⚡️🇨🇴 NEW - Colombia’s ELN guerrilla group just threatened the country’s new government... Cmdr. Silvana Guerrero warned President Abelardo De La Espriella over recent army operations in areas the rebels control. In the video, fighters showed off their weapons including M4-style carbines and AK rifles. The ELN is one of Colombia’s oldest leftist guerrilla groups and still holds territory in several regions, including areas near the Ecuador border. The new government is trying to reclaim control, and the rebels are making it clear they plan to fight back...

⚡️🇨🇳 NEW - CNN: Chinese Communist Party members can face serious career and political consequences over their romantic relationships and marriages. Some government employees and people with access to sensitive information are barred from marrying foreigners, while PLA personnel must submit prospective spouses for political background checks. Divorce, affairs and even certain personal relationships can also trigger scrutiny or disciplinary action.

⚡️💸 NEW - Stripe has finalised a deal to acquire OpenRouter for more than $7B, Bloomberg reports, over five times the $1.3B valuation the AI routing startup raised at in May. OpenRouter was found in 2023 and has around 8M users.

⚡️🇺🇸🇰🇷 NEW - Trump orders Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to reduce US-South Korea joint military exercises, saying they are 'inappropriate and hostile' to North Korea, adding he has a 'very good relationship with Kim Jong Un'.

⚡️📈 NEW - DDR5 RAM prices are getting ridiculous. New pricing data from Germany shows the average price of DDR5 memory has climbed to almost five times the July 2025 level, August has been worse The increase is steep: a 32GB DDR5-6000 kit that cost around €208 in July 2025 has recently approached €1,000 in Germany. For a budget PC build, RAM could become one of the most painful upgrade costs. Prices may keep climbing if supply does not improve.

⚡️💬 END OF DAY - Let yourself go

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Trump: Very happy to see that Saudi Arabia, Türkiye, and Pakistan have recently, and finally, signed the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement. It shows how the Middle East is coming together, and how Countries will finally be able to defend themselves in a more meaningful way. Congratulations to the Great Leadership of the three Nations mentioned. THIS IS A BIG, BOLD, AND IMPORTANT FIRST STEP — WOW!

⚡️💻 NEW - Today, Debian celebrates its 33rd anniversary. On August 16, 1993, Ian Murdock announced the creation of a new GNU/Linux distribution: Debian. Thirty-three years later, it’s hard to gauge its influence on modern computing. Today, Debian is a distribution known for its stability, its community-driven model, and its commitment to free software. But above all, it is the technical foundation of an entire ecosystem. Ubuntu, Kali Linux, Raspberry Pi OS, Proxmox VE, and many other distributions are based directly or historically on Debian. And behind the scenes, Debian is, of course, found on a vast number of servers, VMs, containers, and infrastructure systems. 33 years, and still just as much “apt update && apt upgrade”

⚡️🔎 ARCHIVE - On this day in history, 16 years ago, Satoshi Nakamoto argued that Bitcoin mining could replace household heaters because mining “is basically free anywhere that has electric heat, since your computer’s heat is offsetting your baseboard electric heating”.

⚡️🇮🇱 NEW - Netanyahu’s new election propaganda brings Mojtaba Khamenei, Zohran Mamdani, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and Naim Qassem together: “They want Netanyahu to lose. Don’t let them win.”

⚡️🇻🇦🇮🇱🇵🇸 NEW - Pope Leo calls on the international community to stop the Israeli violence against the Palestinians and calls for two-states solution: I renew my appeal for an end to the ongoing violence against the Palestinian civilian population in the West Bank, and I urgently call on the international community to work toward advancing the two-state solution, for a just and lasting peace

⚡️🇧🇪 NEW - The worst wildfire in Belgian history has doubled in size since yesterday and has now ravaged nearly 3,000 hectares in the province of Liège.

⚡️⚠️ ALERT - SafePal discloses a data breach exposing nearly 40,000 customers' names, home addresses and phone numbers. A flaw in the hardware wallet maker's order tracking plugin allowed unauthorized access to order details for more than a YEAR, with over 30 phishing sites tied to the stolen data already taken down. SafePal says seed phrases, private keys and customer funds are NOT affected.

⚡️📊 WTF - Pokémon cards have outperformed Bitcoin by 43.5% over the past three months. According to data shared by Rand Group, Pokémon cards have posted a return of +22.8%, while Bitcoin recorded a return of -20.7% over the same period.

⚡️🚨 NEW - US servicemen in the Persian Gulf have scribbled messages on the dust of an aircraft flap, per an image from the field sent to Trita Parsi. The messages include: "Be a good goy and do what Israel tells you to" "Operation Epstein Fury" "Peace deal #64 incoming... ALL THIS FOR THE HOLY LAND" "LOVE ISRAEL I AM A GOOD GOYIM" "BiBi's bucks" "IY Flock Cameras." A US serviceman adds "what people in the media don't understand when they compare past conflicts to this one, is this operation has no morale behind it. That makes a world of difference to service members deployed to undesirable locations indefinitely."

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Trump: I found out Karoline Leavitt likes her children more than she likes Trump, I’m very concerned about that.

⚡️🇮🇷 NEW - Iranian Army Chief General Hatami: The criminal President of the United States says, "I want to declare the Strait of Hormuz as part of the criminal territory." Of course, after they realized what a huge mistake they had made, they said they were joking. Even joking about it is a huge mistake. This is Iran, and it has defenders who will break your leg.

⚡️⚠️ NEW - Hackers are actively exploiting a macOS vulnerability to take control of Macs… and then turn them into Monero mining machines. The CVE-2026-65400 vulnerability affected the macOS screen-sharing feature. Macs exposing VNC port 5900 to the Internet could be compromised without authentication, allowing attackers to gain root access and install a Monero cryptocurrency miner without the owner’s knowledge. Apple patched the vulnerability on August 6 with macOS Tahoe 26.6.1, Sequoia 15.7.9, and Sonoma 14.8.9, but the Dutch NCSC warns that attacks are already underway. If your Mac isn’t up to date, you should install the patch as soon as possible or temporarily disable screen sharing.

⚡️🇸🇦 BIG - Saudi Arabia removed the sentence "Muslims will never give up Jerusalem" from its Grade 11 Arabic textbook. It's part of a broader curriculum moderation trend under Vision 2030, which has also replaced "Zionist enemy" with "Israeli occupation".

⚡️🇺🇸 WATCH - A sailor's viral video shows filthy bathrooms on what's reported to be the USS Abraham Lincoln. Stained showers, grimy floors, and clogged toilets. "Join the Navy, though, right?" he says sarcastically.