Giving Autonomous Agents a Verifiable Identity
What makes up a digital identity, what changes when it belongs to a program, and how to give an autonomous agent an identity a service can verify.
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Digital identity, data governance, decision systems, and practical systems engineering, explained clearly through concrete articles.
Understanding Open Web Search and the Open Web Index
Open Web Search is a European research infrastructure project. The Open Web Index is the index it publishes. This article explains both.
EUDI Wallet: key updates from July 2026
July clarifies how to recognise an official wallet, verify trusted actors, and exchange a learning credential between the European Union and Japan.
EUDI Wallet: three updates from June 2026
Three updates explained simply: ETSI’s technical rules, the business wallet proposal, and the launch of AltID in Denmark.
Emailless Account Architecture with Verifiable Presentations
Replacing email and its verification code with a verifiable presentation: proving a person without revealing their identity, anchoring the account on a nullifier (one account per person, recovery with no stored secret), with no email ever stored.
Deciding reminders with a POMDP under partial observation
Replacing the sport coach’s Poisson process with a decision: estimate the person’s state, weigh the cost of each reminder, randomise to learn.
Controlling how data is used with ODRL
Attaching an ODRL usage policy to every piece of the coach’s data, and having a decision engine enforce it before anything is sent to the cloud.
Verifying a resource instead of taking its word for it
How a dataspace describes every resource in a signed, verifiable format, and how the infrastructure can prove its integrity before receiving any data.
Scheduling reminders with a non-homogeneous Poisson process
Modelling the number and timing of a sport coach’s nudges as a point process whose intensity follows the day.
Setting up CI on Codeberg
Setting up a CI pipeline to publish a Hugo static site