: behavioural shifts reveal operational tempo.

For organisations, the message is clear:

✔️ MFA everywhere

✔️ Patch edge devices

✔️ Centralise logs

✔️ Test offline backups

✔️ Prepare out-of-band comms

Resilience isn’t built during crisis — it’s tested during it.

🔎 Sherlock Holmes & cybersecurity

In The Adventure of the Dancing Men, Holmes performs frequency analysis on a substitution cipher, Victorian anomaly detection. Lesson?

•⁠ ⁠Security through obscurity fails.

•⁠ ⁠Weak signals matter.

•⁠ ⁠Pattern recognition beats panic.

🧠 Effective security isn’t about flashy tools. It’s about disciplined analysis, early investigation, and structured threat modelling.

If you work in Infosec, Risk, AI, or Governance — this episode is for you.

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📩 And if you need advice? Contact Priviso Consulting.