Updates on the exchanges, tools and projects we review.
Val Town will go read-only on December 10, 2026 and shut down on January 10, 2027. We read the announcement and explain the dates, refunds, open questions and a migration…
November 11, 2026
Verisign now says it will keep existing third-level .name domains and email forwarding, but only while at least one registrar still sells them. We read the letters and explain what…
November 11, 2026
Canada's Real-Time Rail went live on November 9, 2026. We read the announcement and launch plan to show who is on it, the fraud safeguards, the 2027 timeline and what…
November 10, 2026
Amazon says a small decision model labels tickets 98% cheaper than Claude Sonnet 4.6. We recompute the math, flag what the post leaves out and show when the idea fits…
November 10, 2026
Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5.2 at $8 per million input and $40 per million output tokens. Independent data ranks it first on intelligence and last on cost. We compare the…
November 10, 2026
The FDA now requires a NAION warning on all GLP-1 drugs, including Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro and Zepbound. We read the notice, captured it ourselves and explain the numbers, the symptoms…
November 10, 2026
FinCEN says MEXC facilitated at least $16 billion in illicit flows and has cut it off from U.S. financial institutions. MEXC says it is operating normally. We read the Treasury…
November 10, 2026
One week after the biggest exchange hack on record, Bitcoin trades near $77,000. A $643 million ETF outflow on October 30 sits inside a roughly flat 12-day total. Our data…
November 3, 2026
Google's pricing page shows Gemini 4 Argon doubling to $4 and $20 per million tokens on December 1, and Gemini 3.8 Flash doubling on January 1. Costs, scenarios and an…
November 3, 2026
DefiLlama shows Binance net outflows near $15.4 billion over seven days. Which exchanges gained, why yesterday's OKX and Bybit inflows partly reversed, and what Binance's proof of reserves does and…
November 3, 2026
Binance lost about $6.3 billion in the largest crypto hack to date. Withdrawals reopened in phases on November 1 with $3.64 billion in net outflows. Updated November 2, 2026.
November 1, 2026