Caribbean TechnologyJamaica Observer
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 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 .
End-User Computing & Collaboration9to5Mac
New references in the latest WhatsApp beta for iOS suggest users may soon be able to replace the app’s standard set of emoji reactions with their own selection. Here are the details
Cloud & InfrastructureSlashdot
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: After its cloud storage provider went defunct, a PBS affiliate decided to sue a data center provider to regain access to 50TB of TV shows, videos, and other data dating back 70 years. As reported this week by Current, a trade newspaper covering public broadcasting,
Hardware & SemiconductorsSlashdot
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
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
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 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
CybersecurityBleepingComputer
Four cybercriminals were arrested in Brazil, and three others were charged in Europe over allegations that they exploited a vulnerability at a service provider, allowing them to withdraw funds from Commerzbank customers' bank accounts
Technology Business & PolicySlashdot
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
CybersecurityGovernment Technology
“Business as usual” will not suffice when it comes to cybersecurity in the wide new world of frontier AI models like Anthropic’s Claude Mythos. Here's how state and local governments can prepare
End-User Computing & CollaborationWindows
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
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
Hardware & SemiconductorsThe Register
Kyiv wants tighter controls to keep foreign silicon out of Moscow's weapons
Cloud & InfrastructureGoogle 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
Software Development & Open SourceGitHub
See how four GitHub agent apps can help you scope, secure, roll out, and ship a feature across the SDLC–all without leaving GitHub. The post How to bring your software delivery workflow into GitHub with agent apps appeared first on The GitHub Blog
CybersecuritySentinelOne
Courts sentence Com member for sextorting 117 minors, joint advisory warns of Gunra ransomware, and ShieldBreak bypasses MS Defender for SYSTEM access
Cloud & InfrastructureAmazon Web Services
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
End-User Computing & CollaborationBleepingComputer
The Netherlands' National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is warning that hackers are actively exploiting a macOS authentication bypass vulnerability after public exploit code emerged
Cloud & InfrastructureInfoQ
Cloudflare has migrated cdnjs, its open source CDN for JavaScript and CSS libraries, to its Developer Platform. The new architecture uses Workers, R2, KV, Workflows, Queues, Durable Objects and Containers, consolidating publishing and delivery infrastructure while preserving package contents, URLs and SRI hashes at a s
CybersecurityBiometric Update
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
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
End-User Computing & CollaborationThe Verge
As The Verge's resident handheld reviewer, I have nearly every portable gaming PC on a shelf in my house. The MSI Claw 8 EX AI Plus is now the first one I reach for. Thanks to a next-gen Intel chip and improved MSI design, the Claw EX is the most powerful handheld that truly feels […]
CybersecurityBiometric Update
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
Technology Business & PolicyTechRepublic
See what you missed in Daily Tech Insider from August 10–14. The post AI Scale, Security Crises, and Robot Ambitions Define This Week in Tech appeared first on TechRepublic .
Hardware & SemiconductorsDell Technologies
When networks can't go down, the hardware has to hold up. Three new PowerEdge servers just proved they can
Enterprise ApplicationsBleepingComputer
A maximum-severity SAP Commerce Cloud remote code execution vulnerability patched three days ago is already being targeted in attacks, according to threat intelligence company Defused
IT Leadership & WorkforceCIO
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
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
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 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 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
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
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
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
A CIO client of mine drove himself to the emergency room recently, convinced he was having a heart attack. After many hours of testing, the doctor diagnosed him with a panic attack. IT executives are burning out at alarming rates. Foundry’s 2025 State of the CIO research found that 15% of IT leaders describe themselves
IT Leadership & WorkforceCIO
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
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 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 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
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
IT Operations & AutomationInforma TechTarget SearchERP
Uniphar taps Diagrid Catalyst for orchestration, observability TechTarget
Cloud & InfrastructureRed Hat
Imagine finding out your core platform contract is ending, leaving you with a multi million-dollar liability—and just 10 months to move 1,500 critical workloads. That was the reality for the engineering team at State Farm.While they had previously used Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) and VMware vSphere, the underlying plat
Software Development & Open SourceRed Hat
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
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