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Having to spend the afternoon at a shopping centre because it's impossible or too costly to cool the home.
Pasar las tardes de verano en un centro comercial para escapar del calor: "Es muy triste no sentirte cómodo en tu hogar"

Pasar las tardes de verano en un centro comercial para escapar del calor: "Es muy triste no sentirte cómodo en tu hogar"
Ante el coste de climatizar sus viviendas, algunas familias recurren a estos recintos privados de tiendas y ocio para resguardarse de las temperaturas elevadas

China grants Geely a two-year permit for the country's first private satellite IoT trial, letting Geely offer connectivity to sectors like transport and energy (Ben Jiang/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article

China clears Geely for landmark satellite test to spur commercial space drive
Geespace secures a two-year satellite IoT trial from MIIT, the first approval for a private Chinese firm.

This Flock security teardown would be comedy gold if it wasn’t so tragic. https://medium.com/@neonmaxima/flock-hardcoded-53-passwords-into-90-000-police-surveillance-cameras-d9466caa8517

Flock Hardcoded 53 Passwords Into 90,000 Police Surveillance Cameras
The Wi-Fi password on a surveillance device processing 20 billion plate scans a month is literally the word “security.”

China's first commercial insurance policy for invasive BCI surgery is out https://insidebci.com/market/2026-08-16-picc-property-casualty-china-first-commercial-insurance-invasive-bci-surgery-zhejiang/

China's first commercial insurance policy for invasive BCI surgery is out
State-owned PICC Property and Casualty signed China's first commercial insurance policy covering invasive brain-computer interface surgery on Wednesday 12 August 2026. Counterparty is the Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine. Zhejiang Provincial Government Office released a same-day industry-policy package. Hong Kong and Shenzhen BCI-tagged stocks rallied.

Anduril and Archer unveil an autonomous aircraft platform designed for commercial and military uses, along with an autonomous attack rotorcraft called Thunder (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace

I'm looking for something that I absolutely *could* DIY but am pretty sure exists as a commercial product.
* Large format red/black/white (yellow optional) eink display, 7 inch or so
* Ethernet or wifi
* Local push based update (i.e. I can make a POST request or something directly to the device to dump an image onto it without needing to go through a cloud server or be on a VLAN with internet access. Timer-based pull update (device downloads an image at regular intervals)…

"'The Emperor is a fan of Flock, and we must continue utilizing Flock technologies so that we can follow and surveil the rebel scum..." Mr. Vader said.
'Because we all know that the Flock cameras are not only following the license plate readers, they are following children. They are following children in parks and gymnasiums. And we need this. I need this so I can stalk my ex-girlfriend,' the Dark Lord continued."

'The Emperor Is a Fan of Flock': Darth Vader Speaks at City Council Meeting
"This council was elected to serve the police, not the public," said Vader.

The Chinese city of Hangzhou deploys traffic-control robots that operate autonomously, using cameras and radar to signal traffic and flag violations (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/china-puts-robocops-traffic-duty-minus-arrest-…

Amazon says its business sales unit, Amazon Business, reached $60B in annualized gross sales in Q2, up ~71% from 2023, and serves 11M organizations worldwide (Matt Day/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-…

Hong Kong-based Qupital, which offers cross-border ecommerce financing to SMEs, raised a $300M Series C led by M Capital as it weighs a possible IPO (FinTech Global)
https://fintech.global/2026/09/15/qupital-eyes-ipo-after-landmark-300m-series-c-round/

Qupital eyes IPO after landmark $300m Series C round
Qupital, an AI-driven trade finance platform focused on cross-border e-commerce, has raised $300m in combined new capital, anchored by a Series C funding round aimed at accelerating its expansion into overseas markets. The financing was led by Asia-based asset manager M Capital, with additional asset-backed securities commitments from Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) and Quester […]