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🔴 According to BFMTV, merchants are being urged to hire private security agents ahead of the upcoming demonstrations.
So the state is no longer able to ensure the safety of its citizens?
Yesterday, we discussed how consent to taxation could falter. Find our article in the comments.

🚨 AI attacks, critical vulnerabilities, wave of leaks: cybersecurity sees a historic week
In just a few days, alerts have multiplied.
🤖 AI attacks are scaling up. Microsoft revealed that a China-linked group used AI agents to target hundreds of organizations, sometimes gaining privileged cloud access in less than three hours. CrowdStrike, for its part, identified four hacker groups using autonomous agents, one of which compromised at least 15 Argentine healthcare facilities.
🔓 Critical vulnerabilities are piling up:
- PHP: two vulnerabilities allowing a server to be taken over without crede

What happened in the crypto market overnight?
• Meta was ordered to pay $25 billion for misleading its users about the privacy of their data
• Lighter will apply for a U.S. license in November and plans to integrate Robinhood’s offering after approval
• Polymarket put the Democrats’ chances of winning the Senate in 2026 at 67%, compared with 34% for the Republicans

Faced with the deterioration of public services and a growing sense of insecurity, more and more French people are questioning how their taxes are actually used.
According to the latest barometer, 78 % consider them too high, and only 22 % trust the state to use public money properly, even though 79 % still consider paying taxes a civic duty.
With mandatory levies at 43.6 % of GDP, dissatisfaction is clear: 58 % of French people say they are unhappy with how public services operate.
Added to this is the rise in attacks targeting cryptocurrency holders (nearly 90 cases recorded between January