BREAKING:
The state is coming for encryption across Europe.
The excuse keeps changing. The goal doesn't.
The EU rejected a mass-scanning law in April.
Immediately replaced it with mandatory age verification.
The UK is drafting a law to scan phones before encryption applies.
Prison for executives who refuse.
Both sold as child safety.
Both end private communication.
And the EU's first "safety" app was hacked in two minutes.
Encryption isn't just about messaging.
It's the foundation crypto is built on.
If governments can mandate backdoors into your phone.
They can mandate backdoors into your wallet.
This is not a side issue.
This is the fight that decides whether private money can exist.
While America moves toward zero capital gains on Bitcoin.
Europe is moving toward zero privacy.
"There must be government spyware on every mobile device. The user must not be able to shut it off. Administrator rights must be taken from the owner and handed to the government." - @MartyBent & @ODELLXYZ reads
Mullvad breaks down the UK's spyware proposal.
Alby Hub 1.23 release codenamed "Tim Hudson" is out!
🐶 Ark (Bark by @secondhq) backend - Beta
🧪 Just-In-Channels
💳 Cards page
💱 Fiat and bitcoin units toggles in currency inputs
🎥 "Stories" widget for releases videos & highlighting Hub's features
Let’s dive in 🧵...
Un ado ukrainien tabasse plusieurs recruteurs de l'armée en criants "vous avez enlevé mon père" et libère un homme qui allait se faire envoyer au front sous les hourrah des passants.
Décidément la réalité est bien loin des tirades de la propagande occidentale.
JUST IN: 🇺🇸 US government orders Anthropic to suspend foreign access to Mythos Fable 5 AI model, citing national security concerns.
Anthropic has disabled access for all users worldwide.
🔥 Bitchat is coming to Cashu – Ecash on the Mesh with Nutdrop
Send money with incredible speed and privacy. No QR codes. No keys. No tap to pay. Sender is fully offline.
Built on Bitcoin, Cashu, Bitchat. Pushing the frontier of digital cash.
This is how open protocols win.
The home mining setup keeps getting better. Stratum V2 UI just landed on the Umbrel App Store - built by the Stratum V2 developers themselves!
It provides a guided setup for pool mining, solo mining, and job declaration (your node picks the block template, not the pool). Plus one dashboard for hashrate, workers, and shares.
Now you can use your favorite AI agent to control your Coinbase account (or a sub-account), with Coinbase for Agents.
Here’s a quick demo on how to set it up and some of the cool things you can get your agent to do.
If you haven't heard of Ark yet, you gotta try Bark Wallet and get a taste of it.
Ark is a new way to send Bitcoin instantly, and for basically free. Plus no channels to open. no liquidity to manage. no inbound capacity anxiety. and you can always exit to the blockchain even if the Ark server goes offline.
Bark wraps Lightning, Ark, and on-chain into one simple wallet on your own Umbrel. Install it, send sats, and get on with your life.
Google releases DiffusionGemma.✨
The new 26B-A4B diffusion text model runs locally on 18GB RAM.
It supports high-speed text generation, thinking, image, video and 256K context.
Run and train via Unsloth Studio.
GGUF: https://t.co/ZH0dCJQ59P
Guide: https://t.co/wYLfJWE6kG
JUST IN: Second has launched Bark on Bitcoin mainnet, bringing the Ark protocol to production and aiming to make self-custodial Bitcoin as simple to use as custodial apps.
Bark is designed to solve one of Bitcoin’s biggest challenges: self-custody without sacrificing user experience.
While on-chain transactions can be slow and expensive during periods of congestion, and traditional Lightning wallets often require users to manage channels and liquidity, Ark takes a different approach.
The protocol uses a client-server architecture where the server handles payment routing across Ark, Lightning, and on-chain rails, while users remain in control of their bitcoin and retain an emergency exit if the server becomes unavailable or malicious.
The launch marks one of the most significant real-world deployments of Ark to date, as developers continue searching for ways to make self-custodial Bitcoin accessible to mainstream users without relying on traditional custodians.
🎆 🏝️ Albanians successfully repelled Israeli backed mercenaries attempting to shield construction in the protected wetlands on Sazan island, where endangered flamingos nest.
Rothschild is trying to create Epstein island 2.0 since he also paid for Epstein’s island. He took Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump on a Yacht to Sazan island, which was an ex-Soviet military base with a nuclear bunker. They made it their “private island” by bribing officials with pennies (1.4 billion) . How can Albanian land become Ivanka’s private land?
This is how you take your country back from Israel, by force.
Google releases Gemma 4 QAT. ✨
You can now run Gemma 4 at 3x less memory with near original performance.
Quantization-Aware Training (QAT) makes it possible to run Gemma 4 26B-A4B on 16GB RAM.
GGUFs: https://t.co/wQgEocxUId
QAT Guide: https://t.co/Nsm1yeGEHx
Hermes won. They just dropped their desktop app and it's excellent
It's now the best way to use AI agents on your computer
In this video I cover how to set it up, how to use it, and go through EVERY feature in the app
Bye bye Telegram
اللحظات الأولى للاعتداء الإيراني الغاشم من قبل المسيرات الذي تعرض له مبنى الركاب T1 في مطار الكويت الدولي بتاريخ 3 يونيو 2026 وتسبب بخسائر بالأرواح وإصابات بشرية بليغة وأضرار مادية جسيمة
The first moments following the brutal Iranian drone attack on Terminal 1 (T1) at Kuwait International Airport on 3 June 2026, which resulted in loss of life, serious injuries, and extensive material damage.
Today we’re introducing Gemma 4 12B — our latest open model that brings advanced agentic reasoning, vision and audio directly to your laptop.
It delivers performance nearing our larger Gemma models with a much smaller total memory footprint, while being small enough to run locally with just 16GB of VRAM. It’s open and accessible for everyone to use under a permissive Apache 2.0 license.
This is all made possible by our new, unified architecture that removes separate multimodal encoders. Here’s how we did it 🧵
🚨 stop scrolling.. do you understand what Kuwait International Airport actually means to your life..
because most people only think about the war..
Kuwait International Airport isn't just a military target.. it's the transit hub for over 1 million Indian workers in the Gulf.. it's the connection point for oil workers, expats, construction crews, nurses, and engineers who send money home every single month..
13 ballistic missiles and 17 drones hit Terminal 1 this morning..
1 person killed.. 63 wounded.. passengers and airport staff.. people who were just trying to get home..
and here's the part nobody's connecting..
this isn't a military base.. this isn't a weapons depot.. this is the building where you check your bags..
flights are suspended.. Terminal 1 is on fire.. and the smoke visible across Kuwait City is coming from the same terminal your family member landed in last year..
Iran has now hit Kuwait's airport twice in 2026.. the first time was the fuel tanks in April.. this time it was the passenger terminal itself..
the last time civilian airports became active war targets at this scale was the Gulf War in 1991.. it took years to rebuild the regional air network..
that was one war in one country.. we're now watching every Gulf hub get added to the target list at the same time..
in 1991 a single airport hit disrupted the Gulf for years.. nobody has a playbook for what hitting all of them does.
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