The last vehicle will roll off the assembly line at Volkswagen’s plant in Dresden, Germany, on Tuesday, marking the first time in the automaker’s 88-year history that it has closed a plant in its home country. Volkswagen warned of potential production cuts last year, as it faced shaky demand in Read more…
A millisecond used to be a big deal for the world’s quickest traders. A dispute over huge trading profits at one of the world’s largest futures exchanges shows they now think a million times faster [non-paywalled source]. The controversy is about an arcane technical maneuver in which high-speed traders bombard Read more…
The Trump administration announced Monday the United States Tech Force, a new program to recruit around 1,000 technologists for two-year government stints starting as soon as March — less than a year after dismantling several federal technology teams and driving thousands of tech workers out of their jobs. The program Read more…
For decades, Parkinson’s disease research has overwhelmingly focused on genetics — more than half of all research dollars in the past two decades flowed toward genomic studies — but a growing body of evidence now points to something far more mundane as a primary culprit: contaminated drinking water. A landmark Read more…
A critical React vulnerability (CVE-2025-55182) is being actively exploited at scale by Chinese, Iranian, North Korean, and criminal groups to gain remote code execution, deploy backdoors, and mine crypto. React maintainers disclosed the critical bug on December 3, and exploitation began almost immediately. According to Amazon’s threat intel team, Chinese Read more…
Time magazine used its 98th annual “Person of the Year” cover to “recognize a force that has dominated the year’s headlines, for better or for worse. For delivering the age of thinking machines, for wowing and worrying humanity, for transforming the present and transcending the possible, the Architects of AI Read more…
AI has gutted entry-level roles in the tech industry. One student at a high-ranking engineering college in India tells them that among his 400 classmates, “fewer than 25% have secured job offers… there’s a sense of panic on the campus.” Students at engineering colleges in India, China, Dubai, and Kenya Read more…