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European battery-electric sales jump as global EV demand reaches 2.09 million in October
Europe led October's electric-vehicle growth, while North America's first annual rise of 2026 reflected comparison with a sharply depressed market a year earlier.
New York City Council approves ban on surveillance-based pricing
The measure bars businesses from using shoppers’ personal data to set individualized prices and allows fines of up to $1,000 per transaction.
Firefox tightens fingerprinting defenses after study of nearly 25 million users
Mozilla says research into the browser signals most useful to trackers informed protections that reduce how uniquely Firefox users can be identified.
UK smart-meter upgrades face £4 billion bill as 2G networks close
A connectivity report estimates that 12 million to 13 million British smart meters will need new communications hardware or complete replacement before legacy mobile networks shut down.
Llama-modchip project claims 284-billion-parameter AI inference on a 64GB CPU system
An open-source project is offering custom models and kernels designed to run large mixture-of-experts systems in memory without a discrete GPU.
AI-led market retreat leaves chip stocks far below their record
The S&P 500's decline remained a correction by historical standards on November 7, while technology and semiconductor benchmarks had fallen much further.
ASN Bank says iDEAL Wero does not yet support some alternative Android systems
The Dutch bank told customers using GrapheneOS that device-integrity requirements currently prevent iDEAL Wero payments and offered no timetable for broader support.
Global technology shares slide as investors reassess AI spending after US midterms
A sharp Wall Street retreat spread through Asian markets as traders weighed tougher data-centre policy and signs that the pace of AI investment could slow.
Village analysis finds closed AI models leading most hosted price-performance tiers
The company's LLM Atlas study says open-weight models lead at 3% of tested budget points, though self-hosting costs and methodology limit broader conclusions.
Reports link US intelligence and drones to deadly strike on alleged ELN base in Venezuela
Human-rights monitors reported at least 20 deaths in Apure state, while Venezuelan authorities had not publicly confirmed the operation described by US and local sources.
Baidu releases 280-billion-parameter ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base model
The open pretraining checkpoint activates 14 billion parameters per token and is designed for efficient long-context adaptation.
Macronix ROM exit puts pressure on Nintendo cartridge supply
The chipmaker is winding down ROM production as higher-value memory products compete for limited factory capacity.
From Wisconsin
Reports with a Wisconsin connection. Dates show when the events occurred.
- Squirrel Named “KOJO” Wins Meme of the Year After Viral Photo Takes Over the Internet
- Newborn Pygmy Hippo Named “ROBIN” Becomes Wisconsin’s New Viral Animal Star
- Packers running back Josh Jacobs arrested on domestic violence charges
- Person of interest identified in Brown University shooting case as investigation continues
- Morgan Geyser is captured in Illinois after fleeing Wisconsin custody
- Five dead, hundreds displaced after Milwaukee apartment fire forces residents to leap from windows