⚡️🚨 ALERT - Valve says the global memory shortage isn’t improving, warning that RAM and SSD prices are likely to keep rising. “There’s no light at the end of the tunnel, honestly. It’s still getting worse.” Valve says memory manufacturers are focusing on high-end chips for AI servers, leaving less supply for consumer hardware. “Things that were commodity items a year or two ago… now you have to negotiate really hard just to secure a few thousand. And there are so many more people in line in front of you.” Valve sees no improvement anytime soon.

⚡️🇮🇱🇵🇸 WATCH - Israelis intercepted a truck headed for Gaza and stole the cargo it was carrying.

⚡️💻 FUN FACT - Did you know the Internet reserved error code 402, “Payment Required,” in 1997 and left it empty for a quarter century because the internet had no native money? It does now with Bitcoin.

⚡️🇫🇷 NEW - Zinedine Zidane will officially take charge as France head coach this month, with contracts set to be signed. He is expected to lead Les Bleus through the Nations League, Euro 2028, and the 2030 FIFA World Cup.

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Trump: I know about sports and I know about a little bit about soccer, but I watched Messi and he was well guarded… And all of a sudden he's standing on the right. Do you understand what I'm talking about? I just noticed it. Nobody talked about it. I just noticed it

⚡️⚽️🇺🇸 NEW - Gianni Infantino: FIFA is the official happiness provider to humanity. Trump: Unless your team loses.

⚡️💬 END OF DAY - Good Night

⚡️🤖🇨🇳 NEW - The world’s first robot MMA event just went down in China

⚡️🎙️ NEW - Tucker: "You couldn't stay in a hotel…because you criticized Israel?!" Waters: "Yes." Rock legend Roger Waters tells Tucker Carlson how he was banned from hotels in Argentina, Uruguay, Ecuador, and Colombia due to pressure from the Israel Lobby.

⚡️👀 WATCH - Patriot shows Flock cameras track him and his PHONE as he walks by Flock emits Blue Tooth signal for phone connection and tracking

⚡️🇨🇳 TECH - China open-sourced a model that reconstructs any scene in 3D from a regular video, in real-time. one camera. no LiDAR. 10,000+ frames without falling apart. just walk around with your camera and watch the entire world get rebuilt in 3D at 20 fps. → runs at ~20 FPS on a single GPU → Stable over 10,000+ frames → Beats optimization-based methods on benchmarks → Works on drone footage, driving videos, indoor walkthroughs 100% open source.

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Meta is in talks to lease computing power from its AI data centers to Anthropic, in a deal potentially worth up to $10 billion, over two years — NYT

⚡️🇺🇸 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.