Category: Business

In Namibia’s Daures region, a bold experiment aims to prove economies can create jobs without fossil fuels.  When completed, Daures Green Hydrogen Village will sustainably produce hydrogen and ammonia from renewable sources, which will be used to make the country’s first carbon-free green fertiliser, reducing the need for imports.  The project is designed to benefit […]

In a landmark deal that underscores the shifting energy demands of the tech sector, Microsoft has partnered with Constellation Energy to restart Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island nuclear reactor by 2028, securing a $1 billion loan from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to finance the project. The refurbished facility, renamed the Crane Clean Energy Center, […]

Widespread news reports indicate that President Donald Trump’s administration has prepared an executive order to punish states that have passed laws attempting to address harms from artificial intelligence (AI) systems. According to a draft published by news outlets, this order would direct federal agencies to bring legal challenges to state AI regulations that the administration […]

SAN FRANCISCO – The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) sued the departments of Justice (DOJ) and Homeland Security (DHS) today to uncover information about the federal government demanding that tech companies remove apps that document immigration enforcement activities in communities throughout the country.  Tech platforms took down several such apps (including ICE Block, Red Dot, and DeICER) and webpages (including ICE Sighting-Chicagoland) following communications […]

McKinsey & Company has once again been ranked #1 in TIME’s 2025 list of the Best Companies for Future Leaders, marking the third year in a row the global consultancy has secured the top spot. Recognition of Leadership Development The ranking, compiled by TIME and Statista, highlights 175 organizations across the United States that are […]

NVIDIA has once again shattered expectations, reporting record revenue of $57.01 billion for the third quarter of fiscal 2026, a 62% increase from the same period last year and up 22% from the previous quarter Yahoo Finance Shacknews. Data Center Dominance The company’s data center division drove the bulk of growth, generating $51.2 billion in […]

German defense manufacturer Rheinmetall AG has sharply lifted its long-term outlook, announcing plans to achieve €50 billion in annual sales by 2030, a fivefold increase from its 2024 revenue of €9.8 billion. The revised target, unveiled during the company’s Capital Markets Day on November 18, 2025, positions Rheinmetall at the upper end of its previous […]

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has proposed new rules that would effectively end the public’s ability to challenge improperly granted patents at their source—the Patent Office itself. If these rules take effect, they will hand patent trolls exactly what they’ve been chasing for years: a way to keep bad patents alive and out […]

Powerful institutions are using automated decision-making against us. Landlords use it to decide who gets a home. Insurance companies use it to decide who gets health care. ICE uses it to decide who must submit to location tracking by electronic monitoring. Bosses use it to decide who gets fired, and to predict who is organizing […]

Contact: Josh Richman, EFF, [email protected];  Carmen King, ACLU of Northern California, [email protected] SAN JOSE, Calif. – San Jose and its police department routinely violate the California Constitution by conducting warrantless searches of the stored records of millions of drivers’ private habits, movements, and associations, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and American Civil Liberties Union of […]