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Anaconda reaches $101M, overtakes several Jack Black films including Nacho Libre

Movieweb reports that Jack Black's Anaconda has taken $101 million at the box office, reaching the milestone in its third weekend of release against a $45 million budget. The remake, which stars Black and Paul Rudd and is a meta reworking of the 1997 Jennifer Lopez creature feature,

Business

Oil executives voice reservations about Trump’s $100 billion Venezuela plan

President Trump convened oil industry leaders at the White House to discuss taking charge of Venezuela’s oil industry, but several executives signalled deep reservations. At the highly staged meeting, Exxon Mobil chief Darren Woods said his company had its assets seized in Venezuela twice and called re-entering the country

Culture

Girl sends handwritten apology to New Haven police after accidental 911 call

According to People, a young Connecticut girl named Lilly sent a handwritten apology to the New Haven Police Department after wrongfully calling 911 while playing with a phone on Dec. 21. In a note written with a magenta marker on white paper she wrote, "Sorry for calling 9-1-1."

Crypto

Robinhood says it sought Ethereum’s security when building a layer-2

CoinDesk sat down with Robinhood’s head of crypto, Johann Kerbrat, to get an update on the company’s upcoming Ethereum layer-2 network, its tokenized stocks program and its staking offerings. In the interview, Kerbrat said, "We wanted the security from Ethereum," in reference to the firm’s

Politics

2,400 remain jailed under abolished IPP sentences

Independent.co reports that about 2,400 people remain in overcrowded prisons serving indefinite sentences under the abolished imprisonment for public protection (IPP) regime, having originally been jailed for crimes such as theft. The IPP sentence was introduced by the last Labour government and intended by David Blunkett to be

World

Plunging rial coincides with protests spreading across Iran

Angry protests have spread from bazaars and university campuses in major cities to impoverished towns across Iran, posing a serious challenge to the country’s authoritarian government, The New York Times reported. The unrest intensified after the Iranian rial plunged to an all-time low against the U.S. dollar on

Tech

Guardian tests 13 cordless vacuums and names top picks for 2025

The Guardian reviewed 13 leading cordless vacuum cleaners to identify the best models for 2025, putting each through the same cleaning and battery tests to see which machines collected the most mess. The reviewer tested each vacuum against flour, recycled wood cat litter pellets and pet hair using a single

Politics

Anti-ICE demonstrations spread after fatal shooting of Minneapolis woman

Time reports protesters took to the streets of Minneapolis, Portland and other cities on Saturday as more than 1,000 anti-ICE demonstrations were planned across the United States following the killing of Minneapolis woman Renee Nicole Good by an immigration agent. Demonstrations and vigils began in Minneapolis almost immediately after

Culture

Guardian picks: Industry, Hamnet, The Ten Year Affair and The Cribs

The Guardian’s culture roundup this week recommends picks across TV, film, books and albums, singling out Industry for television, Hamnet for film, The Ten Year Affair for books and The Cribs: Selling a Vibe for albums. Industry, available on BBC iPlayer from Monday, is described as the banking drama

Crypto

Buterin urges a 'sovereign web' of privacy-first, local tools

Beincrypto reports that Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin on January 10 urged developers to build a “sovereign web” of digital tools designed to protect user independence and privacy from corporate control. Buterin argued the modern internet is optimized for corporate profit through data extraction, engagement manipulation and closed platforms — a dynamic

Crypto

Starknet pins brief mainnet outage on state discrepancy between execution and proving layers

The team behind Starknet, an Ethereum layer‑2 scaling network, released a post‑mortem report on Monday outlining the root cause of a temporary mainnet downtime. The report said the outage stemmed from a discrepancy in network state between the blockifier execution layer and the proving layer that verifies execution.

Culture

Netflix restricts Groundhog Day on ad-supported tier

Collider reports that Netflix has barred the 1993 film Groundhog Day from its ad-supported tier this month, placing the movie among roughly 145 titles excluded from that plan; the film remains available to subscribers on non-ad-supported tiers. Originally released in 1993, Groundhog Day is widely regarded as one of the

Culture

Fetty Wap released early from federal prison and moved to Philadelphia re-entry office

Fetty Wap, the New Jersey rapper who was sentenced in 2023 to six years in federal prison for trafficking narcotics, has been released nearly three years early and transferred on Thursday to a Residential Re-entry Management Office in Philadelphia, according to the website of the Federal Bureau of Prisons. He

Sports

Guehi could still win FA Cup after Macclesfield upset due to rule change

Goal reports that Marc Guehi could still win the FA Cup despite Crystal Palace's 2-1 defeat at Macclesfield, because of a recent change to the FA's player eligibility rules. Previously the rule read: "A Player shall only play for one Club in the Competition during

Tech

Best security keys of 2026: YubiKey 5C NFC tops ZDNET's updated guide

ZDNET updated its 2026 recommendations for security keys, naming the Yubico YubiKey 5C NFC as its favorite and adding the Thetis Pro FIDO2 security key as one of its top picks in a January update. ZDNET says the YubiKey 5C NFC is FIDO-certified, combines USB-C with NFC for broad device

Culture

The Secret Agent to hit NEON digital platforms on January 27

Movieweb reports that Brazilian neo-noir thriller The Secret Agent, written and directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho, is set to be made available on digital streaming via NEON around the world starting Tuesday, January 27, roughly two months after its theatrical release. The 2025 film is up for three Golden Globe

Health

Tim Dowling wakes with mysterious scalp and neck pain as family offers little sympathy

Tim Dowling wakes at home with a strange head pain that he describes as not quite a headache, telling his family it feels “like I walked through a low doorway and cracked my skull on the frame” or “like an invisible hand is holding me up by the hair.” His

Culture

Melissa Gilbert called grandparenting 'absolutely heavenly' as husband faces arrest warrant

People reports that Melissa Gilbert said being a grandparent with husband Timothy Busfield was "absolutely heavenly" in a 2023 interview, and that an arrest warrant issued by the Albuquerque Police Department on Jan. 9 alleges Busfield engaged in unlawful sexual conduct with 11-year-old twin brothers on the set

Culture

Novelists who foresaw mass surveillance, the metaverse and today’s dilemmas

This year marks the 85th anniversary of Jorge Luis Borges’s The Garden of Forking Paths (1941), a story about chance, labyrinths and an impossible novel, and prompts a review of writers whose fictions seem to anticipate aspects of our present — from multiverses to surveillance and virtual worlds. Borges’s

World

Chris Bowen to lobby Saudi Arabia and other petrostates ahead of Cop31

Chris Bowen, Australia’s climate change and energy minister and the appointed “president of negotiations” for Cop31, said he will use his role to lobby Saudi Arabia and other petrostates to stop resisting progress at UN climate summits, Guardian Australia reported. Bowen told Guardian Australia a pre-summit focus would be

Sports

Egypt to meet Ivory Coast in AFCON 2025 quarter-final in Agadir

Independent.co reports Egypt take on Ivory Coast in the Africa Cup of Nations quarter-final in Agadir, kicking off at 7pm GMT on 10 January 2026 at the Adrar Stadium. Both sides enter the match having produced three wins and a draw in Morocco so far; neither is regarded as

Tech

GTMfund urges founders to prioritize distribution over product in the AI era

Paul Irving, partner and COO at GTMfund, told TechCrunch’s Build Mode season finale that distribution—not product—is the “final moat” in the AI era and that startups should focus on distribution excellence. Irving said the traditional one-size-fits-all go-to-market playbook that worked for enterprise SaaS won’t cut it

Culture

Heated Rivalry’s Shane Hollander offers a different autistic-coded portrayal

According to Time, the Canadian queer hockey romance Heated Rivalry presents Hudson Williams’ character, Shane Hollander, as autistic-coded in ways that diverge from familiar screen archetypes. Where many onscreen autistic characters share a common set of external tells—awkward posture, twitches, and an arrhythmic cadence—Shane is shown differently: he

Crypto

Bitcoin community marks anniversary of Hal Finney's 'Running Bitcoin' post

The Bitcoin community is marking the anniversary of Hal Finney’s January 10, 2009 post saying he was "running the Bitcoin node software," a message now recalled alongside Finney’s role as the recipient of the network’s first Bitcoin transaction. Finney, born May 4, 1956, pursued a

Sports

Macclesfield beat Crystal Palace in historic FA Cup upset

Independent.co reports non-league Macclesfield, from the sixth tier, stunned holders Crystal Palace 2-1 at Moss Rose, with supporters invading the pitch. The victory is the first time FA Cup holders have lost to non-league opposition since 1909 and came despite a 117-place gap between the clubs. Goals from captain