September 2026
All columns and Brief analyses.
10 results
In Saxony-Anhalt, three seats meet a rule that was never written down
The AfD won the 2024 state election in Thuringia and still lacked the seats to take power. In Saxony-Anhalt it holds 39 of 83 seats, three short of a majority. What stands at the threshold now is a refusal to co-operate that appears in no text.
Inside Eskom's transmission split, the lenders hold the timetable
The Treasury's advisers have an end-2027 target and 18 months to work with. The consent of lenders across a substantial portion of Eskom's debt sits ahead of both, and the utility puts the cost of getting the split wrong at 840 billion rand.
Into waters where 92 ships were already redirected, Mohsen Rezaei adds a sanctions list
The blockade is physical and already counted: 92 ships redirected, three disabled. Tehran's answer is a zone whose boundary has not been drawn and a list of names to police it. In the Black Sea, Ankara is reaching for a similar instrument.
Jamaica asks the Privy Council whether slavery was lawful in the first place
The Judicial Committee Act that built the court is dated 1833, the same year Parliament abolished slavery and paid 27 million dollars to the owners. Olivia Grange's delegation is putting three questions to that court before anyone argues about money.
JLR's 4,000 jobs go while the 1.5 billion pounds arranged for it stays unspent
The government will not put money in to limit job losses at Britain's biggest carmaker, and the loan facility arranged after last year's cyber-attack has never been drawn on. At Port Talbot, 500 million pounds of public money bought greener furnaces and 2,500 people lost their jobs anyway. What Tuesday's talks cover is the scope and the terms of the redundancies.
Linux 7.3-rc2: Which fix should a developer test first?
Linux 7.3-rc2 brings fixes spanning CPU scheduling and display drivers. The useful choice for a developer is to find the change that touches their hardware and test it alongside the build settings.
SK hynix's 36.9 per cent weight meets a 20 per cent cap in a thinner market
About 1.7 trillion won of semiconductor ETF selling is due at the close on the 10th, and the money tracking the index has grown more than sevenfold while KOSPI turnover has shrunk by more than half. Monday's session in Taipei shows the same concentration without a ceiling.
Spotify moved the reading, and the coding agent's bill fell about 90 percent
Portal's two worker modes take file reading away from Claude Code and hand it to a cheaper model. The measurement belongs to one engineer and one repository, and the new costs are latency, a blocked-file rule and a second place to debug.
The Kospi's 3.34 per cent open drew 768.4 billion won from foreign and institutional buyers
Foreign and institutional investors bought a net 768.4 billion won at Monday's open while retail investors sold a net 812.2 billion won, and the same session took the won-dollar rate to 1,334.7. The marginal buyer changed hands; whether the fundamental follows is a separate question.
Three superconducting phases, and the one the instrument cannot yet name
Nuclear magnetic resonance drew two boundaries in K2Cr3As3 and split its superconducting state into three. What the measurement fixes is where those boundaries lie; what it leaves open is which of three allowed symmetries the new low-field region actually has.