⚡️🇫🇷 NEW - Paris: "When the government doesn't listen this is what happens"

⚡️🇫🇷 NOW - Bordeaux: Extremely violent charge by law enforcement against protesters who were advancing with their hands in the air; LBD rounds were also fired.

⚡️🇫🇷 NEW - An impressive view from above showing the scale of the Paris protest, between Porte d'Italie and Porte de Vincennes. The prefecture reported 110,000 protesters in Paris.

⚡️🇫🇷 NOW - In Toulouse, the situation is escalating. Police are firing tear gas at peaceful protesters.

⚡️🇰🇵🇨🇳 NEW - North Korean leader Kim Jong-un made a surprise visit to Dandong, China, crossing the border via the newly opened New Yalu River Bridge. Chinese state media said Wang Huning, China’s fourth-ranked leader, accompanied Kim and conveyed greetings from President Xi Jinping. The four-lane bridge linking Sinuiju and Dandong was completed in 2014 with Chinese funding but sat unused for 12 years before officially opening on October 15 amid warming ties.

⚡️🇫🇷✊ NOW - A massive crowd marched through Paris this Saturday, from Porte d’Italie to Porte de Vincennes, as part of the October 24 protest.

⚡️🇫🇷 WATCH - Dude was interviewed about the riots in France last week and said he was "200%" behind them. Apparently, "you have to loot. You really have to smash things to change the world." Do you agree?

⚡️🗣 NEW - “Bitcoin will eventually be hacked… and its value will plummet to zero!” Appearing as a guest on Peter Diamandis’s Moonshots podcast, billionaire investor Chamath Palihapitiya—a former staunch advocate of Bitcoin—believes that advances in artificial intelligence and quantum computing could eventually compromise Bitcoin’s cryptographic protections. In particular, he envisions a scenario in which hackers would manage to steal the BTC allocated to Satoshi Nakamoto, before betting on a price collapse to rake in a second fortune. But in his view, the problem isn’t solely technological. The investor believes the Bitcoin community is too divided to successfully adopt quantum-resistant security measures quickly enough. He also reveals that he no longer holds BTC directly, having exchanged his previous exposure for shares in Digital Currency Group.

⚡️🇫🇷 NEW - A CENTAURE armored vehicle belonging to the gendarmerie has been deployed in front of the National Assembly in Paris. A symbol of a functioning democracy…

⚡️🤡🇦🇷 NEW - Argentina drops criminal investigation into President Javier Milei over LIBRA crypto memecoin scandal.

⚡️📉👀 NEW - Meta posted negative free cash flow for the first time in history

⚡️📱 TECH - YouTuber Tim Pan folded an iPhone Duo 10,000 times to see how its screen holds up over years of use A noticeable crease appeared. That’s… kind of concerning. That’s just 27 times a day for a year.

⚡️💬 NEW - Sam Altman says OpenAI's current best internal model is too powerful to release openly any time soon. Before that could happen, the whole cyber defense setup of the internet would need to change and the world would need a new layer of protection against biological threats.

⚡️🇺🇦 NEW - Zelensky: I don't play games with Trump. This is my difference between me and Putin. I don't play any games with him. I'm direct, honest. That's it.

⚡️📱 WATCH - Don’t ever buy a version 1 of anything Foldable iPhone Duo devices are reportedly breaking in large numbers, with displays failing along the hinge crease. Buyers in Japan, China, Australia, and other countries have reported the same issue. In some cases, the display reportedly fails while the phone is still on display in stores. The symptoms are identical: after just a few days of use, a black line appears across the screen.

⚡️😩 NEW - Arc browser will be discontinued on December 22, 2026, on macOS and Windows. Accounts will be deactivated, and data will be deleted within 30 days. New accounts will no longer be accepted starting October 22. What will you switch to?

⚡️🤖💬 MORE - @jack Dorsey’s new AI voice model Dessa is absolutely insane. There is no way to distinguish it from a human, man … crazy. Thats kinda cool, but many people will get attached to it and isolate from real humans even more. Many will get scammed on the phone, especially grandpas and grandmas. The future is coming get ready

⚡️🤖 NEW - @jack didn't take the time to present his project on Nostr, so I'll do it instead… (He chose to do it on X instead) Jack Dorsey’s Block unveils Dessa, a new AI voice model trained entirely on human speech Company says it can hold lifelike conversations with natural emotion, pauses and interruptions. Listen to this conversion between human and a bot:

⚡️🤖🇨🇳 NEW - China’s Moonshot AI has launched Kimi K3.1 Pro, an upgraded version of its 2.8-trillion-parameter Kimi K3 model that it says rivals top U.S. systems on coding and agent tasks. On the Terminal-Bench 4.0 agentic coding benchmark, Moonshot reports a score of 65.7%, ahead of OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra at 58.2% and just behind Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5.5 at 66.4%,. Independent evaluator Artificial Analysis measured it at 67%, the highest of any model it tested. API pricing is set at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, a third lower than its predecessor and well below leading closed models. Moonshot said it removed cyber-related training data from the open-weight release to limit misuse.

⚡️💬 END OF DAY - Primal