Man City progressing in talks over €80m centre-back duo

Manchester City are making quick progress with their pursuit of Palmeiras centre-back Vitor Reis, with reports that personal terms have been agreed wth the teenage Brazilian. Lens defender Abdukodir Khusanov also remains on their January transfer window wishlist. City’s stranglehold on the Premier League came to a sudden end as autumn turned into winter, losing … Read more

Lebanese Lawmakers Choose a President After 2 Years of Gridlock

Lebanon’s fractured Parliament overcame more than two years of gridlock on Thursday to choose a new president, a critical step toward bringing stability to a country attempting to recover from economic catastrophe and a devastating war. Lawmakers elected Gen. Joseph Aoun, the commander of the Lebanese military, by an overwhelming majority in the second round … Read more

Elon Musk announces SpaceX will provide free Starlink terminals in LA amid raging fires

Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva discusses the local response to ‘devastating’ California wildfires on ‘The Big Money Show.’ As raging fires ravage California, leaving a trail of destruction in their wake, wealthy business magnate Elon Musk announced that SpaceX will supply free Starlink terminals to impacted areas in Los Angeles.  He made the … Read more

The Fanciful, Mechanical, Monumental Spectacle of CES 2025

At the beginning of January every year, the consumer tech industry descends on the desert boomtown of Las Vegas, Nevada, for CES. The trade show is the largest tech industry event in the world, with over 138,000 attendees and 2.5 million square feet of floor space. It’s primarily a venue for businesses—startups, multinationals, retailers, distributors, … Read more

Polish president wants ICC indictee Netanyahu to be able to go to Auschwitz anniversary, aide says By Reuters

WARSAW (Reuters) – Poland’s president asked the government to ensure Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu can choose to attend the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz Nazi death camp without fear of arrest under an ICC warrant, a senior aide said on Thursday. The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants in November for … Read more

Hackers are exploiting a new Ivanti VPN security bug to hack into company networks

U.S. software giant Ivanti has warned that a zero-day vulnerability in its widely-used enterprise VPN appliance has been exploited to compromise the networks of its corporate customers. Ivanti said on Wednesday that the critical-rated vulnerability, tracked as  CVE-2025-0282, can be exploited without any authentication to remotely plant malicious code on Ivanti’s Connect Secure, Policy Secure, … Read more

Skeleton Crew’s Brutus Continues A Sad Star Wars Tradition

Brutus is a stunning feat of character design. As a Shistavanen, he basically looks like a badass werewolf, his race having originated with a background character from the famous cantina sequence in “A New Hope” (which itself was basically just an off-the-shelf Halloween mask make-up effects legend Rick Baker used for that scene). Since “Skeleton … Read more