Bahn: Pünktlichkeit im Fernverkehr weiter unter 60 Prozent
Im Februar erreichten nur 59,4 Prozent der Fernverkehrszüge der Deutschen Bahn ihr Ziel pünktlich. Die DB bleibt damit weiter hinter ihren Zielen.
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Ahmad Batebi, a journalist with VOA's Persian service, says he was fired over a clash about VOA limiting coverage of Iran's exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi (Laura Kelly/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/international/5772307-voa-persian…
contact: Haggle human proximity network (2006)
A network of human proximities, as measured by carried wireless devices. Each node represents a person, and an edge denotes when two people were within a certain proximity of each other, as measured by a wireless protocol (Bluetooth or Wifi). The edges are timestamped.
This network has 274 nodes and 28244 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Timestamps
X unveils a new pay-per-use pricing model for its API, replacing the earlier pricing model that required developers to pay fixed monthly fees of $200 or $5,000 (Rohit Singh/MediaNama)
https://www.medianama.com/2026/02/223-x-developer-api-pricing-pay-per-use-m…
"A brief notice from the Office of Personnel Management could dramatically change which personally identifiable medical information the agency obtains, giving it the power to see prescriptions employees had filled or what treatment they sought from doctors. "
Trump’s Personnel Agency Is Asking for Federal Workers’ Medical Records - Cobb Courier
https://cobbcountycourier.com/2026/04/trumps-personnel-agency-is-asking-for-federal-workers-medical-records/
Laurie Penny is very near the top of my list of favorite living writers. She has started a how-to-write-well series, entitled (for obvious reasons) “How to Write Like A Person”; intro here: https://open.substack.com/pub/lauriepenny/p/ho…
BYD Blade-Batterie 2.0: Von 10 auf 70 Prozent in fünf Minuten
Am Donnerstag zeigte das Unternehmen die zweite Generation seiner Blade-Batterie. Der Akku soll in fünf Minuten von zehn auf 70 Prozent springen – und nach insgesamt neun Minuten bei 97 Prozent stehen. Damit käme das Laden eines E-Autos dem Tankstopp an der Zapfsäule erstmals sehr nahe.
Samsung erwartet historischen Rekordgewinn
Samsung prognostiziert Verdreifachung des Betriebsgewinns. Der Elektronikriese profitiert vom KI-Boom und gestiegenen Computerchip-Preisen.
https://www.hei…