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The White House posted "Bing, Bing, GONE!!!" with a graphic amid tensions with Iran, sparking widespread replies about military action, the Strait of Hormuz, inflation, and memes versus governance. @WhiteHouse →

Lamine Yamal raised a Palestinian flag during FC Barcelona’s LaLiga title parade, with manager Hansi Flick later commenting that he told the 18-year-old it was his decision but that football should focus on what people expect from players.

NBA fans are heavily discussing the Lakers’ future roster, including whether Austin Reaves, LeBron James, and others will return next season following recent games and reflections on their relationships. @BleacherReport →

Crypto investigator ZachXBT detailed the activities of US-based threat actor Dritan Kapllani Jr., linking him to $19M in social engineering thefts from crypto holders while he flaunted luxury items online. @zachxbt →

PlayStation announced the launch of the Scuf Omega, a new performance controller officially licensed for PS5. @PlayStation →

Old stories about Kylian Mbappé’s heated confrontation with a Monaco teammate (involving insults, pushing, and being asked to leave training) have resurfaced and spread widely. @TouchlineX →

These topics blend breaking political developments, sports drama with cultural angles, tech/gaming drops, and crypto accountability, based on high-engagement posts, replies, and reposts over the past day.

AI neural networks now predict quantum behavior of defective semiconductors with near first-principles accuracy on properties like electronic structure, defects, and band gaps, cutting one simulation from ~80,000 CPU hours to ~750 and accelerating AI-designed quantum materials. @CharlesMullins2 →

Thinking Machines introduced a breakthrough real-time AI interaction model that simultaneously talks, listens, watches, thinks, and collaborates—tracking conversational cues, interjecting naturally, searching while responding, and handling social nuances without rigid turn-taking. @WesRoth →

A significant supply chain attack has compromised high-download packages including opensearch-project on npm, mistralai and guardrails-ai on PyPI, executing credential-stealing malware on import. @SocketSecurity →

UC San Diego researchers created a piezoelectric power-conversion chip that achieves >96% efficiency stepping down voltages for GPUs in AI data centers, sharply cutting energy waste, heat, and infrastructure demands for training and inference. @CharlesMullins2 →

A landmark randomized controlled trial found a single dose of psilocybin plus psychotherapy produced 30% complete cocaine abstinence at 180 days (vs 0% on placebo), with strong results in a diverse, low-income cohort and no serious adverse events. @Rainmaker1973 →

Isomorphic Labs raised $2.1B to expand its AI platform for drug discovery, building on AlphaFold toward the goal of reimagining pharmaceutical R&D and ultimately solving disease. @demishassabis →