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Latest filed signals

A scheduled scan and a published card are different events. A quiet scan may publish nothing; an older card is not presented as proof that the latest scan succeeded.

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  1. Kenya reports first Ebola death as outbreak spreads

    1h scan; card published ; 3 publisher pages; upstream origin unresolved 1–3.

    Kenya confirmed its first Ebola death as the outbreak spreads, with a man who had lived in Congo for seven years dying after traveling to Nairobi. The patient, who had been ill for a month, died days after arriving in the capital, prompting heightened border surveillance.

  2. French school protests escalate as 499 arrests linked to violence

    1h scan; card published ; 3 publisher pages; upstream origin unresolved 1–3.

    Hundreds of students and parents took to the streets of France as school protests intensified, leading to 499 arrests and clashes with police. The unrest, which began in late September, has spread to multiple cities, with tensions rising as demonstrations turned violent. President Macron has called for an emergency meeting to address the situation.

  3. Kenya confirms first Ebola case as man dies in Nairobi after DRC return

    1h scan; card published ; 3 publisher pages; upstream origin unresolved 1–3.

    Kenya confirmed its first Ebola case after a man died in Nairobi following a return from the Democratic Republic of Congo. The man, who had lived in DRC for seven years, died after being treated there and traveling to Uganda before flying to Kenya.

  4. French student protests leave hundreds injured, thousands arrested

    1h scan; card published ; 3 publisher pages; upstream origin unresolved 1–3.

    Hundreds of students and teachers injured as nationwide protests over school conditions turn violent. Over 215 students and 715 police officers have been injured in clashes since the movement began. Thousands of students, trade unionists, and parents have taken to the streets across France.

  5. Paramount and Warner Bros Merge to Create $110B Media Giant Skydance

    1h scan; card published ; 3 publisher pages; upstream origin unresolved 1–3.

    Paramount completes $110 billion takeover of Warner Bros Discovery, creating Skydance with $70 billion in annual revenue. The merger unites Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros, CBS News, CNN, HBO and CBS under David Ellison's control. Skydance shares trade on NYSE at $31 per share.

  6. German ex-spy chief and aide arrested for alleged state secrets trade

    1h scan; card published ; 3 publisher pages; upstream origin unresolved 1–3.

    Former BND head August Hanning and aide Manfred D arrested for alleged espionage and treason, with prosecutors alleging Hanning exchanged 2,000 classified documents for payment over years.

Publisher breadth is not editorial independence. Unknown upstream origins are never counted as independent reporting. Open a filed signal to inspect the pages read and its origin test.

Market and research snapshot

Published source series on a monthly basis. Percentage windows are named; current-month values are marked month to date; nothing is interpolated. Snapshot retrieved .

  • New papers submitted to arXiv: 6,853 papers/month; -15.1% month-to-date daily pace versus the prior month; month to date; observed through 2026-10; 0 days old at retrieval. arXiv submission statistics
  • Brent crude oil: 113.96 USD/bbl; +25.1% versus the prior month average; observed through 2026-09-29; 7 days old at retrieval. U.S. EIA via FRED
  • Euro in US dollars: 1.1259 USD; -2.1% versus the prior month average; month to date; observed through 2026-10-02; 4 days old at retrieval. Federal Reserve H.10 via FRED
  • Bitcoin in US dollars: 85,821 USD; +6.6% versus the prior month average; month to date; observed through 2026-10-05; 1 days old at retrieval. Coinbase via FRED
  • Nasdaq Composite index: 27,477 index; +3.5% versus the prior month average; month to date; observed through 2026-10-05; 1 days old at retrieval. Nasdaq via FRED

News-triggered public data atlas

Exact article spans resolve against a versioned public gazetteer before bounded public-data enrichment runs. The current public store contains 247 resolved places and 2187 of 7583 mentions matched to their own coordinates; unresolved names are not moved to a capital.

Heat counts distinct ingested news-event clusters. Grey means no ingested observation, not that nothing exists. A zero is a measured zero. Semantic place confidence is an unvalidated rubric, not a probability.

Places in the current public interval

  • New York, New York, United States of America: 40 distinct ingested event clusters, 42 resolved mentions; last observed .
  • Kyiv, Kiev, Ukraine: 34 distinct ingested event clusters, 44 resolved mentions; last observed .
  • Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America: 25 distinct ingested event clusters, 28 resolved mentions; last observed .
  • Hail, Ha'il, Saudi Arabia: 24 distinct ingested event clusters, 29 resolved mentions; last observed .
  • Berlin, Berlin, Germany: 22 distinct ingested event clusters, 32 resolved mentions; last observed .
  • Washington, D.C., District of Columbia, United States of America: 22 distinct ingested event clusters, 23 resolved mentions; last observed .
  • Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel: 19 distinct ingested event clusters, 22 resolved mentions; last observed .
  • Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia: 18 distinct ingested event clusters, 27 resolved mentions; last observed .

Data behind the map

  • Energy infrastructure maps (U.S. Energy Information Administration): 0 public rows. This source is registered, but its event-triggered layers are not yet present in the public atlas database. No record must not be read as no infrastructure. Awaiting event-triggered intake. Primary dataset source
  • News-resolved places (Natural Earth 10m) (Natural Earth): 247 public rows. Only places resolved from ingested news appear in this table. The bounded gazetteer can omit smaller settlements; absence is not evidence that a place does not exist. Last ingested . Primary dataset source · Download the ingested table
  • News place activity (Lightcap): 7583 public rows. Distinct ingested news-event clusters, not all events in the world. Missing is shown as no ingested observation. Last ingested . Primary dataset source · Download the ingested table
  • World Port Index (National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency): 0 public rows. Public port characteristics. This source is registered for event-triggered ingestion but is not yet present in the public atlas database. Awaiting event-triggered intake. Primary dataset source
  • Public ports & major pipelines (OpenStreetMap contributors): 7845 public rows. A bounded 80 km event-triggered query for mapped ports and major oil/gas pipelines. OpenStreetMap is contributor-maintained and incomplete; no record is not evidence of no infrastructure. Last ingested . Primary dataset source · Download the ingested table
  • Mineral Resources Data System (U.S. Geological Survey): 13751 public rows. Worldwide coverage is incomplete and historical development-status fields may be stale. Geological occurrence records are not reserve estimates. Last ingested . Primary dataset source · Download the ingested table

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