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Chaque génération doit dans une relative opacité découvrir sa mission, la remplir ou la trahir.

“Les Damnés de la terre”. Frantz Fanon

[Rdcforce @rdcforce]

« Le principe de souveraineté permanente de l’État sur ses richesses naturelles revêt un caractère inaliénable. »

[DRC GOLD TRADING SA @DrcGoldTrading]

Une première historique pour le Congo!

Pendant des années, notre or a quitté le pays à l’état brut, et une grande partie de sa valeur partait avec lui. Aujourd’hui, pour la première fois, il est raffiné ici, chez nous.

Cela se passe à Kalemie, au bord du lac Tanganyika. Dans les ateliers de DRC GOLD Refinery, la première raffinerie d’or de l’État, l’or de nos exploitants artisanaux est fondu, raffiné, puis coulé en lingots purs à 99,9 %.

Derrière chaque étape, il y a des techniciens congolais, épaulés par des formateurs expatriés qui leur transmettent leur savoir-faire.
Chaque lingot repart avec la signature DRC GOLD, son numéro de série et cette petite mention qui nous rend fiers : « Made in DRC ».

Après les contrôles, il prend la route de la Banque centrale du Congo pour rejoindre nos réserves nationales.
Et ce n’est qu’un début. Bientôt, d’autres unités verront le jour dans la Grande Orientale, au Kivu, au Kasaï et à Kinshasa.

Une ambition portée par le président Félix Tshisekedi, qui prend aujourd’hui forme sous nos yeux.

DRC GOLD TRADING SA. Un modèle 100 % congolais, qui a fait ses preuves.

[International Cyber Digest @IntCyberDigest]

‼️ UPDATE: Microsoft 365 has been down for more than 18 hours, and some NHS hospital trusts in Britain have cancelled appointments, including some C-sections.

Ambulance crews can't email patient details and Police Scotland can't receive email, the BBC reports.

Microsoft's own updates point to a configuration change. Servers failed automated health checks and were pulled out, possibly because of a recent change to the system that runs them. The rest buckled under the extra load.

Overnight, it began rolling back a recent network configuration change that lined up with the start of the outage.

Microsoft now says Europe is recovering. Its status page still shows service degradation, and there is no root cause yet.

[LibreOffice @LibreOffice]

LibreOffice actually works 365 days a year. Just saying.

[Microsoft 365 Status @MSFT365Status]

We’re seeing encouraging recovery progress, with service availability and email delivery performance improving across a growing portion of affected Microsoft 365 infrastructure. Some users may still experience intermittent issues as recovery actions continue. We’re focused on recovery for the remaining affected environments while prioritizing email queue and backlog reduction. The extended 48-hour email timeout window remains in place to help protect delayed messages as delivery catches up. A more comprehensive update can be found at MO1550821 in the Microsoft 365 admin center, as well as https://t.co/bVoAAh3D2G if the admin center is not available to you.

[ARENA @MMArena_]

🚨🚨 DINGUERIE !!!!!

Usman Nurmagomedov est condamné à 6 MOIS de prison FERME à Abu Dhabi pour avoir attaqué Merab Dvalishvili !!

C’est également le cas des 5 autres membres de l'équipe Nurmagomedov

Ils ont tous été condamnés à une amende de 300 000 Dh chacun et seront EXPULSÉS d’Abu Dhabi 🇦🇪 après avoir purgé leurs peines 😳😳😳

via @TheNationalNews

[NEXTA @nexta_tv]

🔥 Over 120 drones attack Russia's Rostov region

On the night of November 13, a drone attack sparked a fire at a 1,500-square-meter warehouse in the Aksay district. In Rostov-on-Don, an industrial facility and three cars caught fire.

According to Governor Yury Slyusar, five apartment buildings were damaged in the city, along with five private homes in the Azov district. One man was injured and hospitalized.

[Douglas Macgregor @DougAMacgregor]

BREAKING: Trump tells Vance to walk away from Iran deal and focus on corruption, says he's ready for renewed military action.

[Russia news | 🇷🇺 الموجز الروسي @mog_russ]

الدفاع الجوي الأقوى في العالم يسقط 1198 طائرة مسيرة أوكرانية في ليلة واحدة فوق 17 مقاطعة روسية والقرم والبحر الأسود!

رصد 467 مسيرة حاولت استهداف منطقة موسكو وحدها، الدفاعات الجوية سحقت معظمها على مسافات بعيدة.

[Megatron @Megatron_ron]

JUST IN: 🇷🇺🇪🇺🇺🇦 Russia announced that that it will take the entire territory it considers Russian and will not cede even an inch

The main Russian negotiator Medinsky:

“As for the territorial issues...
Every inch of our land will be returned to Russia.
One way or another.
And let European newspapers continue to live in the world of their illusions.”

[NEXTA @nexta_tv]

🔥 One of Russia's largest oil refineries is on fire in Volgograd

A fire broke out at the LUKOIL-Volgogradneftepererabotka refinery, which processes around 14.8 million tons of crude oil annually and supplies petroleum products to southern Russia.

[OSINTtechnical @Osinttechnical]

Ukrainian attack drones struck Russia's Volgograd oil refinery overnight, setting multiple process units on fire.

At least nine Russian oil refineries have been hit in the past two weeks.

[RKM @rkmtimes]

NEW UPDATE 🇺🇸🇮🇷🇦🇪: Another Qatari-linked LNG tanker has reported explosions after colliding with an Iranian sea mine in the Strait of Hormuz.

[Egypt's Intel Observer @EGYOSINT]

🇺🇸✈️ More USAF C-17A strategic airlifters and USTRANSCOM cargo aircraft continue to arrive at Diego Garcia.

I still believe the island could become a key hub if war resumes, potentially hosting B-1 or B-2 bombers, especially after the U.S. pulled its B-1s from RAF Fairford following the September plot to bomb the base.

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Mercedes-Benz announces it will halt "all further investments" in Germany.

[C14 News | EN @c14english]

🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 President Trump says he would "absolutely" consider it a defeat if Iran's current leadership remains in power when his term ends.

[The Register @TheRegister]

Service degradation on Microsoft 365 (Business or Enterprise) and Microsoft consumer products continues.

More here: https://t.co/U0d4u7zBcY

[✡︎𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐈𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐍𝐞𝐰𝐬🇮🇷🇮🇱 @IranNewsAgency0]

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گزارش فوری از فعالیت گسترده نیروی هوایی آمریکا در آسمان خلیج فارس و دریای عمان/بر اساس گزارش‌های منتشرشده، نیروی هوایی ایالات متحده هم‌اکنون در حریم هوایی خلیج فارس، دریای عمان، امارات متحده عربی و عربستان سعودی فعالیت دارد. جزئیاتی درباره نوع هواپیماها و مأموریت‌های در حال انجام در این گزارش ارائه نشده است.

[Bull Theory @BullTheoryio]

🚨 Another major scandal is coming out of NVIDIA.

And this one has nothing to do with Jensen Huang's affairs.

According to a Wall Street Journal report, Nvidia was offering billions in financial guarantees to AI companies that could not afford its chips, so they could keep buying them.

Some of these deals were being pushed by Jensen's own son-in-law, Nico Caprez, who became a vice president in January. His team was telling small cloud companies and data center builders that Nvidia could arrange credit support for them within a couple of weeks.

The goal was simple: turn them into long term buyers of Nvidia GPUs.

And the size of Nvidia's commitments has exploded. Its own filing shows $530 BILLION in commitments and guarantees, up from $184 billion just one quarter earlier.

Inside the company, CFO Colette Kress was raising concerns. She kept asking how these guarantees were priced and what Nvidia was really getting back.

In an August meeting, Jensen cut her off and called her "a deer in the headlights."

She was also the one who cut Nvidia's guarantee on OpenAI's Ohio data center from $250 billion to $105 billion.

Now Jensen is gone, and the CFO who questioned these deals is running Nvidia.

To understand why this is a big deal, you need to understand the AI funding loop.

Here is how it works:

1. Nvidia puts money into an AI company, or guarantees its loans and leases.
2. That company uses the money and credit to build a data center.
3. The data center is filled with Nvidia GPUs.
4. Nvidia reports those GPU sales as revenue.
5. If the company cannot rent out all its computing power, Nvidia agrees to buy the unused part.

SO NVIDIA IS THE INVESTOR, THE LENDER, THE SUPPLIER AND THE BACKUP CUSTOMER, ALL IN THE SAME DEAL.

The money goes out of Nvidia and comes back to Nvidia as sales.

CoreWeave is the clearest example. Nvidia owns a stake in it, sells it chips, and agreed to buy up to $6.3 billion of its unused computing capacity through 2032.

OpenAI is the biggest. Nvidia is guaranteeing up to $105 billion for its Ohio data center, supplying all the chips inside it, and invested $1.5 billion in the company building it.

Nvidia's own filing for the quarter ending July 26 shows where the money is tied up:

• Supply commitments for memory and chip wafers: $279 BILLION, up from $119 billion.
• Guarantee on the OpenAI Ohio data center: up to $105 BILLION.
• Deals to buy unused cloud capacity from neoclouds: $36 BILLION.

Nvidia's actual liabilities on its balance sheet: $91 BILLION.

That means the commitments outside the balance sheet are almost 6 times bigger than the debts on it.

Nvidia does not lose this money unless something breaks. A guarantee only costs Nvidia if a customer cannot pay.

But this is where it gets uncomfortable.

The WSJ says Jensen himself had started to panic. He warned executives that the biggest cloud companies were moving to their own chips to depend less on Nvidia.

At the same time, the wafers and memory Nvidia had committed to buy were coming at him like an "avalanche."

So the biggest customers were trying to leave, Nvidia was locked into buying huge amounts of supply, and smaller customers were being kept alive with Nvidia's credit.

And things were already starting to crack:

• Nvidia paused some of its financing deals in August.
• Nearly half of the $80 billion in data center bonds issued this year were rated junk.
• Neocloud stocks crashed this week, with Nebius down over 20% and CoreWeave down 17% at the lows.
• OpenAI raised less than it wanted, at a lower valuation.

And now Kress is the one deciding whether this continues.

If she pulls back on the financing, the companies that depended on Nvidia's money will have to borrow elsewhere, in a debt market that is already nervous.

If they cannot, they stop buying chips.

And if they stop buying chips, Nvidia's revenue drops.

That is the risk of a loop. It works perfectly when money keeps flowing, and it hurts on the way down.

[Sulaiman Ahmed @ShaykhSulaiman]

ANOTHER ONE PAYS THE PRICE: IRGC RELEASES FOOTAGE OF A GAS CARRIER ATTEMPTING TO BREAK THROUGH THE BLOCKADE OF THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ & REGRETTING IT

THE VESSEL STRUCK A NAVAL MINE BEFORE BEING ENGULFED IN FLAMES

[Clash Report @clashreport]

China conducted large, unannounced military drills around Taiwan and across the western Pacific in early November, which Taiwanese officials described as “silent intimidation.”

More than 100 Chinese military and coast guard vessels participated at the peak, rehearsing simulated attacks, blockade scenarios and broader regional operations.

A Chinese submarine also reportedly launched an intercontinental ballistic missile. Around 70 vessels remained active on Friday, November 13.

The drills came ahead of next week's APEC summit in Shenzhen, where Trump and Xi are expected to meet.

Source: Reuters