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Bill ConnellyDec 5, 2025, 07:30 AM ETCloseBill Connelly is a writer for ESPN. He covers college football, soccer and tennis. He has been at ESPN since 2019.It took a while for college football to orient itself this season. Three of the top four teams in the preseason AP Top 25 poll started poorly, and only one really recovered. Nine of the preseason top 17 went 8-4 or worse. Meanwhile, some teams that were expected to be good — preseason No. 20 Indiana, No. 21 Ole Miss and No. 23 Texas Tech — turned out to be playoff-caliber dynamite.Things were pretty…

Angie BrownEdinburgh and East reporterEPAEdinburgh Airport said disruption was caused by an IT issue with its air traffic control providerPassengers are experiencing delays and cancellations after an air traffic control outage led to the suspension of flights to and from Edinburgh Airport.Services resumed at 10:40 after flights were grounded for about two hours, with some passengers reporting being stuck in planes on the runway.There have since been knock-on delays, diversions and cancellations to flights in and out of the airport.Edinburgh Airport said the problem had been caused by an IT issue with its air traffic control provider, Air Navigations Solutions…

Gone are the days when a “fake” on the internet was easy to spot, often just a badly Photoshopped picture. Now, we’re swimming in a sea of AI-generated videos and deepfakes, from bogus celebrity endorsements to false disaster broadcasts. The latest technology has become uncomfortably clever at blurring the lines between reality and fiction, making it almost impossible to discern what’s real.And the situation is rapidly escalating. OpenAI’s Sora is already muddying the waters, but now its viral “social media app,” Sora 2, is the internet’s hottest — and most deceptive — ticket. It’s a TikTok-style feed where everything is 100%…

Vaccine advisers for the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) voted on Friday morning to limit hepatitis B vaccines in a major move signaling the Trump administration’s regressive approach to vaccines that have been given safely and effectively for decades.What just happened with hepatitis B vaccine policy?The panel of official vaccine advisers for the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended limiting the hepatitis B vaccine, normally given at birth, in an unprecedented decision.Instead of giving all parents the option to vaccinate their newborns, the advisers now recommend that parents should have a conversation with a…

Vanity Fair and Olivia Nuzzi are officially parting ways after the writer’s alleged relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. came under fresh scrutiny in recent weeks. “Vanity Fair and Olivia Nuzzi have mutually agreed, in the best interest of the magazine, to let her contract expire at the end of the year,” the magazine said in a statement on Friday. Nuzzi, a star political reporter who left a position at New York magazine after the alleged relationship first came to light in 2024, was first announced as the magazine’s West Coast editor in September. The Wall Street Journal was the…

The FIFA World Cup trophy is on display at an event in Zurich on Nov. 20. Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images The 42 teams that have qualified so far for next year’s FIFA World Cup now know who they’ll face in the initial phase of the tournament taking place across the U.S., Canada and Mexico next year. That’s after the draw for the men’s flagship soccer tournament was held on a cold, wintry day at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. And it yielded interesting…

Open since 1908, and in its current location since 1929, this Upper West Side staple serves up Eastern European Jewish classics like latkes and blintzes, alongside their iconic smoked fish and bagels. They were dubbed the “Sturgeon King” in the 1930s, a nickname they still use, and it’s remained a family business to this day. It’s a neighborhood spot in every sense of the word—the diner-meets-deli atmosphere makes it a go-to for weekend brunch for locals and visitors alike, even when the line snakes out the door. Cash-only and charmingly old-school, Barney Greengrass feels like life in another era in…

Cloudflare has apologised after an outage on Friday morning hit websites including LinkedIn, Zoom and Downdetector, the company’s second outage in less than a month.“Any outage of our systems is unacceptable, and we know we have let the internet down again,” it said in a blogpost, adding that it would release more information next week on how it aims to prevent these failures.The outage on Friday came after Cloudflare adjusted its firewall to protect customers from a widespread software vulnerability revealed earlier this week, and was not an attack, it said. Earlier, it said a separate issue had been reported…

ChatGPT’s growth is starting to taper off, according to new data from market intelligence firm Sensor Tower. Today, the OpenAI-owned AI chatbot remains the leader in the space, accounting for 50% of global downloads on mobile devices and 55% of the global monthly active users. However, Google’s Gemini has begun to outpace ChatGPT in terms of download growth, growth of monthly active users, and growth of time spent in app, the firm found. Over time, that increased pace of adoption could help Gemini narrow the gap with ChatGPT. That’s something OpenAI is now worried about, as its recent “code red”…

On paper, “Oh. What. Fun.” has the makings of an attractive holiday feature that encourages Prime Video subscribers to click play: Michelle Pfeiffer leading a company of instantly recognizable actors directed by a notable filmmaker, a heartfelt story about the harried holidays from the vantage point of an egregiously underrepresented POV in the genre (mothers) and a soundtrack littered with festive songs covered by musical artists with household names. However, director Michael Showalter’s yuletide anthem for unheralded matriarchs fumbles severely, delivering bland comedic hijinks, insufferable characters and generic conundrums. It makes audiences wish for the slightly darker version simmering beneath…