Thursday, November 5, 2026
ArchiveParaguay’s president out after bank implosion freezes millions of accounts
A fintech bank implodes, millions of accounts freeze, and within days the president of Paraguay is gone. The speed from bank run to resignation is the thing to sit with.
This US City May Need to be Completely Evacuated
New Orleans is sinking faster than the $14bn levee system was designed for. The engineering case for retreat is laid out here more calmly — and more disturbingly — than anyone shouting about it.
How Novaya Gazeta Reporters Almost Bought a Soviet Nuclear Warhead in 1993
Posing as a foreign buyer's men, reporters were calmly offered uranium pellets, plutonium plates and a live Soviet warhead. Russia's last great independent paper just folded; this is what it did.
The Brain Injury That Made Edward Freytag A Musical Genius
Edward Freytag couldn't play a note before the accident. Six months of healing later he had perfect pitch and a place in the case literature. What the brain was doing in between is the unsettling part.
Residential proxies detected on White House network
Someone was using residential proxies to mask their identity on the White House network—raises immediate questions about who had access and what they were doing.