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I write about tech and I take photographs of people. lyndersaydigital.com Trinidad and Tobago Joined September 2007

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macmark @macmark

7 days ago

@minchoi I'd watch that.

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a week ago

When Apple introduced the Macbook Neo with a rejected iPhone chipset, "chip binning" entered the conversation. What is it and why does it matter? technewstt.com/bd1567-what-is…

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Jamaican data protection professional Chukwuemeka Cameron wrote this post for his LinkedIn profile. This assessment of the duelling imperatives is reproduced with his permission. technewstt.com/two-hats-one-b…

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2 weeks ago

A new fake email purporting to be from the Ministry of Finance invites users to click on a link where their personal information will be harvested. technewstt.com/new-mof-based-…

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2 weeks ago

"If every user gave me a dollar, just one dollar a month, that’d be perfectly fine, but that’s not happening." - Lasana Liburd, Wired868 technewstt.com/75m6

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3 weeks ago

Jeehan Miller wrote this assessment of the process from the identification of a data breach onward for her LinkedIn profile. It is reproduced with her permission. technewstt.com/71ff

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3 weeks ago

"It’s necessary to take positive measures to create the conditions for a more broadly healthy, sustainable media ecosystem. Not for supporting hand-picked media houses that the government thinks are conducive to its interests.” technewstt.com/qneh

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4 weeks ago

Media houses have traditionally functioned along the lines of traditional business, generating returns for shareholders, paying dividends, providing profit incentives for top level leadership.That math must be inverted. technewstt.com/jeet

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a month ago

Yes, this is next Monday's column, dropping it early because this deserves consideration. Instructure’s response to the issue was unusually lax, particularly given that they had been targeted by ShinyHunters in 2025. technewstt.com/81gv

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a month ago

Where the rails are pre-built and citizens are pre-enrolled, emergency funds reach affected populations within hours of a disaster declaration, not weeks. There is no version of disaster response in which slower money serves the citizen better. technewstt.com/5k2h

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2 months ago

Digital Identity is one of the foundational layers of Digital Public Infrastructure, alongside payments and data exchange. Payments move value. Data exchange moves information. Identity answers the prior question: who, exactly, is the system dealing with? technewstt.com/j9e5

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2 months ago

Trinidad and Tobago and Grenada specifically lined up cultural assets and entertainments that aligned with the participatory modus operandi of the star of the IShowSpeed show. technewstt.com/3gan

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2 months ago

Digitalisation puts a process online. Transformation changes the process itself. For that to happen, something more fundamental has to be in place underneath. technewstt.com/digital-public…

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2 months ago

The challenge is in how we move on from here, as the slowing train of traditional news production increasingly runs out of track. technewstt.com/bd1560-how-tt-…

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2 months ago

According to the social media sugarflies who carved last week's VerifyTT launch into social posts, it was a glitzy affair. But what was it actually about? If you really want to know, this is what happened. It's important, but it's still version 0.9. technewstt.com/c0b0

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2 months ago

The output of "multimedia" and "online" desks remains largely shovelware, dumped into social feeds in the hope that it will drive attention back to the source. technewstt.com/pdlq

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2 months ago

NPICTT launches new WhatsApp based LLM created exclusively for users in Trinidad and Tobago. technewstt.com/npictt-launche…

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2 months ago

@NicSGreene I saw that tooooo. I have serious forensic questions about what that means in understanding just what happened.

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2 months ago

"“There’s more [criminal] opportunity in joining ransomware groups such as LockBit and Qilin because there’s a lot less work involved." technewstt.com/hbre