Crypto

Ether on exchanges falls as staking demand grows, Santiment says

Ether held on crypto exchanges has declined over the past six months, Santiment said in an X post on Tuesday, falling from 12.31 million ETH on exchanges in July to 8.15 million tokens most recently. Santiment analysts said exchange balances could continue to decline as price movements remain

Culture

Halle Berry stuns in plunging metallic outfit at Crime 101 London premiere

Halle Berry attended the London premiere of Crime 101 on Wednesday, Jan. 28, wearing a plunging metallic look as she promotes the film in which she stars as Sharon; Crime 101 hits theaters on Feb. 13. Berry, 59, wore a black bodysuit with a plunging neckline paired with a silver

Crypto

Worldcoin up 50% since Jan. 25; reclaiming $0.66 could open 25% upside

Worldcoin (WLD) has climbed nearly 50% since January 25, with about a 13% gain in the past 24 hours as traders reacted to reports linking OpenAI to a social platform using Worldcoin’s identity tech; BeInCrypto’s analysis says the rally began before the news and the OpenAI angle added

World

China executes 11 people linked to Myanmar scam gangs

China on Thursday executed 11 people linked to Myanmar criminal gangs, including “key members” involved in scam operations, state media Xinhua reported. Xinhua said the 11 had been sentenced to death in September by a court in the eastern city of Wenzhou, and that the court also carried out the

Sports

West Ham send Igor Julio back to Brighton to pursue loan moves for Kinsky and Disasi

West Ham have made space for potential loan moves for Tottenham’s Antonin Kinsky and Chelsea’s Axel Disasi by cutting short Igor Julio’s season-long loan and sending him back to Brighton, the club has confirmed. Manager Nuno Espírito Santo has already strengthened his attack by signing Taty Castellanos

Culture

How Lexi Howard's 'Our Life' Stage Play Became Euphoria Season 2's Wildest Moment

With Euphoria due back for a third season this April on HBO, Collider revisits one of the show's most memorable set pieces: Lexi Howard's homemade stage play, Our Life, from Season 2. Lexi, played by Maude Apatow, spent Season 1 largely in the shadows as Cassie’

World

Prosecutors in Shanxi decline to charge man who fathered children with woman with mental illness

Prosecutors in Heshun County in Shanxi Province decided not to charge a man identified by the surname Zhang with rape after he fathered children with a woman who had a mental illness, a decision that was reported by The New York Times on Jan. 29, 2026 and has touched off

Sports

FCSB must beat Fenerbahce to stay alive — kick-off, TV channels and team news

FC FCSB face Fenerbahce in a Europa League must-win on 29 Jan 2026, kicking off at 15:00 EST / 20:00 GMT, with FCSB needing a victory to keep their hopes of advancing into the playoffs alive, GOAL reports. GOAL lists English-language broadcast options: USA – Paramount+; UK – Premier Sports; Australia

Politics

Kevin Couch resigns as Kennedy Center senior vice president of artistic programming

Kevin Couch, who was announced as senior vice president of artistic programming at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts less than two weeks ago, said he left the role on Wednesday, the center announced. Mr. Couch declined to provide a reason for his resignation. He was formerly

World

CSIS analysis: Russia's Ukraine advances average 15–70 meters a day — slower than WWI Somme

A new analysis from the Center for Strategic and International Studies says Russia's advance in Ukraine over the last two years has been among the slowest in modern war, with average rates of between 15 and 70 meters per day even during its fiercest offensives, researchers Seth G.

Culture

Sam Carver returns to Chicago Fire for a brief visit; not rejoining Firehouse 51

Sam Carver (Jake Lockett) turned up in Chicago again in Season 14's "Frostbite Blue," but his visit was a short one — Lockett returned as a guest star and Carver is not coming back to Firehouse 51 full time. Paramedic In Charge Violet Mikami (Hanako Greensmith), usually

Tech

SDesk: Arch-based Linux distro available now to replace Windows 10 PCs

SDesk is an Arch-based Linux distribution available now, free of charge, and you can install it on as many computers as you need, ZDNET reports — the reviewer tested it as a potential replacement for Windows 10 PCs. SDesk uses the GNOME desktop configured to resemble a "standard" desktop

Culture

Níall McLaughlin awarded RIBA royal gold medal for lifetime contribution to architecture

Níall McLaughlin has been awarded this year’s royal gold medal, one of the world’s most illustrious architectural honours, given by the Royal Institute of British Architects (Riba) on behalf of the monarch in recognition of a lifetime’s work. McLaughlin was first shortlisted for the Stirling prize in

Culture

Margot Robbie, Jacob Elordi lead gothic looks at 'Wuthering Heights' LA premiere

At the LA premiere of Wuthering Heights — an adaptation of Emily Brontë’s 1847 novel about two families on the West Yorkshire moors — Margot Robbie (Catherine) and Jacob Elordi (Heathcliff) arrived in gothic-inspired looks, Page Six’s photo gallery shows. The gallery highlights Robbie and Elordi’s on-theme styling and

Crypto

Optimism approves using Superchain revenue for OP token buybacks

Optimism governance on Jan. 28 approved a proposal to allocate 50% of Superchain sequencer revenue toward OP token buybacks over a one-year pilot beginning February 2026. The vote passed with 84.4% approval from the Optimism community, comfortably exceeding quorum. Under the approved framework, 50% of all net sequencer revenue

Tech

Nioh 3 Steam demo runs well on an aging RTX 3060 rig, PC Gamer says

Nioh 3 now has a pre-release Steam demo, and PC Gamer’s Shaun Prescott reports it runs surprisingly well on his aging PC rig. Prescott notes Team Ninja’s recent PC launches have often been problematic: Rise of the Ronin arrived with stuttering, frame-rate issues and crashes, the studio apologized

Science

West faces snow drought as January snow cover hits record low

NASA Earth Observatory reported that mountains across the western United States had unusually low snowpack in early 2026: a MODIS/Terra image from January 15 showed snow covering 142,700 square miles (369,700 square kilometers), the lowest coverage for that date in the MODIS record (since 2001) and less

Culture

Tiny Love Stories: ‘The Cooler, Funnier Version of Myself’

The New York Times Modern Love column published Tiny Love Stories, a set of reader-submitted pieces of 100 words or fewer, on Jan. 28, 2026. In “Free from Purgatory,” Ann Weissman writes that she knew her father’s life was ending when he welcomed soldiers only he could see, spoke

Tech

Grounded 2 gunpowder clumps: where to find them and what they do

Published Jan 28, 2026, Polygon explains where to find gunpowder clumps in Grounded 2 after the Toxic Tangle update: these rare resources come from buster-caps scattered around the park and require a tier-three Omni-Tool Axe to open. Gunpowder clumps are inside buster-caps, small white capsules set in brown plastic rings,

Business

Amazon Game Studios head Christoph Hartmann reportedly leaving amid mass layoffs

Amazon Game Studios has reportedly lost its studio head, Christoph Hartmann, as the company implements further layoffs. Bloomberg reporter Jason Schreier says Hartmann "is leaving the company." This comes as Amazon makes a further 16,000 company-wide layoffs following 14,000 job cuts in October. Bloomberg's

Business

At Ningbo’s port, booming exports contrast with local housing collapse

Jan. 29, 2026 — In Ningbo, a two-hour drive south of Shanghai, the city’s vast port and export factories are bustling while local merchants and residents report severe economic strain, The New York Times reports. The port handles about 150,000 ships a year and is the world’s largest

Culture

Emberville blends Diablo-style dungeons with Stardew Valley farming; Geralt actor joins

Indie studio Cygnus Cross this week shared an official announcement trailer for Emberville, a life-sim pitched as a cross between Diablo and Stardew Valley, and says the game is slated to launch in early access this summer, Kotaku reports. The trailer and a press release also unveiled part of the

World

Police ‘confident’ Lake Cargelligo suspect Julian Ingram is still alive

Police say they are “confident” Julian Ingram, 37, the suspect in a triple shooting in Lake Cargelligo, New South Wales, is still alive and may be receiving help from people he knows a week after the killings. The NSW assistant commissioner, Andrew Holland, told reporters that investigators believed Ingram may

Sports

Zanotti header sends Corinthians past Gotham in Women’s Champions Cup semi

Corinthians beat Gotham FC in the first semi-final of the inaugural Fifa Women’s Champions Cup at Brentford’s Gtech Stadium, a goal from 40‑year‑old captain Gabi Zanotti in the 83rd minute proving decisive. Gotham manager Juan Carlos Amorós praised his players’ efforts and attributed the defeat to

Culture

Madelaine Petsch says goodbye to Maya as The Strangers – Chapter 3 opens Feb. 6

Madelaine Petsch says goodbye to Maya as The Strangers – Chapter 3, the final entry in Renny Harlin’s brutal three-film reboot, hits theaters Feb. 6, 2026, Petsch told MovieWeb. MovieWeb notes Harlin shot the trilogy back to back to back, an approach the piece likens to the scale of Peter