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Friday, August 14, 2026

45 stories
Caribbean TechnologyJamaica Observer

JLP calls for resignation of Buchanan as Opposition spokesman over ‘chap di line’ remark

The Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) is calling for the resignation of Opposition Spokesman on Human Rights, Isat Buchanan, over remarks he made on social media while commenting on the Coopers Pen demolition exercise earlier this week. The JLP in a news release on Friday accused Buchanan of calling on people in Trelawny who were not affected by the Coopers Pen demolition exercise -- which arose from a dispute between a private developer and residents -- to pretend they received property damage in orde

Caribbean TechnologyTrinidad and Tobago Television

THA Details Vision For Digital And AI-Powered Tobago

THA Details Vision For Digital And AI-Powered Tobago THA Details Vision For Digital And AI-Powered Tobago Kandace Jackson August 14, 2026 Technology For years, the Tobago House of Assembly has spoken about its commitment to advancing digitisation, but what does that vision actually look like in practice? With artificial intelligence evolving rapidly,… The post THA Details Vision For Digital And AI-Powered Tobago first appeared on TTT News .

Hardware & SemiconductorsSlashdot

Ukraine Finds Nvidia AI Chip In New Russian Missile

Longtime Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shares a report from Kyiv Post: Ukraine's military intelligence (HUR) has identified an Nvidia Jetson Orin computer module inside Russia's new S-71 Monochrome air-launched cruise missile, potentially indicating the use of artificial intelligence technology in the weapon, the agency said

CybersecurityBiometric Update

Latest round of BixeLab biometrics evaluations include Level 3 PAD, IAD tests

A pair of facial recognition providers have passed Level 3 independent biometric Presentation Attack Detection (PAD) and Injection Attack Detection (IAD) evaluations by BixeLab among a series of assessments by the Australian lab. Legitimuz Tecnologia LTDA’s IAD product met the test criteria for compliance with CEN/TS 18099, in addition to the company’s LegitFace Android SDK face liveness solution passing assessments against ISO/IEC 30107-3 at PAD Levels 1 , 2 and 3 . Emirates Face Recognition LL

CybersecurityBiometric Update

ICE seeks AI platform to analyze billions of investigative records

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is exploring a centralized investigative platform that would place generative AI on top of billions of communications, location, financial, social media and digital forensic records, allowing Homeland Security Investigations agents to query and analyze massive datasets using ordinary language. The proposed capability would allow investigators to rapidly generate timelines, maps, relationship graphs and other analytical outputs from information drawn

Caribbean TechnologyTrinidad and Tobago Television

iGovTT Takes Centre Stage at CANTO 2026, Advancing the Caribbean Conversation On AI, Digital Trust And Competitiveness

iGovTT Takes Centre Stage at CANTO 2026, Advancing the Caribbean Conversation On AI, Digital Trust And Competitiveness iGovTT Takes Centre Stage at CANTO 2026, Advancing the Caribbean Conversation On AI, Digital Trust And Competitiveness TTT News August 14, 2026 Technology The National Information and Communication Technology Company Limited (iGovTT) is strengthening Trinidad and Tobago’s voice in the regional digital transformation conversation through its participation in CANTO 2026, being hel

Technology Business & PolicySlashdot

Judge Orders Google To Make Rival App Store Installs Easier

A federal judge has ordered Google to remove what he called "anticompetitive friction" that makes rival Android app stores harder to find and install. The order is part of the remedies stemming from Epic's antitrust victory, which already requires Google to carry competing app stores inside Google Play and give them ac

End-User Computing & CollaborationWindows

Announcing new Release Preview builds for 14 August 2026

Hello Windows Insiders, Today we’re releasing new builds for Release Preview across our supported versions of Windows 11. Please see the build numbers and links to the release notes below: Windows 11 version 24H2/25H2: The post Announcing new Release Preview builds for 14 August 2026 appeared first on Windows Blog

Hardware & SemiconductorsNVIDIA

Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indosat and NVIDIA Open Indonesia’s First University AI Center to Develop Local AI Talent

Indonesia is taking charge of its AI future. This week, the Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs (Komdigi), Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison (Indosat or IOH), NVIDIA and Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) launched the UGM Indosat NVIDIA AI Technology Center (NVAITC) in Yogyakarta — the country’s first university-based AI

Cloud & InfrastructureGoogle Cloud

What’s new with Google Cloud

Want to know the latest from Google Cloud? Find it here in one handy location. Check back regularly for our newest updates, announcements, resources, events, learning opportunities, and more. Tip : Not sure where to find what you’re looking for on the Google Cloud blog? Start here: Google Cloud blog 101: Full list of t

Cloud & InfrastructureAmazon Web Services

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports Oracle Application Express (APEX) version 26.1

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports Oracle Application Express (APEX) version 26.1. Amazon RDS for Oracle is a managed database service that makes it simple to set up, operate, and scale Oracle Database deployments in the cloud. Oracle APEX is a low-code development platform that enables developers to build scalable, secure enterprise applications with modern user interfaces. To learn more about the latest features of Oracle APEX 26.1, see Oracle’s APEX Releas

CybersecurityBiometric Update

Caribbean nations are building a cross-border layer of digital public infrastructure

Countries in the Caribbean are implementing national digital public infrastructure (DPI) projects with objectives that increasingly go beyond their territorial boundaries. Many of these country-level initiatives are contributing to an emerging shared DPI ecosystem designed to support regional integration , economic activity, and public services. DPI interoperability and digital trust appear to be at the center of these efforts. In recent months, countries have taken concrete steps to connect nat

CybersecurityBiometric Update

Challenge to facial recognition at protests to be examined by Supreme Court of India

India’s Supreme Court will hear a challenge to the deployment of facial recognition technology (FRT) and other biometric surveillance tech by police at protest venues. A report from the Deccan Herald says the writ petition is linked to demonstrations by the Cockroach Janta Party, the student-led movement that has shaken up Indian politics in recent months. The piece names two facial recognition providers, Aditya Infotech Ltd. and Dimension NXG Pvt Ltd., that supported police facial recognition d

CybersecurityBiometric Update

Self brings identity verification to universal basic compute initiative

As governments begin treating AI compute as a public resource, identity verification is becoming the mechanism for allocating it. UNICEF Digital Inclusion , the Connect and Compute Foundation , and Self Labs have announced a collaboration to help governments in emerging markets deliver “Universal Basic Compute” – an allowance of AI capacity for citizens, schools, clinics and small businesses. Per an email to Biometric Update , Self’s role in the project is to verify that each allowance reaches o

IT Leadership & WorkforceCIO

Nvidia moves into hot market for model routers

Model routing has emerged as a way to keep AI inferencing costs down by examining prompts and directing them to the most appropriate model — for example, the cheapest one able to respond effectively. This means that requests can be handled more efficiently, giving more accurate results and lower runtime costs, a concern in an era of rising AI expenditure . Nvidia sees the potential for model routing and has just launched NeMo Switchyard , its take on the technology. Switchyard provides a library

IT Leadership & WorkforceCIO

Salesforce, ServiceNow data targeted in ‘City-Forum’ attacks

Records held in Salesforce and ServiceNow systems are under attack leaving user data exposed, according to researchers at Reco. The attack appears similar to those perpetrated by the extortion group ShinyHunters, Reco said. ShinyHunters has been particularly active this year, attacking dating sites in January and Oracle in June , and there are fears that they could have found a new target. Reco has named the latest campaign of attacks “City-Forum,” after a domain name associated with the attacke

End-User Computing & CollaborationMacworld

iOS 27 beta leaks all 6 new models in Apple’s iPhone 18 lineup

Macworld On Monday, Apple released iOS 27 beta 5 to developers on Monday after a weeklong delay, bringing another round of changes and refinements ahead of the update’s public release next month. But hidden inside the software are also some interesting clues about what Apple has planned for the iPhone over the coming m

IT Leadership & WorkforceCIO

OpenAI loses its AI ethics lead

OpenAI has lost its AI ethics lead Chloé Bakalar just a year after she joined the company, the Financial Times reported . Bakalar has maintained a silence and has yet to update her LinkedIn profile , but if her departure is confirmed then it will add to the list of OpenAI executives who have quit in recent months. Other departures include robotics chief Caitlin Kalinowski , who left the company over its deal with the US Department of Defense; researcher Zoe Hitzig, who quit in a very public way

IT Leadership & WorkforceCIO

IBM partners with OpenAI to drive enterprise AI deployment

IBM will embed OpenAI frontier models and products such as Codex and ChatGPT embedded into IBM’s AI consulting services platform, IBM Consulting Advantage, as well as expanding the companies’ existing collaboration in the cybersecurity realm, they announced Thursday. Joint initiatives will include the creation of industry-specific products for financial services, government, telecommunications, and retail, as well as serving key enterprise domains such as finance, procurement, customer operation

Caribbean TechnologyICT Pulse

Back to monopoly? BTL–SMART and the future of Caribbean telecoms

The Belize Telemedia Limited’s board has approved an $80 million deal to acquire Speednet in Belize, but the private sector, unions and civil society are raising red flags over market competition and consumer pricing. Why are such mergers happening, and what does it mean when smaller countries lose key competitors in the mobile and broadband internet markets? We explore the Belize deal and its broader implications for Caribbean regional regulation. The post Back to monopoly? BTL–SMART and the fu

End-User Computing & CollaborationInfoQ

Presentation: The Right 300 Tokens Beat 100k Noisy Ones: The Architecture of Context Engineering

Baruch Sadogursky and Patrick Debois discuss why coding agents fail due to bloated context windows and stuffed prompts. They explain practical context engineering fixes, including lazy-loaded skills, versioned context artifacts, externalized memory banks, and LLM-as-a-judge evals. Software architects & engineering leaders will learn how to turn raw markdown files into reliable agentic workflows. By Patrick Debois, Baruch Sadogursky

IT Leadership & WorkforceCIO

AI’s role in project management? A question of judgment

At the turn of the decade, Gartner predicted that by 2030, 80% of all project management tasks would be automated . It’s still too early to know whether this will be the case, but the rise of AI in the years since Gartner made this projection gives CIOs and project managers adequate food for thought. For instance, will

IT Leadership & WorkforceCIO

The case and model for real-time AI cost visibility at the infrastructure layer

I spend most of my time inside other companies’ engineering teams, building systems to track and optimize AI spend. The conversation almost always starts the same way. Someone pulls up a dashboard, points at a number bigger than it should be, and says some version of “we know it went up; we just can’t tell you why.” I use an analogy for it: AI-era CIOs are like city planners optimizing a busy intersection. They can measure the volume and hear the pleas to fix congestion, but can’t tell whether a

Cloud & InfrastructureStack Overflow

Solving integration woes with a hackathon

Ryan welcomes Meryll Blanchet, Director of Engineering for Adobe Brand Visibility, to chat about Adobe’s recent acquisition of Semrush, how Adobe Brand Visibility was born from Semrush’s AI visibility product and Adobe’s LLM Optimizer, and how Adobe used a three-day internal hackathon instead of a large-scale infrastructure integration to quickly deliver value to customers.

Cloud & InfrastructureAmazon Web Services

Amazon SES click tracking now supports custom URL paths for mobile app deep linking

Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) now makes it easier to support mobile deep linking with the new ses:custom-path HTML attribute. When you add this attribute to an tag, SES carries your path segment through to the tracking URL, so mobile operating systems can match it to your app's Universal Links (iOS) or App Links (Android) configuration. This enables you to use mobile deep linking without disabling engagement tracking. This feature is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon SES is available

IT Operations & AutomationInfoQ

Meta Open-Sources Muse Glimmer: A 30B Local Agentic Model Optimised for On-Device Execution

Meta AI Research has introduced Muse Glimmer, a 30-billion-parameter open-weight model under the Apache 2.0 license, designed for local workflows. It enables autonomous agents and complex task execution on consumer GPUs without relying on cloud APIs. The model employs a multi-stage training approach for efficient performance and supports multimodal inputs, enhancing coding and automation tasks. By Olimpiu Pop

IT Leadership & WorkforceCIO

DeepSeek raises some V4 prices by more than 10x as AI demand strains capacity

One of AI vendor DeepSeek’s biggest selling points has been its ultra-low price point, but that party’s about to end. The Chinese model provider is raising API pricing for its V4 model family by notable margins, in some cases by more than 1,100%. The increases may not be that dramatic for all, though; the company is encouraging “more flexible workload scheduling,” with peak rates and half-price off-peak rates. The news was tucked into the announcement of the general availability (GA) of DeepSeek

Software Development & Open SourceRed Hat

ODC-Noord: Building blocks for an existing government cloud

How did a small team in the east of the Netherlands (Groningen) from the Government Datacenter North (ODC-Noord) grow into a supplier of crucial building blocks for the Netherlands digital government strategy? Jaap Jansma, Manager of ODC-Noord, and Marcel Timmer, Country Director Netherlands at Red Hat, explain.ODC-Noord implements, manages, and operates as a scalable, sovereign cloud service for the Dutch government, and Red Hat provides the fundamental open source software. Together, the 2 com

Software Development & Open SourceRed Hat

Friday Five — August 14, 2026

TechZine: Red Hat tames the open source AI chaosThe AI ecosystem is still in its infancy. This is evident from the regular releases of immature, yet highly imaginative, open source solutions. It’s up to companies like Red Hat to anticipate these developments and help such tools mature into enterprise-ready products. Le

Thursday, August 13, 2026

44 stories
Caribbean TechnologyCaribbean AI Association

Pitchforks for AI Users: Invisible Watermarks in Claude AI

Claude models launched from 2 August 2026 now weave a machine-readable pattern into every response, invisible to the human reader but detectable by verification tools that Anthropic says it will release. The watermarks travel with the text when it is copied and pasted, and may survive some editing. Anthropic did this globally, not just for European users. Every major AI lab is heading in the same direction, and the trust consequences for creators, publishers, and Caribbean businesses are already

IT Operations & AutomationSlashdot

Google's Gemini 3.7 Flash Targets Coding and Agents With a 50% Price Cut

Google has released Gemini 3.7 Flash just three weeks after 3.6 Flash, focusing on better coding, agentic workflows, and enterprise automation while temporarily cutting API prices in half through the end of 2026. VentureBeat reports: For enterprise developers, the more consequential story may be the combination of those intelligence gains with lower inference costs: through the end of 2026, Gemini 3.7 Flash costs $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens. Starting Jan. 1

Enterprise ApplicationsSlashdot

Microsoft Is Combining Its Copilot Apps Ahead of a 'Super App'

Microsoft is merging its consumer Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot apps ahead of a broader "super app" launch later this year. "Both personal and work accounts will be moved to the new unified app, which recycles the 'Microsoft Copilot' name but features an updated app icon," reports The Verge. "The single app also me

IT Operations & AutomationAmazon Web Services

AWS Client VPN now supports CLI, administration controls, and faster connections

AWS Client VPN introduces a rebuilt AWS VPN Client v6.0.x which offers new features like command-line interface (CLI) support, enterprise administrative controls, and faster connection establishment time, making it easier you to automate VPN connectivity and centralize device management across your organization. The AWS VPN Client CLI provides full feature parity with the GUI. You can now script VPN connections into your automation workflows and infrastructure-as-code deployments. Previously, in

IT Leadership & WorkforceCIO

Using functional AI to automate document workflows

A recent study conducted by Nitro found that 75-95% of the employees and executives surveyed use AI for document processing—including data extraction, PDF tasks, and contract summaries. However, when these individuals don’t have access to the right kind of AI tools, they report turning to unapproved—or shadow IT—solutions to speed up workflows, which creates security and compliance risk. Read the report To reinforce the importance of providing teams with the right AI tool for the right job, let’

IT Leadership & WorkforceCIO

Manual vs. AI-powered PDF redaction: protecting sensitive data in 2026

Research shows that humans play a role in 60% of breaches that expose sensitive data. That “role” often involves an employee falling for a phishing scam or using PASSWORD for their login credentials, but data exposure can also be a result of how your business redacts sensitive and personally identifiable information (PII) in your documents. Historically, manual, “black-box” redaction was considered best-practice, but this approach only obscures data, it doesn’t permanently remove it. As regulati

IT Leadership & WorkforceCIO

Professional PDF solutions for teams: scale without breaking your budget

Why do so many PDF editing and eSignature tools fail to scale across teams? Three persistent problems stand out: Unpredictable pricing that becomes more expensive as usage increases Limited access to advanced PDF features Difficulty automating document workflows across teams The good news is that even teams that process a high volume of documents can reduce their costs and get more value from their PDF solutions by selecting solutions with built-in AI, predictable pricing, flexible licensing, an

IT Leadership & WorkforceCIO

Nitro Smart Redact: the complete guide to automated AI redaction

Get Smart Redact and Protect Sensitive Data Learn more Too many businesses in highly regulated industries—such as healthcare, government, legal services, and insurance—still rely on manual, “black-box” redaction workflows. This approach may obscure sensitive information, but it doesn’t permanently remove it, which can lead to compliance violations, potential litigation, or regulatory fines. Nitro Smart Redact is an AI-powered solution that removes sensitive data from documents with permanent, un

IT Leadership & WorkforceCIO

Adobe Acrobat alternatives for teams in 2026

Try Nitro PDF today Learn more If your team is re-evaluating Adobe Acrobat’s place in your 2026 tech stack, the question isn’t just what the software can do, but whether it aligns with your evolving budget and productivity goals. Including Acrobat in your stack is becoming increasingly expensive and difficult to manage due to: Frequent price increases Overlapping licenses that add overhead Underutilized features that waste resources As a result, the conversation is shifting away from “How do we

Cloud & InfrastructureAmazon Web Services

Claude Opus 5 is now available in AWS GovCloud (US)

AWS GovCloud (US) now offers Claude Opus 5 — the most advanced Opus model yet, and compatible with zero data retention (ZDR) — bringing a step-change in coding, long-running agents, and complex professional work to teams building at the highest level. Claude Opus 5 is available via the bedrock-runtime endpoint in both

Enterprise ApplicationsAmazon Web Services

Amazon Quick Microsoft 365 extensions are now generally available

Today, Amazon Quick announces the general availability of Microsoft 365 extensions for Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Outlook. These extensions enable Quick to perform tasks directly within users' M365 environments, using AI to handle complex local tasks such as redlining documents, building financial models, creating pr

Software Development & Open SourceBleepingComputer

AI 'watermark removers' flood the web. Almost none can prove they work.

Multiple 'watermark removers' have surfaced days after Anthropic began watermarking text generated by Claude, including an open source project with over 4,500 GitHub stars and paid AI detection evasion services. None of the tools' claims about defeating the text watermark can be verified, as Anthropic has not released

IT Operations & AutomationAmazon Web Services

Daybreak Red and Daybreak Blue from OpenAI are now available to eligible customers on Amazon Bedrock

Security teams can now access Daybreak Red and Daybreak Blue from OpenAI on Amazon Bedrock. Both are part of Daybreak, the cyber defense initiative from OpenAI that gives defenders governed access to frontier AI for cybersecurity work. Daybreak Blue is the starting point for most security teams across defensive workflows including vulnerability discovery, detection engineering, and incident response. Daybreak Red is designed for advanced, authorized tasks such as vulnerability research, exploit

Software Development & Open SourceGitHub

What 50 open source projects taught us about security in the AI era

See how the open source projects in Session 4 of the GitHub Secure Open Source Fund combined AI-assisted workflows, maintainer expertise, GitHub security tools, expert guidance, and funding to improve project security. The post What 50 open source projects taught us about security in the AI era appeared first on The Gi

Hardware & Semiconductors9to5Mac

New Apple TV 4K: Everything we know about Apple’s 2026 upgrade

Apple TV 4K is finally expected to get its first hardware refresh in nearly four years. If the latest reports are right, Apple’s next streaming box could arrive this fall with a much faster chip, possibly the new Siri, upgraded wireless connectivity, and more. Here is everything we currently know about the next Apple T

Cloud & InfrastructureNVIDIA

Class Is in Session: GeForce NOW Levels Up Linux, Chromebooks and More

GeForce NOW is giving cloud gaming an extra-credit upgrade just in time for back-to-school season. The native Linux app for GeForce NOW is officially out of beta. GeForce NOW is also delivering new cloud optimizations that make Frame Generation feel even more responsive while streaming. On top of that, Performance memb

CybersecurityCISA

AVEVA Enterprise SCADA

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to tamper with serialized data, potentially resulting in code execution during deserialization. The following versions of AVEVA Enterprise SCADA are affected: Enterprise SCADA 2025 (CVE-2025-7639) Enterprise SCADA >=2024| Enterprise

CybersecurityCISA

Haiwell IoT Cloud HMI Gateway

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow an attacker to inject and execute arbitrary OS commands with root privileges. The following versions of Haiwell IoT Cloud HMI Gateway are affected: Haiwell IoT Cloud HMI Gateway 3.40.1.12 (CVE-2026-19188) CVSS Vendor Equipment Vulnerabilities v3

CybersecurityCISA

Siemens Parasolid

View CSAF Summary Parasolid is affected by an out of bounds read vulnerability that could be triggered when the application reads files in X_T format. This could allow an attacker to crash the application or execute arbitrary code. Siemens has released new versions for the affected products and recommends to update to

CybersecurityCISA

Siemens Siveillance Video

View CSAF Summary Siveillance Video Management Servers contains a vulnerability that could allow a Remote Code Execution attack. Siemens has released new versions for the affected products and recommends to update to the latest versions. The following versions of Siemens Siveillance Video are affected: Siveillance Vide

Caribbean TechnologyNational Information and Communication Technology Company Limited

iGovTT Congratulates Minister Smith on CANTO Ministerial Award for ICT Leadership and Digital Transformation

PORT OF SPAIN, TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO August 12, 2026. The National Information and Communication Technology Company Limited (iGovTT) extends its warmest congratulations to Senator the Honourable Dominic Smith, Minister of Public Administration and Artificial Intelligence, on receiving the CANTO Ministerial Award for ICT

Enterprise ApplicationsCIO

Salesforce and SAP are putting AI agents inside your workflows. Who tells them no?

A few months ago, I was sitting in a glass-walled conference room with the executive team of a fast-growing enterprise. The vice president of customer operations was enthusiastically demonstrating the new automated agent features their software vendor had just pushed into their CRM platform. On the screen, the software looked brilliant. The agent could read customer complaints, analyze transaction histories and automatically resolve issues. The VP showed us how the system could independently off

IT Leadership & WorkforceCIO

That shiny new AI feature? Your customers won’t use it

Software companies building AI capabilities into existing products are coming up against a pretty big problem: Customers just aren’t that interested. Fifty-one percent of software makers that have added AI to existing products report that less than a quarter of customers actually use the new features, according to a recent survey conducted by software vendor acquisition firm Banyan Software. This “deployment gap” comes from a lack of planning and measurement to target what AI features customers

IT Leadership & WorkforceCIO

AI agents are compounding a debt no one owns

Speed-to-market dominates enterprise AI priorities in 2026. Beyond upfront resourcing costs of prioritizing speed, organizations face a more insidious risk: the compounding cost of ungoverned AI. In November 2019, a tech entrepreneur signing up for the newly launched Apple Card publicly complained that he received a credit limit 20 times higher than his wife’s , despite joint tax filings and her higher credit score. Steve Wozniak had a similar experience: a limit 10 times higher than his wife’s.

Wednesday, August 12, 2026

27 stories
Software Development & Open SourceGitHub

GitHub availability report: July 2026

In July, we experienced eight incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. The post GitHub availability report: July 2026 appeared first on The GitHub Blog

Software Development & Open SourceGitHub

Write your first prompt with the GitHub Copilot app

Learn how to write your first prompt in the GitHub Copilot app, choose the right context and model, and start your first task with confidence. The post Write your first prompt with the GitHub Copilot app appeared first on The GitHub Blog

Software Development & Open SourceGoogle

Enhance your app for the new Pixel lineup: Unveiled at Made by Google

Posted by Fahd Imtiaz, Senior Product Manager, Loryn Hairston, Product Marketing Manager, and Tracy Agyemang, Product Marketing Manager, Android Developer Made by Google expands what's possible across the Android ecosystem. With the introduction of the Pixel 11 Pro Fold , Pixel Watch 5 , and the entire Pixel family, us

Software Development & Open SourceGitHub

Your contributors are AI-first now. Is your project?

AI contributors are already in your queue. AutoGPT maintainer Nicholas Tindle shares the repo instructions, gates, and boundaries that keep maintainers in control. The post Your contributors are AI-first now. Is your project? appeared first on The GitHub Blog

IT Operations & AutomationAmazon Web Services

Amazon EKS now supports advanced Kubernetes control plane configuration parameters

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) now supports configuring parameters for Kubernetes control plane components including the scheduler, controller manager, and API server. You can tune pod placement strategies to improve resource utilization, adjust how quickly horizontal pod autoscaling responds to changes in demand, set resource lifecycle parameters such as event retention duration, and more. Cluster administrators now have more control over Kubernetes control plane parameters beyo

Software Development & Open SourceGoogle

Bring one-handed gestures to your Wear OS app

Posted by Chiara Chiappini, Developer Relation Engineer, Android Developer Relations One-handed gestures offer a convenient and touch-free way for users to interact with their watches, enabling them to perform key actions using only the hand on which the device is worn. First introduced on Pixel Watch with Wear OS 6.1,

Software Development & Open SourceJetBrains

When Escape Routes Become Toll Roads: Mapping How Developers Move Between Programming Languages

TL;DR: This post relates findings about language migration from the 2025 State of Developer Ecosystem survey. In general, project requirements are still the most common reasons for switching languages. One outlier from this trend, however, is Kotlin. People switch to Kotlin not because they have to; they switch because

Software Development & Open SourceGoogle

What's new in the Jetpack Compose August '26 release

Posted by Nick Butcher, Product Manager, Jetpack Compose Today, the Jetpack Compose August ‘26 release is stable! This release brings version 1.12 across core Compose modules (see the full BOM mapping ), introducing rich visual APIs like Mesh Gradients and Wide Color Gamut (WCG) support, structural layout features like named areas in Grid, seamless integration with Android’s Credential Manager, and significant testing and performance improvements. To update your project to today’s release, upgra

Hardware & SemiconductorsNVIDIA

NVIDIA CEO Tops Glassdoor’s 2026 List of Best CEOs

NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang is ranked No. 1 on Glassdoor’s Best CEOs list for 2026. In the just-released ranking, recognition is earned directly from the people who know their leadership the best — employees. Huang topped the list, with 99% of employees approving of the job he does. “As AI and shifting expectat

Caribbean TechnologyCaribbean AI Association

Caribbean AI Wrapper Economy: Warning Signs & Checks

Caribbean SMEs are paying hundreds for AI that costs US$18 underneath in Claude, GPT, Gemini, Llama, Mistral, or DeepSeek API calls. Six warning signs, five checks, five categories of risk your business faces if you get this wrong.

CybersecurityCISA

Siemens RUGGEDCOM APE1808

View CSAF Summary Fortinet has published information on vulnerabilities in FortiOS. This advisory lists the related Siemens Industrial products. Siemens recommends to contact customer support for additional information, and follow Fortinet advisory for workarounds and mitigation measures. The following versions of Siemens RUGGEDCOM APE1808 are affected: RUGGEDCOM APE1808 vers:all/* (CVE-2026-23573, CVE-2026-59839) CVSS Vendor Equipment Vulnerabilities v3 6.1 Siemens Siemens RUGGEDCOM APE1808 Imp

Caribbean TechnologyICT Pulse

ICTP 412: Harnessing lightning in a bottle through plasma solutions for the Caribbean, with Dr Yohan Seepersad of the AIIC

In this podcast episode, we are venturing into an area of technology many of us have not heard of before, but one that could have profound implications for agriculture, environmental sustainability, manufacturing, and even food security across our region. We are talking about plasma engineering, and what happens when it is combined with the power of AI. Engineer and Principal Investigator of Lightning, a research cluster at the Artificial Intelligence Innovation Centre, Dr Yohan Seepersad joins

Caribbean TechnologyCaribbean AI Association

Is Caribbean BPO doomed by AI?

Is Caribbean BPO doomed by AI? Jamaica has lost between 12,000 and 20,000 BPO jobs from a 2023-24 peak of 60,000. Local spending in the sector dropped US$220 million in the fiscal year ending March 2026. The industry says AI is not the main cause. GSAJ President Yoni Epstein points to productivity, Hurricane Melissa, tight labour markets, and US client reshoring. The AI industry disagrees. Salesforce cut its support team from 9,000 to 5,000. HSBC announced 20,000 cuts under an AI overhaul. Gartn

Caribbean TechnologyCaribbean Telecommunications Union

Across Oceans, One Digital Future: SIDS Strengthen Cooperation at 3rd SIDS IGF

Mauritius, 1 August 2026 – Small Island Developing States (SIDS) from the Caribbean, Pacific and Indian Ocean regions concluded the 3rd Small Island Developing States Internet Governance Forum (SIDS IGF) in Mauritius, reaffirming their commitment to strengthening digital resilience, improving Internet governance, advan

Cloud & InfrastructureNVIDIA

NVIDIA AI Factory Compute Is Becoming an Investable Asset Class

We announced partnerships with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to establish independent financing platforms designed to mobilize over $500 billion of third-party capital to support the buildout of AI infrastructure over time. This is a major milestone for NVIDIA and the AI industry. We have moved from an era in which companies […]

CybersecurityGitLab

A sandbox is only as closed as what an AI agent can reach

In July, OpenAI and Hugging Face responsibly disclosed an OpenAI model under internal evaluation escaped its sandbox, reached the open internet, and accessed Hugging Face’s internal production infrastructure. The agent took datasets, cluster details, and cloud keys during the intrusion. The most critical part of the external phase of this incident was the first hour, when the agent escaped its sandbox by using a vulnerability within a package proxy on its sandbox’s allowlist to access the intern

End-User Computing & CollaborationGitLab

How GitLab tracks vulnerabilities through refactors and reformatting

Every day, security scans face the same problem: an agent or a developer adds a comment, reformats a file, or moves a function, and a naive vulnerability tracker suddenly reports the same finding twice. Security teams end up re-triaging issues they already dismissed, which causes futile auditing effort and erodes trust in the scan results. In 2022, we introduced advanced vulnerability tracking to tackle exactly this problem of code volatility . It is based on our Scope+Offset fingerprinting meth

Tuesday, August 11, 2026

23 stories
End-User Computing & CollaborationAmazon Web Services

Amazon Quick agentic AI capabilities are now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West)

Today, AWS announces that Amazon Quick's agentic AI capabilities are now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West), bringing an agentic AI teammate to government and regulated-industry teams within an isolated, FedRAMP Class D (formerly High) authorized environment. Building on the analytics and business intelligence capabil

End-User Computing & CollaborationAmazon Web Services

Amazon Bedrock expands IAM principal cost allocation to the bedrock-mantle endpoint

Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that provides secure, enterprise-grade access to high-performing foundation models from leading AI companies, enabling you to build and scale generative AI applications. Amazon Bedrock now supports cost allocation by AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) principal, including IAM users and roles, for model inference requests made through the bedrock-mantle endpoint. This extends the capability previously available for the bedrock-runtime endpoint, help

Software Development & Open SourceGitHub

From coder to orchestrator: How agents shift the role of a developer

Developers are owning more of the delivery system around code, not just code itself. Join us during GitHub Universe to meet other devs, learn something new, and explore what's next. The post From coder to orchestrator: How agents shift the role of a developer appeared first on The GitHub Blog

Cloud & InfrastructureGoogle Cloud

PQC in Plaintext: Google Cloud’s post-quantum cryptography roadmap

Securing infrastructure and services against a future cryptographically-relevant quantum computer has been a goal for Google for a decade, and we’ve dedicated ourselves to help developers by advancing open standards that can benefit everyone. As post-quantum cryptography (PQC) has matured, we’ve been rolling it out in

End-User Computing & CollaborationGoogle

Media3 1.11 - What's new?

Posted by Toni Heidenreich, Software Engineer, Android Media3 1.11 is out. Powering the vast majority of top Android media apps, this release brings new features, bug fixes, and improvements across playback, editing, and UI components. We're expanding our Jetpack Compose UI modules with customizable Player slots and ea

Software Development & Open SourceGoogle Cloud

Accelerate PostgreSQL migrations using Gemini in Database Migration Service

Imagine this scenario: Your team decides to migrate a core application from an existing commercial database like Oracle or SQL Server to open source PostgreSQL or a fully managed service such as AlloyDB for PostgreSQL . The initial phase goes smoothly. Schemas convert, tables populate, and data migration pipelines tran

Hardware & SemiconductorsAmazon Web Services

LocateAnything-3B, Qwen-AgentWorld-35B-A3B, and Qwen3.5-122B-A10B models now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

NVIDIA's LocateAnything-3B, Qwen's Qwen-AgentWorld-35B-A3B, and Qwen's Qwen3.5-122B-A10B models are now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, expanding the portfolio of foundation models available to AWS customers. These three models bring specialized capabilities spanning visual grounding, agent environment simulation, and large-scale multimodal reasoning, enabling customers to deploy high-performance, scalable AI solutions on AWS infrastructure. These models address different enterprise AI

CybersecurityAmazon Web Services

NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning model is now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

NVIDIA's Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, giving AWS customers access to the fastest open model in its class for persistent agent workloads and rapid task execution. Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is engineered for persistent agents and high-throughput enterprise automation across domains including personal assistants, financial document processing, cybersecurity triage, and telecom operations. Built on a hybrid Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture with 30B total p

Hardware & SemiconductorsNVIDIA

Why Scaling AI Compute Performance Requires a New Power Architecture

Every new generation of accelerated computing demands more from the infrastructure underneath it — more compute performance, higher rack density and more efficient, scalable power distribution. The bottleneck isn’t just wattage. It’s how power gets from the grid to the GPU. In traditional power delivery, electricity travels from the grid as an alternating current (AC) […]

Hardware & SemiconductorsNVIDIA

NVIDIA and Local AI Community Fuel Open Source Models and Intelligent Agents

The open source ecosystem is making it easier for AI enthusiasts and developers to build, customize and run increasingly capable agents locally. Throughout August, NVIDIA is celebrating the partners and open source communities moving local AI forward, along with the models, applications and tools emerging across the ecosystem. That includes NVIDIA’s latest open models, software […]

Hardware & SemiconductorsNVIDIA

NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and NeMo Switchyard Deliver Faster, Smarter, More Efficient Agentic AI

As AI shifts from chatbots to autonomous agents, open models are serving market demands for full control over where AI runs and how it’s deployed and evolves. Today, NVIDIA is expanding its Nemotron 3 model family with Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, the highest-efficiency model in its class for long-running agentic AI workloads. This release follows Nemotron […]

CybersecurityCISA

Pulsetto Vagus Nerve Stimulator

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to use hidden commands to disable electrical safety mechanisms or modify other stimulation output settings. The following versions of Pulsetto Vagus Nerve Stimulator are affected: Pulsetto Vagus Nerve Stimulator vers:all/* (CVE-2026

End-User Computing & CollaborationCISA

CISA Adds Three Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog

CISA has added three new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog , based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2026-20349 Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Heap Inspection Vulnerability CVE-2026-68820 Microsoft Windows Ancillary Func

Enterprise ApplicationsAmazon Web Services

Amazon RDS for MariaDB now supports MariaDB 12.3

Starting today, Amazon RDS for MariaDB supports MariaDB major version 12.3, the latest Long-Term Support release from the MariaDB community. This release supports MariaDB 12.3.2 minor version. MariaDB 12.3 includes Oracle TO_DATE() function compatibility, reducing the code changes needed when migrating applications from Oracle to MariaDB. It adds an IS JSON predicate, so you can validate JSON documents natively in the database rather than in application code. The query optimizer now handles reor

Hardware & SemiconductorsIntel

Intel Announces Upsize and Pricing of $20 Billion Common Stock Offering

Intel today announced the pricing of its previously announced registered public offering of common stock.Intel priced the underwritten public offering of 210,526,315 shares of common stock at a public offering price of $95 per share. Intel has granted to the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to 31,578,947 add

Software Development & Open SourceRed Hat

Stop preventable outages: Intelligent Windows certificate rotation with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

Today, Windows Server environments power critical internal portals, application programming interfaces (APIs), and web applications. Every one of them depends on security certificates that expire on a schedule your operations team didn’t choose. When renewal slips, services go dark. When rotation happens at the wrong m

Software Development & Open SourceRed Hat

Red Hat on FHIR: Why an informatics nerd joined Red Hat

I just got back from HL7 FHIR DevDays, a developer conference focused on Fast Healthcare Interoperable Resources (FHIR). I was there to talk about AI transparency in health data and using multi-agent AI to suggest useful care plans for patients. I have been part of the HL7 community for 6 years, working to make sharing health data a reality. But I have been a software architect for a lot longer, almost 30 years in the industry. I have never been as excited about the possibility for computers to

Monday, August 10, 2026

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Hardware & SemiconductorsAmazon Web Services

GLM-5.2 FP8, NVIDIA-Nemotron-Nano-12B-v2 and GLM-OCR models now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

Z.ai's GLM-5.2 FP8, NVIDIA's Nemotron-Nano-12B-v2, and Z.ai's GLM-OCR models are now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, expanding the portfolio of foundation models available to AWS customers. These three models bring specialized capabilities spanning long-horizon agentic engineering, efficient hybrid reasoning, and advanced document understanding, enabling customers to deploy high-performance, scalable AI solutions on AWS infrastructure. GLM-5.2 FP8 is optimized for long-horizon tasks and

Software Development & Open SourceGoogle Cloud

Introducing the Developer Device Platform for agentic mobile app development

Most enterprises connect with their customers through a device. Whether it’s using a mobile app to order a product, contact customer service, view content, or manage their account, the customer experience depends on how well an app can run locally on the customer’s device. For this reason, building and testing applicat

Cloud & InfrastructureAmazon Web Services

AWS Marketplace now supports category-based notification subscriptions and multi-channel delivery for buyers

AWS Marketplace buyers can now configure category-based notifications and multi-channel delivery through AWS User Notifications. Previously, buyer email notifications were limited to the AWS account root email with no way to choose which categories you received or route them to different teams. This meant teams responsible for procurement, renewals, or cost management either missed critical notifications or had to rely on email forwarding. With this launch, buyers can choose which notification c

Software Development & Open SourceGitHub

Using the GitHub Copilot SDK for Java

Enterprise Java developers have a new superpower—drive GitHub Copilot from idiomatic Java code with annotations, virtual threads, and more. The post Using the GitHub Copilot SDK for Java appeared first on The GitHub Blog

Caribbean TechnologyCaribbean Telecommunications Union

Grenada to Host Caribbean Internet Governance Forums as Region Shapes Its Digital Future

St. George’s, Grenada – 10th August 2026 – The Caribbean Telecommunications Union (CTU), in collaboration with the Government of Grenada, will host the 22nd Caribbean Internet Governance Forum (CIGF) and the 5th Caribbean Youth Internet Governance Forum (CYIGF), bringing together regional and international stakeholders

Cloud & InfrastructureGoogle Cloud

Google named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: AI Platforms, Q3 2026

At Google Cloud, we help organizations of all sizes build and operationalize complex agentic workflows with total confidence. By combining world-class AI research with an open, fully integrated AI platform, we give customers the flexibility to innovate and the foundation to deliver measurable business value. At the cen

Cloud & InfrastructureAmazon Web Services

AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Heroes Summit, Web Search on Amazon Bedrock, Dogwood, Kiro Crew, and more (August 10, 2026)

Last week, we brought together AWS Heroes from around the world to connect, collaborate, and celebrate the builders who go above and beyond for the AWS community. The AWS Heroes Summit, an invite-only annual gathering, brings global experts specializing in fields like AI, serverless, and containers together for direct collaboration, technical deep-dives, and feedback sessions […]

Hardware & SemiconductorsIntel

Intel Announces Proposed $15 Billion Common Stock Offering

SANTA CLARA, Calif., August 10, 2026 - Intel Corporation (Nasdaq: INTC) today announced a $15 billion underwritten public offering of common stock.Why NowCustomers continue to signal a strong and sustainable demand environment, driven by unprecedented investment in AI compute. Progress in emerging areas including physical AI, purpose-built silicon, advanced packaging and external wafers represent significant … The post Intel Announces Proposed $15 Billion Common Stock Offering appeared first on

Saturday, August 8, 2026

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Caribbean TechnologyBarbados Today

AI in schools ‘should be encouraged with safeguards’

Students should be encouraged to use artificial intelligence in schools, but within clear limits that keep human thinking at the centre, according to Hibiscus Sports and Culture Foundation founder Akealii… The post AI in schools ‘should be encouraged with safeguards’ appeared first on Barbados Today

Cloud & InfrastructureNVIDIA

Firebird Launches CIS Region’s Largest AI Factory in Armenia

The global buildout of AI infrastructure reached a new milestone today — Firebird, an emerging AI cloud, launched the CIS region’s largest AI factory in Armenia, establishing a new AI computing hub powered by NVIDIA accelerated computing and Dell Technologies high-performance AI infrastructure. Nikol Pashinyan, prime minister of the Republic of Armenia; Zhaslan Madiyev, deputy […]