Kia and Hyundai are joining Renault in launching a pilot project that allows electric vehicles to feed electricity back into the power grid. The trial currently involves eighty vehicles from the two South Korean automakers.
Amsterdam public transport operator GVB reported a 9% employee sickness rate and a 10% increase in traffic accidents in 2025, totaling 965 incidents. Despite operational challenges like staff shortages and high workloads, passenger injuries decreased and traveler satisfaction remained high with a rating of 7 or more from 87% of users.
A study commissioned by Bits of Freedom highlights that menstrual cycle tracking apps collect highly intimate data, such as sexual activity and masturbation habits, often without users knowing how it is used. This data is extremely valuable to advertisers, who find information about pregnancy and personal health particularly profitable for targeted marketing.
The European Commission has fined the Chinese online retailer Temu 200 million euros for selling illegal products, including baby toys that fail to meet European safety standards. The commission determined that the company has not taken sufficient action to prevent the sale of these prohibited items on its platform.
ING is joining other banks in restricting interest-only mortgages by lowering the financing limit to 30 percent of a property's value. This policy change will take effect on July 23.
