Notes Today:

• Investors wipe about $200 billion from Facebook's / Meta’s value (aka the plague on humanity)

• Reno, Nevada, hasn’t recorded a single drop of rain during the entire month of January, a record that goes back nearly 130 years. (Guardian)

• $324 million stolen from blockchain platform Wormhole  

• If you created an online account to manage your tax records with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS), those login credentials will cease to work later this year. The agency says that by the summer of 2022, the only way to log in to irs.gov will be through ID.me, an online identity verification service that requires applicants to submit copies of bills and identity documents, as well as a live video feed of their faces via a mobile device.