📌 Daily Recap · Oct 20

🤖 Woman arrested for blocking Uber's sidewalk delivery robot
🔸 Bangkok wasn't safe: $75M laundering network busted
🎬 Coen Brothers hint at Minneapolis reunion after eight years
💻 Apple finally caved: touchscreen MacBook Pro is coming
💸 Steam Deck vs Lenovo: the $200 question worth asking

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😨/🤑 Fear & Greed: 63 — Greed

🎬 Elizabeth Holmes is selling out theaters — from behind bars

Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes was sentenced to 11 years for investor fraud after her blood-testing startup turned out to be an elaborate fiction. Books, podcasts, a Hulu series — the story's been told. But filmmakers got exclusive access to Holmes in the weeks before she reported to prison, with *The Rehearsal*'s Nathan Fielder co-directing.

The result: $15 million opening weekend across 855 theaters — second-biggest documentary debut ever — and 99% on both Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic. Aaron Sorkin's *Social Network* follow-up managed $5.5M. Alex Gibney's *Musk* doc made $306,702.

Holmes once sold a technology that didn't exist. Per TechCrunch, the documentary about it is the one actually breaking records.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvW_N5p1q44

🎤 Taylor Swift's first full-band night since the Eras Tour

The Eras Tour ended over a year ago — and Saturday, at the Academy Museum Gala in Hollywood, Swift finally returned to a stage with a full band behind her.

The headliner: "The Fate of Ophelia" got its first-ever live performance, a year after release. The 2027 Grammy frontrunner had never been heard outside a studio until this black-tie room got it.

Also making its full-band debut: "I Knew It, I Knew You" from *Toy Story 5*. The remaining two slots went to "Blank Space" and "Love Story." Guitarist Paul Sidoti marked the night on Instagram — first stage together since the Eras Tour, 19 years of touring between them.

Conan O'Brien's introduction: "She's John, Paul, George and Ringo all in one."

Variety

🎬 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.

🚗 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

🚗 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

📌 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

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😨/🤑 Fear & Greed: 68 — Greed

🔥 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.

🔴 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

🎬 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

💡 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*

🔫 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

📌 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

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😨/🤑 Fear & Greed: 50 — Neutral

💡 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

💸 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

🎮 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

💡 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