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There’s no doubt about it, 2025 was Bad Bunny‘s year. On Wednesday, Spotify released its annual Spotify Wrapped data, confirming that the Puerto Rican star is the year’s most-streamed artist in the world with 19.8 billion streams. Bad Bunny dethroned Taylor Swift, who topped the list for two years in a row before 2025. Bad Bunny returns to the top after having the most streams in 2020, 2021, and 2022. Rounding out the Top Five for this year are the Weeknd at Number 3, Drake at Number 4, and Billie Eilish at Number 5. Two international stars, Hindi singer Arijit…

Wilson said his cue and the table were “awful” in the defeat by Slessor.The cue Wilson used to win the world title was damaged while being refurbished at the start of this season.”I want to smash the place up. I am so angry at what has happened,” he said on Tuesday.”It’s been a freak accident that was totally out of my control that has ruined the cue that I felt like I was conquering the world with.”I don’t know where to look next.”I have had different cue makers. I was at a cue manufacturer last night trying to sort something…

Each year around this time, we ask the staff of Scientific American to recommend the best books they read this year. Here are the 67 new favorites and old classics that kept us turning the pages in 2025.Happy reading! Jump to your favorite section here:On supporting science journalismIf you’re enjoying this article, consider supporting our award-winning journalism by subscribing. By purchasing a subscription you are helping to ensure the future of impactful stories about the discoveries and ideas shaping our world today.NonfictionIn alphabetical orderApocalypse: How Catastrophe Transformed Our World and Can Forge New Futuresby Lizzie WadeHarper(Tags: History)“This was such an…

Putin did not reject US proposals, just found some of them ‘unacceptable,’ Kremlin spokesperson saysWe also got more reactions from the Kremlin this morning, with spokesman Dmitry Peskov insisting that Russia was ready to continue engagement with the US on Ukraine peace deal for as long as it takes to get an agreement – even as he branded some of the proposals “unacceptable”.Peskov insisted that Putin had not rejected any proposals, but merely “some things were accepted, some things were marked as unacceptable – this is a normal working process of finding a compromise.”The Kremlin spokesman pointedly thanked US president…

Britain’s budget watchdog has said the early leak of its budget documents before Rachel Reeves made her speech was the “worst failure” in its 15-year history as it emerged a similar breach had occurred earlier this year.The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) said an investigation had found that the leadership of the organisation, over many years, was to blame for the early release of its Economic and Fiscal Outlook (EFO) document online nearly an hour before Reeves’s address last Wednesday.After an investigation headed by the OBR’s chief of staff, Laura Gardiner, and Ciaran Martin, the former head of the National…

Witthaya Prasongsin/Moment/Getty ImagesFollow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google.We are at a rare moment in Microsoft history, when the company that defined the modern PC is supporting a single version of its flagship operating system. Windows 10 is officially unsupported. Windows 11 is rushing towards its fifth anniversary — which is traditionally the end of mainstream support.Also: How to upgrade your ‘incompatible’ Windows 10 PC to Windows 11 for free – todayThat all suggests that the next version of Windows — let’s call it Windows 12 — will be here before you know it, ready or not. So, what…

Baseball’s winter meetings are just around the corner, and we’re ready for some blockbuster deals.We’ve already seen some intriguing trades this offseason with the New York Mets acquiring Marcus Semien from the Texas Rangers for Brandon Nimmo and the Boston Red Sox adding Sonny Gray to their pitching staff — but there are even bigger stars who could move in the weeks ahead.With that in mind, we asked our MLB insiders to give us their preferred destination for some of the biggest names in our ranking of the top 25 MLB offseason trade candidates.Where did we send All-Stars Ketel Marte…

People are more likely to exploit female AI partners than male ones — showing that gender-based discrimination has an impact beyond human interactions.A recent study, published Nov. 2 in the journal iScience, examined how people varied in their willingness to cooperate when human or AI partners were given female, nonbinary, male, and no gender labels.Researchers asked participants to play a well-known thought experiment called the “Prisoner’s Dilemma,” a game in which two players either choose to cooperate with each other or work independently. If they cooperate, both get the best outcome. You may like But if one chooses to cooperate…

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new video loaded: Inside the Ultra-Orthodox Fight Against Israel’s DrafttranscriptBacktranscriptInside the Ultra-Orthodox Fight Against Israel’s DraftFor the first time in decades, ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel are being called to serve in the country’s military. The community is furious, with protesters and military-age men openly defying the draft.Israel’s ultra-Orthodox Jews are angry. For the first time in decades, the community known as the Haredim is being called to serve in the country’s military. Their enlistment has become one of the most divisive political debates in the country. At the heart of the debate is the community’s size. The Haredim’s population has…