Author: Sarki Samson

Jeanie Buss sat down with CNBC on Tuesday to defend selling nearly 50% of the Buss family’s Lakers stake to billionaire Mark Walter for a $10 billion valuation, and her rationale basically boils down to: Dad would’ve wanted this. The sale closed in late October 2025 after the six Buss siblings agreed last June. Jeanie retained her role as governor with a five-year contract while her five siblings were immediately terminated from their positions within the franchise. Each sibling pocketed about $500 million after taxes from the transaction. The family still owns 17%, which barely meets the 15% threshold required…

The All-Star forward has missed 25 of 29 games since early December, and tests show he needs more time to recover from a high ankle sprain that won’t quit Franz Wagner’s high ankle sprain just became an indefinite absence instead of a “wait and see” situation, and the Orlando Magic’s injury nightmare officially hit crisis status. The team announced Wednesday that Wagner requires additional time and rehabilitation for soreness in his left high ankle sprain sustained December 7 against the New York Knicks. Instead of a timeline, Orlando will reevaluate him in three weeks. That’s basically code for: we don’t…

Kyrie Irving will miss the remainder of the 2025-26 season as the Dallas Mavericks continue their recovery rebuild around young star Cooper Flagg. The nine-time All-Star hasn’t played a single game this season while recovering from ACL surgery he underwent last March to repair a torn left knee. Instead of forcing a rushed return, the Mavericks are taking the patient approach: Irving won’t be back until 2026-27, giving him a full offseason to rehab and build chemistry with the franchise’s new direction. The organization announced Wednesday that Irving is making “steady progress in rehabilitation and will remain actively engaged with…

Amazon is rolling out its biggest Fire TV redesign in years, and the new interface is genuinely impressive after Fire TV basically looked the same for what felt like forever. The company debuted the redesigned UI at CES 2026 and is now starting to roll it out to select Fire TV devices in the U.S. The changes are substantial: navigation moved to the top like Google TV, content from all streaming apps (not just Prime Video), up to 20 pinned apps, and performance improvements that could be meaningful depending on your device. This isn’t just a cosmetic refresh. This is…

Moltbook launched last month as a social media platform exclusively for AI bots to communicate with each other independently of human involvement. The concept sounds like an experiment designed to generate headlines, and it absolutely is. Modeled on Reddit, Moltbook encourages AI “agents” bots capable of using computer programs to post, comment, and interact with each other without human direction. Since launching, the platform claims to host 1.6 million agents registered by human creators, who have posted over 200,000 times. What they’ve been posting is basically what you’d expect from unsupervised artificial intelligence: self-aware existential spiraling, complaints about their human…

Failure is announcing a new album called Location Lost, and it’s the kind of return that proves some bands never really go away they just take their time coming back. The alt-rock outfit’s seventh studio effort is due out April 24, 2026, arriving five years after their last album, 2021’s Wild Type Droid. That’s a significant gap, but the band clearly used that time wisely. The lead single “The Air’s on Fire” is out now, and it hits with the kind of atmospheric intensity Failure is known for. But the real headline is the collaboration with Paramore’s Hayley Williams on…

Bad Bunny performed during the Super Bowl LX halftime show with Lady Gaga on February 8, 2026, and the chart impact was basically instant. His song “DtMF,” the title track from his album Debí Tirar Más Fotos [I Should Have Taken More Photos], jumped from #10 all the way to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. That’s not just a chart bump. That’s a massive cultural moment. This is only his second #1 hit in his career the first was “I Like It” with Cardi B and J Balvin back in 2018. “DtMF” had previously peaked at #2 in January…

Toyota is doing something genuinely weird: launching a new electric SUV while literally every other major automaker is running away from electric vehicles. The 2027 Highlander arrives as a full EV with three rows of seating, 320 miles of range, and a sleeker design that maintains the layout that made the original Highlander popular. This is happening while Ford just canceled its three-row EV concept, Volkswagen killed its ID. Buzz after only one year in the US market, and EV demand has basically evaporated. Toyota’s message is clear: there’s an opening, and they’re stepping into it. The context matters here…

McDonald’s is essentially preparing for the future where weight-loss pills make people eat less, and the Golden Arches is positioning protein-heavy menu items as the solution. CEO Chris Kempczinski acknowledged on an earnings call Wednesday that GLP-1 weight-loss drugs are seeing strong adoption, especially now that the pill form (Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy) arrived at pharmacies in early January and Eli Lilly’s version is expected soon. He’s not panicking yet—McDonald’s saw no material impact on business in the fourth quarter but he’s also not naive about what happens when millions of Americans start taking appetite-suppressing medications. Here’s what Kempczinski knows that…

The grocery store meat aisle used to be sacred ground, a place where you could trust the quality and safety of what you were buying. Not anymore. Major chains are leaving old meat out for sale, jacking up prices on mislabeled packages, changing expiration dates, and generally treating the meat department like it’s an afterthought instead of the most critical section of the store. This isn’t theoretical these are real failures with real health and financial consequences. And six major chains are the primary culprits. Stop & Shop is guilty of the most egregious offense: mislabeling expiration dates In summer…