Browsing: local

Technology

Denmark says Russia was behind ‘destructive and disruptive’ cyberattacks on water utility in 2024 and DDoS attacks in the run-up to November local elections (Miranda Bryant/The Guardian)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 19, 2025

Featured Podcasts Hard fork: Why Roomba is Dead + Tech Predictions for 2026 + A Hard Forkin’ Christmas Song The…

Technology

How Skövde, a small Swedish town of 58,000, built a local video game ecosystem with a game developer degree at Skövde University and a startup incubator (Ralph Jones/The Guardian)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 14, 2025

Ralph Jones / The guardian: How Skövde, a small Swedish town of 58,000, built a local video game ecosystem via…

Technology

Robinhood is set to join Indonesia’s retail investment boom after agreeing to acquire local brokerages PT Buana Capital Sekuritas and PT Pedagang Aset Kripto (Prima Wirayani/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 9, 2025

Prima Wirayani / Bloomberg: Robinhood is set to join Indonesia’s retail investment boom after agreeing to acquire local brokerages PT…

Technology

Local opposition blocked or delayed 17 U.S. data center projects worth $98 billion in the second quarter of 2025, compared to 16 projects worth $64 billion from May 2024 to March 2025 (Molly Taft/Wired)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 15, 2025

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: Inside the AI Bubble: Debt, Depreciation and Losses – With Gil Luria The Big Technology…

Technology

Sources: China offers to cut data center electricity bills by up to 50% to Alibaba and others if they use local chips like Huawei’s rather than foreign chips like Nvidia’s (Financial Times)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 4, 2025

Financial Times: Sources: China is offering to cut data center electricity bills by up to 50% to Alibaba and others…

Technology

Sources: China tightens customs checks on chip imports, starting with Nvidia’s H20 and RTX Pro 6000D, after urging local tech companies to avoid Nvidia products (Financial Times)

By Stacey D. WallsOctober 10, 2025

Financial Times: Sources: China tightens customs checks on chip imports, starting with Nvidia’s H20 and RTX Pro 6000D, after urging…

Technology

Sources: The Trump administrator plans to force manufacturers to match local results with imports and impose prices on companies that do not maintain a 1: 1 ratio (Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal)

By Stacey D. WallsSeptember 26, 2025

Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal:: Sources: The Trump administrator plans to force manufacturers to match local results with imports…

Technology

How Seattle, transformed into a technological center by Amazon and the explosive growth of Microsoft, is struggling with the dismissals of companies affecting the local economy (Wall Street Journal)

By Stacey D. WallsSeptember 22, 2025

Wall Street Journal:: How Seattle, transformed into a technological center by Amazon and the explosive growth of Microsoft, is struggling…

Technology

The Nepalese government raises its ban on social media after the local media reported more than 19 dead during conflicts on antigan demonstrations triggered by the ban (Gopal Sharma / Reuters)

By Stacey D. WallsSeptember 9, 2025

Featured podcasts Decoder with Nilay Patel: Sal Khan hopes AI will not destroy education A show by The Verge on…

Technology

Openai exceeds local partners to create a 1GW + data center in India, although the exact calendar is not clear; Sam Altman should visit this month (Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsSeptember 1, 2025

Featured podcasts Grink: In the spirit of the most optimistic CEO in the world Grit explores what is needed to…

From discreet cooperation to strategic partnership? – The diplomat

Counter-drone efforts in Southeast Asia – The Diplomat

5 years later – The diplomat

Transnational repression against Hong Kongers in the UK is worrying – The Diplomat

Trump-Xi summit leaves South Korea facing familiar pressures – The Diplomat

Chinese electric vehicles are coming to Canada and dealers are eager to sell them

Family Investors Turn to Old Economy Companies to Avoid AI Disruption

Starbucks to lay off 300 US employees, close some regional offices

Detroit automakers cut more than 20,000 U.S. payroll jobs as AI looms

China to order 200 Boeing planes, Trump tells Fox News

Trump doesn’t have enough votes to get his ballroom money

The war in Iran broke Trump

China humiliated Trump and now he’s in a damage control frenzy

HUD Secretary’s BDS is completely closed

JD Vance Compares Himself to Child Abandoned at Deranged White House Event

How tech companies are using open source initiatives to achieve critical strategic goals and how these efforts are reshaping industries like AI, AV, and more. (Bill Gurley/Bill’s Substack)

Kraken cut about 150 employees after AI tools improved efficiency and its IPO could be delayed until late 2026 or early 2027 due to falling digital asset prices (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)

A profile of Runway, an AI video generation startup that trains models directly on observational data, is now valued at $5.3 billion and added $40 million in ARR in the second quarter (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)

Ofcom says X committed to implementing tougher protections for UK users, including reviewing illegal hateful content within 24 hours, following an investigation (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)

Bill Ackman says his fund took a new stake in Microsoft after the company’s recent stock price decline; Ackman says investors underestimated Microsoft (Amy Thomson/Bloomberg)

Browsing: local

Denmark says Russia was behind ‘destructive and disruptive’ cyberattacks on water utility in 2024 and DDoS attacks in the run-up to November local elections (Miranda Bryant/The Guardian)

How Skövde, a small Swedish town of 58,000, built a local video game ecosystem with a game developer degree at Skövde University and a startup incubator (Ralph Jones/The Guardian)

Robinhood is set to join Indonesia’s retail investment boom after agreeing to acquire local brokerages PT Buana Capital Sekuritas and PT Pedagang Aset Kripto (Prima Wirayani/Bloomberg)

Local opposition blocked or delayed 17 U.S. data center projects worth $98 billion in the second quarter of 2025, compared to 16 projects worth $64 billion from May 2024 to March 2025 (Molly Taft/Wired)

Sources: China offers to cut data center electricity bills by up to 50% to Alibaba and others if they use local chips like Huawei’s rather than foreign chips like Nvidia’s (Financial Times)

Sources: China tightens customs checks on chip imports, starting with Nvidia’s H20 and RTX Pro 6000D, after urging local tech companies to avoid Nvidia products (Financial Times)

Sources: The Trump administrator plans to force manufacturers to match local results with imports and impose prices on companies that do not maintain a 1: 1 ratio (Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal)

How Seattle, transformed into a technological center by Amazon and the explosive growth of Microsoft, is struggling with the dismissals of companies affecting the local economy (Wall Street Journal)

The Nepalese government raises its ban on social media after the local media reported more than 19 dead during conflicts on antigan demonstrations triggered by the ban (Gopal Sharma / Reuters)

Openai exceeds local partners to create a 1GW + data center in India, although the exact calendar is not clear; Sam Altman should visit this month (Bloomberg)