⚡️🏔️ WATCH - In Everest's death zone, where every minute counts, one stalled climber can trap dozens behind them for hours, turning the mountain into the world’s highest traffic jam.

⚡️🇫🇷 NEW - Massive Cyberattack on French Infrastructure Just three days before Christmas, a cyberattack knocked France’s national postal service La Poste offline, disrupting package deliveries and online payments at the peak of the holiday rush. La Poste said a DDoS attack rendered its online services inaccessible. The attack also hit La Banque Postale. Customers were unable to approve payments or access key banking services via the app, forcing the bank to reroute payment approvals to SMS. The disruption comes just one week after France’s Interior Ministry suffered a separate cyberattack that exposed sensitive police and wanted-persons data. French officials say the incidents fit a broader pattern of “hybrid warfare” targeting France and other European allies of Ukraine, involving cyberattacks, sabotage, disinformation, and covert operations that are difficult to directly attribute.

⚡️💻 NEW - Microsoft confirms that a recent Windows 11 and Server 2025 update breaks RemoteApp connections.

⚡️🇺🇸🇨🇴 NEW - Trump just clapped back at Colombian President Petro, who accused the U.S. of being on “stolen land,” in gangster fashion: "He's gotta watch his ass because he makes cocaine, and they send it into the U.S…he’s got factories and we know where they are.”

⚡️🇺🇦 NEW - Zelensky: The dates of holidays in Ukraine will be changed. There are bad coincidences; some dates came from the Soviet Union. True Christmas has been returned to the 25th, and the same should be done with other dates.

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Trump: ”We’re bringing down drug price by 1000%, 1200%, 1300%, 1400%. A drug that sells for $10 in London is costing $130 in New York. We are bringing it down to $20. You can do your own math. But it’s 2000%, 3000%”

⚡️🇯🇵 NEW - Japan to restart world's biggest nuclear plant, 15 years after Fukushima — Reuters.

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Trump: "We need Greenland for national security... We have to have it!"

⚡️🇨🇳 NEW - Chinese fraudsters create fake images of damaged products to get refunds galore In China, fraudsters have realized that using artificial intelligence to generate fake evidence can be enough to get refunds from e-commerce sites. This scam is now spreading around the world.

⚡️🇨🇳 NEW - China cuts the cord: its "new Internet" is now live China has just launched a digital highway so fast that it renders our usual connections obsolete. More than just a technical feat, this is a strategic move that could well redraw the map of power in global cyberspace. After a decade of titanic work, Beijing has officially launched the China Environment for Network Innovation, or CENI. Imagine a sprawling network of 55,000 kilometers of fiber optics connecting 40 of the country's largest cities. This is not simply access to the Internet as we know it, but rather an open-air laboratory, a platform designed to forge the network technologies of tomorrow, far removed from Western standards. The network simultaneously supports 128 heterogeneous networks (architectures that are incompatible with each other) and can run 4,096 parallel tests. For researchers, it's like Christmas: everyone can tinker with their prototype without disturbing their neighbors. And the icing on the cake is that transmission costs are 60% cheaper than previous solutions.