India's Gen Z protests dent Modi, as South Asia's youth revolts keep spreading

World

A leaderless online movement forced a rare climbdown from Modi's government, and it fits a regional pattern where fear suddenly switches sides.

Finance

Stocks hit records and fear gauges near a 2026 low, even as leveraged trades unwind at the edges.

Tech

More outages now trace to the control plane - the shared management layer every workload depends on - as a record AI build-out crams more onto it.

Mind & body

A nerve either crosses a set line and fires a full, identical signal, or it does nothing.

Climate

A new study finds retiring even a functional petrol car for an electric one cuts lifetime emissions in most cases - yet it stays too costly to do.

Space

A buried sea on Jupiter's moon could hold life - but reaching it is gated by the sky lining up, not by engine power.

Biotech

New pooled trial data shows semaglutide guards the kidney, on top of the heart and the waistline.

Money

Every bet you're offered - a lottery ticket, a checkout warranty, an insurance premium - is answered by the same multiplication: payoff times probability.

Sports

The Dodgers added the game's best pitcher and stretched an already-record bill, and rivals are raising their own spending to keep pace - but only one team wins the World Series each year, and a lockout fight over a salary cap is really a fight over whether to call off the race.

Gaming

The next console fight is over your game library.

Food

A claim you could never verify by tasting turns out to be the one most worth faking - and the regulator, not your senses, is what stands behind it.

Cyber

This week showed both sides of cybersecurity's identity problem: a prolific extortion crew shedding the label researchers gave it, and two rare cases of hackers finally caught and sentenced years after the fact.