Saturday, 13 June 2026

World

Students fill Jakarta's streets warning Indonesia is "heading to bankrupt

Hundreds marched in Indonesia's capital against fuel price rises and a costly free-meals programme dogged by poisonings and corruption — plus the EU restarts Ukraine and Moldova's membership bids, Ebola reaches a Congo camp, and an aid-cuts warning on HIV.

Finance

SpaceX goes public — and the first-day pop reveals who really got paid

SpaceX's stock jumped 19% on its trading debut, a "successful" IPO that quietly handed billions to the few investors who got shares at the offer price.

Tech

The US ordered Anthropic to kill its two most powerful AI models — overnight

A Commerce Department directive forced Anthropic to shut off Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for every user worldwide, days after launch.

Mind & body

How your immune system fights infection — and why most of what you feel is your own body

The runny nose, the aches, the fever — those aren't the germ attacking you.

Climate

The U.S. wind industry hit a wall — not a ban, but a pause that won't end

The Pentagon quietly stopped reviewing onshore wind farms in April.

Space

The space industry is booming — and the insurers who cover it are watching their best business disappear

Operators are cancelling the giant satellites that bankroll space insurance and pivoting to cheap swarms that mostly aren't insured at all.

Biotech

A cancer therapy just put five lupus patients into remission — and it points at a dozen more diseases

A one-time treatment built to kill blood cancer reset the immune systems of patients with severe lupus.

Money

The small annual fee that quietly takes a third of your retirement

A fund fee looks tiny — under 1% a year.

Sports

The Chiefs gave Mahomes a half-billion dollars — and locked themselves in

Patrick Mahomes became the NFL's first $500m player this week.

Gaming

An investor wants the studio behind Elden Ring to "maximise earnings" — and the dev says that's the threat

An activist fund is fighting to reshape FromSoftware's owner around monetisation and hard targets, while Xbox weighs a spinoff and Ubisoft shuts two more studios.

Food

The fertilizer price spike from the Iran war is quietly unwinding — and dragging crops down with it

Urea, the world's most common nitrogen fertilizer, has fallen 36% from its April peak, erasing the war's risk premium even though the Strait of Hormuz is still shut.

Cyber

Hundreds of trusted software packages were quietly hijacked — the name stayed the same, the recipe didn't

Attackers took over 400-plus abandoned packages in Arch Linux's community repository and rewrote their build scripts to steal developer secrets.