Tiger Group has announced a two-day online auction, scheduled for November 12 and 13, to liquidate approximately $74 million in assets from Natron Energy’s closed sodium-ion battery R&D facility in Santa Clara, California, and its manufacturing plant in Holland, Michigan. The assets include battery manufacturing equipment and engineering tools suitableContinue Reading
As the global mobility industry accelerates toward full electrification, the performance demands placed on electrical connection systems have intensified. Automotive and commercial vehicle OEMs, along with suppliers, engineers, and procurement professionals, are under pressure to deliver higher power density and uncompromising reliability within smaller, more constrained packaging environments—all while maintainingContinue Reading
Spotify users (who haven’t switched due to the onslaught of AI slop in playlists) looking for yet another way to control playback from the Ubuntu top bar are… Not short of options, to be honest. I’ve covered a variety of panel applets, desktop widgets and other doohickeys which do similarContinue Reading
Waymo’s self-driving vehicles are coming to San Diego, Las Vegas and Detroit in the next few months, joining five other American cities where the vehicles already ferry passengers., (FOX 5/KUSI) — Waymo’s self-driving vehicles are coming to three more American cities, the company announced Monday. Residents of San Diego, LasContinue Reading
Doug Burgum says the nation must “get back in the power generation game” to stay competitive., (NewsNation) — The United States will soon launch a global trading club for critical minerals, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum announced Monday. Speaking at the ADIPEC Exhibition and Conference, one of the world’s most influentialContinue Reading
China has restarted supplying heavy rare earth magnets to India after a six-month halt. This brings relief to Indian companies in electric vehicle, renewable energy, and consumer electronics sectors. However, China has imposed conditions. These magnets cannot…Continue Reading
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Does Discord need some stars for when Management is watching? The maker of the Grand Theft Auto game series, Rockstar Games, has fired more than 30 coders and graphic designers in an act described by the Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain (IWGB) as “the most blatant and ruthless actContinue Reading
Christmas is coming, the GNOME is getting fat… please put a penny in the old red hat? Ubuntu Summit System76’s POP!_OS is one of the more substantially modified Ubuntu based distros out there, and so it was something of a surprise to see the company’s substantial presence at the UbuntuContinue Reading
Jon Seager, VP of Engineering, talks exclusively to The Reg Ubuntu Summit The Register FOSS desk sat down with Canonical’s vice-president for engineering, Jon Seager, during Ubuntu Summit earlier this month. This is a heavily condensed version of our conversation.…, Read MoreContinue Reading
Ubuntu has added a new x86-64-v3 ‘architecture variant’ for Ubuntu 25.10, configuring its build infrastructure and package managers to support compiling and installing optimised packages. “By making changes to dpkg, apt and Launchpad, we are able to build multiple versions of a package, each for a different level of the x86-64 architecture, meaning weContinue Reading
When it comes to RFK Jr., I tend not to find much humor in the chaos he creates. The man’s work involves American health and illness, life and death, so it’s just generally not funny. And that holds true to Kennedy’s wielding of incomplete, inaccurate, and unsettled science to goContinue Reading
One viral video shows what appears to be four sharks swimming in a Jamaican hotel’s pool as floodwaters allegedly brought on by Hurricane Melissa swamp the area. Another purportedly depicts Jamaica’s Kingston airport completely ravaged by the storm. But neither of these events happened, it’s just AI-generated misinformation circulating onContinue Reading