⚡️🇪🇺 Trump Says Europe to Release ‘Massive Amount’ of Diesel Fuel

The Group of Seven nations and its partners are to release as much as 100 million barrels of emergency oil and diesel stocks. The release, being coordinated by the International Energy Agency, will take place over the next four months.

“Europe has just agreed to release a massive amount of their heavily stocked Diesel Oil. The process will begin immediately,” — Trump said, without providing additional details.

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🤖 Bill Gates says companies that replace human labor with robots should have to pay the same FICA taxes

Bill Gates has a plan to ensure that humans keep getting paid in an AI jobs apocalypse: Tax the robots. The billionaire philanthropist said that "society gets to decide" how to support its workers — even if AI is pushing them out.

"You define a unit of labor and say, independent of whether that's delivered by a human or robot, you are paying the same FICA tax that a human worker would pay," — Gates said, referring to the US payroll tax.

FICA taxes work by having workers pay portions of their paychecks toward benefits like Social Security and Medicare, with employers matching the workers' contributions. Taxing robots that take human jobs would ensure both a monetary safety net for citizens and continued tax revenue for the government, Gates said.

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🤑 Trezor Suite now supports Soroban smart contract tokens, alongside Stellar tokens

More assets. Same self-custody. 🚀

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🧠 Neuralink Advances BCI Technology

Neuralink says its clinical trial participants have now used implants for more than 50,000 hours, creating a large dataset of intracortical neural activity.

The company says this data has been used to pretrain a foundation model for BCI, with early results including:

🟣Calibration reduced from 10 minutes daily to 10 minutes weekly for some users
🟣Cursors that can jump directly toward intended targets
🟣A new cursor-control record of 11.32 bits per second

Neuralink says future work will focus on combining data across participants, one-shot or zero-shot calibration, and an API for the motor cortex.

The next generation of BCIs is taking shape. 🚀

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🇺🇸 The White House introduces a new vision for federal government services. Welcome to America.gov

The federal government no longer stands in your way, it stands only at your service.

Easy. Fast. Convenient. 🚀

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🇺🇸 NYC is now the first city in America that bans sketchy subscriptions

New York City residents struggling to get out of recurring subscription fees can now submit complaints to the city government. As of Thursday, the city’s click-to-cancel rule has taken effect, which requires businesses to make it as easy to cancel a subscription as it is to sign up.

➡️ That means a gym that lets you join online, for example, can’t make you call or go in person to end your subscription.

It’s the first municipality to see the rule take effect, after an appeals court struck down a federal version for procedural issues. The city expects it to save New Yorkers anywhere from $21.5 million to $162.5 million annually.

“No one should need 45 minutes of hold music to stop paying for something they never wanted,” — NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani said.

“If a company can take your money with one click, you should be able to get your money back with one click. And now, if they won’t let you cancel, the City is coming for them.”

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🎉🤑 Announcing the Launch of XRP Asia

Asia has long been one of the most important regions for the XRP Ledger (XRPL). It is home to some of the world’s most active digital asset markets, a deep base of developers and technology companies, and some of the most engaged XRP communities anywhere. Now, that ecosystem is getting dedicated regional support. 🚀

🟣 XRP Asia is a new organization focused on growing the ecosystem across Asia-Pacific, supporting builders, startups and communities through dedicated programs, resources and events.

🟣 The vision is to make XRPL the go-to blockchain for builders across Asia and for the region to become a major engine of growth and adoption for the broader XRP ecosystem.

Jointly founded by Ripple and the XRP Ledger Foundation, XRP Asia is led by Sabrina Tachdjian and focused on strengthening the connections, resources and pathways that can help the ecosystem grow. 👏

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🇺🇸 Trump Says US to Hold Off on Diesel Export Ban After G7 Release

President Donald Trump said he won’t ban US diesel exports, after Group of Seven nations and their partners agreed to release some of their emergency fuel stockpiles in a bid to bring down soaring prices.

“Europe has a lot of diesel and they’re going to be making a major world contribution — and so are we,” — Trump said. “And we’re not going to be doing the export ban.”

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⚡️🇺🇸 Trump promises another round of checks before the midterms

President Donald Trump announced plans to send “nearly $100" checks to more than 20 million seniors on Medicare.

“I pledged to protect and preserve Medicare and Social Security, which were on the verge of RUIN by Joe Biden, who foolishly and maliciously let tens of millions of Illegal Aliens into our Country, and we are doing just that for America’s Seniors,” — he said.

The checks, Trump said, would “help pay for their Medicare Part B premiums.”

Funding would come from the Medicare Improvement Fund.

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🤖 Rogue OpenAI agent enters another NSW government website

OpenAI says a rogue agent accessed a second New South Wales government website in June, with authorities only informed of the "misalignment" this week.

The Premier's Department said the model entered a National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) web application containing historical information and data on fires. It said investigations have not found any unauthorised access to personal information.

"The NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW) is working with Cyber Security NSW and its technology service provider to investigate the matter and assess its impact," — the statement said.

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🤑 Doppler Finance Partners with Flare for Seamless XRP Yield Access

Doppler Finance and Flare Networks announced an integration letting XRP holders access Flare’s FXRP vaults directly through Doppler, skipping extra bridges or wallets.

The news dropped during XRP Seoul 2026 in Seoul as part of Korea Blockchain Week, where Doppler leads with over $130 million locked and 14,000 depositors. Organizers hailed it as a major ecosystem boost, aligning with talks on yield, tokenized assets, and XRP's growing utility. 🚀

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⚡️🚀 Elon Musk: Starship deploying Starlink V3 satellites

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🇺🇸 Trump Calls for Mandatory Prison Terms for Benefits Fraud

President Donald Trump on Saturday called on Congress to impose mandatory prison sentences on people convicted of defrauding Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security and proposed holding state and local politicians personally liable if they knowingly allow such fraud to continue.

"Today, I'm calling on Congress to pass legislation to address fraud in Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security programs," — Trump said in a video.

❗️Trump said the first part of his proposal would establish mandatory minimum sentences for people who steal from federal benefit programs, eliminating probation as an option.

"If you steal from the American people, you will go to prison and for a long period of time," — Trump said. "And the more you steal, the longer you'll stay in that prison."

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