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“Reflect upon your present blessings of which everyone has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all people have some.”

–Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

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A crew of thieves hit the Louvre Museum in broad daylight on Sunday and made off with a series of priceless artifacts, cementing their spot alongside Danny Ocean and his gang in the Heist Hall of Fame.

How it went down

Just 30 minutes after the Louvre opened, four people driving two motorcycles, as well as a truck with a mounted furniture elevator, pulled up outside of the museum. Armed with grinders, two crew members used the elevator to access a second-floor Louvre window leading into the home of France’s royal jewels.

The thieves then smashed display cases, stole eight jewels in total, and escaped toward the Seine on motor scooters. The whole operation took less than seven minutes from start to finish.

The stolen pieces, many of which are considered priceless, include:

• A sapphire crown, necklace, and single earring from a matching set linked to French queens Marie-Amélie and Hortense
• An emerald necklace and earrings from the matching set of Empress Marie-Louise, Napoleon Bonaparte's second wife
• The crown and corsage-bow brooch of Empress Eugénie, the wife of Napoleon III

However…it wasn’t a perfect crime. The thieves dropped Empress Eugénie’s crown in their haste, leaving behind a glittering clue encrusted with 1,300+ diamonds and 56 emeralds. They also unsuccessfully attempted to torch the lift truck used in the escape.

The theft follows a recent pattern. The Louvre robbery is the latest in a string of high-profile museum thefts across France.

• Porcelain valued at ~$11 million was stolen from a museum in Limoges last month, while ~$700,000 worth of raw gold vanished from the National Museum of Natural History a few weeks later.
• Analysts say jewels and precious metals are preferred by thieves over iconic art, since they’re easier to sell.

Looking ahead…President Emmanuel Macron has vowed the jewels will be recovered, while a manhunt is currently underway for the four heist suspects. But some experts say it's unlikely the jewels will ever be seen again, as they’ll probably be recut to make them less recognizable and easier to sell.

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Amazon Web Services glitched out hard yesterday, leaving millions of users staring at loading screens and wondering if it was just them (it wasn’t).

The impact was widespread

AWS is the world’s leading cloud infrastructure provider (~30% market share), making yesterday’s outage the largest internet disruption in over a year.

Downdetector, an outage-tracking website, said it received ~11 million user reports of outages affecting ~2,500 companies.

• Facebook, Snapchat, Reddit, and Amazon.com were unavailable for many users, while a wide range of financial services—including Coinbase, Fidelity, Robinhood, and Venmo—also reported disruptions.
• The outage affected communication tools like Slack and Signal, some airlines including United and Delta, media/entertainment sites like Disney+ and The New York Times, AI tool Perplexity, and videogames including Fortnite and Roblox.

Amazon said major connectivity issues were fixed as of roughly 6 pm CT yesterday, or ~15 hours after the outage initially began.

Behind the crash: Amazon says the outage stemmed from a technical update to a widely used AWS database service called DynamoDB, which knocked the service offline in Amazon’s Northern Virginia data centers used by much of the US East Coast.

Once those data centers went down, it started a chain reaction where other AWS services also failed and stayed offline for hours, even after the initial problem was fixed.

Bottom line: “When a major cloud provider sneezes, the internet catches a cold,” said Mike Chapple, a Notre Dame IT professor and former NSA computer scientist.

BUSINESS & MARKETS

• 📱 Early iPhone 17 sales are outpacing last year’s launch of the iPhone 16 in the US and China, per research firm Counterpoint; Apple shares rose 4% to close at an all-time high.
• 🤖 OpenEvidence, an AI company with software likened to “ChatGPT for doctors,” raises $200 million at a $6 billion valuation.
• 🛂 New $100,000 H-1B visa fee from the Trump admin only applies to new applicants residing outside the US, per new guidance issued yesterday.

SPORTS, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

• ⚾ MLB World Series is set: The Toronto Blue Jays beat the Seattle Mariners in Game 7 of the ALCS last night, advancing to the World Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers (starting Friday).
• ⚽ US Soccer's 2031 Women's World Cup bid expands to include Mexico, Jamaica, and Costa Rica; that year will be the first to feature 48 teams.
• ⚖️ Sean “Diddy” Combs files appeal over his conviction and 50-month prison sentence in federal sex-crimes case.

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SCIENCE, SPACE & EMERGING TECH

• 🐢 Green sea turtles upgraded from Endangered to Least Concern by the International Union for Conservation of Nature; the species was first listed as Endangered in the ‘80s, but conservation efforts have brought them back.
• 🌐 Wikipedia says human pageviews are down ~8% YoY, which it attributes mostly to Google’s AI summaries.
• 🚀 Transportation Sec. Sean Duffy says SpaceX is falling “behind” the US’ timeline to return to the Moon with the Artemis 3 mission (using SpaceX’s Starship rocket); Duffy plans to open the Artemis 3 contract to other companies, including Blue Origin.

US, WORLD & POLITICS

• 🤝 US and Australia sign new $8.5 billion deal that will give the US access to Australia's rare earth minerals; the close US ally is one of the few countries outside of China that processes rare earths.
• ⚖️ Appeals court allows President Trump to deploy troops to Portland under new ruling; it reverses a temporary block on the deployment that was enacted by a lower judge.
• 🛒 November's SNAP benefits (aka food stamps) could be threatened by ongoing gov’t shutdown, leaving millions of families without access next month, several states warn.

☝️ A large piece of space junk was discovered this weekend in the Western Australia desert, the country’s space agency confirmed. Officials say the remains are likely debris from a spent rocket, with a Chinese rocket identified as a promising source candidate.

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Yesterday we covered how the window for extending billions of dollars in healthcare subsidies for Americans is shutting fast, with enhanced tax credits for the Affordable Care Act (or “Obamacare”) set to expire at the end of this year unless Congress acts to extend them.

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• Let them expire: 29%
• Unsure/other: 13%

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❓Trivia: What animal’s fingerprints are so similar to humans’ that they can confuse crime scene investigators?

🎓 True or false?…About 78% of Earth’s atmosphere (by volume) is made up of nitrogen gas.

🤔 Riddle me this: I am not alive, but I grow; I don’t have lungs, but I need air; I don’t have a mouth, but water kills me. What am I?

🦦 Curious sea otters with a knack for stealing surf boards are taking over a California beach, and its not the first time the critters have hit the waves.

❓Trivia: Koalas; their prints are nearly indistinguishable under a microscope

🎓 T/F: True

🤔 Riddle: A fire

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