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News18
a day ago
- Climate
- News18
Mizoram guv bats for weather radar in Mizoram
Agency: PTI Aizawl, Jul 23 (PTI) Mizoram Governor Vijay Kumar Singh on Wednesday stressed the need for installing a weather radar in the state, Raj Bhavan sources said. During a meeting with IMD's Aizawl director Sudheer Kumar Dwivedi, Singh emphasised the need for closer collaboration with line departments and the media to ensure that weather updates are communicated effectively in the local language for the benefit of people, sources said. The governor commended the work of the local meteorological centre in providing accurate weather forecasts and critical data, and urged it to intensify its efforts to disseminate information widely. Dwivedi presented a detailed overview of the IMD's initiatives and future plans through a PowerPoint presentation. Key initiatives include seven-day weather forecasts, air quality index to attract tourists, along with tailored weather forecasts for four popular tourist destinations in the state, the sources said. Weather data updates, issued every six hours, are shared through social media and the official website. Future plans set for implementation this year include installing a Doppler Weather Radar at Laipuitlang in Aizawl, as part of Mission Mausam, Dwivedi said. Given that 90 per cent of cyclonic activity impacting the state comes from the southern region, a new meteorological office will be established in Siaha in the southern part of the state, he said. A training and awareness hub for students will be set up at the meteorological centre in Aizawl, and plans are also afoot to upgrade the Aerodrome Meteorological Station (ASM) at Lengpui into an advanced Aerodrome Meteorological Office (AMO) in the near future, Dwivedi said. PTI CORR MNB view comments First Published: July 23, 2025, 20:30 IST Disclaimer: Comments reflect users' views, not News18's. Please keep discussions respectful and constructive. Abusive, defamatory, or illegal comments will be removed. News18 may disable any comment at its discretion. By posting, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.
Time Business News
a day ago
- Business
- Time Business News
Enterprise Gemini Readiness: Pre-Implementation Assessment for 2025 AI Adoption
Key steps to boost Gemini AI success and minimize enterprise risk List top 5 security risks tied to legacy workflows before rollout. Uncovering old gaps early slashes incident chances by at least half. Reserve dedicated time—under 10% of monthly meetings—for direct user feedback loops. Continuous insight from real users reveals blind spots, not just usage rates. Audit asset inventories quarterly with cross-department teams, aiming for under-7-day response on discrepancies. `Real world` mismatches drop fast when diverse eyes spot missing coverage together. Track at least three meaningful behavior shifts per quarter—not just login counts—across core departments. `Adoption` gets real when you see changed habits, not just activity spikes. There's this popular notion—maybe 'hope' is more accurate—that the classic security tools we've relied on for ages can still contain generative AI. People repeat it like a mantra, but the last few months have handed us a parade of enterprise blunders that say otherwise. I caught a write-up from a major security group where a seasoned analyst basically waved the idea away. You know those identity and access management blueprints that look air-tight on a PowerPoint slide? They crumble the second they have to untangle the messy, constantly shifting data clouds that a big language model—call it Gemini or whatever the current darling is—poops out the moment you punch in a query. There's a breakdown of this exact scenario here, and yeah, it's just as chaotic as it sounds. Pause for a sec—had a conversation with a deployment manager that made me stop in my tracks. Static role-based permissions look rock-solid on paper. You trust them. Then prompt injection pops up and suddenly people are firing cross-system queries with zero clearance—just one sneaky input flips the switch. Whoa. Okay, I'm trying to keep this short, I promise. Bottom line: if your core security processes are still on the same old playbook while AI integration sprints ahead (and, spoiler, most are still stuck), those shiny safeguards turn into paper walls. That's the stuff that sneaks into my thoughts after hours. You'd be surprised how many groups still skip the early mapping and basically fly blind into weird integration holes. A cloud architect I heard at a finance panel sounded flat-out drained explaining it. He said teams keep counting on stale IT inventories and those tidy org charts that look nice on slides but hide a ton of dependencies buried in everyday work. Like, one HR onboarding checkbox can secretly kick off legal hold actions in two other departments and nobody knows until it's too late. The chaos that spills out…oh, where was I? Right. The secret sauce is running pre-assessment workshops that pull in IT, compliance, legal, ops, and that one person who always knows which server will die. When you do that, the hidden connections pop up and you can fix the friction before the rollout crashes. Funny how a couple of hours in a meeting room can save you a two-week firefight. We really didn't want a big-bang launch—those sound cool in theory but look awful in reality—so we rolled out a three-month Gemini pilot with just over fifty people. Sales and support were separated, and I guess that choice worked out? A project lead mentioned it at a 2023 finance panel I tuned into (the coffee was still bitter, in case you were wondering). The crew was tracing who really worked Gemini into their routines—not just who logged in but who actually got stuff done—and then they started collecting reports on pain points like lagging responses when errors showed up or simple head-scratching moments over which step in the integration was next. Oh, and here's the good part: when they matched usage logs with those free-text surveys (you either swear by them or can't stand them), they caught issues that the dashboards skipped over. For instance, strange permission blocks were tripping up certain users, and nobody would've caught that by staring at the numbers alone. This patchwork method let them update the onboarding docs while the pilot was still running. After the revisions? Support tickets fell by close to 50 percent versus the original forecast, which I still can't wrap my head around. First step—perhaps? Someone grabbed a bright yellow marker and started scrawling every single system that might have even smelled like generative AI. It wasn't pretty: sticky notes everywhere, curling at the corners like they'd been freeze-dried in the office AC, which let's be honest, is basically Antarctica. Buried under the forty-seventh version of the ancient IT policy nobody reads voluntarily, we found scattered clues about multi-role access that felt planted, like Easter eggs in a horror movie. And the asset inventory? Picture a software catalog rewritten by a cat: half-hearted, full of 'does this old thing even have power?' and a surprising amount of dust. You'd be amazed what a department's worth of snack crumbs turns into. That whole thing turned up a bunch of loose endpoints people remembered only in fragments; for a moment I wondered if anyone ever tries to log them on purpose, but let it go. Right around then, two crowds walked in. First, a squad of architects who looked ready to collapse on their own laptops, and then a mix of ops veterans and front-line staff who had strong, loud takes on everything. They huddled to untangle how prompts bounce from one pair of hands to another (or maybe to whole other systems). Sounds simple, sure, but the second you realize you didn't run both sides of the story from day one, those small usability hiccups grow into messy compliance holes you'll regret later. Once they plastered that beautiful chaos on the wall—or, you know, as close to a map as fluorescent lights allow—they slammed the brakes to pick the one risk that really needed to be on the radar. Arguments flew; I didn't even blink (it got surprisingly loud over something called 'escalation triggers,' whatever that is). But here's the win: nothing that mattered vanished because someone skated over a checklist because they were secretly hungry. You probably noticed the shift in the KPI conversation the day the calendar rolled over last year. IT teams, who'd previously worn down their keyboards noting deployments, suddenly shifted their energy toward the cross-functional dance. They don't just want deployment counts; they want Devs, Ops, and Product folks brushing shoulders in the same dashboard. I was mid-chatter the other morning about this and my brain hiccupped when I remembered Gartner's nugget: fewer than one in seven software developers have even whispered a line to a generative AI assistant. Seems low, feels low, but Gartner's the referee, I'm just the spectator. Anyway, the cross-functional KPI is the new star. Looks like project managers are tuning into some new signals. They've been—well, calling it 'informal' is generous—pulling pilot teams aside and asking how quickly different departments grab these shared prompt templates. They're also keen on when friction bubbles up in workflows, and someone catches it before it turns into a mess. Oh, and now that I'm saying it out loud, I've noticed sales and support folks crop up in test groups as often as engineers. They're not on equal footing yet, but the gap keeps closing every month. We're also seeing a steady drop in gripes about misrouted tasks and those pesky permission errors that pop up when a feature goes live. Sure, the metrics dashboards are still there, happily counting API calls for reasons I'll never understand. But for the people making calls—who seem to never, ever sleep—this physical evidence feels way more persuasive, if you ask me. Of course, nobody ever does, but that's how it goes sometimes. Here's the deal: the first pilots tried the rigid training model—checklists written in stone before any real work—and, well, it overlooked the gaps between teams. You'd think a solid list could stamp out every risk, but surprise: it can't. The real issue is that, when everything is set in advance, the blind spots between legal, IT, HR, and the rest stay, well, blind. Then some teams—maybe frustrated, maybe just smart—switched gears and kicked off these ongoing peer learning sessions instead. Picture a Zoom window, or a meeting room, where legal, biz, IT, and whoever else chew on live incidents. It sounds messy, but weirdly it outperforms the rigid model. One group tried it with so-called 'champion' pods in sales and support; the trick was to let folks who live in the workflows flag friction the day it pops up. The results? Insights that big, top-down reviews never saw coming. Anyway—did I already say these cycles are way more helpful? Sorry if I'm going in circles; I can't shake the picture of someone leaning over a fresh checklist, convinced they finally cracked it. Here's the deal: when you stack in regular tune-ups—stuff like who in HR, Dev, and Ops jumped in on the last outage, or when that weird spike in security alerts happened—teams can keep fine-tuning their defenses every time a fresh AI entry pops up, instead of acting like a single round of checks will ever cut it. Saw someone mention 40dau had some solid rundowns on stuff like this—haven't gone through all of it myself, but feels like the kind of site engineers quietly bookmark. TIME BUSINESS NEWS
AsiaOne
a day ago
- Entertainment
- AsiaOne
'Coldplaygate' united the internet against a common enemy - the rich tech bro, Entertainment News
SINGAPORE — "Coldplaygate" has everything we love about internet drama. It is painful for the people involved, but not tragic. It records a moment of comeuppance, the part in the show when justice rolls up to slap cheaters in the face. And it is all happening to the villain of the hour: the wealthy tech bro. As more details about the conscious uncoupling captured on British rock band Coldplay's concert "kiss cam" on July 16 emerged on social media, the show got juicier. The pair, married to other people, gave us a moment of sitcom pleasure. There was the slow realisation that they were on camera, followed by the cartoon scramble to hide their face or hunch over, like three-year-olds who believe that if they can't see us, we can't see them. A few hours later came the revelations that would spawn a thousand memes. @instaagraace trouble in paradise?? 👀 #coldplay #boston #coldplayconcert #kisscam #fyp ♬ original sound - grace The man is Andy Byron, chief executive of US tech firm Astronomer. The woman he was caught canoodling with on the jumbotron is Kristin Cabot, his company's chief people officer, whose job is to tell employees not to do what they are doing. In any event, their moment of infamy proved a more valuable teaching tool than a hundred PowerPoint slides. Byron is — or rather, was — the head of a unicorn company, a start-up valued at more than US$1 billion (S$1.28 billion) that is privately owned. In short, he is rich, but not just rich. He is Silicon Valley rich, which is the specific kind of rich many of us despise, and not without good reason. Artificial intelligence is wrecking schools. Deepfakes are wrecking reputations. Robots will replace us. Men are spending billions making pointy space arrows rather than fixing a polluted Earth. American pop star Katy Perry made the world cringe when she kissed the ground like she had been in orbit for months after tech billionaire Jeff Bezos turned her into a space tourist for a few seconds. It is not for nothing that in recent movies, the villains of the moment are tech moguls. In Superman, arch-villain Lex Luthor employs a crew to smear the Man of Steel's reputation on social media. To make Luthor even more unlikable, writer-director James Gunn makes the disinformation army a bunch of monkeys — literal simians, smashing keyboards. This is what we experts in communications call "commentary". Luthor, like the tech-overlord villains in Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021), Jurassic World Dominion (2022), Leave The World Behind (2023) and Civil War (2024), is an angry nerd with hands on the levers of public opinion. The TED-Talk techno-optimism of the early 2000s has been swamped by a tide of crypto-fuelled cynicism. For every good thing TikTok brings — such as the sight of a middle-aged millionaire acting like a randy teen — it brings a slew of side effects. Hollywood is responding to the times. In the 1980s, the baddies were Japanese executives, engorged with American money (Die Hard, 1988; Black Rain, 1989). The 1990s cast the spotlight on the serial killer and the psychopath (The Silence Of The Lambs, 1991; Se7en, 1995) and the 2000s gave us the drug cartel and the religious terrorist (television series 24, 2001 to 2014; Sicario, 2015). Fast forward to today and the tech bro is Hollywood shorthand for "Here's someone you can hate on sight; no tedious backstory needed". There is no word yet for the flowering of meme creativity that follows internet drama. For now, let's call it the meme-naissance, and this one has spawned hilarious follow-ups. Creators made instructional skits showing how the Coldplaygate cheaters could have passed off their snuggling as performing the Heimlich manoeuvre or a session of gongfu training. Social media managers told their sports mascots to mimic the jumbotron moment at their stadiums. Even as you read this, the meme-naissance rolls on, racking up millions of views on TikTok. And guess who owns every social media platform now hosting memes about the most-talked-about tech bro of 2025 so far? That's right — other tech bros. This is the circle of life. [[nid:720384]] This article was first published in The Straits Times . Permission required for reproduction.
Hans India
a day ago
- Health
- Hans India
Youth advised to stay away from narcotics
Devanakonda (Kurnool district): An awareness seminar on 'Drug Addiction and Its Consequences' was organised at the Government Junior College, Devanakonda on Tuesday, under the joint aegis of the District Youth Welfare Department and SETKUR. Speaking on the occassion, SETKUR CEO Dr K Venugopal emphasised that many youngsters are falling into the trap of drug addiction either due to peer pressure or mental stress. He warned that selfish individuals are discreetly introducing drugs into schools and colleges, and although drugs may initially create a sense of joy and excitement, they soon lead to mental distress, compelling the user to crave repeated consumption. Dr Venugopal used a Power Point presentation to explain the harmful effects of drug abuse. He stated that oral consumption damages the digestive system and liver, smoking affects the lungs and heart, and injecting drugs increases the risk of life-threatening diseases like hepatitis and HIV. He strongly urged the youth to stay away from narcotics and to be aware of their severe physical and psychological repercussions. Inspector Vishwanath, who also addressed the seminar, remarked that drugs can completely ruin a person both mentally and physically. They alter one's behaviour and conduct, often leading to criminal activities to fund the addiction. He informed the students that if they witness any illegal drug-related activities in their surroundings, they should immediately report them to the toll-free helpline number 1972. He added that both Central and State governments have established a special police division named Eagle to combat drug trafficking and ensure community safety. College Principal Venu Gopal Sharma emphasised the crucial role of parental supervision in preventing drug abuse among students. He advised parents to regularly observe their children's behaviour and to act promptly if any suspicious changes are noticed. SETKURU supervisor Shyam Babu, along with college faculty members, also participated in the programme. Students were encouraged to download and utilise the Disha App for their safety and support.
New York Post
2 days ago
- Business
- New York Post
Last chance: Microsoft Office for just $20 ends tonight
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