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Week 14 of the 2025 NFL season is underway after the Lions defeated the Cowboys on Thursday night. Now, let’s look at what you need to know for the remaining 13 games on the slate. We have last-minute nuggets to know.First, analytics writer Seth Walder breaks down three stat trends that could be pivotal this weekend. Then, fantasy writer Eric Moody highlights five players who are rostered in less than 50% of ESPN leagues as of Saturday and could be started in a jam. That’s followed by NFL analyst Ben Solak’s three potential surprises, NFL analyst Matt Bowen’s key matchup…

Lena Headey as Fiona Nolan in ‘The Abandons’ on Netflix. PHOTO BY MATTHIAS CLAMER//NETFLIX Lena Headey has built a very successful career portraying strong, powerful women. Few actors can weaponize motherhood the way she can. In Netflix’s female-led Western The Abandons, Headey has returned to familiar territory, but with a twist as Fiona Nolan, a barren woman who has raised four orphans. This faith-driven mother is not motivated by bloodlines and refuses to let power, greed, or money drive her and her children from the cattle ranch they call home.Creator and executive producer Kurt Sutter’s frontier story charges in like…

An AI image creator startup left its database unsecured, exposing more than a million images and videos its users had created—the “overwhelming majority” of which depicted nudes and even nude images of children. A US inspector general report released its official determination that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth put military personnel at risk through his negligence in the SignalGate scandal, but recommended only a compliance review and consideration of new regulations. Cloudflare’s CEO Matthew Prince told WIRED onstage at our Big Interview event in San Francisco this week that his company has blocked more than 400 billion AI bot requests for…

With 14,600 deaths caused by suspected methanol poisoning incidents worldwide since 2015, much more needs to be done to prevent tragedies like the death of Simone White in Laos last year (Brain damage, blindness and death: the global trail of trauma left by methanol-laced alcohol, 29 November).Following campaigning by bereaved families and supportive MPs, the UK government has included education about methanol dangers in the national curriculum and strengthened Foreign Office advice to travellers, extending the warning to more countries. We now need a wider national campaign involving travel companies, with a message that in countries such as Indonesia, which…

For the first time ever, Hallmark Channel is teaming up with Walt Disney World for a new original movie. “Holiday Ever After: A Disney World Wish Come True,” will shoot on location at Walt Disney World Resort in Florida and is led by Lacey Chabert and Travis Van Winkle. Richard Kind, Christy Carlson Romano, Taegen Burns and Asher Alexander also star with Patrick Renna in a cameo role. The movie was announced during Saturday’s “The Hallmark Christmas Experience: A Hometown Holiday,” which aired after Chabert’s new movie, “She’s Making A List.” The Disney collaboration film, written and directed by Ryan…

It isn’t possible for the Condé Nast Traveler team to see and do everything, everywhere, all at once—though we try our best! Fortunately, we also have you, our readers. This year you cast an astonishing 757,109 votes in the 38th annual Readers’ Choice Awards survey, sharing your opinions on the very best in travel. You told us you were enchanted by Italian hotels, went on safari in Botswana, took to semiprivate aviation, and advocated for newcomers to the top American cities. We loved poring over the results to find out what’s sticking with readers and editors and spinning the data into a snapshot of the current moment in…

Felicity Hannah,Big Boss InterviewandMichael Sheils McNamee,Business reporterPAWaterstones would stock books created using artificial intelligence, the company’s boss has said, as long as they were clearly labelled, and if customers wanted them.However, James Daunt, a veteran of the bookselling industry, said he personally did not expect that to happen.”There’s a huge proliferation of AI-generated content and most of it are not books that we should be selling,” he said, but added it would be “up to the reader”.An explosion in the use of artificial intelligence, or AI, has prompted heated debate in the publishing industry, with writers concerned about the impact…

ZDNET’s key takeaways KeySmart’s SmartCard is available on Amazon for $40 (3-pack for $90). It’s super thin, has a wireless rechargeable battery, and is IPX7-rated. It needs to be recharged every 5 months or so. Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google.Apple AirTags have changed my life, saving me countless hours looking for keys and other items that I absent-mindedly misplaced.But AirTags have a few design flaws. First, the replaceable battery means you’re chucking away handfuls of CR2032s every year. Then there’s the shape and size. These tiny UFO-shaped devices don’t have a lanyard hole and are too bulky…

Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist Liz Pelly (Hodder & Stoughton) Enraging, thoroughly depressing, but entirely necessary, Mood Music offers a timely, forensically researched demolition of Spotify. In Pelly’s account, the music streaming giant views music as a kind of nondescript sonic wallpaper, artists as an unnecessary encumbrance to the business of making more money and its target market not as music fans, but mindless drones who don’t really care what they’re listening to, ripe for manipulation by its algorithm. Sharp business practices and evidence of its deleterious effect on the quality and variety…

There are a few at-large spots in the 2025 College Football Playoff up for grabs. Given who’s paired against each other, do not expect Sunday’s 12 p.m. ET release (Dec. 7, ESPN) to not officially settle the score. After all, this year’s biggest 11th-hour debate is between old blood rivals Notre Dame and Miami — and did you hear they also played this season?  But there are several points of consternation for the CFP Selection Committee to worth through into the wee hours Sunday morning as it moves to set a 12-team bracket, with a special eye on the weirdness…