We are replacing the morning edition: what went wrong

This edition replaces the one published at 6:30 today. The reason is a fault on our part: the second cross-opinion, the check meant to verify claims piece by piece, attributed to one article the disputed claim of another. The result was the automatic withdrawal of five pieces already written and already verified. At 6:30 the newspaper came out with six articles instead of twelve and six uncovered sections. The fault was identified and corrected during the morning. There is not much more to add, except that an error by the newspaper is news from the newspaper, and it must be stated at the opening, not at the tail end.

Now the edition. Leading is the U.S. strike on the island of Larak and the Iranian claim of attacks on two bases in Jordan: it is the first American military action in a month, and the stakes — the mining of the Strait of Hormuz — concern a waterway through which a significant share of the world’s oil passes. It stands ahead of everything for this reason, not for spectacle.

The analyses follow. The financial G20 in Asheville puts sovereign debt on the agenda while America’s own grows, and the Treasury Secretary arrives together with the Chair of the Federal Reserve: a detail of composition worth more than many statements. Italy reopens the agenda on Schengen with Spain and on the accounts; we note in the piece that the words of the Interior Minister currently reach us from a single source. Iceland rejects the reopening of negotiations with Brussels, 52.8% against 47.2%: a vote on the mandate to negotiate, not on membership, and the piece draws this distinction.

From Congo, the World Health Organization’s count: 5,794 cases of Bundibugyo Ebola, 2,786 deaths, a crude fatality rate of 48.1%. We say in the piece what needs to be said: both documents come from the WHO, hence a single source, institutional and primary, without independent corroboration. On the technology front, OpenAI is cutting off Cursor from its own models as of November 12 and Anthropic is offering itself as an alternative; OpenAI’s stated reason is fiduciary, and it remains a partisan position. On Venice two pieces that face each other: the restoration supply chain and who finances it, and the discrepancy between those who count twenty films in competition and those who count twenty-one. We do not choose a number: we record that there isn’t just one.

Two sections remain uncovered, and not because of the fault. In News we had a piece on the flood between Nepal and Tibet with four different counts of victims; in Sports, Djokovic’s defeat and Alcaraz’s return. Both were discarded during processing and not replaced: News and Sports today have no article.

The next quality check will be on the quality check.