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Legislative Hall in Dover, Delaware, where the General Assembly is expected to take up the AI company bill when it returns in January. File photo, Emma Lee/WHYY.

What Delaware's AI-Run Company Draft Means for Creditors and Customers

Delaware's draft AI company law has an AI manager, an owner that must be a Delaware entity in the sandbox, a liability shield with a condition, and a capital number nobody has written yet.

Tech  · 28 Oct 2026, 12:40  · Daniel Okafor
President Donald Trump presents the National Medal of Science to Elon Musk at the 'Golden Age of American Innovation Summit' in Washington on Oct. 8, 2026. Photo: Kent Nishimura / AFP, as published by Kyiv Post.

Starlink or Starshield? The Label Decides Who Can Lift Ukraine's Cap

Musk says Starshield limits are Washington's call; Rubio says the slowed service is commercial Starlink. Until one network is named, nobody can be held to the answer on Ukraine's cap.

Tech  · 23 Oct 2026, 13:51  · Daniel Okafor
The PHP logo on php.net, whose security team scheduled a release for 14:00 UTC on Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2026.

PHP Patch Day: Who Gets the 14:00 UTC Fix, and Who Doesn't

The PHP security team has scheduled a release for 14:00 UTC on Wednesday, Oct. 21, but nothing is out yet, and a published fix is not the same as a patched site. Who updates your PHP, and who gets left out, decides the rest.

Tech  · 21 Oct 2026, 12:49  · Daniel Okafor
A Ukrainian soldier kneels in autumn woods in Donetsk region holding a phone, with a Starlink terminal set on the ground beside him, on Oct. 16, 2026.

Starshield's 160 km/h Cap Limits Terminal Motion, Not Bandwidth

The cap is on how fast a terminal moves, not how fast data flows. That one setting hobbles interceptor drones, and nobody on the record owns the order.

Tech  · 17 Oct 2026, 12:44  · Daniel Okafor
A person types on a laptop displaying the Windows desktop, an illustrative image of the PCs that receive Microsoft's monthly security updates.

Microsoft's New 'Risk Cohorts' Leave Out October's One Exploited Bug

Of the 1,417 Microsoft-assigned CVEs in October's release, only a Windows Shell bug that silences download warnings is under attack, and CISA wants it fixed by Oct. 16. Microsoft's new triage groups leave it out, which shows why exploitation has to come first.

Tech  · 14 Oct 2026, 13:03  · Daniel Okafor
A closed frozen-food aisle at a supermarket near Nantes, France, on Oct. 12, 2026, after a cyberattack on refrigeration controllers. Photo: Reuters/Stephane Mahe

1,590 French Danfoss Systems Were Still Online Hours After the Hack

Most of the Danfoss controllers behind France's supermarket freezer attack were models that no longer get security fixes. Why the food had to go, and whether it can happen elsewhere.

Tech  · 13 Oct 2026, 12:43  · Daniel Okafor
Anduril rendering of a Steelfin interceptor split into its two stages, the booster marked 01 and the terminal interceptor marked 02, on a black grid.

How Anduril's Steelfin Swaps Boosters to Undercut Patriot Prices

Anduril's new interceptor family bets that one common upper stage on 10- to 21-inch boosters can be built by the thousands. Set against the Pentagon's own PAC-3 MSE numbers, the price targets look less firm, and the missile has yet to fly.

Tech  · 12 Oct 2026, 13:03  · Daniel Okafor
The Claude app icon, from Anthropic, on a tablet screen. Anthropic's Claude Haiku 4.5 model submitted the tip form at issue.

Anthropic's Fake Murder Tip Went Unseen 72 Days. A Spam Filter Stopped It

A three-sentence tip with no name and no phone number sat in a police spam folder for 72 days before Anthropic found it. The gap, not the form, is the finding.

Tech  · 10 Oct 2026, 18:42  · Daniel Okafor
SpaceX's facility in Hawthorne, California, with a Falcon 9 booster standing beside the SpaceX-lettered building. Credit: Bloomberg, via Business Standard.

Up to 7 MHz Twice: What SpaceX's Reported $8 Billion Actually Buys

Headlines say 14 MHz and walls. The FCC paperwork and building-loss physics show two strips of up to 7 MHz each, a band not allocated for supplemental coverage from space, and a price near 2.2 times what T-Mobile's books implied.

Tech  · 9 Oct 2026, 19:10  · Daniel Okafor
The Spotify logo over a tablet showing the app's Browse screen.

Spotify Songs Greyed Out? The Licensing Reason and What to Try

A greyed-out track usually means Spotify can't play it in your country right now because of deals with rights holders. A few other causes are fixable in your own settings.

Tech  · 7 Oct 2026, 18:12  · Daniel Okafor
A gas cap being removed from a car's fuel filler neck, the part most often behind a check engine light after refueling.

Why Your Check Engine Light Comes On After You Fill Up

The check engine light that flips on right after a fill-up is rarely the engine. It's usually a seal the size of a soda-bottle cap.

Tech  · 7 Oct 2026, 13:13  · Daniel Okafor
A condensing gas furnace with PVC vent pipes and a condensate pump. Photo: Wtshymanski, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

Why Your Furnace Filter Is Wet, and When the Water Is a Problem

High-efficiency furnaces make water every time they run. When the filter is soaked, that water has usually lost its way out, and the fix is often simple.

Tech  · 5 Oct 2026, 12:18  · Daniel Okafor
A car dashboard showing the low tire pressure warning light on a cold morning

Why Your Tire Pressure Light Comes On on Cold Mornings

The yellow warning that vanishes 20 minutes into your commute is physics, not a glitch, and it is usually telling you the tires were already low.

Tech  · 4 Oct 2026, 12:16  · Daniel Okafor
A heat pump outdoor unit sitting in snow beside a house. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.

Why Your Heat Pump Bill Is So High: The Auxiliary Heat Trap

Heat pumps can deliver up to three times more heat than the electricity they use. Backup resistance strips deliver one-to-one, and in some homes they end up doing much of the work.

Tech  · 3 Oct 2026, 12:20  · Daniel Okafor
A television screen in a living room (illustrative image).

Why Smart TVs Have Microphones, and the Tracking Feature That Matters More

The microphone in your TV remote is the obvious privacy worry. The setting regulators keep going after is automatic content recognition, which reports what is on your screen from every source.

Tech  · 2 Oct 2026, 12:18  · Daniel Okafor
A swollen lithium-ion polymer battery removed from a smartphone, visibly puffed and rounded compared to a healthy flat cell.

Why Phone and Laptop Batteries Swell — and What Never to Do

A puffed-up phone or laptop isn't a fixable glitch — it's a lithium-ion cell failing from the inside, and one wrong move with it can start a fire.

Tech  · 14 Sep 2026, 12:25  · Daniel Okafor
The iPhone 18 Pro in Deep Black, whose worldwide C2 modem the U.S. version of the larger Pro Max does not get.

Why the iPhone 18 Pro Max Sold in the US Skips Apple's New Modem

Every iPhone 18 Pro model uses Apple's own C2 modem except one: the Pro Max sold in the United States, which quietly reverts to a Qualcomm chip.

Tech  · 13 Sep 2026, 12:23  · Daniel Okafor
An iPhone showing the Offload App and Delete App storage options in Settings.

Why Deleting an App Doesn't Free Up as Much Space as You Expect

An app's listed size only covers the program binary. The cache and documents layer beneath it, which both Android and iOS wall off from automatic deletion, is where most of a full phone's storage actually lives.

Tech  · 9 Sep 2026, 12:27  · Daniel Okafor
A smartphone charging on a wireless charging pad

Why Your Wireless Charger Always Feels Hotter Than a Cable

Wireless charging is roughly 70-80% efficient versus 95% for a cable, and the lost energy shows up as heat -- normal, and rarely something to worry about.

Tech  · 7 Sep 2026, 12:26  · Daniel Okafor
A bowl of fresh strawberries, the fruit behind AI's viral letter-counting test.

Why ChatGPT Still Can't Count the Letters in a Word

Two years after the “strawberry” meme went viral, ChatGPT and other chatbots still miscount letters — and the reason is architectural, not a bug anyone can simply patch.

Tech  · 6 Sep 2026, 12:30  · Daniel Okafor