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Woodside pauses Scarborough gas work after Greenpeace boards platform

Woodside Energy has paused work on its Scarborough gas platform off Western Australia after Greenpeace protesters climbed aboard. Early start-up work at the site has stopped, Australia’s biggest gas exporter said, Bloomberg reported. “Greenpeace’s actions have triggered a significant, potentially costly and entirely avoidable response,” Woodside said. The firm said it wants the authorities to act […]

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Sony revives the Walkman with a $5,899 gold-plated flagship

Sony has revived the Walkman with three digital music players priced from $1,899 to $5,899, the flagship built around a gold-plated oxygen-free copper chassis. No European price or release date has been given, and the EU’s rule on user-replaceable batteries applies from 18 February 2027. Sony has brought back the Walkman with a flagship costing […]

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EV sales rebound to their highest level in a year, and stay 40% below 2025

US EV sales rose 6.1% on the previous quarter to almost 263,000, their highest in a year, against more than 437,000 in the same quarter of 2025. Europe registered 277,006 electric cars in July alone. American electric car sales rose 6.1% on the previous quarter, their best in a year. They were still about 40% […]

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America has passed 80,000 public fast-charging ports for the first time

The US passed 80,000 public fast-charging ports for the first time, adding 4,106 in the third quarter, a 12% drop on a year earlier. The EU counted 212,439 public DC points in April and added nearly 18,000 of them in four months. America has passed 80,000 public fast-charging ports for the first time, after adding […]

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Volkswagen’s US EV sales collapse 90% in a quarter

Volkswagen sold 1,421 electric cars in the United States in the third quarter, a 90% fall, after ending ID.4 production and halting imports of its electric minivan. In Europe battery electric cars took 29% of new registrations in August. Volkswagen sold 1,421 electric cars in the United States between July and September. That is 90% […]

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Data centre firms say the AI bottleneck is now power and labour

Executives from NTT Data, Brookfield and Infosys say electricity and skilled labour, not chips, now limit how fast AI data centres get built. In Europe the binding constraint is worse, with grid connections in congested markets running to ten years. The thing slowing the AI buildout is no longer the chips. Executives running some of […]

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AMD puts 32,768 CPU cores in a rack built for AI agents

AMD has published Helion, an open rack blueprint for running AI agents rather than training models, with a CPU-only version holding up to 32,768 cores. Partner systems are due in November, and the pitch is how many agents fit in each watt. AMD has published a rack blueprint for running AI agents rather than training […]

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Parents near Tesla’s Fremont plant question emissions plan, SFGate reports

Parents at an elementary school next to Tesla’s Fremont car plant want more time to question a plan that could raise emissions from the factory, Matthew Brown reported for SFGate. Lila Bringhurst Elementary sits less than 1,000 feet from the plant. Tesla has applied to change emission limits on two aluminium melting furnaces and add new […]

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California is paying up to $100,000 a port for public EV fast charging

California has opened a $28M round paying up to $100,000 per public DC fast-charging port, covering as much as 100% of eligible costs. The top rate goes only to ports above 275kW, even though charger makers’ own data shows plug count raises usage far more than power does. California has opened a $28M round of […]

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Oracle moves gas by trucks to keep its AI data centres on schedule

Oracle is trucking compressed natural gas to AI data centres that cannot yet connect to a pipeline, at roughly four times the price of gas at a hub. Europe has the same grid bottleneck and is answering it the other way, with Spain proposing to refuse connections to any data centre not on 80% renewables […]

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