Utility Technology Briefing

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

Updated 2026-08-14 11:06 CDT

Cybersecurity

France blocks social media ban because it would require adults to prove age
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RayforceDB – a pure C analytics database with a Lisp-like syntax
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Show HN: Online SNMP MIB database - upload/view your own MIBs
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"Solving a largely imaginary user goal"
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Google Is Making Private AI Practical with Homomorphic Encryption
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Show HN: Graft – Claude Code hooks that cut grep tokens by 42%
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Introducing Toast 1
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Unsloth Qwen3.8-27B GGUF files
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Seven books I keep close because I love them
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Self-hosted web push Cloudflare Worker, works on iOS
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Earth.nullschool.net
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Qwen3.8-27B
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Qwen 3.8 27B is out: open weights, best local dense model yet
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When Genius Fails: The Intellectual Arrogance of the AI Labs
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Every Fucking Website (2020)
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AI Model Atlas – visualizing populations of ML models as interconnected 3D graph
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I turned my RSS feeds into an e-ink newspaper to stop reading on my phone
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Show HN: APIMart: Discounted AI API Aggregator for GPT-5, Sora 2
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In Australia, a Home Battery Boom Has Helped Cut Wholesale Power Prices in Half
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HashAgent – Share an AI agent as a URL, runs locally via WebGPU
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