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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. https://technewstt.com/new-mof-based-phishing-scheme-in-play/

"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 https://technewstt.com/75m6

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. While the profile of laws in the region is still fractured, the clarity of her guidance should be of value to any C-Suite executive with responsibility for data protection. https://technewstt.com/71ff

"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, but for supporting plural and decentralised but sustainable media systems.” https://technewstt.com/qneh

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. https://technewstt.com/jeet

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 when their SalesForce service was attacked. https://technewstt.com/81gv

Creating Large Language Models (LLMs) that are relevant and culturally appropriate to the Caribbean is part of the solution, but systems that deliver output that is useful to users is also critical. https://technewstt.com/zw36

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. https://technewstt.com/5k2h

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? https://technewstt.com/j9e5

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. https://technewstt.com/3gan

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

The challenge is in how we move on from here, as the slowing train of traditional news production increasingly runs out of track. https://technewstt.com/bd1560-how-tt-journalists-can-turn-modern-media-realities-to-advantage/

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. https://technewstt.com/c0b0

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. https://technewstt.com/pdlq

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