oil-‘cartel’-blocked-ev-development,-michigan-ag-says

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel is suing big oil companies, which she calls a cartel, claiming they colluded to block electric vehicle development., Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel is suing big oil companies, which she calls a cartel, claiming they colluded to block electric vehicle development., from Newsnation Read MoreContinue Reading

fcc-warns-talk-shows-to-comply-with-‘equal-time’-requirement

“If a broadcast station permits any legally qualified candidate for public office to use its facilities, it shall provide an equal opportunity to all other legally qualified candidates for that office,” FCC wrote., “If a broadcast station permits any legally qualified candidate for public office to use its facilities, itContinue Reading

Leak: Nvidia is about to challenge ‘Intel Inside’ with as many as eight Arm laptops

Intel and AMD have split the Windows laptop market for years, but the x86 players may be getting outnumbered. It’s not just Apple MacBooks and MediaTek-based Chromebooks using Arm chips anymore. There are finally competent Qualcomm Snapdragon laptops running Windows, and – as soon as this spring – Nvidia will finally power Windows consumer laptopsContinue Reading

bolivia’s-ylb-submits-patent-application-for-lithium-extraction

The state-owned Bolivian National Strategic Public Company of Lithium Deposits (Yacimientos de Litio Bolivianos, YLB) has submitted an application to patent a process for the direct extraction of lithium from complex brines, as well as the industrial design of a fast-charging portable charger. The Patent of Invention and the PatentContinue Reading

techdirt-2025:-the-stats

Every year, a little after New Years, I do a post about the previous year of Techdirt traffic and comments. You may notice that we skipped last year’s for 2024. 2025 was so crazy with everything happening, we just didn’t get around to it, and I kept saying I wouldContinue Reading

Polar Cyclones Reveal Hidden Interiors of Jupiter and Saturn

New research by MIT planetary scientists shows how striking differences in the polar vortex patterns of Jupiter and Saturn may be driven by deep interior properties, offering fresh clues about the structure of gas giants. The post Polar Cyclones Reveal Hidden Interiors of Jupiter and Saturn appeared first on Sci.News:Continue Reading

meta-pauses-teen-access-to-ai-characters

Meta is halting teens’ access to artificial intelligence characters, at least temporarily, the company said in a blog post Friday. Meta Platforms Inc., which own Instagram and WhatsApp, said that starting in the “coming weeks,” teens will no longer be able to access AI characters “until the updated experience isContinue Reading

Copper trading needs to implement KYC to stop EV charger theft

Electric vehicle owners in Victoria have been greeted by a frustrating sight recently. Instead of a high-powered DC connector ready to top up their battery, they are finding severed stumps of rubber and copper. Evie Networks recently took to social media to highlight a string of attacks in the Dandenong area…Continue Reading

A Lenovo update hints at Nvidia Arm CPUs coming soon

The transition from x86/x64 architecture (the stuff that’s been powering desktops and laptops for decades) to Arm architecture (the stuff more usually found inside smartphones) was supposed to be a massive change for Windows. It certainly hasn’t been that, at least not with the first couple of generations of Qualcomm chips…Continue Reading