⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Congress holds hearing to discuss Crypto Clarity Act.

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Multiple towns in Connecticut are permanently removing Flock cameras from their neighborhoods after a massive backlash over privacy concerns. A FOIA request revealed that, in just one town, third parties accessed camera data more than 500,000 times in only nine weeks. "Flock Safety could not guarantee that it's not sharing information with federal agencies."

⚡️‼️ NEW - Linus Torvalds told Linux kernel developers this week that Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects and that AI is now a clearly useful tool. He says AI's usefulness was still arguable a year ago but no longer is, and that the doubters simply haven't used the tools. Nobody is forced to use AI, but he will ignore anyone trying to stop others from using it. Anyone who wants an anti-AI project, he says, can fork the code or walk away. In 2024, Torvalds dismissed AI as mostly marketing. By this January he was shipping AI-generated Python in his own hobby repo, and the kernel now accepts AI-written code under disclosure rules.

⚡️👀 NEW - Telegram now has a Rich Text Editor. It supports tables, headings, inline media, lists, AI content, formulas, and more.

⚡️🇺🇸 FACT - The wealthiest 0.00001% of Americans now own 12% of the nation’s wealth, the widest inequality gap on record, surpassing the Robber Baron era. The divide has widened sharply since the 2000s tech boom, with only a brief decline during COVID.

⚡️🤖 NEW - Introducing Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence 🔹 2.8 Trillion Parameters, 1 Million Context, Native Multimodal 🔹 Kimi Delta Attention enables up to 6.3x faster decoding in million-token contexts 🔹 Attention Residuals deliver ~25% higher training efficiency at <2% additional cost 🔹 Built for long-horizon agentic coding and self-evolving workflows Kimi K3 is now live on on Kimi.com, Kimi Work, Kimi Code, and the Kimi API. Open Weights by July 27, 2026.

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - President Trump says burned bags containing evidence were ordered to be destroyed by Barack Obama, who was running a "shadow government." Trump says the shadow government purposely kept election fraud-related evidence away from him. "These bags were supposed to be incinerated."

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Tulsi Gabbard said last year that she discovered burn bags filled with documents linked to fraud in the 2020 election. Today, Trump said the order was given by Barack Obama. Tulsi said John Brennan and James Clapper were working to cover up the corruption. According to her, investigators found files hidden deep in safes, tucked away in random offices, and stuffed into bags meant to be destroyed.

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Trump announces the disclosure and declassification of documents reportedly exposing critical intelligence of hacking, exploitation and foreign interference in U.S. elections by China and the "deep-state" in the 2020 election, calling it a "cover-up."

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⚡️👀 NEW - Trump Media to sell high-speed access to Trump’s Truth Social posts so large trading firms can get posts "milliseconds early." — FT

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Thomas Massie just set a trap for the next Attorney General, Todd Blanche, by introducing his new Epstein Files Transparency Act 2. The bill would require the U.S. Attorney General to cooperate with state Attorneys to help prosecute Jeffrey Epstein's top clients under state law. The bill aims to provide maximum disclosure of all the crimes against children that took place at Epstein's Zorro Ranch property. "Crimes were committed there." "The Attorney General of New Mexico would like to prosecute those crimes, so we're making it easier with this bill."

⚡️🔎 NEW - On this day in history, 16 years ago, Satoshi Nakamoto explained why quantum computing will never break Bitcoin because, “we can transition to a new hash function after a certain block number. Everyone would have to upgrade their software by that block number.”

⚡️🔎 NEW - 38.0% of the total Bitcoin supply remains unmoved for 4+ years Conviction grows.

⚡️🇰🇷👮‍♂️ NEW - After losing money on the stock market, a man stabbed a YouTuber who specializes in investing. On July 13, in Busan, South Korea, a man in his 20s reportedly stabbed a YouTuber known for his content on stock market investing after suffering significant financial losses by following his advice. The victim sustained injuries to his face and several other parts of his body. He was taken to the hospital and his life is not in danger. The suspect fled the scene but was apprehended about two hours later.

⚡️🗣️ NEW - Binance Founder CZ: "AI is great, but it does not protect you against inflation. Bitcoin does."

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Former CIA Director David Petraeus: Ukraine is now using 10,000 or more drones per day. This is just staggering. Last year they produced 3.5 million drones. We in the US produced 300,000. We have nothing like what they have.

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Massie: "I don't think the problem is that our elections aren't secure because we control the House, Senate, White House, and to some degree we control the Supreme Court. So I ask my Republican colleagues, why are you complaining about election fraud? We won all the damn elections!"

⚡️🇸🇾 NEW - Syrian authorities intercepted a large shipment of weapons at the Al-Tanf border crossing that had been hidden in the tank of a tanker truck carrying oil from Iraq. The shipment included long-range missiles, anti-tank missiles, and drones, and was destined for Hezbollah in Lebanon.

⚡️💬 NEW - BlackRock CEO Larry Fink says he's no longer concerned about excessive leverage in bitcoin and crypto markets, adding that he's "very bullish" on markets over the next 12 months.