Utility Technology Briefing

Independent briefing covering water utilities, operational technology cybersecurity, GIS, artificial intelligence, and enterprise platforms.

Updated 2026-08-06 19:37 CDT

Cybersecurity

New Orleans will use AI to answer 911 calls instead of a human
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Show HN: Whisper transcribes 70-year-olds more accurately than 20-year-olds
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Meta Ordered to Pay $942M to Address Harm to Kids from Social Media
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Spin audit of SQD/QSCI quantum-chemistry benchmarks on iron–sulfur clusters
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Welcoming the Nepalese Government to Have I Been Pwned
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Show HN: Pokémon Emerald Ported to Raspberry Pi Pico 2
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Inside vLLM: Anatomy of a High-Throughput LLM Inference System (2025)
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Bioengineered chewing gum may offer a way to fight HPV and other microbes
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Civilians under siege by Mexican cartel fight back with AK-47s, grenades
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Astronomers capture highest-resolution image ever of the Sun's surface
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AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon
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State-oriented consistency: Why we stopped looking for one right answer
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Quake – 30th Anniversary Update
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xAI, SpaceX, and the Race for AI Buildout
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Japanese Govt Asks US Govt to Stop Using Mario, Pokemono, Naruto Meme Postings
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Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open
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Can you reverse engineer an ASIC?
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Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index
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Unions Can Save Tech Workers and Tech Work
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My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off”
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