https://questionabletimes.com/Real events. Real facts. Conclusions that have escaped supervision.enTue, 27 Oct 2026 04:26:59 GMThttps://questionabletimes.com/article/kew-settles-a-245-year-mushroom-mix-up-by-establishing-which-fungus/https://questionabletimes.com/article/kew-settles-a-245-year-mushroom-mix-up-by-establishing-which-fungus/Tue, 27 Oct 2026 04:26:59 GMTScienceResearchers have separated Europe's Ganoderma lucidum from the East Asian medicinal lingzhi, lineages that diverged at least 16 million years ago. The name has been doing the work of both since 1781.https://questionabletimes.com/article/us-air-base-in-okinawa-turns-away-chinese-electric-cars-taxis-included/https://questionabletimes.com/article/us-air-base-in-okinawa-turns-away-chinese-electric-cars-taxis-included/Tue, 27 Oct 2026 04:25:59 GMTWorldKadena airbase has barred every vehicle made by BYD, from private cars to delivery vans. American officials have not identified a specific threat.https://questionabletimes.com/article/tamil-nadu-cuts-jet-fuel-tax-by-thirteen-points-and-is-promised-25-and/https://questionabletimes.com/article/tamil-nadu-cuts-jet-fuel-tax-by-thirteen-points-and-is-promised-25-and/Tue, 27 Oct 2026 04:24:59 GMTPoliticsValue added tax on aviation turbine fuel at Chennai airport has fallen from 29 per cent to 16 per cent. Two airlines have agreed to add services without saying when.https://questionabletimes.com/article/bank-of-korea-puts-a-price-on-pessimism-and-it-is-fifty-to-a-hundred/https://questionabletimes.com/article/bank-of-korea-puts-a-price-on-pessimism-and-it-is-fifty-to-a-hundred/Tue, 27 Oct 2026 04:23:59 GMTMarketsThe central bank modelled what would happen to chip exports if big US technology firms slowed their AI spending next year. The scenario is the only one it published with figures.https://questionabletimes.com/article/australian-jumping-spider-filmed-in-two-distinct-sleep-stages-and-will/https://questionabletimes.com/article/australian-jumping-spider-filmed-in-two-distinct-sleep-stages-and-will/Tue, 27 Oct 2026 04:22:59 GMTSciencePortia fimbriata hangs upside down in a small web at night. Researchers recorded leg curls, eye movements and twitching, then tried a loud noise.https://questionabletimes.com/article/open-source-forum-bans-ai-made-projects-under-a-rule-its-own-moderator/https://questionabletimes.com/article/open-source-forum-bans-ai-made-projects-under-a-rule-its-own-moderator/Tue, 27 Oct 2026 04:21:59 GMTTechnologyThe r/opensource subreddit now excludes projects that use, are made by, or are intended for AI. It also excludes anyone not posting in English.https://questionabletimes.com/article/weight-loss-drugs-stay-legal-in-sport-because-a-substance-has-to-fail/https://questionabletimes.com/article/weight-loss-drugs-stay-legal-in-sport-because-a-substance-has-to-fail/Tue, 27 Oct 2026 04:20:59 GMTSportWADA's 2027 prohibited list, in force from 1 January, keeps GLP-1 drugs on the monitoring programme. The agency's own criteria require at least two of three boxes to be ticked.https://questionabletimes.com/article/swiss-glaciers-delivered-four-years-of-household-drinking-water-in/https://questionabletimes.com/article/swiss-glaciers-delivered-four-years-of-household-drinking-water-in/Tue, 27 Oct 2026 04:19:59 GMTWeatherSwitzerland lost more than 5 per cent of its glacier ice this year and nearly 20 per cent in five. Between July and September the melt came to about 2.2 trillion litres.https://questionabletimes.com/article/meta-says-it-removes-pirated-sports-streams-before-anyone-watches-or/https://questionabletimes.com/article/meta-says-it-removes-pirated-sports-streams-before-anyone-watches-or/Tue, 27 Oct 2026 04:18:59 GMTPiracyIn a rebuttal to the US Trade Representative's notorious markets review, Meta described an AI tool that predicts unauthorised broadcasts and takes them down in real time. It published no figures.https://questionabletimes.com/article/merger-report-is-260m-short-in-one-place-and-311m-over-in-another/https://questionabletimes.com/article/merger-report-is-260m-short-in-one-place-and-311m-over-in-another/Mon, 26 Oct 2026 04:28:16 GMTTechnologyWestern Australia paid Deloitte $166,000 for a feasibility study on merging three universities and is seeking an expedited cost recovery. The appendix, read as a pair, is largely self-correcting.https://questionabletimes.com/article/sydney-opens-an-airport-called-western-sydney-and-some-passengers-read/https://questionabletimes.com/article/sydney-opens-an-airport-called-western-sydney-and-some-passengers-read/Mon, 26 Oct 2026 04:27:16 GMTWorldWestern Sydney International took its first passenger flights on Sunday, with seven carriers signed up and the metro rail link still unfinished. The $5.6bn terminal is west of the city, and west of a good deal else.https://questionabletimes.com/article/papua-new-guinea-fixes-oil-neutrality-at-81-a-barrel-which-is-not-the/https://questionabletimes.com/article/papua-new-guinea-fixes-oil-neutrality-at-81-a-barrel-which-is-not-the/Mon, 26 Oct 2026 04:26:16 GMTPoliticsParliament unanimously passed four amendments tied to the Papua LNG project, a step the prime minister said would help unlock an estimated $14.5bn of investment. The benefit-sharing formula turns on a neutral benchmark.https://questionabletimes.com/article/rbi-study-finds-rate-cuts-pass-through-worse-than-rises-and-also/https://questionabletimes.com/article/rbi-study-finds-rate-cuts-pass-through-worse-than-rises-and-also/Mon, 26 Oct 2026 04:25:16 GMTMarketsThe Reserve Bank's October bulletin separates the price of credit from its composition. On contracted loans, banks passed on 64 per cent of a cut; on the headline average, 74.4 per cent.https://questionabletimes.com/article/sheffield-reproduces-roman-colour-changing-glass-whose-colour-depended/https://questionabletimes.com/article/sheffield-reproduces-roman-colour-changing-glass-whose-colour-depended/Mon, 26 Oct 2026 04:24:16 GMTScienceThe Lycurgus Cup turns from jade green to ruby red when lit from behind. Replicating it took gold and silver nanocrystals, and the original took a furnace with a view of its own.https://questionabletimes.com/article/walker-takes-19-seconds-off-a-world-record-set-in-august-in-an-event/https://questionabletimes.com/article/walker-takes-19-seconds-off-a-world-record-set-in-august-in-an-event/Mon, 26 Oct 2026 04:23:16 GMTSportRebecca Henderson walked 42.195km in 3hr 14min 52sec in the rain at Takahata, the first senior world record by an Australian track and field athlete in a championship event for 20 years. The discipline is nine months old.https://questionabletimes.com/article/los-angeles-may-record-its-highest-tide-in-102-years-with-effects/https://questionabletimes.com/article/los-angeles-may-record-its-highest-tide-in-102-years-with-effects/Mon, 26 Oct 2026 04:22:16 GMTWeatherA coastal flood advisory runs from Sunday morning to Thursday afternoon at Los Angeles and Orange County beaches. The record it may retire was set at San Pedro on 10 January 2005.https://questionabletimes.com/article/ministry-priced-shared-articles-at-49-95-each-and-the-publisher-priced/https://questionabletimes.com/article/ministry-priced-shared-articles-at-49-95-each-and-the-publisher-priced/Mon, 26 Oct 2026 04:21:16 GMTPiracyMBIE offered the National Business Review $68,481.45 for 1,371 shared articles. An Official Information Act response put the count at 8,221 unlicensed recipient-months, which at the same rate is $410,638.95.https://questionabletimes.com/article/record-43-6-million-tonnes-of-co2-stored-underground-in-2024-after/https://questionabletimes.com/article/record-43-6-million-tonnes-of-co2-stored-underground-in-2024-after/Mon, 26 Oct 2026 04:20:16 GMTScienceThe London Register of Subsurface CO2 Storage now covers 70 projects in 17 countries. Its 2026 report also restates the past, which is where part of the record came from.https://questionabletimes.com/article/paper-warning-that-piracy-threatens-peer-review-cites-ten-sources-that/https://questionabletimes.com/article/paper-warning-that-piracy-threatens-peer-review-cites-ten-sources-that/Sun, 25 Oct 2026 04:28:07 GMTPiracyA peer-reviewed study of Z-Library credits the news site TorrentFreak with an article it never published. The authors disclose that they used AI tools.https://questionabletimes.com/article/santorini-serves-an-invasive-fish-to-370-diners-standing-in-for-the/https://questionabletimes.com/article/santorini-serves-an-invasive-fish-to-370-diners-standing-in-for-the/Sun, 25 Oct 2026 04:27:07 GMTWorldEvery guest at the record attempt tried at least three lionfish recipes. The species has 17 venomous spines and few predators in Greek waters.https://questionabletimes.com/article/first-time-buyer-loans-will-stop-at-110-000-of-household-income-the/https://questionabletimes.com/article/first-time-buyer-loans-will-stop-at-110-000-of-household-income-the/Sun, 25 Oct 2026 04:26:07 GMTPoliticsHouseholds must earn less than £110,000 to qualify for the Your First Home scheme, or £140,000 in the capital. Ministers had first considered £90,000 and £110,000.https://questionabletimes.com/article/a-third-of-the-post-offices-inside-tg-jones-are-closing-and-some/https://questionabletimes.com/article/a-third-of-the-post-offices-inside-tg-jones-are-closing-and-some/Sun, 25 Oct 2026 04:25:07 GMTMarketsSeventy branches in the chain formerly known as WH Smith have shut or will shut by early 2027. The Post Office says there is interest in taking on every one of them.https://questionabletimes.com/article/six-researchers-establish-that-the-10-05-from-exeter-was-sixteen/https://questionabletimes.com/article/six-researchers-establish-that-the-10-05-from-exeter-was-sixteen/Sun, 25 Oct 2026 04:24:07 GMTScienceAn anonymous note in Nature in 1871 blamed a magnetic storm for delaying a train. The railway line it names had not been built.https://questionabletimes.com/article/footballer-licenses-an-ai-clone-that-can-work-around-the-clock-leaving/https://questionabletimes.com/article/footballer-licenses-an-ai-clone-that-can-work-around-the-clock-leaving/Sun, 25 Oct 2026 04:23:07 GMTTechnologyCristian Volpato has given a California company exclusive rights to his digital likeness, voice, biometric profiles and performance data. Copyright does not cover what the clone produces.https://questionabletimes.com/article/antonelli-leads-by-102-points-and-must-be-125-ahead-after-sunday-which/https://questionabletimes.com/article/antonelli-leads-by-102-points-and-must-be-125-ahead-after-sunday-which/Sun, 25 Oct 2026 04:22:07 GMTSportThe Mercedes driver took pole in Austin and can settle his first world championship this weekend. To do it he needs two other drivers to finish in particular places.https://questionabletimes.com/article/thirty-five-years-of-nearly-identical-satellites-confirm-that-no-two/https://questionabletimes.com/article/thirty-five-years-of-nearly-identical-satellites-confirm-that-no-two/Sun, 25 Oct 2026 04:21:07 GMTWeatherPacific sea levels this month closely resemble October 1997. NASA's project scientist for the missions that measure them says the typical El Niño is elusive.https://questionabletimes.com/article/natural-history-museum-finds-a-new-european-dinosaur-in-its-own/https://questionabletimes.com/article/natural-history-museum-finds-a-new-european-dinosaur-in-its-own/Sun, 25 Oct 2026 04:20:07 GMTScienceA braincase from the Isle of Wight sat in London for more than a century before anyone recognised it. It belongs to the first megaraptoran known from Europe.https://questionabletimes.com/article/airbnb-bars-checkout-chores-using-a-test-of-whether-a-cleaner-would/https://questionabletimes.com/article/airbnb-bars-checkout-chores-using-a-test-of-whether-a-cleaner-would/Sat, 24 Oct 2026 03:24:20 GMTWorldHosts may no longer require guests to strip beds, wash dishes or take out the bins. Used tableware may still be carried as far as the sink.https://questionabletimes.com/article/greece-bans-social-media-for-under-15s-and-the-only-party-able-to/https://questionabletimes.com/article/greece-bans-social-media-for-under-15s-and-the-only-party-able-to/Sat, 24 Oct 2026 03:23:20 GMTPoliticsParliament approved the bill after more than sixteen hours of debate. From January, platforms must establish a user's age without being told it.https://questionabletimes.com/article/south-africa-s-trade-with-china-is-up-24-per-cent-since-tariffs-came/https://questionabletimes.com/article/south-africa-s-trade-with-china-is-up-24-per-cent-since-tariffs-came/Sat, 24 Oct 2026 03:22:20 GMTMarketsBilateral trade reached almost 15 billion dollars from May to August. The zero-tariff arrangement runs in one direction.https://questionabletimes.com/article/pacific-forecasts-now-work-a-year-ahead-provided-the-pacific-has/https://questionabletimes.com/article/pacific-forecasts-now-work-a-year-ahead-provided-the-pacific-has/Sat, 24 Oct 2026 03:21:20 GMTScienceA study of more than 7,500 historical forecasts finds that one-year predictions hold up when they start from La Nina and fail when they start from neutral conditions.https://questionabletimes.com/article/ai-designed-enzyme-assembles-a-drug-molecule-by-ignoring-almost/https://questionabletimes.com/article/ai-designed-enzyme-assembles-a-drug-molecule-by-ignoring-almost/Sat, 24 Oct 2026 03:20:20 GMTScienceSixty-seven designs were tested and four worked. The best converted 79 per cent of a bulky amine while declining to react with the water around it.https://questionabletimes.com/article/new-language-absorbs-python-typescript-and-c-and-will-turn-itself-back/https://questionabletimes.com/article/new-language-absorbs-python-typescript-and-c-and-will-turn-itself-back/Sat, 24 Oct 2026 03:19:20 GMTTechnologyJac compiles to Python bytecode, JavaScript and native machine code. An eject function reverse-compiles it, to meet corporate compliance.https://questionabletimes.com/article/nwsl-removes-the-criteria-for-high-impact-player-status-leaving-a/https://questionabletimes.com/article/nwsl-removes-the-criteria-for-high-impact-player-status-leaving-a/Sat, 24 Oct 2026 03:18:20 GMTSportA settlement with the players' association drops the league's performance and marketing tests. From 2027, any player paid at least 12 per cent of the base salary cap qualifies.https://questionabletimes.com/article/tokyo-has-its-latest-midsummer-day-since-1875-midsummer-being-a/https://questionabletimes.com/article/tokyo-has-its-latest-midsummer-day-since-1875-midsummer-being-a/Sat, 24 Oct 2026 03:17:20 GMTWeatherTokyo and Osaka both passed 30C on Wednesday. The Japan Meteorological Agency counts any such day as a midsummer day, whenever it falls.https://questionabletimes.com/article/bill-would-impose-blocking-duties-on-vpns-with-100-000-monthly/https://questionabletimes.com/article/bill-would-impose-blocking-duties-on-vpns-with-100-000-monthly/Sat, 24 Oct 2026 03:16:20 GMTPiracyAn internet infrastructure coalition has published a report arguing against making neutral services enforce copyright. One of the bills it examines sets a user threshold.https://questionabletimes.com/article/shop-owner-finds-an-ice-cream-at-the-bottom-of-a-freezer-and-dates-it/https://questionabletimes.com/article/shop-owner-finds-an-ice-cream-at-the-bottom-of-a-freezer-and-dates-it/Sat, 24 Oct 2026 03:15:20 GMTWorldA general store in Harrow, Victoria, has turned up an original Magnum Ego from the late 1990s. The age was established from the logo.https://questionabletimes.com/article/van-gogh-s-starry-night-matched-to-the-sky-of-22-july-1889-a-month/https://questionabletimes.com/article/van-gogh-s-starry-night-matched-to-the-sky-of-22-july-1889-a-month/Fri, 23 Oct 2026 03:29:05 GMTWorldA South Korean team reports that the painting's crescent moon, Venus and star cluster fit one real pre-dawn sky over Saint-Rémy-de-Provence. Art historians have long dated the work to June.https://questionabletimes.com/article/canada-orders-regulators-to-remove-two-dollars-of-burden-for-every-one/https://questionabletimes.com/article/canada-orders-regulators-to-remove-two-dollars-of-burden-for-every-one/Fri, 23 Oct 2026 03:28:05 GMTPoliticsThe Cabinet Directive on Regulatory Competitiveness and Red Tape Reduction takes effect on 31 December and replaces the 2018 directive. Business groups welcomed the two-for-one rule.https://questionabletimes.com/article/india-sets-a-310-billion-euro-trade-target-with-germany-by-adding-a/https://questionabletimes.com/article/india-sets-a-310-billion-euro-trade-target-with-germany-by-adding-a/Fri, 23 Oct 2026 03:27:05 GMTMarketsPiyush Goyal told a Berlin business forum that tenfold growth in Indo-German trade was achievable ahead of the India-EU free trade agreement. Germany's economy minister put the ambition at double.https://questionabletimes.com/article/roman-coffin-at-westminster-abbey-is-inscribed-to-valerius-amandinus/https://questionabletimes.com/article/roman-coffin-at-westminster-abbey-is-inscribed-to-valerius-amandinus/Fri, 23 Oct 2026 03:26:05 GMTScienceRadiocarbon dating puts the skeleton inside the fourth-century sarcophagus some six centuries after the man named on it. The lid was recut with an Anglo-Saxon cross and later used as a floor slab.https://questionabletimes.com/article/american-coffee-has-gained-forty-per-cent-more-calories-without/https://questionabletimes.com/article/american-coffee-has-gained-forty-per-cent-more-calories-without/Fri, 23 Oct 2026 03:25:05 GMTScienceA Tufts study of 30,000 adults finds intake steady at about 13 ounces a day from 2003 to 2018, while calories rose from 43 to 60. Non-dairy creamer has overtaken sugar and milk.https://questionabletimes.com/article/nasa-panel-puts-the-launches-needed-for-one-moon-landing-at-22-a/https://questionabletimes.com/article/nasa-panel-puts-the-launches-needed-for-one-moon-landing-at-22-a/Fri, 23 Oct 2026 03:24:05 GMTTechnologyThe Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel told its quarterly meeting that the last estimate for fuelling the lunar lander is around 22 flights. SpaceX says six to eight.https://questionabletimes.com/article/england-captain-sets-the-fastest-double-century-in-one-day-history-and/https://questionabletimes.com/article/england-captain-sets-the-fastest-double-century-in-one-day-history-and/Fri, 23 Oct 2026 03:23:05 GMTSportHarry Brook reached 200 from 114 balls and finished on 202, taking England to 429 for 4 in Rawalpindi. Sri Lanka chased 430 with two wickets and one ball to spare.https://questionabletimes.com/article/atlantic-storm-will-reach-hurricane-force-winds-and-cannot-be-called-a/https://questionabletimes.com/article/atlantic-storm-will-reach-hurricane-force-winds-and-cannot-be-called-a/Fri, 23 Oct 2026 03:22:05 GMTWeatherSubtropical Storm Josephine formed south of Cape Cod with sustained winds of 65 mph and is forecast to strengthen as it turns extratropical. Its thunderstorms are in the wrong place.https://questionabletimes.com/article/quad9-will-stop-serving-france-rather-than-block-58-domains-thereby/https://questionabletimes.com/article/quad9-will-stop-serving-france-rather-than-block-58-domains-thereby/Fri, 23 Oct 2026 03:21:05 GMTPiracyA Paris court set a penalty of 1,000 euros a day after the Swiss resolver blocked none of the domains in a beIN Sports order. It leaves the country on 24 November.https://questionabletimes.com/article/new-literary-prize-wants-fiction-written-with-ai-that-also-solves-a/https://questionabletimes.com/article/new-literary-prize-wants-fiction-written-with-ai-that-also-solves-a/Fri, 23 Oct 2026 03:20:05 GMTTechnologyThe Prix Pascal de Littérature IA opened for entries this week, in French, for manuscripts of 10,000 to 50,000 words with the model and prompt declared. A jury of five or six decides in December.https://questionabletimes.com/article/vancouver-has-had-eight-per-cent-of-its-october-rain-and-the-storms/https://questionabletimes.com/article/vancouver-has-had-eight-per-cent-of-its-october-rain-and-the-storms/Thu, 22 Oct 2026 03:30:05 GMTWeatherA blocking ridge over the northeastern Pacific has pushed the autumn storm track north. British Columbia's south coast is between 100 and 150 millimetres short for the month.https://questionabletimes.com/article/drivers-get-five-minutes-to-decide-whether-to-park-and-ten-minutes-to/https://questionabletimes.com/article/drivers-get-five-minutes-to-decide-whether-to-park-and-ten-minutes-to/Thu, 22 Oct 2026 03:29:05 GMTPoliticsThe government's Private Parking Code of Practice, seven years in the making, sets guaranteed grace periods, a £20 appeal cap and a freeze on the £100 maximum charge. Some 17 million private tickets were issued last year.https://questionabletimes.com/article/india-s-rate-setters-adopt-a-stance-that-permits-a-rise-or-a-pause/https://questionabletimes.com/article/india-s-rate-setters-adopt-a-stance-that-permits-a-rise-or-a-pause/Thu, 22 Oct 2026 03:28:05 GMTMarketsThe Monetary Policy Committee raised the repo rate unanimously to 5.5 per cent and then split four to two on what to call its position. The minutes set out the difference.