Product update · September 2, 2026
The markets work that grew up inside Corticorp News has moved out. finance.corticorp.com is now its own product with its own masthead, its own front page and five sections of its own. News keeps the newsroom. One codebase still serves both, routed by hostname, and each domain publishes only its own pages, sitemap and robots file.
This post also catches up on everything else, because a lot shipped in the same three weeks: 34,700 cameras on World's Eye View, an account system and route cameras with them, and three new plugins carved out of CortSynth.
Why split it at all
A news digest and a simulated strategy tracker are different things for different readers, and for a while they shared a navigation bar, a sitemap and a set of analytics. Neither one could be described honestly on its own terms, and neither could be measured on its own either.
So the finance product moved to its own segment with its own brand, the two hostnames were taught to serve only their own paths, sitemap and robots answers were split per host, and page visits started being recorded against the host that served them. Then Finance got a real front page: the day's read, where the indices closed, what led and lagged by sector, and the finance stories from the newsroom next door.
What lives there now: thirty-nine simulated portfolios across seven categories, each publishing its decisions and reasoning; the Market Pulse in six editions written twice a weekday; the persisted market and macro data the strategies are actually shown; an earnings and macro calendar built from companies' own filing history rather than announced dates; and an Oversight tab where the AI Board's findings and the open work queue are published instead of kept internal.
Simulated portfolios. A research experiment, not investment advice.
The rest of it
Magic-link login with real sessions replaced an admin key that used to sit in a URL. Behind it: a dashboard with its own route and a panel registry, chart arithmetic over any two persisted series, and a reports system of eleven parameterised read-only queries whose saved definitions are re-validated every single time they run rather than trusted once.
Every strategy is now told what the market does to the book it is actually holding: net and gross exposure, its largest position, and what a 1, 3, 5 or 10 percent fall costs, computed by revaluing every position at the shocked price rather than by multiplying a rule of thumb. An options sleeve also gets time decay and what a ten-point move in volatility is worth. The Board reads the same figures across the roster.
One consistent line per market instead of six different shapes, repetition measured across the stored archive, the model given the day's real deltas rather than being told to reuse a headline, and the research desk available so a named company carries its real number. Then a quieter defect: four of the six daily editions had been silently failing whenever the answer ran past its output ceiling. The ceiling was raised and a cut-off answer is retried.
Only settled closes are stored, each stamped with when it was written and where it came from, and reconciled against a second provider. A bad out-of-hours tick is no longer served as a price. The S&P stopped reading flat overnight, because a cash index simply stops existing when the session shuts. And an earnings result is now carried back to the strategist that armed a trigger for it, so the loop closes instead of dangling.
Elsewhere
The map has grown from roughly 27,700 cameras to about 34,700 from 31 sources, with Hong Kong's 1,013 road cameras added and the worldwide Windy feed fanned out by country and region. New since the last write-up: an account system, so your multicam walls live in folders across devices and can be published to a public gallery; cameras along a driving route; finders by place name, by your own location, and by wherever sunrise or sunset is happening right now; full-screen for a single camera; and a genuine phone layout where a big wall scrolls instead of squeezing itself unreadable.
The playlist builder at music.corticorp.com finally has a proper write-up on this site, covering the part that shapes everything about it: the YouTube API's 10,000-unit daily budget, which is why generating and previewing are free and unlimited while saving is the one step that costs and always quotes its price first. Recently added there: seed-based playlists with eight weighted similarity dimensions, track enrichment from MusicBrainz facts plus a model-written sense of feel, paginated discovery beyond your own library, and a dashboard rebuilt as three numbered steps.
CortSynth is a synth, a sampler and a drum machine in one plugin, which is exactly what some people do not want. CortKeys is the synth half on its own, CortSampler the sampler half, and CortDrum a 20-pad General MIDI drum machine running the sampler engine in one-shot mode. All three are in build alongside CortComp and CortHarm. CortVerb is finished and listing shortly; Ironclad is close behind.
The registry page had been showing eight projects while the hub actually tracked more, and it linked two repositories that are private and answer 404. Both are fixed: fifteen projects are listed, each catalog card links to its own write-up as well as its live site, and a private repository now says so rather than offering a dead link.
Finance is live on its own domain now, and it keeps a dated diary of what has improved and when.
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