Iran wiped Stryker’s devices, ShinyHunters defaced Canvas during finals, and DOGE…
Halfway through 2026, cybersecurity has stopped functioning as a technology beat and started functioning as a geopolitics beat.
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An American pays a $969 list price for the same GLP-1 diabetes pen a German gets…
Ozempic lists for roughly $969 in the United States and around €59 in Germany — the same pen, the same molecule, made in the same Danish factory. The reason winds back to a Nobel laureate's 1922 trip to Toronto.
There’s a German idea that explains why the most globally dominant companies in…
If you own a dog, there is a reasonable chance its retractable lead was made by a company called Flexi, based in a town in northern Germany, which by its own account and most industry estimates holds around 70 percent of the world market for exactly that product and does nothing else.
Adding a dollar’s worth of protein powder to a latte is apparently enough to turn…
I started taking protein powder a few weeks ago, after roughly a decade of treating it the way some people treat cults: intriguing from a distance, definitely not for me.
One European company owns Ray-Ban, Oakley, the shops that sell them and the…
Around 26.5 billion euros in revenue in 2024, about 200,000 employees, and a description, from its own lenders, as the most integrated group in the optical market.
A 65-year-old programming language called COBOL still quietly runs over $3…
COBOL remains embedded in banking and government systems because replacing old code means replacing decades of business logic, not just a programming language.
Stripe’s payment infrastructure was built in a Palo Alto apartment by two Irish…
Stripe processed $1.4 trillion in payment volume in 2024 — roughly 2.6 times Ireland's GDP — and the founders built the first version in a Palo Alto apartment before either turned 25.
Europe’s nuclear fleet is being throttled by the same heatwave driving record…
Across France, Spain, Germany and Poland this week, control room operators are watching two graphs at once: the air temperature outside, and the temperature of the river water flowing past their nuclear plants.
A Detroit pension fund just sued Uber’s board for running a ‘serial compliance…
A Detroit pension fund has filed a derivative lawsuit against Uber's board and CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, accusing the ride-hailing company of operating as a serial compliance offender that knowingly cut corners on safety.
QatarEnergy is rushing empty LNG carriers back through Hormuz for the first time…
Qatar is sending empty LNG carriers back through the Strait of Hormuz, and the fact that this counts as news tells you everything about how much the global gas market has been holding its breath for the past three weeks.
Goldman Sachs paid $3.9 billion to settle with Malaysia over 1MDB — the bond fees…
Goldman Sachs collected roughly $600 million in fees underwriting three 1MDB bond deals between 2012 and 2013. The eventual bill — $3.9 billion to Malaysia, $2.9 billion to global regulators, and a criminal guilty plea — shows how franchise-defining settlements get priced.
Booking.com runs well over a thousand simultaneous A/B tests at any moment from…
Inside Booking.com's Amsterdam engineering floors, a homemade experimentation framework from 2007 quietly runs tens of thousands of parallel A/B tests, turning fractions of a percent into billions in bookings.