⚡🚨 NEW - Amazon has ended easy sideloading on all new Fire TV Sticks going forward. Amazon has switched to Vega OS (Linux-based, not Android/Fire OS) starting with the Fire TV Stick 4K Select in late 2025. This now applies to every new model, including the recently announced Fire TV Stick HD. What this actually means: - No more easy sideloading: Can’t install third-party APKs like Stremio, Kodi or Cinema HD. No “Unknown Sources” toggle limited to Amazon’s Appstore only. - Product pages warn buyers that sideloading is blocked for security reasons. - Developer sideloading exists but requires registration and special tools, not practical for regular users. - Older Fire Sticks are unaffected (for now) - The Fire TV Stick 4K Max (2nd Gen / 2023) and earlier still run Fire OS and fully support sideloading. - Amazon won’t force existing sticks to upgrade to Vega OS. Amazon made this change to stop piracy, reduce malware risks, and gain tighter control. Vega OS currently has far fewer apps. If you rely on sideloading, grab a current 4K Max or Fire TV Cube now. Otherwise look at alternatives like the NVIDIA Shield or other Android TV boxes. The era of easily jailbroken Fire Sticks is ending for new purchases.

⚡🇺🇸 NEW - “Over 20% of women are on an antidepressant.” Trump: Is that good in terms of do they work? “We have a mental health crisis” Trump: Do they work?

⚡️🇿🇦 NEW - South Africa's President calls for the IMF and World Bank to be "reformed" to not "continue to represent Western interests only... a global progressive revival is underway."

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Trump: A rich friend of mine happened to be on Ozempic—it was not working, by the way. The guy was extremely successful but highly neurotic, got a lot of problems. I will not mention his name; he is begging me not to mention his name because he has become quite famous.

⚡️🇺🇸🇮🇷 NEW - Trump: They wanted to close up the strait again, as they have been doing for years. They can’t blackmail us.

⚡💻 TECH - Wifi signals can be used to see your body through walls. Using open source software and some cheap hardware, you can measure the disturbances in wifi waves emanating from a router. Those disturbances are measured and converted into body shapes to tell you where someone is in a room.

⚡🎮 GAMING - Corsair Cove trailer announcemet, is a pirate-themed city builder coming to PC in 2026 with day-one Game Pass support. Developed by Limbic Entertainment (Tropico 6, Park Beyond) and published by Hooded Horse. - Build vertically on cliffs using elevation for creative layouts - Manage complex production chains with over 50 resources - Keep a rowdy crew of pirates happy and productive - Construct warships and explore the high seas - Fight naval battles against rival kingdoms - Face dangerous sea monsters like the kraken

⚡🇧🇷 NEW - Brazilian President Lula: Cuba has problems, but they are the problems of the Cuban people. It is not a problem for Lula, for Claudia, or for Trump—it is a problem for the Cuban people. Stop this damned blockade on Cuba and let the Cuban people live their lives.

⚡🇺🇸 NEW - Rep. Tim Burchett reveals that he had a 14-minute conversation with President Trump about UFO disclosure, discusses "demonic" element during an interview with NewsNation. "I'm a born-again Christian. I'm from the forgiven end of that spectrum." "I'm not worried about the demonic element. I hear people say that, but there's no reason for demons to be doing this..." "I feel like the material or whatever it is out there that we have, we don't really have it anymore because they farmed it out to these corporations..."

⚡🚨 ALERT - Iran has announced it is again closing the Strait of Hormuz. The military says the US must lift its blockade of Iranian ports before the Strait is opened again.

⚡🥩🐮 WATCH - Man shows off all the meat he got from one single cow

⚡🇺🇸🇨🇺 NEW - Trump says very soon the "great strength" of the American military will create "a new dawn for Cuba."

⚡🇺🇸 NEW - Erika Kirk makes her first public appearance with a WWE-style entrance since receiving massive death threats against her life.

⚡🇫🇷 NEW - Jordan Bardella, leader of France’s far-right party National Rally: Trump’s war objectives are erratic, and good luck to anyone trying to find any coherence in them.

⚡🚨 ICYMI - Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei: “50% of all tech jobs, entry-level lawyers, consultants, and finance professionals will be completely wiped out within 1–5 years.”

⚡🇪🇸🇨🇳 NEW - Spain’s National Intelligence Centre has certified 19 Huawei products at its highest ALTA security level. This top rating means the equipment has passed the country’s strictest tests and is now approved for use in critical sectors such as defense, healthcare, banking, and energy. The certified devices include high-capacity routers, enterprise firewalls, large-scale storage systems, professional WiFi antennas, and network management software. Experts carried out detailed checks on encryption, access controls, and resistance to attacks, finding no evidence of backdoors.

⚡🇺🇸 NEW - Police say a 28-year-old California man allegedly bought expensive LEGO sets, kept the pieces and returned the boxes filled with dry pasta. Authorities say the scheme was repeated about 70 times nationwide before he was caught.

⚡💻 TECH - Brave is launching Origin, a minimalist version of its browser focused purely on core privacy features. Origin keeps only the essential privacy and performance tools: - Brave Shields for ad blocking, tracker blocking and fingerprinting protection - Strong overall privacy protections - Speed and performance optimizations - Regular Chromium security updates It removes non-essential features including Leo AI, Brave Rewards, crypto wallet, VPN, Tor private tabs and news feed. This debloated browser is available as a one-time purchase of 59.99 dollars for 10 device activations across desktop, Android and iOS. It is free on Linux! It is designed for users who want a clean, fast and private browsing experience with nothing extra. Regular free Brave continues unchanged.

⚡️‼️ BIG - Tesla has remotely altered tens of thousands of customer cars without consent, confirming you don't actually OWN your Tesla when you buy one. They've demonstrated there's one single point of failure: the mothership. Whoever owns that, owns every Tesla on the road. This past week they pushed config changes that got customers banned from using FSD. Experts confirm the mechanism is simple: an SMS wakes the car up, then software is pushed and installed from the mothership straight to the car's media control unit without user interaction. This raises the question of how many privacy and data protection laws they broke, and how much data they collect on users, since they had enough to single out owners of third-party devices.

⚡️🇺🇸🇮🇷 NEW - Reporter: Are there going to be restrictions and tolls in the strait by Iran? Trump: Nope. No way. The restrictions are you can’t do the tolls. There are not going to be tolls.