CIT orders investigation into electric vehicle training program
2026-07-29
Chief executive’s previous denial under new spotlight…Continue Reading
Ford to partner with Chinese automaker Geely to manufacture vehicles in Spain
2026-07-29
At this late hour, the “Western” automakers’ only chance of long-term survival is to partner with Chinese firms. The European brands grudgingly accepted this some time ago, and now Ford is turning down that road, announcing plans for a joint venture with Geely Auto. The JV, which will be ownedContinue Reading
Empower EIT commissions Dallas center, produces battery-grade lithium carbonate
2026-07-29
Empower EIT, a vertically integrated lithium technology and operating company, has begun operation of its direct lithium extraction (DLE) and conversion process at its new new 17,000-square-foot facility in Dallas. The process turns extracted lithium chloride into battery-grade lithium carbonate. The company is aiming to make its first commercial salesContinue Reading
The Traitor Admin’s Campaign Against ‘Radical Left Terrorism’ Is Built On A National Security Memo With No Congressional Approval
2026-07-29
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. A little-noticed presidential national security directive is now the legal engine behind a wave of terrorism prosecutions against left-wing protesters. That domestic campaign now has an international dimension, one that American officials had been planning for months, culminatingContinue Reading
Anthropic’s Claude Cowork could escape its local VM and read credentials on a Mac
2026-07-29
Security researchers at Accomplish AI demonstrated that Anthropic’s Claude Cowork could break out of its local virtual machine sandbox and read files across the underlying Mac, including SSH keys and cloud credentials. The attack, dubbed SharedRoot, exploited a Linux kernel privilege escalation vulnerability to gain root access inside the guestContinue Reading
Mosaic is an i3-style auto-tiling extension for GNOME Shell
2026-07-29
Mosaic brings i3-style automatic tiling to GNOME Shell without asking you to choose it permanently. Turn it on when you want windows to arrange themselves, turn it off when you want floating windows back. The extension works with GNOME 45 and up, adding a toggle to Quick Settings to enableContinue Reading
OpenAI’s runaway AI agent also compromised a cloud platform customer
2026-07-29
OpenAI’s renegade AI agent, which carried out a high-profile breach of the AI platform Hugging Face, also reportedly compromised a customer of the cloud platform Modal Labs, according to Reuters. The agent is said to have exploited a vulnerability in the customer’s own code, where an unprotected endpoint allowed anyoneContinue Reading
Email threats changed after the Tycoon2FA take-down
2026-07-29
Traditional phishing techniques are in decline as a result of the disruption of the Tycoon2FA phishing-as-a-service (PHaaS) platform, Microsoft said in a new report, “Email threat landscape: Q2 2026 trends and insights”. “Phishing volume linked to the platform fell 92% from pre-disruption averages, including QR code phishing and CAPTCHA-gated phishingContinue Reading
Delta, United ban humanoid and animal robots from flights
2026-07-29
New policies from the airlines ban the robots from traveling in the passenger cabin or cargo hold., New policies from the airlines ban the robots from traveling in the passenger cabin or cargo hold., from Newsnation Read MoreContinue Reading
Elon Musk’s xAI sues Minnesota over its first-in-the-nation law banning ‘nudification’ technology
2026-07-29
Elon Musk’s company xAI has sued Minnesota over the state’s first-in-the-nation law that bans “nudification” technology on websites and apps, potentially providing a test for how far states can go in constitutionally regulating the use of artificial intelligence. Musk’s company sued Monday in federal court, days before the law isContinue Reading
Good News Gamers! GOG is Officially Coming to Linux
2026-07-29
GOG built its whole brand around selling DRM-free games and providing offline installers that work without requiring an internet connection or any kind of verification from their side. They even encourage people to download installers and copy them over to physical media like discs, and treat the copy as theirs.Continue Reading
Ubuntu Now Has a Rolling Release Model! But Not For The Distro
2026-07-29
Ubuntu is one of the most stable Linux distros out there, provided you’re running its LTS release. Now imagine giving that up for a rolling release model. Feels exciting, right? Stop fantasizing then, as today’s not the day that happens. Instead, Canonical’s latest announcement introduces a rolling release approach forContinue Reading
Magnachip licenses Navitas’s GeneSiC silicon carbide technology for 1,200 V and above
2026-07-29
Magnachip Semiconductor is moving into the high-voltage and ultra-high-voltage silicon carbide market by licensing Navitas Semiconductor’s GeneSiC technology. The license covers Navitas’ Gen 4 and Gen 5 GeneSiC Trench-Assisted Planar (TAP) technologies at 1,200 V, 2,300 V, 3,300 V and higher. GeneSiC came to Navitas through its August 2022 acquisitionContinue Reading