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Even in your own wallet, USDT and USDC can be frozen by their issuers.
CZ is thanking Tether and Circle for freezing funds after a suspected Binance hack.
That power can stop a thief. Holding your own keys doesn’t remove your dependence on the issuer.
Your car app says you're not enrolled in driving-data tracking. But your data is being sold anyway.
That's what state investigators say happened to more than 370,000 GM drivers. Their data reached brokers and insurers.
GM agreed today to pay $220 million to settle the allegations.
A civilization could go extinct and still be exploring the galaxy millions of years later.
That’s the fascinating thing about von Neumann probes. One machine reaches another star, builds copies of itself, and sends them onward.
If that’s physically possible, the interesting question isn’t just whether humanity will build one.
It’s why we haven’t seen anyone else’s yet.
Yesterday, the FTC asked DoorDash and Instacart whether personal data affects prices and pay.
Today, DoorDash announced a $17 billion deal to buy Instacart.
Europe is releasing 42 million barrels of oil from its reserves. This release is part of a broader commitment made by G7 countries last month to release oil to help ease price pressures and stabilize the market.
GM will pay $220 million to settle allegations that it sold drivers' location and behavior data to third parties, according to Washington's attorney general.
Reuters reports that the Pentagon is investigating mysterious refrigeration failures at U.S. military-base grocery stores.
A Starlink station in Lithuania was targeted in an attempted arson attack. Now two suspects have been charged with terrorism-related offenses.
Earlier this week, I asked Elisha Wiesel what Berlin's political leaders should be willing to sacrifice to protect Jewish life.
“They should be willing to sacrifice their governing coalitions,” he told me.
Today, Der Spiegel reported that Elif Eralp, who wants to become Berlin's next mayor, tried to remove a question from an interview because she feared for her family's safety.
The question concerned a man who had praised Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas leader behind the October 7 massacre in Israel. The same man had attended an election-night gathering of Eralp's Left Party in Berlin.
The report does not say he personally threatened her. I take her fears seriously.
But the Left Party, Greens, and Social Democrats have just promised to protect Jewish life in Berlin.
If a politician seeking to lead Germany's capital is afraid to publicly discuss someone who praised a Hamas leader, I want to know what protection ordinary Jewish Berliners can expect.
And I want to know what those three parties are prepared to do when protecting Jewish life comes at a political cost.
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No single company is planning for this. Each one just thinks about its own costs. One company replacing workers with AI still has customers who work elsewhere. But if every company does it, there are fewer paychecks out there to buy anything. Nobody has a settled answer yet, which is why people keep asking.
VW’s European EV orders rose 39% in the first nine months of 2026. EVs made up about 40% of its European order bank at the end of September. Yet VW says lower-margin EVs, China and pricing pressure weighed on earnings. More demand doesn’t automatically fund what comes next.
Why does it suddenly seem like governments everywhere are telling people to stock up?
I checked the dates.
🇪🇺 EU: Preparedness strategy, including a 72-hour self-sufficiency goal, announced in March 2025.
🇳🇴 Norway: Annual preparedness week. This year’s theme was already documented on January 16.
🇧🇪 Belgium: Four-year preparedness campaign launched in April 2026.
🇬🇧 UK: Campaign plans outlined July 14. Launch repeatedly delayed before finally going live October 22.
🇯🇵 Japan: New disaster management agency opens November 2. The law was enacted in July.
Some of these efforts explicitly address sabotage, cyberattacks and war, not just natural disasters. That’s worth examining.
But the timing alone isn’t evidence of a single imminent crisis.
Governments didn’t suddenly start preparing. Plans made at different times are now attracting public attention at the same time.
That’s an important distinction.
Apple finally made a touchscreen MacBook Pro. It starts at $2,899. Apparently, touching your own laptop is now a premium feature.
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ES BEGINNT: Münchner Taxifirma holt 500 Robotaxis nach Deutschland!
Gregor Beiner, Geschäftsführer des Münchner Taxi Zentrums, hat am 27. Oktober auf dem Madrid Autonomous Mobility Summit eine Bestellung über bis zu 500 Tensor Robocars unterzeichnet.
SPANNEND: Beiner ist zugleich Präsident des Bundesverbands Taxi und Mietwagen und Vorsitzender des europäischen Verbands Taxis 4 Smart Mobility, einem Zusammenschluss aus sechs Ländern. Also genau die Branche, die jahrelang gegen Uber prozessiert hat, bestellt jetzt die Technologie, die den Fahrerberuf überflüssig macht!
Was konkret gekauft wird:
Tensor sitzt in San José und hieß bis August 2025 AutoX, ein chinesischer Robotaxi-Anbieter mit Flottenbetrieb in China ab 2019.
Sämtliche China-Aktivitäten wurden abgestoßen, die Büros geschlossen, seitdem ist es offiziell eine amerikanische Firma. Gebaut wird in Vietnam, gemeinsam mit VinFast. Gerechnet wird auf acht NVIDIA-Chips mit zusammen 8.000 TOPS, dazu über 100 Sensoren.
Der Stand: Erste Auslieferungen sind für Ende 2026 angekündigt. Lyft hat mehrere hundert reserviert und will ab 2027 eine eigene Flotte in Europa und Nordamerika betreiben. Tensor prüft eine Finanzierungsrunde über 300 bis 400 Millionen Dollar vor einem möglichen US-Börsengang.
Ein deutscher Taxiverbandspräsident holt also 500 Fahrzeuge von einem Anbieter, der aus einem chinesischen Robotaxi-Unternehmen hervorgegangen ist, in Vietnam produziert und auf amerikanischen Chips rechnet!
Beiner nennt das Datensouveränität, weil Marke, Kunden und Daten beim Taxiunternehmen bleiben. Die Fahrsoftware bleibt bei Tensor und wird als Abo bezahlt, Autonomous Driving as a Service. Wird das Abo gekündigt, steht die Flotte.
Deutsch ist daran also maximal die Lackierung.
Chrome can now pull stuff from your Gmail to autofill forms: confirmation numbers, order numbers, tracking info, you name it. It’s opt-in and US-only for now.
Amazon announced five new Alexa devices today: the Echo Show 16, Alexa Photo Frame, Echo Dot, Echo Studio with Home Camera and Echo Time. It also cut jobs in its devices and services division. Reuters, citing a source, says it was up to 250 roles, mostly in software development. Amazon confirmed the cuts but didn’t give a number.
Putin called Elon Musk “a real genius” today, while touring an exhibition at the Russia-Africa summit in Moscow where he was shown Russia’s Starlink rival, Rassvet. He then said Russia is in close contact with American partners, including Musk, so that satellites in orbit don’t interfere with each other.
A new UN Commission of Inquiry found compelling evidence that Russia trafficked people from 29 countries into its military through deception or coercion.
An Israeli embassy in Europe has been targeted again.
A knife-wielding attacker assaulted a police officer guarding Israel's embassy in Belgrade overnight. The officer was wounded and shot the attacker dead.
Serbian authorities are investigating the incident as terrorism and say the attacker supported ISIS.
In June 2024, another officer was wounded in an attack at the same embassy.
Two attacks on the same diplomatic mission in little more than two years.
That's a disturbing reminder of the danger faced by the people assigned to protect it.