An OpenAI engineer is charged with hiding a recorder in an executive conference room. Officials call it national security. The charge is a wiretap count.
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Project Starshot Went Quiet. Its Light Sail Research Didn’t.
Breakthrough Starshot’s Alpha Centauri plan has been on hold since 2024 and its final report is unpublished. Its money still shows up in light sail labs.
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Alberta’s Separation Vote: What a Yes Would Start
Alberta votes Oct. 19 on starting a path to separation. What a Yes would trigger, why Ottawa says the Clarity Act doesn’t apply yet and the U.S. questions.
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Hackers Heat French Supermarket Fridges to 122°F, Spoiling Food
Hackers heated fridges in hundreds of French supermarkets to 122°F, spoiling food. A U.S. advisory had flagged flaws in Danfoss controllers back in 2025.
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Yandex Strikes, the Russian Bot Claim: What the Data Shows
Zelensky says Ukraine’s strikes on Yandex silenced Russian bots. The Cloudflare chart behind the claim counts Yandex’s web crawlers, not social media bots.
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Justice Department Opens Antitrust Probe of TV Pool Networks
DOJ is investigating ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox and NBC for suspending pool coverage of Trump. In court, its lawyers called the networks’ harm “self-inflicted.”
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State Department Stops Taking FOIA Requests by Email
A State Department rule ends emailed FOIA requests on Oct. 21, joining DHS and the FTC. We compared the agencies’ rules, and why each dropped the inbox.
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Webb Traces the Farthest Fast Radio Burst to a Tiny Galaxy
A radio burst from 3 billion years after the Big Bang came from a galaxy too faint to see from Earth. How Webb found it and what it says about magnetars.
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Houthi Strikes on Riyadh, What Saudi Arabia Won’t Confirm
Witnesses saw a missile hit Riyadh’s airport Saturday; Saudi Arabia hasn’t confirmed it. A tally of this week’s Houthi strikes and what Riyadh confirms.