Networks, machine intelligence, telemetry, and the question of who else is on the line.
Four ships spent 46 months on the seabed and found nothing. Our reconstruction of the satellite handshakes puts the aircraft north-east of everywhere they looked, in water nobody has ever surveyed.
A network study of how alternative narratives propagate placed this newspaper in its dataset without telling us. We asked for our own row, and what came back describes our readers better than our own analytics do.
The Taipei docket lists 1,104 serial numbers. Prosecutors account for 720 of them. This newspaper traced part of the rest to a bonded warehouse, a mail drop above a shoe repairer, and a Nevada substation whose customer has no name.
In May we printed that the cumulative study needed doing, cost more than we had, and would be run on the campaigners' terms if it ever happened. It is happening. Here is the protocol, a year before the result.
Observatories excite a layer of sodium 90 kilometres up to create an artificial star for their optics. It is real, it is nightly, and we went and watched. Getting from one dot to a picture is where the arithmetic stops being encouraging.
Shown nothing and asked to draw well-known icons from memory, strangers produce identical errors at rates up to 78 per cent. The obvious explanations were tested and none fit. Nobody knows why, and the researchers say so.
An internal audit of 41 million sessions classified 51.2 per cent as machine traffic that did not declare itself. Its last line recommends not restating the methodology externally. One exchange, one quarter — and the confidence bands are undefined.
The claim that avian populations were replaced with surveillance devices makes a testable prediction about anatomy. This newspaper tested it, with a veterinary pathologist, on road-killed specimens from eleven states.
Forty-one sites, all chosen by the campaigners. Two calibrated meters, two engineers who could not see each other's readings. The highest reading anywhere was 0.4 per cent of the public exposure limit.
The argument says a simulation would skimp on detail nobody observes. We asked four physicists where the universe is most expensive to compute. Three named the same thing, and it is the one thing that can never be seen.
