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🔥 This Is Why Everything Feels Wrong Right Now What you’re seeing isn’t one event or one headline. It’s a process. You start noticing patterns. And what looked random… starts to feel structured. 🧩 If it feels like something doesn’t add up — you’re not imagining it. The question is: ignore it… or start looking deeper? We break down how these shifts actually work — and why they almost never look obvious in real time. 📱 Watch the video on YouTube (youtube.com/watch?v=cMo6sL…), Rumble (rumble.com/v7893o2-this-i…) And if you’re ready to go further → t.me/QSITrainingBot… #Stellar @MediaQSI

🇳🇱 Dutch Regulators Approve Tesla’s Full Self-Driving Software RDW has issued a type approval for Tesla’s driver assistance system, FSD Supervised (Full Self Driving Supervised), a move that could help open the door to a future approval in the European Union at large. The regulator said drivers in the Netherlands will be able to use the system immediately. @MediaQSI

🚀 Artemis II’s astronauts returned from the moon with a splashdown in the Pacific to close out humanity’s first lunar voyage in more than a half-century. The lunar flyby revealed not only swaths of the moon’s far side — never seen before by human eyes — but a total solar eclipse. @MediaQSI

🤖 Harvard’s Kreiman Seeks $100 Million to Build AI Memory Tech A new AI lab spun out of Harvard University is in talks with investors to raise about $100 million to pursue a mission that sounds like science fiction: “a world where humans can remember everything.” Engramme, which launched out of stealth mode last month, is helmed by former Harvard Medical School professor Gabriel Kreiman, whose research has focused on the intersection of AI and neuroscience. Kreiman has spent decades studying how the brain encodes, stores, and retrieves memories — work that includes single-neuron recordings, visual perception, and episodic memory formation. The startup is building “large memory models” to access data across a person’s digital life. These models connect to the full "memorome"— emails, conversations, documents, and digital life — and surface relevant memories automatically without user prompting and searching. @MediaQSI

🇺🇸 L'Arc de Trump: Commission unveils plans for 250-foot arch The Trump administration unveiled new renderings of its proposed triumphal arch, a 250-foot structure dubbed “Independence Arch” to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence this year. @MediaQSI

🇰🇷 South Korea introduces universal basic mobile data access The nation’s Ministry of Science announced the plan to provide over seven million subscribers with unlimited downloads at just 400 kbps after their data allowances expire. South Korea’s dominant carriers, SK Telecom, KT, and LG Uplus, have agreed to the plan. "We must respond with a level of innovation and contribution – a complete transformation – that the public can tangibly perceive," — said Minister for Science and ICT Bae Kyunghoon. They’ve also resolved to introduce low-priced 5G plans that cost ₩20,000 or less ($13.50), and to increase data and calling allowances for senior citizens. The government also extracted promises to upgrade Wi-Fi services on subways and long-distance trains. @MediaQSI

🇫🇷 France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech France plans to move some of its government computers currently running Windows to the open source operating system Linux. This move aims to reduce reliance on U.S. technology and regain control over its digital infrastructure. The switchover will begin with computers at the French government’s digital agency, DINUM. @MediaQSI

📚Transparent When You Want It, Private When You Need It Proven at institutional scale, the Stellar network has processed over 21.5 billion operations since launch across 10 million+ active accounts. Quarterly RWA payment volume reached $5.4 billion. The kind of reliability that attracted Visa, PayPal, Franklin Templeton and MoneyGram to build on the network. ⚡🛡 Fast. Cost-efficient. Dependable. By bringing privacy as a configurable layer, Stellar gives institutions and developers what they need for the next wave of adoption: The ability to choose between transparency and privacy when the situation demands it. Institutions need four things at once. Privacy from competitors, configurable compliance tools, deep liquidity, and openness. Stellar makes all four available, and let institutions and developers choose what they need for each use case. Now, the question is how? 🤔 Stellar provides the building blocks to construct custom privacy applications. X-Ray (Protocol 25), live on Mainnet since January 2026 introduced native support for zero-knowledge cryptography. This solves the developers' pain. They build with ease. 🧱 The Building Blocks: 1) BN254: X-ray didn't just add BN254 support. It embedded it as a native primitive. Stellar runs BN254 operations at the protocol level, which is convenient. Why? Faster verification, lower cost, and fewer security assumptions. 2) Poseidon and Poseidon2: Designed specifically for ZK, Poseidon uses math operations that align naturally with how proofs are computed. 10 to 100x more efficient than SHA-256 in this context. New privacy applications deploy as smart contracts on Stellar, also the same infrastructure every other Stellar app uses. Privacy evolves at the speed of application development, not protocol upgrades. 🔐⚙️ 🏆 The first platform to reach institutional critical mass establishes a position that competitors find increasingly difficult to displace - regardless of technical capabilities. Privacy isn't about superior technology. What matters is where the anonymity set and liquidity already reside. Stellar already moves billions in payments. Now institutions and developers gain the ability to choose when to be public and when to be private - on a network that's already proven. ✅ Transparent when you want it. Private when you need it. Finally, Stellar has both. The full article: rekt.news/research/trans… #Stellar @MediaQSI

⚡️🇧🇷🇺🇸 Brazil, US Team Up to Tackle Cross-Border Organized Crime Gangs Brazil and the US have launched a joint initiative to combat transnational organized crime gangs that have ramped up the smuggling of weapons and illegal drugs across Latin America. The move is part of a bilateral collaboration dubbed Project MIT, which seeks to integrate intelligence and operations to intercept illegal shipments of arms and drugs. @MediaQSI

🇨🇳🇹🇼 Xi meets Taiwan opposition leader for first time in a decade Xi called for cooperation and peace. Cheng, the first head of Taiwan’s Beijing-friendly Kuomintang to visit China in a decade, echoed the message, saying both sides should seek to prevent war and expressed hope that the Taiwan Strait separating the two governments won’t become a “chessboard for external interference.” “The world today is far from tranquil, and peace is all the more precious. Compatriots on both sides of the strait are Chinese, one family, and the desire for peace, development, exchanges and cooperation is a shared aspiration,” — Xi told Kuomintang Chairperson Cheng Li-wun. 🤝 @MediaQSI

⚡️XRP may be less exposed to quantum computer threats than bitcoin For XRP holders, a nuanced answer, based on expert takes, is that XRP’s architecture is better positioned than Bitcoin's. XRP is the digital token operating on the XRP Ledger (XRPL), which is a open-source, decentralized blockchain. The quantum vulnerability is that a sufficiently powerful machine running the so-called Shor’s algorithm could theoretically reverse-engineer your private key from the exposed public key, draining your funds. Typically, your public key is exposed to the network when you send a transaction, and when you receive funds, only your address is on-chain. 🔑 This week, XRP Ledger’s validator Vet, ran a quantum vulnerability audit of the entire ledger and found that around 300,000 XRP accounts holding 2.4 billion XRP have never sent any funds. They have so far received only funds, meaning their public keys have never been exposed to the network. ❗️These accounts are therefore quantum-safe by default. "The XRP Ledger is account based and allows for signing key rotation. So you can rotate keys that sign on behalf of an account without switching the account. This is obviously not a perfect solution at all and actual quantum resistant algorithms will eventuell be adopted," — Vet said on X. 🔖 Mayukha Vadari, staff software engineer at Ripple, pointed to the "escrow feature" as another defense against quantum risk. He said that funds locked in escrow with a time lock are safe not because of cryptography, but because of logic — a time lock simply prevents withdrawal until a specified time has passed. "Time locks aren't hash based either, you just can't get in until that time has passed (at least not via quantum - you'd need some other bug for that). Yeah that's true, can't stop a blackholing - but the attacker is less incentivized to do that because they don't get the funds," — Vadari said. #Stellar @MediaQSI

✈️ Copa Airlines confirms Starlink Wi-Fi rollout starting this year Copa Airlines has confirmed it will introduce high-speed in-flight Wi-Fi powered by Starlink—becoming the first airline in Latin America to adopt the low-Earth orbit satellite technology across its fleet. @MediaQSI

⚖️ Elon Musk’s xAI Sues Colorado Over AI Anti-Discrimination Law Elon Musk’s company xAI filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Colorado challenging SB24-205, the state's AI consumer protection law. It requires developers of "high-risk" AI systems to mitigate "algorithmic discrimination" — defined as any differential treatment or impact on protected groups in areas like employment, housing, and credit. xAI argues this compels Grok to alter outputs to align with the state's equity standards rather than evidence-based truth-seeking, violating the Constitution’s First Amendment by requiring developers to “embed the state’s preferred views into the very fabric of AI systems.” @MediaQSI

🤝 Google and Intel deepen AI infrastructure partnership Intel Corporation and Google announced a multiyear collaboration to advance the next generation of AI and cloud infrastructure. Google Cloud will use Intel’s Xeon processors, including Intel’s latest Xeon 6 chips, for AI, cloud, and inference tasks. The companies will also expand the co-development of custom infrastructure processing units (IPUs), which help accelerate and manage data center tasks by offloading them from CPUs. @MediaQSI

🕵🏼‍♂️ Florida AG to probe OpenAI, alleging possible connection to FSU shooting State Attorney General James Uthmeier said his office will investigate OpenAI for its alleged harm to minors, potential to threaten national security, and its possible link to a shooting that took place at Florida State University last year. “AI should exist to supplement, support and advance mankind, not lead to an existential crisis or our ultimate demise,” — James Uthmeier said. On the day of the FSU shooting last April, the suspect allegedly asked ChatGPT how the country would react to a shooting at FSU, and what time it would be busiest at the FSU student union. These messages could potentially be used as evidence against the suspect in an October trial about the shooting. @MediaQSI

🪙 Is Blockchain Privacy a Trade-off? Scaling Confidential Payments on Stellar The biggest challenge for institutions moving to blockchain isn't efficiency — it's privacy. How do you leverage a public ledger without exposing client data or competitive strategies to the world? 🤔 In this episode (youtube.com/watch?v=YWIj8v…) Denelle Dixon and the Stellar Development Foundation’s Chief Product Officer, Tomer Weller, unpack the team’s strategy for configurable privacy.🔐⚙️ They explore why privacy and openness don’t have to be a trade-off and dive into the cutting-edge technology making private institutional payments a reality in 2026, including: ➠ Confidential Tokens vs. Privacy Pools: Understanding the different cryptographic models for securing balances and transactions. ➠ The Power of Zero-Knowledge (ZK): How ZK proofs allow for verifiable computation without revealing sensitive underlying data. ➠ A "Menu" of Compliance: How configurable privacy provides institutions with the administrative controls needed to satisfy regulators. ➠ Live Tools on Stellar: A look at the new building blocks and partnerships (like Nethermind and OpenZeppelin) that are already open-sourcing privacy solutions on the network. 📹Watch the full video on YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=YWIj8v… #Stellar @MediaQSI

⚡️ The World Bank Group could mobilize $20 billion to $25 billion in rapid financing to countries grappling with the economic fallout of the war in Iran. If the conflict ​persists, the World ​Bank is trying to see ‌if ⁠it can get another $50 billion to $60 billion in capacity ​to ​help, ⁠Ajay Banga, president of the World Bank said. Any ​World Bank support ​would ⁠add to that from the International ⁠Monetary ​Fund. @MediaQSI

🇷🇺🇺🇸 Russian President Vladimir Putin's special envoy Kirill Dmitriev ​is in the U.S. to meet with Trump's administration for discussions on a peace ​deal for Ukraine and U.S.-Russia economic ​cooperation. The visit precedes the ​U.S. decision on whether to extend ​sanctions relief on Russian oil, which expires April 11 and could also be on the agenda. @MediaQSI

📱 Instagram expands its restrictions for teens internationally and introduced a small but useful update Instagram is expanding its revamped Teen Accounts, inspired by 13+ movie ratings criteria and parent feedback — teens will see content on Instagram that’s similar to what they’d see in an age-appropriate movie by default. There's also a new setting called “Limited Content” that has stricter content filters. The company would show less content with themes like extreme violence, sexual nudity, and graphic drug use. Users now have the option to edit comments, which is a long-awaited fix for anyone who’s ever had to delete and re-post a comment just to fix a typo. But there's only 15-minute window after posting to make changes. @MediaQSI

⚖️🇻🇪 Venezuela’s National Assembly passed a mining law pushed by acting president Delcy Rodríguez Lawmakers granted final, unanimous approval to the 131-article bill. The legislation offers legal guarantees and a more flexible tax regime to international investors, particularly from the US. @MediaQSI

⚡️🇮🇷 Iran’s sanctions-busting crypto ambitions grow on toll payments Tehran has signaled that payments in digital currency should form part of any toll system for vessels passing through the Strait of Hormuz — tokens cannot be easily confiscated under sanctions. “There are reports that Iran is charging fees to tankers going through the Hormuz Strait,” — Donald Trump warned Iran against charging tolls on vessels. “They better not be and, if they are, they better stop now!” @MediaQSI