ASML Opens Shop in India With Two Dozen Engineers
In a conference hall in New Delhi during SEMICON India 2026, an ASML executive delivered a statement that carried more weight than its size. “Our operations in India start now,”…
Meta’s Apps Falter on the Night It Fights Britain’s Regulator
On the evening of September 20, Eastern time, two of the world’s most-used apps went dark across large parts of the United States. Facebook and Instagram suffered a widespread outage,…
Tata Trusts Declares Reappointment of Tata Sons Chairman Illegal
The largest shareholder of India’s biggest conglomerate has broken openly with the board it once spoke for. Tata Trusts, the charitable foundation that controls 66 percent of Tata Sons, said…
An Oxfordshire Village Votes to Secede From the United Kingdom
The wooden sign went up at the village entrance this week. It reads “Principality of Piddington,” and it is the product of a vote held on September 16, 2026, in…
Britain’s Prime Minister Takes Leave After His Father’s Death
The death was announced without fanfare, the way a family announces such things. Roy Burnham, the father of the British prime minister, died on September 14, 2026, at the age…
Monaco’s Heir Receives the Keys to Les Baux-de-Provence
The ceremony took place on a square in a medieval village in Provence, and at its center was an eleven-year-old boy. Prince Jacques of Monaco, the hereditary heir to the…
Smugglers Cut the Border Wall With a $5 Disc
The steel bollards of the U.S. southern border barrier rise in a tight line, each one a tall column of steel filled with concrete and meant to stop a person…
Sylvester Stallone Turns 80
He was born in Hell’s Kitchen, New York, on July 6, 1946, with a nerve injury from a forceps delivery that left the left side of his face partly paralyzed…
A Zero-Click Worm Spread Through WeChat Voice Calls
The demonstration required three phones and no cooperation from the victim. On a desk at a Palo Alto security firm, researchers placed a Pixel and an iPhone side by side…
Apple Relaxes ATT Prompts in Five EU Countries
Apple has spent years defending the design of the pop-up that asks users whether they want to be tracked, and regulators in Europe have spent years arguing that the design…
