DefenseNews

What is the US Army doing in Panama? A bit of everything.

October 17, 2026
Muted American flag patches on the right shoulders of camouflage-clad men and women in the jungle are one sign of an expanding partnership between the U.S. and Panama. American optometrists in the country’s Darién Province are another. U.S. military salvage and dive teams training near the Panama Canal offer a third. As Washington shifts its attention toward the Western Hemisphere, a…
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GamingNews

Trollheim: Gnomes Aims to Bring the Mystery and Whimsy of Nordic Folklore to a Survival Crafting Game

October 16, 2026
Trollheim: Gnomes, a new survival crafting game for PC based on Nordic folklore that IGN announced as part of IGN Fan Fest, comes from a team of ex-Mojang developers who all grew up playing in the Nordic woods and hearing folk tales of Sprýg Gnomes and other creatures and want to make a game about it. I got an early look at it, and there’s one key thing that might set it apart in a very…
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CryptoNews

XRP Whales Move 1.67 Billion Tokens to Binance as Price Slips

October 16, 2026
Large XRP holders have transferred 1.669 billion XRP to Binance over the past 30 days, pushing the exchange’s whale inflow metric to its highest level in seven months, according to Cryptoquant contributor Arab Chain. The activity comes as XRP trades near $1.33 following a…
CryptoNews

Three Canadian Soldiers Arrested in Armed Crypto Kidnapping Plot

October 16, 2026
The men were part of a group of seven that conducted a violent cryptocurrency abduction targeting a victim in Toronto back in July. The group attempted to take custody of the victim’s crypto assets and eventually let him go, warning him not to contact the police. Key Takeaways Three Canadian military members were among seven arrested in Toronto for an armed crypto-kidnapping plot. Police seized…
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NewsSpace

SpaceX wants to launch Starship more than 450 times per year from South Texas

October 16, 2026
SpaceX wants to start flying its Starship megarocket a lot more often. The company has requested permission to launch Starship from its Starbase site in South Texas up to 456 times per year. That’s a big jump from the currently allowed cadence of 25. The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is in the early stages of reviewing the request. Today (Oct. 14), the agency announced…
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