Volkswagen To End Production At German Plant, a First In Company History An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: 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 Europe and China, its biggest market, as well as higher tariffs that have crimped sales in the United States. After 24 years of vehicle produc… Texas Sues TV Makers For Taking Screenshots of What People Watch mprindle writes: The Texas Attorney General sued five major television manufacturers, accusing them of illegally collecting their users' data by secretly recording what they watch using Automated Content Recognition (ACR) technology. The lawsuits target Sony, Samsung, LG, and China-based companies Hisense and TCL Technology Group Corporation. Attorney General Ken Paxton's office also highlighted "serious concerns" about the two Chinese companies being required to follow China's National Securit… Apple Fitness+ expands to 28 new markets Apple today announced Apple Fitness+, the award-winning fitness and wellness service, is expanding to 28 new markets. Pornhub hacked: View and search history for Premium members could leak Are you a Pornhub Premium member? You may want to pay closer attention to a notification about a data leak described as a “limited set of analytics events.” That language hides the real story: Your watch and search history could now lie in the hands of hackers, and whether or not it goes public depends on if Pornhub pays the ransom being demanded. As reported by BleepingComputer , Pornhub says th… Cadillac Will Use The 2026 Super Bowl To Make Some Big Reveals Cadillac has announced that it'll be revealing a huge part of its 2026 motorsport program at the 2026 Super Bowl. Here's what it has in store. Why celebrities are loving crypto again in Trump’s second term From athletes such as Tristan Thompson to artists such as Iggy Azalea, celebrities have returned to hawking crypto Following the numbers suggests Tristan Thompson is nearing the end of his basketball career. While the 6ft 9in center once regularly played more than 80 games in a regular season, he’s hit new career lows, appearing just 40 times on court during the 2024-2025 season. Following the mo… OpenAI announces upgrades for ChatGPT Images with '4x faster generation speed' OpenAI announced upgrades for its ChatGPT Images platform on Tuesday, saying the program can now make more precise edits and produce images more quickly. EY’s Joe Depa on reckoning with AI or risk falling behind The global chief innovation officer for the professional services firm lays out how his organization adapts with AI and the peril that AI laggards face. Accessible UX Research, eBook Now Available For Download eBook versions of “Accessible UX Research,” a new Smashing Book by Michele A. Williams, are now available for download! Which means soon the book will go to the printer. Order the eBook for instant download now or reserve your print copy at the presale price. U.S. Threatens Penalties Against European Tech Firms Amid Regulatory Fight The Trump administration singled out European tech firms by name and promised economic consequences Tuesday unless the E.U. rolls back tech regulation and lawsuits. |
'Apple Tax is Dead in the USA' The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has almost entirely upheld a scathing April ruling that found Apple in willful violation of a 2021 injunction meant to open up iOS App Store payments in its long-running legal battle against Epic Games. A three-judge panel affirmed that Apple's 27% fee for developers using outside payment options had a "prohibitive effect" and that the company's design restrictions on external payment links were overly broad. The appeals court also agreed that Apple acted in "… 5 key agenticops practices to start building now AI agents combine language and reasoning models with the ability to take action through automations and APIs . Agent-to-agent protocols like the Model Context Protocol (MCP) enable integrations, making each agent discoverable and capable of orchestrating more complex operations. Many organizations will first experiment with AI agents embedded in their SaaS applications. AI agents in HR can assist… AWS AI Factories: Innovation or complication? Last week at AWS re:Invent, amid many product announcements and cloud messages, AWS introduced AWS AI Factories. The press release emphasizes accelerating artificial intelligence development with Trainium, Nvidia GPUs, and reliable, secure infrastructure, all delivered with the ease, security, and sophistication you’ve come to expect from Amazon’s cloud. If you’re an enterprise leader with a budg… X updates its terms, files countersuit to lay claim to the ‘Twitter’ trademark after newcomer’s challenge X's new terms of service say that no one can use the Twitter name, trademarks, logos and more without written consent. As reefs vanish, assisted coral fertilization offers hope in the Dominican Republic In an underwater nursery just off the Dominican Republic coast, tiny corals born in a laboratory are slowly growing under the eye of conservationists Will Google throw gasoline on the AI chip arms race? Google caused two significant disruptions in the AI chip field last month. The first one was the release of its 7th generation tensor processing unit (TPU), codenamed Ironwood . The chips offered a significant improvement in inference processing, for which it was custom built. Ironwood also offered massive memory scale and bandwidth come with something needed in AI processing. The second came a f… 'Father of Immersion Lithography' warns: Intel's TSMC talent grab invites process tech scrutiny Intel's recruitment of Wei-jen Lo, formerly TSMC's Senior Vice President of Strategy Development, signals an aggressive push by the US IDM to regain process leadership. However, industry veteran Burn J. Lin argues that while high-level talent acquisition is significant, it does not guarantee the ability to replicate TSMC's manufacturing success. Repent ye inefficient – the ‘Palantir-ization’ of IT services is upon us Palantir's former IT boss just took over as CEO of Thrive-backed AI MSP platform Former Palantir CIO Jim Siders has departed the company to join Shield Technology Partners as CEO, in a bid he says is meant to bring AI to bear in the sprawling managed services landscape.… A vague study on Nazi bots created chaos in the Taylor Swift fan universe On December 9th, Rolling Stone published a story that some saw as a bombshell: a network of coordinated, "inauthentic" social media accounts had a hand in the weekslong discourse that trailed the release of Taylor Swift's recent album, The Life of a Showgirl. It was a big deal for those in the Swiftie/anti-Swiftie universe. Immediately […] |
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