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  Whoops! Credit: Ian Moore / Mashable Composite; Meta If you tried to refresh your Instagram feed, send a quick WhatsApp update, or log into Facebook on Friday morning, June 12, 2026, you were met with an eerie digital silence. You weren’t alone. Meta experienced a massive, synchronized global outage that briefly severed connections for millions of users worldwide. For a few hours, the central arteries of our daily social media habits simply stopped pulsing. The Timeline: Anatomy of a Crash The digital hiccup began in the late morning, catching millions by surprise right as the weekend was kicking off. 9:30 AM ET: Reports begin trickling into outage-tracking platforms like Downdetector . What started as an isolated glitch quickly exploded into a global wave. 10:00 AM ET: The peak of the storm. Downdetector logs over 113,000 complaints for Facebook alone, along s ide thousands of users reporting blank pages, "Query Errors," and abrupt account logouts on Instagram and Me...

Credit: Adam Gray/Bloomberg via Getty Images History was just made on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. With the highly anticipated Initial Public Offering (IPO) of SpaceX officially taking fl ight, the financial world has entered uncharted territory. The stock (trading under the ticker SPCX ) rocketed past its initia l $135 opening price, quickly climbing toward $170 a share. But the biggest headline isn't just that this is the largest IPO in human history. It's the fact that as long as the stock stays above $138 per share, CEO Elon Musk officially secures a title never before held b y a single human being: the world's first trillionaire. SpaceX Starship Ignition. Source: Wikipedia For a long time, the idea of a trillion-dollar net worth felt like s cience fiction. Now, it's a line item on a balance sheet. With Forbes and Reuters calculating his post-IPO net worth well north of $1.1 trillion, Musk is now worth more than three times his closest billionaire...