Skid Row Are Looking for a New Singer. For the Love of God, Let It Be Sebastian Bach
The Eighties rock band is on a worldwide talent search for another vocalist, but the answer (and the payday) are staring them right in the face
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Stellantis stock plunges 25% as auto giant takes $26.5B charge from electric vehicle retreat
Stellantis shares plummeted 25% Friday after the company revealed a $26.5 billion charge related to an overhaul of its business – including a retreat on electric vehicle ambitions.
Donald Trump unveils website in US to buy drugs at reduced prices
The Trump administration has framed the initiative as a challenge to the pharmaceutical industry's pricing power.
Size matters: Alleged hyaluronic acid penis injections may be helping Olympic ski jumpers
The World Anti-Doping Agency will look into allegations that ski jumpers are injecting hyaluronic acid into their penises to gain aerodynamic advantage at the Winter Olympics 2026.
Rotten Tomatoes Owner Says ‘Melania’ 99% Audience Score Is Not ‘Bot Manipulation’: ‘Reviews Are Verified… Users Bought a Ticket to the Film’
Rotten Tomatoes’ parent company Versant is denying any tampering is going on with the “Melania” audience scores on the review aggregator website. The Amazon MGM-backed documentary has a 99% audience score compared to a disastrous 7% critics score as of the Friday morning
Tinder Hasn’t Worked, So I’m Putting Myself...
Tinder Hasn’t Worked, So I’m Putting Myself on Zillow . “I realize that my late-’80s construction might not land me in the “trending” section right away…” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
Rogue Squadron screenwriter reveals new details about the canceled Star Wars movie
Rogue Squadron writer Matthew Robinson hints at the Star Wars movie’s uncertain future amid Lucasfilm’s leadership shakeup.
Trump shares video with brief clip depicting Obamas as apes
President Trump shared a video late Thursday that includes a brief clip of former President Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama depicted as apes. The video was immediately criticized by Democrats as racist, while the White House said it was from a meme related to "The
The Monstrous Appetite of Japanese Giant Salamanders
Body size pushes these river monsters to become apex predators The post The Monstrous Appetite of Japanese Giant Salamanders appeared first on Nautilus .
China is on the war path, and only a strong US-Japan alliance can stop it
Tensions in the Taiwan Strait have reached heights unseen since the end of the Cold War.
Brandy, Pharrell, Justin Timberlake and Kirk Franklin Light Up 2026 Black Music Collective Honors
The Recording Academy Honors Presented by the Black Music Collective has established itself as one of Grammy Week’s most prominent fixtures, and the 2026 edition, held last Thursday at the Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles, was no exception. “Honoring Brandy, Kirk and
Engineering heat-tolerant, high-yield rice for a warming planet
Rising day and night temperatures are threatening rice, wheat, and maize production by disrupting plant growth, grain filling, and grain quality, putting global food security at risk. Precision breeding and genome editing offer ways to reprogram plant clocks, optimize flowering
Steam Proton will no longer forget the entire reason it exists if you have a humungous library, as of the most recent client beta
To be fair, I also forget why I exist sometimes.
Watch live: Bondi, Patel, Pirro hold press conference
Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel will speak with reporters Friday morning. The Justice Department officials, along with U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro, are expected to give a joint announcement. The press conference was scheduled
Ted Leo Shares New Post-Punk Tracks, Pharmacists Album Update
Indie OG Ted Leo hasn’t released an album since 2017’s The Hanged Man, but he continues to work all the time, sometimes posting new songs on Patreon or on Bandcamp. Leo wants to get back together with his backing band the Pharmacists in the studio, and he’s trying to raise the
Challenging California's water 'scarcity' narrative
California doesn't have a water scarcity problem. It has a distribution problem, according to Nícola Ulibarrí, whose new research is reshaping how policymakers think about one of the state's most pressing challenges.
Promise the Earth: Why real climate action means restraint
A new book by a Cambridge engineer and an Oxford theologian argues that our faith in technology to solve the climate crisis is distracting us from the uncomfortable truth: that saving the planet is neither a task for future technologies nor for world leaders alone. It is
Google TV 4K Streamer Drops to New Low as Amazon Fire TV and Roku Streaming Device Deals Heat Up for the Super Bowl
Upgrade the way you stream without overpaying.
Guild Wars 2 finally gets the long-awaited option to create fashion templates, so why is the community so angry?
"Over 1,500 words to explain how to change skins in the game. Unbelievable."
Thailand Election 2026: Major parties make final push in Bangkok as Feb 8 vote looms
The three major parties hoping to lead Thailand’s next government made their final pitches to large crowds of supporters in Bangkok on Friday (Feb 6), as the country prepares to head to the polls this weekend.
Ustwo Games makes layoffs to facilitate 'PC-first' pivot
The UK studio has made four people redundant.
The evolutionary trap that keeps rove beetles alive
Rove beetles have evolved a neat trick to survive. They cloak themselves in ant pheromones, allowing them to enter and remain undetected within ant colonies. But it comes with a catch. Once a rove beetle lineage evolves this kind of obligate symbiotic relationship, it can never
Over 480,000 summonses issued to foreign drivers in Malaysia over last three years
The summonses amounted to RM25.3 million (S$8.15 million).
I'm the biggest Baldur's Gate 3 fan, but the HBO TV show is filling me with dread
A linear follow-up to my favourite non-linear RPG? Get outta here.
Mewgenics review
Edmund McMillen's ambitious new game is a lesson in embracing the joy of chaos.
For Palestinians returning to Gaza, a bittersweet reunion
By Ramadan Abed and Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA/CAIRO, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Eatedal Rayyan waited for this moment for nearly two years: a reunion with her husband in Gaza, where she says yearning for family and homeland has persisted despite widespread destruction from the enclave's
Luma AI bets on Middle East as next AI compute hub with Arabic world model
Luma AI, the generative AI company behind advanced video and multimodal models, is expanding rapidly, positioning itself among a small group of companies pushing the frontier of artificial intelligence. CEO and Co-founder Amit Jain spoke to Euronews on the sidelines of Web
