Carscoops

Canada’s China Deal Promised Affordable EVs, But $100,000 SUVs Are First Off The Boat

Geely is officially heading to Canada, though don’t bother looking for the brand name at a car dealership strip north of the border just yet. The Chinese brand’s access to the Canadian market comes ...
The New York Times

The Bank Trump Is Relying On for Rare-Earth Minerals

The Export-Import Bank is providing a $10 billion loan to Project Vault, an initiative to stockpile critical minerals. The project is the administration’s latest effort to reduce reliance on China. By ...
The White House

Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Imposes a Temporary Import Duty to Address Fundamental International Payment Problems

PROTECTING THE U.S. ECONOMY AND NATIONAL INTERESTS: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed a Proclamation imposing a temporary import duty to address fundamental international payments problems and ...
The Boston Globe

Epstein files rife with uncensored nudes and victims’ names, despite redaction efforts

NEW YORK (AP) — Nude photos. The names and faces of sexual abuse victims. Bank account and Social Security numbers in full view. All of these things appeared in the mountain of documents released ...
Neowin

LibreOffice 26.2 brings JSON import and other long-awaited features

The Document Foundation released LibreOffice 26.2 today with several long-awaited features and performance improvements for Writer, Calc, and Base. The Document Foundation released LibreOffice 26.2 ...
SlashGear

I Imported My Dream JDM Car, Here's Everything I Wish Someone Told Me About The Process

I grew up in the 1990s, during the heyday of Japanese imports. We were spoiled for choice in this era, whether we're talking classic 1990s JDM legends such as the Toyota Supra, Mazda RX-7, and Nissan ...
GitHub

Export a Firebird database to CSV, JSON or other pandas format

Import a Firebird 1 database to pandas dataframes, show a summary of the database table names, field names, field data types, and index columns, optionally extract and save table data to a directory, ...
Neowin

Good news for Excel users: You can now import data from CSV files without Power Query

To make it easier to pull a .csv or .txt file directly into Excel without having to deal with Power Query, Microsoft is introducing two new import functions. Microsoft is making two new Import ...
CNET

Anthropic's New Claude Cowork Is an AI Agent for Your Computer's Files

Cowork can also use the data in that folder to create new projects -- but it's still in early access, so be cautious. Imad was a senior reporter covering Google and internet culture. Hailing from ...
pv magazine International

China to abolish solar export tax rebates in April

China will eliminate value-added tax (VAT) export rebates for photovoltaic products from April 1, 2026, according to a joint notice released on Jan. 9 by the Ministry of Finance of the People’s ...
csis.org

Greenland, Rare Earths, and Arctic Security

Just one day after the U.S. raid in Venezuela and capture of Nicolas Maduro, President Trump turned his sights northward to the island of Greenland. On January 5, President Trump affirmed, “we need ...