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Freight rail moves goods with unmatched efficiency. Yet its diesel engines still spew pollutants near homes and factories. Operators stare at volatile fuel bills and aging fleets. Enter Voltify. The startup proposes a different path. One that mixes retrofitted battery locomotives, targeted charging while trains roll, and self-contained microgrids. Full catenary wires across 140,000 miles

Can Bölük set out to test the limits of an AI coding model. What emerged in under a week was pon, a new Python 3.14 runtime that skips the interpreter and bytecode entirely. Written primarily in Rust, the project compiles modules straight to native machine code using the Cranelift backend. No CPython interpreter. No reference

Merchants have crossed a threshold. Nearly 40% of U.S. businesses now take cryptocurrency at checkout. The numbers come from a fresh survey released in late January by PayPal and the National Cryptocurrency Association. They show adoption accelerating faster than many executives predicted just a year ago. Four in five merchants believe crypto payments will turn

The ancient dispute over ownership of UNIX, and perhaps Linux too, has returned to court. Again. The latest twist arrived on June 22 when Xinuos, the company that acquired assets from the long-troubled SCO Group, faced off against IBM in a federal appeals court hearing that mixed 1990s code-sharing agreements with modern procedural arguments. Simon

Reddit has deployed its own large language models to root out the very problem that generative AI created. Brands and marketing agencies plant seemingly genuine user posts and comments across its forums. The goal is simple. Get those recommendations picked up by ChatGPT, Gemini and other chatbots that now shape what millions see as trusted

Workers at Samsung Electronics are cashing in on the artificial intelligence surge. Some stand to pocket hundreds of thousands of dollars this year. Others watch from the sidelines with bonuses a fraction of that size. The disparity has triggered protests, near-strikes and a fractured company culture that executives now scramble to repair. The trouble traces

Adam Shostack once built secure platforms for a living. Now he watches companies hand powerful tools to large language model agents and hopes they remember the basics. His October 2024 piece in Communications of the ACM lays out a simple truth. Trust does not come free. It must be designed in from the start. Shostack

The wealthy have long shaped education to suit their needs, from private tutors in ancient times to exclusive boarding schools that promise social connections as much as academic excellence. Today that pattern continues, but the tools have changed. A growing number of affluent families now turn to artificial intelligence to create personalized learning materials for

Amazon has finally closed the Wondery app. The dedicated podcast platform and its Wondery+ subscription service stopped operating this week. Listeners received notice months ago. Yet the move still lands with force across the audio industry. From Standalone Ambition to Corporate Consolidation Wondery launched its app in 2020. It offered early episode access, exclusive shows

Nadeem Sarwar never set out to become a software developer. Yet here he sits, voice dictating features to an AI that quietly assembles entire applications in the background. The result feels less like coding and more like conversation. Bliss, he calls it. Sarwar, managing editor at Digital Trends, built Framely first. The browser-based tool converts