German coalition government collapses(euronews.com)

38 points by gndk 1 year ago | 39 comments

German Government Collapses(euronews.com)

6 points by lqet 1 year ago | 0 comments

Overbooking – how providers divide up the bandwidth(blog.init7.net)

55 points by sschueller 2 years ago | 39 comments

China is the manufacturing superpower(cepr.org)

144 points by luu 1 year ago | 182 comments

We don't need startups, we need Digital-Mittelstand(mertbulan.com)

108 points by mertbio 1 year ago | 146 comments

Undersea power cable linking Finland and Estonia suffers damage(euronews.com)

68 points by austinallegro 1 year ago | 51 comments

UK rail minister got engineer sacked for raising safety concerns(politico.eu)

435 points by scrlk 2 years ago | 223 comments

Politico Europe article reporting that UK rail minister Peter Hendy got engineer Gareth Dennis fired for raising safety concerns, threatening to withhold public contracts.

Privatisation has been a costly failure in Britain(economist.com)

382 points by benrmatthews 3 years ago | 444 comments

An Economist By Invitation opinion piece in which think-tank head Mathew Lawrence argues privatisation in Britain has been a costly failure and favours state ownership.

Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn(theocharis.dev)

1122 points by JeremyTheo 10 months ago | 978 comments

Personal blog post by Jeremy Theocharis recounting a Deutsche Bahn train journey gone wrong, which he likens to being kidnapped, and the 1.50 EUR compensation he received.

Security Disclosure(blog.railway.com)

571 points by passenger 4 days ago | 334 comments

Railway blog post disclosing that an unauthorized party may have accessed and decrypted customer environment variables, urging users to rotate all secrets.

Why Japan has such good railways(worksinprogress.co)

537 points by RickJWagner 6 months ago | 507 comments

A Works in Progress magazine essay explaining why Japan's railway system is so effective.

Building supercomputers for autocrats probably isn't good for democracy(helentoner.substack.com)

370 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 192 comments

Helen Toner's Substack essay criticizing OpenAI's Stargate UAE project and the framing of building AI supercomputers for autocratic governments.