🇰🇵North Korea says 1.4 million people have applied to join the military amid tensions with the South, Reuters reports.

Photos released by North Korean state media show young people signing papers.

Pyongyang says Seoul's launch of drones carrying leaflets has brought the "tense situation to the brink of war." North Korea responds by blowing up two border roads.

"If war breaks out, the Republic of Korea will be wiped off the map. Since it wants war, we are ready to put an end to its existence," the DPRK said in a statement.

🚔⚛️🪨🔋🔌 Amazon goes nuclear, to invest more than $500 million to develop small modular reactors

AWS announced it has signed an agreement with Dominion Energy, Virginia’s utility company, to explore the development of a small modular nuclear reactor (SMR), near Dominion’s existing North Anna nuclear power station.

AWS, Amazon’s subsidiary in cloud computing, has a massive and increasing need for clean energy as it expands its services into generative AI. The agreement is also a part of Amazon’s path to net-zero carbon emissions.

Amazon is the latest large tech company to buy into nuclear power to fuel the growing demands from data centers. Google and Microsoft have announced similar plans.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/16/amazon-goes-nuclear-investing-more-than-500-million-to-develop-small-module-reactors.html

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🇮🇹💰📈💰⚡️ Italian Deputy Minister of Economy Maurizio Leo during the announcement literally says:

seeing that the [cryptos] phenomenon is spreading, we are increasing the tax from 26% to 42%

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🚨🌐💻 Firefox Zero-Day Under Attack: Update Your Browser Immediately

Mozilla has revealed that a critical security flaw impacting Firefox and Firefox Extended Support Release (ESR) has come under active exploitation in the wild.

The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-9680 (CVSS score: 9.8), has been described as a use-after-free bug in the Animation timeline component.

"An attacker was able to achieve code execution in the content process by exploiting a use-after-free in Animation timelines," Mozilla said in a Wednesday advisory.

"We have had reports of this vulnerability being exploited in the wild."

https://thehackernews.com/2024/10/mozilla-warns-of-active-exploitation-in.html

https://x.com/optimizoor/status/1846328252379566472

UPDATE YOUR BROWSER NOW!

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🇮🇹❌🇻🇪🇻🇪 — The Italian Prime Minister and G7 leader, Giorgia Meloni, reiterated her condemnation of the repression by Nicolás Maduro's regime in Venezuela on Tuesday, and called for a peaceful and democratic transition in the government.

"We continue to condemn the unacceptable repression of the regime, calling for the release of all political prisoners. Together with the European Union, we are working towards a peaceful and democratic transition in the country, so that the will of millions of Venezuelans, who continue to risk their lives for a democratic, prosperous, and secure future, can finally be realized."

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❌🦠💉 US FDA pauses Novavax's trial of combo COVID-flu shot on safety concerns

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has put Novavax's, opens new tab trial of an experimental COVID-flu vaccine combination on hold after one person who received the shot reported nerve damage, the company said on Wednesday.

Shares of the vaccine maker plunged about 20% to $10.13 in early trading. Novavax said it was working with the FDA to resolve the clinical hold on the trial of its combination shot and the standalone flu vaccine.

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/us-fda-places-trials-two-novavax-vaccines-hold-2024-10-16/

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🇨🇳🇹🇼 'Dead end for Taiwan independence' — Chinese state media

📝 Phillip Pilkington: China confirms what many of us have long suspected: there is no plan to invade Taiwan;

Rather the plan is to blockade the island. Not remotely clear how America would respond to this given that they lost against the Houthis.

🔗 Phillip Pilkington

2️⃣🤝👁👮‍♂️ Today 53% of the Ethereum blocks are OFAC-Compliant

https://www.mevwatch.info/

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❗️ Radiant Capital appears to suffer $51 million exploit on its BNB Chain and Arbitrum instances — link | tl;dr

🇪🇺💰⚖️⚖️ How bitcoin and crypto is taxed across Europe

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🇺🇸❌🇾🇪 — 🌏 United States Central Command (CENTCOM) on Twitter/X:

U.S. Central Command Conducts Multiple Strikes on Underground Iran-Backed Houthi Weapons Facilities

🔗 U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM)

🇺🇸🇬🇧🇾🇪🇾🇪 - Houthi official:

"United States will pay price for its air aggression on Yemen.

Our capabilities are increasing, response to US-UK attacks on Yemen imminent".

- Press TV

🇪🇺❌❌ EU’s outgoing commissioner for “values and transparency” (justice commissioner), Vera Jourova, said about Elon Musk that he is a “promoter of evil”.

“I’m really scared by digital platforms in bad hands,” Věra Jourová tells POLITICO.

Elon Musk, unlike other tech bosses, "is not able to recognize good and evil,” a European Union top official said Wednesday.

Musk has been on a collision course with European officials, fighting regulators and governments on multiple fronts. The tech mogul bought Twitter in April 2022, rebranding it as X shortly after, and he has attracted criticism for his management of the platform, with European politicians and civil society saying he has allowed hate speech to fester on the site.

The Czech politician, who was the EU’s justice chief from 2014-2019 and has been in charge of “values and transparency” since 2019, has had regular contact with many of the world’s largest technology companies over the last decade on issues like privacy, disinformation and content moderation. 
Big tech companies have “monstrous power in their hands,” Jourová said. “I'm really scared by digital platforms in bad hands."

X is “the main hub for spreading antisemitism now,” Jourová said, adding that she warned ministers from EU capitals on Tuesday to be vigilant to the possibility of online antisemitism spilling over into the real world. 

📝: Jourova was one of the most powerful voices in Brussels supporting censorship, or regulation as they like to say, of voices on Telegram. Here she claims to be capable to recognise good from evil and wants to enforce that in the EU.

🔗 https://www.politico.eu/article/elon-musk-promoter-evil-vera-jourova-european-commission/

🇪🇺🤝✡️ The European Council adopted a resolution on “fostering Jewish life and combating antisemitism”.

The declaration highlights alarmingly high levels of antisemitism across the EU and emphasises that the EU stands unequivocally against all forms of antisemitism, racism, hatred, and discrimination. The Council calls in the strongest possible terms for further action to combat these phenomena.

Among the specific areas, the declaration underscores the importance of combating all forms of antisemitic hate speech, including Holocaust denial and trivialisation. These growing trends, especially online, harm Jewish communities, undermine collective historical memory, and threaten the cohesion and security of European democratic societies.

The declaration also stresses the need to foster Jewish life through culture, education and Holocaust remembrance as key elements for promoting tolerance, mutual understanding, cultural heritage and intercultural dialogue. Another important priority is to ensure the safety of Jewish people and the security of Jewish premises and institutions, as well as to support and protect the victims of all forms of antisemitism, racism and all other forms of hatred.

The Council invites member states, the Commission, the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights, and the EU Agency for Law Enforcement Training to continue and intensify their efforts to combat antisemitism and foster Jewish life in their respective areas of competence.

🔗 https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2024/10/15/fostering-jewish-life-and-combating-antisemitism-council-approves-declaration/