Every second Tuesday of the month, many software vendors release various security updates and patches for their software. On Tuesday July 14, 2026, Microsoft released patches to address 570 vulnerabilities for Microsoft Windows and other Microsoft software, many of them rated critical. Microsoft attributed the large number of patches from this month and in the near future due to its use of AI to scan and detect vulnerabilities. Micorosoft also notes that attackers are also using AI to take advantage of vulnerabilities that aren’t patched.
The phishing site which copies the look and feel of the website including Trinidad and Tobago Government logos attempts to trick you into believing that you have a tax refund and asks you for your credit card, login and other personal details.
Read the
Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) Facebook post at https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1Chb8rkTpY/ (unfortunately the TTPS website at https://www.ttps.gov.tt/ is under maintenance for some time so up to date information from the TTPS goes to their socials only) and the
“The AI-driven growth in the data center has led to a surge in demand for memory and storage. Micron has made the difficult decision to exit the Crucial consumer business in order to improve supply and support for our larger, strategic customers in faster-growing segments,” said Sumit Sadana, EVP and Chief Business Officer at Micron Technology. “Thanks to a passionate community of consumers, the Crucial brand has become synonymous with technical leadership, quality and reliability of leading-edge memory and storage products. We would like to thank our millions of customers, hundreds of partners and all of the Micron team members who have supported the Crucial journey for the last 29 years.”
This is unfortunate, given that pricing of memory has surged in 2025 due to the demand of Artificial Intelligence (AI) data centers. According to Ars Technica :
“The fault lies squarely at the feet of AI mania in the tech industry. The construction of new AI infrastructure has created unprecedented demand for high-bandwidth memory (HBM), the specialized DRAM used in AI accelerators from Nvidia and AMD. Memory manufacturers have been reallocating production capacity away from consumer products toward these more profitable enterprise components, and Micron has presold its entire HBM output through 2026.”
“At the moment, the structural imbalance between AI demand and consumer supply shows no signs of easing. OpenAI’s Stargate project has reportedly signed agreements for up to 900,000 wafers of DRAM per month, which could account for nearly 40 percent of global production.”
Deep Sigh. Lot of memories (no pun intended) using Crucial memory and SSDs over the years.
As Crucial’s history page notes , Crucial began selling memory directly to consumers in 1996 and started selling SSDs in 2008 and its website over time offered a extensive memory selector to guide consumers on whether its memory modules was compatible with your desktop or laptop.
Nearly a month after Amazon Web Services went down, Cloudflare, which offers a Content Delivery Network (CDN) to caching content from web servers so such content can load quickly to users globally and DNS hosting services among other things, also experiences a disruption to its service on November 18 2025. Cloudflare’s disruption resulted in several websites and services such as X (formerly Twitter), ChatGPT, Uber, Canva and not being accessible for a few hours.
The disruption to Cloudflare was not due to an external attack but due to a misconfiguration to a database resulting in a larger file generated which disrupted traffic being delivered on Cloudflare’s network.
Cloudflare has posted a detailed blog post on what went wrong less than 24 hours after the incident.
The hosting of TTCS’s website at https://ttcs.tt is done using Amazon Lightsail which is a Virtual private server, meaning it’s like a virtual machine which you have full control (and therefore maintenance!) of the operating system, web server, database server, runtime environment, the Content Management System and the content to go with the website.
One of the things to be done was the update of the hosting server as it was based on the previous Ubuntu LTS release which ended support in April 2025, running the AMP stack (Apache web server, MySQL database and PHP ). We used WordPress as the Content Management System and the (now previous) TTCS website was using the Koji Theme
which shows blog posts in a card based UI which I liked.
This Koji theme was developed in 2017-2018. Since then WordPress itself has undergone changes internally which a switch from the classic editor which was used to create WordPress content and themes to the Gutenberg Block Editor allowing users to build and design websites using modular blocks for text, images and other content.
So the server content was backed up, and a new server was setup to host the TTCS website at https://www.ttcs.tt and the TTCS OSSWIN online site at https://ttcsosswin.ttcs.tt . The server will also be hosting other websites (more on this at a later time)
After content was imported, I took the default WordPress theme Twenty Twenty Five and tried to come up with a card based UI similar to the Koji theme and to learn more about the Gutenberg editor.
Donate to TTCS – (https://www.ttcs.tt/donate/) – we need funds for the computer refurbishment project, there are many requests and many computers to be refurbished.
The new Ministry of Public Administration and Artificial Intelligence which looks to be a merger of the previous administration’s Ministry of Public Administration and Ministry of Digital Transformation
Updates on the TTCS Computer Refurbishment Project
and more! Registration is FREE ! Questions? Email info@ttcs.tt
The 9th annual Trinidad and Tobago Internet Governance Forum (TTIGF) 2025 will take place on Thursday January 30 2025 from 9am to 1:30pm and on Friday January 31 2025 from 9am to 12noon and from 1pm to 4:30pm. TTIGF 2025 will be a hybrid event combining in person and virtual participation with a mix of presentations and panel sessions, including a youth forum.
The theme of TTIGF 2025 is “Building Our Multistakeholder Digital Future” and the two day TTIGF 2025 agenda features sessions and presentations on the following topics :
Day 1 – Thursday January 30 2025
Cybersecurity in Trinidad and Tobago
Artificial Intelligence in Education: Navigating the Future
Open Forum
Day 2 – Friday January 31 2025
Youth Session : Bullying in the Cyber Age
Digital Transformation and Financial Inclusion
Using AI for Disaster Resilience in Trinidad and Tobago
Accelerating the involvement of Caribbean ccTLDs (country code Top Level Domains) within the global ccTLD community
Diversity in the Caribbean and Latin American Region
Building a Stronger Regional Community
Future Collaboration and Next Steps
Visit the TTIGF website at https://igf.tt to read more about the topics and agenda schedule. You MUST register to attend to get the remote participation link and is FREE!
During this meeting, we’ll discuss several important topics, including:
TTBS Draft Voluntary National Standards: An overview of the proposed standards related to Information Security, Cybersecurity, and Privacy Protection, currently open for public comment.
TATT’s Framework on Net Neutrality: A discussion on the recently published “Framework on Net Neutrality in Trinidad and Tobago” and its implications.
