Short kings of tech 👑

Social media’s got a new theory: most tech founders are around 5'7" (170 cm).
Zuck, Brin, Vaynerchuk, Nadella — all clock in at the same height. Even Bezos and Kalanick? Under 5'10".
So hey — tell your shorter friend: height ain't a bug, it's a feature. Just build big.

Johnny Ive just went full cyborg mode 🤖💰

It’s official: OpenAI is acquiring Johnny Ive’s startup io for a mind-blowing $6.5B. That includes 55 ex-Apple engineers and designers, all now working on a sleek, voice-first AI device.
💬 Altman’s already seen a prototype — called it “the most impressive piece of tech I’ve ever seen.”
$5B in stock, the rest in cash — OpenAI’s biggest deal ever. But LoveFrom (Ive’s design firm) stays independent, leading design and creative for OpenAI projects.

Meanwhile, Apple’s sitting there like: “Hey… wasn’t he our guy?” 😬

🥖 Telegram gave up data on 22,000 users — in just 3 months

Telegram handed over user data on 22K people to authorities — and that’s only from Q1 2025. A year ago, it was "just" 5,826.

🥇 The top requester? India with 9,197 cases — no surprise, it’s one of Telegram’s biggest markets. Followed by Germany, France, and the US. A full dataset is now live on GitHub.
Looks like Pavel Durov’s rough trip to the regulators in 2024 is finally paying off... for them.

📿 OpenAI’s first gadget might be… a wearable AI pendant?

Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says OpenAI is cooking up a neck-worn AI device — think iPod Shuffle with brains, but no screen. It’ll come with a mic and camera for sensing your surroundings and rely heavily on cloud processing.
💬 No display — just voice, vision, and vibes 📸 Constant connection to the internet needed 🌀 Prototype expected in 2025, mass production in 2027

Bonus theory: the announcement dropped right after Google I/O to steal some thunder. If true, it’s working.

💥 Kraken brings Wall Street to crypto with xStocks

Kraken is launching xStocks — a new service for non-US clients to trade tokenized versions of US stocks (like Apple, Tesla, Nvidia) 24/7 on Solana. Each token = 1 real share held by Backed Finance.
Why it matters: 🔹 Trade even when Wall Street sleeps 🔹 Use stock tokens in DeFi — as collateral, LP, etc 🔹 Dirt-cheap fees, native Solana compatibility
Kraken’s mission? A truly global, non-stop stock market — on-chain.

📍 Wall Street meets DeFi. Let’s go.

🐄 Cows, up and away!
In the Swiss village of Blatten, things got wild — an incoming landslide forced helicopter evacuations… for cows.
Yep, real action-movie vibes: dangling cows airlifted like four-legged VIPs 🚁🐮
When cows are flying and you're still stuck in traffic — something's off, bro. 😅

🧠 NEED THAT BRAIN CHIP TO TRADE WHILE I SLEEP

Gabe Newell (yup, Steam's daddy) just dropped the bomb: his startup Starfish Neuroscience is rolling out a brain chip in 2025.
Officially — to fight Parkinson’s. Unofficially — we’re manifesting a future where it whispers the BTC price directly into your skull 🧬

What makes it 🔥: — Way smaller than Musk’s Neuralink (2×4×0.3mm); — No battery — it powers itself wirelessly; — Less power-hungry than your bathroom light; — Easier to implant than chasing airdrops.
No public tests yet, but the chip’s coming end of 2025. Soon you'll be running DeFi with just your thoughts.

Finally, damn it! I think I'm already sick — where's my medicine?!
🔥 Scientists just dropped a wild one: LSD might cure schizophrenia and depression. Meet JRT — a trippy-free compound that grows brain cells like grass in spring. 🌱
Tested on mice — symptoms eased. Human trials up next.
First trip, then therapy — 2025 is wild 😵‍💫

⛔️ A $1B short got nuked — $16M loss 💥
Overnight, Trump pushed the EU tariff deadline from June 1 to July 9, and the market instantly went risk-on.
Bitcoin jumped — and some poor soul’s $1B short just evaporated, leaving them $16M in the red.
Friendly reminder: shorting into macro news is just premium-grade pain. 🫡

Monday panic loading... What if climate change spawns real-life rug pulls — like killer fungi that eat you from the inside?

Say hi to Aspergillus fumigatus — not a memecoin, but a deadly spore that's expected to expand by 77.5% by 2100 thanks to global warming. New homes: Europe, the US, China, and yeah... even Russia.
Mortality? 20–40%.
No whitepaper, just straight-up lung liquidation.

So yeah, breathe responsibly, my degens. The next real threat might not be a scam coin — but a spore with better market reach than most airdrops. 💨🫁

💽 Napster is back — and now it’s all about AI & the metaverse
Metaverse startup Infinite Reality just rebranded to Napster Corporation — yep, that Napster. But instead of pirating tracks, they’re pushing AI-powered 3D concerts, video chats, and digital raves.
📈 They bought Napster for $207M in March, and now it’s their flagship. New vibe, same rebel spirit.
🤖 You can already try Napster Spaces — 500 free minutes of talking to lifelike AI avatars. After that, it’s $49/month. Way cheaper than most AI chat platforms.
🎧 TL;DR: Napster used to kill the music industry. Now it’s coming for your crypto-powered attention span.