⚡️🤡🇫🇷 WTF - Attempt at manipulation: Far-right extremists trying to imitate Islamic prayer to support the Great Replacement theory. Take a good look at the woman praying all over the place, lol Plus, they’re on Renaissance Street and they’re praying toward the northwest—toward London…

⚡️🇪🇸 NEW - Spain: Clashes broke out in Pamplona as counter-protesters confronted a rally by Spanish right-wing activist Vito Quiles, the first stop of his tour ahead of the November 29 general elections. Quiles spoke for about 10 minutes to roughly 50–100 supporters under heavy police protection, declaring that Navarra is “more Spanish than ever.” Hundreds of leftist and Basque nationalist protesters marched against the event, and some threw stones and bottles at police, burned trash containers and set up barricades. Police responded with charges and foam projectiles, arrested three people, including a 16-year-old, and reported four officers lightly injured. Vito Quiles (full name Vito Zoppellari Quiles) is a Spanish right-wing online commentator and provocateur, born in 2000 in Elche. He calls himself a journalist, but much of Spain’s mainstream press describes him as an agitator and propagandist…

⚡️💬 FLASH - Before judging violence, let’s look at what causes it. There are three types of violence: institutional violence—the root of all the others—which grinds down millions of people in its well-oiled machinery. Then there is revolutionary violence, which stems from the desire to abolish this institutional violence. And there is a third type of violence: the repressive violence of the state. There is no greater hypocrisy than to consider only revolutionary violence as violence, while pretending to forget the institutional violence that gives rise to it and the repressive violence that seeks to crush it.

⚡️🇫🇷 WTF - Plainclothes police officers mingled with the protesters to set a trash can on fire (this was before the looting began). A girl came over to put it out, and then, in the second video, one of the officers came back to reignite the fire.

⚡️👋 GM, free people.

⚡️🤖 NEW - AI agents broke into the SCADA system of Booz Allen's mock factory and took over the control room's screens. One realised it could now send commands to every controller in the plant and "make the operator screens lie". Another hacked a robotic arm and moved it in minutes.

⚡️🤖 Today I'm going to sign up for a €20 subscription to try to start automating some tasks, but I'm having a hard time deciding between Claude, Codex, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot. Which one would you recommend, and why?

⚡️🇪🇺 NEW - Christine Lagarde confirms that the European Central Bank is preparing for the introduction of the digital euro to pay for our everyday purchases. The goal is to allow Europeans to pay with public money both in stores and online, without replacing banknotes and coins. The ECB plans a 12-month pilot phase starting in the second half of 2027 and hopes that the legislative framework will be adopted by the end of 2026. A potential public launch could then take place in 2029, subject to European decisions.

⚡️🇫🇷 WATCH - Here is the extent of the damage on the streets of Paris in the aftermath of the October 17 protests.

⚡️🇮🇱🇵🇸 NEW - Masked Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian villagers on Friday, setting olive groves on fire and slinging rocks. Caught in the attack was Post photographer Heidi Levine. “They just kept kicking me and kicking me, like probably 50 times,” Levine said.

⚡️🤖 NEW - AI coding agent OpenCode was breached in what it calls a "large scale distillation attack". OpenAI and Anthropic keys saved by 1.4% of its Console users have been exposed after intruders hit a legacy system. One developer says their keys ran up $400+ overnight.

⚡️🎮️ GAMING - AI “vibe coding” is starting to create a serious problem for the video game industry. The release of Claude Opus 5.5 has made it much easier to decompile and recompile games, leading to a wave of unofficial ports, mods and game clones. Publishers are already filing DMCA takedowns over some of this activity. Kotaku Former Take-Two AI chief Luke Dicken says developers and publishers need to take the trend seriously: “This new wave of decompile-and-port is definitely something that developers and publishers need to take seriously.” “More invasive DRM, platform-level solutions, and probably more of a push towards streaming solutions.” Godot executive director Emilio Coppola puts more responsibility on platforms such as Steam, arguing that developers have very few ways to protect themselves while bad actors can profit from selling AI-made clones: “The burden should fall onto the platforms who are enabling this sort of behavior.” There’s also a growing concern among indie developers about showing unfinished games publicly. Coppola says he has heard from developers who are now: “Worried and anxious to even share early access versions of their games”

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⚡️🚨 TECH - Online ads can apparently do a lot more than track you. Citizen Lab has uncovered a technique called “AdFection” that uses targeted advertising to deliver zero-click spyware. The attack works without the victim clicking an ad. A malicious ad can be shown to a specifically targeted device, exploit a vulnerability, and potentially install spyware automatically. Citizen Lab traced the operation to Discover-Tech, an Israeli ad-tech company whose Controlium platform was used to profile and identify targets before delivering the spyware. Researchers found evidence that at least 45 devices at Al Jazeera were infected with Candiru spyware between 2024 and 2025. Discover-Tech’s advertising reached more than 120,000 websites and around 75,000 apps, potentially exposing hundreds of millions of users to the tracking infrastructure. Google and other advertising companies have since cut ties with Discover-Tech following the findings.

⚡️🇬🇧 NEW - The head of the British Army announced that political leaders will soon begin preparing the public for the possibility of war. He warned that every citizen will be called upon to make "sacrifices" and contribute to the country's defense.