Utility Technology Briefing

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

Updated 2026-08-18 10:24 CDT

AI

Partnering with CodeAI to prepare the first AI generation
OpenAI News
Introducing ChatGPT for Teens: Built for learning, backed by protections
OpenAI News

Cybersecurity

One Oakland police officer made $490k in overtime
Hacker News
Code-native generation of highly programmable 3D assets (2026)
Hacker News
JPEG XL converter and .jxl viewer
Hacker News
An Engineer's Old Cooking Trick Is Going Viral, Divides the Internet
Hacker News
Babies born under sugar rationing grew into adults with lower cancer risk
Hacker News
Python Polars Cheatsheet (based on our O'Reilly book)
Hacker News
NeoBrowser: An MCP server that drives real Chrome with your logged-in sessions
Hacker News
The Amazon Tax
Hacker News
Fixing a Bricked Framework Laptop
Hacker News
Show HN: I canceled my AI code reviewer and wrote a free local one
Hacker News
Composable Tests
Hacker News
Show HN: A local MitM proxy to control TLS fingerprints
Hacker News
Deus Ex creator Warren Spector is retiring from game development
Hacker News
Fairphone is now officially available in the United States
Hacker News
Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner
Hacker News
Meta Files Patent for Facial Recognition, Automatic Recording of People
Hacker News
Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows
Hacker News
As Wisconsin cities flee Flock, its shared camera network loses value
Hacker News