Spotify’s 2025 Wrapped dropped on 3 December with a chaotic new obsession: Listening Age, a playful metric guessing which era your taste belongs to. Users immediately turned it into a cultural referendum, older ages framed as superior taste, younger ages roasted as shallow, while Spotify reminded everyone the feature is…
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Physicists prove universe cannot be a simulation: New study debunks simulation hypothesis
Scientists at the University of British Columbia Okanagan say they’ve found a mathematical limit that shuts down the Simulation Hypothesis entirely. Drawing on Gödel’s incompleteness theorem, their study argues that parts of reality cannot be generated by any algorithm, which means no computer, however advanced, could ever build a universe…
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Republican Anger Erupts at Johnson as Party Frets About Future
A small group of G.O.P. women has been among the most vocal in raising what their colleagues say is a broader frustration with the speaker.
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Rogue UK surgeon who turned patients into ‘guinea pigs’ linked to over 200 victims, reports reveals
A public inquiry has begun hearing opening statements into neurosurgeon Sam Eljamel, the former Dundee specialist accused of harming more than 200 patients through experimental or inappropriate operations. Victims describe catastrophic injuries and years of dismissal by NHS Tayside. Though suspended in 2013 and now believed to be practising in…
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Rogue UK surgeon who turned patients into ‘guinea pigs’ linked to over 200 victims, reports reveals
A public inquiry has begun hearing opening statements into neurosurgeon Sam Eljamel, the former Dundee specialist accused of harming more than 200 patients through experimental or inappropriate operations. Victims describe catastrophic injuries and years of dismissal by NHS Tayside. Though suspended in 2013 and now believed to be practising in…
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“I Didn’t Fake It”: Kim Kardashian confronts skeptics about 2016 Paris robbery
Nearly a decade after her Paris robbery, Kim Kardashian returned to testify against the ten accused, confronting lingering skepticism, including from ex-husband Kanye West. In The Kardashians, she recounted the trauma of being tied up and robbed of $10 million in jewelry, the emotional toll of disbelief, and the sense…
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WordPress.org blog: State of the Word 2025: Innovation Shaped by Community
State of the Word 2025 brought the WordPress community together for an afternoon that felt both reflective and forward-moving, blending stories of global growth with technical milestones and glimpses of the future. This year also marked the twentieth State of the Word since the first address in 2006, a milestone…
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‘Dear god, make it stop:’ Home Alone house owner reveals decades of intrusion in new memoir
Former Home Alone homeowner John Abendshien reveals how his idyllic suburban life was upended by the movie’s fame. What began as a fun filming opportunity turned into decades of lost privacy, gawking tourists and strangers treating his front lawn as nostalgic property. His account shows the hidden cost of cultural…
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‘Dear god, make it stop:’ Home Alone house owner reveals decades of intrusion in new memoir
Former Home Alone homeowner John Abendshien reveals how his idyllic suburban life was upended by the movie’s fame. What began as a fun filming opportunity turned into decades of lost privacy, gawking tourists and strangers treating his front lawn as nostalgic property. His account shows the hidden cost of cultural…
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‘Sleepy Joe’ to ‘Sleepy Trump’: How Donald Trump dozed off in a meeting after years of mocking Biden
Cameras captured Donald Trump appearing to doze during a Cabinet meeting, sparking the “Sleepy Trump” meme and a debate about his alertness. This incident, occurring twice in a month, clashes with his “low energy” attacks on rivals and fuels scrutiny of his age and stamina, despite White House claims of…