EV demand up 50% in France and Germany since Iran war
Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/renault-electric-vehicle-orders-have-surged-since-start-iran-war-says-ceo-2026-06-10/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48507986

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BYD To Install Thousands of 5-Minute EV Chargers Across Europe
BYD plans to install 3,000 ultra-fast “Flash Chargers” across Europe by the end of 2027, with the first stations already appearing in Germany and the UK. The Verge reports: At an estimated cost of 580,000 euros (about $670,000) per charger according to the Financial Times, that would mean a total spend of roughly $2 billion to install the network … ⌘ Read more

The world comes to Mystery Creek
There is a “growing appetite” for international delegations to use Fieldays as a place to learn about New Zealand’s agricultural sector, its chief executive says.

The national four-day event, which starts in Hamilton on Wednesday, is set to have 73 international exhibitors, up from 66 last year, from countries such as Australia, Belgium, China, Germany, Greece, Ireland, the Netherlands, Korea, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States. ⌘ Read more

‘Finally, a happy end’: Germany’s Alexander Zverev rejoices after winning first grand slam title
Alexander Zverev has ended a three-decade German drought, beating Flavio Cobolli in an epic five-set match to win the 2026 French Open. ⌘ Read more

No Babies? Blame Capitalism
Article URL: https://jacobin.com/2026/06/birth-rates-capitalism-socialism-germany

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48429940

Points: 5

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Journalist Spots Fugitive Terrorist Using Facial Recognition Software
Slashdot reader Bruce66423 writes: A German court this week sentenced a member of the Red Army Faction — a far-left terrorist organisation that operated in West Germany in the 1970s and 1980s — to jail. [67-year-old Daniela Klettewas was sentenced to 13 years for armed robberies, according to the Guardian, and “she also faces trial for … ⌘ Read more

Germany Law to Force Algorithm Boost for State-Approved News
Article URL: https://nonogra.ph/germany-considers-law-to-force-social-media-algorithm-boost-for-state-approved-news-05-27-2026

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48298837

Points: 17

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By the way, did you know that I have a five month notice period? Starting next year, it’ll be six months. Germany is the opposite of “hire and fire”, but it applies to both parties.

KDE Receiving Over 1.2 Million EUR Investment From Sovereign Tech Fund
KDE today announced a significant investment into the project by Germany’s Sovereign Tech Fund. KDE will be receiving €1,285,200 EUR (or roughly 1.5 million USD) over the years 2026 and 2027 to make some significant improvements into their software stack… ⌘ Read more

First Segment of the Fehmarnbelt Tunnel Is In Place
Longtime Slashdot reader Qbertino writes: The Fehrmarnbelt tunnel is a European construction megaproject building a tunnel between Denmark and Germany, crossing the Fehmarnbelt in the Baltic sea. The first segment of the tunnel has now successfully been placed in its designated spot. This is a yet-unseen, next-level engineering feat achieved by the Danish Sund & Baelt con … ⌘ Read more

@bender@twtxt.net I misread that sentence and thought that your first crush was called Gisela, and was like “wait, he’s not that old”.

Turns out, Gisela is a much younger name than I thought:

https://namecensus.com/first-names/gisela-meaning-and-history/

A peak in the late 1970is and late 1990ies? What?

But then it turned out that, in Germany, the popularity dropped rapidly in the late 1950ies, which actually matches my expectations:

https://www.beliebte-vornamen.de/5203-gisela.htm

In other words, some other countries picked up the name Gisela after it had already faded away in Germany.

What a fun rabbit hole. 😅

Sovereign Tech Agency Launches New Initiative To Help Open Standards
Germany’s Sovereign Tech Agency (Sovereign Tech Fund) has provided critical financial resources to open-source software projects and maintainers the past several years. This has proven to be an incredible effort and today they announced their newest initiative as the Sovereign Tech Standards… ⌘ Read more

Germany Doxes ‘UNKN,’ Head of RU Ransomware Gangs REvil, GandCrab
An anonymous reader quotes a report from KrebsOnSecurity: An elusive hacker who went by the handle “UNKN” and ran the early Russian ransomware groups GandCrab and REvil now has a name and a face. Authorities in Germany say 31-year-old Russian Daniil Maksimovich Shchukin headed both cybercrime gangs and helped carry out at least 130 acts of computer … ⌘ Read more

Court Rules TCL’s ‘QLED’ TVs Aren’t Truly QLED
A German court ruled that TCL misled consumers by marketing certain TVs as “QLED” when they “do not deliver the color reproduction expected from QLED TVs.” It has ordered the company to stop advertising or selling those models in Germany. TechRadar reports: The case was filed by Samsung, which claimed that TCL was running deceptive advertising, and more court cases on the same topic are … ⌘ Read more

German Publishers Push Regulators To Fine Apple Over App Tracking Transparency
German publishers and advertising groups are urging regulators to fine Apple over its App Tracking Transparency (ATT) system, arguing it unfairly restricts access to advertising data while allowing Apple to remain the central gatekeeper – without subjecting its own apps to the same restrictions. If Germany’s antitrust … ⌘ Read more

Sovereign Tech Fellowship Opens Up To Community Managers, Technical Writers
Germany’s Sovereign Tech Agency announced a new and expanded Sovereign Tech Fellowship program that is now open to community managers and technical writers, beyond just FOSS maintainers from the prior round… ⌘ Read more

Secondhand Laptop Market Goes ‘Mainstream’ Amid Memory Crunch
Sales of refurbished PCs are on the up amid shortages of key components, including memory chips, that are making brand new devices more expensive. From a report: Stats compiled by market watcher Context show sales of refurbished PCs via distribution climbed 7 percent in calendar Q4 across five of the biggest European markets – Italy, the UK, Germany, Spai … ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Our ads are one of these rubbish ones, unfortunately. They just speak about “an attractive salary”. I reckon I will tell my boss about this talk tomorrow (even though I doubt that any of them are from our department).

I’ve got the impression that salary is amongst the most top secret topics in Germany in general. My conspiracy theory is that companies don’t put any numbers in job ads because that would just reveal that most employees are underpaid.

TIL: If you’re trans in Germany and you want to start hormone therapy, you still need to be officially declared “trans” first (Indikationsschreiben, page 18: https://www.transinterqueer.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Hormontherapie_DE_barrierearm.pdf) and then you can try to find an actual doctor to get the meds. All with super long waiting lists. This takes forever. 😩

Changing your legal name is surprisingly easy in comparison, at least since 2024: https://www.bmbfsfj.bund.de/bmbfsfj/aktuelles/alle-meldungen/anmeldung-zur-aenderung-des-geschlechtseintrages-jetzt-moeglich-243056 (From my perspective, that’s the less relevant part, though, because there’s a good chunk of people that you can just ask to call you differently (friends, cowokers, …) and then do that legal stuff later. But you want your body to change, like, now.)

Security Researchers Find Current RISC-V CPU Implementations Coming Up Short
While many open-source enthusiasts like to flaunt RISC-V as not having the security challenges as x86_64 CPUs have seen over the past several years with various speculative execution / side-channel attacks and arguing for the benefits of an open-source ISA in stronger security, in practice it’s not so clear-cut. Security researchers at Germany’s CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security have found current RISC-V CPU impleme … ⌘ Read more

AI is Hitting UK Harder Than Other Big Economies, Study Finds
The UK is losing more jobs than it is creating because of AI and is being hit harder than rival large economies, new research suggests. From a report: British companies reported that AI had resulted in net job losses over the past 12 months, down 8% – the highest rate among other leading economies including the US, Japan, Germany and Australia, accordi … ⌘ Read more

When Two Years of Academic Work Vanished With a Single Click
Marcel Bucher, a professor of plant sciences at the University of Cologne in Germany, lost two years of carefully structured academic work in an instant when he temporarily disabled ChatGPT’s “data consent” option in August to test whether the AI tool’s functions would still work without providing OpenAI his data. All his chats were permanently delete … ⌘ Read more

Germany’s EV Subsidies Will Include Chinese Brands
Germany is reinstating EV subsidies after a sharp sales drop, rolling out a 3 billion-euro program offering 1,500-6,000 euros per buyer starting in May and running through 2029. Unlike some neighboring countries, the incentives are open to all manufacturers with a focus on low- and middle-income households. From a report: “I cannot see any evidence of this postulated major i … ⌘ Read more

Germany’s Dying Forests Are Losing Their Ability To Absorb CO2
Germany’s Harz mountains, once known for their verdant spruce forests, have become a graveyard of skeletal trunks after a bark beetle outbreak ravaged the region starting in 2018 – an infestation made possible by successive droughts and heatwaves that fatally weakened the trees. Between 2018 and 2021, Germany lost half a million hectares of forest, n … ⌘ Read more

‘Fish Mouth’ Filter Removes 99% of Microplastics From Laundry Waste
“The ancient evolution of fish mouths could help solve a modern source of plastic pollution,” writes ScienceAlert.
“Inspired by these natural filtration systems, scientists in Germany have invented a way to remove 99 percent of plastic particles from water. It’s based on how some fish filter-feed to eat microscopic prey.”

The research team ha … ⌘ Read more

Asahi Linux Has Experimental Code For DisplayPort, Apple M3/M4/M5 Bring-Up Still Ongoing
Prominent Asahi Linux developer Sven Peter spoke at this week’s 39th Chaos Communication Congress “39C3” in Hamburg, Germany. He provided an update around the still-in-the-works Apple M3 / M4 / M5 SoC and device support as well as other outstanding features like getting DisplayPort working on Apple Macs under Linux… ⌘ Read more

India Overtakes Japan As 4th-Largest Economy
An anonymous reader quotes a report from DW: India has surpassed Japan to become the world’s fourth-largest economy, according to calculations in the Indian government’s end-of-year economic review. On current trends, India is expected to overtake Germany to become the world’s third-largest economy within the next three years, the review said.

The review said India’s gross domestic pr … ⌘ Read more

#nealstephenson has a new blog post:

“KdK part 2: a medical mystery from postwar Germany”

https://nealstephenson.substack.com/p/kdk-part-2-a-medical-mystery-from

Volkswagen To End Production At German Plant, a First In Company History
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: The last vehicle will roll off the assembly line at Volkswagen’s plant in Dresden, Germany, on Tuesday, marking the first time in the automaker’s 88-year history that it has closed a plant in its home country. Volkswagen warned of potential production cuts last year, as i … ⌘ Read more

Germany Covers Nearly 56 Percent of 2025 Electricity Use With Renewables
Longtime Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shares a report from Clean Energy Wire: Renewable energy sources covered nearly 56 percent of Germany’s gross electricity consumption in 2025, according to preliminary figures by energy industry group BDEW and research institute ZSW. Despite a ‘historically weak’ first quarter of the year for wi … ⌘ Read more

**Zelensky due at Downing Street for high-level Ukraine talks **
Sir Keir Starmer will also welcome the leaders of France and Germany as Europe looks to respond to a US-led push for a peace deal. ⌘ Read more

Starmer to host Zelensky for Ukraine talks in London
The pair will be joined by France’s Emmanuel Macron and Germany’s Friedrich Merz on Monday. ⌘ Read more

Germany votes to bring back voluntary military service programme for 18-year-olds
The shift in its approach to its military follows a push to create Europe’s strongest conventional army. ⌘ Read more

Royals lay out festive greeting at glittering state banquet
Germany’s president was hosted at the glittering event after the first day of his state visit to the UK. ⌘ Read more

Royals lay out festive greeting at glittering state banquet
Germany’s president was hosted at the glittering event after the first day of his state visit to the UK. ⌘ Read more

Royals lay out festive greeting at glittering state banquet
Germany’s president was hosted at the glittering event after the first day of his state visit to the UK. ⌘ Read more

Royals lay out festive greeting at glittering state banquet
Germany’s president was hosted at the glittering event after the first day of his state visit to the UK. ⌘ Read more

King Charles welcomes German president on first state visit in 27 years
Germany’s president has received a ceremonial welcome from the King and will get a state banquet in Windsor Castle. ⌘ Read more

Germany to host Women’s Euro 2029 as England chase trophy hat-trick
Germany will host the 2029 Women’s European Championship, Uefa announces. ⌘ Read more

King Charles welcomes German president on first state visit in 27 years
Germany’s president has received a ceremonial welcome from the King and will get a state banquet in Windsor Castle. ⌘ Read more

King Charles welcomes German president on first state visit in 27 years
Germany’s president has received a ceremonial welcome from the King and will get a state banquet in Windsor Castle. ⌘ Read more

King Charles welcomes German president on first state visit in 27 years
Germany’s president will receive a ceremonial welcome from the King and a state banquet in Windsor Castle. ⌘ Read more

King Charles welcomes German president on first state visit in 27 years
Germany’s president will receive a ceremonial welcome from the King and a state banquet in Windsor Castle. ⌘ Read more

William and Kate greet German president on first state visit in 27 years
Germany’s president will receive a ceremonial welcome from the King and a state banquet in Windsor Castle. ⌘ Read more

Swiss Illegal Cryptocurrency Mixing Service Shut Down
Longtime Slashdot reader krouic shares a report from Europol: From November 24-28, 2025, Europol supported an action week conducted by law enforcement authorities from Switzerland and Germany in Zurich, Switzerland. The operation focused on taking down the illegal cryptocurrency mixing service Cryptomixer, which is suspected of facilitating cybercrime and money laundering. … ⌘ Read more

Fiery German threatens to ‘knock Opetaia senseless’ in title fight
Jai Opetaia’s next opponent, Germany’s Huseyin Cinkara, believes he has the power it takes to defeat the Australian world cruiserweight champion when they meet in the Gold Coast. ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net We have a bit of a vendor lock-in here in Germany: PayPal is sometimes the only non-shady option to pay for something. ☹️

Sovereign Tech Fund Hiring A New Leader For Driving Open-Source Funding
Germany’s Sovereign Tech Fund / Sovereign Tech Agency has been a godsend the past few years for the open-source community. This funding from the German government has led to significant funding for dozens of prominent open-source infrastructure projects to provide more resources for enhancing security, enabling new features, and more. As the Sovereign Tech Fund prepares for the next phase of growth, they are hiring a new head to lead the efforts.. … ⌘ Read more

Quantum Teleportation Between Photons From Two Distant Light Sources Achieved
Researchers in Germany achieved a major milestone for the future quantum internet by successfully teleporting quantum information between photons generated by two different, physically separated quantum dots – something never accomplished before due to the difficulty of producing indistinguishable photons from remote … ⌘ Read more

Merz asks Zelensky to reduce outflow of young Ukrainian men to Germany ⌘ Read more