⚡️🎮️ GAMING - A new shooter game is creating a buzz online with a completely crazy concept: it pays players with real money 💰 $10 earned per hour of play. 🎯 $1 earned for each kill. 💀 But there’s a huge catch: every time your character dies, you have to pay $1 to respawn in the game...

⚡️💻️ NEW - Microsoft has confirmed it automatically installed a new OneDrive Photos app on some Windows 11 PCs. The app includes AI-powered features, such as a “People” feature that groups photos by the people in them. Microsoft says the facial grouping feature is off by default and photos are not used to train its AI models. Users are not happy the app was installed automatically and cannot be uninstalled separately, removing it also removes OneDrive.

⚡️🚨 UPDATE - The Coldcard hack could now exceed 130 MILLION dollars in Bitcoin losses. According to the latest estimates from Galaxy Research, 1,719 BTC are now linked with a high degree of certainty to the exploitation of the vulnerability. And the total could still rise: more than 250 victims have reportedly filed claims, and if the cases still under review are confirmed, the total could exceed 2,300 BTC—more than $130 million.

⚡️☢ NEW - This developer generates his Bitcoin keys using… the radioactive decay of a smoke detector. His system takes advantage of a fundamental property of quantum physics: the exact moment when a radioactive nucleus decays is inherently unpredictable. By detecting the events produced by a radioactive source and then converting their time intervals into digital data, it is possible to obtain a source of physical entropy that can be used to generate random numbers. This idea is particularly interesting for Bitcoin, as the security of a private key depends directly on the quality of the randomness used during its creation. A key generated with a predictable generator can theoretically be reconstructed by an attacker, even if Bitcoin’s cryptography itself remains intact.

⚡️🇺🇦 WTF - 19-year-old Ukrainian guy grabs onto his girlfriend and begs her not to let him go. “Vera, please don’t let me go” While the Ukrainian military is kicking, beating and pepper spraying him… some gets onto his girl as well. Horrible.

⚡️🎙️ NEW - FULL VIDEO: Kim Dotcom knows what it’s like to be spied on. He’s a hacker, and therefore an expert on digital surveillance. He watched our new docuseries on internet privacy, so we invited him to talk to us. What followed was very dark.

⚡️🎙️ NEW - Tucker Carlson sits for an interview with Hunter Biden. Hunter Biden says he likes Rep. Thomas Massie and Marjorie Taylor Greene

⚡️🤖 NEW - Google Assistant is officially being replaced by Gemini. Starting September 4, 2026, Google will begin removing Google Assistant from Android phones and replacing it with Gemini. The rollout will happen over several weeks, and once your device switches to Gemini, you won’t be able to go back to Google Assistant.

⚡️🤡 NEW - A Google Play user says he purchased Lord of the Rings Extended Trilogy suddenly disappeared from their library after Google removed it from its catalog. According to screenshots shared by the user, Google Support confirmed the films were no longer available and said they couldn’t issue a refund because the purchase was made in 2022, which is outside the company’s standard 120-day refund window. “I bought these in 2022, all of a sudden they aren’t available and there is no possibility of a refund or gift card. Hardly seems fair.”

⚡️💬 GM - A thought for you, Nostr, and a thought for me… it feels good.

⚡️🚨 NEW - A phishing site is appearing as the top sponsored Google result for Trezor, with the scam page already draining funds from unsuspecting users.

⚡️💸 NEW - X to end current creator monetization program and replace it with new "Original Content Rewards Program." All existing creators will have to re-apply starting September 8th. « If you've already completed ID verification ».

⚡️🇺🇸🇨🇭 NEW - President Trump says he could reduce Switzerland from an elite nation to a non-elite country with a single stroke of the pen.

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Trump: A lot of people are saying I'm one of the greatest presidents ever.

⚡️🚨 ALERT - There is a critical vulnerability being actively exploited on BTCPay Server, which can result in the loss of funds. Please update your BTCPayServer to 2.4.2 by going to Admin Dashboard -> Server -> Maintenance -> Update & verify the 2.4.2 version string in the footer. If you are unable to update right away, turn off your BTCPay Server to prevent unauthorized access until you can update.

⚡️🇹🇷🇸🇦🇵🇰 WATCH - Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and Pakistani PM Shehbaz Sharif perform Friday prayers in Mecca.

⚡️🇮🇱🇫🇷 NEW - Mossad has accidentally injected data into a French lawyer's phone instead of extracting it. The data includes phone numbers of Musk, Altman, and nearly all of Israel's political, judicial and intelligence leaders. The lawyer his name is Juan Branco, he is also the one who shared this story together with a video. By his account, he is one of twelve lawyers in France who represent Palestinian victims.

⚡️🇹🇷🇸🇦🇵🇰 NEW - Türkiye, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan sign Mecca trilateral Defense Agreement.

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - President Donald Trump says “I see it more and more where people are paying with Bitcoin, they don’t even know about cash anymore.” “Crypto’s a big deal.”

⚡️🇯🇵 NEW - Japan is asking the Trump administration to stop using Mario, Pokémon, Naruto, and other Japanese intellectual property in its political memes. For several months now, official U.S. accounts have been misusing Japanese characters and franchises to accompany political, military, or immigration-related messages. Tokyo says it has repeatedly conveyed its concerns to Washington regarding the unauthorized use of these copyrighted works. The controversy erupted in particular after a video from the Department of Homeland Security mixed Pokémon with ICE operations: “Gotta Catch ’Em All.” The Pokémon Company confirmed that it had not given its permission. The situation took on new significance after Donald Trump shared an AI-generated video in June depicting him as Naruto.