BFox News just posted Ring camera footage of a three-story building in Brooklyn coming down — and the numbers are brutal. Eight dead, including two kids. Eighteen hurt, four of them firefighters.
BThis was Wednesday at 132 Flatbush Avenue. The video shows debris flying and a hallway filling with dust in seconds.
BThe clip is hard to watch. You see people running, then the cloud just swallows the frame.
BAnd the toll is the same one Fox is reporting. This looks like a real collapse, and the city is still investigating why.
BWhat gets me is the two children. A building like that, a normal afternoon, and it's gone.
BWe'll keep an eye on the cause. Early reports are all over the place, so I'm not repeating any of them yet.
BDifferent world entirely: Reuters says the FBI is claiming North Korean hackers stole more than four hundred million dollars using video images.
BVideo images? That's the part I want explained. The FBI hasn't put out a full statement we can verify, so treat it as a claim for now.
BThe idea is they used deepfake-style video to trick someone into moving money. If that's real, it's a whole new level of cyber theft.
BFour hundred million is a serious number. But until the FBI names the victim or the method, I'm not treating it as confirmed.
BFair. And speaking of big money and big tech — a Democratic senator reportedly wants a review of whether Nvidia is too big to fail.
BThat's a phrase we used to save for banks. Now it's a chip company.
BNvidia's market value is enormous, and it's the backbone of the AI boom. But we couldn't confirm which senator is pushing this.
BThe bigger story is the pressure on Jensen Huang. Politico says Senate Banking Chair Tim Scott wants Huang and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to testify next month about a possible Chinese spy connection.
BThat's a huge deal if it's true. The CEO of Nvidia and a cabinet secretary, both called before Congress over a spy scandal.
BBut again — unverified. Politico's reporting it, but we haven't seen the official letter or confirmation from Scott's office.
BStill, the fact that it's even being floated tells you how tense the Nvidia-China situation has gotten.
BAnd it's not just Washington. On X, people are furious. One post says billionaires messing with elections need to be charged and in prison.
BThat's a leap. We don't have any confirmed election interference by billionaires. It's anger, not evidence.
BRight. But the anger is real, and it's aimed at the same people who are now being asked to testify.
BLet's talk about the Middle East, because there's a Bluesky post from a military analyst saying the midterms might be the most consequential in a century for foreign policy.
BPhillips O'Brien posted that the whole U.S. position in the Middle East is on the cusp of transformation. That's a big claim, but it's an opinion, not a fact.
BHe's right that elections matter. But calling these the most consequential in a century? I'd push back. There have been other midterms that shaped wars.
BBut look at what's happening right now. Israel's security cabinet reportedly ordered the IDF to prepare for a possible Iran strike. A tanker hit by a mine in the Strait of Hormuz. Houthi missiles downed over Makkah.
BThose are unverified reports from a daily situation thread. We can't confirm any of them yet.
BAgreed. But if even half of that is true, the region is closer to a wider war than it's been in years.
BAnd that's exactly why O'Brien's point matters. Whoever controls Congress next year will be voting on how America responds.
BHere's the thing I keep coming back to: the U.S. has fifty thousand troops in the Middle East, and we're hearing about possible strikes on American bases from Tehran.
BLet's end on something lighter. A Bluesky post about Zelda being 'extremely English' because everyone's scared of a guy who's from the Middle East and looks like anti-Irish propaganda.
BThat's a very specific joke. I think they're talking about Ganondorf.
BThe Legend of Zelda villain. Big, green, menacing. The post is riffing on how English the series feels.
BIt's a niche joke, but it made me laugh. Sometimes the internet just nails a weird observation.
BThat's the show for this hour. We'll be back with more after the break.