⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Trump commands a "fake news" CNN reporter to "be quiet," several times in Oval Office.

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Trump says he'll have an opinion on Flock cameras after he's finished studying them over the next couple of weeks.

⚡️⚠️ ALERT - Massive Microsoft outage — GitHub, Copilot, Teams, 365 and more are down

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⚡️📉 NEW - $200 BILLION has been wiped out from U.S. stocks in the last 30 minutes as the U.S. 30-year bond yield hits a new 19-year high.

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Enten: "Hispanic men on Trump -- in 2024 he won by 10 points. Look now where his net approval is -- minus 41 points! That is a 51 point switcheroo against the president ... these numbers are bonkers."

⚡️🇷🇺 NEW - Russia is stepping up its crackdown on female content creators on OnlyFans as part of Vladimir Putin’s policy to promote “traditional values.” Raids and arrests targeting models, as well as producers and cameramen, have been carried out across the country. In Russia, viewing or possessing pornography is legal, but its production and distribution are prohibited. Several content creators now face severe penalties: Diana Shurygina, 27, faces up to six years in prison, while Sofya Vershinina, 21, was sentenced to a three-year suspended prison term and a fine.

⚡️📚 WEIRD - Journalists hid an Airtag in a rare book shipment and confirmed Amazon to be one of the buyers behind the bulk orders destroying rare-books to feed their AI. They tracked it to Amazon's LAS8 warehouse in Las Vegas, home to VGT3 (see logo below), a scanning operation feeding Amazon's AI training data, where workers say they cut the bindings off books to scan them faster. Amazon won't say why the books are destroyed.

⚡️🇮🇱 NEW - Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on Gaza: Anyone who looks from here understands that in the next 20 years there is nothing to look for there. And that’s perfectly fine. It must remain an eternal ruin. It shall not be rebuilt, as a reminder of iniquity for anyone around us who ever conceives of doing to the Jewish people what these Nazis did.

⚡️🚨 ALERT - Trump to Fox News: If Oman gets in the way, we will bomb the shit out of them.

⚡️🔎 SUMMARY - ZachXBT called every hardware wallet garbage on 16 July. SafePal made it eight incidents on 16 August. Every one of them, and how it broke 👇 → SafePal : order-tracking plug-in → Trezor : fulfillment provider → Ledger : e-commerce partner → Coldcard : five year old firmware bug → Tangem : laser through the secure element → Trezor Safe 7 : laser through a different one → Injective SDK : hijacked npm maintainer → Postal phishing : printed letters with QR codes

⚡️🚨 NEW - Hayden Panettiere has just died at the age of 36… three months after her explosive revelations about sexual misconduct in Hollywood and the music industry.

⚡️🇺🇦🇷🇺 WATCH - Moments of combat with Russian units as seen through the eyes of Ukrainian soldiers

⚡️🚨 NEW - ChatGPT reported man to the FBI A 25 year old Goldman Sachs employee was using ChatGPT to vent about his girlfriend and shared some violent fantasies. ChatGPT flagged the conversation and it was forwarded to the FBI. They used the conversation to get a search warrant and charge him with aggravated stalking, written threats to kill, and unlawful use of a cellphone. He plead guilty and got 8 years probation for the chat.

⚡️🇺🇸 WATCH - Myron Gaines "We saw them bombing kids in 1080p. And they sit there and tell you it is not a genocide. If they can deny a genocide from 2023 to 2026, what makes you think they won't lie about an event from which they derive their victim narrative, their Hollywood movies, and their entire identity around."

⚡️🤖🇳🇱 NEW - A robot called Aletta is now drawing blood completely on its own. Using AI and ultrasound, it finds the vein, inserts the needle, takes the blood, removes the needle, and puts on a bandage. No human hands required. Up to 98% patients said they would do it again. It's already being used in several Dutch hospitals.

⚡️🔎 ICYMI - An AI is reported to have detected nearly 8,000 potential vulnerabilities in the Bitcoin ecosystem. The Bitcoin Red Team used several AI models to audit 501 Bitcoin-related open-source projects: wallets, Lightning infrastructure, libraries, payment software, and more. The announced results: 7,958 potential issues, including 1,280 considered critical or high-severity. About a quarter of these are even accompanied by proof-of-concepts demonstrating how to exploit them. Be careful, however—this in no way means that Bitcoin itself has 8,000 vulnerabilities. The analysis focuses on hundreds of software programs built around its ecosystem, and the automated findings still need to be verified individually. Already, nearly 30% of the findings have reportedly been forwarded to the relevant developers for validation and correction.

⚡️💬 FLASH - I hadn’t realized it, but I’ve crossed the symbolic 600-day mark on Nostr. It’s incredible. For 1 year, 7 months, and 22 days, I’ve been bringing you the latest news every day—as best I can—whether it’s a bull run or a bear market. Many thought I’d eventually give up. Yet here I am, still with you, day in and day out 💪 Thank you to everyone who’s been following and supporting me from the start, as well as to those who’ve joined us along the way. Let’s keep going ❤️

⚡️🍪 FUN FACT - In Dubai, you might come across “Biscoins”—shortbread cookies shaped like ₿ with a fitting slogan: “Baked, not mined,” But these are the hardest BTC to hold onto

⚡️🇨🇴 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...