New York, 3 October 2025 — The rapid buildout of electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure — projected to exceed $100 billion globally by the end of the decade — is transforming the landscape of commercial real estate (CRE), creating both opportunities and challenges for developers, landlords, and investors. Charging as a Core Amenity What was […]
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Trying to take control of your online privacy can feel like a full-time job. But if you break it up into small tasks and take on one project at a time it makes the process of protecting your privacy much easier. This month we’re going to do just that. For the month of October, we’ll […]
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San Francisco, 3 October 2025 — OpenAI has reached a landmark $500 billion valuation following a $6.6 billion secondary share sale, making it the world’s most valuable privately held company and surpassing SpaceX. The deal, which allowed current and former employees to cash out equity, drew investment from major firms including Thrive Capital, SoftBank, Dragoneer, […]
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Washington, D.C., 1 October 2025 — Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has reached a sweeping $70 billion agreement with the Trump Administration, pledging to lower prescription drug prices for Medicaid patients while investing heavily in U.S. research, development, and manufacturing. The deal, described by both sides as a “landmark agreement,” ties Pfizer’s pricing to a “most-favored-nation” benchmark, […]
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BY JASON KELLEY | October 2, 2025 This is the ninth installment in a blog series documenting EFF’s findings from the Stop Censoring Abortion campaign. You can read additional posts here. Meta has been getting content moderation wrong for years, like most platforms that host user-generated content. Sometimes it’s a result of deliberate design choices—privacy rollbacks, opaque […]
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New York, 30 September 2025 — Artificial intelligence cloud provider CoreWeave has signed a landmark US$14.2 billion agreement with Meta Platforms, cementing its position as one of the most influential players in the rapidly expanding AI infrastructure market. Under the deal, CoreWeave will supply Meta with large-scale computing power through its data centres, which are […]
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The Financial Times reports that the U.K. is once again demanding that Apple create a backdoor into its encrypted backup services. The only change since the last time they demanded this is that the order is allegedly limited to only apply to British users. That doesn’t make it any better. The demand uses a power […]
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Lagos, 1 October 2025 — Tensions between Africa’s largest refinery and Nigeria’s oil and gas unions have intensified after the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) called for a nationwide strike in response to mass layoffs at the 650,000 barrels-per-day Dangote refinery. The dispute erupted when the refinery dismissed more than […]
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London, 30 September 2025 — UK energy major BP (NYSE:BP) has approved a $5 billion investment in its Tiber-Guadalupe project in the US Gulf of Mexico, marking a significant expansion of its deepwater portfolio. The project, fully owned by BP, will establish a new floating production platform — the company’s seventh in the Gulf — […]
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There is a lot of bad on the internet and it seems to only be getting worse. But one of the things the internet did well, and is worth preserving, is nontraditional paths for creativity, journalism, and criticism. As governments and major corporations throw up more barriers to expression—and more and more gatekeepers try to […]
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