⚡️👨‍💻 NEW - Firefox's weekly active users fall below 150 million for the first time, according to Mozilla What could Mozilla do to reverse this downward trend?

⚡️🇱🇧💥 FLASHBACK - 5 years and 2 days ago, an explosion ravaged the port of Beirut and part of the city, killing 235 people and injuring 6,500 others. Hundreds of tonnes of ammonium nitrate were stored unprotected at the site of the explosion.

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - President Trump says he cannot reveal the truth about the mystery drones spotted over New Jersey. He says he knows who was behind it and what it was, but claims he’s not allowed to say, even though he would like to. Trump adds that it’s not a big deal or a serious problem people should worry about.

⚡️💬 GM - Have you noticed that there are no more video bugs on ? Not because the problem has been solved, far from it, but because for the past few days I've been using a "garbage" npub to test videos before publishing them on flash. It makes my workload heavier, but the main thing is that you gain in reading comfort. With respect.

🗞️ https://youtu.be/S9a1nLw70p0

⚡️💬 NEW - Mo Gawdat says AI will soon erase intellectual differences between people borrowing 50 IQ points boosts intelligence exponentially -- but 4000 makes an individual's IQ irrelevant "so the gap between humans and augmented intelligence will be irrelevant"

⚡️🛶 NEW - The Global Sumud Flotilla has announced the largest civilian sailing to Gaza since the siege began in 2007, aiming to break Israel’s blockade and challenge global complicity. Dozens of boats will depart from Spain on August 31, with additional launches from Tunisia and others on September 4. Delegations from 44+ countries—including the U.S., Malaysia, Brazil, Italy, and Sri Lanka—will take part. The flotilla will carry doctors, lawyers, journalists, and activists. Organizers say any Israeli interception would constitute piracy under international law. Malaysia’s Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim will flag off the Southeast Asian convoy on August 23. Mass rallies in support are planned globally for August 9. (DropSite)

⚡️🇵🇸 WATCH - The more time passes, the more the situation worsens in Gaza, where millions of civilians are being deliberately starved by Israel. According to DropSite, at least 88 killed in Gaza yesterday (Tuesday) — among them, 63 aid seekers shot dead by Israeli soldiers while trying to reach food.

⚡️🇺🇸🇮🇱 NEW - Trump says Israeli occupation of Gaza "pretty much up to Israel."

🗞️ https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/06/250611084108.htm

⚡️🎙️ NEW - Tom Lee chooses Ethereum over Bitcoin "I think Ethereum is having it's 2017 moment now. I do think it is the biggest macro trade for the next decade."

⚡️🚨 NEWS - In July 2025, researchers discovered that a bacterium living in the deep ocean, Spongiibacter nanhainus, produced a very special sugar with spectacular effects on cancer cells. This sugar, known as EPS3.9 is an exopolysaccharide - a long molecule made up of simple sugars - which plays a role in cell protection and communication. When brought into contact with certain cancer cells, notably leukemia cells, this sugar triggers a mechanism known as pyroptosis, a form of explosive cell death. Unlike apoptosis ("clean" cell death), pyroptosis causes the cell to burst, alerting the immune system to attack the diseased cells. In other words, sugar signals the presence of cancer to our immune defences, presenting it as an enemy of the body! Laboratory tests on mice have shown a significant reduction in certain tumors, notably liver tumors + activation of the immune system! This marine sugar acts both as a direct destroyer of cancer cells and as a catalyst for an anti-tumor immune response! Still in the pre-clinical stage, this discovery paves the way for a new generation of treatments: targeted, natural, and potentially far less toxic than current chemotherapies. As usual, I'll post the source as a comment.

We live in a world where true sounds false, false sounds true. And it's going to get harder and harder to tell the real from the fake with the tools we have.

⚡️🇮🇱 WATCH - Israelis attack trucks to prevent the delivery of food to the starving population of Gaza, Palestine. They even go so far as to destroy the goods directly on the road.

⚡️🇪🇺 NEW - The ECB reassures that the digital euro will not replace cash (For the time being). Executive Board member Piero Cipollone asserts that physical currency "is here to stay", the digital euro project aims to complement cash, not eliminate it.

⚡️🎙️ NEW - Jim Breuer rips the mind control tactics used by the fake news

⚡️💬 WATCH - Bill Gates: "6% of global emissions are cows." "You can either fix the cows to stop them doing that, or you can make beef without the cow."

⚡️🤖 NEW - Unitree unleashes new "hunter" dog robot.

⚡️🚨 FYI - Facebook once bought a VPN app for $120M and turned it into a surveillance tool that spied on 33M+ users' entire phones for years. This app helped Zuck buy WhatsApp for a whopping $19B and break Snapchat's encryption. The name of this Israeli app was Onavo. It promised to “secure your data” and reduce mobile data usage. When Facebook bought it in 2013, Zuck said the app would help them connect more people to the internet. Facebook even promised to keep Onavo running as a standalone brand. But Onavo operated as a VPN that routed all your phone's internet traffic through Facebook's servers before sending it anywhere else. Facebook could see: • Every app you opened • How long you used it • Which websites you visited • And at what time you used each app What did this mean for Facebook? It meant that Zuck could see exactly which one of Facebook's competitor was growing popular among people. Look how Facebook was tracking these apps (revealed in the court later) By 2016, this data revealed Snapchat was exploding in popularity. But there was one problem: Snapchat's traffic was encrypted, so Facebook couldn't see how people were using it. In an email, Zuck says: It seems important to figure out a way to get reliable analytics about them Facebook's started "Project Ghostbusters" - named after Snapchat's ghost logo. They would use "man-in-the-middle" attacks to break Snapchat's encryption. Within a month, Facebook's engineers built "kits" that could intercept Snapchat's data before it got encrypted. Facebook created custom client & server side code based on Onavo’s VPN proxy app. This code included a client-side “kit” that installed a root certificate on Snapchat users’ mobile devices. Then Facebook’s servers created fake digital certificates to impersonate Snapchat analytics servers to redirect & decrypt secure traffic from those apps to Facebook. Seeing Snapchat's success, Zuckerberg offered to buy it for $3 billion. But when Snap's CEO refused the offer, Facebook launched Snap's most famous feature on Instagram - Stories. But this wasn't just about Snapchat. Facebook used Onavo to systematically monitor Houseparty, YouTube, Amazon, and dozens of other apps. Any rising competitor was identified, analyzed, and neutralized. Apple forced Onavo off the App Store for violating privacy rules. So Facebook rebranded it as "Facebook Research" and started paying teens $20/month to install it on their phones. When Apple found out, they revoked Facebook's certificates, breaking ALL of Facebook's iOS apps. Onavo shows how Big Tech weaponizes our trust. 33 million people installed privacy protection that was actually the most sophisticated corporate surveillance tool ever built. I'm posting all the screenshots as comments.

⚡️🚪 ICYMI - WhatsApp joins Apple in opposing the UK government's push for a "back door." "This case could set a dangerous precedent, emboldening nations to weaken encryption protecting private communications."

⚡️👀 This is the future of YouTube. And more broadly, the dystopian future we imagined ten years ago... nobody realizes we're actually living it. Not tomorrow. Now. We are.

⚡️💻 NEW - Proton launches free standalone cross-platform Authenticator app Proton has launched a new open-source two-factor authentication app, Proton Authenticator, offering free, 2FA with encrypted sync, offline access, easy migration, and local biometric security.

⚡️🇫🇷 NEWS - Lyon, France’s third largest city is switching from Windows 11 to Linux on its computer systems

⚡️🇬🇧 NEW - The U.K.’s Office of Communications (Ofcom) wants to ban Spongebob clips.

⚡️💬 THE END OF A CHAPTER - It's with a mixture of pride, exhaustion and sadness that I announce today the achievement of the 3 major objectives I set myself for the project. The last one has just been reached. ➥ 1 million satoshis reached on day 121 ➥ 10,000 notes published on day 182 ➥ 10,000 subscribers reached today, day 217 I'm proud, because I've kept my word. And keeping one's word, in this day and age, has become a rarity. I'm committed to it. I really do. I'm tired, because 217 days without a break, 24/7... it's a never-ending marathon. As I write this, my sleep debt is probably in the hundreds of hours. And I'm sad, because there are no longer any achievable short-term goals. Disappointed too, because the return has not been commensurate with the energy invested. But I'm still hopeful. The news of the last few days is clearly in Nostr's favour. ➤ Key figures - 12,100 published notes - 217 days of activity - 2,539,773 cumulative sats - Around 8 hours of work per day - 7,900 replies ➤ Work details: - 12,100 ÷ 217 = 55.76 notes per day - 55 ÷ 24 = 2.3 notes per hour, day and night - 217 × 8 = 1,736 total working hours - 2,539,773 ÷ 217 = 11,704 sats per day - 11,704 ÷ 8 = 1,463 sats of hourly output → Or approximately $1.63 per hour. What does the future hold for ? Continue to work very hard, stay free and independent, offer subtitles on videos, take out a subscription to a video editing application, change my profile photo because I hate it so don't be surprised if tomorrow I change to something more sober, more professional, more minimalist (I spent several days finding what I wanted), take more time for myself and my family, get back into sport. But that's none of your business... I digress. In short, nothing's going to change, maybe the frequency, but I'm not sure because I'm addicted to Nostr. To tell you the truth, I'm far from an amateur at what I do. I've gone through all the platforms, honing my skills like a craftsman, from one network to the next. Wherever I've been - Facebook, X, Telegram - I've been able to impose myself, learn, progress and accumulate hundreds of thousands of subscribers. But my final quest is Nostr. I've got there with thousands of hours of experience. And above all, I'm getting there at a time when I'm most lucid, most solid and most demanding of myself. Nostr is the final chapter in my network adventure. The final boss. The apotheosis of my work and my imprint on the Internet. I came from nowhere, I'll leave from nowhere. I'm not looking for glory or validation. Just to do my job and do it well. Grateful for every zap, like, comment, bookmark, quote, and quiet endorsement. Thank you and good night, peace.

⚡️🇺🇸🇨🇦 President Trump says "Canada has just announced that it is backing statehood for Palestine." "That will make it very hard for us to make a Trade Deal with them. Oh’ Canada!!!"

⚡️🎙️ NEW - Comedian John Oliver says the phrase “Gaza is starving” is true but misleadingly passive, the accurate wording is: “Gaza is being starved by Israel.”

⚡️🇫🇷🏊‍♂️ NEW - Exceptional: Leon Marchand BREAKS the 200M 4-Swim WORLD RECORD!

⚡️🎥 NEW - Joseph Lubin, co-founder of Ethereum, compares the adoption of ETH to that of BTC and states: “It’s becoming increasingly clear that the future of Ethereum is now.”