Saturday, 27 June 2026

World

A drone hits a cargo ship in the world's busiest oil lane, and a fragile peace with Iran starts to crack

Iran struck a commercial vessel in the Strait of Hormuz, the US hit back, and a preliminary deal to end the Iran war now hangs on who controls one stretch of water.

Finance

SpaceX joins the Nasdaq-100, and index funds must buy it whether they want to or not

Two weeks after its record IPO, SpaceX gets added to two of the biggest stock indexes — forcing passive funds to buy billions of dollars of a company that lost $4.9 billion last year.

Tech

Trump threatens a 100% tariff on any country that taxes US tech — and a trade deal signed days ago is suddenly in doubt

A fight over how to tax borderless companies escalates into a tariff threat, while memory-chip costs, a supply-chain breach, and a big chip deal reshape the week.

Mind & body

How your body holds a steady 37°C — and why a fever is the thermostat turned up on purpose

Your body defends its core temperature within a fraction of a degree, around the clock, using a handful of crude levers.

Climate

A US tax-credit deadline is making solar developers stampede before July 4

Solar companies have rushed to lock in federal subsidies before a July 4 cutoff, building a 200-gigawatt backlog of projects — nearly doubling the US solar fleet — while warning that power from any deal struck after the deadline could cost 40 to 120 percent more.

Space

Two planets the size of Jupiter, lighter than cotton candy

Astronomers found a pair of 'super-puff' worlds 1,110 light-years away — Jupiter-sized but so faint in mass that Jupiter itself is up to 35 times denser.

Biotech

Soil bacteria carry a built-in four-drug antibiotic cocktail — and it's hard to outrun

A single gene cluster in common soil bacteria makes four antibiotics at once, all hitting the same essential pathway in different places.

Money

The fee you pay every time you change money — that never shows up as a fee

Sports

Britain moves to keep the World Cup free — as the rest of sport learns to charge for everything

The UK is extending a 1996 rule that keeps its biggest sporting moments free-to-air into the streaming age — a deliberate exception to a market that, everywhere else this week, is charging more for less.

Gaming

Google starts cutting its Play Store fee — the price of being the only road to your phone

After losing to Epic, Google is splitting its 30% app-store cut into a billing fee and a service fee, dropping small developers to 10%.

Food

Fertilizer prices are finally falling. The farmer who already bought his won't feel it for a year.

A tentative U.S.–Iran deal reopened the Strait of Hormuz and fertilizer prices are dropping — but American farmers locked in their costs months ago.

Cyber

Two dozen companies were breached through a vendor they'd plugged into years ago

A break-in at the market-research firm Klue rippled out to its customers — including the security firms LastPass and BeyondTrust — through standing connections nobody was watching.