Eric Mwiti

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸 You can swap your IP address all day. The Windows installation underneath it still carries a dog tag.

That's the quiet lesson in the Peter Stokes case.

Stokes, a 19-year-old dual U.S.-Estonian citizen, is accused of belonging to the hacking crew Scattered Spider.

Prosecutors say his activity ran through a VPN proxy. The VPN did its one job, masking the network address, but it couldn't hide the machine doing the typing.

Microsoft records allegedly tied that activity to a GDID, a persistent device-level ID baked into a Windows installation.

It survives updates, and telemetry can link it to IP addresses and service activity over time.

Once investigators had it, the same fingerprint allegedly lined up with the VPN proxy, the victim's website, and accounts tied to Stokes across Snapchat, Facebook and Apple, plus travel records and timestamps.

The catch is bigger than one arrest.

A persistent identifier that nails a hacker works just as well on a journalist, a dissident, or an abuse victim.

Your VPN can be working perfectly while your computer keeps talking.

Sources: The Register, Tom's Hardware / Writer: Julie

[CPA Wachira Joseph @WashiraX]

Kenya has introduced a new 25% tax on software subscriptions.

One of the principles of a good tax system is simplicity.

Taxes should be easy to understand. Easy to comply with. And inexpensive to administer.

Finance Act 2026 has introduced new rules for software subscriptions.

• The Act now classifies payments for software licences and software subscriptions as royalties.

- As a result, every time you pay an overseas software company, you are now required to withhold 20% tax and remit it to KRA.

- Then pay the software company the remaining 80%.

For example.

Suppose you pay Google, Amazon or Microsoft USD 1,000 every year for software subscriptions.

The law says:
• Confiscate 20%, USD 200.
• Remit it to KRA.

Then pay the software company USD 800.

There is only one problem, however.
- Software subscriptions are paid either in full or not at all.

Google does not care that you have complied with the Kenyan tax laws. You either pay them 1,000 USD or go home.

So what happens to continue using the software and keep KRA happy?

- You pay Google their full USD 1,000.

In doing so, KRA treats the USD 1,000 as the net amount after withholding tax. That means the original invoice is deemed to have been USD 1,250. How?

Ulikua unaangalia mwalimu na ruler ukiuliza hesabu ya cross multiplication itakusaidia aje maishani. Ona Sasa.

If USD 1,000 = 80%,
Then 100% = USD 1,250.

The withholding tax therefore becomes USD 250.

Meaning:
• Google gets their full USD 1,000.
• Then you go back to your pocket to pay KRA USD 250.

Total software cost = USD 1,250.

In effect, the law has quietly introduced a 25% tax on many software subscriptions.

Even if a small taxpayer genuinely wanted to comply, how exactly are they supposed to comply when the giant software company insists on being paid in full?

This is the new law. Adjust accordingly.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸 Before Trump got on stage, the National Mall sang with ONE voice

Christopher Macchio started “God Bless America”… and thousands instantly joined in, turning the entire crowd into one powerful singalong.

For those few minutes, politics disappeared and America came together. ❤️

Writer: Val, Michael

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸 Polymarket now indicates there's a 57% chance the U.S. government will buy a stake in OpenAI.

With AI firms now controlling the lion's share of American capital, the only question is to what extent such firms will be publicly owned.

Of course, the conflicts of interest which will then arise in regulating these companies are things we can only hope the future will take care of in a relatively painless manner.

Writer: Mhedi

[Jack @jackcoder0]

🚨 Anthropic just showed a 24-minute workshop on how to actually do prompts for Claude.

Taught by the people who built it.

Free. No registration. No paywall.

I've seen $300 courses that don't cover what they teach in the first 8 minutes.

Watch it and bookmark it now.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

A crypto site is paying desperate people real money to humiliate and endanger themselves, and the internet says it's "Black Mirror" come to life...

The platform Pumpfun rolled out a "bounty" feature where users post cash challenges and anyone can film themselves completing them for a crypto payout.

Since June 4 it's paid out over $370,000 in "bounties," anything from dumping milk on your head for $72 to a man in the Philippines tattooing "bountyfun" on his forehead for $15,000.

The current top prize: $57,200 to climb Everest.

A removed listing offered $50k to parachute into a World Cup match.

The site's only rule: you do it at your own risk.

Source: New York Post / Writer Daniel

[CZ 🔶 BNB @cz_binance]

Countries need to tokenize their stocks, allowing worldwide buyers. (RWA)

Countries need to issue their own stablecoin(s), to expand their currency's usage on the blockchain.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

More than 40 years ago, I arrived in Chicago in search of an idea. I was a young man looking for purpose, who believed deeply in America, was inspired by the Civil Rights Movement, and wanted to be a part of something larger. The America I believed in was one where everyone has opportunity, everyone is seen, everyone belongs—because that was an America that had a place for me, too.

[CZ 🔶 BNB @cz_binance]

The best kept secret US investors didn't know about.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨🇺🇸 Every wrapped asset in crypto history has one fatal flaw: a human who can take your money.

LITVM co-creator Roc Zacharias just explained why trustless ZK bridging changes everything.

"We know what happens with centralized issuers over time. Lots of them go under or they take your assets or whatever happens in the history of humankind when you have central issuers. That's what we're kind of getting away from here."

No custodian. No trust required. Just math.

@LitecoinVM

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸 High-end escorts in Silicon Valley are charging up to $23,000 a day, and many of their clients are working in AI

It's not just sex they're looking for; it's also real conversations with someone who can talk GPUs, AGI, crypto, startups, and biohacking.

The irony is that the people building artificial companions, AI girlfriends, and digital friends are now spending small fortunes for actual human interaction.

Source: Forbes, @annatonger / Writer: Ian

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

If you’re struggling to make ends meet, this might be upsetting. Times are hard, but not for everyone!

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸 This woman perfectly executed a PIT maneuver on the driver that kept cutting her off.

Perhaps not intentionally, but still impressive 😂
https://t.co/GrorBjdzWq

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨 BREAKING:

🇮🇷🇺🇸🇵🇰 Iran has delivered a new 14-paragraph text to Pakistani mediators, who will pass it to Washington.

- Iran amended its previous proposal after receiving a U.S. counter-text, also in 14 paragraphs
- The new Iranian text focuses on ending the war and confidence-building measures from the U.S. side
- Both sides are now exchanging texts in matched 14-paragraph format via Pakistan

Source: Tasnim News

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The latest 𝕏 algorithm has been published to GitHub
https://t.co/ZCOm51uxmh

[Kenya National Innovation Agency (KeNIA) @KENIAupdates]

Entrepreneurship leadership training program training Module 2 is underway and the energy is 🔥 | Just concluded the first session with Yvonne Njeri which had us thinking differently from the very first slide! We unpacked the Entrepreneurial Mindset seeing problems as opportunities, acting despite uncertainty and creating value wherever you are. We explored the 5 core qualities: Curiosity | Resilience | Initiative | Empathy | Adaptability

We also took a hard look at the Opportunities & Challenges for Kenyan Universities from our young, hungry population , to the real challenges of risk aversion, limited industry-university linkages and curricula that favour compliance over creativity.
3.2 million+ active startups. Innovation is already happening with or without the classroom.
So the real question isn't whether our students will innovate. It's whether we'll equip them with the mindset, tools and courage to do it well.
Entrepreneurship education isn't about creating founders. It's about building thinkers, problem-solvers and value creators.

The session closed with a powerful Think-Pair-Share reflection that left us asking ourselves: 👉 What startup culture is missing from our universities? 👉 What mindset shift do we need to better support student innovation? 👉 What ONE thing can we change in our next class to spark entrepreneurial thinking?

The change starts in the classroom. And it starts with us.
#Entrepreneurship #LeadershipTraining #SiliconSavannah #EntrepreneurialMindset #

[Ash Crypto @AshCrypto]

BREAKING:

Bitcoin developers have proposed BIP-361 to freeze early Bitcoin addresses that have quantum vulnerabilities.

This includes Satoshi wallets and other OG dormant wallets from the 2010-11 era.

It's a big step, as these wallets hold over 4M BTC and are at high risk from future quantum computing attacks.

[Dom Lucre | Breaker of Narratives @dom_lucre]

🔥🚨DEVELOPING: Tulsa, Oklahoma just launched the state’s first-ever musical road on the iconic Route 66, where you can drive across the Southwest Boulevard Bridge at exactly 35 mph for your tires to play Woody Guthrie’s “This Land Is Your Land.”

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸🇮🇷When you think about how much of this war is fought over oil, here's what one single barrel of crude actually gives you:

42% gasoline
27% diesel
10% jet fuel
7% petrochemicals
5% heavy fuel oil
4% LPG
3% asphalt
2% lubricants & waxes

Source: @Market_Mind_

[0xMarioNawfal @RoundtableSpace]

WHAT DEX ARE WE PAYING FOR THEN?