Spain's leader says the warnings were vague, and a leaked police note says extreme risk

World

The truth: A court cannot hear Vanuatu's case against France unless France agrees to be judged, and the Pacific Islands Forum could not name China without Nauru's signature.

Finance

The truth: Nobody has the August inflation figure, so the price of borrowing worldwide is being set by guesses about how two US officials will read a number neither of them has seen.

Tech

The truth: Restricting an AI model restricts its safeguards, not its abilities, because the two are built separately and only the safeguards can be taken off.

Mind & body

The truth: A stubborn cough is being reclassified from a symptom of something else into a nerve disorder in its own right, and the first drug built for that nerve works well enough to sell and ruins taste, so the race is now for a second doorway into the same tiny gate.

Climate

The truth: China's carbon fell because a war made fuel dear and the country emptied its oil stores, and underneath that because electric vehicles it had already bought were finally driven hard.

Space

The truth: NASA paid two companies so that a fault in one spacecraft could never stop its flights, and today it has one working vehicle with a leak in it and no date for the next crew.

Biotech

The truth: A twenty-year-old university idea got its first approved medicine and its first three-billion-dollar price tag in the same year, and the buying is running well ahead of what has been shown in people.

Money

The truth: A large part of the extra that low-income households pay is not a price aimed at them; it is one fixed cost of doing a job, divided by a smaller sum.

Sports

The truth: The NBA's cap rule depends on clubs reporting themselves, so it catches almost nothing, and maximum penalties are what a league reaches for when it knows that.

Gaming

The truth: A promise of unlimited streaming, made in 2020 when almost nobody streamed, is being withdrawn now that enough people do for it to cost Microsoft real money.

Food

The truth: This El Nino was forecast months ahead, and the governments who met last week to agree a binding drought deal put it off for another two years.

Cyber

The truth: Proving who you are has been handed to a few private firms that shops and rental desks buy machines from, and the most careful version of that check is the one that leaves the most valuable copy behind.