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Art by GPT-6 “No man could bind him, no, not with chains…neither could any man tame him” — Mark 5:3—4 When I was 14 or 15 — I don’t quite remember — I first got access to the World Wide Web. I remember clicking on the little blue square of the Netscape Navigator icon — that littl

Heating oil costs 'more than double' ahead of winter - Published Households in Upper Teesdale are preparing for winter with the cost of heating oil "more than double" what it was compared to this time last year. With no mains gas supply in Middleton-in-Teesdale, most homes in the

How families are cutting the cost of Halloween as spending grows - Published Halloween has become one of the UK's biggest seasonal celebrations, with spending on costumes, decorations and themed events continuing to grow. As a mum, I have already found myself buying three costume

Firms 'holding back' on new jobs ahead of Budget - Published Some businesses are calling for the costs of employing staff to be brought down in the Budget on Wednesday. A publisher from Tavistock, Devon, said he was "holding back" from filling two new positions at his firm becaus

Will a new code end 'rip-off parking charges'? - Published "I was completely on edge, every single day," said Rosey Greenwood. "I had letters coming through - I had debt collectors after me." Two years ago, Rosey was being told to pay £1,906 because she had taken too long to pay

You.com's Inference Router Challenges OpenRouter With Built-in Failover and Web Search You.com's new Inference Router pairs open-weight models like Kimi K3 and GLM 5.3 with a 99.9% uptime SLA, zero data retention, and built-in web search. - You.com launched Inference Router, an O

Indian Stock Market | US-Iran latest news | Sensex, Nifty prediction: US President Donald Trump has said that the US is considering a possible attack on Iran as soon as Sunday, pointing out that Washington might have to “finish the job” or could reach a deal with Tehran. The late

On Friday, OpenAI said that it will train its models using cached copies and simulated versions of the internet instead of the live web because the models are too unpredictable to be trusted with live internet access. The frontier lab announced its new policy two weeks after its

Over the last three months, eight penny stocks have delivered price returns ranging from 35% to 180%. These stocks were identified using a defined set of filters: a market capitalisation below Rs 1,000 crore, a share price under Rs 20, and a minimum latest trading volume of 5 lak

Comfy-Org bundles FLUX.1-dev and its control variants into single-file safetensors with built-in text encoders, cutting setup friction for ComfyUI users under 24GB VRAM.

However, Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPIs) significantly moderated their selling last week and turned net buyers on two trading days, signalling some easing in selling pressure. The latest outflows follow net withdrawals of Rs 35,861 crore in September. FPIs had invested Rs 20,2

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Kotak Mahindra Bank shares will be in focus on Monday, 26 October, after the private sector lender reported a strong earnings performance for the September quarter, with consolidated net profit rising 26% year-on-year to ₹5,645 crore. On a standalone basis, the bank's profit afte

India’s payments ecosystem has shown that financial infrastructure can operate at enormous scale. But as fintech companies expand into cross-border business payments and adopt AI, they face a different set of challenges. At TechSparks 2026, Movin Jain, Founder of Skydo, and Srijo

India has made digital payments as simple as scanning a QR code. The next opportunity lies in using payments to connect consumers with relevant financial products and help businesses address the challenges of growing online. At TechSparks 2026, Deep Agrawal, Head of Payments at P

Budget 2026: No more fat to trim for 'squeezed middle' - Published As Chancellor John Healey puts the final touches to his first Budget, how are the "squeezed middle" feeling after years of cost-of-living pressure? Dawn Fazackerley-King is trying to work out how she and her famil

A new MCP server and playbook lets AI coding agents reverse engineer, patch, and ship multiplayer support for any single-player PC game.

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Launched in 2014, PhotoSparks is a weekly feature from YourStory, with photographs that celebrate the spirit of creativity and innovation. In the earlier 1,020 posts, we featured an art festival, cartoon gallery. world music festival, telecom expo, millets fair, climate change ex

Four ways Labour could raise money in the Budget without hiking income tax - Published We're likely to hear a lot about the chancellor's "headroom" in this Budget. That is the cash buffer the government has to help meet its own fiscal rules and reduce borrowing. Economists think

Lateral Sparks, the weekly quiz from YourStory, tests your domain knowledge, business acumen, and lateral thinking skills (see the previous edition here). In this 255th edition of the quiz, we present issues tackled by real-life entrepreneurs in their startup journeys. What would

Backed by Edelweiss Alternatives, the ₹1,200-crore IPO offers exposure to private credit and real assets, but investors must weigh strong fee-paying AUM growth against performance-linked earnings volatility and a 40.6-times FY26 P/E.

KEC International shares will be in focus on Monday, 26 October, after the RPG Group company secured turnkey orders worth ₹2,872 crore from Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (PGCIL) for the design, supply and installation of 765 kV transmission lines. The latest wins include th

The United Arab Emirates shut more beaches after an oil spill in the Persian Gulf raised concerns over environmental and health impacts.

Listen to this article in summarized format Edited excerpts from a chat: Nifty closed at 22,600 levels after touching 22,372. Is the 22,200–22,000 zone still a credible support base, or has the market entered a fresh leg of the downtrend? Yes, 22,200–22,000 is strong support for

The geopolitics of open-weight AI are accelerating again this fall, as we would expect with the risks of all AI systems (open and closed) rising rapidly. We’ve seen many news items in the last week showing both the U.S. and Chinese governments positioning themselves for some cont

Flipkart’s senior exits and ESOP liquidity concerns are adding to its IPO uncertainty as Walmart pushes for profitability while the ecommerce giant continues investing in quick commerce and food delivery. Questions over an IPO and ESOPs, huge investments in quick commerce and foo

To be eligible for these corporate actions, investors must hold the shares in their demat accounts as of the respective record dates. The list is tentative, as more companies may announce record dates for dividends, bonus issues, stock splits and rights issues during the week. He

Claude Opus 5.5 and Claude Sonnet 5.5 are now available in Google Antigravity Marialaura Garcia Product Marketing Manager, Google Cloud Rich Hyndman Developer Relations, Google Antigravity Whether you are iterating on a quick bug fix or planning a complex migration, different tas

Anthropic Brings Claude Directly to Google Cloud With Same-Day Feature Access Anthropic now runs Claude directly on Google Cloud with day-zero feature parity, GCP billing, IAM, and commitment drawdown, no Vertex AI required. - Claude Models on Google Cloud (Anthropic managed) is

DeepSeek's V4.1 Flash 1017 Tops Public Cybersecurity Rankings at $0.42 per Task DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 tops the Artificial Analysis Cyber Index among open models, with zero safety refusals and a 53 point jump on CyberGym-E2E-AA. - DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 scores 57% on the Arti

Failed ventures have not cooled investor appetite for gene-editing groups and one of the most contested frontiers in science

Many of those stoking fears of bloody unrest don’t actually live in the country

The week before the onset of the Diwali festivities promises to be a heavy one in terms of companies reporting their results for the September quarter. Nearly 250 companies from across sectors and indices will be reporting results in the upcoming week, including names like Larsen

Listen to this article in summarized format Ahead of listing, the unlisted shares of Jio Platforms were trading at Rs 1,366 apiece in the unofficial grey market. This marks a grey market premium (GMP) of Rs 247 per share or 22.07% over the upper end of the price band of Rs 1,119

Yes Bank makes an important announcement with regards to its AT-1 bonds; Here's what it said - Published OnOct 25, 2026 | 10:03 IST - Last Updated OnOct 25, 2026 | 10:06 IST YES Bank announced it retains the right to exercise coupon discretion on its AT-1 bonds and will decide af

Jio Platforms IPO allotment date: The Jio Platforms IPO share allotment will be finalised on Monday, 26 October. Investors who applied for the Jio Platforms IPO can check the Jio Platforms IPO allotment status in the registrar's portal, which is Kfin Technologies Ltd. Jio Platfor

Listen to this article in summarized format Loans, including credit substitutes and FCNR(B)-backed lending, increased 30% year on year to Rs 3.5 lakh crore. Excluding loans secured by FCNR(B) deposits, loan growth was 22%, the bank said. As a result, net interest income (NII) inc

Suzlon Energy Q2 Results 2026 Date | Stock to buy today: Shares of Suzlon Energy. witnessed a re-rating once the company declared becoming a debt-free entity. In that re-rating, the Suzlon Energy share price skyrocketed from below R 6 per share in July 2022 to around ₹83 per shar

Of the combined Rs 2,581 crore fundraising, fresh equity issuance accounts for Rs 808 crore, while the remaining Rs 1,773 crore will come through offers for sale (OFS) by existing shareholders. The new offerings follow a record-breaking week for India's IPO market, with Jio Platf

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Short selling allows investors to sell borrowed shares, while SLB provides the mechanism for lending and borrowing securities. The review is part of the regulator’s broader effort to deepen the capital markets following demands from market participants, Pandey said at an event. S

The sell-off extended beyond frontline stocks, with midcap and smallcap shares witnessing sharper declines as investors reduced exposure amid rising uncertainty, valuation concerns and tightening liquidity. Weakness across cyclical stocks added to the pressure, while information

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Myntra’s Big Fashion Festival (BFF) gives brands an opportunity to reach shoppers across India. This year, the event features 21,000 emerging brands and labels, including 13,000 participating for the first time, and more than eight million styles, twice the selection of the previ

"Just because you consume tokens doesn't automatically mean there is a bank and you can start having a teller to withdraw money." That is how Satish Viswanathan sums up the thinking that took hold in 2024, when companies began treating token consumption as "a medal" of their AI c

Acrimonious political debate in Australia is escalating risks to legislators, one of the country’s most senior police officers said after a lawmaker suffered serious injuries following an alleged attack.

Anthropic’s public listing, which is expected this year at a valuation of as much as $2 trillion, is bound to be a windfall for both early-stage and later-stage investors. But even at the company’s latest private market valuation of $965 billion, the stakes held by many of those

Obama attacks Trump as he campaigns for Democrats ahead of midterm elections - Published Former President Barack Obama has attacked the Trump administration over the Iran war and high consumer prices as he hit the campaign trail for Democrats ahead of the US midterm elections. "T

OpenAI made its Decisions API model widely available to users for the first time, entering the market for fast, cheap intelligence that recently made TypeSafe, a startup founded by a former researcher at the frontier lab, a $7.6 billion company. TypeSafe’s Jev model created a cat