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Exterior of the National Stock Exchange of India building in Mumbai on the day its shares begin trading on the Bombay Stock Exchange.

NSE's ₹22,562-Crore IPO Opens for Trading on BSE

NSE's IPO drew ₹90,300 crore in bids against a ₹22,562-crore issue—a 5.7x oversubscription, the 2nd-largest in Indian market history. 📈 Only ~5% of equity floats, so early price discovery may be thin. Professional money took most of it; retail stayed muted. Since Aug

Commercial ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz against a coastline view, illustrating reduced oil tanker traffic.

Iran's crude hits zero as 17 ships cross Hormuz

Just 17 ships transited the Strait of Hormuz last weekend—down from 37 and far below the ~130 a global economy needs. Iran's oil exports: zero. 🛢️ CENTCOM touts 1 billion barrels moved; Iran keeps 127.5% inflation and $4.48 U.S. gas as its counter-story. Trump&

Air traffic control radar screens showing flight paths at a UK control centre, with aircraft symbols on a dark display.

UK air traffic failures disrupt thousands twice in two weeks

60% of Scottish airspace capacity lost — twice in two weeks ✈️⚠️ NATS suffered its second air traffic control failure this month, a software defect at its Prestwick centre that disrupted 25,000+ Ryanair passengers on Monday, on top of a Sept 8 outage that grounded 2,145 flights and hit 330,

A U.S. military aircraft flying over open ocean near a cargo vessel, with a warning overlay indicating an intelligence alert.

AI hallucination nearly sparked a U.S.-China confrontation

An AI hallucination nearly triggered a U.S.-China military confrontation. In September, a Pentagon chatbot’s confidently fabricated intelligence report claimed a Chinese cargo ship carried nuclear program parts. Armed teams were preparing to intercept — until experts rushed in with a correction. 🇺🇸🇨🇳 0 human verification before the mission clock

A padlock icon integrated into a network of interconnected server nodes, symbolizing widespread encryption dependencies.

OpenSSL's 40+ Flaws Underscore a Corporate-Dependent Ecosystem

40+ unpatched flaws hit OpenSSL, the library encrypting ~1/3 of the internet—including remote code execution in PKCS7_verify(). 🔐 That's like finding roaches in the kitchen of a five-star restaurant: one library buried in load balancers, routers, and clouds everyone trusts. But here's the

The White House exterior on a clear day as President Trump signs H.R. 5334, the secondary sanctions law on Russian energy buyers.

Trump signs secondary sanctions law hitting top Russian energy buyers

Russia's top oil and gas buyers now face up to 100% tariffs — covering roughly the entire value of Moscow's energy trade with China and India. 🛢️ Signed into law Sept 18, H.R. 5334 lets Washington target the 5 largest importers and LNG shadow-fleet vessels. India,

A 3D-rendered PDF document with a highlighted texture image file, symbolizing the malicious image payload in Adobe Reader.

Six-Flavor 3D PDF Flaw Made Adobe Reader an RCE Vector

Six CVEs. One codebase. The same root cause. In April 2019, Adobe patched 6 flaws (CVE-2019-7118–7123) clustered in Acrobat Reader's 2d.x3d module—the component rendering 3D content in PDFs 📄🔓 The trigger: an external texture image (shading_M.u3d) loaded inside a crafted 3D PDF.