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Pro-Iranian Hackers Breached US Infrastructure, Feds Say Authored by Troy Myers via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Pro-Iranian hackers have breached critical U.S. infrastructure, according to a joint warning issued Tuesday by several federal agencies. High voltage power lines run through a sub-station along the electrical power grid in Miami on Jan. 14, 2026. Joe Raedle/Getty Images The advisory came only hours ahead of President Donald Trump’s Tuesday deadline for Iran, warning that “a whole civilization will die tonight” if Iran refuses to open the Hormuz Strait to oil traffic. Trump later suspended...

AMD Dumps & Pumps (To New Record High) After Beat-And-Raise Just wow... AMD shares initially puked after results dropped showing top- and bottom-line beats: EPS: $1.37 vs. $1.29 adjusted expected Revenue: $10.25 billion vs. $9.89 billion expected But now they are exploding higher after the second-largest AI chipmaker raised estimates: For the second quarter, AMD said it expects about $11.2 billion in revenue, versus expectations of $10.52 billion, according to LSEG That is a new record high... Revenue jumped 38% from $7.44 billion a year ago, the company said in a release on Tuesday, beating in every segment... Data center...

Gold & Tech: How The Whales Trick The Retail Plankton Authored by Matthew Piepenburg via VonGreyerz.gold, Never in my 30+ years in the markets have I seen a monetary, precious metal and risk-asset setup more obvious yet more deliberately ignored than today. Below, we look at the converging signposts screaming from the tech/AI sector and the equally obvious (yet deliberately downplayed) signals from a precious metals market entering a watershed turning point. How the Whales Do Their “Magic” As warned for years, and more recently here at the precious metals symposium in Florida, the insider whales...