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Australia Spent $62 Million To Update Its Weather Web Site and Made It Worse

Yesterday at 23:00 PM, via Slashdot

quonset writes: Australia last updated their weather site a decade ago. In October, during one of the hottest days of the year, the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) revealed its new web site and was immediately castigated for doing so. Complaints ranged from a confusing layout to not being able to find information. Farmers were particularly incensed when they found out they could no longer input GPS...

OneAssets Capital: Redefining the Long-Termism Power in Global Asset Management

Yesterday at 20:49 PM, via Tech Financials

Prologue: The True Meaning of Long-Termism is Being Redefined In an era of constant global capital fluctuations and technology-driven financial structural reshaping, the asset management institutions that can truly endure cycles are not those betting on short-term noise, but those building interpretable, sustainable, and verifiable long-term growth frameworks. The birth of OneAssets Capital...

UK To Tax Electric Cars by the Mile Starting 2028

Yesterday at 20:02 PM, via Slashdot

The UK government will levy a pay-per-mile tax on electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles starting April 2028, UK’s finance minister Rachel Reeves announced, a measure designed to offset some of the fuel duty revenue that will disappear as drivers shift away from petrol and diesel cars. Electric vehicles will be charged 3 pence per mile and plug-in hybrids 1.5 pence per mile, payable annually...

Rand Mutual Assurance Showcased Its Worker-Centric Solutions At SALGA Conference

Yesterday at 19:04 PM, via Tech Financials

The Rand Mutual Assurance (RMA), South Africa’s pioneering social insurer, has participated in the three-day South African Local Government Association (SALGA) National Members Assembly. The SALGA conference, which took place in Durban from 25 to 27 November 2025, is a cornerstone event in the local government calendar that brought together leaders, policymakers, and partners to […]

Android’s New Dual-Band Hotspot Mode Pairs 6 GHz Speed With 2.4 GHz Compatibility

Yesterday at 19:01 PM, via Slashdot

Google is testing a new Wi-Fi hotspot configuration in the latest Android Canary build that pairs the 6 GHz band’s superior throughput with the 2.4 GHz band’s broad device compatibility, eliminating the trade-off users previously faced when choosing between speed and legacy support. Android’s default hotspot setting uses 2.4 and 5 GHz frequencies, omitting 6 GHz because most devices lack...

Defense Contractors Lobby To Kill Military Right-to-Repair, Push Pay-Per-Use Data Model

Yesterday at 18:01 PM, via Slashdot

A bipartisan right-to-repair provision that would let the U.S. military fix its own equipment faces a serious threat from defense industry lobbyists who want to replace it with a pay-per-use model for accessing repair information. A source familiar with negotiations told The Verge that there are significant concerns that the language in the National Defense Authorization Act will be swapped out...

VaultCoin Ecosystem Announces VLTC Token Presale to Bootstrap Sentinel Network and Hybrid Custody Vaults

Yesterday at 17:30 PM, via Tech Financials

Panama City, Republic of Panama (PinionNewswire) — VaultCoin Ecosystem today announced the presale of VLTC, the native utility token that powers its Hybrid Custody Ecosystem – a decentralized crypto custody architecture designed to make Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies Unstealable, Unlosable, and Unconfiscatable. The VLTC presale marks the first major step in launching on-chain staking and […]

Texas Makes a Historic BTC Buy — Is Bitcoin Hyper the Smartest Follow-Up Play?

Yesterday at 17:26 PM, via Tech Financials

Texas just rewired the crypto narrative with a single decision: the state officially bought Bitcoin (BTC), dropping $10 million into a dedicated Bitcoin reserve. This wasn’t a symbolic resolution or a feel-good policy gesture, it was a real purchase, executed under a newly created “Strategic Bitcoin Reserve” designed to secure long-term exposure to digital assets. […]

Best Altcoins to Buy as XRP Dominates Markets and Solana Cools — What Comes Next?

Yesterday at 17:20 PM, via Tech Financials

Altcoins are reshaping the market narrative once again. XRP and Solana are seeing strong institutional attention through accelerating ETF inflows, giving traders a rare mix of caution and opportunity as the broader market cools. With volatility dropping across major assets, investors are scanning for early stage plays that could outperform once momentum returns. This environment […]

Has Altcoin Season Fear Peaked As Digitap ($TAP) Pushes Higher?

Yesterday at 17:06 PM, via Tech Financials

Over the last month, Bitcoin has fallen from roughly $126,000 in late October to around $86,000 at the end of November. This 30% drawdown dragged most altcoins down even further, and the Fear and Greed Index hit 10 (Extreme Fear). Almost everyone took a serious haircut, and investors are starting to wonder if it is […]

NASA Reduces Flights on Boeing’s Starliner After Botched Astronaut Mission

Yesterday at 17:01 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader shares a report: NASA has slashed the number of astronaut missions on Boeing’s Starliner contract and said the spacecraft’s next mission to the International Space Station will fly without a crew, reducing the scope of a program hobbled by engineering woes and outpaced by SpaceX. The most recent mishap occurred during Starliner’s first crewed test flight in 2024, carrying...

Online Livestock Trading Platform SwiftVEE Secures Series A from Top African Investors

Yesterday at 16:54 PM, via Tech Financials

SwiftVEE, the largest online livestock trading platform in Africa, featured in Bloomberg’s inaugural 25 African Startups to Watch 2025, has completed its Series A funding round. The transaction brings some of the continent’s most accomplished investors onto swiftVEE’s Cap Table, including HAVAÍC, Old Mutual’s former CEO Iain Williamson and private equity firm EXEO Capital. They […]

Archaeologists say they have proof humans carved huge pits near Stonehenge

Yesterday at 16:02 PM, via The Guardian

Research team uses range of novel methods and equipment to analyse ‘extraordinary’ Durrington pit circle

The presence of an extraordinary circle of yawning pits created by Neolithic people near Stonehenge has been proved thanks to a novel combination of scientific techniques, a team of archaeologists is claiming.

The architects of Stonehenge may have had the heavens in mind when they built the...

AI Can Technically Perform 12% of US Labor Market’s Wage Value, MIT Simulation Finds

Yesterday at 16:00 PM, via Slashdot

Researchers at MIT and Oak Ridge National Laboratory have built a simulation that models all 151 million American workers and their skills, then maps those skills against the capabilities of over 13,000 AI tools currently in production to see where the two overlap. The answer, according to their analysis: 11.7% of the US labor market’s total wage value, or about $1.2 trillion, sits in tasks...

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