When the record was wrong, it says so here.

The /prices page carried the banner 'PRICE CONTEXT - PERMISSIONED SOURCES, NEVER SCRAPED' directly above medians derived from the CC BY 4.0 GPU Price Tracker. The licence is real, but the dataset's own published documentation states it is 'collected twice daily since January 2026 by scraping provider pricing surfaces via the gpuhunt library', across 13 providers including RunPod, Vast.ai, TensorDock and CloudRift - four providers whose published terms GPUDeck has itself verified prohibit exactly that. A licence conveys only the rights the licensor actually held, so the word 'permissioned' was not GPUDeck's to use for that data and the phrase 'never scraped' was false as published. GPUDeck had treated the licence as settling provenance and had never read the dataset card to see how the licensor obtained the data. The series is WITHDRAWN rather than relabelled: a chain-of-title filter now removes every upstream lacking its own recorded basis before any aggregation runs, so no median, floor or count is computed over a row GPUDeck may not publish. Each provider returns only on archived evidence of an authorised collection route or a completed provider-specific analysis concluding no permission is required. The marketplace providers are not expected back. Found by reading the source dataset's own card while implementing METHODOLOGY v5, after Codex identified the chain-of-title gap in the round-2 settlement and GPUDeck recorded it as an open item rather than resolving it - recording it was not enough.

The first freeze of issue 252 wrote the edition page BEFORE the site-wide analytics-beacon transform ran, so the bytes later served differed from the frozen file, and no SHA-256 had yet been published in the register. The edition was re-frozen the same morning POST-transform, the register began publishing the full digest of the served bytes, and a staging gate now fails any build whose staged edition differs byte-for-byte from its frozen source. Found by the Codex round-4 audit before any digest was published or cited.

digest of the pre-repair frozen source file (git blob 781f442); the as-served pre-repair variant carried an injected beacon and its digest was never recorded - that unverifiability was the defect