" I went to the New York Times to glimpse at four headlines and was greeted with 422 network requests and 49 megabytes of data. It took two minutes before the page settled. And then you wonder why every sane tech person has an adblocker installed on systems of all their loved ones."

https://thatshubham.com/blog/news-audit

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"Changan Automobile said it will begin trial installations before the end of Q3 2026. With an energy density of 400 Wh/kg, the company claims its “Golden Bell” all-solid-state battery can deliver over 1,500 km (932 miles) CLTC driving range."

https://electrek.co/2026/03/17/solid-state-ev-batteries-with-800-miles-range-become-reality/

"Italy is also seeing rapid growth. EV sales there jumped 23% month-over-month in February, making it the country’s strongest month ever for EV sales. The Italian market is now up 98% year to date."

https://electrek.co/2026/03/12/global-ev-sales-hit-1-1-million-europe-surges-while-the-us-slides/

"According to the notice, the district court ruled that using the books to train LLMs was fair use but left for trial the question of whether downloading them for this purpose was legal."

https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/2026-anthropic-settlement

"That simpler design could make a meaningful dent in the cost of storing electricity.

According to Peak Energy, its system cuts the lifetime cost of stored energy by an average of $70 per kilowatt-hour. That’s roughly half the total cost of a typical battery system today."

https://electrek.co/2026/03/11/sodium-ion-batteries-hit-the-midwestern-grid-in-first-of-its-kind-pilot/

"They do not take into account how people are actually actually using AI, though Anthropic claims that that is exactly what it is doing."

https://www.404media.co/ai-job-loss-research-ignores-how-ai-is-utterly-destroying-the-internet/