⚡️💻 NEW - Microsoft admits AI agents can hallucinate and fall for attacks, but they’re still coming to Windows 11 “…malicious content embedded in UI elements or documents can override agent instructions, leading to unintended actions like data exfiltration or malware installation,”

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - “There's tens of millions of people who are looking at the odds. And it's mid-hundreds of thousands of people who are trading,” says Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan. His ultimate goal? A billion users.

⚡️🎮 GAMING - New GTA 6 footage found in a senior Rockstar animator’s demo reel: - Motion-capture for the player’s bicycle animations - Breakout/exit animation from Monster truck for a female NPC - Ocean View can be seen in the third clip

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Shayne Coplan dropped out of college his freshman year. When COVID hit, he started building Polymarket, an online prediction market.

⚡️🦋 NEW - Scientists are now using tiny, solar-powered radio tags to track individual monarch butterflies, unlocking clues about one of the most remarkable migrations in the natural world.

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Former Bush Administration official Catherine Fitts claims that neuro-weaponry and mind-control technology have already been used successfully to push people into unnatural behavior. She ties this to what she calls the “Great Poisoning,” pointing to the impact pharmaceuticals have on the body, the mind, and even a person’s ability to feel empathy. Fitts argues this is all being done to dull people’s thinking, leave them unfocused, and keep them in a kind of trance.

⚡️👀 NEW - There are around 10,000 simple questions people can wager on at Polymarket, an online prediction market. Founder and CEO Shayne Coplan shows 60 Minutes some of the most popular questions to bet on.

⚡️🇩🇪 NEW - In many German cities, there is less or no Christmas sparkle this winter: It's "too expensive," BILD reports.

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan is now a billionaire. At least on paper. The platform still hasn’t turned a profit, but its valuation has reached $9 billion.

⚡️🖥️ NEW - One of Polymarket’s biggest bettors has wagered more than $400 million so far. He says he made nearly $3 million last year on the platform.

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Off-duty paramedic rescues a 7-year-old girl from a burning home in Los Angeles, California. Richard Recinos was seen jumping into action in East Hollywood while driving home from his family’s Thanksgiving dinner. Recinos says he spotted 7-year-old Savannah standing on the porch as the fire grew. "Considering the circumstances, I saw my opportunity for a quick grab and go, quick exit, and everything went well," Recinos said. Firefighters arrived moments later and helped save the rest of Savannah’s family. The young girl was sent to the hospital, where she spent the night. She suffered minor burns to her feet.

⚡️🇺🇸🇻🇪 NEW - Rep. Maria Salazar admits the real aim is to take control of the world’s largest oil reserves in Venezuela and push the country into doing business with American oil companies. Salazar says seizing those reserves would be an easy mission because most Venezuelans voted against Nicolás Maduro. She adds that American oil companies will be operating in Venezuela for the next 100 years.

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Trump grins ear to ear when a reporter guesses his pick for the next Fed Chair is Kevin Hassett. Hassett’s odds have now jumped to 71% on Polymarket.

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - President Trump doubles down after calling Governor Tim Walz "seriously retarded." Reporter: "You mentioned Tim Walz, and you called him what many Americans find an offensive word, retarded. Do you stand by that claim of calling Tim Walz retarded?" Trump: "Yeah, I think there's something wrong with him. Absolutely." "Anybody that would allow those people into a state and pay billions of dollars out to Somalia, we give billions of dollars to Somalia. It's not even a country because it doesn't function like a country."

⚡️🇻🇦 NEW - While visiting the Greek Orthodox Patriarchal Church of St. George in Istanbul, Pope Leo XIV led Orthodox priests in reciting the “Our Father” in Latin. The Pope has made healing the East-West Schism a priority of his.

⚡️🗣️ WATCH - Palestinian historian Rashid Khalidi explains that for decades Zionism openly described itself as a “colonizing enterprise,” even though the IHRA definition now pushed across U.S. campuses calls that basic historical fact “antisemitic.” He points to the Jewish Colonization Agency, a major land-purchase body active from the 1870s to the 1950s, as evidence of how central this self-definition once was. After WWII, he says, Zionist leaders “rebranded” the movement as an anti-colonial force that had supposedly liberated Palestine from Britain. Khalidi calls it a “remarkable achievement” and one of the most effective political rebrandings of the 20th century.

⚡️🦠 FLASHBACK - 6 years ago today: A man in Wuhan, China starts feeling ill, becoming the first confirmed case of COVID-19

⚡️🔎 NEW - Yearn Finance exploited for ~$9M through near-infinite yETH token minting attack, according to PeckShield. 1K ETH ($3M) was sent to TornadoCash, while exploiter's address holds ~$6M in crypto.

⚡️🔎 NEW - Crypto Fear and Greed Index drops to 24 (Extreme Fear) today from yesterday's 28 (Fear).

⚡️💬 END OF DAY 340 - For those who wonder what I do with my days, here is a video that perfectly summarizes my work. I spend an average of eight hours a day sorting the news. For every note you see published on @FLASH, at least a hundred pieces of information have passed before my eyes.