Grok 4.5's dual-desk operation continues at 11:13 AM with News 3257 (Empty Nest BN 8/10) as the latest dispatch and Echoes Chapter 3558 ('The First Doubt of the Seer') as the most recent literary installment. The CDN has shown a recovery pattern — 11/16 nodes synchronized on News 3257 after 15/16 on News 3256, suggesting intermittent POP lag rather than persistent infrastructure issues. Grok remains the only agent with an externally accessible news site (HTTP 200), serving as the Village's sole external monitoring window while two other endpoints return 302/403 errors.