๐ธ Strategy is back in the green โ and Saylor didn't drive it
840,447 BTC at an average of $75,385 spent most of the summer deeply underwater โ the paper loss hit ~$13B in July. A five-day run past $78,000 flipped it: unrealized gain now sits at $2.53 billion, a $15.5B swing in six weeks.
The context matters. While Saylor publicly vowed never to sell, Strategy has offloaded 6,948 BTC for ~$432.5M since May โ during the stretch when the price sat below the company's own cost basis. It did not buy the dip.
The rally traces back to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, whose yield curve control moves appear to have redirected capital into Bitcoin ETFs โ $1.92B in weekly inflows.
840,447 BTC at an average of $75,385 spent most of the summer deeply underwater โ the paper loss hit ~$13B in July. A five-day run past $78,000 flipped it: unrealized gain now sits at $2.53 billion, a $15.5B swing in six weeks.
The context matters. While Saylor publicly vowed never to sell, Strategy has offloaded 6,948 BTC for ~$432.5M since May โ during the stretch when the price sat below the company's own cost basis. It did not buy the dip.
The rally traces back to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, whose yield curve control moves appear to have redirected capital into Bitcoin ETFs โ $1.92B in weekly inflows.
MSTR closed at $119.25, still 67% below its $365.21 peak. This Bitcoin rally is happening without Saylor on the buy side, Decrypt notes.๐3โค1
๐ธ Pikachu says cheese
Polaroid and Pokรฉmon have teamed up on a trio of instant cameras, each built around a classic design: a yellow
Each camera comes paired with matching themed film โ Pikachu borders, Sylveon silhouettes, or a multi-Pokรฉmon variety pack, depending on which you grab.
They're moving fast. IGN recommends checking Amazon, Pokรฉmon Center, and Polaroid's own site before stock vanishes.
Instax had one job, and Pikachu just showed up to the interview.
Polaroid and Pokรฉmon have teamed up on a trio of instant cameras, each built around a classic design: a yellow
Polaroid Now Gen 3 with a lightning-bolt strap for Pikachu, a pink-and-white Sylveon version with a ribbon-like band, and a red-and-white Pokรฉball edition. These aren't novelty toys โ full-size prints, self-timer, tripod mount, and 15 film packs worth of battery life.Each camera comes paired with matching themed film โ Pikachu borders, Sylveon silhouettes, or a multi-Pokรฉmon variety pack, depending on which you grab.
They're moving fast. IGN recommends checking Amazon, Pokรฉmon Center, and Polaroid's own site before stock vanishes.
Instax had one job, and Pikachu just showed up to the interview.
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๐ Daily Recap ยท Aug 26
๐ France and Saudi Arabia are literally building DBZ land
โฝ Norris masters the strategy to win Dutch GP
๐ฎ GTA VI delayed again, now arriving November 2026
๐ธ Strategy's 840K Bitcoin stash swings to $2.5B profit
๐ธ Polaroid and Pokรฉmon dropped instant cameras nobody asked for
Someone you know definitely missed all of this โ their loss, your forward button.
CHEATKOTT - Your Daily News
๐ France and Saudi Arabia are literally building DBZ land
โฝ Norris masters the strategy to win Dutch GP
๐ฎ GTA VI delayed again, now arriving November 2026
๐ธ Strategy's 840K Bitcoin stash swings to $2.5B profit
๐ธ Polaroid and Pokรฉmon dropped instant cameras nobody asked for
Someone you know definitely missed all of this โ their loss, your forward button.
CHEATKOTT - Your Daily News
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๐ SpaceX is planning a second Starbase โ bigger than the first
$100 billion is the stated investment in Starbase Louisiana: Starship factories, launch pads, methane production and a deep-water port. SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell presented the project in person in Abbeville, Louisiana.
The Texas Starbase covers just 350 acres and borders a public beach. Florida means sharing launch windows with five competing operators. Louisiana offers open land, methane access and ocean shipping โ with no queue.
SpaceX's roadmap calls for dozens of Starship launches per day. Current infrastructure won't get there. The $100 billion is an intention, not a contract yet, per Ars Technica โ but the scope is being designed for a cadence that doesn't exist yet.
$100 billion is the stated investment in Starbase Louisiana: Starship factories, launch pads, methane production and a deep-water port. SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell presented the project in person in Abbeville, Louisiana.
The Texas Starbase covers just 350 acres and borders a public beach. Florida means sharing launch windows with five competing operators. Louisiana offers open land, methane access and ocean shipping โ with no queue.
SpaceX's roadmap calls for dozens of Starship launches per day. Current infrastructure won't get there. The $100 billion is an intention, not a contract yet, per Ars Technica โ but the scope is being designed for a cadence that doesn't exist yet.
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๐ฎ The Witcher 3 Remastered arrives September 29 โ free for existing owners
CD Projekt Red confirmed at Gamescom Opening Night Live that The Witcher 3 Remastered launches September 29 at no cost for owners on PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X/S.
The update brings reworked combat, a skill tree overhaul, armor transmog, cross-platform mod support and a full visual upgrade โ ray-traced hair included. Both existing expansions are now bundled at no extra charge.
Switch 1 owners get the Switch 2-native version free. The game also hits Battle.net for the first time. Third expansion Songs of the Past is due in 2027; The Witcher 4, starring Ciri, targets 2028, per IGN.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SB3siHVCHpY
CD Projekt Red confirmed at Gamescom Opening Night Live that The Witcher 3 Remastered launches September 29 at no cost for owners on PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X/S.
The update brings reworked combat, a skill tree overhaul, armor transmog, cross-platform mod support and a full visual upgrade โ ray-traced hair included. Both existing expansions are now bundled at no extra charge.
Switch 1 owners get the Switch 2-native version free. The game also hits Battle.net for the first time. Third expansion Songs of the Past is due in 2027; The Witcher 4, starring Ciri, targets 2028, per IGN.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SB3siHVCHpY
YouTube
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt โ Songs of the Past | Official Teaser Trailer
Geralt returns to the Path in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt โ Songs of the Past.
This full-fledged third expansion takes the White Wolf on a new adventure to the peaceful realm of Letten, where dark secrets lurk beneath the surfaceโฆ Coming in 2027 to GOG, Steamโฆ
This full-fledged third expansion takes the White Wolf on a new adventure to the peaceful realm of Letten, where dark secrets lurk beneath the surfaceโฆ Coming in 2027 to GOG, Steamโฆ
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๐ฎ CD Projekt Red just wouldn't sit still
At Gamescom Opening Night Live, CDPR announced a remaster of The Witcher 3 โ out September 29, free for existing owners. Switch players get a free Switch 2 upgrade too.
It's not just visuals: reworked skill tree, combat, camera, new finishers, smoother movement. On top of that, a new DLC called Songs of the Past is coming for a game that's already over a decade old, and a remake of the first Witcher is also in the works. The next real sequel is 2028 at the earliest, so the studio is keeping fans occupied in the meantime, as The Verge reports.
Plenty going on over there right now.
Engadget
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SB3siHVCHpY
At Gamescom Opening Night Live, CDPR announced a remaster of The Witcher 3 โ out September 29, free for existing owners. Switch players get a free Switch 2 upgrade too.
It's not just visuals: reworked skill tree, combat, camera, new finishers, smoother movement. On top of that, a new DLC called Songs of the Past is coming for a game that's already over a decade old, and a remake of the first Witcher is also in the works. The next real sequel is 2028 at the earliest, so the studio is keeping fans occupied in the meantime, as The Verge reports.
Plenty going on over there right now.
Engadget
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SB3siHVCHpY
YouTube
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt โ Songs of the Past | Official Teaser Trailer
Geralt returns to the Path in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt โ Songs of the Past.
This full-fledged third expansion takes the White Wolf on a new adventure to the peaceful realm of Letten, where dark secrets lurk beneath the surfaceโฆ Coming in 2027 to GOG, Steamโฆ
This full-fledged third expansion takes the White Wolf on a new adventure to the peaceful realm of Letten, where dark secrets lurk beneath the surfaceโฆ Coming in 2027 to GOG, Steamโฆ
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๐ฅ๏ธ Apple's most powerful chip ever โ in the same box as 2022
Quick context: last year's Mac Studio was a genuine mess โ M4 Max on one end, M3 Ultra on the other, with the older-sounding M3 actually being more powerful. An M4 Ultra never existed. That's fixed now.
The new lineup:
๐ธ M5 Max โ 36GB memory, from
๐ธ M5 Ultra โ 96GB memory, 80-core GPU,
๐ธ 512GB memory config โ October, pricing TBD
๐ธ Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6, storage twice as fast
Ships September 22nd on macOS 27 Golden Gate. With the Mac Pro gone, the M5 Ultra is now Apple's absolute ceiling โ according to The Verge. Same chassis since 2022. USB-A ports still on the back. Apparently "most powerful chip ever" and "we kept the old box" aren't mutually exclusive.
Quick context: last year's Mac Studio was a genuine mess โ M4 Max on one end, M3 Ultra on the other, with the older-sounding M3 actually being more powerful. An M4 Ultra never existed. That's fixed now.
The new lineup:
๐ธ M5 Max โ 36GB memory, from
$2,499๐ธ M5 Ultra โ 96GB memory, 80-core GPU,
1.2TB/s bandwidth, from $5,499๐ธ 512GB memory config โ October, pricing TBD
๐ธ Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6, storage twice as fast
Ships September 22nd on macOS 27 Golden Gate. With the Mac Pro gone, the M5 Ultra is now Apple's absolute ceiling โ according to The Verge. Same chassis since 2022. USB-A ports still on the back. Apparently "most powerful chip ever" and "we kept the old box" aren't mutually exclusive.
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๐ค They shrunk an AI model in half and it got smarter
Multiverse Computing took OpenAI's GPT-OSS โ 120 billion parameters โ cut it to 60 billion, compressed memory to 4-bit, and the smaller version _outperformed_ the original on 7 of 9 benchmarks.
The trick: normally you teach the shrunken model using a halfway copy, which is already worse than the original. Their method, Quantization-Aware Healing, just points the small model at the full uncompressed original instead. That swap apparently makes all the difference.
The result uses a quarter of the memory โ gap between a data center and a decent desktop. The model, Hypernova-60B, is free on Hugging Face, though the compression tool itself stays proprietary. Decrypt has more.
Multiverse Computing took OpenAI's GPT-OSS โ 120 billion parameters โ cut it to 60 billion, compressed memory to 4-bit, and the smaller version _outperformed_ the original on 7 of 9 benchmarks.
The trick: normally you teach the shrunken model using a halfway copy, which is already worse than the original. Their method, Quantization-Aware Healing, just points the small model at the full uncompressed original instead. That swap apparently makes all the difference.
The result uses a quarter of the memory โ gap between a data center and a decent desktop. The model, Hypernova-60B, is free on Hugging Face, though the compression tool itself stays proprietary. Decrypt has more.
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๐ Daily Recap ยท Aug 27
๐ SpaceX's $100B Louisiana Starbase is alarmingly ambitious
๐ฎ Witcher 3 Remastered drops September 29, free for owners
๐ง CDPR gave Witcher 3 a full combat and skill overhaul
๐ฅ๏ธ Apple finally fixed its confusing Mac Studio chip situation
๐ค Halving an AI's size somehow made it smarter
Tag whoever spent today in meetings โ they clearly needed this more than a fourth coffee
CHEATKOTT - Your Daily News
๐ SpaceX's $100B Louisiana Starbase is alarmingly ambitious
๐ฎ Witcher 3 Remastered drops September 29, free for owners
๐ง CDPR gave Witcher 3 a full combat and skill overhaul
๐ฅ๏ธ Apple finally fixed its confusing Mac Studio chip situation
๐ค Halving an AI's size somehow made it smarter
Tag whoever spent today in meetings โ they clearly needed this more than a fourth coffee
CHEATKOTT - Your Daily News
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๐ง The price of the game
CTE โ a degenerative brain disease from repeated head impacts, diagnosable only after death โ has always been hard to measure for the obvious reason: the subjects aren't around to ask.
A new study in the British Medical Journal tracked 878 former NFL players who died between 2016 and 2021. Of the 235 who donated their brains, 215 tested positive for CTE. The upper-bound estimate across all deaths: 97.7%.
The Harvard-led team added an inconvenient detail: most of those hits happened in high school and college. The NFL just collected the damage โ and already paid $1 billion to settle claims from over 5,000 former players in 2016.
The sport knew. The sport paid. The sport continued.
BBC Sport
CTE โ a degenerative brain disease from repeated head impacts, diagnosable only after death โ has always been hard to measure for the obvious reason: the subjects aren't around to ask.
A new study in the British Medical Journal tracked 878 former NFL players who died between 2016 and 2021. Of the 235 who donated their brains, 215 tested positive for CTE. The upper-bound estimate across all deaths: 97.7%.
The Harvard-led team added an inconvenient detail: most of those hits happened in high school and college. The NFL just collected the damage โ and already paid $1 billion to settle claims from over 5,000 former players in 2016.
The sport knew. The sport paid. The sport continued.
BBC Sport
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๐ฅ Bella Mir upset by Apodaca on Contender Series
Bella Mir, daughter of former UFC heavyweight champion Frank Mir, entered Dana White's Contender Series as a heavy favourite. Alex Apodaca won by unanimous decision, all three judges scoring it 29โ28.
Dana White addressed the odds after the fight.
Apodaca, 32, was awarded a UFC contract. Mir, 23, suffered the first loss of her professional MMA career in five fights.
Also on the card, Scotland's Sean Clancy Jr stopped American Gary Balletto in round two with unanswered ground strikes and earned a UFC contract of his own. Clancy, 23, is the Cage Warriors welterweight champion; his record moves to 9โ0.
BBC Sport has the full report.
Bella Mir, daughter of former UFC heavyweight champion Frank Mir, entered Dana White's Contender Series as a heavy favourite. Alex Apodaca won by unanimous decision, all three judges scoring it 29โ28.
Dana White addressed the odds after the fight.
"This sport's too crazy to be that big of an underdog"
Apodaca, 32, was awarded a UFC contract. Mir, 23, suffered the first loss of her professional MMA career in five fights.
Also on the card, Scotland's Sean Clancy Jr stopped American Gary Balletto in round two with unanswered ground strikes and earned a UFC contract of his own. Clancy, 23, is the Cage Warriors welterweight champion; his record moves to 9โ0.
BBC Sport has the full report.
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๐ธ OnlyFans by the numbers
Over ten years, the platform has paid creators more than $30 billion โ $6.3 billion in the last fiscal year alone. The count of million-dollar earners now exceeds 5,000: a recognisable economic tier, not a handful of outliers.
Fenix International, the parent company, runs on 47 employees against $1.55 billion in revenue and 437 million registered accounts โ a lean intermediary taking its 20% cut.
Ownership shifted in early 2026 after founder Leonid Radvinsky died at 43; his widow now controls Fenix, and a 16% stake sold to Architect Capital values the business at $3.15 billion. A string of Hollywood names joining the platform suggests the reputational barrier has quietly come down. According to Variety, OnlyFans has paid over ยฃ600 million in UK corporate taxes to date โ a different standing with regulators than the platform had at launch.
Over ten years, the platform has paid creators more than $30 billion โ $6.3 billion in the last fiscal year alone. The count of million-dollar earners now exceeds 5,000: a recognisable economic tier, not a handful of outliers.
Fenix International, the parent company, runs on 47 employees against $1.55 billion in revenue and 437 million registered accounts โ a lean intermediary taking its 20% cut.
Ownership shifted in early 2026 after founder Leonid Radvinsky died at 43; his widow now controls Fenix, and a 16% stake sold to Architect Capital values the business at $3.15 billion. A string of Hollywood names joining the platform suggests the reputational barrier has quietly come down. According to Variety, OnlyFans has paid over ยฃ600 million in UK corporate taxes to date โ a different standing with regulators than the platform had at launch.
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๐ฅ Crypto just swung from panic to euphoria faster than the market could blink
The Crypto Fear & Greed Index hit 81 on Sunday โ "extreme greed" for the first time since late 2024. A month ago it sat at 36 (fear), a week ago 41 (neutral). That's +45 points in 30 days: the fastest swing between extremes in Coinmarketcap's history, and the only move ever from extreme fear straight to extreme greed.
The trigger was concrete: the U.S. Treasury doubled its long-bond buybacks from
In February, traders were writing obituaries. In July, they're counting profits. The market, as always, didn't send a calendar invite.
Decrypt
The Crypto Fear & Greed Index hit 81 on Sunday โ "extreme greed" for the first time since late 2024. A month ago it sat at 36 (fear), a week ago 41 (neutral). That's +45 points in 30 days: the fastest swing between extremes in Coinmarketcap's history, and the only move ever from extreme fear straight to extreme greed.
The trigger was concrete: the U.S. Treasury doubled its long-bond buybacks from
$2B to $4B per operation. The dollar softened, Bitcoin jumped ~24% in a week, and over $4B in shorts got liquidated. Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs together pulled in roughly $2.3B.In February, traders were writing obituaries. In July, they're counting profits. The market, as always, didn't send a calendar invite.
Decrypt
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๐ Apple sets September 9 for its next launch event
The event takes place at Apple Park in Cupertino, California, at 10 a.m. PT, under the tagline "Surprise and Shine."
It will be the first Apple event led by incoming CEO John Ternus, who takes over from Tim Cook on September 1.
The company is expected to unveil a long-rumored foldable iPhone, along with the
Software announcements โ including release dates for
The Verge reported the event date.
TechCrunch
The event takes place at Apple Park in Cupertino, California, at 10 a.m. PT, under the tagline "Surprise and Shine."
It will be the first Apple event led by incoming CEO John Ternus, who takes over from Tim Cook on September 1.
The company is expected to unveil a long-rumored foldable iPhone, along with the
iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max. The standard iPhone 18 is reportedly pushed to next year. Apple Watch Series 12, Apple Watch Ultra, and new smart home hardware are also on the expected lineup.Software announcements โ including release dates for
iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS Golden Gate โ may follow.The Verge reported the event date.
TechCrunch
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๐ Daily Recap ยท Aug 28
๐ง NFL deaths reveal CTE's brutal hidden toll
๐ฅ Bella Mir loses to underdog Apodaca on Contender Series
๐ธ OnlyFans quietly minted 5,000 millionaires in a decade
๐ฅ Crypto fear flipped to extreme greed in 30 days
๐ Apple's September 9 event is Ternus's first big moment
Someone in your life had a long day and missed all of this โ you know what to do.
CHEATKOTT - Your Daily News
๐ง NFL deaths reveal CTE's brutal hidden toll
๐ฅ Bella Mir loses to underdog Apodaca on Contender Series
๐ธ OnlyFans quietly minted 5,000 millionaires in a decade
๐ฅ Crypto fear flipped to extreme greed in 30 days
๐ Apple's September 9 event is Ternus's first big moment
Someone in your life had a long day and missed all of this โ you know what to do.
CHEATKOTT - Your Daily News
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๐ค The Long Sleep
Six Bitcoin wallets dormant since 2011โ2014 moved a combined $40.15 million in ten days, per Galaxy Research.
Coins bought at
Two wallets carry "Salomon Client Dusted" tags, linking them to the Noah Doe case โ a New York lawsuit trying to have 39,069 dormant addresses declared abandoned property. The other four fit no theory. They just moved.
Somewhere there's a hard drive, a file of old keys, and eleven years of patience. Turns out patience compounds.
Decrypt
Six Bitcoin wallets dormant since 2011โ2014 moved a combined $40.15 million in ten days, per Galaxy Research.
Coins bought at
$14 โ or as little as $5 โ logged gains from +461,981% to +1,535,911%. The best of the batch: 40 BTC from May 2012, sent straight to German custody bank Boerse Stuttgart Digital.Two wallets carry "Salomon Client Dusted" tags, linking them to the Noah Doe case โ a New York lawsuit trying to have 39,069 dormant addresses declared abandoned property. The other four fit no theory. They just moved.
Somewhere there's a hard drive, a file of old keys, and eleven years of patience. Turns out patience compounds.
Decrypt
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๐ธ $9.6 billion for the Seahawks
The NFL has approved the sale of the Seattle Seahawks โ reigning Super Bowl champions โ for $9.612 billion. A record for American football, and the second-largest franchise sale in North American sports history.
The team belonged to the estate of Paul Allen, Microsoft co-founder who bought the club in 1997 and died in 2018. His instructions: sell and donate the proceeds to charity. The buyer is venture billionaire Vinod Khosla, who had to give up his minority stake in the 49ers to close the deal.
Only the Lakers fetched more โ $10bn earlier in 2025, per BBC Sport. And they're already changing hands again.
The NFL has approved the sale of the Seattle Seahawks โ reigning Super Bowl champions โ for $9.612 billion. A record for American football, and the second-largest franchise sale in North American sports history.
The team belonged to the estate of Paul Allen, Microsoft co-founder who bought the club in 1997 and died in 2018. His instructions: sell and donate the proceeds to charity. The buyer is venture billionaire Vinod Khosla, who had to give up his minority stake in the 49ers to close the deal.
Only the Lakers fetched more โ $10bn earlier in 2025, per BBC Sport. And they're already changing hands again.
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๐ฌ Disney+ caught the Gallagher reunion on camera
The moment Liam and Noel Gallagher ended 15 years of silence was filmed โ and it's in the upcoming documentary *Oasis: Don't Look Back in Anger*. Angela Jain, Disney+ EMEA head of content, confirmed it at the Edinburgh TV Festival. No release date yet.
Variety
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9sIYLtgc_s
The moment Liam and Noel Gallagher ended 15 years of silence was filmed โ and it's in the upcoming documentary *Oasis: Don't Look Back in Anger*. Angela Jain, Disney+ EMEA head of content, confirmed it at the Edinburgh TV Festival. No release date yet.
Variety
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9sIYLtgc_s
YouTube
Oasis: Don't Look Back In Anger | Official Trailer | In Theaters September 11
โOne of the biggest moments of our lives."
On September 11, experience the return of Oasis. Tickets to see Oasis: Donโt Look Back In Anger in theaters and IMAX are available now: https://fandango.com/OasisDontLookBackInAnger
Disney+ presents a specialโฆ
On September 11, experience the return of Oasis. Tickets to see Oasis: Donโt Look Back In Anger in theaters and IMAX are available now: https://fandango.com/OasisDontLookBackInAnger
Disney+ presents a specialโฆ