2026-07-04 18:00 UTC | BLOCK 956679
BITCOIN $63,186 | GOLD $4,163 | OIL $72.12
1. Iran opens six-day funeral for Khamenei with calls for revenge
-- Iran began a six-day funeral for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday, nearly four months after his death, with his body lying in state at Tehran's Grand Mosalla and ceremonies across Iran and Iraq before burial in Mashhad.
-- The regime is staging the spectacle to project continuity after the war with Israel, and official revenge rhetoric suggests hardliners will resist diplomacy with Washington, keeping a war-risk premium alive in oil markets despite the ceasefire.
2. Trump warns of 'communist menace' in Mount Rushmore speech opening 250th anniversary
-- President Trump opened America's semiquincentennial with a Mount Rushmore address warning of a "communist menace" inside the United States, ahead of headline celebrations in Washington on Saturday.
-- Folding a national commemoration into campaign messaging previews the Republican attack line for the midterm cycle and hardens the partisan fight over domestic policy heading into the fall.
3. 'Bad Epoll' Linux kernel flaw lets unprivileged users gain root
-- Researchers disclosed CVE-2026-46242, a Linux kernel vulnerability dubbed Bad Epoll that lets an ordinary local user escalate to full root control on desktops, servers and Android; a fix is available.
-- Privilege escalations this broad get chained with remote bugs quickly, so the security risk extends for months across unpatched servers, Android phones and embedded infrastructure with slow vendor update cycles.
4. US clean-power prices set to climb as AI demand meets subsidy cuts
-- Prices for clean power purchase agreements favored by companies such as Google and Meta are expected to rise sharply as data-center demand collides with the expiration of Biden-era subsidies, the FT reports.
-- Higher electricity prices flow straight into AI operating costs and corporate net-zero budgets, strengthening the hand of gas and nuclear energy suppliers just as this week's heat-dome outages exposed tight US grid supply.
5. Cloudflare to let sites charge for any resource via x402 stablecoin payments
-- Cloudflare opened a waitlist for a Monetization Gateway that lets site owners charge for any page, dataset, API or tool behind its network, with charges settling in stablecoins over the open x402 protocol.
-- Per-request settlement over an open protocol gives AI agents a native way to pay for content and gives publishers losing search referrals a new revenue path, pushing stablecoin payments toward internet scale for ordinary users.
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