Volkswagen has doubled its workforce reduction targets, approving 50,000 additional job cuts to streamline operations and combat intensifying competition from Chinese electric vehicle makers. The post Volkswagen board approves 50,000 further job cuts amid cost crisis appeared first on Business Elites Africa…Continue Reading
The single most effective flying billboard in transatlantic aviation history is no longer flying, nor is it sitting in an aviation museum. Instead, the iconic Icelandair Boeing 757-200, registered as TF-FIU, famous worldwide for its hand-airbrushed Northern Lights livery, has been stripped and reduced to scrap metal in a teardownContinue Reading
When designing an aircraft, you typically start out with a baseline design, like the Airbus A320-200. You can then stretch it, such as creating the A321-100, or incorporate further improvements to boost gross weights, performance, and/or fuel capacity, like with the A321-200. Alternatively, you can shrink the aircraft, either justContinue Reading
Researchers have warned of AI’s potential danger for years, but nothing struck a chord quite like this week’s X thread from 27-year-old Jacob Coxon, a little-known AI researcher who resigned from Anthropic last week. , Researchers have warned of AI’s potential danger for years, but nothing struck a chord quite likeContinue Reading
GOP Rep. Mike Flood (Neb.) said Sunday the federal government should implement artificial intelligence safeguards to prevent the technology from falling into the wrong hands. During an interview on NewsNation’s “The Hill Sunday,” Flood said the leaders of top AI companies should be “answering questions” on the safety of theContinue Reading
EVSE manufacturer Kempower has signed a framework agreement with global logistics firm DP World to supply EV charging infrastructure and related services across all DP World terminals in Canada. Kempower’s agreement with DP World standardizes charging infrastructure at DP World’s terminals in Canada. Kempower’s charging solutions will support the electrificationContinue Reading
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Shotwell 33 is out, the first stable version of the photo manager for GNOME desktops to use GTK4. A GTK4 port of Shotwell has been in the works since 2025. It’s the first big toolkit port the image tool has since since it migrated to GTK3 in 2012 (v0.12.0). YetContinue Reading
Most of us carry a phone every day, but very few of us could say what’s actually going on inside one. That gap is exactly what CircuitMess is trying to fill or should I say, has been trying to fill. The Croatian company CircuitMess, founded by Albert Gajšak, ran itsContinue Reading
Ubuntu 26.10 completes the distro’s move to Rust-based core utilities, with the commands previously held back due to security issues now migrated to memory-safe versions. cp, mv and rm were held back on their GNU versions in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS due to a crop of TOCTOU (time-of-check to time-of-use) issues that needed to be fixed in the uutils versions. Continue Reading
On Sept. 13, 2007, Japan launched the Kaguya spacecraft on a mission to the moon. Formally known as SELENE, which is short for SELenological and ENgineering Explorer, it was Japan’s second moon mission. Kaguya launched from Tanegashima Space Center on a Japanese H-IIA rocket and looped around the Earth twice before heading to the moon.Continue Reading
(Main) Illustration of the small solar system body Chariklo (Inset) artist’s impression of the JWST (Image credit: L. Maquet, Observatoire de Paris/NASA/ESA) Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have discovered that the ring system of a tiny solar system body is even more interesting than they knew. The object in question is CharikloContinue Reading