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- Hyundai and Kia built a UV system that kills bacteria inside a car while you are sitting in itby Darius Popa on 1 July 2026 at 19:26
Hyundai and Kia have unveiled an in-vehicle sanitization system that uses far-ultraviolet light to kill bacteria and viruses inside a car cabin, even while passengers are present. The technology, called Plasma Care UVC, is what the companies describe as the first system of its kind designed for […]
- Honda starts making batteries for data centres at a factory built for EVs it cancelledby Darius Popa on 1 July 2026 at 18:35
Honda has begun producing batteries for energy storage systems at its Ohio factory, according to a report from Nikkei Asia. The plant was originally built to supply cells for electric vehicles the company cancelled three months ago. Those batteries are now headed to data centres instead of […]
- A Brazilian banking trojan is targeting Santander and BBVA customers with fake PDF luresby Ana Maria Constantin on 1 July 2026 at 17:34
A Brazilian banking trojan called Ousaban is going after Windows users who bank in Spain and Portugal, using fake PDFs, geofencing, and a payload hidden inside an image to steal credentials without triggering security tools. Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs identified the campaign in May and published […]
- Hire in 150+ countries without setting up a single entityby TNW Deals on 1 July 2026 at 17:09
You have found the perfect candidate. They have the skills, the experience, and the enthusiasm. There is just one problem: they are in a country where you have no legal entity. No tax registration. No idea how local employment law works. Sound familiar? This article contains affiliate links. If you […]
- Krafton agrees to pay Subnautica 2 bonuses after CEO who used ChatGPT to dodge them steps downby Darius Popa on 1 July 2026 at 17:09
Krafton has agreed to pay bonuses to the entire staff of Unknown Worlds Entertainment, the studio behind Subnautica 2, after reaching a legal settlement with the company’s chief executive and co-founders. CEO Ted Gill told Bloomberg he is stepping down as part of the deal. “We mutually agreed […]
- AI’s hopes and fears take over the world’s big central-bank gatheringby Ana-Maria Stanciuc on 1 July 2026 at 16:38
Every summer the world’s most powerful central bankers decamp to a hillside town outside Lisbon to argue about the economy in relative calm. This year the argument had a single organising subject, and it was not inflation in the usual sense. It was artificial intelligence, and specifically the […]
- Meta wants to rent out its spare AI compute, and Wall Street likes the ideaby Ana-Maria Stanciuc on 1 July 2026 at 16:27
A reported plan to sell surplus computing power would put Meta up against AWS, Google Cloud and Azure, and give investors a reason to look past its spending. Meta has spent two years buying every scrap of AI computing power it can lay hands on. Now it appears to be working out how to sell This […]
- Swedish court orders Google to pay Klarna nearly $2 billion in antitrust damagesby Ana Maria Constantin on 1 July 2026 at 16:19
A Swedish court has ordered Google to pay more than 14 billion kronor to Klarna’s PriceRunner subsidiary for illegally favouring its own comparison shopping service in search results. The ruling, handed down on Tuesday by the Patent and Market Court in Stockholm, is the largest competition […]
- Portugal open-sources Amália, its first national AI model, in a bet on European Portugueseby Ana-Maria Stanciuc on 1 July 2026 at 16:17
A country of just over 10 million people now has a large language model that speaks its own version of the language. Portugal has released Amália, its first national AI model built specifically for European Portuguese, and it has done so in about the most deliberate way a government can. The […]
- Sony will stop making physical PlayStation game discs in January 2028by Darius Popa on 1 July 2026 at 15:59
Sony will stop producing physical game discs for new PlayStation titles starting in January 2028, the company announced on Tuesday in a PlayStation Blog post. New games released after that date will be available only as digital downloads through the PlayStation Store. Existing disc-based games will […]
