Europe’s Auto Market: Forecast Is Steady, The Future Is Turmoil

The European auto market can look forward to a strong and steady future. But chaos looms as Chinese manufacturers reap the benefit of better efficiency and technology.

Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 prices hit $2,000, costing more than the RTX 5090 did at launch and with limited stock available

It costs just as much to buy an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 right now as the launch price for the RTX 5090, with prices now at least two times higher for this high spec GPU.

AI Coding Agents Are Changing Testing. But What Do They Really Cost?

For the first time, the same kind of intelligence can write the software and write the tests that verify it.

The Ford Escape will return as an EV based on the UEV platform
The Ford Escape will return as an EV based on the UEV platform

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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Zwift Announces $29.99 Plus Membership With Video Rides And Coaching

Zwift Plus is a higher-end $29.99 a month subscription that introduces video-based rides and a new coaching function.

‘GTA 6’ Enormous Map Size Confirmed, Enormous File Size Reported

GTA 6 is going to have one of the biggest, most dense video game maps of all time, but it will reportedly take a ton of hard drive space to install.

Ghostly Cat’s Head Nebula Lurks Within Sight of NASA’s Hubble, Webb
Ghostly Cat’s Head Nebula Lurks Within Sight of NASA’s Hubble, Webb

Like a spectral form rising out of a cold mist, NASA’s Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes have captured a hauntingly dynamic star-forming scene. It lies within the vast Carina Nebula, a diffuse star-forming region located about 7,500 light-years away from Earth. The small, select area both telescopes observed is nicknamed the Cat’s Head Nebula […]

Mistral releases open weights for its 1 trillion-parameter Large 4 model
Mistral releases open weights for its 1 trillion-parameter Large 4 model

Mistral has released the weights of Mistral Large 4, the 1 trillion-parameter model it previewed three weeks ago, and the version now on Hugging Face is noticeably sharper. The Paris-based company says three extra weeks of reinforcement learning, guide…

Why The Next Competitive Advantage Lies Beneath The Interface

When an agent does the clicking, your most frequent user is software somebody else built.

BYD (BYDDY) Q3 profit jumps 28% on exports, but inventory balloons 60%
BYD (BYDDY) Q3 profit jumps 28% on exports, but inventory balloons 60%

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 inven…