⚡️🇧🇩 WATCH - Natural gas has been continuously seeping from the Haripur field in Sylhet, Bangladesh, for approximately 70 years following a blowout that occurred during the first drilling operation in 1955. The ground at the location has been continuously leaking gas.

⚡️🎮 GAMING - Thief Simulator 3 Announced with 2-Player Co-op Support

⚡️🇺🇸 WATCH - An American buys a $784,000 home with a $5,700 monthly mortgage. After 4 years and $285,000 paid, only $50k hits the principal. $230,000 is PURE interest. Over 30 years she’ll pay $1.6M for a $784k house. This isn’t “homeownership” — it’s usury.

⚡️💻 TECH - Amazon AWS just launched its Trainium3 AI chip Trainium3 UltraServers: – Up to 4.4× higher performance – ~4× more memory bandwidth – 4× better performance-per-watt vs Trainium2 UltraServers – Scale to 144 chips (362 FP8 PFLOPs) per server and 1M+ chips in UltraClusters AWS is positioning Trainium3 as a lower-cost alternative to Nvidia GPUs. It says Trainium-based instances can cut training – and often inference – costs by as much as ~50% vs comparable GPU clusters on large models, for customers willing to adopt its Neuron software stack and Trainium instances.

⚡️🚨 NEW - The EU eSafety Commissioner has granted Bluesky exemption status from Digital ID laws.

⚡️🚨 NEW - Trust Wallet announces the integration of predictions into its wallet.

⚡️🏳️‍🌈 NEW - United Methodist Church "pastor" announces during his sermon that he is now "transgender" and is becoming a woman. "My parents texted me this morning and they asked for me to TELL YOU all that they DO NOT support me."

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - President Trump says Fed Chair Jerome Powell is "incompetent" and a "real dope."

⚡️👀 WATCH - Google's Gemini AI impresses by guiding an oil change on a 2009 BMW 335i! Precise steps, real-time visual identification, the future of mechanics and manual labor is here.

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - President Trump says the United States is now prepared to launch bombing strikes against any South American country believed to be moving drugs into the U.S. He singles out Venezuela as the worst offender, claiming it is sending criminals across borders and into the country. He says land-based strikes are next, adding that they already know the routes traffickers use.

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - President Trump says they'll be announcing a new Fed Chairman early in 2026

⚡️📱 TECH - Samsung has revealed its first tri-fold smartphone, the Galaxy Z TriFold, set for release in the first quarter of 2026.

⚡️🇷🇺 NEW - Vladimir Putin warns that Russia is ready to go to war with all of Europe if that’s the path European leaders choose. He insists Moscow has no intention of starting a war, but says if Europe ignites it, Russia will be the one to finish it. He adds that facing Europe would be nothing like fighting Ukraine, calling it a showdown that would erase any hope of future negotiations.

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - U.S. War Department on troops conducting raids in Somalia: "I can assure you, right, this is an America first department of war and president. So we aren't conducting forever wars in Somalia. We're not seeking regime change, or, you know, we're not nation building."

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - President Trump says next year will bring the biggest tax refund season in American history, with families receiving money generated from tariffs that he claims have brought in trillions and will now be paid out like a dividend. He says this approach will gradually wipe out the national debt. He adds that in the future Americans will no longer have to pay income tax at all.

⚡️🇮🇱🇸🇾 NEW - Israeli PM Netanyahu issues a new threat to Syria, announcing a demilitarized buffer zone stretching from Damascus to Mount Hermon. He says an agreement with Damascus is possible if it complies with Israel’s security conditions. “we are determined to defend our communities on our borders, including on the northern border, and to prevent the entrenchment of terrorists and hostile activities against us; to protect our Druze allies; and to ensure that Israel is secure from ground and other attacks from areas near the border.” “What we expect Syria to do is, of course, to establish a demilitarized buffer zone from Damascus to the [Israeli-held] buffer zone, and of course the approaches to Mount Hermon and the Hermon summit” “In a positive atmosphere and with understanding of these principles, it is also possible to reach an agreement with the Syrians but we will stand by our principles in any case,”

⚡️🎮 GAMING - Anime Shop Simulator: stock manga, figures, collectible cards, and more to run your own anime store. Coming soon to Steam.

⚡️🇮🇪🇺🇦 NEW - Irish Prime Minister welcomes Zelensky to "militarily neutral" Ireland: "We will be with you when peace prevails to support the recovery and reconstruction of your country."

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - SEC Chair Paul Atkins says innovation exemption for crypto firms is coming in a month or so.

⚡️💦 WATCH - Live cleaning is a technique used to clean equipment while it's still powered on. It's used for solar panels, power lines, and other electrical and electronic devices. A a special solvent is used.