Culture

Copenhagen fashion week kicks off 20th anniversary, hailed for sustainability

Copenhagen fashion week (CPHFW) kicked off the start of its 20th‑anniversary celebrations on Tuesday, a biannual showcase that has been described as the industry’s emerging “fifth fashion week” and a leader in sustainability initiatives. The event began in 2006 as the merging of two small trade fairs and

Culture

Real Housewives cast goes full ’80s for Miami beach stop of Ultimate Road Trip

The cast of The Real Housewives: Ultimate Road Trip was spotted in Miami on Monday dressed in full ’80s workout gear during a beach-day stop for the road-trip spinoff, Page Six observed. Teresa Giudice, Porsha Williams, Luann de Lesseps, Kyle Richards, Vicki Gunvalson, Gizelle Bryant and Lisa Barlow were among

Tech

French unions call three-day international strike at Ubisoft over restructuring

Five unions representing Ubisoft employees in France have called for a "massive international strike by all Ubisoft employees," urging a three-day walkout in February in response to the company’s recent restructuring, return-to-office mandate and layoffs. The overhaul announced last week cancels six games in development, including the

Tech

Samsung confirms 'pixel level' privacy feature for next Galaxy phones

Samsung says it is preparing a new privacy feature that works "at a pixel level" for its next Galaxy phones, the company announced in a blog post, and it may be shown at the rumored late‑February Galaxy Unpacked event where the Galaxy S26 lineup is expected to

Culture

Group SNE to adapt Elden Ring Nightreign into TTRPG, due spring 2026

Group SNE announced on Jan. 26 that it is adapting FromSoftware’s Elden Ring: Nightreign into a tabletop role‑playing game, with the release slated for sometime this spring, Polygon reported. Polygon noted Group SNE’s pedigree: the studio created Sword World RPG, which was so popular in Japan it

Culture

Omelet You Cook moves up to Feb 8 to avoid Slay the Spire 2’s March launch

Cooking roguelike Omelet You Cook has moved its full 1.0 release forward to February to avoid overlapping with Slay the Spire 2’s planned March launch, creator Dan Schumacher told GamesRadar+. The game will leave Early Access and go 1.0 on Steam on February 8. Schumacher said the

Science

NASA’s Arcstone Completes Technology Demonstration, Begins Extended Operations

NASA’s Arcstone instrument successfully completed its technology demonstration and now begins extended operations. Arcstone launched June 23 on a SpaceX Transporter-14 from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on a six-month mission to measure light reflected by the Moon. The mission is led by NASA’s Langley Research Center

Tech

UGREEN FineTrack 4-pack drops to $23 on Amazon — four Find My trackers for ~$5 each

Amazon has cut the price of UGREEN's Find My-certified FineTrack 4-pack by 34%, offering the bundle for $23, Kotaku reports. That works out to just over $5 per tracker. Kotaku notes Apple AirTags cost around $30 each, so you can get four trackers with similar functionality for less

Culture

Netflix picks up live-action Gundam film starring Sydney Sweeney, Noah Centineo

Netflix has secured distribution rights to a live-action Gundam feature film, according to Deadline. The project is set to star Sydney Sweeney and Noah Centineo, and will be written and directed by Jim Mickle, with Legendary Pictures and Bandai Namco Filmworks producing. The film would be the first live-action feature

Culture

Rosie O'Donnell recalls Penny Marshall saying 'Don't do it so gay' on League set

Rosie O'Donnell said on the podcast We Can Do Hard Things with Glennon Doyle in Dec. 2025 that director Penny Marshall gave her a surprising note during filming of the 1992 film A League of Their Own: 'Rosie, do it again, but don't do it

Culture

South Africa Cancels Release of ‘Melania’ Documentary

A new documentary about first lady Melania Trump, scheduled to open worldwide on Friday, was pulled from South African theaters on Wednesday, the film's local distributor said. Thobashan Govindarajulu, the head of sales and marketing for distributor Filmfinity, said, "Based on recent developments, we’ve taken the

Crypto

PUMP Hits Resistance After 20% Rally — Two Patterns Still Target $0.0045

PUMP token price jumped more than 20% over the past 24 hours and is now pressing into resistance near $0.0031, but the January 13 breakout remains intact and the move looks like consolidation rather than a reversal, BeInCrypto reports. On January 13 PUMP broke out of the handle of

Culture

The Vampire Diaries surges on Netflix, ranks ninth most-watched globally

Per FlixPatrol, The Vampire Diaries is trending again on streaming platforms and is currently the ninth most-watched show globally on Netflix, Collider reported on Jan. 28, 2026 — 17 years after the series debuted. FlixPatrol’s ranking places The Vampire Diaries between WWE Raw and the South Korean reality show Single&

Culture

Springsteen releases 'Streets of Minneapolis' in response to Minneapolis ICE shootings

Bruce Springsteen released a new song, "Streets of Minneapolis," on Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2026, saying it was written in response to two fatal shootings by federal immigration enforcement agents in Minneapolis this month. Mr. Springsteen said he wrote the song on Saturday, the same day immigration agents killed

Sports

Oscar Bobb poised to join Fulham for £27m after Semenyo arrival

Per The Athletic, Manchester City winger Oscar Bobb is poised to complete a £27 million move to Fulham after the clubs agreed a fee that includes a 20 per cent sell-on clause. City also retain the right to match any future bid for the Norway international, and Bobb is expected

Culture

Gwyneth Paltrow, Dakota Johnson and more back 7 buzzy celebrity sex-wellness brands

Celebrities from Gwyneth Paltrow to Halle Berry and Naomi Watts are putting their names on sexual wellness products, Page Six Style reports, highlighting seven buzzy celebrity-backed sex toy and intimacy brands to try in 2026. Dakota Johnson invested in and became co-creative director of Maude in 2020 and has promoted

Culture

Paradox moves up Bloodlines 2 2026 expansion windows in new roadmap

Paradox Interactive and The Chinese Room have rolled out a 2026 roadmap for Vampire: The Masquerade — Bloodlines 2, saying both planned expansions may arrive slightly earlier than previously indicated. The roadmap lays out what Paradox intends to deliver over the next year, and the publisher appears committed to supporting the

Politics

Texas sues Delaware nurse practitioner over mailed abortion pills

The attorney general of Texas, Ken Paxton, filed a lawsuit on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2026, in Jefferson County accusing Debra Lynch, a Delaware nurse practitioner who operates the telehealth service Her Safe Harbor, of prescribing and shipping abortion pills to residents of Texas in violation of that state’s abortion

Culture

Fans see Darth Talon hints in Dave Filoni’s Maul — Shadow Lord trailer

Star Wars: Maul — Shadow Lord, an animated series created by Dave Filoni, will stream on Disney Plus on April 6, and fans are already spotting possible ties to the Extended Universe. A teaser trailer shows a pink Twi’lek named Devon Izara alongside Maul, prompting speculation she could become Darth

Culture

Dune: Awakening Chapter 3 abolishes tax and adds easier return with a bigger endgame

Funcom says Chapter 3 for Dune: Awakening will deliver “A BIGGER, BETTER ENDGAME” and make it easier for lapsed players to return, the developer told fans in a Steam post and to GamesRadar+. The studio says it combined player feedback with in‑game telemetry to shape the update, and acknowledges

Culture

Void War delisted from Steam after DMCA claim citing 'Mal Reynolds', developer says

Void War, a Warhammer 40,000–inspired strategy roguelite from indie studio Tundra, has been removed from Steam after a DMCA takedown purportedly sent by Warhammer owner Games Workshop. Tundra says it received no direct communication from Games Workshop and that Valve's evidence for the complaint was Games

Culture

A24's undertone: Ian Tuason turns sound and imagination into a horror experience

A24’s undertone, directed by Ian Tuason, premiered at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival and is described in a MovieWeb review by Zachary Lee as an early contender for one of 2026’s most terrifying horror films. The review calls undertone a slow-burning mystery that crescendos into a nightmarish, audio-driven

Culture

Annie Todt says her dad became 'instant besties' with her adopted sons and moved nearby

Annie Elble Todt tells PEOPLE her father bonded instantly with the two sons she adopted through foster care — and later moved down the street so he could be near them. Todt says reunification is always the goal when you foster, and she had said goodbye to five children before taking

Politics

Keir Starmer’s team issued burner phones and lead-lined bags for China visit

Keir Starmer’s team has been issued with burner phones, fresh SIM cards and temporary email addresses for a visit to China, the Guardian reports. The measures are intended to prevent devices being loaded with spyware or UK government servers being hacked into. The paper says such tactics are par

Crypto

Chainalysis: Chinese-language money laundering networks handled $16.1B in 2025

Chainalysis’s 2026 Crypto Crime Report (released Jan. 27) found that Chinese-language money laundering networks (CMLNs), largely run via Telegram, processed $16.1 billion in 2025 and now account for about 20% of known cryptocurrency money laundering activity. The report says CMLNs operated through more than 1,799 active wallets