Aviation & Customer Tech: Juan Santamaría International Airport renewed its top Level 5 passenger experience accreditation from ACI, one of just 12 airports worldwide, highlighting how service design, training, tech, and coordination are built into operations. Cybersecurity: Costa Rica’s data protection agency Prodhab opened an investigation into alleged massive personal-record exposure on the dark web tied to a credit reporting agency, with both administrative and criminal probes underway. Space & Robotics: Costa Rican NASA robotics engineer Andrés Mora says Central America’s space push should connect engineers with companies and public institutions, with the Central American Space Congress in Guatemala this week. Biodiversity & Field Science: Rangers reported a rare orca encounter near Cocos Island, with only a handful of sightings recorded there over recent decades. Health & Policy Tech: Costa Rica’s Medical Association is backing a platform called UNIDOS to help private doctors reduce CCSS waiting lists by matching patients to available specialists and ensuring follow-up via interoperability. Science Discovery: New genetic work confirmed Bolivia’s Leopardus tilcayo as a new wild cat species, resolving a long-running tiger cat family debate. Tech & Geopolitics: Experts weigh how Xi’s open-source AI proposal at BRICS and Modi’s warnings on “weaponisation of technology” fit into the wider U.S.-China tech competition.