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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Puerto Rico’s power struggles On the southeastern coast of Puerto Rico lies the country’s only coal-fired power station, flanked by a mountain of toxic ash. The plant, owned by the utility giant AES,…

At first glance, it seems as if life teems around Carmen Suárez Vázquez’s little teal-painted house in the municipality of Guayama, on Puerto Rico’s southeastern coast. The edge of the Aguirre State Forest, home to manatees, reptiles, as many as 184 species of birds, and at least three types of mangrove trees, is just a…

Last fall, while attending a board meeting in Amsterdam, I had a few free hours and made an impromptu visit to the Van Gogh Museum. I often steal time for visits like this—a perk of global business travel for which I am grateful. Wandering the galleries, I found myself before The Courtesan (after Eisen), painted…

Back in February, I flew to Amsterdam to report on a high-stakes experiment the city had recently conducted: a pilot program for what it called Smart Check, which was its attempt to create an effective, fair, and unbiased predictive algorithm to try to detect welfare fraud. But the city fell short of its lofty goals—and,…

Amazon Web Services is committing AU$20 billion (US$13.3 billion) over five years to expand its Australian data centre operations, responding to surging enterprise demand for AI capabilities that existing infrastructure cannot adequately support. The AWS Australia data centre investment represents the largest technology infrastructure commitment in the country’s history, driven by practical business needs rather The post AWS commits US$13b to Australia data centres appeared first on Cloud Computing News.

The race to build ever larger AI models is slowing down. The industry’s focus is shifting toward agents—systems that can act autonomously, make decisions, and negotiate on users’ behalf. But what would happen if both a customer and a seller were using an AI agent? A recent study put agent-to-agent negotiations to the test and…

Bridging the gap between DevOps and business logic means product and application owners should map out business outcomes and then embed them in DevOps pipelines.

DevOps without security is just speed with risk. Now is the time to shift left, automate smart and build security into everything. 

The shooter allegedly researched several “people search” sites in an attempt to target his victims, highlighting the potential dangers of widely available personal data.

Keeping visibility into your home lab over self-hosted services is a critical task. Let’s look at a new home lab dashboard called CoreControl that provides a free open-source dashboard that is a great solution in the home lab. What is CoreControl? First, what is CoreControl? It is a self-hosted system monitoring dashboard that gives you … The post CoreControl Is the New Self-Hosted Dashboard Built for Home Labs appeared first on Virtualization Howto.

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How AI can help make cities work better In recent decades, cities have become increasingly adept at amassing all sorts of data. But that data can have limited impact when government officials are…

In recent decades, cities have become increasingly adept at amassing all sorts of data. But that data can have limited impact when government officials are unable to communicate, let alone analyze or put to use, all the information they have access to. This dynamic has always bothered Sarah Williams, a professor of urban planning and…

The White House has undertaken initiatives to crack down on immigration, suppress speech, and curtail US public health efforts. These online tools are tracking the rapidly changing US landscape.

Customs and Border Protection has broad authority to search travelers’ devices when they cross into the United States. Here’s what you can do to protect your digital life while at the US border.

Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions and jail his enemies. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine. Here are some steps you can take to evade it.