Saudi civil defense said ballistic missiles launched by Houthi militants toward the Mecca and Medina regions were intercepted; debris from the interceptions fell to the ground.

CEIC2026 Consumer Electronics Innovation Conference released its Top 10 consumer electronics trends, highlighting shifts in sensing, spatial computing, edge AI, connectivity, edge–cloud compute and AI-driven design. The ten trends: ubiquitous sensing devices enabling seamless, unobtrusive personal intelligence; immersive spatial interaction making spatial experiences widely accessible; warm, human-like intelligent avatars and routine human–machine collaboration; proactive edge AI and embodied personal assistants; transition from devices to autonomous intelligent agents with accelerated connectivity upgrades; spatial computing and spatial intelligence opening the physical world to agents; edge–cloud collaborative compute bases rewriting terminal capabilities and form factors; networks evolving from access gateways into AI service hubs reshaping AI service rules; interoperability moving from within ecosystems to across ecosystems, unlocking incremental space; and AI remaking the consumer electronics innovation paradigm from engineering design to creative realization.

The Pentagon on the 23rd released 10 files on unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP), the seventh batch of such disclosures since May. UAP is the U.S. government's term for unexplained phenomena in air, space, land or sea, including UFOs. According to the released report, three federal agents this year near a U.S. secure facility observed a matte-black triangular object with an estimated 4.5m wingspan. The object rose vertically to about 90m above a ridge without tilting, hovered for roughly 20 seconds, then accelerated horizontally—covering approximately 2.4km in about 3 seconds, a speed the report likened to fighter jets—emitted no sound and disappeared.