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BREAKING: Silver reaches $100 for the first time in history. @WatcherGuru

JUST IN: Gold reaches another all-time high of $4,900 @WatcherGuru

I'll pass on your zoom call https://operand.online/chronicle/pass.zoom

Verizon starts requiring 365 days of paid service before it will unlock phones https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/01/verizon-starts-requiring-365-days-of-paid-service-before-it-will-unlock-phones/

BREAKING: Gold reaches new all-time high of $4,800 @WatcherGuru

Reticulum, a secure and anonymous mesh networking stack https://github.com/markqvist/Reticulum

JUST IN - X offline for users globally. @disclosetv

Texas Police Invested Millions in a Shadowy Phone-Tracking Software. They Won’t Say How They’ve Used It. https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-police-invest-tangles-sheriff-surveillance/

NEW: 🟠 Calle says that the upcoming Bitchat update introduces mesh topology with source based routing, enabling far more efficient direct messaging. Mesh topology allows devices to connect directly to each other instead of relying on central servers. Source: https://x.com/BitcoinNewsCom/status/2011086333511680061?s=20

JUST IN - Iran is hunting down Starlink users and confiscating users' terminals, all the while still actively jamming Starlink signals. Read here: https://www.disclose.tv/id/a424fd8ovb/ @disclosetv

Iran has now been under a total internet blackout for over 100 hours, as anti-government protests and brutal crackdowns continue to escalate into their third week across the Islamic Republic.

JUST IN: 🇮🇷 Iran deploys military jammers to shut down access to Starlink, Forbes reports. @BRICSNews

BULLISH: 🟠 You can send bitcoin over Bluetooth 🙌 Calle shows how he uses Bitchat to move Cashu e-cash directly from Android to iPhone, phone to phone, no internet needed on the sender side. Source: https://x.com/TFTC21/status/2008643606874386816?s=20

Why Linux is my choice.

Iran's internet shutdown is chillingly precise and may last some time https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/10/irans-internet-shutdown-is-strikingly-sophisticated-and-may-last-some-time

NEW - Over 17 million Instagram users have had their personal details leaked and released onto the dark web in a data breach. Read here: https://www.disclose.tv/id/8401ota8tw/ @disclosetv