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Wall Street Pushes Solo 401(k)s as More Americans Work for Themselves

Friday at 22:01 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader shares a report: A niche retirement plan favored by freelancers is quickly becoming a hot Wall Street sales pitch, as more and more Americans look for ways to shelter a bigger chunk of their paychecks from taxes. Known as solo 401(k)s, they allow the self-employed to contribute $72,000 a year into tax-advantaged retirement accounts. That’s nearly three times the maximum for...

China Makes Too Many Cars, and the World Is Increasingly OK With It

Friday at 21:22 PM, via Slashdot

After years of Western governments raising alarms about Chinese automotive overcapacity and erecting tariff barriers, an unexpected pivot is now underway as major economies cautiously open their markets to Chinese electric vehicles, Bloomberg writes. Beijing itself has started acknowledging the problem at home. Chinese regulators last week warned of “severe penalties” for automakers defying...

Solar and Wind Overtake Fossil Fuels in the EU

Friday at 20:44 PM, via Slashdot

Wind and solar power overtook fossil fuels last year as a source of electricity in the EU for the first time, a new report found. Semafor adds: The milestone was hit largely thanks to a rise in solar power, which generated a record 13% of electricity in the EU, according to Ember. Together, wind and solar hit 30% of EU electricity generation, edging out fossil fuels at 29%. The shift is...

MTN Irancell CEO secretly replaced

Friday at 20:20 PM, via MyBroadband

Authorities ousted state mobile operator MTN Irancell’s chief executive officer without informing MTN Group.

Toronto Man Posed as Pilot To Rack Up Hundreds of Free Flights, Prosecutors Say

Friday at 20:00 PM, via Slashdot

A Toronto man posed as a pilot for years in order to fool airlines into giving him hundreds of free flights, prosecutors have alleged, in a case that has prompted comparisons to the Hollywood thriller Catch Me If You Can. From a report: Authorities in Hawaii announced this week that Dallas Pokornik, 33, had been charged with wire fraud after he allegedly fooled three major US carriers into...

Apple’s Secret Product Plans Stolen in Luxshare Cyberattack

Friday at 19:20 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader shares a report: The Apple supplier subject to a major cyberattack last month was China’s Luxshare, it has now emerged. More than 1TB of confidential Apple information was reportedly stolen. It was reported in December that one of Apple’s assemblers suffered a significant cyberattack that may have compromised sensitive production-line information and manufacturing data...

When Two Years of Academic Work Vanished With a Single Click

Friday at 18:40 PM, via Slashdot

Marcel Bucher, a professor of plant sciences at the University of Cologne in Germany, lost two years of carefully structured academic work in an instant when he temporarily disabled ChatGPT’s “data consent” option in August to test whether the AI tool’s functions would still work without providing OpenAI his data. All his chats were permanently deleted and his project folders emptied without...

Why Bitcoin and XRP Holders Are Rethinking Income in 2026—and What Comes Next

Friday at 18:11 PM, via Tech Financials

For much of crypto’s history, success was measured by one thing: price. Buy early, hold through volatility, and wait for the next cycle to do the work. That approach built fortunes, but in 2026, it is no longer enough for a growing number of investors. The crypto market has matured. Sharp rallies still happen, but […]

Anthropic’s AI Keeps Passing Its Own Company’s Job Interview

Friday at 18:01 PM, via Slashdot

Anthropic has a problem that most companies would envy: its AI model keeps getting so good, the company wrote in a blog post, that it passes the company’s own hiring test for performance engineers. The test, designed in late 2023 by optimization lead Tristan Hume, asks candidates to speed up code running on a simulated computer chip. Over 1,000 people have taken it, and dozens now work at...

Apple Accuses European Commission of ‘Political Delay Tactics’ To Justify Fines

Friday at 17:21 PM, via Slashdot

Apple has accused the European Commission of using “political delay tactics” to postpone new app marketplace policies and create grounds for investigating and fining the iPhone maker, a preemptive response to reports that the commission plans to blame Apple for the announced closure of third-party app store Setapp. MacPaw, the developer behind Setapp, said it would shut down the marketplace...

‘Almost Everyone’ Laid Off at Vimeo Following Bending Spoons Buyout

Friday at 16:40 PM, via Slashdot

Vimeo is laying off employees around the world just months after Italian software company Bending Spoons completed its $1.38 billion acquisition of the video hosting platform. Dave Brown, Vimeo’s former brand VP, described the cuts on LinkedIn as affecting “a large portion of the company.” One video engineer claimed “almost everyone” was laid off, “including the entire video team,” and another...

How Local Leaders Can Shift Their Trajectory In 2026

Friday at 16:27 PM, via Tech Financials

In 2026, business leaders won’t just be navigating change, they’ll be building the plane mid-flight. As the new year kicks off, the pace of technological advancement is accelerating, redefining the very fabric of business. The traditional boundaries between business and technology have all but disappeared — tech is business, and business is tech. This convergence […]

The EX60 Cross Country: Built For The “Go Anywhere” Attitude

Friday at 16:15 PM, via Tech Financials

Volvo Cars has officially pulled back the curtain on a new chapter in its storied legacy of adventure-ready vehicles. Alongside the global debut of the all-electric Volvo EX60, the company introduces the EX60 Cross Country — an SUV engineered not just for the road, but for the path less traveled. This model electrifies Volvo’s beloved […]

US Formally Withdraws From WHO

Friday at 16:00 PM, via Slashdot

The United States formally withdrew from the World Health Organization on Thursday, making good on an executive order that President Trump issued on his first day in office pledging to leave the international organization that coordinates global responses to public health threats. The New York Times: While the United States is walking away from the organization, a senior official with the...

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