Tech

eBay updates terms to bar unauthorized AI shopping agents

eBay updated its User Agreement to explicitly ban third-party “buy for me” agents and AI chatbots from interacting with its platform without permission, a change first spotted by Value Added Resource. The one-line update, which goes into effect on February 20, 2026, specifically prohibits users from employing “buy-for-me agents, LLM-driven

Culture

Ross Finnegan’s Bumblebee cocktail recipe from The Palomar

Ross Finnegan, bar manager at The Palomar in London W1, provides a recipe for the Bumblebee, a cocktail noted for its ginger spice and aromatics from honey and London dry gin. The recipe serves one. For the honey and ginger syrup the ingredients listed are 20g ginger and about 40ml

Tech

Anbernic's RG GO1 controller includes heartbeat sensors and built-in display

Kotaku reports Anbernic has announced the RG GO1, a wireless controller for PC, mobile phones and the Nintendo Switch that features a central 2.5-inch IPS LCD and heartbeat sensors in the grips. The company says the screen can be used for tasks such as reprogramming buttons and turning on

Culture

Arctic Monkeys release new song 'Opening Night' for War Child compilation

Arctic Monkeys have released "Opening Night", their first new song since 2022 album The Car, with proceeds benefiting the charity War Child. The track is taken from HELP(2), a sequel to War Child’s 1995 compilation Help. The original 1995 Help brought together A-list names to raise

Culture

Michael Larson’s Press Your Luck run and how the film alters the true story

Movieweb reports that The Luckiest Man in America, starring Paul Walter Hauser as Michael Larson, dramatizes the true story of an Ohio ice-cream truck driver who memorized Press Your Luck’s board and walked away with $110,237 after his May 1984 appearance. According to reporting cited in the film’

Science

ISS photograph shows red and green aurora over Europe

A green and red aurora streamed across Earth’s horizon above the city lights of Europe in a photograph taken Jan. 19, 2026, looking north across Italy toward Germany. The International Space Station was orbiting 262 miles above the Mediterranean Sea at approximately 10:02 p.m. local time when

Culture

Samantha Podell and Robert Mitchell wed at the Plaza Hotel

Samantha Jordan Podell and Robert Nathan Mitchell were married on Jan. 10 in the Terrace Room at the Plaza Hotel in Manhattan in front of 300 guests. Rabbi Angela Buchdahl of Central Synagogue officiated; Mr. Mitchell entered to "You’ve Got a Friend in Me" by Randy Newman

World

Texas car influencer arrested after alleged sexual assault of 2-year-old

People reports that authorities in Texas arrested 40-year-old Victor L. Corey Paillet III, a local car influencer who posts as "Kandy Red Bread," after detectives said they obtained video evidence depicting the sexual assault of a 2-year-old child. The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office said deputies were called

Crypto

SEC drops lawsuit against Gemini Trust, the Winklevoss twins' crypto exchange

The Securities and Exchange Commission agreed to dismiss a long-running lawsuit against Gemini Trust, the cryptocurrency exchange founded and run by Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, a filing made public on Friday shows. The twins, described in the filing as among President Trump’s closest allies in the crypto industry, have

Crypto

Nifty Gateway to close NFT marketplace on February 23, 2026

Beincrypto reported that Nifty Gateway will shut down its NFT marketplace on February 23, 2026, and has entered withdrawal-only mode effective immediately, urging users to move funds and digital assets off the platform; the company said customers holding USD, ETH, or NFTs will receive email instructions on how to withdraw.

World

12-year-old dies after shark bite at Vaucluse beach near Sydney

A 12-year-old boy, Nico Antic, died in hospital after a large shark bit him in both legs at a beach in Vaucluse, a Sydney suburb, authorities said. Officials said the boy was attacked after he jumped from a popular 20-foot rock ledge and that they believed the shark was a

Culture

Top 10 sci-fi film masterpieces of the past century

Collider published a ranking of the 10 greatest sci‑fi movie masterpieces of the last 100 years on Jan 24, 2026, 10:20 PM EST. The list runs from 10: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) through 1: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). Other entries include Interstellar (9), The

Politics

Gun-rights figures reject claim that pistol justified killing of Minneapolis protester

High-profile gun rights activists and groups pushed back on Saturday at government officials’ statements that federal agents may have been justified in killing a Minneapolis man during a protest because he was carrying a pistol. A Los Angeles federal prosecutor, Bill Essayli, wrote on social media, “If you approach law

Tech

cURL ends bug bounty program after surge of low-quality, AI-generated reports

The developer of the cURL networking tool is scrapping its vulnerability reward program after being overrun by a spike in low-quality submissions, much of it AI-generated slop, Daniel Stenberg, the project's founder and lead developer, said Thursday. Stenberg said the project is small with a limited number of

Culture

Helen Goh shares Breton butter cake recipe with marmalade

Helen Goh presents a recipe for a Breton butter cake rooted in Brittany’s butter-rich baking tradition. Her version uses salted butter, a pinch of flaky salt, marmalade for a fragrant bitterness and ground almonds to soften the richness and lend a tender crumb. The cake is described as dense,

Sports

Staff predictions favor Rams in tight Seahawks-Rams NFC Championship

Cbssports says the NFC Championship will send the fifth-seeded Los Angeles Rams to top-seeded Seattle with a trip to Super Bowl LX at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara at stake, and a staff panel of 12 has published its picks. The matchup has been historically close: the two

Culture

CBI review upholds finding that Hunter S. Thompson died by suicide

A review of the 2005 shooting death of journalist Hunter S. Thompson has confirmed authorities’ original finding that his death was a suicide, the Colorado bureau of investigation (CBI) said on Friday. The review was announced in September after Thompson’s wife, Anita Thompson, contacted authorities with "new concerns

Sports

NBA postpones Timberwolves–Warriors game at Target Center

Businessinsider reports the NBA postponed Saturday's game between the Golden State Warriors and Minnesota Timberwolves at Target Center in Minneapolis. The league said the decision was made "to prioritize the safety and security of the Minneapolis community," and its statement did not reference the shooting. Hours

Science

Dustin Gohmert on Orion pressure suits for Artemis II

In an audio excerpt, Dustin Gohmert, Orion Crew Survival System (OCSS) manager at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, described the specialized pressure suits astronauts will wear inside the Orion spacecraft during the Artemis II mission around the Moon. The suits are designed to protect the crew throughout their

Culture

College film project led to marriage for Casey DelBasso and Christopher Kelley

Casey Irene DelBasso and Christopher George Kelley, who met as film students at Fairfield University, were married in Newport, Rhode Island, in January 2026, with a legal ceremony on January 8 and a Catholic ceremony on January 10. The pair met on the first day of classes in September 2011

Culture

Happy's Place returns with new episode tonight, Jan. 23, 2026

Nbc reports that Happy's Place returns with an all-new episode tonight, January 23, 2026. Season 2, Episode 8 — "The Name Game" — finds Bobbie (Reba McEntire) trying not to let Gabby get her hopes up about a potential pregnancy but accidentally raining on her parade; Isabella hires

Culture

Amelia Gray Hamlin outlines cosmetic procedures, says she hasn’t had lip fillers

Pagesix reports that Amelia Gray Hamlin, 24, told Variety in an interview published Saturday which cosmetic procedures she’s had and denied having fillers. She told Variety, "I’ve always had these lips," and said she is "doing this thing right now called SkinVive, which is a

Business

Trump sues JPMorgan and CEO Jamie Dimon for $5 billion over alleged debanking

President Trump filed a $5 billion lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase and its chief executive, Jamie Dimon, accusing the bank of “debanking” political conservatives — a development that landed at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. In the suit, Mr. Trump alleged that JPMorgan had closed some of his and his

Health

William H. Foege, Architect of Smallpox Eradication, Dies at 89

William H. Foege, the public health leader who developed the vaccination strategy credited with helping wipe out smallpox and who led the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, died on Saturday night at his home in Atlanta. He was 89; Dr. Mark Rosenberg said the cause was congestive heart failure.

Culture

Comprehensive overhaul for third-person movement in Fallout: New Vegas mod

PC Gamer reports that Enhanced Animations – 3rd Person Movement is a new mod offering a comprehensive overhaul of third-person movement animations for Fallout: New Vegas. The mod, apparently the first in a planned series of Enhanced Animation mods, covers general standing movement animations — idle, walking, running, jumping and landing — with