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"Bangladesh mandates solar charging for millions of electric rickshaws"
#Bangladesh #SolarPower #Vehicles

Bangladesh mandates solar charging for millions of electric rickshaws - pv magazine Global
Bangladesh plans to require millions of battery-powered auto-rickshaws to use solar-powered charging stations as a condition of registration, aiming to reduce pressure on the electricity grid. Industry representatives say the policy could spur investment in solar charging infrastructure, create jobs and expand renewable energy, while urging the government to include net metering.

Hazardous Canadian wildfire smoke choking millions in US #Canada

Hazardous Canadian wildfire smoke choking millions in US
The Manhattan skyline was obscured by thick haze, and Chicago closed its beaches Thursday as out-of-control Canadian wildfires raged, sending smoke spewing into the United States and exposing millions of people to dangerously unhealthy air.

Americans are neither as hostile to socialism as they once were
nor as positive toward capitalism as they have been in the past.
More important than polling, however, is the fact that for many Americans the “communist threat” is a total abstraction.
There are tens of millions of voters (
who were young children when the Soviet Union fell.
There are millions more who weren’t yet born.
For these Americans, communism is as much a concern as the missile gap …

Image of Capitalism Slips to 54% in U.S.
Fifty-four percent of Americans, down from 60% in 2021, have a positive opinion of capitalism, while a steady 39% view socialism positively.

Tagebau #Hambach: OVG weist #BUND-Klage gegen Enteignung ab

Der Verband kündigt weitere rechtliche Prüfung an
Gericht bestätigt Grundabtretungsbeschluss
BUND hinterfragt Enteignungszweck
Höchstrichterliche Überprüfung geboten

A Google study using millions of de-identified AI interactions finds AI is helping workers, not replacing them, and much AI use is "shallow" for certain tasks (Justin Lahart/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/te…

“The El Nino has blossomed. It is off the charts. Usual measures of El Nino have blown past prior record levels in the period with good data, even though maximum effects are still several months in the future”
https://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2026/The.Bi…

Tencent launches TenPayGo, a payment app for foreign visitors to China that lets them pay tens of millions of merchants via Visa, Mastercard, and Apple Pay (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-24/tencent-…

Tariffs risk upending low-cost drug supply
Generic drug manufacturers must move production to the U.S. or face a 100% import duty starting August 2028, Trump said,
threatening the supply of low-cost medicines that millions of Americans rely on.
Trump said in a social media post, the move is aimed at “reshoring” generic pharmaceutical production in the U.S., and companies that don’t build plants onshore will face levies -- that would then double, to 200%, in August 2029, (Aft…

Cybersecurity companies say hackers are exploiting vulnerable WordPress versions to take over websites; WordPress patched two critical security flaws last week (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/20/hack

Hackers are exploiting recently patched WordPress bugs, putting millions of websites at risk | TechCrunch
Two critical security flaws in WordPress’ software have given hackers the chance to remotely take over tens of millions of websites, according to an estimate by a cybersecurity researcher.

Space datacenters proposed by SpaceX, Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin and others would
release staggering levels of pollution that would probably alter the Earth’s atmosphere
and be “catastrophic” for the planet, space industry experts and environmental groups warn in a new petition demanding a review of their impacts.
Tech companies have collectively proposed millions of “orbital datacenters”
and are pressing forward with plans, which require Federal Communications Commissi…

Space datacenters proposed by Musk and Bezos ‘catastrophic’ for planet, experts warn
New US petition demands review of plans from tech companies amid fears of environmental destruction