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💸 A billion phishing messages — just since January YAM Store was a full-blown scam marketplace: buy hijacked Microsoft and Google accounts, pick from 2,300+ impersonation templates for banks and police departments, hit send. Since January 2026, the operation pushed over a billion malicious messages to 75,000 organizations in 150 countries — 750 million targeting Microsoft customers alone. Microsoft and Japan's National Police Agency traced it all back to YAM Store and two phishing kits, CoGUI and Iron Man. Result: 20,000+ accounts disabled, 100,000+ domains blocked, core infrastructure seized. Those texts about a fake parking ticket or a missing parcel? Came from exactly this place. The Verge reports the factory is now shut down.

🪙 Crypto check ₿ BTC $80,740 📉 -1.2% (24h) Ξ ETH $2,378 📉 -1.1% (24h) 😨/🤑 Fear & Greed: 51 — Neutral

📌 Daily Recap · Oct 23 🎵 Sony's gold Walkman costs as much as a car 💸 Scammers hit victims twice — fraud, then fake recovery 🎮 GTA 6 goes gold, November 19 is locked in 🍎 A 1976 Apple I with Jobs' handwriting fetched $1.1M 🐦 Kelly Clarkson's snubbed bird is now a Halloween costume Tag whoever was heads-down in meetings all day — they missed a lot. CHEATKOTT - Your Daily News

🎬 The bird that wasn't for sale is now a Halloween costume Quick backstory: Kelly Clarkson walked into Brooklyn shop Art of Play, tried to buy Molly — a singing, dancing wooden bird automaton — and says a staffer implied she couldn't afford the $15,000 price tag. She invoked *Pretty Woman*. The store said Molly was never for sale. The co-owner jokingly relisted her at $15 million. The internet did the rest. Amazon caught up within days. The Clarkson costume: yellow crewneck, baseball cap, baggy jeans, backpack, phone mid-rage-post. The Molly costume: bird suit, beak, cardboard branch, handwritten "$15 MILLION" tag. Works as a couple or solo — add a "NOT FOR SALE" sign and even the chronically offline will get it. The bird stays in Brooklyn. The costume ships to your door, per Variety.

💡 Jobs' handwriting included The Apple I "Hatfield" — one of 74 verified surviving units from 1976, still in working condition — sold at Bonhams for $1,148,200, well past the expected ceiling of $800,000. The lot includes Woz's signature and a letter from Steve Jobs personally asking the original owner to send in his motherboard for an Apple II upgrade. Hatfield declined, later sold the machine for $40,000, and spent it on dinners in New Orleans. The same computer fetched $671,400 in 2013. Apple's 50th anniversary year, per Apple Insider, clearly added a premium. Engadget

🎮 GTA 6 is no longer a horizon Thirteen years is a long time to live off one trailer. GTA VI has officially gone gold — Rockstar dropped the launch trailer on October 15, locking in November 19 for PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. No more "coming soon." The trailer centers on Jason and Lucia, a partnership that starts with a job and ends up somewhere considerably more complicated. Leonida — think Miami with extra consequences — is the backdrop. Getting rich is the goal. Getting out is the plan. One detail worth noting: the original score was composed by French electronic duo Justice, debuting with a track called "Flower in a Hurricane." Rockstar has always known how to pick its collaborators. Via Collider. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qqzj-j4qk0E

💸 The factory that recycled its own victims The scheme ran in two acts: lure Russian-speaking Americans into a fake investment platform, then approach the same victims again — this time selling fake "recovery" services. Tens of millions extracted that way. Last week, Brooklyn prosecutors and the FBI dismantled the backbone: 241 websites shut down, 112 servers seized. No arrests — but the goal was never that. As long as the servers ran, new domains could be spun up overnight. Now they can't. The backdrop, per Bloomberg: Americans reported $11.4 billion in crypto fraud losses in 2024 — up 22% year-on-year. No product required, just persuasion. Cointelegraph

💡 Sony's new Walkman costs as much as a used car The company that invented the portable music player has no interest in making it affordable. The NW-WM1ZM3 is built around a 99.99% pure oxygen-free copper chassis — gold-plated, and Sony insists that's not just flex. The official line: the gold treatment ensures a stable ground connection, delivering powerful bass and "smooth, extended high frequencies." It also packs 35 hours of battery life and a 5.5-inch screen. Preorders are open now; units ship in January. For context: Sony's previous gold Walkman, the NW-WM1ZM2, launched in 2022 at $3,200 — and now trades on eBay for around $1,500. The audiophile market is remarkable in that "used gold media player" reads as a perfectly reasonable product category. IGN

🪙 Crypto check ₿ BTC $81,722 📉 -0.6% (24h) Ξ ETH $2,404 📉 -0.9% (24h) 😨/🤑 Fear & Greed: 50 — Neutral

📌 Daily Recap · Oct 22 ⚡ AMG's first SUV hits 1,153hp and charges insanely fast 🔴 Richard Heart, crypto's loudest founder, arrested in Istanbul 🎬 Holmes filmed before prison, Seyfried plays her mid-doc 🏎️ Porsche teases a sports car above the legendary 911 🔫 Toronto crypto exec kidnapped at gunpoint near his car Someone in your life was heads-down today and missed all of this — you know what to do CHEATKOTT - Your Daily News

🔫 When the heist is planned in the barracks Canada's crypto kidnapping streak — WonderFi's CEO ransomed for $720,000 in 2024, "Crypto King" Pleterski's abductors in court in 2025 — just got a new chapter. On July 25, a Toronto crypto exchange owner was seized at gunpoint near his car: handcuffed, beaten, pressured for access to his assets, then released with threats to stay quiet. Seven arrested. Three are active military. Searches found 3D-printed pistols, silencers, drugs, and 2,700 rounds of ammo — 2,500 of them stolen from the armed forces. Eighty-two charges including kidnapping for ransom. Per CityNews, the victim and exchange remain unnamed. The rounds used to threaten a civilian are logged as government property. Decrypt

💡 Porsche is building something above the 911 Porsche's profit margin collapsed from 18% to just 1% in three years. The recovery plan — "Sportwagenschmiede '35" — got its most interesting piece today in New York: the Mission S concept, a mid-engined sports car slotting above the 911. Unlike the Carrera GT or 918 Spyder, this isn't a limited run for collectors. It's a future production model — sell fewer cars, charge more, hit double-digit margins by 2035. The downside of the same plan: 9,000 jobs cut across VW Group. Porsche's cure for a financial crisis is a car most people can't afford. On-brand, at least. *Ars Technica*

🎬 Holmes playing Holmes played by Seyfried playing Holmes Elizabeth Holmes — Theranos founder, 11-year fraud sentence — let Nathan Fielder film her in the weeks before prison. *You Can See Everything* takes that access and keeps escalating. Halfway through, Amanda Seyfried arrives. She won an Emmy playing Holmes in Hulu's *The Dropout*, and now Fielder puts her back in the role to reconstruct what cameras missed — including a pre-shoot negotiation where Holmes' boyfriend demanded payment, A24 agreed, and Holmes claims she'd conveniently stepped out. The film ends on one disputed word. Holmes insists the *Times* misquoted her: «they created» not «I created». Seyfried, reading Holmes' own words off a script, shrugs: *"It's not lies. It's fucking TV."* The loop the film traps you in is entirely the point. Variety https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvW_N5p1q44

🔴 Richard Heart arrested in Istanbul Richard Heart — real name Richard Schueler — founded crypto projects HEX, PulseChain and PulseX. The SEC charged him in 2023 with raising over $1 billion through unregistered offerings; the case was dropped in 2025 for lack of U.S. jurisdiction. Finland wasn't so forgiving — tax fraud and assault charges there triggered an Interpol Red Notice. On Wednesday, Turkish police detained Heart and his wife in Istanbul's Beşiktaş district, seizing $4 million in cash, 64 luxury watches, firearms and electronics. He'd been living quietly in Istanbul — until Interpol found the address. CoinDesk

🔥 AMG's first ever ground-up SUV In 59 years, AMG never built a full-size SUV from scratch. The 2028 AMG GT SUV changes that: 1,153hp, three axial flux motors, and 710kW peak charging — more than double the Porsche Cayenne Turbo Electric's 320kW. Ten minutes at a charger nets 450km WLTP range. 🔸 Three trims: GT 53 (106kWh) through GT 63 (128kWh, ~435mi range) 🔸 Active hydraulic suspension replaces mechanical roll bars 🔸 F1-derived battery with per-cell oil cooling 🔸 Simulated AMG V8 sound, paddle-shift feedback, seat vibration No pricing yet — which, given the spec sheet, may be the only scary part. Via The Verge.

🪙 Crypto check ₿ BTC $82,239 📉 -0.6% (24h) Ξ ETH $2,425 📉 -0.7% (24h) 😨/🤑 Fear & Greed: 68 — Greed

📌 Daily Recap · Oct 21 🎬 Holmes is selling out theaters from prison 🎤 Swift debuted a new song live with full band 🎥 Holmes doc smashed Borat's per-screen record with $15M 🚀 Tesla's new Roadster literally flew and landed 🎮 Rockstar drove GTA 6 supercars through real Miami Forward this to whoever spent today in back-to-back meetings and missed everything good CHEATKOTT - Your Daily News

🚗 Rockstar drove GTA 6 into real Miami — literally With the November 19 launch approaching, Rockstar rolled a convoy of real supercars through Miami — wrapped as in-game models, carrying Leonida plates, and led by a VCPD-liveried Lamborghini. The lineup included a McLaren dressed as the Progen Emerus, plus the Cheetah, Coquette D10, Tempesta, and Manana. A Goodyear blimp with a GTA 6 ad floated overhead while local news filmed the cars at a gas station, visibly puzzled.

"Miami is so unserious for turning a game launch into a city-wide event like this is just a normal Tuesday for them."

Rockstar spent years on Florida research trips to get the city right. Now Miami is returning the favour. IGN has the story. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rz1B4B2yBZY

🚗 Tesla just showed a flying car. Actual one. Outside SpaceX's Texas facility last night, Musk unveiled a new Roadster — then demonstrated it. The prototype drove upside down up a ramp on suction grip, launched off the top, righted itself mid-air on rocket thrusters, and landed. Piloted remotely "to make sure we don't kill anyone." SpaceX thrusters along the underbody, half-the-speed-of-sound claims, mid-air flips. Musk called it "not necessarily a safety-optimized car" and the only future Tesla with a steering wheel. Target: 2028. Doc Brown actor Christopher Lloyd posted "Finally… flying cars." MKBHD called it a prank. The internet settled on *Rocket League* as the reference — which tracks. The Verge has the full story. Whether it ever reaches a real road is another question entirely. IGN

🎬 The documentary that out-earned Borat's per-screen record Elizabeth Holmes — the Theranos founder convicted of billion-dollar fraud, now 11 years into a prison sentence — is the subject of a documentary A24 spent three years making in total secrecy. Result: $15 million from 855 theaters. Zendaya and Pattinson in *The Drama* pulled $14.3M — from 3,087 locations. Biggest documentary opening in 20 years, best debut on under 1,000 screens since *Borat*. Budget: ~$7M. Ninety percent of audiences said they'd definitely recommend it. First place went to *Street Fighter* at $31M — 42% on Rotten Tomatoes, a "B−" CinemaScore, and a $82M budget. Third attempt to adapt the Capcom series since Van Damme in 1994. The tournament has not improved with age. A film about a convicted fraudster, more profitable per screen than a Hollywood blockbuster. Funny how that works, per Variety.