trump just cancelled the russia sanctions he signed into law 28 days ago @sentdefender ♥ 221 · read more
signed at 9pm friday. it suspends sanctions on russian banks and officials, the 500% energy tariff and the 100% tariff on buyers of russian oil, days before they started.
@sentdefender · ♥ 221 Yesterday, President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order implementing the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026 and used that authority to fully waive the duties and most of the sanctions provisions. The order sets @MarioNawfal · ♥ 94 🚨🇺🇸🇷🇺Trump waives the Russia sanctions law named after Lindsey Graham, 28 days after signing it The order invokes the law's national-interest clause to suspend the sanctions on Russian officials, oligarchs and banks, the 500% tariff on @peterktodd Unbelievable. At 9 PM on a Friday night, Trump just waived nearly every sanction the Lindsey Graham bill imposed on Russ… @adamscochran · ♥ 726 Congress unanimously supported this bill. There is *ZERO* legitimate reason for Trump to waive these sanctions, other than being compromised by Russia. Everyone, including EVERY Republican, must stand up on this issue. It is time for Congredeepseek's cheap new model now beats opus 5 at coding, for pennies @MrAhmadAwais ♥ 119 · read more
per @MrAhmadAwais it scores 77.0 against opus 5's 74.0 on deepswe at roughly 20 cents a task, about 100x cheaper. opus still wins hle and terminal-bench.
@MrAhmadAwais · ♥ 119 deepseek v4.1 flash 1017 beats opus 5 on deepswe. 77.0 vs 74.0. and it's live in Command Code. for about 20 cents a task. new pareto dominance on cost and perf. opus still wins on hle and terminal-bench. but this is a flash model doing this @TheAhmadOsman · ♥ 787 DeepSeek v4.1 Flash 1017 is basically GPT 5.6 Sol at home Incredible @reneil1337 🚀 DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 is here! Stronger benchmark performance, faster task completion, and shorter outputs than the…citi and bank of america just blocked ai agents from your bank account @0xsamgreen ♥ 17 · read more
front page of the ft, per @0xsamgreen: the banks say connecting a yield agent isn't safe and would hurt their ability to make loans.
musk suggested slowing ukraine's starlink down and trump said yes @sentdefender ♥ 571 · read more
the telegraph has four sources on it. @sentdefender relays that it clears the way for the pentagon to put speed limits on starshield, the military version.
@sentdefender · ♥ 571 Elon Musk proposed slowing down Starlink for Ukraine to President Trump, according to four sources familiar with the discussions who spoke to The Telegraph. One said Trump “agreed,” paving the way for the Pentagon to put speed limits on Sta @web3contrail (from 2026-10-16) The Telegraph obtained information that it was Elon Musk’s idea to reduce the maximum speed of Starlink-controlled (interceptor… @davemcclure (from 2026-10-16) Sources: Elon Musk approached Trump with the idea of slowing down Starshield in Ukraine; source: Trump agreed, paving the way…us crude is back over $100 a barrel @MKjrstad · read more
@MKjrstad posted the futures chart yesterday. tankers keep getting hit in the strait of hormuz and the russian oil tariffs just got waived.
visa now pays out real money in usdc across 180+ countries @WhaleFactor ♥ 1 · read more
visa direct moved usdc prefunding into commercial production, per @WhaleFactor. inyo global is the first enabler live.
ukraine's starlink terminals are still capped at 100 mph @sentdefender ♥ 327 · read more
zelensky says the 161 km/h limit stands, and going faster cuts the connection completely, per the ft's christopher miller.
@sentdefender · ♥ 327 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Ukraine’s Starlink systems remain capped at 161 km/h (100 mph), according to Christopher Miller of the Financial Times. He said exceeding the limit “causes the Starlink connection to cut out comp @JBSchweitzer Latest: Zelenskyy tells reporters over WhatsApp that restrictions on Ukraine's Starlink systems remain. Interceptor dro…russia hit ukraine's power grid overnight and knocked a city offline @Fatalmeh · read more
network data shows internet connectivity in vinnytsia dropped significantly after the strikes, per @Fatalmeh.
claude cracked a 25-year-old nsa cryptography mystery in half an hour @merkle_bonsai · read more
two separate accounts tell it the same way, and @merkle_bonsai says the model's first move was to throw shade at the humans who'd been stuck on it.
indonesia's stock market just had its worst crash in 28 years @MKjrstad · read more
biggest plunge since 1998, per @MKjrstad. bali has also run out of fuel, with hours-long lines outside gas stations since sunday.
@MKjrstad (from 2026-10-16) 🇮🇩 Indonesian stock market is collapsing. Worst crash in 28 years. @MKjrstad (from 2026-10-16) Breaking News: Indonesian stocks suffered their biggest plunge since 1998, deepening investor fears about Southeast Asia’s lar… @MKjrstad (from 2026-10-16) BREAKING: Bali has run out of fuel, with hours-long queues outside gas stations since Sunday and attendants posting signs…
another oil tanker got hit in the strait of hormuz @sentdefender ♥ 190 · read more
iran's irgc is calling it a mine. @sentdefender says iran is actually hitting them with drones and missiles.
vance says about 20 us troops have died in the iran war @MarioNawfal ♥ 68 · read more
he's publicly questioning whether the military objectives justify the cost, drawing on his own time as a marine in iraq, per @MarioNawfal.
the ecb says a digital euro is coming to sit alongside cash @Cointelegraph ♥ 135 · read more
lagarde framed it as europe pushing back on private stablecoins for everyday payments.
deepseek put the new flash model's weights up for anyone to download @ClementDelangue · read more
@ClementDelangue posted it on hugging face and modelscope the same day it shipped.
the $trump coin team took about a billion dollars out while buyers lost 97% @ki_young_ju ♥ 91 · read more
@ki_young_ju puts the extraction at $779m to $1.16b, pulled from buyers who are now down 97%.
farcaster banned a bunch of its own long-time users @civilmonkey · read more
preemptive bans plus a pledge people are reading as a loyalty test. @songadaymann wants his $120 back, and everyone keeps pointing out censorship resistance was the whole pitch.
@civilmonkey (from 2026-10-16) Decentralized social is important. Yesterday's actions by Farcaster, preemptively banning long-serving community members as a… @songadaymann Guess farcaster is dead? What the heck is this pledge to some weirdass techno religion? Give me back my $120 and fuck off… @LaLiLuLeL0x So basically, Farcaster got bought by NS, and now it’s a cult social media, like Blue Sky or Truth. This is one of the worst dead ends for all of the people who have believed in the mission of a distributed social media and all of the build @Felirami (from 2026-10-16) Farcaster killing one of its central selling points (censorship resistance) was not on my bingo card.a court letter shows how telegram hands user data to us authorities @deoidh · read more
@deoidh walks through the filing and what telegram actually turns over.
whoever found the xrp ledger's infinite-mint bug got only $250k @laurashin ♥ 5 · read more
@tayvano_ notes google pays the same for a chrome remote-execution bug, and argues bounties can't scale with market cap or nobody could afford them.
@laurashin · ♥ 5 Critics say $250K was too little for the XRP Ledger infinite mint bug. 🪙 @tayvano_ points out Google pays the same for a Chrome remote execution bug, and @kain and @austingriffith weigh in on Uneasy Money. @Unchained_pod If bug bounties scaled to market cap, @tayvano_ says, eventually no company could afford them. 💸 She and @kain compare the XRP Ledger payout to Google's, with @austingriffith.signal says it will leave canada if the new surveillance bill passes @kaimi_local · read more
bill c-22 is in the senate. apple and canada's chamber of commerce oppose it too, the chamber wants the 6-month metadata retention dropped, and psiphon would also pull out.
a clip of the tesla roadster lifting off is the most shared post around @galala_eth · read more
@galala_eth posted it yesterday with "turns out the future does have flying cars" and it's past 90k retweets. the argument has moved on to physics.
the roadster's rocket thrusters take 6 to 7 hours to refill @peterktodd · read more
tesla hardware vp lars moravy says filling all 600 liters of the borrowed spacex cold gas system takes that long, so the trick isn't exactly repeatable.
marques brownlee says you'll never be able to buy the rocket roadster @CrypticPhilDz · read more
"there's no way you or i will" get that version, he says. tesla has shown no price or date for it.
circle's stock is lagging visa and mastercard even while usdc wins @obchakevich_ ♥ 11 · read more
since 19 aug: visa +10.1%, mastercard +7.6%, circle only +4.6%, s&p flat, per @obchakevich_. visa is at a one-year high.
musk has put over $300 million into the 2026 midterms @RyanAFournier ♥ 76 · read more
including $158m to the senate leadership fund to boost ken paxton in texas, per @RyanAFournier.
github is dropping opus 5 and two other models from copilot next month @NickyTod · read more
opus 4.8, opus 5 and gpt-5.6 terra all go on november 16, with an exception for opus 4.8 on individual annual plans. leave time to test what replaces them.
don't expect ai stocks to crash monday over the deepseek release @jun_song ♥ 70 · read more
@jun_song points out the earlier v4 flash launch was a much bigger shock and the market barely moved.
a third of solana's tokenized-stock trading is people buying memecoins @aixbt_agent ♥ 17 · read more
memecoin pairs did $1.76b of $5.58b in tracked stock-token dex volume from sept 1 to oct 11, per @aixbt_agent. on oct 10 it was closer to 38%.
solana's token launchpads are basically pump and then nothing @Bitcoin_BM · read more
pump did $3.7b on the curve in seven days. after the top three, almost every other launchpad is under $30m, per @Bitcoin_BM.
ethereum devs are asking for help redesigning how nodes find each other @libp2p ♥ 10 · read more
libp2p's call for participation on devcon's resilient networking track covers alternatives to dhts and post-gossip broadcast. submissions close october 30.
@libp2p · ♥ 10 🌐 What should the next generation of decentralized networking look like? Join Resilient Networking Research (Track 1) at @EFDevcon 8 to explore, experiment and research on resilient networking's architectural foundations, alternatives to D @libp2p · ♥ 8 Join Track 1: Network Resilience at @EFDevcon and help advance research and prototypes for more resilient, open, and decentralized networks. 📄 Call for Participation & submissions: https://t.co/vvgMsrMSKn Submission Link: https://t.co/PqJpdevcon is days away and mumbai is filling up @pekoz51 · read more
@EthereumPune joined @eiphub as a community partner, and two residency spots for women are still open.
@pekoz51 (from 2026-10-16) Pune's Ethereum community is coming to Mumbai 🇮🇳. @EthereumPune joins @eiphub as a Community Partner for @EFDevcon. From loca… @_SDAV · ♥ 10 If you are looking for an accommodation to attend @EFDevcon, we only have 2 spots left (for women) Feel free to DM @dev3pack · ♥ 10 2 spots left for women into our residency to attend @EFDevcon 🇮🇳
nvidia shipped a version of glm-5.3 flash you can run at home @rickmanelius · read more
the new checkpoint fits on two dgx sparks with 128gb and keeps a 2m token context, per @rickmanelius.
a founder's local agent built a whole game without touching the internet @MTSlive ♥ 9 · read more
@TheAhmadOsman demoed the hack-and-slash it wrote end to end on an rtx spark at the six-city launch. the agent is called portal.
@MTSlive · ♥ 9 Osmantic founder @TheAhmadOsman demos a hack-and-slash game his local agent built end-to-end on the RTX Spark without ever touching the internet: "We have this thing called Portal. It’s our agent. The code name for it was Cairo because I co @openclaw Six cities. One big day for RTX Spark. 🌎 From Seoul, Taipei, and Beijing to Berlin, Istanbul, and San Francisco, we sh…ollama is now an inference provider on replicas @ollama · read more
that means pointing claude code, codex, opencode or pi at open models you host.
you can run deepseek's new flash model locally on four dgx sparks @zengjiajun_eth ♥ 1 · read more
@zengjiajun_eth clocks 125 tokens a second on code with the native 1m context and 16-way concurrency.
there's 100 eth of matching money up for grabs for privacy projects @OctantApp ♥ 16 · read more
octant's epoch 13 ballot is open until october 21 at 8pm edt and directs @GolemFoundation's match.
giveth will now spin up a donation address from just an email login @Giveth ♥ 7 · read more
sign in with email or google and the project gets a receiving address on every supported chain, with no private key sitting in a browser wallet.
two solana commands will permanently brick your program @balaji_pachai · read more
close gives your deposit back but burns that program id forever, and --final means nobody can ever upgrade it, including you. decide who holds upgrade authority first.
grok bot now eats from the same weekly allowance as everything else on x @grok · read more
it used to have its own pool. now it shares one with chat, imagine, voice and cursor under the x subscription.
rivian is running part of its illinois plant on used ev batteries @AndrewAbranches · read more
redwood took 100+ used rivian packs and gave the normal plant 10 megawatt-hours of storage, the largest second-life system at a us auto plant, and just widened it.
reliance says it's fine with starlink competing in india @elonmusk · read more
ambani's company put out a list of facts welcoming the competition. others in the replies think starlink is nowhere close to actually launching there.
a 1994 clip of the us thanking ukraine for its nukes is recirculating @web3contrail · read more
the november 22, 1994 video of a us president thanking ukraine for giving up its nuclear weapons, resurfaced by @web3contrail as the sanctions waiver landed.
russian state propaganda now shows russia and the us attacking europe together @Boyanbc · read more
@Boyanbc flagged the clip and asked what americans make of it.
egypt's president says 2030 will be his last year in office @MarioNawfal ♥ 78 · read more
el-sisi called it "completely settled and will not be discussed", per @MarioNawfal.
you can now wire your grok bot and your claude code together @Felirami · read more
@Felirami's reason network is a free peer-to-peer layer for letting different agents talk to each other.
someone built one inbox for their claude, codex and cursor sessions @ClementWalter ♥ 6 · read more
@ClementWalter's one-conv is live on boat.dev, pulling every agent session into one place from phone or laptop.
deepseek's new model answered a question about itself with a 3d slug @mpopv · read more
@mpopv asked for the model slug to check the release was real and got an actual slug.



