⚡️🇺🇸🇮🇷 NEW - Marco Rubio on Iran: It's tough to make a deal with the Iranian regime. Unfortunately, they don't know how to make a deal and they're controlled by radical Shia clerics. They're driven by theology. Very difficult to make a deal with them.

⚡️🇫🇷 NEW - French Presidential Candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon: It's Mr. Netanyahu, who is influencing the elections in Marseille, Toulouse, Roubaix, and Paris. That's the one! And apparently there are the Russians too.

⚡️🚨🇫🇷 NEW - Several thousand service requests were received in just a few minutes: Orange and its subsidiary Sosh are affected by a major nationwide outage

⚡️🇫🇷 NEW - French Presidential Candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon: Down with war! We will not fight it. We will not organize it. We will not prepare for it.

⚡️🇷🇺 NEW - Putin to Witkoff: Following the announcements from both sides about diesel supplies, prices on global markets fell by 5–6%. We are preparing to ship several vessels immediately. The tankers are being prepared right now. The first tanker will depart in two or three days, carrying 40,000 tons. More will follow one after another. We only need to ensure that the financial arrangements are in place so everything works.

⚡️⛵️ NEW - OpenSea has just launched its mobile app for everyone, allowing users to manage their cryptocurrencies and NFTs across 27 blockchains from a single place. OpenSea aims to make crypto "accessible" to the general public. Now, all it takes is a simple email address to create an account—no browser extension or seed phrase to write down upfront. Users can even buy cryptocurrencies directly with Apple Pay, Google Pay, or their credit card. OpenSea no longer wants to be just an NFT marketplace, but an app capable of bringing the entire crypto universe into our pockets.

⚡️🔎 NEW - A developer has just recreated Satoshi Nakamoto’s original software down to the last byte… using artificial intelligence. Using Opus 5.5, developer T4T5 claims to have reconstructed the famous “bitcoin.exe” and the computing environment used by Satoshi in January 2009. The resulting file has exactly the same SHA-256 hash as the one distributed in 2009. This reconstruction reveals several fascinating details, including the fact that Satoshi appears to have worked on Windows XP with MinGW, compiled primarily in debug mode, and enabled maximum optimization for the hash code used in mining. Furthermore, the executable that everyone calls “0.1.0” is actually an update compiled on January 10, 2009—two days after the initial launch. The actual version from the first day appears to have disappeared.

⚡️😂 GM - C’est bien

⚡️🇮🇱 WTF - Reporting from Paris, Israeli "journalist" Neria Kraus, of i24 News (Channel 15), interviewed "Ali", suposedly a local resident whose parents are from Baghdad. Well, it turns out that "Ali" is actually Hezi Gangina, an Israeli tourist who lives in the South Tel Aviv neighborhood of Kfar Shalem, built on the ruins of the Palestinian village of Salama.

⚡️📱 NEW - A leaked Cellebrite flyer shows forensic labs a remote iPhone unlock appliance with a range of about 8 metres. It covers the iPhone 11 to 16, even with Stolen Device Protection on. The blogger who got it suspects a Bluetooth bug Apple quietly patched.

⚡️🔎 NEW - Facebook handed the Secret Service the name, Gmail address and login IP of a user who wrote "Let's shoot trump honestly." Agents matched the Gmail to a Kansas unemployment claim and the IP to Clearwater, KS. Jaden John Read, 24, is charged with threatening the President.

⚡️🇮🇩 NEW - In Bandung, the capital of the Indonesian province of West Java, students and civil society groups are protesting against unemployment, rising prices, corruption, and land-related grievances. Public properties have been vandalized, and a police bus set on fire.

⚡️🚨 NEW - The private keys of 8 certificates from Indian certificate authority eMudhra were compromised, Mozilla says. Firefox blocked them within 3 hours. Each key should be a 116-digit number, but one was just 4. Anyone can guess them and forge HTTPS certs for any website.

⚡️🚨 ALERT - Two leaked remote code execution flaws in PHP are real, watchTowr confirms. PHP will ship fixes for two critical flaws, both rated CVSS 9.2, on Wednesday 21 October at 14:00 UTC, a day before the embargo was due to lift. CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 first surfaced in a Hacker News post whose author admitted having no evidence beyond "source: trust me, bro". Kevin Beaumont flagged the leak, and watchTowr confirmed it two hours later. PHP says it may release sooner if details go public or exploitation appears. It has not named the CVEs or the affected versions.

⚡️🇫🇷 NEW - Police officers (CRS) were specially deployed to PROTECT Brigitte Macron’s family’s chocolate shops in Amiens and Le Touquet, while 14 companies were kept ON STANDBY during the October 17 riots. (Le Canard enchaîné)

⚡️🚨🇫🇷 ALERT - France has begun testing ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE software designed to ANTICIPATE riots. These "predictive policing" tools analyze social media, surveillance footage, and judicial data, among other sources, in an effort to prevent public disturbances.

⚡️🇫🇷 NEW - French police struck a woman without apparent provocation while protests over the high cost of living continue. ➡️ Have you noticed the difference in how they were treated? The police officer struck the Black woman with his baton and simply pushed the white woman.

⚡️🚨 NEW - DHS has ordered every civilian federal agency to remove DeepSeek from its systems. The order bars the Chinese AI firm and its affiliates from federal contracts and covers third-party products built on DeepSeek.

⚡️🚨 NEW - OVHcloud's official CLI was hijacked in a supply chain attack. A hacker used a developer's GitHub account to plant a binary built to grab secrets in versions v0.11.0 to v0.15.0.

⚡️🚨 ALERT - Revolut's app and cards have stopped working across Europe. Google Cloud's London region is affected by network failures. Revolut, and many other services, runs on Google Cloud. Revolut says money and data are safe but has not named a cause.