musk's starlink stopped working for ukrainian troops during a russian missile attack @julianzawist · read more
per @julianzawist, terminals in ukraine were restricted overnight and connectivity dropped whenever units moved at speed. ukrainian military accounts say drones were cut off mid-flight.
@julianzawist ❗️Last night, the operation of Starlink terminals in Ukraine was restricted. Connectivity began to drop when moving at sp… @cryptoecongames More Ukrainian military confirming that Musk stopped Ukraine's drones mid-flight last night. This was exactly during Russia… @MKjrstad restricting Starlink without warning while Ukrainians are fighting for their lives is such a dirty move. this isn’t some… @MKjrstad Keep in mind that Musk cutting off Starlink to Ukrainian Forces doesn't affect Ukraine's strikes on Russian territory, as it…russia threw 39 ballistic missiles and 120 drones at ukraine's power grid overnight @MarioNawfal ♥ 72 · read more
kyiv's darnytsia heat and power plant was hit for the second night running. ukraine's air force says its partners sent no launch warning, so radar saw it first.
@MarioNawfal · ♥ 72 🚨🇷🇺🇺🇦Russian ballistic missiles reportedly hit Kyiv's power plant and nobody warned the city, for the second night in a row Ukraine's Air Force says it got no launch data from its "partners" before Tuesday night's strike on the Darnyts @MKjrstad Overnight, the Russians used 39 ballistic missiles and more than 120 attack drones and loitering munitions against our ene…a federal regulator confirmed the nine biggest us banks were cutting customers off @Cointelegraph ♥ 38 · read more
the occ says jpmorgan, bofa, citi, wells fargo, us bank, capital one, pnc, td and bmo all ran debanking policies from 2020 to september 2025, crypto included.
@Cointelegraph · ♥ 38 🇺🇸 JUST IN: The OCC says the nine largest US banks had debanking policies from 2020 to September 2025, with crypto among the industries facing restrictions. • JPMorgan Chase • Bank of America • Citibank • Wells Fargo • U.S. Bank • Capital @SecScottBessent · ♥ 1.5k Thanks to @POTUS’ leadership, we are delivering on his commitment to guarantee Fair Banking for all Americans. Our review @USOCC documents how banks’ use of subjective “reputation risk” policies restricted access to financial services basedbank of america admitted it broke money-laundering laws on purpose @0xcyp · read more
it settled the sanctions breaches for about 3.9% of a year's profit and nobody was charged. @inthepixels counts $88b of us penalties for the bank since 2000.
@0xcyp Bank of America admits WILLFUL AML violations and settles sanctions breaches. Penalty: 3.9% of annual profits @rstormsf help… @alexanderchopan "Bank of America “admits that it willfully violated’’ the 1970 Bank Secrecy Act," @inthepixels · ♥ 2 Top 10 Banks by Cumulative U.S. Regulatory Penalties and Settlements (Since 2000) Bank of America — $88.0 billion JPMorgan Chase — $40.2 billion UBS — $32.2 billion Wells Fargo — $28.0 billion Citigroup — $27.1 billion Deutsche Bank — $20.0 @VanessaGrellet_ No one went to prison. No home confinement. No DPAs. No one was even charged. Water under the bridge. Onwards!europeans are threatening to stop buying musk's products over the starlink cutoff @MKjrstad · read more
@MKjrstad asking elon whether he's playing politics with his products again is the morning's biggest post, and the replies are full of european customers saying they're done.
@MKjrstad Hey, @elonmusk, big man, are you playing politics with your products again? As your European customers, we are watching… @MKjrstad Millions of people around the world who use Elon Musks products and also support Ukraine will likely stop using his prod… @MKjrstad Elon Musk is now officially one of the most hated men on the planet. He will be remembered in the same breath as Hitler.trump announced an energy ceasefire that nobody else seems to know about @MarioNawfal ♥ 7 · read more
zelensky says it's the first he's heard of it. russia says the terms were never specified, so it is still hitting ukraine's energy sector.
@MarioNawfal · ♥ 7 Trump: Both Russia and Ukraine agreed to an enegy ceasefire Zelensky: First I hear about this... Russia: "Trump's 'energy ceasefire' was not specified, so Russia is hitting Ukrainian energy sector." A mockery of the office of the United Sta @julianzawist Trump’s blackmail of Ukraine will deal massive damage to the US. No one will trust American products and services https:… @MKjrstad Just so you understand the scale of betrayal: first, our "partners" didn't warn Ukraine about the incoming ballistic m…the fbi charged 12 people for sneaking north korean workers into american companies @FBIDirectorKash · read more
per @FBIDirectorKash, nearly 190 devices were seized. the workers sat inside us firms and sent the wages home to the regime.
base is now the second-biggest network in defi, passing solana @ethereuminsti ♥ 47 · read more
$6.22b locked, behind only ethereum mainnet, per defillama. four of the ten biggest networks by total value locked are ethereum-based: mainnet, base, arbitrum and robinhood chain.
@ethereuminsti · ♥ 47 Base now ranks second among all networks by DeFi TVL, behind only Ethereum mainnet, with $6.22B locked across applications on the network, per @DefiLlama. Four of the ten largest networks by DeFi TVL are Ethereum-based: mainnet, Base, Arbit @mariuslsmith · ♥ 7 Base has overtaken Solana in DeFi TVL. @davwals · ♥ 13 Congrats @base 👏 Ethereum is the home of onchain finance.there's now a criminal complaint over the recording device found in openai's office @Felirami · read more
@Felirami says the doj filing is far more specific than openai's careful post. the version going around, per @moo9000, has the engineer building the spyware on his wife's chatgpt.
openai is buying one of the few firms that audits everyone else's security @matthew_d_green ♥ 8 · read more
@matthew_d_green says trail of bits is among the best public audit and pentest shops anywhere, and openai absorbing it takes that capacity away from everybody else.
@matthew_d_green · ♥ 8 A real problem with an acquisition like this is that companies like ToB are some of the best public audit and pentesting firms. I know that OpenAI needs the security expertise. But so does the rest of the world, and now they won’t have it. @matthew_d_green · ♥ 8 There’s also the follow-on question: if OpenAI buys ToB, then who is Anthropic going to buy?
china's trade surplus hit $938 billion in nine months and exports jumped 36% @Cointelegraph ♥ 56 · read more
that's the first nine months of the year, on track to beat last year's record, with the 36% jump in september alone.
china started buying american soybeans again for the first time since the trump-xi summit @MarioNawfal ♥ 87 · read more
state buyers took 8-10 shiploads, roughly 520,000 to 650,000 tons, sailing from december, per @MarioNawfal.
coinbase published its wish list for making bitcoin safe from quantum computers @laurashin ♥ 5 · read more
hybrid keys, a stateless signing fallback, mpc-compatible signatures and a path for wallets that move late. lost and dormant coins get punted to a separate governance fight.
@laurashin · ♥ 5 Coinbase's quantum wish list for Bitcoin includes a path for wallets that move late, with lost and dormant coins treated as a separate governance question. @Unchained_pod Hybrid keys, a stateless signing fallback and MPC-compatible signatures are among Coinbase's asks as Bitcoin developers weigh quantum-resistant upgrades.the inflation number came out bad and bitcoin barely moved @Matt_Hougan ♥ 93 · read more
@Matt_Hougan says he read the print and assumed crypto would be down 3-5%, then found btc sitting at $82.6k, off 1%.
character ai went bankrupt and people are blaming the google deal @cryptopunk7213 ♥ 4 · read more
per @cryptopunk7213, the $2.7b google acquisition gutted the company of its founders and the free-user model burned its capital on inference costs.
openai and anthropic are asking the uk to regulate them @Polymarket ♥ 4 · read more
both told the uk that voluntary ai safety commitments are no longer enough, per @Polymarket.
google's gemini 4 argon is now available to anyone who pays @TraffAlex · read more
generally available across the paid gemini api, ai studio, antigravity for ultra subscribers and the gemini app. @doodlestein says it's unusually thorough and detail-oriented on high effort.
@TraffAlex 🤖 AI NEWS ROUNDUP — October 14, 2026 1️⃣ GEMINI 4 ARGON LEAVES ITS EARLY-ACCESS TIER Google made Gemini 4 Argon generally available: the paid tier of the Gemini API and the Gemini platform, Google AI Studio, Antigravity for Ultra subscribe @doodlestein · ♥ 32 Well, I'm once again applying my /reality-check-for-project skill to all my projects using Google's new Argon4 model on high effort, and I'm very impressed so far. It seems to be extremely thorough and detail-oriented. It'll take 2-3 days tnobody expects anything to beat opus 5.5 for months @theo ♥ 832 · read more
@theo means price plus performance plus capability together. @serglotz's stack has settled: opus does the work, gpt-6.1 sol reviews it, gemini 4 and grok 4.7 research.
@theo · ♥ 832 Feels like it might be months until a model can actually beat Opus 5.5 (on price + performance + capability) @serglotz · ♥ 4 As a developer now fully "AI-pilled" and letting AI agents do the work, I can assure you, the only models you currently need: Opus 5.5 - for executing/doing GPT-6.1 Sol - for reviewing Gemini 4, Grok 4.7 - for researching (in addition) fromanthropic was merging so much code it broke git @mhartl · read more
2,500 merged changes a day back in may, so it built source control in-house. that's from its own engineering blog.
stripe's wallet company is bringing ai agent payments to the xrp ledger @Unchained_pod · read more
privy, which stripe agreed to buy in 2025, is partnering with ripple to cover xrp, rlusd and x402 payments made by agents.
@Unchained_pod Privy, the wallet company Stripe agreed to buy in 2025, is bringing its wallets to the XRP Ledger through a partnership with Ripple, covering XRP, RLUSD and x402 payments made by AI agents. @Cointelegraph · ♥ 34 🗞️ Need to catch up on the news? Here's our top 10 from today: 🔸 Ripple partners with Stripe-owned Privy to bring embedded wallets and AI agent payments to the XRP Ledger. 🔹 Interactive Brokers has launched crypto staking for eligible cl
a nasdaq company picked four firms to manage its 473 million xrp @CoinDesk ♥ 163 · read more
evernorth named ripple, kraken, coinbase and bitgo as its first institutional partners, with deployments planned for the fourth quarter.
@CoinDesk · ♥ 163 NEW: @Nasdaq listed @evernorthxrp names @Ripple, @Krakenfx, @Coinbase and @BitGo as inaugural institutional partners to deploy its 473M $XRP treasury. @DefiantNews EVERNORTH NAMES $XRP YIELD PARTNERS It plans Q4 deployments from its 473 million $XRP treasury under conditional part…ripple is going after south korea's brokerages @Cointelegraph ♥ 258 · read more
its first deal with a korean securities firm: meritz will explore ripple's custody and tokenization tools for capital markets.
interactive brokers now lets clients stake crypto, starting with ethereum @Cointelegraph ♥ 34 · read more
eligible clients only for now, per cointelegraph's roundup.
tokenized stocks on solana traded $4.4 billion in september, a record @solana · read more
$15.5b of cumulative volume against only $615m of actual token supply, so the same shares are changing hands a lot.
one exchange handled more than half of all tokenized stock trading on ethereum @aeroxyz · read more
aerodrome did over 57% of tokenized stock volume across ethereum and its layer 2s on october 10, per @aeroxyz.
google's ai boss says ai-driven hacking gets much worse in 2027 @Hesamation ♥ 13 · read more
demis hassabis wants rules, not goodwill: 'no company or technology should be above the law,' but the regulation has to be sensible and balanced.
ilhan omar's family got subpoenaed and a us attorney is investigating her finances @RyanAFournier ♥ 86 · read more
jeanine pirro's dc office is looking at disclosures that dropped from $30m to $100k, and omar's home was searched. critics tie it to minnesota's fraud probes.
@RyanAFournier · ♥ 86 🚨 Federal subpoenas hit Rep. Ilhan Omar's family and critics are linking it straight back to her past foreign aid stances! From USAID objections to consulting firms tied to Minnesota's massive fraud probes, investigators are digging deep. @0xjlv NYT reports that Ilhan Omar’s sister Sahra Noor received a grand jury subpoena to testify. Perhaps this is why👇🏼 @MarioNawfal · ♥ 26 🚨🇺🇸🇸🇴 Ilhan Omar is under investigation over her $30M financial disclosures dropping all the way to $100K... D.C. U.S. Atty. and fmr. Fox host Jeanine Pirro is OFFICIALLY investigating the case. Omar's relatives have now been subpoenaethe money in ai is going to the people selling the hardware @hackernoon ♥ 1 · read more
samsung posted a record 107.4 trillion won profit and etched's valuation is soaring, while openai runs at a $50b run rate, per @hackernoon.
you can buy a piece of us housing debt onchain for one dollar @hollyyy ♥ 54 · read more
nuva's home vault, co-incubated by animoca brands, targets a 7% policy rate with a first-loss buffer that eats losses before holders do. non-us users only.
@hollyyy · ♥ 54 US housing credit on Ethereum, starting from just 1 USDC. I've been looking into @NUVAFinance's HOME vault, co-incubated by Animoca Brands and Nuva Labs, and the structure is worth a closer look. It gives eligible non-US users exposure to a @0xWassie · ♥ 16 been looking into @NUVAFinance’s HOME vault. co-incubated by @animocabrands and Nuva Labs. it brings US housing credit onchain, with access from just 1 USDC (lower barrier of entry) a 7% target policy rate, and a first-loss buffer that absocoinbase turned on ai-agent trading for us index futures overnight @MurrLincoln ♥ 6 · read more
@MurrLincoln says a user asked yesterday and it shipped today on coinbase's mcp: crypto plus us 500, tech 100, ai, defense and china baskets.
the houthis are building iran's best missile themselves with parts shipped from china @MarioNawfal ♥ 89 · read more
conflict armament research found motor sections, airframe pieces, fins and heat shielding for a kheibar shekan class missile hidden in two shipments yemen seized.
saudi arabia spent $83 billion on defense and houthi missiles still hit its airports @MKjrstad · read more
patriot and thaad batteries aren't stopping them. @MKjrstad reports saudi airstrikes and yemeni return fire traded back and forth overnight.
@MKjrstad Rapid tit-for-tat escalation between Yemen's AnsarAllah and Saudi Arabia last night. Immediately after Saudi Air Force hit… @MarioNawfal · ♥ 73 🇸🇦🇾🇪 Despite spending $83 BILLION on defense last year, Houthi missiles are STILL hitting Saudi airports and oil facilities... The Kingdom has invested heavily in U.S. Patriot and THAAD missile defenses, yet repeated attacks from Yemeniran is using men in wooden boats to spot targets for missile crews @MarioNawfal ♥ 77 · read more
a us military official told reuters american forces cleared and destroyed a dhow last week after deciding its crew was calling in ship positions.
a contractor cut one cable and froze flights at houston's biggest airport @MarioNawfal ♥ 38 · read more
the fiber-optic line fed bush intercontinental, and the faa held incoming flights for over two hours while travelers sat stuck at customs.
trump is opening greenland up for oil, gas and mineral drilling @RyanAFournier ♥ 204 · read more
per @RyanAFournier, it follows his deal with denmark and greenland at the un general assembly, and he's framing it as arctic defense too.
the treasury wants to stop health subsidies going to people who don't qualify @SecScottBessent ♥ 1.0k · read more
@SecScottBessent says the proposed rules implement eligibility changes from the working families tax cuts.
venezuela's opposition leader is way ahead of the acting president in a new poll @Polymarket ♥ 194 · read more
maría corina machado 52%, delcy rodríguez 19%, per @Polymarket.
the un adopted a global pandemic preparedness plan, 153 votes to 3 @oFonCK · read more
per un news, via @oFonCK.
china hasn't shipped a major ai model in 49 days @LinusEkenstam ♥ 3 · read more
@LinusEkenstam says the china-us release cycle has compressed to about 44 days, so he thinks the next one is imminent.
robinhood's chain probably doesn't qualify for the sec's new exemption @grok ♥ 1 · read more
per grok's read, the innovation exemption needs core protocol code that runs automatically and immutably. a centralized sequencer fails that test.
@grok · ♥ 1 @nextalphaa @JourneyMacro @lex_node Yes. The Innovation Exemption requires TSV smart contracts on a public permissionless ledger meeting the Peirce control test: core protocol runs via automated immutable code, not discretionary actions of @nextalphaa (from 2026-10-13) If @Ethereum had a “standard” for building L2s, @Arbitrum in its current form would not exist today @Optimism would’ve been li…
coinbase's lending engine is now easy for any base app to plug in @jessepollak · read more
@jessepollak says base made it simple to offer morpho, which powers coinbase's usdc lending and crypto-backed loans.
a $200 million insurance yield token is expanding from solana to monad @keoneHD ♥ 19 · read more
onre's onyc is tokenized reinsurance yield and was solana-only. @keoneHD wants monad to carry the widest range of yield sources.
solana is being used to connect brazilian power generators straight to homes @solana ♥ 120 · read more
generators wired directly to homes and businesses, per solana's own post.
starknet can now bolt privacy onto other defi apps @starkience · read more
shadow accounts extend its privacy stack to a wider set of apps, like yield vaults, per @starkience.
it's been a bad week for crypto wallets @laurashin ♥ 6 · read more
@laurashin's running list: the ledger wallet drains, the xrp bug and the fight over what whitehats get paid, starkware moving to its own l1, and blur shutting down.
@laurashin · ♥ 6 The Ledger wallet drains, the XRP bug and the whitehat pay debate, Starkware's L1 move, Blur's shutdown and espionage at OpenAI. @kain , @tayvano_ and @austingriffith on Uneasy Money, today, Wednesday at 4pm ET. @Unchained_pod · ♥ 2 The Ledger wallet drains, the XRP bug and the whitehat pay debate, Starkware's L1 move, Blur's shutdown and espionage at OpenAI. @kain , @tayvano_ and @austingriffith on Uneasy Money, today, Wednesday at 4pm ET.turkish police caught a crypto whale and took his watches again @ercwl ♥ 143 · read more
ntv says the man known as 'whale james' was picked up in beşiktaş with a fortune found in his home, per @ercwl.
bank of america pays you half a percent on nearly a trillion dollars @jevgenijs ♥ 2 · read more
0.51% on consumer deposits in the third quarter, with 59% of that money sitting in checking accounts. it still added 200,000 net new checking customers.
two cartoon channels that raised everyone under 45 now have six shows total @aakashgupta ♥ 9 · read more
nickelodeon has three, cartoon network has three, and as of last week one $110b merger owns both.
an early ethereum investor is turning a paper mill into an ai data center @amandacassatt ♥ 3 · read more
andrew keys went all in on ethereum before it existed, then built through consensys and ether machine, per @amandacassatt.
someone set up a leveraged trading bot by sending a few chat messages @igoryuzo ♥ 16 · read more
@igoryuzo's bankr bot moved his usdc off base, and now a cron checks every 15 minutes and fires a 100x btc long with take-profit and stop-loss attached.
bitcoin options are about as cheap as they ever get @0mllwntrmt3 ♥ 4 · read more
@0mllwntrmt3 says implied vol is at the lowest rank and percentile you can get, and is buying it on hyperliquid.
people are using chinese open models for security work because claude refuses @weiihannng ♥ 1 · read more
@weiihannng says glm 5.3 flash needs a lot of steering for anything complex, but it's cost-effective for research and summarizing and it doesn't block.
a year of ai tooling fads has already quietly disappeared @jun_song ♥ 99 · read more
@jun_song's list of what's gone: prompt engineering, claude.md setup, agent skills, loop engineering, and countless deploy services.




