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Ford pulled the plug on the Escape last year after a 25-year run, but the crossover SUV is set to return as an EV based on the new UEV platform.

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BYD’s Q3 2026 earnings are out, and net profit jumped 28% year-over-year to ¥10.02 billion as the Chinese automaker shipped more than half a million vehicles out of the country in just three months.

But the rest of the filing is messier. BYD’s inventory is up 60% since January, its cash pile has shrunk by almost half, and profit is still down for the first nine months of the year.

BYD is still operating at a high level, but its business is changing.

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I know my headline probably seems a little over the top, but if you have been reading anything about what technologist Zvi Mowshowitz calls “The Hackening,” you may be prepared to cut me a little slack — especially since I am far from the only one putting it in those kinds of terms.

The Government of the United States of America and the Government of Finland (hereinafter referred to as the “Participants”), Expressing mutual interest in science and technology capabilities and standards to usher in the next Golden Age of Innovation to fortify freedom and prosperity for generations to come, Affirming the value of bilateral science and technology […]

The post Memorandum of Understanding Between The Government of the United States of America and the Government of Finland Regarding the Technology Prosperity Deal appeared first on The White House.

The NY Times recently asked readers “what they can no longer afford, or have given up on having”. Among the answers: medication, car repairs, new clothes, having more kids, eating out, and contact lenses.

This is great: Annie Rauwerda (of Depths of Wikipedia fame) sifted through the archive at newspapers.com to find the goings on of long-ago celebrity name doppelgängers (follow-up post). A few of my favorites: Tags: Annie Rauwerda · celebrity · language

Apple doesn’t roll out new iPhones every September because it’s fond of fall colors. In fact, if you’re a fellow old like me, you might remember the days when models like the iPhone 3G or iPhone 4 hit stores in the summertime.…

Donald Trump is positively desperate to give the East Potomac Golf Course in Washington, DC, the same old gaudy Trump treatment he's given the Rose Garden, the East Wing of the White House, the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts...

Former President Barack Obama took another shot at Donald Trump during a rally in Atlanta on Wednesday, and he hit the nail on the head. Trump was furious over Obama's Cheesecake Factory jab. Still, the president walked right into the trap, worrying about the restaurant-cha...

A new startup called &Truth is joining the race to automate formal verification, a painstaking process that uses math to prove software works as intended.

On Thursday, Mistral released the weights for its frontier open model, Mistral Large 4 (ML4), on Hugging Face.  Made available

The post Mistral’s Large 4 open weights arrive with a 1-point coding lead over GLM-5.3: “There’s nothing you can’t do with this model that you can do with competitors.” appeared first on The New Stack.

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I remember the pit in my stomach as I woke up to the texts telling me that Mahmoud Khalil had been kidnapped. I remember the terrifying 48 hours when we had no idea where he had been taken—just that the President wanted to make an example out of him. I remember crying on the...

The past few months, I have experienced multiple male cab drivers trying to get my phone number to take me out on a date. One even stopped his car a few blocks away from my apartment. I have also had men yell "Nice tits" and make obscene gestures at me while driving away. I ...

It is difficult to encapsulate the Milwaukee Brewers' first World Series victory, because for all the limiters and qualifiers that suggest they had done the implausible—the payroll, and the market size, and facing the Los Angeles Dodgers, and the "first World Series victory"...

It always seems like the things they accuse everyone else of doing are exactly what they’re doing themselves. Glad to see these two facing charges.

I was pretty sure the Knicks just needed to settle down, but the fans and the city and journalists and to some extent the team were still living mentally in June, in the aftermath of the greatest sports win in a long time. Then the team lost three, probably because they too ...

In the time Kash Patel has made chilling any scrutiny of election fraud claims a top priority, hackers have compromised him, the entire FBI, the FEC, and DHS.

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