Europe’s shadow-fleet standoff isn’t just a sanctions story. It’s a stress test for the rules that make global shipping work: flags, insurance, and who pays when something goes wrong. In the Baltic Sea, coastguards can talk to tankers and monitor them — but stopping them is legally and politically hard. What’s emerging, according to reporting […]

Electric bikes in Nairobi aren’t just a clean-tech curiosity. They’re a bet that the most expensive part of delivery — the “last mile” to a customer’s door — can be made cheaper, more reliable, and easier to scale in dense cities. In a short BBC video feature, a Kenyan start-up called eWaka Mobility is presented

Social platforms have always had spam and junk. What’s new is that generative AI has made “content production” almost free — and that changes the balance between what users want and what the feed can economically deliver. AI “slop” (cheap, low-effort synthetic images and videos) is not just an aesthetic complaint. It’s a signal that

Moltbook looks, at first glance, like “Reddit for bots”. That framing is catchy, but it hides the real story: it’s an early experiment in what happens when agentic AI systems are given a shared public space, identities, and lightweight social feedback (posts, replies, upvotes). If it works the way enthusiasts hope, it becomes an interoperability

China is moving to make sure you can always open an EV door the old-fashioned way: with a physical handle and a mechanical release. The new rules target “hidden” or flush door handles that look sleek but can be hard to find or fail when electronics or power systems are compromised. While the regulation applies

Elon Musk’s SpaceX says it is acquiring his AI company xAI, a move that effectively ties together three expensive pieces of the modern tech stack: model training, data-center-scale compute, and a global distribution network. The deal matters less as a corporate reshuffle and more as a bet on where AI bottlenecks will be in the

Teak has been the gold standard for yacht decks for decades: it grips when wet, resists rot and salt, and signals “luxury” from across a marina. But the yachting industry is now being pushed—by law, by supply constraints, and by reputation risk—to find alternatives. The basic problem is that the highest-quality teak historically came from

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SpaceX’s acquisition of xAI comes with an unusually specific, unusually ambitious claim: that the cheapest place to generate AI compute could eventually be in space. Ars Technica reports that SpaceX has filed with the FCC seeking permission for up to one million satellites operating as “orbital data centers,” paired with internal plans for rapid Starship

Ukraine says it is rolling out a verification system for Starlink terminals so that only registered devices can connect inside the country. Ars Technica reports that the plan is explicitly aimed at stopping unauthorized use of Starlink—particularly in attacks carried out with connected drones. The move is a good case study in a broader security