⚡🇺🇸 NEW - Someone played a bad joke on TikTok by announcing fireworks on the Brooklyn Bridge to celebrate New Year's Eve.

Thousands of people showed up.

"SAN JOSE, Calif.—Google LLC is accused in a civil lawsuit of using its artificial intelligence program Gemini to collect data on users’ private communications in Gmail as well as Google’s instant messaging and video conference programs.

Until around Oct. 10, the Gemini AI assistant required the user to deliberately opt into its feature. After that date, the feature was allegedly “secretly” turned on by Google for all its users’ Gmail, Chat, and Meet accounts by default, enabling AI to track its users’ private data in those platforms “without the users’ knowledge or consent,” according to the complaint filed Nov. 11 in federal court in San Jose."

### Original Bloomberg Article (First Reported)

MSB Sale – 35 Bucks a Year for Life

It has been a long time since we have done and MSB sale and with the upcoming holiday I felt now is the time. Get MSB for only 35 bucks with a rate that locks in for life.

⚡️🇺🇦 WATCH - Ukrainian soldiers training with an RPG-7 miss their intended target, causing the rocket to ricochet off the ground before bouncing several times and landing in the sunroof of the car they were initially intending to hit.

China Envisions 'Dry Canal' To Compete With Panama Canal

🚨 This might be the craziest story of the week, and it’s getting almost no press.

TL;DR:

The FBI infiltrated the cloud storage of a massive Chinese/Cambodian “pig butchering” scam ring and seized $16 billion worth of Bitcoin… now the largest government crypto seizure in history.

That Bitcoin will likely become part of the U.S. government’s growing Bitcoin reserve, which just increased by 64% overnight, reaching roughly 3.5% of the value of the gold held at Fort Knox.

The U.S. government now holds more Bitcoin than any single entity except Michael Saylor’s MicroStrategy. And under the President’s March 6 Executive Order, the DOJ no longer sells seized Bitcoin it holds it.

This latest move effectively transfers billions in Bitcoin from a Chinese criminal operation to U.S. ownership.

⚡️🔥✈️ NEW - Power bank bursts into flames mid-flight

A power bank caught fire mid-air on a China-based Airbus A321 flying from Hangzhou to Seoul. The blaze started in an overhead bin at an altitude of 10 km, quickly filling the cabin with smoke.

The crew requested an emergency landing in Shanghai Pudong, but flight attendants managed to extinguish the flames before touchdown. No injuries were reported.

Power banks, like all lithium-ion devices, can experience thermal runaway — a chain reaction caused by overheating, damage, or a short circuit that makes the battery rapidly heat up, catch fire, and release toxic gases.