Week ending 4 October 2026

When rescued, they were reportedly found being paid meagre wages and made to work seven days a week, facing physical and verbal abuse while living in hazardous and unsanitary conditions.

Maharashtra’s Women Farmer’s Empowerment Act 2026 is a powerful example of what can happen when political will and a clear understanding of why empowering women matters, writes the author of this commentary.

Under the Act, women engaged in agriculture or allied activities will formally be recognised as farmers, even when they do not own the land.

On October 2, Maharashtra is set to begin issuing the Women Farmers Certificates (WFCs) under the newly enacted Women Farmer’s Empowerment Act 2026.

Looking across a swathe of golden oat grass to the Apple House, it seems almost inconceivable that the M25 and M1 motorways are just beyond the treeline.

Each sphere is a fanfare of tiny trumpets, their flared funnels marked with brown stripes.

While the adults invite attention with their black and white striped antennae and connexivum (edge of the abdomen), and reddish-brown forewing bases and pronotum (a hardened plate covering the front of the body), the young bugs’ markings shield them from sight.

To discuss suspected abuse, investigation details, or coordination notes, you had to move the conversation somewhere else and lose it from the advisory’s history.

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The changes that have been publicly announced do not go far enough.

Individual-level data, including single-nucleus count matrices, are available to approved researchers.

If you are an Android user, you may have noticed it already: Google has begun allowing rival, third-party app stores to be distributed through the Google Play Store.

Specifically at issue were Google's restrictions on the distribution of alternate app stores through the Play Store, restrictions on app developers who have little practical choice but to distribute their apps through the Play Store, and Google’s rules governing in-app payments and the fees associated with them.

For now, m1n1 didn’t start the secondary cores because smp_start_offset was missing (an offset hardcoded in m1n1; without it, smp_init is skipped).

This work has so far uncovered and addressed a fundamental issue with running Linux on the M4 and later Apple Silicon chips, allowing Linux to boot to a shell with all cores usable (the same WFI workarounds have been found to work on M4 Pro, M4 Max and M5 chips!).

This follows a busy in-space commissioning period since the spacecraft launched on 19 May and reached its target orbit for science operations on 20 June.

Each instrument will collect vital information to help us better understand solar storms, geomagnetic storms, and the science of space weather.

Smile will give us data on how solar activity interacts with Earth's magnetic field, leads to the auroras and can affect electronic infrastructure on and around Earth.

Only a few months after being launched to the ISS in January 2024, the printer produced its very first complete sample, the first metal part ever created in space.

The results will help us further optimise metal 3D printing for future in-space manufacturing.”

September was a month of milestones and discoveries.

The Gujarat High Court upheld the acquittal of a man in a rape case while observing that the prosecution did not examine the expert who conducted the DNA profiling test and in absence of such testimony the report was inadmissible in evidence.

The court was hearing State's appeal against trial court order acquitting the respondent of charges under Sections 64(2)(m) (Rape under False Promise or Deceit) and 89(Causing Miscarriage Without Woman's Consent) BNS and Sections 4 and 6 of POCSO Act.

The Tripura High Court has modified the sentence of a Bangladeshi woman convicted for illegally entering India, restricting her imprisonment to the period already undergone and directing the State authorities to deport her to Bangladesh.

The Court took a lenient view after noting that the appellant had no criminal antecedents, had pleaded guilty, and that the State Government had no objection to her repatriation.

The Rajasthan High Court has held that there is no legally sustainable difference between 'honourable acquittal' and 'acquittal' for the purpose of granting service benefits to a suspended employee.

The Court observed that the Life Insurance Corporation of India (Staff) Rules, 1960 (the “Rules”) did not make any distinction between the honourable acquittal and acquittal for any other reason, and in any event, the presumption of innocence of the employee stood restored upon his acquittal.

The Delhi High Court has clarified that its directions requiring search engines and legal databases to de-index judicial records from name-based searches do not apply to Meta platforms such as Facebook.

According to Bar and Bench, a Division Bench comprising Justice C Hari Shankar and Justice Nivedita Anil Sharma issued the clarification while hearing a plea filed by Meta in the right to be forgotten case.

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The Lisp family of programming languages is infamous for their parenthesis-heavy syntax.

Many people, myself included, find this syntax more difficult to read than the notation of languages like Python, Java or C.

The perceived unreadability of Lisp is significant enough that multiple attempts have been made to create new notations to aid Lisp’s adoption.

The Vineland facility’s 62 gas-fired generators became public in August after a Floodlight/Guardian visual investigation found them operating without permits.

There are now at least five lines of investigation being followed by counter-terrorism police, from the suspects being petrol smugglers to alleged Iran proxies seeking to blow up a US airbase.

In a win for digital rights, a federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction blocking Utah’s SB 73, the state’s draconian anti-VPN age verification law.

SB 73 burdens the rights of all internet users outside of Utah because it requires adult websites to either know every visiting user’s physical location, and then block those in Utah, or to verify every visitor’s age just in case they might be in Utah.

According to the notice, the proposed rules could be effective as soon as October 8, 2026.

Description: Apple iOS, macOS, and iPadOS contain an out-of-bounds write vulnerability in CoreGraphics that may lead to arbitrary code execution.

Required action: Apply mitigations in accordance with vendor instructions, ensuring compliance with CISA’s BOD 26-04 Prioritizing Security Updates Based on Risk (see URL in Notes) guidance and CISA’s “Forensics Triage Requirements” (see URL in Notes).

Follow applicable BOD 26-04 guidance for cloud services or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

The Madras High Court on September 25 restrained media outlets, social media intermediaries and digital platforms from publishing or circulating “any video” connected to a child sexual abuse material (CSAM) case that is currently being investigated by the Central Crime Branch in Chennai.

Without naming each YouTube channel, the court noted that at least 28 YouTube channels were allegedly involved in spreading or discussing the CSAM-related content in this case.

The Bombay High Court has held that merely demanding an exorbitant or disproportionate amount during settlement talks does not by itself attract Section 385 of the Indian Penal Code or constitute an offence of extortion.

The Court explained that Section 383 IPC requires intentionally putting a person in fear of injury and dishonestly inducing that person to deliver property or valuable security, while Section 385 concerns putting or attempting to put a person in fear of injury in order to commit extortion.

The number of services under the Charter now stands at 206.