Who pays when spill damage shows up a decade later?
A PNAS paper finds deep-sea life in the Gulf fell 60 to 85% after Deepwater Horizon and hasn't recovered. The 2016 settlement had already capped payment for unknown harm.
One cloud zone lost power. Why did banks go dark?
A power event in one of Google's three London zones disrupted bank apps for hours on 20 October. The 2019 Thameslink lock-out shows where outages are really lost: the restart.
Agents that think off the page leave one reader: the vendor
A new AI agent does most of its reasoning in hidden states and stays readable, but only through a component its maker owns. Aviation settled who may hear a cockpit recording by law.
Can organ chips replace animal tests? Ask a pilot
The FDA now accepts non-animal tests in principle, and some organ chips beat animals at spotting toxic drugs. Rabbits are still used anyway. Flight simulators show what was missing: a pass mark.
China's solar curbs ban know-how. Britain banned workers.
China's draft export curbs target solar know-how, not panels. Britain spent 150 years trying to keep its mill know-how home, and the record shows what actually leaked: people.
Bleached coral recovered by touching its clone. Keep the clone.
Stanford researchers found bleached coral fragments recovered in weeks when they touched a healthy clone of themselves. The catch is the clone. Engineers who run databases know that catch well.
AI benchmarks miss most work. Drug trials once missed women.
A new map of AI benchmarks covers 924 of 18,797 job tasks. Medicine spent years applying results from trials that left women out. The fix was a label, not fewer trials.
When petrol cars become the minority, who pays?
Plug-in cars took 67% of China's new car sales in September. But nearly nine in ten cars on its roads still aren't plug-ins. Sweden's slow goodbye to cash shows what happens to the people still using the old thing.
Should camera locations be public? Ask what the camera is for
MapQuest now shows license plate readers on its map, and Flock has fought maps of its cameras before. Britain settled a version of this argument in 2001, when it painted its speed cameras yellow.
NIST's curve seeds were timestamps. No record said so.
The NIST curve seeds that fed 25 years of backdoor theories came from a 1990s random number generator started from the clock. The answer was always in the numbers. No record of it ever turned up.
The Roadster is back. Its 2017 deposits are still waiting.
Tesla showed the new Roadster on 15 October, nine years after it took $50,000 deposits for a car promised in 2020. The interesting part isn't the thrusters. It's who carries the cost of a date that keeps moving.
AI review found more Postgres bugs than there was time to fix
Postgres 19 lost about eight to ten features in beta, partly because LLM review found more small defects than the window could hold. Radiology already has a rule for that.