⚡️🇮🇱 NEW - Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich threatens to declare war on the entire world and destroy everything if an arrest warrant is issued against him. He declares himself and Netanyahu’s government above the law and says war crime accusations do not apply to them. “And in the face of a declaration of war, we will respond with war.” “I promise all of you, this is only the beginning.”

⚡️💻 NEW - Microsoft is phasing out SMS text codes for logging into and recovering personal Microsoft accounts. This targets personal accounts used for services like Xbox, Windows, Outlook, OneDrive, and more. It does not currently apply to work or school accounts. The company states that SMS-based authentication has become a leading source of fraud, mainly through SIM-swapping attacks and mobile network breaches Instead of SMS codes, users should set up: - Passkeys: These use your device’s built-in biometrics for one-tap sign-ins. - Verified backup email - Microsoft Authenticator app. During sign-in, Microsoft will prompt users to “Sign in faster” and create a passkey.

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Elon Musk’s “baby mama” Ashley St. Clair is accusing Elon Musk of rigging the 2024 election using lasers, satellites, and space technology. She says she has a dead man’s switch if anything happens to her. “In October, Elon told me he was ready to release his ‘anomaly in the matrix.’” “He said he has 10K lasers in space,” referring to his satellites. “This is not a piece they’ll see on the chess board.”

⚡️🇷🇺🇨🇳 NEW - President Putin says Russia and China are working together to bring "peace and universal prosperity" to the world.

⚡️🚨🤖 NEW - Cloudflare's CISO just published what Anthropic's unreleased Mythos did against more than 50 of their own production repos. According to him, Mythos is too powerful and must "include additional safeguards" before releasing to the public. Turns out the model can chain multiple low-severity bugs into a single severe exploit with a working PoC, where previous frontier models would stop at "interesting bug, unclear if exploitable." At triage time, that means fewer hedged findings and less time spent asking "is this even real?" A finding that arrives with a PoC is a finding you can act on. Cloudflare is also explicit about the safety side. The Mythos Preview build provided for Project Glasswing did not include the safeguards present in generally available models like Opus 4.7 or GPT-5.5. The model's organic refusals are real, but Cloudflare states they are not consistent enough to serve as a complete safety boundary on their own, and that any cyber frontier model made generally available in the future must ship with additional safeguards on top of that baseline. Interesting detail: Cloudflare was not on the original Project Glasswing launch partner list with Apple, AWS, Google, Microsoft, CrowdStrike, and others. Instead they got invited later on.

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - QUINTANILLA: According to the filings, the president has been trading some Intel in the quarter JIM CRAMER: Yeah, uh, yeah, hmm FABER: Got nothing to say? CRAMER: Uh, uh, yeah, whoa, yeah. FABER: Don't worry. We're not having technical difficulties, but we gotta go

⚡️🇩🇪 NEW - A German teenager posted a frustrated tweet cursing out Olaf Scholz while his 37.9 GB Fortnite update crawled along at 173 KB/s, a download that would have taken over 60 hours to complete. The tweet had just 503 views. German police later opened criminal proceedings against him for insulting a politician. The case was dropped after he deleted the post. A year later he posted the official letter.

⚡️👀 END OF DAY - Did Iran just drop an AI LEGO-style music video promoting the use of Bitcoin to pay the toll through the Strait of Hormuz?

⚡️📚🤖 NEW - Books written by AI have FLOODED the self-publishing market to such an extent that Kindle Direct Publishing, Amazon’s self-publishing platform, has had to limit authors to a maximum of three releases per day.

⚡️🇺🇸 WATCH - Sen. Cynthia Lummis on the CLARITY Act: “nobody is popping the champagne quite yet... There’s still a lot of work to do.” “I would love to have this bill on the floor in June. That’s probably pretty optimistic.”

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - President Trump has released a last minute video pleading with the people of Kentucky to stand with his AIPAC backed candidate over Thomas Massie. Trump says Thomas Massie is the worst congressman in the history of the United States. Not Lindsey Graham Not John Thune Not Mitch McConnell Not Nancy Pelosi Not Adam Schiff “I hope you’re going to put him out of business tomorrow.”

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Trump says that after UAE, Saudi Arabia and Qatar asked him, he has agreed to hold off on the "planned Military attack" of Iran, "which was scheduled for tomorrow," as "serious negotiations are now taking place," and that he expects a deal to be made.

⚡️🇮🇱 WATCH - Israeli settler in the West Bank throws a block at a cat.

⚡️🇪🇸 NEW - Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez: In just a few months, the same country that has cut around 18 billion in global health and development aid has spent more than 29 billion on a war.

⚡️✌️ ALERT - Security experts warn that AI can now steal fingerprints from regular high-resolution selfies. Hackers may only need clear photos taken from about 5 feet away Modern phone cameras and simple AI editing tools can sharpen faint fingerprint lines invisible to the naked eye, allowing people to create fake fingerprints to unlock phones, banking apps, payment systems, or smart door locks. Chinese experts recently showed this on live TV using an ordinary celebrity selfie. Although it does not work with every photo bad lighting, blur, or greater distance can prevent it, the technique has become much easier thanks to better cameras. To protect yourself, think twice before posting selfies where your fingertips face the camera. Blur or cut out the finger areas before sharing photos online, and use stronger security methods such as passkeys or Face ID for important accounts and devices.

⚡️🤖 NEW - The intern won Figure AI's "Man vs. Machine" challenge but just barely. Figure AI CEO says "this is the last time a human will ever win."

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - White House Executive Director says there is an announcement coming soon regarding a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve: "We'll have an announcement...It's a breakthrough as far as getting everything in place, legally sound, properly safeguarding the assets."

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Pete Hegseth attacks Thomas Massie in favor of the AIPAC-backed candidate and admits Massie is a problem for not bending the knee to the demands of the White House. Hegseth says Republicans must be prepared to support President Trump whenever he says so. “Trump does not need more people in Washington who are trying to make a point.”

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Minnesota Governor signs bill into law that allows banks and credit unions to offer Bitcoin custody services to customers.

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Marjorie Taylor Greene is calling out “QAnon” as a psychological operation that behaves like a cult, specifically targeting people who are already distrustful of the government and steering them in the wrong direction. She says it works by taking a small amount of truth, then twisting it into a false narrative that people get pulled into over and over again. According to her, Q is one of the most effective psychological operations she’s ever seen. “This is a bunch of bullshit.”