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🚨 BREAKING: The FBI has successfully extracted deleted Signal messages from a suspect's iPhone via notification storage, the place where all your notifications are stored for up to one month. Notification storage stores data from all messaging apps, it's a big flaw in iOS. But there's a way to turn it off...

Can’t trust WhatsApp

The US job market is weakening: The number of unemployed Americans for 15+ weeks is up to 3.3 million, the highest since September 2021. This figure has risen +1.6 million since July 2022. As a % of total employment, this indicator is up to 20.3%, the highest since October 2021. Since the 1950s, each time this percentage has been this elevated, the US economy was already in a recession. As a result, the average duration of unemployment is up to 25.3 weeks, only below the post-pandemic 2021 levels and the post-2008 Financial Crisis recovery. Long-term unemployment is concerningly high.

Benjamin Netanyahu rejects President Trump’s ceasefire and says the war will continue against Iran at any time he chooses. Netanyahu says he will achieve his objectives through further military action under his command. “We are ready to resume the fighting at any moment.” “Our finger is on the trigger.”

⚠️Labor force participation for Americans 55 and older is falling fast: The participation rate for men 55+ has dropped to ~42%, the lowest in 22 years. Women 55+ participation has also rolled over, falling to ~33%, the lowest in 20 years. They are leaving the workforce and taking decades of experience and know-how with them that cannot be replaced overnight. Fewer workers also means slower economic growth, higher labor costs, and a growing labor shortage. The US job market weakness is accelerating.

⚠️The US stock market has rarely been this overvalued: The US MSCI Index Shiller P/E ratio is trading at ~39x, the highest since the 2000 Dot-Com Bubble burst. The indicator measures price-to-earnings adjusted for inflation over the last 10 years. Meanwhile, emerging markets are trading at just ~16x, a 59% discount to the US. The valuation gap between the US and emerging markets has NEVER been wider. Is the gap going to close over the next few years?

BILL GATES’ MICROSOFT CAN ERASE YOUR ENTIRE COMPUTER - AND MOST PEOPLE DON’T REALIZE IT UNTIL IT’S TOO LATE A man is going viral after exposing what millions of Windows users are just now realizing about Bill Gates’ Microsoft. "I think they should have to go to jail for this." Windows updates quietly turn on OneDrive without a plain English warning. Your files don’t get “backed up.” They get moved. Your computer becomes a temporary access point. Microsoft’s servers become the primary copy. Then the trap snaps shut. People report: • Family photos gone • Work files wiped • Years of data erased • Clean desktops with no warning • A little icon asking: “Where are my files?” Many thought it was ransomware. It wasn’t. Turning OneDrive off can delete everything locally. Deleting files to “free up space” deletes them everywhere. The only way out? A buried menu… or a YouTube tutorial. Nowhere does it clearly say: “We are transferring your entire computer to our servers.” Millions clicked “Update” without knowing this was included. If a company can silently take control of your files and delete them with one wrong click - how is this not malware?

🔥 HUGE: Visa launches Intelligent Commerce Connect, enabling AI agents to make purchases on behalf of consumers across businesses worldwide.

Nearly half of US data centers planned for this year are expected to be delayed or canceled. Not a capital availability or chip problem. It's transformers and electrical equipment. Lead times have gone from 24 months to five years. The big four are spending $650B+ in 2026 alone but can't actually source the gear domestically. So we must buy from China. Ironic that the country the US has to beat in AI is also the country supplying the parts to build it.

Modern DRAM is based on a brilliant design from IBM. But, we're still paying for a latency penalty that's existed since the 60s! In this video, I'm introducing my research project (Tailslayer) that immensely reduces p99.99 latency on traditional RAM! By implementing a hedged read strategy taking advantage of (undocumented!) channel scrambling offsets, I've gotten as much as 15x reductions in tail latency. The technique works across Intel, AMD, Graviton, DDR4, DDR5, x86, ARM, you name it. Check out the C++ lib I wrote, watch the video, and try it yourself!

🔴This map is ABSOLUTELY INSANE: JPMorgan's Natasha Kaneva has mapped the rolling oil supply shockwave from the Iran war, showing exactly when each region runs out of Persian Gulf deliveries. Asia has already been hit, with most deliveries to South Korea (2.2 mbd), Japan (2.3 mbd), and China (5.2 mbd) stopping around April 3. Southeast Asia is also already cut off, with India (2.3 mbd), Singapore (1.7 mbd), Malaysia (1.0 mbd), and Thailand (0.5 mbd) seeing deliveries end around April 1. Australia and New Zealand (combined 1.1 mbd) have been without most deliveries since March 20. Europe is next, with the Netherlands (0.30 mbd), France (0.25 mbd), Italy (0.13 mbd), and the UK (0.16 mbd) losing most deliveries by April 10. As JPMorgan describes it, the shock unfolds sequentially, not simultaneously, like a rolling supply disruption moving westward, dictated by shipping times and buffered unevenly by regional inventories. Once the last tankers arrive, what is going to happen?

OFFICE TOWERS PLUNGE UP TO WHOPPING 95% OFF AS A FIRE SALE SWEEPS THE US MARKET The US office market is in freefall. Aging towers are trading at fractions of their former worth as owners finally admit that the post-pandemic workplace is not coming back.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ From Chicago to Denver to Washington, DC, once-pricey buildings are being unloaded at discounts that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago, in some cases fetching less than 10% of their prior sale prices, according to the Wall Street Journal. One of the most dramatic examples takes place in Chicago. Developer Marc Calabria picked up a 485,000-square-foot office property for just $4 million, a steep fall from the $68.1 million it commanded roughly a decade ago. That is a staggering 94% markdown. Full article: msn.com/en-us/money/re…

Microsoft shut down the main developer's account for VeraCrypt with no warning or reason. This stops him from signing the files needed for new Windows versions of the free encryption software. He has tried to contact Microsoft but got no reply.

BREAKING: The US government just created the first official banking rules for stablecoins. The FDIC today approved a full regulatory framework for stablecoin issuers under the GENIUS Act. Here is what it means: Every stablecoin must be backed 1:1 with real assets. If there are $1 billion worth of stablecoins in circulation, the issuer must hold $1 billion in actual reserves without any exceptions. Every stablecoin must be redeemable on demand at face value. If you hold $100 in stablecoins, you can always get $100 back. Reserve assets cannot be rehypothecated or reused. The reserves must sit fully segregated and cannot be used for any other financial activity. Stablecoin issuers cannot pay interest or yield to holders simply for holding the coin. This directly affects yield bearing stablecoin products currently in the market. If redemption requests exceed 10% of all outstanding stablecoins within a single 24-hour period, it triggers a significant redemption event requiring immediate action. Stablecoin issuers must meet capital requirements and risk management standards similar to what banks follow. Quarterly reporting and CEO signed audits are required. Banks that hold or manage stablecoins on behalf of customers fall under the same rules. One important clarification. FDIC insurance covers the issuer's reserve deposits at the bank level, not individual token holders. Why this is good for crypto? Right now stablecoins operate in a gray area. No clear rules means no trust from institutions, no trust from regulators, and no certainty for users. These rules change that. Regulated stablecoins backed by real reserves and covered by FDIC insurance become as safe as a bank deposit. That opens the door for banks, pension funds, and large institutions to use stablecoins without legal risk. A regulated stablecoin market is the foundation that the rest of crypto needs to grow.

WHAT THE ACTUAL F*CK? Solana DEX "Drift Protocol" has been exploited for $220,000,000.

Israel is its own worst enemy.

🚨 DATA CENTERS UNDER CONSTRUCTION IN THE U.S. (AS OF FEB 2026) 1. Texas — 135 2. Virginia — 134 3. Georgia — 51 4. Ohio — 45 5. Arizona — 35 6. Nevada — 29 7. Indiana — 21 8. Mississippi — 21 9. Illinois — 20 10. Iowa — 16 11. Oregon — 12 12. South Carolina — 12 13. Wisconsin — 11 14. Maryland — 11 15. North Carolina — 11 16. Pennsylvania — 10 17. Utah — 10 18. Missouri — 9 19. Wyoming — 7 20. Alabama — 7 21. New York — 7 22. Tennessee — 7 23. Florida — 6 Texas and Virginia are still dominating the AI infrastructure buildout.

⚡ A Tiny Chip Could Change the Future of Computers Scientists have created an ultra‑low‑loss photonic chip that uses light instead of electricity to process information. This is an important breakthrough in computing, and it could help make large‑scale quantum computers—machines far more powerful than today’s computers—closer to reality. Researchers say reducing loss in photonic components is one of the key steps toward building scalable quantum hardware. While this chip is a big advance, there are still many challenges ahead before quantum computers become practical and widely used.This small chip could be the start of something big… the future of computing is slowly taking shape. Source: Interesting Engineering. (2025). Photonic chip sets loss record, boosts quantum computing scale.

⚡ New research shows GPUs can be used to take over a system. GPUBreach attack enables root access by flipping bits in GPU memory, corrupting page tables, and chaining into CPU exploits—even with IOMMU enabled. 🔗 Read details → thehackernews.com/2026/04/new-gp…

🇯🇵 JAPAN JUST SET A NEW INTERNET SPEED WORLD RECORD Fast enough to download the entire Netflix library in under a second. 1.02 petabits per second. 3.5 million times faster than the average US broadband connection.