Mario Nawfal

🇯🇵🇨🇳🇰🇷 The Chinese-made AI tool that hacked South Korean banks last month is now hitting some of Japan’s BIGGEST companies, a Tokyo cybersecurity firm says. ARTEX was built in China to test cyberdefenses. Turns out it’s pretty good at breaking them too, with researchers tying it to many of the recent attacks in Japan, all run from one server setup aimed almost entirely at Japanese targets. Around 20 companies got hit and 8 have already owned up to data leaks, with names like Daiwa Securities and SoftBank caught in the wider wave. The attackers seem to be going country by country, and researchers are now checking who else is on the list. Korea last month, Japan this month. Somebody’s next and probably doesn’t know it yet. Source: Bloomberg / Writer: Julie

🇮🇹 Milan’s most expensive street is bracing for the riots to reach it. On Via Montenapoleone, home to Chanel, Dior and Tiffany, most stores have pulled their merchandise out of the windows, with police patrolling the street and a handful of tourists looking on. Elsewhere in the city, shops are boarding up with cardboard and wooden panels after 2 nights of riots and looting. Italy is now sending 500 troops to defend Milan, including the stores almost nobody can afford. Source: Reuters / Writer: Julie t.co/lggq7nlQgv

🇫🇷 Looters in France spared a store that had a Muslim shopkeeper. This was one of the very few stores that was protected during the riots! You're not supposed to say it, but when lawlessness erupts, what you look like is often crucial to what happens to you. Writer: Mhedi t.co/ROxgNseZkH

🇨🇦 Alberta just said NO to leaving Canada, and it wasn't even close. With about 1 million votes counted, roughly 76% backed staying, enough for CBC to project the win. Polls had separation at around 30%, and it looks to have landed closer to 24%. Source: Bloomberg / Writer: Julie

🇫🇷 Bookmark this for the next time someone tells you these were just protests and the students have legitimate grievances Writer: Ian t.co/Dgt8K2yB7E

🇮🇱🇵🇸 Israel says it wiped out 3 Hamas weapons depots across Gaza last week. The IDF and Shin Bet say the sites held dozens of weapons, including RPGs, launchers, rockets and Kalashnikovs, all used by Hamas’ military wing. The army says it warned residents beforehand and used precision munitions to limit the risk to civilians, and vows to keep hitting any attempt by Hamas to rebuild or stockpile weapons. Hamas keeps restocking, Israel keeps finding the stockpiles. Rinse and repeat. Writer: Julie t.co/j3J6EuXQxX

For once, a gym girl filming herself who's not trying to shame men Writer: Ian t.co/CqWIqr0cnb

🇬🇧 This security guard didn't speak English well enough to even know what the word SHOP means! Yes, you READ THAT RIGHT! Good luck holding yourself together, Britain. 🤣 Writer: Mhedi t.co/xx0vMRzosc

This is why you should never get into a street fight Writer: Ian t.co/SsSQXh0l0A

Turns out the future really does have flying cars. The new Tesla Roadster just proved it. Driving upside down, flipping in mid-air and jumping over other Teslas. All thanks to some seriously clever engineering and SpaceX cold-gas thrusters. Three configurations. Performance for the road, Thrust for the track and Rocket for the air. The Rocket version: 0–60 mph in under 0.59 seconds, with a top speed exceeding 230 mph. Beyond movies. Beyond imagination. Yet still made by humans right here on Earth. We've actually watched it fly. Mind-blowing! @Tesla @SpaceX / Writer: Annette, Designer: Janné

DoorDash is looking more appealing by the day Writer: Ian t.co/VeIYZbJXvD

🇯🇵 Japan just launched a spacecraft to a moon of Mars, and it's planning to bring a piece of it home. The uncrewed probe is headed for Phobos, one of Mars' 2 small moons. If it pulls this off, it'll be the first mission ever to collect samples from Phobos and return them to Earth. Writer: Julie t.co/gBRvfpkUr1

🇬🇧 British policing at its finest Writer: Ian t.co/XoGZfNVDi2

They might have snuck past if it wasn't for that pesky cat Writer: Ian t.co/hRg5ir9EWD

🇺🇸 Coffee in one hand, phone in the other, feet up, and the Tesla Cybercab does the driving. Elon is really trying to turn rush-hour traffic into ME TIME. Honestly, I could get used to this 😂 Writer: Sol t.co/5MTaI1JKTL

🇾🇪 The Houthis are often portrayed as a rag-tag bunch of khat-chewing misfits But this shows them taking out a Saudi-backed vehicle with an anti-tank guided missile Not an easy force to be reckoned with Writer: Ian t.co/wDj1aKBsV7

🇺🇸 Trump has announced $8 billion in emergency assistance for American farmers struggling with soaring diesel prices during the harvest season. The national average diesel price has reached approximately $6.32 per gallon, up 74% from a year ago, after hitting a record $6.53 in September. The USDA's new Harvest Fuel Relief Program will provide one-time payments to farmers to offset rising fuel and agricultural production costs. At current prices, a farmer using 10,000 gallons of diesel faces a fuel bill of $63,200, roughly $26,900 more than a year ago. Source: Reuters / Writer: Mhedi

🇫🇷 The French police didn't do much to improve the country's reputation for "tactical retreats" Writer: Ian t.co/azRZLNAFdt

10/10 for effort 😂 Writer: Ian t.co/3QywPMcr1P

🇮🇷🇷🇺 Iran says it has NEVER been this close to Russia. “Never in our history have Iran and Russia worked as closely as now,” FM Abbas Araghchi wrote after hosting Lavrov in Tehran, where the 2 discussed expanding economic and nuclear cooperation. Two countries under heavy sanctions, comparing notes on how to get closer. Washington will be thrilled. Writer: Julie

WTF India?!?! Your entertainment industry needs a revamp Writer: Ian t.co/CKA68dZpdf

🇨🇳🇺🇸 China says a U.S. warship “illegally intruded” near a disputed reef in the South China Sea early this morning. The PLA Navy says it tracked the USS Charleston near Sabina Shoal in the Spratly Islands, and warned that its forces “remain on high alert at all times.” Beijing claims “indisputable sovereignty” over the area. The Philippines would beg to differ, since the shoal sits about 140 km off its island of Palawan, well inside its own exclusive economic zone. Washington calls these freedom of navigation patrols, Beijing calls them trespassing, and the Philippines just wants everyone to remember whose backyard this actually is. Sources: Global Times, PLA Southern Theater Command / Writer: Julie

Can men and women truly be friends? Myron thinks it's impossible because the "man's sexual urge is extremely strong." 🤣 Writer: Mhedi t.co/q0KgOO4jco

130 years ago, getting a car to move was a pretty big deal. Now we're watching one fly. Henry Ford's 1896 Quadricycle had bicycle-style wheels, a petrol engine and just two speeds. Fast-forward to Tesla's new Roadster. SpaceX cold-gas thrusters, acceleration that puts fighter jets to shame, and the ability to lift off the ground. From figuring out how to drive on roads to building cars that can actually leave them. Henry Ford would've had some serious questions. @Tesla @SpaceX / Writer: Annette, Designer: Janné

The legacy media loves to call Elon far-right Turns out he's just right Writer: Ian t.co/qLEV14yaPw

🇫🇷 Imagine booking a fall getaway in Europe's most romantic city and waking up to this Paris has fallen Writer: Ian t.co/qZl82YOUH6

Elon wants to put CARGO TRUCKS UNDERGROUND The Boring Company showed off its Prufrock Liner Truck, powered by Tesla Model 3 batteries and drive units, hauling a FULL-SIZED 20-FOOT SHIPPING CONTAINER through one of its tunnels. And the footage shows the truck emerging from the tunnel with its massive load. Imagine moving freight beneath cities while everyone else is stuck in traffic ABOVE. Source: @BoringCompany / Writer: Sol

🇺🇸🇮🇷 Tehran reportedly refused a "fireworks" strike on Pickaxe Mountain with no retaliation attached... which means the next American bomb may not come with a script The claim comes from IRIB, Iran's state broadcaster, and no Western outlet has confirmed it: Washington asked Tehran to sit still while the US hit the Pickaxe Mountain enrichment site as a symbolic, one-off strike, and Tehran said no while warning it could go after approaching carrier groups. Take that with the skepticism Iranian state media has earned. What is confirmed is the shape of the plan. CNN reported last week that the Pentagon's options include dropping the 21,600-pound MOAB on energy and nuclear sites including Pickaxe, that planners concede it can't punch through the granite, and that at least some inside the building call it a "fireworks show" meant as an off-ramp. Trump then went on Newsmax to remind everyone the MOAB "is not nuclear," without denying it's on the table. Put those two pieces together and the IRIB story stops sounding absurd. A strike that is designed to look big and change nothing only works if the other side agrees to play along, and every exchange since June has followed that pattern: a limited US hit, a measured Iranian answer, both capitals claiming a win. Iran has rebuilt its air defenses, it just claimed its 54th Reaper, it's expanding tanker attacks past the strait and its officials told Reuters the goal is pressure through the midterms. A regime that believes it's winning the slow war has no reason to absorb a free punch. That leaves Washington with the worst version of the choice. Short wars stay short because both sides want them to, and right now only one side does. Source: IRIB / CNN / Newsmax / Writer: Daniel

🇮🇷 🇮🇱 🇹🇷 No country in the Middle East is strong enough to impose order... and no outside power wants the job. Aaron David Miller says the region is stuck in a cycle where one conflict rolls straight into the next, with no clean exit anywhere: "I see no regional hegemon, no single state capable of imposing or enforcing its policies or its will." The three non Arab powers, Iran, Israel and Turkey, are the ones to watch while everyone else gets ground down. @aarondmiller2

🚨🇺🇸🇻🇪 Halliburton, Baker Hughes, SLB and Weatherford are hiring in Venezuela again as the first American rigs roll back in nine months after Maduro was taken The job boards tell the story: SLB has 35 openings in Anaco, Maturin and Caracas, Weatherford has at least 20 after pulling out in 2019, Baker Hughes is staffing up in Maracaibo and Halliburton says it's building its talent pool. Chevron is about to switch on four rigs, Patterson-UTI is shipping parts for ten more and the CEO's verdict was "it'll be fine for Venezuela." This is exactly what the January operation was for. The largest oil reserves on earth sit 1,400 miles from Houston, the companies rebuilding them are American, and every barrel that comes out of the Orinoco is one less the US needs from the Gulf. Reality creeps in as you look at the pace though. Two rigs are running in the whole country today, the refineries are wrecks, and the forecast is only 1.5 million barrels a day by late 2027 from 1.2 million now. Venezuela won't lower gas prices before the midterms, but it's the one energy bet Washington made this year that's actually drilling. Source: Reuters / Writer: Daniel