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⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Coinbase has acquired prediction market startup The Clearing Company to expand event-based trading on its platform. Coinbase continues its quest to become an "all-in-one exchange" where users can trade cryptocurrencies, stocks, derivatives, etc., all in one place.

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Trump: "I called up the heads of the countries. As an example, France, I spoke to a very good man -- President Macron of France. And I said 'Emmanuel, you have to raise your drug prices.' He said, 'No no no, we will not do that.' I said, 'You have to.'"

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Washington has decided to close its skies to foreign drones. DJI and all non-American manufacturers will no longer be able to sell new models in the United States, following the decision by the local telecommunications authority.

⚡️🇫🇷 NEW - Mistral AI accused of stealing 70 TB of protected books to feed its AI. According to these court documents, Guillaume Lample allegedly orchestrated the downloading of approximately 70 TB of data from Library Genesis, a pirate platform listing millions of copyrighted books and scientific articles. In the fall of 2022, Meta's research teams were urgently trying to catch up with OpenAI and ChatGPT. According to internal exchanges revealed by Mediapart, when a researcher objected to these methods, stating, "I don't think we should use pirated works, it's a red line," Guillaume Lample reportedly replied: "Everyone uses LibGen. That's what OpenAI does with GPT3, what Google does with Palm, what DeepMind does with Chinchilla. So we're going to do it too."

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - California woman slams her G-Wagon into a burglar's car after they tried breaking into her home, where her children and mother were. The mom had just left to get coffee and was on the phone with her mother when she heard "Help! Help! Help!" The wife immediately turned around and sped home. "They jumped the front gate, they came to the back to probably break the sliding door to go in, and they faced my mother-in-law, and they ran away," the woman's husband, David, said. The wife was seen on camera, speeding down the street before slamming her Mercedes-Benz G-Wagon into the suspect's white sedan. David claims the crash was not intentional but says his wife was concerned that the thugs would harm her family. LAPD reportedly discovered a driver's license inside the white sedan.

⚡️🏔️ 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 - 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%”