Six months of war, and both sides can prove they are winning

World

The truth: The war stopped being about Iran's nuclear programme and became a fight over a shipping lane, because the lane is the part each side still has a tool for.

World

The truth: Everyone at the council says they back the same plan, but each side's step is conditional on the other's, so nothing moves while Gaza keeps being damaged.

Finance

The truth: Nobody in this story knows whether the last rate rise worked yet, so the argument about the next one is being settled by a six-week-old number and by what a man declines to say on Friday.

Tech

The truth: Meta paid to stop a trial before a court could find any facts, keeping its advertising engine and buying limits whose price partly depends on what its rivals do.

Mind & body

The truth: A real, reproducible physics of thresholds is being carried well ahead of its evidence into a market for buzzing insoles and ear devices.

Climate

The truth: Heat's toll is not new, the counting is, and every wider count finds more, because the older counts only looked for what somebody had already named.

Space

The truth: The network that watches the Sun was never designed as a network; it is a set of unrelated missions whose scattered positions turned out to be the measurement.

Biotech

The truth: A drug that adds a median six months to a lethal cancer arrives priced at about $478,000 a year, with 2,000 people already taking it free.

Money

The truth: An auction is sold as a way of finding a thing's true price, but where the value is unknown it mostly finds the largest error in the room.

Sports

The truth: The same matches are sold at dozens of different prices, and what holds those prices apart is not the football but the fences around it - a border, a blackout, a cheaper tier.

Gaming

The truth: The publisher is being sold one service at a time, and the job of deciding which game gets made is passing to whoever most recently had a hit.

Food

The truth: France is protecting its cheesemakers by relaxing the definition of the cheese, which moves the cost off farmers now and onto the label's meaning later.

Cyber

The truth: A state bought its spying from a private company and parked it inside ordinary people's internet traffic, and what got seized was a handful of domain names.