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Special reports
- Fiber Shortage Drives Up the Price of Jam-Proof Drones, but Not Yet Their Numbers
Ukrainian drone makers pay six to 10 times more for Chinese fiber than in 2025, while Russia, cut off from its only plant, buys far more of it.
- Golden Dome’s Money Bought Radars and Prototypes, Not a Shield in Space
The program office has committed nearly all of its $22.5 billion, its orbiting interceptors are still prototypes, and no new money has come since Oct. 1.
- Meta Takes Its Teen-Spotting AI Worldwide Without Saying How Often It Is Wrong
Independent tests find age-guessing errors cluster near the adult line and run higher for women and darker skin, while misread adults must prove their age
- China’s Emissions Have Stalled as Coal Plants Keep Coming and the Peak Stays Undefined
Coal fell below half of China’s power this year, yet 204 gigawatts of coal plants are being built and Beijing has set no test for its peak pledge
- Bantu Farmers Went Through the Congo Rainforest, but When They Split Is Unsettled
Genes and language trees favor a route through the forest, but the timing is disputed and new ancient DNA points to several waves rather than one.
Latest stories
- Hegseth Needs Three More Votes Than He Has to Survive Impeachment
Massie’s eight articles force a House vote Hegseth’s own party says it will win, but the margin is the story
- OpenAI and Anthropic Crack Down on AI Tools That Reverse-Engineer Gadgets
A viral GitHub tool drew 450,000 stars for letting AI agents decompile any device; the labs that sell those agents are now blocking it.
- After 32 years and three countries, a Butare medical student is flown back to Kigali
The US deported Jean Leonard Teganya, jailed for lying to get asylum, to face a 2014 Rwandan genocide indictment over the Butare hospital
- In the West Bank, the Man Who Beats the Farmer Comes Back Wearing the Army’s Uniform
Al Jazeera finds that 14 of 63 Palestinians killed by settlers since October 2023 were shot by soldiers or by men in military uniform
- Spain Weighs Suspending TikTok After 35 Days of Counting Predators on Its Feed
Maldita.es found over 1,000 child abuse videos with 48 million views. Madrid has called in prosecutors and says it may suspend the app
- Iran Drops Its 2,000km Missile Cap, a Limit It Could Already Ignore
The IRGC says the self-imposed range ceiling is gone, but the evidence for longer-range missiles predates the announcement
- Fiber Shortage Drives Up the Price of Jam-Proof Drones, but Not Yet Their Numbers
Ukrainian drone makers pay six to 10 times more for Chinese fiber than in 2025, while Russia, cut off from its only plant, buys far more of it.
- Gulf monarchies move their joint military command forward, to Kuwait
Six GCC defence ministers approve an advanced HQ with “appropriate” forces, months after Iranian missiles and drones hit the Gulf
- Trump Wants Israel and the Gulf to Repay a $47 Billion Iran War Bill
No country, no number and no mechanism attached — and a record of foreign-payment claims that didn’t pay off
- Najib Razak Goes Home to a House the State Calls a Prison, After a Fight Over One Word
A Kuala Lumpur judge rewrote a discharge order so the jailed ex-premier can serve his 1MDB-era sentence under the king’s conditional pardon
- Nvidia’s Board Opens a Spy Investigation Into Its Own CEO
Jensen Huang admitted an affair with a woman US intelligence calls a Chinese asset; the stock has erased a year of gains
- In Abu Dhabi, Washington Asks Kyiv to Trade the Donbas for Something Like NATO
The first three-way round since February opens with talk of flexibility, a Russian no to a ceasefire, and Europe briefed outside
- Netanyahu Lost the Mandate but Kept the Keys: Israel’s Caretaker Premier
As Eisenkot hunts for 61 seats, Israeli law leaves the outgoing premier the army, the Shin Bet and control of cabinet briefings
- Britain Vowed to Punish Settlement Firms. Its Roads and Radios Kept Paying Them
After Miliband’s September 8 warning, UK public bodies published £10.7m in new contracts with firms the UN links to West Bank settlements
- In Moscow, Putin’s military bloc weighs silencing Armenia, the ally that walked away
The CSTO meets November 11 to weigh stripping Yerevan’s vote over unpaid dues, while Central Asian members drill with other partners
- Paris Pins the Night the Freezers Burned on Iran’s Guards and Asks Europe to Answer
Prosecutors seek warrants for Shahid Kaveh commanders as Tehran stays silent and similar fridge attacks spread across Europe
- IMO Count Hits 129 Hormuz Attacks, 25 Dead, as Trump Calls War “Effectively Over”
Shipping losses keep climbing even as Washington says it has no plans to resume bombing Iran
- In Skydance’s New Kingdom, Gunn and Safran Hand DC’s Keys to a Marvel Man
Four years after taking over DC Studios, the pair step down on Dec. 1. Jeremy Latcham takes over, reporting to Skydance’s film chiefs
- A Kalshi Bettor Wants $580,545 Back for a $308,782 Loss, Via an 1879 Law
Washington’s gambling-loss statute bars netting wins against losses, doubling what a bettor can claim from Kalshi
- A Bash Script Turns Sam Altman’s RAM Joke Into an Automated Complaint Letter
Ram-Altman reads /proc/meminfo every five minutes and mails you a joke email about your idle memory, once a day, at most
- In Aliaga, a crane falls into a furnace and at least 16 steelworkers die
The blast at the HABAS plant north of Izmir is, a small leftist party says, the third fatal incident there in three weeks
- Nine Young Foreigners Stopped at OR Tambo on the Road to the War in Ukraine
South African police say the men, aged 20 to 26, were about to fly to Russia by way of the Emirates. They face charges under a 1998 anti-mercenary law
- Ten-Year-Old OpenSSH Bug Lets a 257-Character Password Open Alpine Linux
A 2012 musl quirk and a 2016 OpenSSH timing fix collided to turn any long password into a master key
- The Pentagon Asks Industry for Up to Five Military Satellites Around the Moon by 2029
An Air Force request dated November 2 calls them possible “seed vehicles” for a much larger cislunar constellation, mission undisclosed
- Trump’s Midterm Fraud Claims Collide With a 13-Point Popular-Vote Gap
Six days after calling the results honest, Trump blames “machines” for a rout the numbers explain without one
- Novaya Gazeta Leaves Potapovsky Lane, Closed by a ‘Foreign Agent’ Label After 33 Years
Russia’s best-known independent paper held its last editorial meeting on Monday. The Kremlin called the closure normal turnover
- Meta Takes Its Teen-Spotting AI Worldwide Without Saying How Often It Is Wrong
Independent tests find age-guessing errors cluster near the adult line and run higher for women and darker skin, while misread adults must prove their age
- Firmus’s Register: A 16x Bet, Old School Ties, and a $31 Billion IPO That Collapsed
Nvidia, Blackstone and Oliver Curtis’s own father all bought into the neocloud before investors balked at its $44 billion valuation.
- Claude Code’s “Don’t Ask Again” Button Has Been Writing Passwords to Disk
A permission shortcut meant to stay local turns up in 104,185 public GitHub repos, 1,122 of them with real secrets
- The Money That Wasn’t There: Shin Bet Finds No Proof of Israeli Election Meddling
Netanyahu and his security chief spoke of foreign cash buying Arab votes. Investigators say they have not found it
- At Moyale, a Flag Went Up and More Than 50,000 People Crossed Into Kenya
An old land quarrel between two Ethiopian regions has emptied homes on one side of the border and crowded kitchens on the other
- SpaceX’s Launch Chief Calls It an Infrastructure Company as Falcon 9 Heads for Retirement
Kiko Dontchev says AI tools from the absorbed xAI have sped up SpaceX engineering more than anything he has seen in 16 years
- Rain at Interlagos: Norris wins a race that was supposed to mean nothing
The titles were settled, but rain, grid penalties and two Mercedes spins turned the São Paulo Grand Prix into one of 2026’s best races
- Adult Sites Pull Hundreds of Videos as Strangulation Porn Ban Takes Effect
Creators say Clips4Sale hid clips that the new law in England and Wales doesn’t cover, weeks before Black Friday.
- A hundred thousand names ask Westminster what Britain did in Gaza
A petition for an independent inquiry into UK arms, RAF bases and surveillance flights has reached the point where MPs must consider a debate
- Thirty-one per cent: the ANC’s worst vote since Mandela, and the cities it lost
The DA overtook Mandela’s party in Johannesburg, Pretoria and Ekurhuleni, and hung councils now have 14 days to form coalitions
- Golden Dome’s Money Bought Radars and Prototypes, Not a Shield in Space
The program office has committed nearly all of its $22.5 billion, its orbiting interceptors are still prototypes, and no new money has come since Oct. 1.
- China’s Emissions Have Stalled as Coal Plants Keep Coming and the Peak Stays Undefined
Coal fell below half of China’s power this year, yet 204 gigawatts of coal plants are being built and Beijing has set no test for its peak pledge
- Pelosi Accepts Kennedy Award as Democrats Celebrate Midterm Sweep
At a Boston dinner, she talked about Ted Kennedy, not the election, as Mississippi’s Senate race stayed too close to call.
- COP31 opens in Antalya with Turkiye’s wager on electricity, and a war over oil outside
The host’s non-binding 35-by-35 pledge would lift electricity’s share of energy use but does not say where the power must come from
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