Mark Lyndersay

Technology columnist for 31 years, editor of TechNewsTT, reporting on technology news from and relevant to Trinidad and Tobago. I also photograph people.

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"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.”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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Estonia did something revolutionary. It wrote into law a principle called once-only. No government agency may ever ask a citizen for a piece of information the state already has.
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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.
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Digitalisation puts a process online. Transformation changes the process itself.
For that to happen, something more fundamental has to be in place underneath.
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The challenge is in how we move on from here, as the slowing train of traditional news production increasingly runs out of track.
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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.
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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.
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NPICTT launches new WhatsApp based LLM created exclusively for users in Trinidad and Tobago. https://t.co/uFjrlJrTfG

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"“There’s more [criminal] opportunity in joining ransomware groups such as LockBit and Qilin because there’s a lot less work involved." https://t.co/HoeX547e7w

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TSTT's response to concerns about its payment systems have been added to an update to this column...
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Swedish Death Cleaning is partly a pre-will allocation and a bit of Marie Kondo style space reorganising blended vigorously with rigorous decluttering.
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It isn’t clear how a bank’s logo is a defence against digital forgery, since anyone capable of mocking up a fake digital receipt can certainly toss a bank’s logo into that mix.
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Senders are getting smarter about using generalised information about individuals and regions to craft emails that are more effective in targeting the unsuspecting.
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Feeling in control and being in control are two very different things. Here's what's actually happening behind the scenes when you take the DIY route to data protection.
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There are compromises, as you might expect. This is the first Apple laptop to be built around a chip designed for use in an iPhone.
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The government will not only be collecting personally identifiable information (PII) on its citizens, it will be harvesting PII from the citizens of countries visiting Trinidad and Tobago. https://t.co/mzY2JVQG8w