⚡️💻 TECH - Vivaldi CEO Jon von Tetzchner says the company has no plans to add AI chatbots or AI-powered browsing features to its browser. While rivals like Chrome and Edge push AI tools, he says Vivaldi users have made their feelings clear: “Hell no!” According to von Tetzchner, features like AI summaries and chat assistants could make people rely too much on AI instead of exploring information themselves. He warned that turning the web into “passive consumption” could hurt the diversity and openness of the internet. Vivaldi says it will only consider AI if it enhances user autonomy without privacy risks or diminishing the open web. Until then, the company plans to focus on privacy, customization, and giving users full control over their browsing experience.

⚡️🚨 NEW - A hacker breached Brazil's national emergency alert system, and woke up everyone by pushing a fake "Extreme Alert" reading "misantropi4" to phones across São Paulo, Rio, Brasília and other states, overriding silent mode in the middle of the night. Telecoms regulator Anatel pulled the national warning platform offline and the Federal Police are investigating what officials call a probable remote intrusion into Brazil's critical public-warning infrastructure. This is really bad. According to our research, at least one of Brazil's government IT workers was infected with an infostealer. We found: - He was doing goverment infrastructure work on his home RGB gaming PC - He was running Windows 7 (EoL Jan 2020) - No antivirus - NO MFA for some critical infra - His browser held gov VPN creds for himself and two colleagues (they were using each others creds?) - Search history includes "ativar windows 10," "download office 2019 + ativador," "comprar office 365," and "download mobaxterm cracked" - Malware dropped via malicious game installer - The keys to his password managers were in the stolen browser: a LastPass account and a keypass[.]mdr[.]gov[.]br vault - Exposed: VPN, GitLab, Jenkins, webmail, SSO, M365, and dev/staging environments across mec[.]gov[.]br and mdr[.]gov[.]br

⚡️🇬🇧 NEW - Keir Starmer announces his resignation. He accepts his party’s view that he is not best placed to lead into the next election. Starmer will stay in office until a successor is chosen.

⚡️🎰 NEW - A WSJ investigation found Polymarket secretly paid creators (via a firm called Virality) to flood TikTok/Instagram/YouTube with staged "winning bet" videos pushing US users toward its offshore platform. Creators used fake mirror sites to simulate wins that never happened on real accounts. Of 1,105 videos analyzed from 10 endorsed creators, ~70% showed fake bets (~$1.9M depicted), while real linked accounts actually lost about $166K. Streamer Adin Ross had a multi-million dollar deal to promote the platform. Campaigns generated ~140M views and targeted audiences 60%+ US-based, with creators often told not to disclose they were paid. A word of advice: stay away from gambling, way away!

⚡️🇺🇸🎥 NEW - President Trump suggested that the U.S. could become the “guardian angel” of the Strait of Hormuz and collect tolls on passing oil and gas. Prof. Mearsheimer said Trump has no ability to achieve that. He is spewing “nonsense” because he’s frustrated that “he called for unconditional surrender,” but “it was the United States that surrendered unconditionally, not the Iranians.”

⚡️🤡 NEW - Discord is testing new ways to verify users’ ages, offering more options besides face scans and ID uploads. The company is experimenting with age checks through Google Wallet and credit cards for a small number of users. Discord is also testing selfie and ID verification with partner Incode, which processes facial scans directly on the user’s device so biometric data never leaves the phone. Discord says most users will never need to manually verify their age. But for those who do, the company wants to offer several options instead of relying only on face scans or ID documents.

⚡️👀 WATCH - A member of the Rothschild family, Dame Hannah Rothschild, reveals that their largest foundation was set up 140 years ago in Palestine to help the future citizens of Israel. The foundation exists to make sure Israel leads the world in various institutions. "It is for all the citizens of Israel because it was set up before Israel itself was created."

⚡️🚨🇮🇱 BIG - Benjamin Netanyahu admits he has changed Israel’s security doctrine to strictly follow the Babylonian Talmud: “Kill them first.” “We initiate, we attack, we surprise.” “KILL THEM FIRST.”

⚡️🇺🇸 QUESTION - Jared Kushner hovers above JD Vance as he monitors the peace deal between the United States and Iran. Who's in control here?

⚡️🇺🇸🇮🇷🇵🇰 WATCH - The feelings of shock and disappointment on the face of Pakistan's Prime Minister, after he was informed by the Iranian delegation they are leaving after Trump threatened them.

⚡️🎮 NEW - A new Steam game called Congratulations On Your Purchase is priced at $999.99, making it one of the most expensive titles on the platform. According to its creators, “This game is not for everyone. It is for those who understand that prestige has a price.” They also describe it as “the most expensive game on Steam.” Players enter a palace, walk a red carpet, and see their names displayed for future owners. No idea if this game is a joke or a social experiment

⚡️💬 END OF DAY - Touareg

⚡️🇺🇸🇱🇧 NEW - Zionist Senator Graham: To Lebanon, to the people in Lebanon, help is on the way. Hezbollah has been terrorizing your country for a long time. That's about to end.

⚡️🇺🇸🇮🇷 WATCH - US-Iran Peace Talks Fail. The US delegation, led by JD Vance, entered the meeting arena first. This was strange, because the party that claims to be the upper hand typically arrives last. Shortly after, the Iranian delegation arrived. They greeted the mediator, Pakistani PM Shehbaz Sharif, but informed him that they refused to negotiate due to recent threats issued by Trump. They didn't meet Vance and then abruptly left. A panicked Sharif frantically requested his boss, "Field Marshal" Munir, to intervene, but Munir also appeared helpless. Watching from a distance, Vance approached and asked what had happened. A shaken Sharif and Munir apologetically explained the situation to him.

⚡️🇮🇱🇱🇧 NEW - Israeli Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir: “Lebanon, all of Lebanon, should become our playground. ALL OF LEBANON should be our TARGET. And they tell me, "Wait a second, there is Lebanon and there is Hezbollah." I do not accept this artificial approach.” And he adds: "Let a thousand Lebanese mothers weep, and not one Israeli mother weep."

⚡️🇮🇷🇺🇸 NEW - The Iranian delegation walked out of the Swiss talks, refusing to join Vice President JD Vance and the US delegation for a photo, following President Trump’s threat against Iran’s diplomats.

⚡️🇺🇸🇮🇱🇱🇧 NEW - JD Vance responds to a question about what a reporter characterized as a genocide in Lebanon carried out by U.S. ally Israel

⚡️🇺🇸🇮🇷 NEW - President Trump warns Iranian negotiators the US will "take over" Iran if it closes the Strait of Hormuz. "You won't even make it back to your fucking country."

⚡️🇮🇱 NEW - Benjamin Netanyahu, once again during a peace meeting between the U.S. and Iran, goes full psychotic mode and says he will occupy Lebanon for as long as necessary. Netanyahu says he doesn't care what the diplomatic developments are; he will make sure Iran never gets a nuclear weapon. Peace will not exist as long as Netanyahu remains in power. "We will remain in the security zone in Southern Lebanon as long as necessary."

⚡️🇺🇸🇮🇱 NEW - U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee: Are you not aware that our founders wanted to put, as the seal of America, the parting of the Red Sea? That in the House of Representatives in the United States, there is a marble fixture of Moses. Not of Cicero, not of Aristotle or Plato—of Moses. Because our history is tied more to Mount Sinai than it is to Athens or Rome. It's tied to neither of them; it's tied to Israel.