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World's First Green Fuel Levy To Add Almost $32 To Air Fares

3 months 3 weeks ago
Air passengers departing Singapore will pay a green fuel levy of as much as S$41.60 ($31.95) from next year as the city-state locks in a key step in its effort to cut the aviation industry's emissions. From a report: Travelers flying in economy and premium economy, as well as those on short-haul routes, will be charged far less. Those customers will pay an additional S$1 for trips to Southeast Asia, and S$10.40 for flights to the Americas, the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore said Monday. Business and first class travelers will pay four times more, it said. [...] The funds collected from passengers will go to the centralized purchase of sustainable aviation fuel -- typically made from waste oils or agricultural feedstock -- as Singapore looks to achieve a SAF adoption rate of 3% to 5% by 2030.

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De-duplicating the desktops: Let's come together, right now

3 months 3 weeks ago
Here come old FlatPak, it comes grooving up slowly...

opinion  The tendency of Linux developers to reinvent wheels is no secret. It's not so much the elephant in the room, as the entire jet-propelled guided ark ship full of every known and unknown member of the Proboscidea from Ambelodon to Stegodon via deinotheres, elephants, mammoths and other mastodons.…

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Apple Delays Release of Next iPhone Air Amid Weak Sales

3 months 3 weeks ago
An anonymous reader shares a report: Apple is delaying the release of next year's version of the iPhone Air, its thinnest smartphone, after the first model sold below expectations, according to three people involved in the project. Although the length of the delay remains uncertain, the product won't be released in fall 2026 as previously planned, they said. Apple has already sharply scaled back production of the first version, according to multiple people with direct knowledge of the matter.

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Riding The Choppy AI Datacenter Waves With Supermicro

3 months 3 weeks ago

There are somewhere on the order of 50,000 reasonably large companies, academic centers, and governments in the world that the enterprise IT market is like the ocean on a calm day in the doldrums. …

Riding The Choppy AI Datacenter Waves With Supermicro was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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