🇵🇭Driven by AI, the Philippine economy is experiencing significant growth. The nation's outsourcing sector is projected to hit $42 billion in revenue by 2026 and generate 1.9 million jobs, as AI facilitates shift for workers into advanced, specialized positions.

🎮 Following a cyberattack, Valve confirmed a data breach affecting Steam Machine and Steam Controller users, discovered a week after the event. Attackers may have accessed user names, addresses, phone numbers, Steam-linked email addresses, and additional data. Valve has since alerted players to expect upcoming phishing attacks, including fraudulent emails, SMS, and calls impersonating Steam or delivery companies.

🎥 YouTube has launched a new AI search tool that lets users ask questions in natural language. The system pulls relevant information from videos, Shorts, and even specific clips, and supports follow-up queries. It is currently available to a select group of U.S.-based desktop users searching in English, with wider availability expected soon.

🇰🇿The personal data of nearly all Kazakhstani citizens, encompassing 15 million individuals (75% of the population), is being sold on the dark web for 0.5 BTC (around $32,000). The seller claims this database, containing 47 million records of passport details, phone numbers, emails, workplaces, scanned documents, and passwords, was obtained via a hack of the eGov state service. Each person's data is valued by the hacker at approximately $0.002.

🏳️Telegram has been fined 14 million rubles ($170k) by Russia's Tagansky Court of Moscow for failing to remove information about scammers and extremist groups. Separately, 🏳️‍🌈Google received a 7.6 million ruble ($90k) penalty for refusing to take down applications from Google Play that Russian authorities consider prohibited. The total amount of the fines levied against the two companies reached 21.6 million rubles ($260k).

🚀SpaceX ($SPCX), owned by Elon Musk, saw its market value surge by $530 billion over the past 5 days, marking a 40% increase.

😶Grok 4.6 has launched, positioning itself as a direct rival to Fable 5 Max and GPT-5.6 Sol Max. The neural network offers enhanced intelligence compared to version 4.5, without any increase in cost.

👵A 67-year-old Colombian woman managed to buy two whole houses, all by selling juicy neighborhood gossip! She apparently kept a meticulous daily log of everyone's movements, then charged neighbors a mere $2 for simple tidbits, or a hefty 50-100 for scandalous secrets like cheating. And get this: she even blackmailed people with evidence of their misdeeds, accumulating enough over a few years to become a homeowner twice over!

✅ New findings from experts suggest that spending 4 hours a day on your phone could take a decade off your life. The research ties excessive scrolling to loneliness, mental health issues, and reduced life satisfaction.

💋Lionel Messi reportedly turned down a staggering €1.5 billion offer from Saudi Arabia's Al-Ittihad club — and he didn't even think twice. According to Anmar Alhailae, the club's president, the Argentine star chose his family's happiness over the most lucrative deal in sports history. His family wanted to stay in Miami, and Messi respected that without hesitation. "Family is more important than any amount of money in the world," Alhailae said.

💎 It's ironic how Gram Wallet in the App Store is being prematurely hailed as Telegram's new wallet. The publisher is clearly listed as the My Wallet team (previously MyTonWallet), indicating it's just a revamped open-source TON wallet, not an official Telegram launch. Any integration into Telegram remains unannounced. This seems to be a case of 'TON news famine' leading to misinterpretations.

👩‍💻 Another day, another breach. Trezor's reporting that a supplier got hit, and customer data has been compromised. The funny thing is, people buy hardware wallets specifically for security, but these companies have a habit of proving that they're anything but secure lately.

🇨🇳China's Kimi AI apparently scanned nearly all of Bitcoin's open-source code and flagged around 8,000 flaws. Meanwhile, the official Bitcoin Red Team has been busy, identifying 1,280 serious vulnerabilities across 501 projects, and they've been getting maintainers to patch them. Interestingly, they ended up relying on Kimi K3 for this crucial work because US AI models were off-limits for security testing.