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If you like playing daily word games like Wordle, then Hurdle is a great game to add to your routine.

There are five rounds to the game. The first round sees you trying to guess the word, with correct, misplaced, and incorrect letters shown in each guess. If you guess the correct answer, it'll take you to the next hurdle, providing the answer to the last hurdle as your first guess. This can give you several clues or none, depending on the words. For the final hurdle, every correct answer from previous hurdles is shown, with correct and misplaced letters clearly shown.

An important note is that the number of times a letter is highlighted from previous guesses does necessarily indicate the number of times that letter appears in the final hurdle.

If you find yourself stuck at any step of today's Hurdle, don't worry! We have you covered.

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A unit of garlic.

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CLOVE

Hurdle Word 2 hint

A subject.

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TOPIC

Hurdle Word 3 hint

A venomous snake.

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ADDER

Hurdle Word 4 hint

Magic.

Hurdle Word 4 answer

CHARM

Final Hurdle hint

Split again.

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RECUT

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The Moon is in its Waning Crescent phase, meaning it's less than half visible. Soon, there won't be anything to see at all. But for now, there's still enough illuminated that we can see some features on its surface. Keep reading to find out what you can spot.

What is today’s Moon phase?

As of Monday, Jan. 12, the Moon phase is Waning Crescent. According to NASA's Daily Moon Guide, 33% of the Moon will be lit up tonight.

Tonight, with just your naked eye you'll should be able to see the Oceanus Procellarum Plateau and the Kepler Crater. If you have binoculars, you'll also be able to see the Grimaldi Basin and the Mare Humorum. If you're lucky enough to have a telescope in your kit, this will help you see all this plus the Apollo 12 landing spot and the Schiller Crater.

When is the next Full Moon?

The next Full Moon will be on Feb. 1. The last full moon was on Jan. 3.

What are Moon phases?

According to NASA, the Moon takes about 29.5 days to complete a full orbit, a period known as the lunar cycle. As it moves around Earth, the Moon goes through a series of eight distinct phases. The same side of the Moon always faces our planet, but the sunlight hitting it changes depending on its position in orbit. This is why the Moon can appear fully lit, partially lit, or completely dark at different times. The eight phases that make up the lunar cycle are:

New Moon - The Moon is between Earth and the sun, so the side we see is dark (in other words, it's invisible to the eye).

Waxing Crescent - A small sliver of light appears on the right side (Northern Hemisphere).

First Quarter - Half of the Moon is lit on the right side. It looks like a half-Moon.

Waxing Gibbous - More than half is lit up, but it’s not quite full yet.

Full Moon - The whole face of the Moon is illuminated and fully visible.

Waning Gibbous - The Moon starts losing light on the right side. (Northern Hemisphere)

Third Quarter (or Last Quarter) - Another half-Moon, but now the left side is lit.

Waning Crescent - A thin sliver of light remains on the left side before going dark again.

Industry's Season 4 premiere dives headfirst into the debate around online age verification, with the London-set series introducing an Online Safety Bill that mirrors the UK's own age-verification law.

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The law instates age checks on sites with explicit content so that minors can't use the sites. Ways of confirming a user's age include facial recognition and banking information. Similar laws are going into effect in the United States and around the world, but experts have sounded the alarm on potential security and privacy concerns.

Age verification takes center stage in Industry's Season 4 premiere.

Despite art mimicking reality on Industry, age verification was less of the hot-button issue it is now when the show's co-creators Mickey Down and Konrad Kay began working on the season. While earlier, failed iterations of age verification had been floated in the UK in 2019, then in 2022, age verification only officially went into effect in July of 2025.

"We actually ended up writing about it and filming it before it became a thing in the UK, without any sort of consultant inside scoop on it," Kay told Mashable in a video interview alongside Down.

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That prescience winds up working in Industry's favor. Season 4's emphasis on age verification proves the show's ability to keep its finger on the pulse, even in the fast-moving digital age.

In Industry's Season 4 premiere, titled "PayPal of Bukkake," the Online Safety Bill is the catalyst for a major shift at fintech company Tender. Once a payment processor for porn websites, including Industry's OnlyFans analog Siren, Tender plans to shift away from adult content in order to gain respectability.

Industry Season 4 dives deeper into online adult content. Miriam Petche in "Industry." Credit: Simon Ridgway / HBO

This isn't the first time Industry has explored the world of porn. Introduced in Season 3, Pierpoint grad Sweetpea Golightly (Miriam Petche) has a side hustle on OnlyFans. With Season 4, Down and Kay didn't want to leave that thread dangling. In fact, they wanted to complicate their portrayal of her sex work.

"In Season 3, the picture is quite empowering for Sweetpea, and in Season 4, it's depicted a little bit more like exploitation," Down told Mashable. "I think that ambiguity is interesting, and I'm interested to see how audiences take to it. It was a 50-50 split in the writers' room, but we were like, 'Are we telling a story where it's about a character who felt empowered to do something at a young age, who's now feeling exploited by her own decision? What does that mean about her relationship with her own femininity and for female empowerment?'"

Kay added: "The intersection of pornography, of cell phones, the commoditization of selfhood... All of that stuff feels very 2025 capitalism to us, so we ended up leaning into it all."

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On top of building more character moments for Sweetpea, Industry Season 4's focus on porn and age verification also allowed Down and Kay to further integrate the UK government into the season, especially as age verification has been a "political football" for quite some time, as Down put it.

"It was difficult to understand on what side of the political aisle people were on about it, because you had some right-wing commentary about why it was a great thing, and you had some right-wing commentary about how it was a terrible thing, because it was really about free speech and freedom of expression," Down told Mashable.

In Industry, though, the Labour government is the one pushing the bill, which soon gets them embroiled with Tender.

"It felt like a great opening gambit for the Labour Party in Season 4," Down said. "The Labour Party now feels like an ideologically complex and compromised institution to me, because they've come into the government with really good, highfalutin ideas, but they are backed with the same kind of hedge fund money and the same sort of media superstructure behind them that the Conservative government was, and that's kind of what the season's about."

While it plays a big role in the premiere, much of Industry's discussion of porn and age verification takes a backseat to the meat of the season: What, exactly, is going on with Tender?

The bait and switch is something Industry has pulled before, introducing one big subject in a premiere before segueing into something new and unexpected.

"With Season 3, you come into it thinking it's going to be about Lumi's IPO, and it becomes about Pierpoint and its attitude towards its own destruction," Down said. "Then [in Season 4], you think it's going to be about the Online Safety Bill and pornography, and all that stuff continued in a thematic way, but it really was a jumping-off point to a story about the payment processor."

There, Down and Kay weave a tale of yes, porn and digital privacy, but also of money's role in government, of shady business dealings, and the rise of authoritarianism. It's a dizzying ride, but Industry never loses control.

"It all feels like part of a capitalist puzzle," Kay said. "Because these things, if you drill into them enough, there is overlap between all of them."

New episodes of Industry Season 4 premiere Sundays at 9 p.m. ET on HBO and HBO Max.

The NYT Connections puzzle today is not too difficult to solve if you don't break an oath.

Connections is the one of the most popular New York Times word games that's captured the public's attention. The game is all about finding the "common threads between words." And just like Wordle, Connections resets after midnight and each new set of words gets trickier and trickier—so we've served up some hints and tips to get you over the hurdle.

If you just want to be told today's puzzle, you can jump to the end of this article for today's Connections solution. But if you'd rather solve it yourself, keep reading for some clues, tips, and strategies to assist you.

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The NYT's latest daily word game has become a social media hit. The Times credits associate puzzle editor Wyna Liu with helping to create the new word game and bringing it to the publications' Games section. Connections can be played on both web browsers and mobile devices and require players to group four words that share something in common.

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Each puzzle features 16 words and each grouping of words is split into four categories. These sets could comprise of anything from book titles, software, country names, etc. Even though multiple words will seem like they fit together, there's only one correct answer.

If a player gets all four words in a set correct, those words are removed from the board. Guess wrong and it counts as a mistake—players get up to four mistakes until the game ends.

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Players can also rearrange and shuffle the board to make spotting connections easier. Additionally, each group is color-coded with yellow being the easiest, followed by green, blue, and purple. Like Wordle, you can share the results with your friends on social media.

SEE ALSO: NYT Pips hints, answers for January 12, 2026 Here's a hint for today's Connections categories

Want a hint about the categories without being told the categories? Then give these a try:

• Yellow: Cozy pieces

• Green: Knowledge tiers

• Blue: A pledge

• Purple: Spare change

Here are today's Connections categories

Need a little extra help? Today's connections fall into the following categories:

• Yellow: Living room furniture

• Green: Experience levels

• Blue: Promise

• Purple: Ending in U.S. coins

Looking for Wordle today? Here's the answer to today's Wordle.

Ready for the answers? This is your last chance to turn back and solve today's puzzle before we reveal the solutions.

Drumroll, please!

The solution to today's Connections #946 is...

What is the answer to Connections today

• Living room furniture: ARMCHAIR, BOOKCASE, CONSOLE, FOOTSTOOL

• Experience levels: EXPERT, INTERMEDIATE, NOVICE, PROFICIENT

• Promise: AGREEMENT, COMPACT, HANDSHAKE, UNDERSTANDING

• Ending in U.S. coins: CEFTAZIDIME, HEADQUARTER, MONEYPENNY, PUMPERNICKLE

Don't feel down if you didn't manage to guess it this time. There will be new Connections for you to stretch your brain with tomorrow, and we'll be back again to guide you with more helpful hints.

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Today's NYT Strands hints are easy if you're job hunting.

Strands, the New York Times' elevated word-search game, requires the player to perform a twist on the classic word search. Words can be made from linked letters — up, down, left, right, or diagonal, but words can also change direction, resulting in quirky shapes and patterns. Every single letter in the grid will be part of an answer. There's always a theme linking every solution, along with the "spangram," a special, word or phrase that sums up that day's theme, and spans the entire grid horizontally or vertically.

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By providing an opaque hint and not providing the word list, Strands creates a brain-teasing game that takes a little longer to play than its other games, like Wordle and Connections.

If you're feeling stuck or just don't have 10 or more minutes to figure out today's puzzle, we've got all the NYT Strands hints for today's puzzle you need to progress at your preferred pace.

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The words are related to work.

Today’s NYT Strands theme plainly explained

These words describe job hunting info.

NYT Strands spangram hint: Is it vertical or horizontal?

Today's NYT Strands spangram is horizontal.

NYT Strands spangram answer today

Today's spangram is Resume.

NYT Strands word list for January 12

• Education

• Resume

• Awards

• Skills

• Name

• Contact

• Experience

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Today's Wordle answer should be easy to solve if you love to test things out.

If you just want to be told today's word, you can jump to the bottom of this article for today's Wordle solution revealed. But if you'd rather solve it yourself, keep reading for some clues, tips, and strategies to assist you.

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Originally created by engineer Josh Wardle as a gift for his partner, Wordle rapidly spread to become an international phenomenon, with thousands of people around the globe playing every day. Alternate Wordle versions created by fans also sprang up, including battle royale Squabble, music identification game Heardle, and variations like Dordle and Quordle that make you guess multiple words at once. 

Wordle eventually became so popular that it was purchased by the New York Times, and TikTok creators even livestream themselves playing.

What's the best Wordle starting word?

The best Wordle starting word is the one that speaks to you. But if you prefer to be strategic in your approach, we have a few ideas to help you pick a word that might help you find the solution faster. One tip is to select a word that includes at least two different vowels, plus some common consonants like S, T, R, or N.

What happened to the Wordle archive?

The entire archive of past Wordle puzzles was originally available for anyone to enjoy whenever they felt like it, but it was later taken down, with the website's creator stating it was done at the request of the New York Times. However, the New York Times then rolled out its own Wordle Archive, available only to NYT Games subscribers.

Is Wordle getting harder?

It might feel like Wordle is getting harder, but it actually isn't any more difficult than when it first began. You can turn on Wordle's Hard Mode if you're after more of a challenge, though.

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A test run.

Does today's Wordle answer have a double letter?

There are no recurring letters.

Today's Wordle is a 5-letter word that starts with...

Today's Wordle starts with the letter T.

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Get your last guesses in now, because it's your final chance to solve today's Wordle before we reveal the solution.

Drumroll please!

The solution to today's Wordle is...

TRIAL

Don't feel down if you didn't manage to guess it this time. There will be a new Wordle for you to stretch your brain with tomorrow, and we'll be back again to guide you with more helpful hints.

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Reporting by Chance Townsend, Caitlin Welsh, Sam Haysom, Amanda Yeo, Shannon Connellan, Cecily Mauran, Mike Pearl, and Adam Rosenberg contributed to this article.

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HBO's Industry has never shied away from current events, from Season 2's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic to Season 4's centering of online age verification in the UK. However, in its Season 4 premiere, Industry goes one step further by bringing in a real-life political figure: President Donald Trump.

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The show's version of Trump, played by a Trump look-alike, makes a brief appearance during a scene in which a now-retired Eric Tao (Ken Leung) hits the golf course. He and his fellow millionaire retirees spot Trump from afar, sporting his usual red MAGA hat, and exchange a wave with him.

"Has 47 ever allowed anyone to play through?" one of Eric's friends wonders.

"Not in this lifetime," another responds.

It's a surprising allusion, the ultimate move in Industry's portrayal of a world of wealth, access, and power that the vast majority of its viewers will never see. But more than that, it's a crucial character moment for Eric, indicating just where life has taken him post-Pierpoint.

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For starters, the routine of the golf course is a far cry from the high-stakes, high-pressure, high-speed trading floor Eric used to lord over. It's stagnant, whereas Eric would rather monitor the market's every change — the last thing on his golfing companions' mind.

"He's surrounded by these older white guys who have made loads of money. They have this passive wealth that is constantly compounding, so they just play golf and go to the same restaurant over and over again," Industry co-creator Mickey Down told Mashable over Zoom. "Eric is trying to convince himself that this is the good life and that he isn't feeling the pull of the old life that he experienced in the first three seasons."

Trump's presence on the golf course does actually call back to Eric's "old life." Not his time as a leader in Industry's first three seasons, but his earliest days on the trading floor.

In Industry's second season, the series explores Eric's relationship with his own mentor, a man named Newman. The audience never meets him before his death, but in one key scene in Season 2, episode 4, Eric spends time in his New York office, which has been left untouched since his passing. On the desk is a MAGA hat, a symbol that speaks volumes not just about Newman's ideologies, but also about what his relationship as a white man in a person of power may have been like with his Asian subordinate.

"You go under [Eric's] hood a little bit more in Season 2, you realize that he has this background where he [experienced] some sort of racial abuse from the trading floor in the '90s," Down explained.

Eric's Season 4 interaction with Trump, even if it's from afar, feels like "the apogee" of Eric's complicated relationship with his mentor, according to Down. He recalled adding a reminder of Newman's racism into the premiere script to truly drive the moment home.

"In the script [Industry co-creator Konrad Kay and I] wrote, [Eric's] mentor was this person. Now he's here, waving at number 47," Down said. "It felt like a real moment of, 'Where the fuck am I? How did I get here? How did a kid like me, from where I am from, end up waving at the president, who represents all these things?'"

New episodes of Industry Season 4 premiere Sundays at 9 p.m. ET on HBO and HBO Max.

The 83rd Golden Globe Awards ceremony was held in California tonight, with actors and filmmakers flocking to the Beverly Hilton hotel once more to celebrate the last year in entertainment. Hosted by Nikki Glaser for the second consecutive year, the 2026 Golden Globe Awards introduced the new Best Podcast category for the first time. Even so, the primary focus was still squarely on television and film.

One Battle After Another kicked off the night with the most bites at the apple, boasting a total of nine nominations including Best Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy and Best Director (Paul Thomas Anderson). It ultimately took both awards, as well as Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture (Teyana Taylor) and Best Screenplay (Paul Thomas Anderson).

Also competing for Best Director were Sinners (Ryan Coogler) and Hamnet (Chloé Zhao), which followed One Battle After Another in nomination count with seven and six respectively. Both won two Golden Globes each, with Hamnet also taking Best Motion Picture — Drama.

Meanwhile, The White Lotus dominated the television nominations with six, while Adolescence nabbed five and Only Murders in the Building and Severance scored four each. Replicating its performance at the Critics' Choice Awards a week ago, Adolescence swept the board by winning every single category it was nominated in. This netted the limited series four Golden Globes, as two of its actors had been nominated for Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role on Television.

Here is the full list of nominees and winners at the 83rd Golden Globe Awards. Winners have been bolded. The Golden Globe Awards ceremony was broadcast live from 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT on CBS and Paramount+. 

Best Motion Picture — Drama

• Frankenstein

• Hamnet

• It Was Just an Accident

• The Secret Agent

• Sentimental Value

• Sinners

Best Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy

• Blue Moon

• Bugonia

• Marty Supreme

• No Other Choice

• Nouvelle Vague

• One Battle After Another

Best Motion Picture — Animated

• Arco

• Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba — Infinity Castle

• Elio

• Kpop Demon Hunters

• Little Amélie or the Character of Rain

• Zootopia 2

Cinematic and Box Office Achievement

• Avatar: Fire and Ash

• F1

• Kpop Demon Hunters

• Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning

• Sinners

• Weapons

• Wicked: For Good

• Zootopia 2

Best Motion Picture — Non-English Language

• It Was Just an Accident (France)

• No Other Choice (South Korea)

• The Secret Agent (Brazil)

• Sentimental Value (Norway)

• Sirāt (Spain)

• The Voice of Hind Rajab (Tunisia)

Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture — Drama 

• Jessie Buckley (Hamnet)

• Jennifer Lawrence (Die My Love)

• Renate Reinsve (Sentimental Value)

• Julia Roberts (After the Hunt)

• Tessa Thompson (Hedda)

• Eva Victor (Sorry, Baby)

Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Motion Picture — Drama

• Joel Edgerton (Train Dreams)

• Oscar Isaac (Frankenstein)

• Dwayne Johnson (The Smashing Machine)

• Michael B. Jordan (Sinners)

• Wagner Moura (The Secret Agent)

• Jeremy Allen White (Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere)

Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy 

• Rose Byrne (If I Had Legs I’d Kick You)

• Cynthia Erivo (Wicked: For Good)

• Kate Hudson (Song Sung Blue)

• Chase Infiniti (One Battle After Another)

• Amanda Seyfried (The Testament of Ann Lee)

• Emma Stone (Bugonia)

Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy 

• Timothée Chalamet (Marty Supreme)

• George Clooney (Jay Kelly)

• Leonardo Dicaprio (One Battle After Another)

• Ethan Hawke (Blue Moon)

• Lee Byung-Hun (No Other Choice)

• Jesse Plemons (Bugonia)

Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture

• Emily Blunt (The Smashing Machine)

• Elle Fanning (Sentimental Value)

• Ariana Grande (Wicked: For Good)

• Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas (Sentimental Value)

• Amy Madigan (Weapons)

• Teyana Taylor (One Battle After Another)

Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture 

• Benicio Del Toro (One Battle After Another)

• Jacob Elordi (Frankenstein)

• Paul Mescal (Hamnet)

• Sean Penn (One Battle After Another)

• Adam Sandler (Jay Kelly)

• Stellan Skarsgård (Sentimental Value)

Best Director — Motion Picture

• Paul Thomas Anderson (One Battle After Another)

• Ryan Coogler (Sinners)

• Guillermo Del Toro (Frankenstein)

• Jafar Panahi (It Was Just an Accident)

• Joachim Trier (Sentimental Value)

• Chloé Zhao (Hamnet)

Best Screenplay — Motion Picture

• Paul Thomas Anderson (One Battle After Another)

• Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie (Marty Supreme)

• Ryan Coogler (Sinners)

• Jafar Panahi (It Was Just an Accident)

• Eskil Vogt and Joachim Trier (Sentimental Value)

• Chloé Zhao and Maggie O’Farrell (Hamnet)

Best Original Score — Motion Picture 

• Alexandre Desplat (Frankenstein)

• Ludwig Göransson (Sinners)

• Jonny Greenwood (One Battle After Another)

• Kangding Ray (Sirāt)

• Max Richter (Hamnet)

• Hans Zimmer (F1)

Best Original Song — Motion Picture

• "Dream as One" (Avatar: Fire and Ash)

• "Golden" (Kpop Demon Hunters)

• "I Lied to You" (Sinners)

• "No Place Like Home" (Wicked: For Good)

• "The Girl in the Bubble" (Wicked: For Good)

• "Train Dreams" (Train Dreams)

Best Television Series — Drama 

• The Diplomat

• The Pitt

• Pluribus

• Severance

• Slow Horses

• The White Lotus

Best Television Series — Musical or Comedy

• Abbott Elementary

• The Bear

• Hacks

• Nobody Wants This

• Only Murders in the Building

• The Studio

Best Television Limited Series, Anthology Series or Motion Picture Made for Television

• Adolescence

• All Her Fault

• The Beast in Me

• Black Mirror

• Dying for Sex

• The Girlfriend

Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Series — Drama 

• Kathy Bates (Matlock)

• Britt Lower (Severance)

• Helen Mirren (Mobland)

• Bella Ramsey (The Last of Us)

• Keri Russell (The Diplomat)

• Rhea Seehorn (Pluribus)

Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Series — Drama 

• Sterling K. Brown (Paradise)

• Diego Luna (Andor)

• Gary Oldman (Slow Horses)

• Mark Ruffalo (Task)

• Adam Scott (Severance)

• Noah Wyle (The Pitt)

Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Series — Musical or Comedy 

• Kristen Bell (Nobody Wants This)

• Ayo Edebiri (The Bear)

• Selena Gomez (Only Murders in the Building)

• Natasha Lyonne (Poker Face)

• Jenna Ortega (Wednesday)

• Jean Smart (Hacks)

Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Series — Musical or Comedy 

• Adam Brody (Nobody Wants This)

• Steve Martin (Only Murders in the Building)

• Glen Powell (Chad Powers)

• Seth Rogen (The Studio)

• Martin Short (Only Murders in the Building)

• Jeremy Allen White (The Bear)

Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Limited Series, Anthology Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television 

• Claire Danes (The Beast in Me)

• Rashida Jones (Black Mirror)

• Amanda Seyfried (Long Bright River)

• Sarah Snook (All Her Fault)

• Michelle Williams (Dying for Sex)

• Robin Wright (The Girlfriend)

Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Limited Series, Anthology Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television 

• Jacob Elordi (The Narrow Road to the Deep North)

• Paul Giamatti (Black Mirror)

• Stephen Graham (Adolescence)

• Charlie Hunnam (Monster: The Ed Gein Story)

• Jude Law (Black Rabbit)

• Matthew Rhys (The Beast in Me)

Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role on Television 

• Carrie Coon (The White Lotus)

• Erin Doherty (Adolescence)

• Hannah Einbinder (Hacks)

• Catherine O’Hara (The Studio)

• Parker Posey (The White Lotus)

• Aimee Lou Wood (The White Lotus)

Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role on Television 

• Owen Cooper (Adolescence)

• Billy Crudup (The Morning Show)

• Walton Goggins (The White Lotus)

• Jason Isaacs (The White Lotus)

• Tramell Tillman (Severance)

• Ashley Walters (Adolescence)

Best Performance in Stand-Up Comedy on Television

• Bill Maher (Bill Maher: Is Anyone Else Seeing This?)

• Brett Goldstein (Brett Goldstein: The Second Best Night of Your Life)

• Kevin Hart (Kevin Hart: Acting My Age)

• Kumail Nanjiani (Kumail Nanjiani: Night Thoughts)

• Ricky Gervais (Ricky Gervais: Mortality)

• Sarah Silverman (Sarah Silverman: Postmortem)

Best Podcast

• Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

• Call Her Daddy

• Good Hang with Amy Poehler

• The Mel Robbins Podcast

• Smartless

• Up First

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Not long ago, my colleague Monica made a convincing argument to stop buying 1TB SSDs—a point I actually reinforced in laptops because of their unique situation.

When SSDs first started entering the consumer market, there was a lot of fearmongering about SSD wear and failure. Hard drives with spinning platters were a mature and familiar technology. So it's natural people would choose to stay with what they knew until SSDs proved themselves.

I can’t even begin to tell you how much time I’ve spent lately binge-watching content. But, it's my job, I love it, and I can't complain. This week, I’m bringing you a list of a few titles I recently watched on Amazon Prime Video—some for the first time, some for the second.

It’s been nearly a decade since I used Android Auto for any length of time. Having recently tried an Android phone out as a daily driver, I was reintroduced to the new version of Android Auto—and I quickly wanted to run back to CarPlay.

Walmart is building out its on-demand drone delivery service to an additional 150 stores across the country in another major partnership with Wing.

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The drone company is owned by Google parent Alphabet and first partnered with Walmart in 2023. Since then, Wing has made an aggressive push to service additional retail locations and scale its operations across the country. With the new drone offerings, the company will operate its autonomous delivery drones in 270 locations and service about 10 percent of the U.S. population, or around 40 million Americans, TechCrunch reported. The company has referred to it as the "largest residential drone delivery service."

Building off of infrastructure in the Dallas-Forth Worth and Atlanta areas, customers will see drone delivery options roll out gradually throughout 2026 and into 2027, pushing into major metropolitan cities like Los Angeles, St. Louis, Cincinnati, and Miami.

In June, Walmart expanded its drone delivery service to five cities — Atlanta, Charlotte, Houston, Orlando, and Tampa — and more than 100 store locations, marking the first major retailer to scale drone delivery across five states and hundreds of locations. According to the company, Walmart has completed more than 150,000 successful drone deliveries since launch.

"Whether it’s a last-minute ingredient for dinner, a must-have charger for a phone, or a late-night essential for a busy family, the strong adoption we’ve seen confirms that this is the future of convenience,” said Greg Cathey, senior vice president of digital fulfillment transformation at Walmart, in a press release.

Until recently, I haven't been the type who was interested in using a VPN. It'd slow down my internet, and there wasn't anything I really wanted to watch from other countries that I couldn't already access.

UPDATE: Jan. 11, 2026, 2:04 p.m. EST We have updated this story, initially published on January 10, to include a statement from Instagram responding to concerns about password reset scams, saying that there was no breach of the platform's systems. Mashable Team contributed to this update.

If you get an unexpected password reset email that appears to be sent by Instagram, it's likely a good idea to ignore it. Users on social media have reported an uptick in a scam relying on fake — but very convincing — password reset emails from Instagram.

The cybersecurity-focused TikTok account @ohhackno posted a helpful explainer about the apparent scam, which has racked up some 4 million views.

A thread on the cybersecurity help subreddit has garnered hundreds of upvotes and comments, too. The scam is particularly frightening because the emails do appear to be quite convincing. Folks have reported that the email appears to come from a legit Instagram address and the design looks good, too.

Forbes reported that the sudden uptick in the scam was "related to a breaking story about a leak of 17.5 million Instagram user accounts by a threat actor on BreachForums." In a statement later posted to X, Instagram said there had been no system breach, and that it fixed an issue that "let an external party request password reset emails for some people."

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The best advice in most scam situations is to avoid clicking on any links. It's unclear what scammers could be after, but clicking a sketchy link can put your data and account at risk.

If you receive a password reset email, @ohhackno helpfully pointed out that you can check recent emails sent by Instagram in the "password and security" section of your account settings. That'll allow you to confirm if the message you received was, indeed, a fake.

So be careful what you click out there — as always, slow down and think it over.

BMW has built a reputation for performance and engineering excellence, but one of its most engaging models rarely gets the attention it deserves. The BMW Z4 delivers a blend of open-top driving excitement, balanced handling, and daily usability that feels both timeless and thrilling. Yet despite its strong character, it often gets overshadowed by more mainstream SUVs and high-profile sports cars in the brand’s lineup.

NASA is getting ready to finally send off the crew of the Artemis II, the first crewed expedition to the Moon since the Apollo missions ended in 1972.

Following several test rounds and small delays, the team is now readying to transport its Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft to the Kennedy Space Center. NASA says it's preparing for a potential wet dress rehearsal at the end of January and a launch as early as Feb. 6, the agency wrote in a Jan. 9 blog post. "It is another step toward new U.S.-crewed missions to the Moon’s surface, leading to a sustained presence on the Moon that will help the agency prepare to send the first astronauts — Americans — to Mars," said NASA.

SEE ALSO: Who is the sick astronaut on the ISS? What we know.

The Artemis II mission was originally slated for Nov. 2024, with astronaut Reid Wiseman appointed as commander of a 4-person crew aboard the agency's brand new space vehicle. The scheduled date was pushed back to April 2026, however, and now appears to be ramping up for an even earlier 2026 blast off.

Members of the team include NASA’s Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen. The crew will be testing the ship's life support systems over a 10-day period and travel more than 4,000 miles to the far side of the moon.

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The mission, if successful, may push the U.S. space agency closer toward winning the modern space race, a decades-long effort to get astronauts back on the lunar surface and prime the space body for further scientific discovery, surface mining, and a potential interplanetary existence. The U.S. is up against China's National Space Administration, which has landed multiple crew-less missions on the moon and is shooting for a human touchdown in 2030, and India's Space Research Organization, which became the first agency to get a moon lander to the space rock's south pole. Private sector efforts, including Elon Musk's SpaceX, have also advanced missions toward the Moon, Mars, and beyond.

We tend to bang the Home Assistant drum a fair bit here at How-To Geek, and for good reason. Not only do we love it, but most of you love it too. The more people who discover its raw potential, the better.

Grok access has been cut off for users in Indonesia and Malaysia following concerns that the xAI chatbot's safeguards were ineffective.

Both countries issued temporary suspensions intended to remain in effect until xAI implements safeguards that comply with regulators' demands.

"The government views the practice of non-consensual sexual deepfakes as a serious violation of human rights, dignity, and the security of citizens in the digital space," wrote Indonesia’s minister of communications and digital affairs Meutya Hafid in a statement released Saturday. Indonesia has sweeping internet censorship laws governing content deemed "obscene."

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Malaysia had recently launched an investigation into "misuse of artificial intelligence (AI) tools on the X platform," part of a wave of intervening actions taken by regulators. That investigation followed on the heels of an Indian IT ministry notice directing X to take immediate action on Grok's alleged misuse. The notice alluded to potential violations of the country's Information Technology Act.

French authorities in the Paris prosecutor's office and other foreign governments, including the UK and an EU probe, have announced similar investigations into xAI's technology and its regulation under relevant online safety laws. Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese also issued a statement concerning Grok's deepfake problems, reiterating the country's decision to ban social media for users under the age of 16. In addition, the U.S. based National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) has called on the Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission to investigate X under existing child sexual abuse material (CSAM) laws and the recent Take It Down Act.

UK technology secretary Liz Kendall recently said she would support blocking X outright, should the UK's Office of Communications (Ofcom) conclude the platform violates the Online Safety Act. Kendall said she expects a decision to made in the next few days.

Elon Musk, who has previously said users should face consequences for "uploading illegal content" on X, responded to the threats of a ban by accusing the UK government of being overly eager to censor the company. In a post on X, Musk wrote: "They just want to suppress free speech." Musk also shared several X posts claiming that Grok is being targeted by government officials.

A recent Wired investigation found that the desktop and app versions of Grok Imagine were able to produce sexually violent and graphic material, depictions of celebrities in sexual scenarios, and potential AI-generated CSAM, despite built-in safeguards. The chatbot has a now well-documented track record of producing sexualized deepfakes, including at the request of users who ask Grok to non-consensually "undress" individuals in publicly-uploaded photos.