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India's Ethanol Corn Incentive Worked So Well It Broke Its Own Price Floor
A record corn harvest, grown to chase India's ethanol mandate, crashed prices below the government's own support level. A weak monsoon and a bigger ethanol claim on the crop are already pushing them back up.
September 27, 2026
Technology
Google's Hardened Framework Cuts XSS Bugs by 250 to 1
Google's AI bug hunter confirmed over 500 exploitable security flaws across its web apps, and only 2 on the hardened framework built to stop exactly that bug. The gap says more about templates than about talent.
September 27, 2026
Geopolitics
The Naga People's Front Absorbed More Defectors Than the BJP Did
ADR and National Election Watch counted 111 sitting Indian lawmakers who switched parties since 2022, and a Nagaland regional party absorbed more of them than the BJP did. The bigger story is the merger clause that can let a whole faction switch clean.
September 27, 2026
Technology
A Litigation Funder Bankrolled the Lawsuit That Just Cost Apple $5.7 Billion
A federal jury ordered Apple to pay $5.72 billion over two haptic patents, then discovery showed the winning plaintiff's case was bankrolled by a subsidiary of litigation funder Burford Capital.
September 27, 2026
Business
The 96 Indian Jets Nobody Has Linked to Boeing's Software Flaw
India's Boeing 737 MAX fleet has swelled to about 96 aircraft, roughly 4 percent of Boeing's worldwide total. No public report, including the one that broke the story, has named a single Indian jet running the flawed software.
September 27, 2026
Geopolitics
The Pentagon Paid Anthropic $200 Million, Then Labeled It a Supply Chain Risk
A federal appeals court just upheld the Pentagon's blacklist of Anthropic, a month after a different judge called the same policy illegal retaliation. The exposure it targets runs through the compute deals funding Anthropic's growth, the same kind of dependency India is now racing to build.
September 26, 2026
Business & Markets
Business
Maharashtra Declared Drought in 265 Talukas It Has Not Yet Measured
The government's resolution covers 265 of Maharashtra's 358 talukas on a rainfall-deficiency formula. The only quantified crop-damage estimate on record so far belongs to one region, Marathwada.
September 27, 2026
Business
India's Ethanol Corn Incentive Worked So Well It Broke Its Own Price Floor
A record corn harvest, grown to chase India's ethanol mandate, crashed prices below the government's own support level. A weak monsoon and a bigger ethanol claim on the crop are already pushing them back up.
September 27, 2026
Business
The 96 Indian Jets Nobody Has Linked to Boeing's Software Flaw
India's Boeing 737 MAX fleet has swelled to about 96 aircraft, roughly 4 percent of Boeing's worldwide total. No public report, including the one that broke the story, has named a single Indian jet running the flawed software.
September 27, 2026
Technology & Science
Technology
Google's Hardened Framework Cuts XSS Bugs by 250 to 1
Google's AI bug hunter confirmed over 500 exploitable security flaws across its web apps, and only 2 on the hardened framework built to stop exactly that bug. The gap says more about templates than about talent.
September 27, 2026
Technology
A Litigation Funder Bankrolled the Lawsuit That Just Cost Apple $5.7 Billion
A federal jury ordered Apple to pay $5.72 billion over two haptic patents, then discovery showed the winning plaintiff's case was bankrolled by a subsidiary of litigation funder Burford Capital.
September 27, 2026
Technology
RatHat Steals Bank PINs Without Ever Touching the OTP
A new Android banking trojan reads PINs straight off the screen using the accessibility tool built for blind users. India's OTP defense never even sees it.
September 22, 2026
Health, Culture & Geopolitics
Health
A Brain Signal, Not Willpower, Explains Why Dieters Regain Weight
India's GLP-1 market tripled in a year, but patients are stopping the drugs early over cost. New research on the brain and fat-cell mechanism behind weight regain says that stopping does not reset the body: it restarts the same signal that made the weight come off.
September 26, 2026
Health
Many Common Surgeries Work No Better Than a Fake Operation
A new review of sham-controlled surgical trials found most show no benefit over a fake operation. It is the same finding research has made for two decades, and it collides with India's insurance-driven appetite for elective surgery.
September 25, 2026
Health
India Approved Dementia Drugs Most Hospitals Cannot Monitor
India's regulator has cleared two Alzheimer's drugs that can slow the disease. Most dementia patients are in the wrong stage to get them, and most hospitals lack the scans to give them safely.
September 24, 2026