Energy Bills Have Soared Recently. How Can States Bring Costs Down?
Energy experts said that governors and legislatures have tools to keep electricity prices from rising further, and might even be able to lower them.
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Author of Systemd Quits Microsoft To Prove Linux Can Be Trusted
Lennart Poettering has left Microsoft to co-found Amutable, a new Berlin-based company aiming to bring cryptographically verifiable integrity and deterministic trust guarantees to Linux systems. He said in a post on Mastodon that his “role in upstream maintenance for the Linux kernel will continue as it always has.” Poettering will also continue to remain deeply involved in the systemd...
Ethereum Traders Increase Leverage On-Chain As HFDX Liquidity Hits New Highs
Ethereum traders are becoming more active on-chain, not by rotating out of risk but by leaning into it. Over recent sessions, leveraged positioning has increased across decentralized perpetual markets, pointing to a growing willingness to deploy capital directly through smart contract–based venues. This shift is unfolding alongside improving liquidity conditions, with HFDX seeing its liquidity […]
New To On-Chain Perps? HFDX Is Rapidly Emerging As The Beginner-Friendly Option
For traders stepping into on-chain perpetual futures for the first time, the learning curve can feel steep. While access to decentralized derivatives has improved significantly, understanding how trades behave once they are live remains the biggest challenge for beginners. Price movement, fees, and leverage tend to feel very different on-chain compared to spot markets or […]
TymeBank fraud warning
TymeBank says one of the fastest-growing and most dangerous scams targeting South African consumers involves something many people have never heard of: RAT attacks.
Standard Chartered GBA Business Confidence Indices reveal steady business sentiment
Hong Kong (PinionNewswire) — Standard Chartered and the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) jointly released the latest Standard Chartered Greater Bay Area Business Confidence Index (GBAI), which revealed the business sentiment for most companies in the Greater Bay Area (GBA) remained steady amid persistent external uncertainties in Q4-2025. Following a rebound in the previous […]
AFF draws 4,000+ global political and business leaders, inaugural Global Business Summit
Hong Kong — The 19th Asian Financial Forum (AFF), jointly organised by the Hong Kong SAR (HKSAR) Government and Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC), concluded successfully . The forum attracted an enthusiastic response, drawing over 4,000 leaders from governments and business sectors across over 60 countries and regions. Over the two-day forum (January 26-27),, […]
NSFW AI Chat with Advanced Memory Systems for Contextual Interaction Launches on Dream Companion
New York, USA (PinionNewswire) — Dream Companion, an emerging platform in AI-powered digital companionship, today announced the launch of its advanced NSFW AI Chat, designed to deliver deeply contextual, personalized conversations through long-term memory systems and adaptive AI models. The platform sets a new benchmark for nsfw ai chats by combining realism, continuity, and user-controlled […]
‘Reverse Solar Panel’ Generates Electricity at Night
Researchers at the University of New South Wales are developing a “reverse solar panel” that generates small amounts of electricity at night by harvesting infrared heat radiated from Earth. “In the past, scientists have demonstrated that a ‘thermoradiative diode’ can convert infrared radiation directly into electricity; when used to convert heat from Earth, they exploit the temperature...
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Eskom CEO has a message for people who pay for electricity in South Africa
Eskom CEO Dan Marokane has promised that they will bring down electricity prices in South Africa.
UK’s First Rapid-Charging Battery Train Ready For Boarding
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: The UK’s first superfast-charging train running only on battery power will come into passenger service this weekend — operating a five-mile return route in west London. Great Western Railway (GWR) will send the converted London Underground train out from 5.30am to cover the full Saturday timetable on the West Ealing to Greenford branch...
Apple Reports Best-Ever Quarter For iPhone Sales
Apple posted its biggest quarter ever, with iPhone revenue hitting a record ~$85.3 billion and Services climbing 14% to ~$30 billion. Total revenue reached nearly $143.76 billion. “The demand for iPhone was simply staggering,” CEO Tim Cook said on a conference call discussing the results. “This is the strongest iPhone lineup we’ve ever had and by far the most popular.”
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Belkin’s Wemo Smart Devices Will Go Offline On Saturday
Belkin is shutting down cloud support for most Wemo smart home devices on January 31, leaving only Thread-based models and devices already set up in Apple HomeKit functional. Everything else will lose remote access, voice assistant integrations, and future app updates. The Verge reports: The shut down was first announced in July and impacts most Wemo devices, ranging from smart plugs to a...
GNU gettext Reaches Version 1.0 After 30 Years
After more than 30 years of development, GNU gettext finally “crossed the symbolic ‘v1.0’ milestone,” according to Phoronix’s Michael Larabel. “GNU gettext 1.0 brings PO file handling improvements, a new ‘po-fetch’ program to fetch translated PO files from a translation project’s site on the Internet, new ‘msgpre’ and ‘spit’ pre-translation programs, and Ocaml and Rust programming language...