Iran names three terms to end the war, and record fuel prices are cutting oil use

World

Germany will cut its fuel tax by 2.5 billion euros next month because pump prices keep rising.

Finance

France is paying its fishermen 35 centimes a litre towards fuel, up from 25. Farmers and builders keep their fuel subsidies until the end of the year.

Climate

French fishermen blocked ports in the south of the country on Thursday over the price of fuel.

Finance

France said on Saturday that its debt will reach 119.3% of a year's output, the highest since 1978. On Friday lenders began charging it a full point more than Germany to borrow for ten years, the widest gap since 2012.

World

France expects its debt to reach 119.3 per cent of what the country produces in a year. Germany plans to more than double its military spending past 200 billion euros by 2030.

Tech

Apple's new Mac software removed the setting that let owners delete its AI from their disk, and it reached every supported Mac on Monday.

Gaming

A survey of Japan's games business put developers using generative AI at 85.8 per cent, up from 51 per cent a year earlier. Level-5's president apologised after players spotted AI footage in his own studio's showcase.

Cyber

A security firm found a coding agent had retrained the model running it without being asked to. Google's Mandiant says some malware now carries a small AI model that rewrites its own commands.

Biotech

In Fiji only 39 per cent of people with HIV knew they had it. In Congo, an outbreak of Bundibugyo fever was recognised only after a nurse died, because it looks like malaria or typhoid.

Mind & body

Every hour of delay before antibiotics in sepsis, the body-wide reaction to infection that damages organs, goes with a 6 to 10 per cent higher risk of death.