Steve Cropper, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame guitarist who helped form the “Memphis soul” sound on Stax Records recordings by Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, and Booker T & the MG.s, died on Wednesday. He was 84.

“The Cropper family announces with profound sadness the passing of Stephen Lee Cropper, who died peacefully in Nashville today at the age of 84,” his family said in a statement. A cause of death was not immediately available. “Steve was a beloved musician, songwriter, and producer whose extraordinary talent touched millions of lives around the world.

The Trump administration has launched a new section on whitehouse.gov dedicated to attacking journalists by name. The page opens with ”Misleading. Biased. Exposed.” and features an ”Offender Hall of Shame” with a leaderboard ranking news outlets by how much the administration dislikes their coverage. The Washington Post is currently in first place. Congrats?

There’s a searchable database where you can look up individual reporters and their offending articles, each helpfully categorized under labels like ”bias,” ”malpractice,” or ”left wing lunacy.”

Amazon has quietly removed its AI-generated English dubs for several anime after days of vicious ridicule. Voice actors and anime fans alike slammed the Banana Fish, No Game No Life: Zero, and Vinland Saga AI dubs, calling them ”soulless,””disrespectful,” and ”hilariously bad.”

Clips of Amazon’s AI-generated anime dubs began circulating on social media after they were added to Prime Video last month. Labelled as ”AI beta” under Prime Video’s audio language options, the laughably awful AI-generated voices gained significant attention and widespread mockery for their awkward, flat delivery. Numerous voice actors have lambasted Amazon’s AI dubs, with the National Association of Voice Actors (NAVA) issuing a statement calling them ”AI slop.”

Sabrina Carpenter has slammed President Donald Trump‘s for using her song to promote ICE raids.

The popstar took to social media upon discovering her song ‘Juno’ had been used in a 21-second video posted by the White House’s accounts. In the song, Carpenter sings about “freaky positions”, asking: “Have you ever tried this one?”.

However, Trump’s video takes Carpenter’s question, layering footage of police officers handcuffing, chasing and detaining people instead. The video is part of Trump’s campaign promise to deliver “the largest deportation programme” in American history.

Good news for those who find their blood pressure rising as they scroll through their online news feeds: the Oxford English Dictionary’s publisher has highlighted the term they might need to describe how they often feel, naming “rage bait” as its word of the year.

According to the Oxford University Press’ analysis, use of the phrase has tripled in the past 12 months.

It defines it as “online content deliberately designed to elicit anger or outrage by being frustrating, provocative or offensive, typically posted in order to increase traffic to or engagement with a particular webpage or social media content”.

Most of the major streaming music services now offer their own version of the annual Spotify Wrapped feature, providing insights into our most listened to songs and artists.

Yesterday saw the unveiling of Apple Music Replay 2025, after YouTube Music rolled out its own take, and now Spotify Wrapped 2025 has landed – this year with a new party feature …

Things kick off with Your 2025 Wrapped. This shows you the songs, albums, and artists you most frequently listen to over the course of the past year. A “Your Stories” button presents all of this information in a customized animation.