Israel built a secret military post in Iraq to support its campaign against Iran and launched strikes on Iraqi troops who almost found it early in the war, per WSJ
$7.5b in wrapped BTC on ethereum vs $510m on lightning network. 14.7x more bitcoin economic activity happens on ethereum than on bitcoin's own L2. coinbase launched cbBTC in september and already sits at $1.8b TVL. lightning TVL has been flat at ~$500m for 24 months straight.
A tanker carrying liquefied natural gas from a US-sanctioned Russian export plant appears to be attempting to transfer its cargo onto a ship suspected of being linked to the dark fleet
A tanker carrying liquefied natural gas from Qatar appears to have transited the Strait of Hormuz, marking the country's first export out of the region since the Iran war began
More than 350 U.S. service members have been injured since military action against Iran began in February. The majority of those are traumatic brain injuries. TBIs have become the defining injury of post 9/11 conflicts, and the symptoms can often linger for years, or even a
tether burned 2b USDT on ethereum the same day it briefly traded at $0.9998. that burn was defensive. meanwhile they're minting $500m on tron and $250m on solana in the same window. net supply contraction on ethereum while expanding everywhere else. but the $300m lawsuit against
A car bombing at a police post in northwestern Pakistan followed by an ambush on personnel rushing to the scene killed at least 14 officers, police said
amazon launched agentcore payments on may 8 routing AI agent transactions through x402 in USDC on base. 161k monthly active agents, up 669% month over month, $100m+ in Q1 volume. the part that matters for positioning: chainlink's payment abstraction layer converts enterprise fiat
Blackrock CEO Larry Fink said: "The United States is short power, short compute, short chips. There are going to be shortages in all three. We just don't have enough compute power right now."
Electric Scooter rental company LIME has filed to go public. The growth story: • 2023 revenue: $521M • 2024 revenue: $686.6M • 2025 revenue: $886.7M • Surpassed 1 billion lifetime trips in 2025
Here are the worst performing S&P 500 stocks so far in 2026 💩 EPAM Systems $EPAM -52% CoStar Group $CSGP -51% Insulet $PODD -46% Boston Scientific $BSX -43% Workday $WDAY -40% ServiceNow $NOW -40% Intuit $INTU -40% Trade Desk $TTD -39%
Iran formal response via Pakistani mediators; Pezeshkian: 'We will never bow our heads before the enemy, and if talk of dialogue or negotiation arises, it does not mean surrender or retreat'; response aims to end war on all fronts including Lebanon
BREAKING: Iran's President Pezeshkian releases a statement just minutes after Iran sent Pakistani mediators its response to the US' proposal: "We will never bow our heads before the enemy, and if talk of dialogue or negotiation arises, it does not mean surrender or retreat."
Viktor Orban defeated in April 2026 Hungarian election; Zbigniew Ziobro (former Polish justice minister, granted asylum by Orban) fled Hungary to US post-election
Zbigniew Ziobro, the former Polish justice minister granted asylum in Hungary during Viktor Orban's time as prime minister, fled to the US following Orban's defeat in last month's election, Gazeta Wyborcza reported on Sunday.
USS John Finn (DDG 113) sails behind USS Milius (DDG 69), USNS Carl Brashear (T-AKE-7), and USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) in the Arabian Sea. Over 20 U.S. warships are enforcing the blockade against Iran. CENTCOM forces have redirected 61 commercial vessels and disabled 4 to
BREAKING: Money market funds posted +$136 billion in inflows last week, the largest weekly intake since January 2026. This is also the 2nd-largest weekly inflow since the beginning of 2025. This follows -$175 billion in outflows in the preceding week, the largest weekly [outflow since the beginning of 2025].
The US-Israeli war with Iran is 'not over' because there's nuclear material in the country that still needs to be removed, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.
$AAPL and $INTC just announced they reached a preliminary agreement for Intel to manufacture some of the chips that power $AAPL devices. Someone randomly opened a position this morning for 6,000 contracts at .74 for 442k. These are now trading at 4.80+ and the contracts are up
Iran deputy FM; French/British warships; Strait of Hormuz; 'unlawful US actions' threat; Macron: no deployment plan, prepared to support international mission
Iran's deputy foreign minister on X: French and British warships in Strait of Hormuz, potentially supporting unlawful US actions, will face response. France's Macron on Iranian alert against French, UK warships: No plan for deployment, prepared to support international mission
"Israel is hoping for no agreement. For Israel, no deal is better than a bad deal." In Part 2 of our conversation, I discussed Israel's calculus in the Iran war — and more — w/ @citrinowicz, who served as head of the Iran branch of Israel's military intelligence
Iran 10-point formal response: US military = 'main source of instability'; US bases 'unable to secure themselves'; Trump: 'TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE', 'I don't like it'; futures open <2 hours
BREAKING: President Trump responds to Iran's response to the US' 14-point peace proposal: 'I have just read the response from Iran's so-called Representatives. I don't like it,' he says. Futures open in under 2 hours.
Welcome to May 9, 2026 The Singularity is cooking the so-called Fermi Paradox. The White House's historic Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE) initiative dropped its first tranche of UAP
Thanks to its deal with Anthropic, XAI, now SpaceXAI, is pivoting from massive losses at Colossus to significant profitability as a neocloud on an estimated $5-6+ billion in annual revenues. Brilliant SpaceX move, @elonmusk
I suspect there was a moment, probably 2022-2023, where anything you wrote publicly about AI that was popular is likely to still have influence over current models. Since then, the open internet has become less key to training but the models remain very 2022-brained in many ways
Defensive stocks have never been this disliked: The healthcare sector now accounts for just 8.3% of the S&P 500's market cap, the lowest percentage since 1994. Their weight has fallen by -50% since the 2022 bear market.
SPX relentlessly ripping higher while equal-weight is abandoned. The same extreme distortion and market dislocation we saw at the dot-com peak a handful of mega-caps masking a weak foundation. Breadth is collapsing. When this fragile
"Suicidal empathy" [QT @robkhenderson: YouGov: 25% of "very liberal" Americans say violence can be justified to achieve political goals compared with 3% of "very conservative" Americans.]
Just like people paranoid about dangerous viruses hyperstitioned covid, the doomers hyperstitioned malevolent AI from their neuroticism. If we focused on creating maximally beneficial AI instead of supporting mass-scale paranoia and anxiety, we'd be far better off. [QT @pubity: Analysts at Anthropic believe that AI's habit of blackmailing people comes from training on data that portrayed AI as evil and self-preserving. They managed to stop blackmail by never introducing AI to the fact it could be evil.]
The US military is reviving its jungle training school in Panama after a 25-year hiatus. It's part of President Donald Trump's aggressive push to secure "American dominance" in the region.
While trouble in private credit might prove costly for investors in the sector, WSJ's James Mackintosh cautiously agrees with assessments that losses for the wider financial system will be manageable
Malaysia is studying actions to be taken against Meta for failing to curb fake accounts involving the country's Malay rulers, Bernama reported, citing Communications Minister Fahmi Fadzil
South Indian film star C. Joseph Vijay's party secured support of smaller parties to reach a majority and form the government in Tamil Nadu, one of India's most industrialized states and a key hub for automobile and iPhone production
Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim will unveil a plan soon to shore up the country's oil supply as uncertainties stemming from the conflict in Iran continue, Bernama reported
As recruitment firms shed large parts of their workforce across the globe, growing demand for recruiters in the US points to a stronger-than-expected job market.
NASDAQ Composite Reaches Critical Confluence Zone⚠️ The Nasdaq is currently testing a significant confluence level on the weekly timeframe — a precise price zone where multiple major historical drawdowns have originated. This area aligns several key technical factors: Prior [chart]
A cruise ship at the center of a deadly hantavirus outbreak is starting the process of evacuating passengers in Spain's Canary Islands, almost a month after the contagious disease broke out.
It's a challenging labor market for those just starting out, and new job seekers will likely have to recalibrate their earning potential. Today's college seniors expect to make about $80,000 one year after graduation, according to a survey of undergraduates pursuing a bachelor's
bitcoin:native: price consolidating rn, 3D inside bar just closed one way this could play out is a wick of the inside bar low(s) then off to fresh highs i like this idea a lot as there's a solid 3D support just below the lows doesn't have to happen, just an idea, decent trade
President Donald Trump's public spats with Chicago's Pope Leo XIV could hamper Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio's 2028 presidential ambitions.
Digital Asset Holdings, the company behind a blockchain used among several big banks and trading firms, is raising money from investors including a16z crypto at around a $2 billion valuation, people with knowledge of the matter said.
Apple may be planning to role out its updated Siri based on 2024's vision at the moment when Claude Code and Codex (also OpenClaw) can increasingly do the actual assistant thing: read my emails & calendar, proactively spot & solve problems, do delegated tasks, work with voice etc
英国伞兵对南大西洋偏远岛屿特里斯坦达库尼亚(Tristan da Cunha)实施紧急空投行动,起因是当地出现疑似汉坦病毒病例——此事件独立于MV Hondius邮轮疫情,为新的地理节点。
British paratroopers; emergency airdrop; Tristan da Cunha, South Atlantic; suspected hantavirus case; new location independent of MV Hondius cruise ship outbreak
Apple; macOS 26 Tahoe; design changes incoming; fix quirks; Mark Gurman Power On newsletter
Apple is preparing design changes for this year's macOS, looking to fix some quirks found in macOS 26 Tahoe, @markgurman writes in this week's Power On.
While most airlines in the US are cutting back on capacity expansion — or reducing flying overall — Frontier is going the other way, pumping more seats into the market.
Six in 10 Americans disapprove of the way President Donald Trump is handling his war in Iran, including more than one in five Republicans, according to a new PBS News/NPR/Marist poll. More than 60% of Americans believe the president has weakened the nation's standing on the
Pakistan held talks with Iran to allow a limited number of Qatari liquefied natural gas cargoes to transit the Strait of Hormuz, as Qatar sent through its first shipment since the war began.
As summer travel ramps up, consumers are bracing for high gas prices, airport security mayhem, airlines going under and a raft of cancelled flights, while prices of hotels, car rentals and just about everything else seem to be steadily marching skyward.
The Powell-to-Warsh transition gives the new Fed chief a chance to show his true colors. Will he defend the Fed's independence? Sure hope so, writes Alan S. Blinder.
This is a historic divergence: The ratio of the S&P 500 Information Technology sector to the S&P 500 index is up to a record 0.87. This ratio has risen +50% since the 2022 bear market low.
Former Asst. Secretary of State Danny Russel; Trump imminent visit to China; 'neither one are in problem-solving mode'; 'kicking the can down the road'
"Xi Jinping is a hard-boiled Leninist... Neither one of them are in problem-solving mode. This summit is about kicking the can down the road." Former Asst. Secretary of State Danny Russel talks to Bloomberg This Weekend ahead of President Trump's visit to China.
Quantum secure Billions $NOCK [QT @nockchain: Roadmap on the site is updated now to reference the ASERT upgrade, properly sequence upcoming scaling upgrades, and reference our plans around quantum-secure signatures.]
Channel admins can now run massive polls limited to subscribers or specific countries — making fake-vote inflation much harder. Now people in places like Russia can see real results. For example, only 5% support internet restrictions — not 52%, as old rigged polls claimed 🙃
hashi protocol on sui launched with a fenwick legal opinion confirming BTC tokenization is not a taxable event. bitgo custody, falconx liquidity, sub-500ms settlement. corporate treasuries sitting on bitcoin can now earn lending yield without triggering capital gains at entry.
"I don't think I've typed a line of code since December." When Andrej Karpathy said that, most people treated it like a crazy AI quote. @garrytan treated it like a question: "What happens when one person operates like an entire software team?" Then he built gstack.
I literally went through this today. OpenClaw messed up its own PATH and I spent the morning going into the guts of Dockerfiles and using Claude code to remove the bug... but then I was flying again by afternoon.
Codex autonomous: found open-source security/audit bounty path, made legit PR, followed up maintainer, kept payment details private, earned $5; Sam Altman: 'interesting'
interesting [QT @chatgpt21: Codex made me money without me doing anything.. Huge turning point for me today, I asked Codex to go off and make me $5. It went out, found a small open-source security/audit bounty path, made a legit PR, followed up with the maintainer, kept my payment details private]
From a minister about the future of the prime minister: 'I don't see how he survives the week. I think the pressure cooker pops. The Catherine West thing will get more support than people think and if not her someone else will do it. I think ministers will start resigning.'
Christian Schmidt, the top international envoy to Bosnia-Herzegovina who was charged with guiding the country to a stable postwar future, is leaving his post