Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 111, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, hope you had a wonderful holiday season, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, […]
Day: January 10, 2026
January 10, 2026: Ukraine Reels from Major Winter Attack Shutdown
Let’s take a slow breath together and look around the world this morning. Today on Greenground, we’ll glide through some of the biggest stories shaping the global mood right now. No rush, no shouting, just a calm walk through a pretty intense news landscape. https://youtu.be/0StNgFMZJBM […]
Iran’s Protests Hit Tipping Point Amid Internet Blackouts and Nationwide Unrest – 1/9/2026, 8:28:37 PM
Here are some of the most significant world news developments as of today, organized by theme and region. Middle East & Conflicts Syria – Aleppo clashes and ceasefire The Syrian defence ministry has declared a ceasefire in parts of Aleppo (Ashrafiyah, Bani Zeid, Sheikh Maqsoud) […]
Amazon is planning a Super Amazon-mart store near Chicago
Amazon could be taking another, even bigger swing at physical stores, this time with a Walmart-like supercenter. On Tuesday, the Orland Park Plan Commission in the Chicago suburb Orland Park, Illinois voted 6-1 to approve Amazon’s proposal to develop 35 acres of land for a […]
Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards
Since X’s users started using Grok to undress women and children using deepfake images, I have been waiting for what I assumed would be inevitable: X getting booted from Apple’s and Google’s app stores. The fact that it hasn’t happened yet tells me something serious […]
SpaceX gets FCC permission to launch another 7,500 Starlink satellites
Including previous approvals, Starlink can now deploy 15,000 Gen2 satellites.
This semi-secret Lego Smart Brick feature gives it even more potential
We just gave the Lego Smart Brick our Best In Show award at CES 2026, and I wanted to stop by The Lego Group’s suite to get a last glimpse before I left Las Vegas. To my surprise, the company showed off one more feature […]
Betterment’s financial app sends customers a $10,000 crypto scam message
Betterment, a financial app, sent a sketchy-looking notification on Friday asking users to send $10,000 to Bitcoin and Ethereum crypto wallets and promising to “triple your crypto,” according to a thread on Reddit. The Betterment account says in an X thread that this was an […]
Cloudflare defies Italy’s Piracy Shield, won’t block websites on 1.1.1.1 DNS
Italy fines Cloudflare 14M euros for not blocking pirate sites on 1.1.1.1 DNS service.
Meta expands nuclear power ambitions to include Bill Gates’ startup
Meta has forged agreements with three nuclear power providers in an effort to secure the vast amount of electricity it needs to power AI data centers. The agreements with TerraPower (which is backed by Bill Gates), Oklo (backed by Sam Altman), and Vistra are expected […]