Culture

Collider ranks 10 most intense PG-13 movies; The Zone of Interest is No. 1

Collider published a ranking on Jan. 29, 2026, listing the 10 most intense PG-13 movies, placing Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest at No. 1. The piece begins by noting that while R-rated films are generally more intense, some PG-13 movies can feel similarly harrowing. Examples toward the bottom

Sports

Bobby Zamora says he once bullied Fabio Cannavaro on Akinfenwa's Beast Mode On podcast

Former Brighton, West Ham and Fulham striker Bobby Zamora appears on episode six of Adebayo Akinfenwa's Beast Mode On Podcast, with the episode out now. Zamora opens up on his playing career and explains how he once bullied ex-Italy international and World Cup winner Fabio Cannavaro. The former

Business

Elon Musk reportedly weighing merger of SpaceX with xAI — or Tesla

Elon Musk is reportedly working on a plan to merge two of his biggest companies: Reuters says he may merge xAI into SpaceX, while Bloomberg reports SpaceX is also considering a tie-up with Tesla. Reuters said a SpaceX–xAI combination would unite Musk’s rockets, Starlink satellites, the X social

Politics

Senate Democrats and White House strike deal to avoid government shutdown

Senate Democrats on Thursday struck a deal with Republicans and the White House to pass five spending bills to fund much of the government for the rest of the fiscal year and a short-term stopgap to fund the Department of Homeland Security while negotiators work on restrictions for immigration agents.

Culture

Kate Burton guest-stars as corrupt doctor on Law & Order: SVU — where you know her from

Kate Burton guest-starred as Dr. Bethany Allen in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit’s Jan. 29 Season 27 episode “Hubris,” playing a Bronx Hospital child-abuse specialist whom Captain Olivia Benson ultimately exposed as corrupt. Burton is a veteran actor with more than four decades of work on television, film

Culture

‘Melania’ premiere in D.C. attended by Melania Trump, Nicki Minaj, Brett Ratner

Amazon MGM Studios’ documentary film ‘Melania’ held its Washington, D.C. premiere on Jan. 29. Melania Trump, Nicki Minaj and director Brett Ratner were among those in attendance. Photos and captions from the event list additional attendees including Dr. Mehmet Oz with Lisa, Oliver and Daphne Oz; attorney Alina Habba;

Tech

France to bar Teams and Zoom for officials, roll out domestic 'Visio' by 2027

France announced Monday, January 26, that it plans to replace American software such as Microsoft Teams and Zoom with a domestic platform called Visio, which will be rolled out by 2027 and made available only to government departments, not private companies or individual members of the public. As reported by

Science

Doug Parkinson leads SLS launch integration and mission operations at NASA

Doug Parkinson serves as NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket lead for Launch Integration and Mission Operations at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville. He guides engineers who monitor the rocket during testing, pre-launch, and launch activities; he joined NASA in 1999 and moved to the SLS program in

Culture

Veiled Fate review: Strategic hidden-role game — Tribunal expansion nearly essential

According to a GamesRadar+ review by Scott White, Veiled Fate from IV Studio offers a slower, more strategic take on social deduction and hidden-movement games, with striking art and simple mechanics; the package retails at $89.99/£67 and plays 2–8 people in about 60 minutes. In Veiled Fate

Crypto

Bybit rebounds after $1.5B hack, posts $1.5T trading volume in 2025

Bybit recorded the second-highest trading volumes among crypto exchanges in 2025, with $1.5 trillion in trading and an 8.1% market share, a CoinGecko report said, calling the performance a 'slow but steady comeback' after a $1.5 billion hack in February 2025. CoinGecko research analyst Shaun

Business

Nexon offers full refunds for MapleStory: Idle RPG after gacha 'deception'

Nexon has apologised for a “serious breach of trust” and said it will offer MapleStory: Idle RPG players full refunds for all in-game purchases made from the game’s launch on November 6, 2025 until the posting of the full refund announcement on January 28, 2026. The move follows a

Culture

Will Eisner’s comics and the Spirit are up for sale

The intellectual property of Will Eisner — including his graphic novels, children’s books, instruction manuals and the characters he created, most notably the masked crime fighter the Spirit — is up for sale, the Times reported on Jan. 29, 2026. The sale also includes an unpublished 72‑page Spirit story from

Tech

Rogers' new Discovery+ forces Canada users to rebuild accounts before Feb. 17

Rogers has launched a new Discovery+ platform in Canada that will not automatically migrate existing accounts, forcing subscribers to rebuild profiles, payment information and settings ahead of Warner Bros. Discovery’s Feb. 17, 2026 shutdown of its version of the service, Collider reports. According to Cord Cutter News and Discovery+

Sports

Joleon Lescott recalls Messi, Euro 2012 and City memories on Beast Mode On podcast

On Aug 14, 2025 former England international Joleon Lescott joined Adebayo Akinfenwa for episode four of the Beast Mode On Podcast. The 42-year-old ex-Manchester City centre-back, who made over 600 professional appearances and won the FA Cup and two Premier League titles, reflected on his time at City and how

Business

Judge allows parts of Epstein victims' suit vs Bank of America; BNY case tossed

US District Judge Jed Rakoff allowed portions of a proposed class-action lawsuit by Jeffrey Epstein's victims against Bank of America to move forward on Thursday, while dismissing the entire, similar suit against BNY (Bank of New York Mellon Corp.). The victims' complaint said Bank of America ignored

Culture

Maria Dizzia helps Olivia Benson expose corrupt doctor on Law & Order: SVU

Maria Dizzia guest-starred in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 27's 'Hubris' as Dr. Ashley Mancini, assisting Captain Olivia Benson and the SVU squad in unraveling a foster‑system corruption case. The episode centers on 15-year-old Riley Williams, who was removed from her home after

Culture

Ariana Grande pokes fun after Vogue Japan photo appears to show six fingers

Ariana Grande poked fun at an apparent Photoshop fail after a fan account posted Vogue Japan snapshots that seemed to show her with a sixth finger — and she replied in the comments, “holy s--t.” Fan Instagram account @ourpinkwitchh shared a pair of images of the “Wicked” star in a cream

Culture

Cairn review: The Game Bakers' limb-by-limb climbing sim due Jan 30, 2026

PC Gamer's review by Shaun Prescott examines Cairn, a limb-by-limb climbing sim from The Game Bakers slated for release on January 30, 2026. The review calls it a sprawling, tactile ascent and describes it as "among the best videogames" Prescott has played in years. You play

World

Lawyer says witnesses could clear Alan Jones of sexual abuse allegations

Multiple witnesses who say they saw no evidence of sexual abuse could clear broadcaster Alan Jones, his lawyer told Sydney’s Downing Centre local court on Friday as the 84-year-old faces trial on historical sexual assault charges. Jones has pleaded not guilty to 25 charges of indecent assault and two

Culture

Space Warlord Baby Trading Simulator skewers Wall Street with absurd baby-trading satire

According to Polygon, Strange Scaffold’s Space Warlord Baby Trading Simulator, out now on Steam, turns the stock market into an absurdist joke by treating infants as tradable assets. Polygon says the game — a spin-off of 2021’s Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator — presents a future where babies are the

Tech

Cherry XTRFY MX 8.2 Pro TMR: hot‑swappable magnetic+mechanical TKL, $249.99

Cherry has released the XTRFY MX 8.2 Pro TMR, a tenkeyless magnetic gaming keyboard that is fully hot‑swappable between magnetic and MX mechanical switches and is listed at $249.99 on Amazon. GamesRadar+ also notes the deck is one of the first mainstream keyboards to use TMR sensing

Sports

MLS to cut a quarter of Spanish-language broadcast talent on Apple TV, sources say

Major League Soccer will significantly scale back its Spanish-language broadcast talent on Apple TV in 2026, cutting about a quarter of overall Spanish-language talent by halving the number of two-person Spanish commentary teams, five sources told the Guardian. The league also plans to downscale some English-language offerings and shift around

Tech

Nintendo limits built-in screenshot and social sharing in Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream

Nintendo says it will restrict certain image-sharing features in Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream, the Switch and Switch 2 life-sim sequel arriving April 16, a change first noticed on the company’s support site after the January 29 Nintendo Direct and highlighted by Wario64 on social media. On its support

Culture

Joe Carnahan accused of sexual battery, stalking and assault by ex

Director Joe Carnahan, 56, has been accused of sexual battery, stalking and assault by his former girlfriend, Michelle Crosby, 45, in a cross-complaint filed amid back-and-forth court filings after Carnahan accused her of damaging his Porsche, the legal papers show. In her cross-complaint, obtained by The Hollywood Reporter, Crosby alleged

Culture

Bad Bunny Summarizes His Future in Five Words: 'Happy, Retired, Eating Tripletas'

On Jan. 28, Bad Bunny, 31, appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and in a round of "The Colbert Questionert" described his life in the future in five words: "Happy, retired, eating, tripletas (a Puerto Rican sandwich), living in Puerto Rico." Earlier in the