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BREAKING: A Google engineer just got arrested for insider trading. But not on stocks... On ONE specific bet, using data that only a handful of Google employees were allowed to see. Meet Michele Spagnuolo. 36 years old. Italian national. Long-serving Google security engineer based in Zurich. One of a...

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.Google Cloud killed its own opening video 3 weeks before Google Cloud Next. In rehearsals, VP of Marketing Sarah Kennedy Ellis looked at the opener her team had built and called it. It was using AI, but not enough of it to actually showcase what the product could do. So they rebuilt it from scratch. In 3 weeks. Here's how it came together, straight from her SaaStr AI 2026 session: - It started on a napkin. A creative director sketched the concept by hand, then fed it into Nano Banana to generate the source images and inspiration. - The story was Google's own history. The 1998 origin garage. Dino. The original server rack that was actually built out of Legos. 138 Easter eggs packed into the video, prompted from Google's own lore. - Then they added motion with Veo and stitched it all together with a few custom agents built on the Gemini Enterprise platform. - The agents improvised. They prompted for balls representing customers, and the model added a burst of water that was nowhere in the brief. It injected its own creativity into a physical, on-stage moment. - The hardest part was the most physical: resolution. Max output was 4K. The screen at Next is the size of a 737. They had to upres from 4K to 12K using a custom Deep Mind model, the same one used for the Wizard of Oz production at the Sphere. Top Takeaways: 1️⃣ The old version of this project needed an agency, a much bigger budget, and a lot more than 3 weeks. That whole path collapsed into an internal team using their own tools. 2️⃣ And the same video was impossible a year earlier. They tried similar work the prior year and it was too early, mostly because of the upres wall. Twelve months later it shipped on the biggest screen they had.

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From Dan Lorenc on the malware attack that almost took down the entire internet last year: “There’s a popular compression library that’s used in almost every piece of software. And it had been maintained by one person in his spare time for the last 20 years. And then a couple years ago, somebody just decided to start helping him. They jumped in, fixed a bunch of bugs, and did a lot of great work. And then that first person got tired of working on it. So he handed the whole project over to this other person. It turned out that other person was just a pseudonym and was not a real person. And within six months of getting control of the project, they had put in a carefully orchestrated set of malware that was really hard to detect and no one noticed. And because it was so widely used, the exploit would've basically given that person remote access to any computer running that piece of software, which was basically everything connected to the Internet. But because it was open source and the code was transparent, some random engineer just happened to be running some benchmarks on a weekend. And he noticed that program was a little bit slower than it used to be, and that it was making a weird cryptographic operation to check something. And right before this thing got widely deployed across every device, he dug in, and discovered that there was a backdoor put in. This was the closest thing to a full-blown internet crisis that we’ve ever had. And they still have no idea who did it. It was just an anonymous email account. No one ever traced it back to an individual. And that's the long game. This person spent years just doing good work and earning the communities trust.”
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From Dan Lorenc on the malware attack that almost took down the entire internet last year: “There’s a popular compression library that’s used in almost every piece of software. And it had been maintained by one person in his spare time for the last 20 years. And then a couple years ago, somebody just decided to start helping him. They jumped in, fixed a bunch of bugs, and did a lot of great work. And then that first person got tired of working on it. So he handed the whole project over to this other person. It turned out that other person was just a pseudonym and was not a real person. And within six months of getting control of the project, they had put in a carefully orchestrated set of malware that was really hard to detect and no one noticed. And because it was so widely used, the exploit would've basically given that person remote access to any computer running that piece of software, which was basically everything connected to the Internet. But because it was open source and the code was transparent, some random engineer just happened to be running some benchmarks on a weekend. And he noticed that program was a little bit slower than it used to be, and that it was making a weird cryptographic operation to check something. And right before this thing got widely deployed across every device, he dug in, and discovered that there was a backdoor put in. This was the closest thing to a full-blown internet crisis that we’ve ever had. And they still have no idea who did it. It was just an anonymous email account. No one ever traced it back to an individual. And that's the long game. This person spent years just doing good work and earning the communities trust.”

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#WATCH | Indore, MP | SHO Chandra Bhal Singh says, "A 13-year-old child was missing from the house since last night and the family members filed a complaint... Today the police found his jacket on the roof of an apartment and the bag was found in the garbage. The CCTV showed the child entering the apartment, but he did not exit. We searched all the flats and inquired and with the suspicious movement of one of the residents Rehan - the accused, it was found that he had killed the child and hid the body in the bed box. It seems from the primary investigation that he was suffocated using a rope and there were wounds of bricks on the face... The reason is not clear... The investigation is going on..."
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#WATCH | Indore, MP | SHO Chandra Bhal Singh says, "A 13-year-old child was missing from the house since last night and the family members filed a complaint... Today the police found his jacket on the roof of an apartment and the bag was found in the garbage. The CCTV showed the child entering the apartment, but he did not exit. We searched all the flats and inquired and with the suspicious movement of one of the residents Rehan - the accused, it was found that he had killed the child and hid the body in the bed box. It seems from the primary investigation that he was suffocated using a rope and there were wounds of bricks on the face... The reason is not clear... The investigation is going on..."

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Google is making $62 billion a quarter destroying the websites it NEEDS to survive. This is literally a death spiral that ends with Google killing itself. Let me explain what's going on... Google added AI summaries to the top of every search result in 2024. When you Google something now, the answer sits right there on Google's page. You never have to click anywhere. Google took the information from someone else's website, summarized it, and kept you inside Google's ecosystem. The result: 60% of all Google searches now end without a single click to any website. Small publishers lost 60% of their traffic in one year. Medium publishers lost 47%. Even the biggest names in media, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Business Insider, all saw traffic fall between 22% and 55%. The Axios CEO called it "a referral extinction event for the ad-supported web." Google's response to all of this was to tell publishers they can "opt out" of having their content summarized. But opting out also REMOVES your description from normal search results. So the choice Google gives you is let us steal your content for free, or become invisible on the internet. That's extortion. The Washington Post laid off another round of journalists this year because of it. Stereogum, one of the most respected music publications on the internet, had to BEG readers for donations. Business Insider cut 21% of its staff. Dozens of smaller publishers have shut down entirely. The people who actually CREATE the information Google summarizes are going bankrupt while Google posts record revenue. But here's where this gets interesting and where everyone stops thinking: Google's AI summaries are only as good as the content they summarize. If the publishers who write the original articles, run the original investigations, and create the original data go out of business, there is nothing left for Google to summarize. The AI starts recycling old information, the answers get stale, the quality drops, and users start noticing that Google's summaries are increasingly wrong, outdated, or useless. Google is essentially strip-mining the internet for short-term revenue. They are extracting all the value from content creators without paying for it, driving those creators out of business, and then wondering why the quality of their own product is declining. This is exactly what Napster did to the music industry in the early 2000s: Made content free, creators went broke, and quality collapsed. It took a decade to rebuild. Google is doing the same thing to the entire internet at 100x the scale. Rolling Stone, Variety, Deadline, The Hollywood Reporter, and Billboard are now suing Google for antitrust violations. Chegg, the education platform, lost 49% of its traffic and is suing too. The UK's competition authority just ordered Google to let publishers opt out without being punished. The DOJ already ruled Google is an illegal monopoly. And Google's defense in court is genuinely unbelievable. They argue that publishers CHOOSE to let Google index their content and can leave anytime they want. That's like saying you choose to pay protection money to the mob because technically you could close your business and move to another city. Google controls 90% of search. Leaving Google means leaving the internet. Meanwhile Google is investing billions in custom AI chips to make these summaries cheaper at scale. Every quarter the problem gets worse. The internet as we've known it for 25 years ran on a simple deal: Publishers make content. Google sends traffic. Advertisers pay for the traffic. Everyone wins. But Google just BROKE that deal and kept all the money.
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Google is making $62 billion a quarter destroying the websites it NEEDS to survive. This is literally a death spiral that ends with Google killing itself. Let me explain what's going on... Google added AI summaries to the top of every search result in 2024. When you Google something now, the answer sits right there on Google's page. You never have to click anywhere. Google took the information from someone else's website, summarized it, and kept you inside Google's ecosystem. The result: 60% of all Google searches now end without a single click to any website. Small publishers lost 60% of their traffic in one year. Medium publishers lost 47%. Even the biggest names in media, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Business Insider, all saw traffic fall between 22% and 55%. The Axios CEO called it "a referral extinction event for the ad-supported web." Google's response to all of this was to tell publishers they can "opt out" of having their content summarized. But opting out also REMOVES your description from normal search results. So the choice Google gives you is let us steal your content for free, or become invisible on the internet. That's extortion. The Washington Post laid off another round of journalists this year because of it. Stereogum, one of the most respected music publications on the internet, had to BEG readers for donations. Business Insider cut 21% of its staff. Dozens of smaller publishers have shut down entirely. The people who actually CREATE the information Google summarizes are going bankrupt while Google posts record revenue. But here's where this gets interesting and where everyone stops thinking: Google's AI summaries are only as good as the content they summarize. If the publishers who write the original articles, run the original investigations, and create the original data go out of business, there is nothing left for Google to summarize. The AI starts recycling old information, the answers get stale, the quality drops, and users start noticing that Google's summaries are increasingly wrong, outdated, or useless. Google is essentially strip-mining the internet for short-term revenue. They are extracting all the value from content creators without paying for it, driving those creators out of business, and then wondering why the quality of their own product is declining. This is exactly what Napster did to the music industry in the early 2000s: Made content free, creators went broke, and quality collapsed. It took a decade to rebuild. Google is doing the same thing to the entire internet at 100x the scale. Rolling Stone, Variety, Deadline, The Hollywood Reporter, and Billboard are now suing Google for antitrust violations. Chegg, the education platform, lost 49% of its traffic and is suing too. The UK's competition authority just ordered Google to let publishers opt out without being punished. The DOJ already ruled Google is an illegal monopoly. And Google's defense in court is genuinely unbelievable. They argue that publishers CHOOSE to let Google index their content and can leave anytime they want. That's like saying you choose to pay protection money to the mob because technically you could close your business and move to another city. Google controls 90% of search. Leaving Google means leaving the internet. Meanwhile Google is investing billions in custom AI chips to make these summaries cheaper at scale. Every quarter the problem gets worse. The internet as we've known it for 25 years ran on a simple deal: Publishers make content. Google sends traffic. Advertisers pay for the traffic. Everyone wins. But Google just BROKE that deal and kept all the money.

Ricardo

250,683 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten

Sergey Brin retired in 2020 with enough money to do anything on earth. Within weeks he felt himself mentally spiraling. The thing that pulled him back became Gemini. He said staying retired would have been a big mistake. The plan was simple sit in cafes, study physics, decompress after decades of building one of the most consequential companies in history. He had earned it. Then COVID shut every cafe on earth the month after he retired. He was stuck. No intellectual outlet. No creative problem to solve. No team to build with. Just time. And he said something happened to him in that time that scared him. He felt himself losing sharpness. Spiraling. Not being as sharp as he was used to being. So he went back. Not because he had to. Not because Google needed him. Because he needed it. He started coming into the office when almost nobody else was. Spent more and more time on a project that at the time did not have a name. That project eventually became Gemini, Google's flagship AI model, the thing they are now betting their next hundred years on. He said it plainly: staying retired would have been a big mistake. Most people think the goal is to stop working. Sergey Brin had the money to stop working and learned within months that the work was not the burden. The absence of it was. --- Watch the full interview YT. Search: "Big ideas begin here: Sergey Brin at Stanford"
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Sergey Brin retired in 2020 with enough money to do anything on earth. Within weeks he felt himself mentally spiraling. The thing that pulled him back became Gemini. He said staying retired would have been a big mistake. The plan was simple sit in cafes, study physics, decompress after decades of building one of the most consequential companies in history. He had earned it. Then COVID shut every cafe on earth the month after he retired. He was stuck. No intellectual outlet. No creative problem to solve. No team to build with. Just time. And he said something happened to him in that time that scared him. He felt himself losing sharpness. Spiraling. Not being as sharp as he was used to being. So he went back. Not because he had to. Not because Google needed him. Because he needed it. He started coming into the office when almost nobody else was. Spent more and more time on a project that at the time did not have a name. That project eventually became Gemini, Google's flagship AI model, the thing they are now betting their next hundred years on. He said it plainly: staying retired would have been a big mistake. Most people think the goal is to stop working. Sergey Brin had the money to stop working and learned within months that the work was not the burden. The absence of it was. --- Watch the full interview YT. Search: "Big ideas begin here: Sergey Brin at Stanford"

Ihtesham Ali

230,652 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat

On Friday in Evanston, Illinois, chaos ensued when a red car slammed into the back of a DHS vehicle. The car had been tailing the agents in their SUV to warn neighbors of their presence. After the car rear-ended DHS, the driver of the car, passenger, and one other person were arrested. The Trump administration confirmed all three are US citizens. At one point during the arrests, a woman tried to help an arrested woman escape. An agent caught that attempt in the act and threw the helper to the side so he could shove the arrested woman back in the SUV. He then pulled his gun out to defend himself. The man in the green shirt on the ground was handcuffed and arrested. During his arrest, he resisted and was subdued by agents on top of him. Eventually the SUV sped off with the agents and the arrested Americans. The red car was towed away. The crowd had been completely out of control. They were not only screaming at the agents, but reportedly also spitting on them and trying to rush into the SUV from both sides to retrieve the arrested people. Pepper spray was used and multiple people were thrown to the ground. Afterwards, the mayor of Evanston, and other anti-ICE activists, spoke and completely misrepresented what happened in order to disparage DHS. (kimkatieusavietnam on TT)
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On Friday in Evanston, Illinois, chaos ensued when a red car slammed into the back of a DHS vehicle. The car had been tailing the agents in their SUV to warn neighbors of their presence. After the car rear-ended DHS, the driver of the car, passenger, and one other person were arrested. The Trump administration confirmed all three are US citizens. At one point during the arrests, a woman tried to help an arrested woman escape. An agent caught that attempt in the act and threw the helper to the side so he could shove the arrested woman back in the SUV. He then pulled his gun out to defend himself. The man in the green shirt on the ground was handcuffed and arrested. During his arrest, he resisted and was subdued by agents on top of him. Eventually the SUV sped off with the agents and the arrested Americans. The red car was towed away. The crowd had been completely out of control. They were not only screaming at the agents, but reportedly also spitting on them and trying to rush into the SUV from both sides to retrieve the arrested people. Pepper spray was used and multiple people were thrown to the ground. Afterwards, the mayor of Evanston, and other anti-ICE activists, spoke and completely misrepresented what happened in order to disparage DHS. (kimkatieusavietnam on TT)

Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸

618,666 Aufrufe • vor 8 Monaten

Michael Caputo is a former Trump administration official who was secretly surveilled by Biden's weaponized DOJ for YEARS. Back in 2020, Caputo created a documentary that aired on One America News Network. This documentary was called "The Ukraine Hoax," and it was about Joe Biden and his family's corruption in Ukraine. "Apparently, as soon as Biden was sworn in on inauguration Day January 2021, the FBI opened a federal criminal investigation to me, my family, and every person listed in the credit in the credits of my movie. Every single one...They didn't accuse me of a crime. They accused me of taking Russian-connected money to make the movie...It's a First Amendment issue, right? But the fact is I did not take any money from Russians or Russian-connected money..." "They issued a broad search warrant for all my information, bank accounts, emails, everything, right after Donald Trump was elected in 2024...They issued a search warrant and they started surveilling me...You know what they asked for in that search warrant? The same thing they asked for since 2016—my connections to Russia. They surveilled me until the president shut it down on December 8th, 2025. Google had just sent me a user notice and said, Sir, you have had a classified subpoena against all of your data, emails, locations, services, search prompts, and everything since 2023. They sent the same subpoenas to Verizon and all my other technology companies and the only one that told me...was Google. The rest of them were too afraid to say anything..." -Michael Caputo In addition to secretly subpoenaing Google and Verizon, Biden's weaponized DOJ also secretly subpoenaed Apple and Bank of America for all of Michael's information and data. Michael is one of the thousands of reasons why we MUST stand the $1.776 billion Anti-Weaponization Fund back up. Those politically persecuted by the Biden administration deserve JUSTICE.
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Michael Caputo is a former Trump administration official who was secretly surveilled by Biden's weaponized DOJ for YEARS. Back in 2020, Caputo created a documentary that aired on One America News Network. This documentary was called "The Ukraine Hoax," and it was about Joe Biden and his family's corruption in Ukraine. "Apparently, as soon as Biden was sworn in on inauguration Day January 2021, the FBI opened a federal criminal investigation to me, my family, and every person listed in the credit in the credits of my movie. Every single one...They didn't accuse me of a crime. They accused me of taking Russian-connected money to make the movie...It's a First Amendment issue, right? But the fact is I did not take any money from Russians or Russian-connected money..." "They issued a broad search warrant for all my information, bank accounts, emails, everything, right after Donald Trump was elected in 2024...They issued a search warrant and they started surveilling me...You know what they asked for in that search warrant? The same thing they asked for since 2016—my connections to Russia. They surveilled me until the president shut it down on December 8th, 2025. Google had just sent me a user notice and said, Sir, you have had a classified subpoena against all of your data, emails, locations, services, search prompts, and everything since 2023. They sent the same subpoenas to Verizon and all my other technology companies and the only one that told me...was Google. The rest of them were too afraid to say anything..." -Michael Caputo In addition to secretly subpoenaing Google and Verizon, Biden's weaponized DOJ also secretly subpoenaed Apple and Bank of America for all of Michael's information and data. Michael is one of the thousands of reasons why we MUST stand the $1.776 billion Anti-Weaponization Fund back up. Those politically persecuted by the Biden administration deserve JUSTICE.

Liz Wheeler

31,466 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat

Air Ambulance Lands in Leeds Following Double Machete Attack Police are investigating following a violent altercation involving a number of people in the Kirkgate area of Leeds city centre. At 5:04pm yesterday (Tuesday, 18 March) officers were called to Kirkgate Market to a report of a man with a head injury. It is understood that there had been a violent altercation in and around Kirkgate Market and the NCP The Markets car park. The man was taken to hospital where he has been receiving treatment for injuries to the head and hand, which are not understood to be life-threatening. A further report was received of an injured male at a property on Atkinson Street, Hunslet, at 5:39pm. From enquiries, it is understood that he was also injured in the incident in the city centre and made his way to the address in Hunslet. He was taken to hospital by road ambulance under police escort with injuries to his hand and hip which again are not being treated as life-threatening. Three people, a 21-year-old woman, a 22-year-old man and a 17-year-old male have been arrested.
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Air Ambulance Lands in Leeds Following Double Machete Attack Police are investigating following a violent altercation involving a number of people in the Kirkgate area of Leeds city centre. At 5:04pm yesterday (Tuesday, 18 March) officers were called to Kirkgate Market to a report of a man with a head injury. It is understood that there had been a violent altercation in and around Kirkgate Market and the NCP The Markets car park. The man was taken to hospital where he has been receiving treatment for injuries to the head and hand, which are not understood to be life-threatening. A further report was received of an injured male at a property on Atkinson Street, Hunslet, at 5:39pm. From enquiries, it is understood that he was also injured in the incident in the city centre and made his way to the address in Hunslet. He was taken to hospital by road ambulance under police escort with injuries to his hand and hip which again are not being treated as life-threatening. Three people, a 21-year-old woman, a 22-year-old man and a 17-year-old male have been arrested.

Yapp

16,174 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr

14 year old arrested for assaulting a teacher in school catches resisting charges for swinging on the police. Anderson township Ohio sheriff were Called out to the school as a teacher reported they were assaulted by one of the female students. Deputy arrived on the scene and was shown security footage of the event and spoke with the teacher that was involved. The teacher stated that they did wish to pursue charges being filed on the 14 year old. The deputy had the staff call the student out of the classroom so they would not cause a disruption in class. Once the deputy caught up with the student she immediately began to resist to the point where she tried to swing on the deputy. With the help of the principal the deputy was able to take the student into custody with no harm to anyone. The student was charged with assault and resisting arrest. You can bet that this behavior is not something this child learned naturally. You can bet this is a direct result of the upbringing of the kid and I'm betting that when she did get home instead of this being a learning moment, she was probably giving the impression that this was not her fault. Would love to hear your thoughts on this.
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14 year old arrested for assaulting a teacher in school catches resisting charges for swinging on the police. Anderson township Ohio sheriff were Called out to the school as a teacher reported they were assaulted by one of the female students. Deputy arrived on the scene and was shown security footage of the event and spoke with the teacher that was involved. The teacher stated that they did wish to pursue charges being filed on the 14 year old. The deputy had the staff call the student out of the classroom so they would not cause a disruption in class. Once the deputy caught up with the student she immediately began to resist to the point where she tried to swing on the deputy. With the help of the principal the deputy was able to take the student into custody with no harm to anyone. The student was charged with assault and resisting arrest. You can bet that this behavior is not something this child learned naturally. You can bet this is a direct result of the upbringing of the kid and I'm betting that when she did get home instead of this being a learning moment, she was probably giving the impression that this was not her fault. Would love to hear your thoughts on this.

Giggling Ganon

390,922 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat

BREAKING: FBI Whistleblower has submitted the below statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee alleging that the FBI suppressed investigations into Rudy Giuliani and other Trump allies. - As detailed in the Whistleblower statement below (video), and reported on by Business Insider, this current agent was told repeatedly by his superiors to stop investigating multiple individuals in Trump's orbit. - According to the statement, the FBI agent acquired intelligence from undisclosed sources, indicating that Giuliani had purportedly undertaken compensated assignments for Pavel Fuks, a Ukrainian oligarch and a designated "asset of the Russian intelligence services." (Note that Rolling Stone had reported this previously.) - The agent reports that he had also provided material to the FBI regarding Hunter Biden and Burisma. He reports that superiors were "delighted that I had collected this information about Burisma." This same superior is who allegedly shut down his investigations into Giuliani and others. - In January of last year, he filed an internal complaint under the Whistleblower Protection Act which alleged that "numerous acts of intelligence suppression of my reporting related to foreign influence and the Capital riots, retaliatory acts and defamation of my own character." - The agent also alleged that Giuliani raised money to create a film about Joe Biden prior to the election, but never created it. - The agent alleged that the New York field office of the FBI was upset about the material he was reporting: "In the midst of my reporting involving Giuliani, which had previously been identified by my supervisor as 'high impact,' my management told me they received a call from a supervisor in [the New York field office], who they did not identify," the statement says. "This supervisor had taken issue with my reporting." I think we can all agree that transparency is important and all whistleblower claims, both about Biden and Trump investigations should thoroughly be examined. Thoughts?
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BREAKING: FBI Whistleblower has submitted the below statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee alleging that the FBI suppressed investigations into Rudy Giuliani and other Trump allies. - As detailed in the Whistleblower statement below (video), and reported on by Business Insider, this current agent was told repeatedly by his superiors to stop investigating multiple individuals in Trump's orbit. - According to the statement, the FBI agent acquired intelligence from undisclosed sources, indicating that Giuliani had purportedly undertaken compensated assignments for Pavel Fuks, a Ukrainian oligarch and a designated "asset of the Russian intelligence services." (Note that Rolling Stone had reported this previously.) - The agent reports that he had also provided material to the FBI regarding Hunter Biden and Burisma. He reports that superiors were "delighted that I had collected this information about Burisma." This same superior is who allegedly shut down his investigations into Giuliani and others. - In January of last year, he filed an internal complaint under the Whistleblower Protection Act which alleged that "numerous acts of intelligence suppression of my reporting related to foreign influence and the Capital riots, retaliatory acts and defamation of my own character." - The agent also alleged that Giuliani raised money to create a film about Joe Biden prior to the election, but never created it. - The agent alleged that the New York field office of the FBI was upset about the material he was reporting: "In the midst of my reporting involving Giuliani, which had previously been identified by my supervisor as 'high impact,' my management told me they received a call from a supervisor in [the New York field office], who they did not identify," the statement says. "This supervisor had taken issue with my reporting." I think we can all agree that transparency is important and all whistleblower claims, both about Biden and Trump investigations should thoroughly be examined. Thoughts?

Brian Krassenstein

381,598 Aufrufe • vor 2 Jahren

Someone on Reddit asked has anyone actually made real money on Polymarket? and one comment led me to a wallet that turned 8 trades into $900,000 profit. The thread had 200+ replies, mostly people sharing their $50 wins and $200 losses, the usual stories about bad beats and lucky streaks that every prediction market attracts. But buried somewhere in the middle, one user dropped a single link without explanation just the wallet address and three words: this guy did. → Wallet: I clicked expecting another account with thousands of trades and a modest profit curve that took years to build. What I found instead made me close the tab, reopen it and stare at the numbers for a solid five minutes trying to understand what I was looking at. $900,091 in profit. Not from grinding hundreds of positions over months of careful risk management. From exactly 8 predictions total. For anyone new to prediction markets, let me put this in perspective most successful traders on Polymarket consider a 60% win rate exceptional and they achieve it across hundreds or thousands of small bets that slowly compound into meaningful profit over time. Maze8 has a 100% win rate across 8 bets averaging over $100,000 each, with a biggest single win of $325,100 that most professional traders will never see in their entire career on the platform. The account was created in January 2026, which means this person walked onto the platform less than a month ago and immediately started placing bets larger than what most people have in their retirement accounts. There is no learning curve visible here, no progression from small test bets to larger positions as confidence builds the very first trades were already six figure commitments made with the certainty of someone who already knew the outcomes. Right now the wallet holds $785,000 in active positions, meaning whoever controls this account extracted nearly a million dollars in profit and then decided that was not enough, loading up again for whatever comes next. I went back to that Reddit thread to find more discussion about this wallet but the comment had maybe 3 upvotes and zero replies. 2,700 people have viewed this profile according to Polymarket, yet somehow the internet has almost nothing to say about a wallet printing money at this rate. The profile remains public, the positions are visible in real time, and every future bet will appear on the blockchain the moment it happens. Eight predictions placed. Eight predictions won. $900,000 extracted while everyone else argued about $50 bets in Reddit comments. Some people discuss prediction markets. Others quietly empty them.
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Someone on Reddit asked has anyone actually made real money on Polymarket? and one comment led me to a wallet that turned 8 trades into $900,000 profit. The thread had 200+ replies, mostly people sharing their $50 wins and $200 losses, the usual stories about bad beats and lucky streaks that every prediction market attracts. But buried somewhere in the middle, one user dropped a single link without explanation just the wallet address and three words: this guy did. → Wallet: I clicked expecting another account with thousands of trades and a modest profit curve that took years to build. What I found instead made me close the tab, reopen it and stare at the numbers for a solid five minutes trying to understand what I was looking at. $900,091 in profit. Not from grinding hundreds of positions over months of careful risk management. From exactly 8 predictions total. For anyone new to prediction markets, let me put this in perspective most successful traders on Polymarket consider a 60% win rate exceptional and they achieve it across hundreds or thousands of small bets that slowly compound into meaningful profit over time. Maze8 has a 100% win rate across 8 bets averaging over $100,000 each, with a biggest single win of $325,100 that most professional traders will never see in their entire career on the platform. The account was created in January 2026, which means this person walked onto the platform less than a month ago and immediately started placing bets larger than what most people have in their retirement accounts. There is no learning curve visible here, no progression from small test bets to larger positions as confidence builds the very first trades were already six figure commitments made with the certainty of someone who already knew the outcomes. Right now the wallet holds $785,000 in active positions, meaning whoever controls this account extracted nearly a million dollars in profit and then decided that was not enough, loading up again for whatever comes next. I went back to that Reddit thread to find more discussion about this wallet but the comment had maybe 3 upvotes and zero replies. 2,700 people have viewed this profile according to Polymarket, yet somehow the internet has almost nothing to say about a wallet printing money at this rate. The profile remains public, the positions are visible in real time, and every future bet will appear on the blockchain the moment it happens. Eight predictions placed. Eight predictions won. $900,000 extracted while everyone else argued about $50 bets in Reddit comments. Some people discuss prediction markets. Others quietly empty them.

Marlow

10,111 Aufrufe • vor 5 Monaten

NEW: Singer D4vd, 21, arrested on suspicion of murder in connection with the death of a 14-year-old girl whose decomposed body was allegedly found in his abandoned Tesla. The remains of Celeste Rivas were found in the trunk of a Tesla on September 8. Her decomposed head and torso were found in one bag, with other body parts found in another. Rivas' family had reported her missing multiple times over the years, with the most recent being in April 2025. Leading up to his arrest, D4vd (David Anthony Burke) had not been cooperative in the case, according to NBC LA. Burke was arrested at his property in the Hollywood Hills. Video: TMZ.
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NEW: Singer D4vd, 21, arrested on suspicion of murder in connection with the death of a 14-year-old girl whose decomposed body was allegedly found in his abandoned Tesla. The remains of Celeste Rivas were found in the trunk of a Tesla on September 8. Her decomposed head and torso were found in one bag, with other body parts found in another. Rivas' family had reported her missing multiple times over the years, with the most recent being in April 2025. Leading up to his arrest, D4vd (David Anthony Burke) had not been cooperative in the case, according to NBC LA. Burke was arrested at his property in the Hollywood Hills. Video: TMZ.

Collin Rugg

169,259 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten

FBI team up with Arkansas state police to bust corrupt Sheriff. This is the video of Sheriff James Stephens of Johnson County Arkansas getting caught as part of an FBI sting. Arkansas state police were directed by the FBI to pull over Stephens as part of a normal traffic stop. During the stop Stephens claimed he was visiting a confidential Informant (CI) as his reason for traveling outside of his county. What Stephens was not aware of was the house he stopped at was being monitored by the FBI. It was due to this visit that the FBI instructed the trooper to stop Stephens. During the stop a search was conducted and pills and large amounts of Marijuana were found. It was at that time the Sheriff was taken into custody. The story didn't stop there as he stayed on as the Sheriff while he fought the charges which is mind blowing to me. In the end he took a plea deal. He plead guilty to felony possession of hydrocodone. In return he resigned as Sheriff and surrendered his certificate so he can never work in law enforcement again. He also got a sweetheart deal of 6 months probation and a fine of 10k. Another easy penalty for a public official. What do you think the penalty would be for a regular citizen?
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FBI team up with Arkansas state police to bust corrupt Sheriff. This is the video of Sheriff James Stephens of Johnson County Arkansas getting caught as part of an FBI sting. Arkansas state police were directed by the FBI to pull over Stephens as part of a normal traffic stop. During the stop Stephens claimed he was visiting a confidential Informant (CI) as his reason for traveling outside of his county. What Stephens was not aware of was the house he stopped at was being monitored by the FBI. It was due to this visit that the FBI instructed the trooper to stop Stephens. During the stop a search was conducted and pills and large amounts of Marijuana were found. It was at that time the Sheriff was taken into custody. The story didn't stop there as he stayed on as the Sheriff while he fought the charges which is mind blowing to me. In the end he took a plea deal. He plead guilty to felony possession of hydrocodone. In return he resigned as Sheriff and surrendered his certificate so he can never work in law enforcement again. He also got a sweetheart deal of 6 months probation and a fine of 10k. Another easy penalty for a public official. What do you think the penalty would be for a regular citizen?

Giggling Ganon

870,390 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten

$700 million contract. $2 million a year take home. Shohei Ohtani told the Dodgers to keep $680 million of his salary, interest free until 2034. Not because he had to. Because he wanted to win. By deferring that money with no interest he left an estimated $49 to $91 million in lost investment returns on the table. He doesn't care. He makes $45 million a year in endorsements. He already won the World Series in year one. The most expensive player in sports history is essentially playing for $2 million a year and he chose that. Was this the smartest contract in sports history or did he leave too much money on the table?
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$700 million contract. $2 million a year take home. Shohei Ohtani told the Dodgers to keep $680 million of his salary, interest free until 2034. Not because he had to. Because he wanted to win. By deferring that money with no interest he left an estimated $49 to $91 million in lost investment returns on the table. He doesn't care. He makes $45 million a year in endorsements. He already won the World Series in year one. The most expensive player in sports history is essentially playing for $2 million a year and he chose that. Was this the smartest contract in sports history or did he leave too much money on the table?

BILLIONAIRE UNIVERSITY®

391,867 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat

2001. Larry Page and Sergey Brin sit for their first-ever television interview. Google has 200 employees. They explain that the company almost didn't get off the ground because they couldn't cash a check. The check was for $100,000. It came from Andy Bechtolsheim, one of the co-founders of Sun Microsystems. Page and Brin showed him what they'd built. He said, "This is great, how about I write you a check?" and just wrote it out. Made it out to Google. The problem was that Google didn't exist as a company yet. There was no bank account. No lawyers. No incorporation paperwork. The check sat in Larry Page's desk drawer for a month. They literally could not deposit it. They're both in their late twenties in this interview. They met at Stanford as PhD students and, by their own account, disliked each other from the start. Brin says Page is "kind of obnoxious." Page doesn't disagree. Brin says they argued about everything, debated every single point, and then realized that was their commonality. They became friends, started building a search engine they never planned to build, and put their PhDs on hold to get it out into the world. The part that stings watching this in 2026 is the rejection tour. Before starting Google, they approached existing search companies to sell or license the technology. They went to Yahoo. David Filo, one of Yahoo's founders, told them, "This is great search technology. Why don't you guys make a company, and maybe we'll use you someday?" They went to Excite. They went to InfoSeek. Same response. Page says a CEO at one of those companies told them: "If our search is 85% as good as the next guy's, that's good enough for us." Page and Brin didn't buy that. They thought the search was too important to be 85% as good. So they started Google. No marketing. No ad campaign. They launched it at Stanford, and it grew 20% per month, every single month, for three years straight. Pure word of mouth. By the time of this interview, they're handling over 100 million searches a day. They get 500 resumes in the mail every single day. The office space around them is 30% vacant because the dot-com bubble just popped, but Google is profitable. Page makes a point of this: "We've been really interested in being profitable, like long before it was fashionable." They'd also just hired Eric Schmidt, former CTO of Sun, as CEO. Brin's explanation for why: "Parental supervision, to be honest." Page adds that they're "past the age where we're rebellious" and that running a search engine used by 100 million people a day with 200 employees is "a large responsibility." The number that caught my eye: when Google started in 1998, it indexed 30 million web pages. At the time of this interview, three years later, they indexed 1.3 billion. The page says that if you printed them all out and stacked the paper, it would be about 70 miles high. And it was doubling every year. Every search company they approached turned them down. Yahoo eventually came back and hired Google to power its own search results. The CEO who thought 85% was good enough ran a company that no longer exists. Alphabet, Google's parent company, is worth about $3.6 trillion today. It has about 190,000 employees. That $100,000 check sat in a desk drawer because nobody had incorporated the company. Bechtolsheim's stake from that investment is now worth billions.
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2001. Larry Page and Sergey Brin sit for their first-ever television interview. Google has 200 employees. They explain that the company almost didn't get off the ground because they couldn't cash a check. The check was for $100,000. It came from Andy Bechtolsheim, one of the co-founders of Sun Microsystems. Page and Brin showed him what they'd built. He said, "This is great, how about I write you a check?" and just wrote it out. Made it out to Google. The problem was that Google didn't exist as a company yet. There was no bank account. No lawyers. No incorporation paperwork. The check sat in Larry Page's desk drawer for a month. They literally could not deposit it. They're both in their late twenties in this interview. They met at Stanford as PhD students and, by their own account, disliked each other from the start. Brin says Page is "kind of obnoxious." Page doesn't disagree. Brin says they argued about everything, debated every single point, and then realized that was their commonality. They became friends, started building a search engine they never planned to build, and put their PhDs on hold to get it out into the world. The part that stings watching this in 2026 is the rejection tour. Before starting Google, they approached existing search companies to sell or license the technology. They went to Yahoo. David Filo, one of Yahoo's founders, told them, "This is great search technology. Why don't you guys make a company, and maybe we'll use you someday?" They went to Excite. They went to InfoSeek. Same response. Page says a CEO at one of those companies told them: "If our search is 85% as good as the next guy's, that's good enough for us." Page and Brin didn't buy that. They thought the search was too important to be 85% as good. So they started Google. No marketing. No ad campaign. They launched it at Stanford, and it grew 20% per month, every single month, for three years straight. Pure word of mouth. By the time of this interview, they're handling over 100 million searches a day. They get 500 resumes in the mail every single day. The office space around them is 30% vacant because the dot-com bubble just popped, but Google is profitable. Page makes a point of this: "We've been really interested in being profitable, like long before it was fashionable." They'd also just hired Eric Schmidt, former CTO of Sun, as CEO. Brin's explanation for why: "Parental supervision, to be honest." Page adds that they're "past the age where we're rebellious" and that running a search engine used by 100 million people a day with 200 employees is "a large responsibility." The number that caught my eye: when Google started in 1998, it indexed 30 million web pages. At the time of this interview, three years later, they indexed 1.3 billion. The page says that if you printed them all out and stacked the paper, it would be about 70 miles high. And it was doubling every year. Every search company they approached turned them down. Yahoo eventually came back and hired Google to power its own search results. The CEO who thought 85% was good enough ran a company that no longer exists. Alphabet, Google's parent company, is worth about $3.6 trillion today. It has about 190,000 employees. That $100,000 check sat in a desk drawer because nobody had incorporated the company. Bechtolsheim's stake from that investment is now worth billions.

Anish Moonka

12,042 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten

A man with no working truck convinced Wall Street he had built the next Tesla. His company hit $30 BILLION. All he did was push it down a hill with no engine. > Trevor Milton founded Nikola in 2014, named after the same inventor as Tesla. > The goal was to build hydrogen powered trucks that would make diesel obsolete. He had no trucks. > In 2018 he released a promotional video called Nikola One In Motion. It showed a sleek semi truck accelerating smoothly down an open highway. Investors went wild. > What nobody knew was that the truck had no engine, no fuel cell, and no propulsion system of any kind. > Milton's team towed it to the top of a hill, tilted the camera to hide the slope, and let it roll. > He spent the next four years doing the same thing with words. On podcasts, television and social media. > Investors were told Nikola could produce its own hydrogen. It could not. They were told the trucks were ready for production. They were not. They were told orders were flooding in. They weren't. > In June 2020 Nikola went public. Within days the company was worth $30 BILLION, more than Ford. > Milton's personal stake hit $7.3 BILLION overnight. > A $32.5 MILLION ranch in Utah followed. A record for the state at the time. > In September 2020 Hindenburg Research published a report calling Nikola "an intricate fraud" built on "an ocean of lies." Milton resigned within ten days. > A federal jury convicted him of securities fraud and wire fraud in 2022. Sentenced to four years in prison the following year. > He never went. He was free on $100 MILLION bail pending appeal. > He and his wife donated $3.2 MILLION to Donald Trump's 2024 campaign. > In March 2025 Trump gave him a full pardon. The pardon erased $168 MILLION in restitution to defrauded shareholders. > Nikola filed for bankruptcy the following month, leaving thousands of investors with nothing. The company never had a product. The only thing that was real was the $30 BILLION valuation, the $7 BILLION that landed in his pocket and the pardon that made sure none of it had to be returned.
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A man with no working truck convinced Wall Street he had built the next Tesla. His company hit $30 BILLION. All he did was push it down a hill with no engine. > Trevor Milton founded Nikola in 2014, named after the same inventor as Tesla. > The goal was to build hydrogen powered trucks that would make diesel obsolete. He had no trucks. > In 2018 he released a promotional video called Nikola One In Motion. It showed a sleek semi truck accelerating smoothly down an open highway. Investors went wild. > What nobody knew was that the truck had no engine, no fuel cell, and no propulsion system of any kind. > Milton's team towed it to the top of a hill, tilted the camera to hide the slope, and let it roll. > He spent the next four years doing the same thing with words. On podcasts, television and social media. > Investors were told Nikola could produce its own hydrogen. It could not. They were told the trucks were ready for production. They were not. They were told orders were flooding in. They weren't. > In June 2020 Nikola went public. Within days the company was worth $30 BILLION, more than Ford. > Milton's personal stake hit $7.3 BILLION overnight. > A $32.5 MILLION ranch in Utah followed. A record for the state at the time. > In September 2020 Hindenburg Research published a report calling Nikola "an intricate fraud" built on "an ocean of lies." Milton resigned within ten days. > A federal jury convicted him of securities fraud and wire fraud in 2022. Sentenced to four years in prison the following year. > He never went. He was free on $100 MILLION bail pending appeal. > He and his wife donated $3.2 MILLION to Donald Trump's 2024 campaign. > In March 2025 Trump gave him a full pardon. The pardon erased $168 MILLION in restitution to defrauded shareholders. > Nikola filed for bankruptcy the following month, leaving thousands of investors with nothing. The company never had a product. The only thing that was real was the $30 BILLION valuation, the $7 BILLION that landed in his pocket and the pardon that made sure none of it had to be returned.

Jeremy

3,080,351 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten

ELON: OPENAI IS NOW CLOSED-SOURCE FOR MAXIMUM PROFIT - THAT’S NOT GOOD KARMA “It was mostly Demis Hassabis on one side and me on the other, both trying to recruit Ilya Sutskever. And Ilya went back and forth, kind of stayed at Google, then he was going to leave, then he was going to stay, then he was going to leave. And finally, he did agree to join OpenAI. That was one of the toughest recruiting battles I've ever had. But that was really the linchpin for OpenAI being successful. And I was also instrumental in recruiting a number of other people, and I provided all the funding in the beginning, over $40 million. The Open in OpenAI is supposed to mean open-source. It was created as a nonprofit open-source, and now it is a closed-source for maximum profit, which I think is not good karma.” Source: The Lex Fridman Podcast, November 2023
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ELON: OPENAI IS NOW CLOSED-SOURCE FOR MAXIMUM PROFIT - THAT’S NOT GOOD KARMA “It was mostly Demis Hassabis on one side and me on the other, both trying to recruit Ilya Sutskever. And Ilya went back and forth, kind of stayed at Google, then he was going to leave, then he was going to stay, then he was going to leave. And finally, he did agree to join OpenAI. That was one of the toughest recruiting battles I've ever had. But that was really the linchpin for OpenAI being successful. And I was also instrumental in recruiting a number of other people, and I provided all the funding in the beginning, over $40 million. The Open in OpenAI is supposed to mean open-source. It was created as a nonprofit open-source, and now it is a closed-source for maximum profit, which I think is not good karma.” Source: The Lex Fridman Podcast, November 2023

Mario Nawfal

161,332 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr