Iran Protests and Crackdown Iran’s protests appear quelled after a deadly crackdown, with no major unrest reported in Tehran or elsewhere for days amid an ongoing internet blackout.[1] A US-based rights group reports a death toll of 3,090, the highest in decades, verified by activists […]
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The LG C5 and Apple’s M4 Mac Mini are both steeply discounted this weekend
Happy Saturday, folks! This week, Best Buy kicked off its so-called “Winter Sale,” introducing a whole host of price cuts that range from not-so-good to legitimately great, at least for this time of year. We’ll be publishing many of the highlights in a dedicated news […]
Syrian Army Advances East of Aleppo as Kurdish Forces Withdraw Amid Rising Tensions
Syrian Army Advances East of Aleppo Following Kurdish Forces’ Withdrawal Syrian government forces have rapidly advanced into key areas east of Aleppo, including Deir Hafer and Maskanah, after the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announced their withdrawal on January 16, 2026.[3][4] This move comes amid […]
Archaeologists find a supersized medieval shipwreck in Denmark
The sunken ship reveals that the medieval European economy was growing fast.
X is still having issues following an hour-long outage on Friday
On Friday morning, X and Grok went offline for users around the world on both the websites and apps. Outage reports began spiking on DownDetector around 10:00AM ET, while Cisco’s ThousandEyes outage map noted over 600 X servers around the world that were having problems. […]
Verizon, Frontier to complete $10B merger after approvals from FCC and states
Verizon touts “expanded reach of almost 30 million fiber passings” across US.
Mandiant releases rainbow table that cracks weak admin password in 12 hours
Windows laggards still using the vulnerable hashing function: Your days are numbered.
Iran on Edge: Deadly Protests and US Military Moves Stir Global Tensions – 1/16/2026, 8:28:34 PM
Top world news headlines as of January 16, 2026, center on escalating tensions in Iran amid deadly protests, US military posturing, and global ripple effects, alongside developments in Myanmar, Gaza, Venezuela, and the Arctic. Iran Protests and International Response Nationwide anti-government protests in Iran, triggered […]
NASA’s Crawler Gears Up for Historic Artemis II Moon Mission Rollout
NASA’s Crawler Preps for Artemis II Rollout: The Final Journey to the Launch Pad As NASA stands on the threshold of its most ambitious lunar mission in over five decades, one of the space agency’s most critical—yet often overlooked—pieces of equipment is preparing for its […]
RAM shortage chaos expands to GPUs, high-capacity SSDs, and even hard drives
GPU makers may prioritize more profitable models; large SSDs are harder to find.