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Fleetwood Mac's Most Devastating Breakup Song Is Also Their Greatest

Fleetwood Mac turned fractured relationships into some of rock's most affecting songs. The band contained two couples who broke up during the making of Rumours — Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham split early in the recording process, and John and Christine McVie were headed toward divorce — and the sessions

Sports

Real Madrid prepare €150m bid for Michael Olise amid election battle

Real Madrid are preparing a club-record €150 million bid for Bayern Munich winger Michael Olise, with president Florentino Perez expected to press ahead amid a presidential election battle. Bayern, however, remain determined to keep the France international despite growing speculation over his future. Perez has indicated Madrid are ready to

Culture

Zack Fair to play larger role in Final Fantasy 7 Revelation

Zack Fair has long been important to Final Fantasy 7 despite being dead at the start of the original game. As the Remake trilogy prepares to end next year with Revelation, the team at Square Enix is making him an even bigger part of the climactic finale. Series director Naoki

Culture

Tifa Lockhart Is Joining Street Fighter 6 with a Rebuilt Move Set

Final Fantasy VII's Tifa Lockhart will join Street Fighter 6 as the game's latest guest character, arriving as part of its year 4 slate. Final Fantasy VII director Naoki Hamaguchi said on stage during her Summer Game Fest reveal, “Tifa is a character loved by players

Business

Netflix won’t work with directors who insist on theatrical releases

After Netflix backed out of its bid for Warner Bros., the industry watched to see whether the streamer would remain committed to theatrical distribution as well as streaming, as company chief Ted Sarandos had suggested while courting the studio. Now that Netflix will remain solo, the company has implemented price

Culture

Spielberg and Hanks' The Post Is a Quiet, Effective Newsroom Thriller

With their 2017 historical journalism drama The Post, Steven Spielberg and stars Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep aimed to tell the Washington Post’s 1971 attempt to publish the Pentagon Papers. The film treats that battle over confidential government documents as a vital story about speaking truth to power, and

Sports

Tuchel: England won't block player transfers during World Cup

Thomas Tuchel has confirmed England will not block players from completing transfers during the World Cup, provided any business does not interfere with match preparations. He has adopted a pragmatic approach as several squad members continue to be linked with moves, including Morgan Rogers, Elliot Anderson and Marcus Rashford; John

Sports

Tiger Woods set to leave rehab as girlfriend Vanessa Trump battles cancer

Tiger Woods is expected to finish a three-month rehab stay at a Switzerland treatment center by the end of the month. He entered the program after a March car crash and a subsequent DUI arrest. The timing follows girlfriend Vanessa Trump’s public disclosure in May that she was diagnosed

Tech

Pixel Watch 5 reportedly found underwater near St. Martin

The accidental unveiling of what appears to be Google's next smartwatch has an unusual backstory: scuba diving near the island of St. Martin and a post by Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford. Pitchford wrote on X that "a friend of mine found this watch a few days ago

Culture

Philippa Dunne: 'Someone once saw me in a play and said that I was disgusting'

Born in Dublin and 44, Philippa Dunne trained at the Gaiety School of Acting and co‑founded the comedy group Diet of Worms. Her television credits include Derry Girls and This Is Going to Hurt. Since 2016 she has played Anne Flynn in the BBC sitcom Motherland and its spin‑

Culture

The Legend of Vox Machina season 4 cliffhanger sets up season 5

The Legend of Vox Machina season 4 is the penultimate season before Vox Machina's adventures end in season 5. It's sad news for anyone wanting more from the Heroes of Tal'Dorei, but not too surprising for Critters who watched the original Dungeons & Dragons

AI

The Apple Watch needs a better Siri more than the iPhone right now

Apple's developer conference could mark a turning point: the next Siri is expected to run on Google's Gemini, a notable shift for a company that long kept hardware and software tightly closed. The move has obvious implications for phones, but it may matter even more for

Culture

Jon Cryer reflects on filming 'Pretty in Pink' with Andrew McCarthy

Jon Cryer says he did not get along with Andrew McCarthy while filming the 1986 teen rom-com "Pretty in Pink." "I thought he was aloof and just a d–k," Cryer said. "We had all kinds of issues." The film starred Molly Ringwald as

Tech

Nvidia's 'reinventing the PC' pitch at Computex meets user skepticism

At Computex Nvidia kept returning to the idea of "reinventing the PC," tying that message to its RTX Spark SoC and the claim that it will power "the world’s first Windows PCs purpose-built for personal agents." Jensen Huang argued the personal computer is "really

Culture

Horror Survival Quiz: Which Killer Could You Survive?

A horror survival quiz asks which villain you have the best chance of surviving, offering five killers — Jason Voorhees, Michael Myers, Freddy Krueger, Pennywise and Chucky — and eight questions to calculate your odds. The questions probe first instincts, setting, your most reliable survival asset, the kind of fear that breaks

Sports

David Sullivan resigns as West Ham chairman amid historic allegations

David Sullivan has resigned as West Ham chairman and director with immediate effect after learning that, in his words, "factually incorrect and entirely false, decades-old allegations" about his personal life were due to be published. He ended a 16-year spell at the club and also stepped down as

Sports

I delayed buying a new laptop so I could afford my first World Cup trip

Worchihan Zingkhai grew up in a village in Manipur where football was everywhere despite scarce equipment. He remembers staying up until 3 a.m. to watch his first World Cup on a single black-and-white TV, when the village pooled money for generator fuel. He has watched every World Cup on

Culture

No Country for Old Men: a terrifying, restrained crime thriller

The Coen Brothers' No Country for Old Men is a film about the arrival of a new kind of evil — implacable, arbitrary, and utterly indifferent to the moral frameworks we use to make sense of the world. It trusts silence, refuses to explain itself, and treats dread as a

Sports

Newcastle sign goalkeeper Ewen Jaouen in €28.5m deal

Newcastle United have reached an agreement with Stade de Reims to sign goalkeeper Ewen Jaouen in a €28.5 million deal. The 20-year-old has signed a four-year contract and is set to join Eddie Howe's side during the summer transfer window. Chelsea and Real Madrid had shown interest

Business

I moved from New York to Texas after college because it was cheaper

After graduating with a bachelor's in computer science in 2023, I accepted a software job paying $60,000 a year that required me to move away from Long Island. The company had no office within commuting distance, and rising costs in New York combined with a tough job

Culture

Is SNL new tonight? June 6 host and musical guest

Saturday Night Live is not airing a new episode on June 6. Season 51 concluded on May 16 with Will Ferrell hosting and Paul McCartney as the musical guest. Tonight's broadcast is a re-air of the December 13, 2025 episode hosted by Josh O'Connor with Lily

Culture

Netflix gives Scavengers Reign fans reason to hope for season 2

In recent years some beloved sci‑fi series have not only been canceled but removed from platforms, a fate often linked with Warner Bros. Discovery through cuts to shows like Westworld and Raised by Wolves. Scavengers Reign, created by Joe Bennett and Charles Huettner, premiered as a 12‑episode animated

Culture

Reuniting with my birth mother was far from a fairytale

One morning in late September 2023 I discovered by chance that my birth mother had been killed almost a year earlier. The revelation came from an unopened Google-alert email flagged for her name, Susan Barras, found in my work email bin. We had been estranged for almost 15 years; I

Culture

Jason Statham's $310 Million Transporter Reboot Lands on Streaming

Before he became an action star, Jason Statham made his name in Guy Ritchie films such as Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch. His big break arrived in 2002 with The Transporter, in which he played Frank Martin, a former special-ops driver who delivers mysterious packages under one

AI

I compared ChatGPT and Gemini — a single prompt tweak made a big difference

Contributor Lance Whitney recommends letting a chatbot craft the full image prompt from a short description. His example: request "a sunflower made of sheet metal in a pencil drawing style," then ask the AI to generate a complete prompt for [Nano Banana or ChatGPT Images]. That approach supplies