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Monday12October 2026
Sources133of 208 · to 20:30 UTC

The number is what arrived in the 72 hours. Each trace is the domain’s 7-day window per 100 reporting sources, 11 Sep to 12 Oct, all eight on one scale; the lead is the open secret with the most sources a day over the week.

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A line by sheet date with a gap where there is no sheet, ending at 6.8 per 100.6.811 Sep12 Oct
Relationships, sources a day per 100 reporting · 11 Sep to 12 Oct

Radar only, and the most valuable kind of signal because it has not confirmed.

what
today
looks like

Body overtakes relationships for the board's lead today, with nothing in the sweep to confirm it even after a dedicated backfill pass. Tech's softest reading of the eight domains carries two threads invisible on its own boards: AI's compute buildout pricing itself into ordinary memory chips, and AI-authorship suspicion spreading from the Commonwealth Prize to the Caine Prize. Hollywood's tech-villain picture closes its reversal at a real number, and actors turn one-off AI complaints into a standing refusal.

The read · techTech's softest reading carries two threads invisible on its own boardsSweep only, even as tech holds the softest climate reading of the eight domains.
The read · techHollywood's tech-villain picture closes its reversal at a real number, confirmed on both layers'The Social Reckoning's' $5.5 million debut against 'Other Mommy's' $27.5 million lands on radar's own fauxmoi board the same day Variety reports it.
The readActors' AI pushback turns from complaint into standing position, and both layers carry it the same dayCage's refusal to work with Amazon again lands the same day fauxmoi carries Gordon-Levitt's own version of the argument that the people building AI, not AI itself, are the problem. Both layers agree.
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Body holds the board's new lead with nothing in the sweep to confirm it, even after a dedicated backfill pass across skincare, GLP-1s and gym culture.

The two layers

What the radar counted and what the sweep read, kept apart. The day’s moves:

  1. sweep onlyAI's compute buildout starts pricing itself into ordinary memory chips and a second literary prize in the same week, memory makers redirecting DDR4 and DDR5 capacity toward AI data centers while a Caine Prize winner comes under the same AI-authorship suspicion that hit the Commonwealth Prize in May, with nothing on radar's own chatgpt board about either thread.
  2. both layersHollywood's tech-villain picture closes its reversal at a real number, 'The Social Reckoning' debuting to $5.5 million against 'Other Mommy's' $27.5 million, confirmed the same day on radar's own fauxmoi board.
  3. both layersActors turn one-off AI complaints into a standing refusal, Nicolas Cage saying he won't work with Amazon again after an AI body scan the same day fauxmoi carries Joseph Gordon-Levitt's own version of the argument.
The layers agreed on 57 of the 120 moves in 30 sheets and disagreed on 11
Four squares a day; hollow squares are disagreement.··11 Sep24 Sep12 Oct
Four squares a day; hollow squares are disagreement.··11 Sep24 Sep12 Oct
both layers 57radar only 21sweep only 31the layers disagree 11

heard.brief.moves · counts of categories · as the brief tags them. A dot marks a day with no sheet.

In each domain

111 arrived in the 72 hours to 20:32 UTC, 12 Oct, newest first.

work, relationships and body

Nothing arrived in the 72 hours.

What the open web turned up

The sweep’s 4 stories, each with its source and the stage it has reached.

emerging 2settling 1fading 1
emergingAI's compute buildout starts pricing itself into ordinary memory chipsThe VergesettlingActors turn one-off AI complaints into a standing refusalLos Angeles TimesfadingHollywood's tech-villain prestige picture closes its reversal at a real numberVariety via Google NewsemergingLiterary AI-authorship suspicion spreads to a second major prizeThe Atlantic

What arrived

111 stories arrived in the 72 hours to 20:32 UTC on 12 Oct, 61 of them in music
111 stories: music 61, tech 36, language 7, fashion 4, food 3, work 0, relationships 0, body 0. The music tower is cut at 12 floors of 16.61music36tech7language4fashion3food0work0relationships0body
111 stories: music 61, tech 36, language 7, fashion 4, food 3, work 0, relationships 0, body 0. The music tower is cut at 12 floors of 16.61music36tech7language4fashion3food0work0relationships0body

arrivals.domains · counts · measured. One window is one story, four to a floor. Music’s count follows how many music feeds are registered as much as the day; its tower is cut at 12 floors of 16.

As counted, the last sheeted week runs 8% lower than the first; per 100 sources reporting, 8% lower
Sources a day carrying each domain, darker is more.As counted: sources a daytechfashionmusicfoodlanguageworkrelationshipsbody11 Sep24 Sep12 OctThe same counts per 100 sources that reported that day.Per 100 sources reportingtechfashionmusicfoodlanguageworkrelationshipsbody11 Sep24 Sep12 Oct
Sources a day carrying each domain, darker is more.As counted: sources a daytechfashionmusicfoodlanguageworkrelationshipsbody11 Sep24 Sep12 OctThe same counts per 100 sources that reported that day.Per 100 sources reportingtechfashionmusicfoodlanguageworkrelationshipsbody11 Sep24 Sep12 Oct

counted.domains[].w.1d · counts, and a ratio of counts. Open cells have no sheet.

What the charts carried

On 12 October, 107 entries on Apple’s and YouTube’s six lists were not there on 11 October. The largest climb was This American Life, 32 places to 11 among Apple’s podcasts.

Apple appsUS

6 new of 50

  1. Microsoft AuthenticatorMicrosoft Corporation
  2. Edits: Video EditorInstagram, Inc.
  3. GoWish - Your Digital WishlistOnskeskyen ApS

largest climb: Shop: Track, Pay, Discover, 47 to 25

Apple booksUS

10 new of 50

  1. Headstrong CowboyNicole Flockton
  2. Magic in MistletoeJanet Koops
  3. Sunset CoveAmelia Addler

largest climb: Sense and Sensibility, 43 to 37

Apple songsUS

5 new of 50

  1. Great ExpectationSIENNA SPIRO
  2. Thinkin’ Bout MeMorgan Wallen
  3. Wasted On YouMorgan Wallen

largest climb: Just In Case, 44 to 34

Apple podcastsUS

8 new of 50

  1. The Dylan Gemelli PodcastDylan Gemelli
  2. Tomorrow, TodayShekhar Natarajan
  3. Coffeez with Joe ShalabyJoseph Shalaby

largest climb: This American Life, 43 to 11

YouTube trendingUS

37 new of 50

  1. MEOVV(미야오) - ‘GO HARD’ M/V5,639,628 views
  2. We tried NEW Backrooms games...2,019,036 views
  3. Desde Que Te Tengo117,233 views

largest climb: Yu Les – Jarahn ft. SHLD, Nene Morus &…, 49 to 31

YouTube trendingUK

41 new of 49

  1. REAL BADMAN (Official Video) Karan Aujla994,609 views
  2. River | Official Trailer708,692 views
  3. CHOOSE The RIGHT HOLE in Minecraft!306,910 views

no entry rose since 11 October

Google TrendsUS

10 searches, all new since 11 October

  1. sal frelick5,000+ searches
  2. amelia earhart2,000+ searches
  3. google fitbit edge fitness tracker2,000+ searches

ordered by search volume, as Google bands it

Google TrendsUK

10 searches, all new since 11 October

  1. naza film2,000+ searches
  2. hawkeye not in avengers doomsday2,000+ searches
  3. michael palin2,000+ searches

ordered by search volume, as Google bands it

radar_charts_recent · each list read once a day, 12 Oct against 11 Oct · every title links to its source · YouTube trending is YouTube’s own list; a Google Trends search links to Google Trends

Wikipedia’s top thousand

On 11 October, 284 articles reached English Wikipedia’s thousand most-read that were not there on 10 October; 104 had not been there on any day since 5 July.

The highest first-timersrank · views
  1. Ancient lake65,778
  2. Gunner Stockton37,471
  3. Jennifer Meyer33,327
  4. Userkare28,529
  5. The Party (2026 TV series)28,078
  6. Brendan Allen26,446
  7. Olivia Culpo24,456
  8. Parker Washington22,110
  9. Gavin Williams (baseball)21,829
  10. Dustfall21,401
First-timers a day, 5 Oct to 11 Oct
5 Oct 135; 6 Oct 151; 7 Oct 112; 8 Oct 164; 9 Oct 149; 10 Oct 120; 11 Oct 1041355 Oct1516 Oct1127 Oct1648 Oct1499 Oct12010 Oct10411 Oct
Articles by days held, of 99
1 day: 7241; 2 days: 2831; 3–6: 3070; 7–13: 1387; 14–27: 832; 28–55: 412; 56–98: 240; all 99: 971 day7,2412 days2,8313–63,0707–131,38714–2783228–5541256–98240all 9997
First-timers a day, 5 Oct to 11 Oct
5 Oct 135; 6 Oct 151; 7 Oct 112; 8 Oct 164; 9 Oct 149; 10 Oct 120; 11 Oct 1041355 Oct1516 Oct1127 Oct1648 Oct1499 Oct12010 Oct10411 Oct
Articles by days held, of 99
1 day: 7241; 2 days: 2831; 3–6: 3070; 7–13: 1387; 14–27: 832; 28–55: 412; 56–98: 240; all 99: 971 day7,2412 days2,8313–63,0707–131,38714–2783228–5541256–98240all 9997

radar_pageviews_board · English Wikipedia’s daily top thousand, CC0 · the Main Page and service pages left out; automated traffic is counted as Wikimedia counts it · 16,110 articles reached it in 99 days, 7,241 of them for one day

The open secrets

Slop led 55 of 120 domain-days and taste 47; values, gender and lonely led the other 18
Eight domains by 32 days, each cell coloured by the secret the brief named as leading it.techfashionmusicfoodlanguageworkrelationshipsbody11 Sep24 Sep12 Oct
Eight domains by 32 days, each cell coloured by the secret the brief named as leading it.techfashionmusicfoodlanguageworkrelationshipsbody11 Sep24 Sep12 Oct
slop 55taste 47values 7gender 6lonely 5

heard.brief.weather[].lead · categories · as the brief names them. Five secrets need five hues: the house’s three, then ochre and aubergine.

The rest of today’s reading

upstream and vernacular
Steam's boards ran an ordinary review mix across Helldivers 2

Reddit's niche hobby boards, fountain pens, knitting, warhammer40k and espresso, ran a heavy ordinary weekend mix with nothing that breaks pattern. The market layer's freshest contracts price a long slate of state-level data-center-moratorium outcomes across North Carolina, Indiana, Louisiana, Missouri and Oklahoma alongside the standing Elon-Musk-tweet-count and MrBeast-video-view markets; no contract touches this week's AI-cost or literary-prize stories directly. Google Trends ran sports-heavy on both sides of the Atlantic, NFL names and college-football chatter on the US side, a reality-show cast and a royal-adjacent mix on the UK side. Radar's own item count ran toward the middle of the week's range in 36 hours; the 7-day trend lines, the Loom's real anchor, held their course regardless.

Steam's boards ran an ordinary review mix across Helldivers 2

Reddit's niche hobby boards, fountain pens, knitting, warhammer40k and espresso, ran a heavy ordinary weekend mix with nothing that breaks pattern. The market layer's freshest contracts price a long slate of state-level data-center-moratorium outcomes across North Carolina, Indiana, Louisiana, Missouri and Oklahoma alongside the standing Elon-Musk-tweet-count and MrBeast-video-view markets; no contract touches this week's AI-cost or literary-prize stories directly. Google Trends ran sports-heavy on both sides of the Atlantic, NFL names and college-football chatter on the US side, a reality-show cast and a royal-adjacent mix on the UK side. Radar's own item count ran toward the middle of the week's range in 36 hours; the 7-day trend lines, the Loom's real anchor, held their course regardless.

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