The date nobody in the market has circled
A hundred technology companies spent this week warning that AI is about to compress the time between a vulnerability being disclosed and a working exploit existing from weeks to hours. The market reflex is to buy cybersecurity software. That reflex misses the more mechanical consequence, which arrives on a fixed calendar date: on 11 September 2026, two weeks from now, the EU Cyber Resilience Act's reporting obligations switch on. From that day, any manufacturer placing a product with digital elements on the EU market must send an early warning to ENISA and the relevant national CSIRT within 24 hours of learning that a vulnerability in its product is being actively exploited, with a fuller notification inside 72 hours.