⚡️🔫 NEW - Bitcoin users are now shooting their ColdCard wallets after a hack found them to be insecure (That won't bring back the lost bitcoins.)

⚡️🤡🇳🇱 NEW - The director of Dutch military intelligence broadcast his own movements on a public Strava account for years, against his own ministry's rules. We have since identified more accounts under his name on Polarsteps and Garmin. De Volkskrant found dozens of activities by intelligence chief Vice-Admiral Peter Reesink between 2018 and 2025 tied to his Strava account: rides from the headquarters to his home address, where he parked his camper, when he went on holiday. The account went private only after the paper asked. Reesink, who warned in 2025 that Russia was growing bolder, says he forgot it existed. He deleted the app from his phone and thought all data is gone by doing so. These are the boomers that are in the highest echelons of goverment…

⚡️🇨🇳 NEW - China has unveiled a new laser technology to target mosquitoes and insects

⚡️👀 NEW - Someone says he accidentally opened an ATM while trying to turn it on. He just poked around and a door swung open, revealing the hardware that runs the machine.

⚡️🇮🇱 NEW - Israeli Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli: The Mecca Alliance is a very dangerous and very troubling development. Saudi Arabia was essentially sitting on the fence. It already had a defense agreement with Pakistan, but the moment it goes with the Turks—who are in a direct confrontation with us, one that could develop to dimensions that may have extremely serious consequences, both in the Mediterranean and on the Syrian front—this is a development that is very, very bad for us, for Israel. It requires us to deepen our alliances with Greece and Cyprus, the United Arab Emirates, and Somaliland.

⚡️💬 NEW - New Signal code suggests they're adding a paid feature for people who don't want to register with a phone number. This comes after their CTO Ehren Kret said that Signal was looking for a way to induce a cost for signing up without a phone number. Unreleased code in Signal's public Android repo describes a "Signal Login" purchase screen: users either make a one-time in-app payment or register with an account key they already own. Signal hasn't announced it yet.

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has announced she is freezing her eggs and has posted a video of her injecting herself with medication. “This is just not something that men deal with,” she said before injecting herself. “Men run for office, or frankly, they interview for jobs and people don't think in the back of their mind, ‘OK this guy's running for office, how old is he? Oh, well is he gonna wanna start a family?’” “This is a choice I am making to feel more in control of my life.”

⚡️💬 END OF DAY - A lot of things are being done to hinder my growth on Nostr. I'll talk about it someday…

⚡️💻 NEW - Windows 11’s Weather app is using surprisingly large amounts of RAM. In a recent test by Windows Latest, the Weather app used more than 1.2GB of RAM while running on Windows 11. For comparison, Apple’s Weather app on macOS used around 247MB in the same type of test. That makes the Windows app roughly 5 times more memory-hungry. The reason is that Microsoft’s Weather experience is built around WebView2, meaning it relies on web-based Chromium processes rather than being a traditional Windows app. And despite using all that memory, the app also shows ads and sponsored content.

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Sen. Chris Murphy: "Donald Trump has lost this war. America is weaker, Iran is stronger, the price to reopen the strait increases by the day, the supposed 'deal' that's on the table right now would pay Iran $100 billion a year in order to reopen the strait ... what a victory for Iran."

⚡️⛏️ NEW - BIP-110 NEXT BLOCK FEES REACH $17,000, BUT MINING INCENTIVE REMAINS FAR BELOW BITCOIN There is currently 0.27 BTC, worth roughly $17,400, in transaction fees waiting to be collected in the next BIP-110 block. BIP-110 proponents argued yesterday that rising fees could eventually incentivize a large miner to redirect hash rate to the chain and find the next block. However, 0.27 BTC remains considerably less than the 3.125 BTC block subsidy, plus transaction fees, a miner can earn by mining a block on Bitcoin’s legacy chain.

⚡️🇯🇵 NEW - Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi: We must never allow the tragedies of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to be repeated. Let Nagasaki be the last place on Earth to suffer an atomic bombing.

⚡️🇮🇱 NEW - Netanyahu: I want to make the main point clear: as long as I am Prime Minister, there will be no Palestinian state — not in Gaza and not in the West Bank. Not under Fatah and not under Hamas.

⚡️⚠️ ALERT - A fake Wasabi Wallet drainer is on the Apple Store. ~ a victim on X already lost 6 BTC This marks the 27th wallet clone to make it to the App Store this year, the fake Ledger app remains remains the biggest with $9.3M stolen.

⚡️🇮🇷 NEW - Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi: We currently have no negotiations with America. Yes, messages are being exchanged through intermediaries. This is not called "negotiation," it's an "exchange of messages." Intermediaries are still trying to create the grounds for negotiations again. In our view, until the violations of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) are over and America compensates for what it has violated in the MoU, the possibility of starting negotiations again does not exist.

⚡️❌ NEW - Proton VPN got caught running price sensitivity tests on its own users, then told everyone it was a stale sale. Here's what happened. People on Proton's subreddit noticed they were being quoted different prices for the same plan. Refresh the pricing page and VPN Plus shows $2.77/mo at 72% off. Open a fresh incognito window and it's $3.23/mo at 68% off. Same plan, same country, same second. Nothing about the visitor changed. Proton VPN's General Manager replied that there was no adaptive pricing, that a sale had recently ended, and that the intro prices hadn't "universally refreshed." He called the low numbers an error and suggested people grab them before they got fixed. Then Windscribe pulled the page source. Every visitor is being sorted into a variant, and the test is labeled in plain text inside an HTML meta tag: ab-test:VpnHpAndPricingVpnPlusSensibility300726. One session returns content="A", the other returns content="B". Two separate pricing URLs, one normal and one flagged test-300726-b. A screen recording shows the price flipping between clean incognito sessions, $3.49 at 65% off, then $2.99 at 70% off. Expired sales don't do that. Cached pages don't do that. Cloudflare has never once injected a named A/B test into anyone's markup. Worth being precise about the wording, because Proton was. Adaptive pricing uses your personal data to set a number tailored to you. Price sensitivity testing quotes different people different prices for the identical product to find out how far you can push before sales drop off. The GM denied the first one. Nobody accused them of the first one. A/B testing prices is ordinary commerce. Amazon does it, airlines do it in their sleep, and almost nobody would have cared. But Proton sells privacy, and privacy is a trust product. The experiment was never the scandal. The denial was. Run the tests. Just don't call it a glitch when your own code is holding a sign with the test's name on it.

⚡️🌋🇯🇵 NEW - Huge eruption of Sakurajima Volcano, with ash falling across Kagoshima, Japan (08.08.2026)

⚡️🇺🇾⚽️ UNUSUAL - In Uruguay, the ball from a second-division professional soccer match ended up on the road near the stadium after a clearance, causing a fender-bender. The Montevideo team plays all of its home games there.

⚡️📣 FYI - 33,000 sats is the daily target for starting to build up a sustainable Flash position lnbc330u1p48sjc5pp5zqw2v47f68tu99lee3cdv6c7nv8pzcfye88f2vxh3d3dd8fpyzescqzyssp5dsazjtf2vasg608snhvh40rs6c9kv7y2l9qm204a39c3x5ze0uhq9q7sqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqsqqqqqysgqdqqmqz9gxqyjw5qrzjqwryaup9lh50kkranzgcdnn2fgvx390wgj5jd07rwr3vxeje0glcllar8qy0dnahscqqqqlgqqqqqeqqjq0gn9qah5e6nztqa29mvakyywmk0g62artvtseufcwx8q8ha2t8qjecuae8hxm2jscq9rrmdpm0xxns2me99q7ymrthg3f3aucs02zagqr5p7u8

⚡️💢 NEW - Israeli settlers violently attacked Palestinians and solidarity activists in Taybeh, east of Ramallah, on Friday, according to Quds News. Footage shows one settler repeatedly punching a female activist as she tries to protect herself.