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Every number on the front page, with its method, its source and its trend. History starts 2026-09-30; one reading a day, the last build of the day. Back to the front page

Readers, weekly change

-28%today

Percentage change in site visits across the last seven full recorded days versus the preceding seven. Readers is measured by visits, not a count of unique people. Zero means unchanged; negative values mean fewer visits. No percentage is available when the previous period is zero.

Source: Cloudflare browser beacon via the audience history; bot requests excluded
19 days · 0 percentage points since the previous reading · up means more site visits

Listeners, weekly change

63%today

Percentage change in distinct listener IP hashes across the last seven full recorded days versus the preceding seven. Covers podcast apps and browsers reaching our audio host; excludes crawlers and platform ingestion. Spotify plays are not included. This estimates listeners, not verified individual people. No percentage is available when the previous period is zero.

Source: Audio-host request logs via the audience history
19 days · 0 percentage points since the previous reading · up means more measured podcast listeners

Threat (WRTI)

42today

VIX 50%, Fear and Greed (inverted) 33%, climate clock 17%, live inputs only. 0 to 100; under 30 low, 30 to 59 elevated, 60 to 79 high, 80 and over critical.

Source: Yahoo Finance (VIX), alternative.me (Fear and Greed), climateclock.world
30 days · 0 since the previous reading · up means more stress

Market risk gauge

50today

VIX 30%, Hang Seng daily move 30%, HKD peg distance 20%, Fear and Greed 20%. Higher is calmer: under 30 high risk, 30 to 49 caution, 50 to 69 moderate, 70 to 84 benign, 85 and over low risk. A missing input scores neutral 50.

Source: Finance and Risk desk cache (companies-news.json riskData)
30 days · 0 since the previous reading · up means more benign

Cyber score

58today

KEV additions in 7 days 35% (10 a week = 100), share of critical and high severity 30%, share tagged APAC financial services 20%, mean EPSS of the top 20 15%. Under 25 low, 25 to 49 moderate, 50 to 74 elevated, 75 and over high.

Source: CISA KEV, NVD, EPSS via the CVE Intel feed
30 days · 0 since the previous reading · up means more exploitation pressure

AI pulse

59today

Story flow 40% (30 ranked stories = 100), GitHub trending star mass 30% (500k stars = 100), fixed activity baseline 60 at 30%. Under 30 quiet, 30 to 59 active, 60 to 79 surging, 80 and over overdrive.

Source: AI desk news ranking and GitHub trending
30 days · 0 since the previous reading · up means more activity

VIX

17.39today

CBOE Volatility Index, last regular-session price.

Source: Yahoo Finance chart API
30 days · +0.19 since the previous reading · up means more expected volatility

Fear and Greed

51today

The crypto Fear and Greed index as published, 0 extreme fear to 100 extreme greed.

Source: alternative.me
30 days · 0 since the previous reading · up means greedier

CISA KEV additions, 7 days

5today

Count of CVEs whose KEV listing date falls in the last seven days.

Source: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities via the CVE Intel feed
30 days · 0 since the previous reading · up means more confirmed exploitation

Exposure ledger rows opened, 7 days

0today

Rows added to the Exposure Ledger (KEV entries that touch the 15 vendors in the regulated-firm footprint) in the last seven days.

Source: Exposure Ledger
30 days · 0 since the previous reading · up means more of our footprint exposed

Model ledger changes, 7 days

23today

Price, context, release and route changes recorded on the Model Ledger in the last seven days.

Source: OpenRouter models API via the Model Ledger
30 days · -3 since the previous reading · up means more model churn

Flashpoint moves, 48 hours

0today

Moves the Geopolitical desk filed against the ten registered flashpoints in the last 48 hours.

Source: Flashpoint register
30 days · 0 since the previous reading · up means more movement on the register

Hong Kong temperature

26°Ctoday

Current reading at the Hong Kong Observatory.

Source: HKO open data (rhrread)
30 days · 0 since the previous reading · up means hotter
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