⚡️💬 NEW - Introducing Qaf! Ask any Islamic question and Qaf will research over 8,000 Islamic books and generate an accurate answer with citations. Available on iOS, Android, and qaf.ai

⚡️🤖 NEW - For the first time, AI has designed complete viral genomes, producing 16 functional viruses that infect bacteria and "pose no threat to people." — BBC

⚡️🇮🇷 NEW - Consulate General of the I.R. of Iran in Kazan: "Mission is being accomplished …"

⚡️🎮 GAMING - FAKE ME has been officially announced. It is an online multiplayer hide-and-seek game in which players can create objects using 3D modeling tools to blend into the environment and avoid being found by the Seekers.

⚡️❌ NEW - Nikita Bier resigns as X's Head of Product, will continue as an "advisor."

⚡️💬 ARCHIVE - John McAfee after his house got raided in Belize: "Within a week, the entire government computer system was under my control." "I was looking for information that they had set me up for that raid." "I didn't find that. I did find out that the Minister of National Defence was the largest drug trafficker in all of Central America, and the Minister of Immigration [was] the largest human trafficker."

⚡️👀 NEW - Coldcard honeypot tests suggest attackers are still targeting only the easiest wallets! New community honeypot tests indicate attackers are continuing to prioritize the lowest-hanging fruit from the Coldcard Mk3 RNG vulnerability. Researcher Cole funded five compromised Mk3 wallets: one with only the vulnerable seed, three protected by 1-, 2-, and 3-word BIP39 passphrases, and one using a random account number. Fourteen hours later, only the unprotected seed-only wallet had been drained. Separately, James O'beirne's live tripwire dashboard shows just 2 of 17 honeypot wallets swept so far. The only confirmed sweeps have been wallets with no added entropy, while all wallets protected with dice rolls, passphrases, multisig, or other added complexity remain untouched. The results suggest attackers are currently focusing on the easiest-to-brute-force wallets rather than expending resources on hardened targets, though affected users should still migrate funds immediately rather than relying on temporary protection.

⚡️🎮 NEW - A new GTA VI trailer will air next August 27 on Netflix at 3pm ET/12pm PT/8pm BST It will be an "Extended Look"

⚡️🇱🇧🇮🇱 NEW - Large-scale Israeli demolition operations are underway in al-Mansouri, southern Lebanon. Another town is being systematically leveled.

⚡️🇰🇷 WATCH - Surgeons were caught in the July 28 Kumamoto earthquake during an operation, with one doctor securing the emergency exit while the rest of the surgical team shielded the patient throughout the quake.

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - US Senator Elizabeth Warren says "We need crypto legislation. I've been saying this for a long time." "But crypto legislation that has been written by the crypto industry to protect and advance the crypto industry...that's just not good crypto legislation."

⚡️🎙 WATCH - Joe Rogan reacts to a chilling warning: "Delete your search history. Delete your bookmarks. Delete your Reddit, medical records, 12-year-old Tumblr, delete everything. Every photo on the cloud, every message on every platform, none of it is safe."

⚡️😎 FUN FACT - DuckDuckGo has released a pair of "Normal F*ing Sunglasses" as an alternative to AI glasses It has no camera, no microphone and costs $35

⚡️🎮 NEW - PC gamers are clearly upgrading their hardware according to Valve’s latest Steam Hardware Survey 16GB VRAM graphics cards have officially overtaken 8GB models for the first time. They now make up 25.9% of surveyed systems, while 8GB GPUs are close behind at 25.3%. CPUs are changing too. 8-core processors are now the most common, with 27.85% of users, just edging out 6-core chips at 27.52%. A few other interesting stats from the survey: - Windows 11 is now used by over 70% of Steam users. - 16GB of RAM is still the most popular memory setup. - The GeForce RTX 3060 remains the most-used graphics card on Steam.

⚡️🇳🇱 NEW - Dutch Far-right figure Geert Wilders: I've been in Jerusalem almost more than in Amsterdam in my life. But this is something we should do.

⚡️💬 END OF DAY - Rebranding

⚡️🇮🇷 NEW - Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian: No matter how much I think about it, I cannot find any logical reason why they killed our Leader, our commanders, and our scientists. Many of our commanders and scientists who were killed did not even own a home.

⚡️🚨 NEW - @calle : « Bitcoin Red Team update: we've grown to 16 globally distributed people working 24/7 We're running a large-scale ecosystem security audit across bitcoin code bases. 27.5 hours in, we've filed 4,962 findings across 390 projects. 85 critical and 635 high severity issues. We're at 2.31 h+c findings per person per hour We're ramping up. Much of our work is still manual (hand holding the AI) but our automated harnesses are getting better at the same time. So far, letting everyone use their own favorite review method has proven to be the most effective strategy. We're getting a lot of diverse hits because everyone prompts their agents a little differently. The big spike you're seeing is us backfilling Rob's insane review dump before we started the present campaign. Thank you to our supporters @OpenSats, Finn Puklowski, Steve, and OpenCode , wafer_ai and Kimi_Moonshot for sponsoring, for paying the bills, and for providing the inference. We've been reaching out to many folks. Most of the critical reports we've made so far were quickly verified by project owners. We know we're hitting real targets. There's a lot of chaos right now in the ecosystem. We absolutely understand that many people are being bombarded with security issues right now. We're trying our best to give you actionable findings. Most of the critical results are reproduced with a proof of concept in local regtest environments before we report. Please use AI to verify and reproduce our findings. We're sincerely sorry if our reports added stress to your already stressful day. However, we believe it's important to send out these findings as quickly as possible because 1) the project owners are the best to validate them (validation is almost free with AI now) and 2) others who aren't on the red team will arrive at the same findings as we did. We're getting better at sorting out the slop, verifying our findings, and at getting in touch with the relevant people. Please bare with us. »

⚡️🇵🇸 NEW - Yesterday, Gaza is burying the remains of 112 members of al-Hasayna and Abu Sharia families, including 40 children, 38 women, and 7 people with disabilities The remains were recovered from the rubble recently after Israel bombed a residential block containing homes belonging to the al-Hasayna and Abu Sharia families on 23 November 2023, one day before the first truce in the Gaza war took effect. Gaza civil defence Mohammed Abu Dan, who supervised the recovery operation, said crews were unable to recover another 157 bodies believed to remain buried under the rubble. “This is one of the largest funerals in the history of the Palestinian cause. Today, 112 martyrs will be be buried in the soil of Gaza. Talk about us. Raise your voices. Don’t let these scenes pass unnoticed on your phones.” A Palestinian at the funeral

⚡️🇮🇱🇵🇸 NEW - Israeli soldiers assaulted a young man during a raid on the Qalandia refugee camp, north of Jerusalem.