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BBC

  1. Prince Andrew says he 'ceased all contact' with alleged Chinese spy
  2. 'My colleague had heart attack as bricks hurled' - summer riots police speak out
  3. No-one gets France's difficulty more than me, says Macron's new PM Bayrou
  4. Watch: Dancing crowds in Aleppo celebrate end of Assad regime
  5. Two arrested after Christmas fairground ride crashes to the ground
  6. Xi Jinping not expected to attend Trump inauguration
  7. Crown of Thorns returns to Notre-Dame Cathedral after fire
  8. Wife of former rugby star 'heartbroken' over flood death
  9. BBC complains to Apple over misleading shooting headline
  10. Geminid meteor shower promises multi-coloured streaks of light
  11. Steven Bartlett sharing harmful health misinformation in Diary of CEO podcast
  12. Man jailed for life for murdering partner's two-year-old daughter
  13. The dark fandom behind healthcare CEO murder suspect
  14. Questions over Andrew's judgement and finances raised again
  15. François Bayrou commands respect - but can he save France from crisis?
  16. 'It's life limiting': Living with a diagnosable hatred of fidgeting
  17. 'Train thieves snatched my phone and took £21,000 from my accounts'
  18. Girl group Flo: 'British R&B acts struggle to be heard'
  19. Weekly quiz: Which film bagged the most Golden Globe nominations?
  20. BBC News app
  21. Incredible escape as lorry smashes fire truck on icy US highway
  22. Russia launches huge attack on Ukraine's energy infrastructure
  23. Former US House speaker Nancy Pelosi in hospital after injury on overseas trip
  24. Officers cleared after 13-year-old boy with water pistol confronted by marksmen
  25. I don't regret blocking action against Assad when I was leader, says Miliband
  26. What are the chances of a white Christmas in the UK?
  27. 'Wonky' pooch wins Britain's ugliest dog title
  28. Is The NHS Facing a ‘Quad-Demic’?
  29. Why is the internet obsessed with a suspected CEO killer?
  30. Four-try Sale cruise to victory over Racing
  31. Wife of former England player Voyce 'heartbroken' over death
  32. Chelsea 'best team in Premier League' - Frank
  33. Tuchel will 'reach out' to White over England return
  34. Sir Alex: Watch the trailer for new two-part BBC documentary

Bitcoin

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Engadget

  1. The FTC warns gamified job scams are on the rise
  2. OpenAI published more of Elon Musk’s emails if that’s something you want to read
  3. Bosch signs agreement for up to $225 million in CHIPS Act funding
  4. Google’s NotebookLM Audio Overviews will now let you call in with a question
  5. A US Congressman tried (and failed) to fake his Spotify Wrapped for political gain
  6. Xbox Series X review (2024): Unfulfilled potential
  7. The Game Awards 2024: The 15 biggest announcements and new trailers including The Witcher 4 and Elden Ring
  8. Airbnb is deploying “anti-party technology” to ruin your NYE party
  9. ZeniMax Online Studios workers form their own union
  10. Skype phases out credits and phone numbers
  11. Elden Ring Nightreign is a co-op spinoff coming in 2025
  12. RGG reveals a Virtua Fighter revival and a brawler set in the 1910s
  13. The best Christmas gifts for everyone on your 2024 holiday shopping list
  14. Anker's 3-in-1 power bank drops to just $20, plus the rest of this week's best tech deals
  15. The best stocking stuffer gifts under $50
  16. The best white elephant gifts that everyone will love
  17. Balatro is an almost perfect mobile port
  18. It’s the last day to get three months of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate for only $29
  19. Sonos soundbars and speakers are up to 39 percent off
  20. Formovie Cinema Edge review: A midrange UST projector that lags behind its rivals
  21. Onimusha's back!
  22. Samsung Galaxy Chromebook Plus review: Quirky in ways both good and bad
  23. Dispatch is a new narrative game from ex-Telltale developers
  24. Apple's updated MagSafe wireless charger is on sale for $35
  25. PlayStation 5 review (2024): A smaller console with a bigger game library
  26. The Last of Us Part II Remastered comes to PC on April 3, 2025
  27. Engadget Podcast: Apple's Genmoji are AI disappointments
  28. The Morning After: The Game Awards had some surprises this year
  29. Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet is a new sci-fi game from Naughty Dog
  30. An Okami sequel is on the way, nearly two decades later
  31. Mafia: The Old Country is a Sicilian prequel arriving summer 2025
  32. The Overcooked team has a new creepy-cute co-op game called Stage Fright
  33. Squid Game: Unleashed will be playable at launch without a Netflix subscription
  34. The Outer Worlds 2 gameplay trailer reveals it's coming to PS5 as well as Xbox
  35. Borderlands 4 gameplay trailer shows four new Vault Hunters having a bad day
  36. Ragebound is a new Ninja Gaiden game from the team behind Blasphemous
  37. Fumito Ueda's follow-up to The Last Guardian is an untitled dark sci-fi game
  38. It Takes Two studio returns with dueling sci-fi and fantasy worlds in Split Fiction
  39. The first Witcher 4 trailer sees Ciri kicking butt
  40. Final Fantasy VII Rebirth is coming to PC on January 23
  41. The next game from the Sifu team is... a 5v5 arcade soccer title?
  42. Thick as Thieves is a multiplayer stealth-action game from legends Warren Spector and Paul Neurath
  43. Adobe’s new Photoshop tool can clean away window reflections
  44. WB Montreal Games reportedly lays off 99 workers ahead of the holidays
  45. Don’t miss The Game Awards 2024 right here at 7:30PM ET
  46. Reddit is removing links to Luigi Mangione's manifesto
  47. Threads' take on Bluesky Starter Packs is live
  48. Postal Service’s plan to electrify mail trucks falling far short of its goal
  49. Epic Games' app store will be preinstalled on millions of Android phones
  50. YouTube TV completes its heel turn with yet another price hike

Pinboard

  1. Home - Sanborn Fire Maps
  2. The Cold Email Handbook | za-zu
  3. AI good for: “Work where you are an expert and can assess quickly whether AI is good or bad” — This is what I have personally found as well. “Using the AI as a companion when reading, because it allows you to ask infinite questions.” I use it during lectures this way
  4. Claim File Helper — ProPublica — Tool from ProPublica to request a reason why your insurer rejected your claim.
  5. pgroll — Take the fear out of schema changes
  6. WordPress CEO Rage Quits Community Slack After Court Injunction — Automattic is ordered to undo several of the actions of its CEO Matt Mullenweg in its ongoing legal battle with WP Engine. “It's hard to imagine wanting to continue to working on WordPress after this," Mullenweg said in a community Slack message.
  7. Storing times for human events
  8. Interactive map of history
  9. From where I left -
  10. "Rules" that terminal programs follow
  11. Running Durable Workflows in Postgres using DBOS — DBOS
  12. GitHub - mherrmann/helium: Lighter browser automation based on Selenium
  13. luchina-gabriel/OSX-PROXMOX: Voilà, install macOS on ANY Computer! This is really and magic easiest way! — OSX-PROXMOX - Run macOS on ANY Computer - AMD & Intel
  14. Exclusive: Luigi's Manifesto - Ken Klippenstein — “To the Feds, I'll keep this short, because I do respect what you do for our country. To save you a lengthy investigation, I state plainly that I wasn't working with anyone. This was fairly trivial: some elementary social engineering, basic CAD, a lot of patience. The spiral …
  15. https://aistudio.google.com/live — Demo interactiva del nuevo modelo de lenguaje intermodal de Google. Permite capturar video y audio en tiempo real streaming y poder hacerle preguntas acerca de lo que ve y oye.
  16. Next-level frosted glass with backdrop-filter • Josh W. Comeau
  17. Debanking (and Debunking?)
  18. Tree Calculus
  19. Introducing Limbo: A complete rewrite of SQLite in Rust
  20. mouseless — Lightning-fast mouse control with the keyboard.
  21. FFmpeg - The Ultimate Guide
  22. Music Theory Lessons - LightNote
  23. Insurance companies aren't the main villain of the U.S. health system
  24. Parkinson's Law: It's Real, So Use It [set deadlines to improve productivity]
  25. Electric BETA release | ElectricSQL
  26. The Humble For Loop in Rust
  27. How Much Stretching It Takes to Make You More Flexible, According to Science | Lifehacker — Flexibility is an underrated aspect of fitness, especially since we tend to lose some of our mobility as we get older—how many of the older folks in your life can comfortably reach overhead? But whether you’re doing it for lifestyle i…
  28. The five-minute city: inside Denmark’s revolutionary neighbourhood | Denmark | The Guardian
  29. GitHub - pimalaya/himalaya: CLI to manage emails
  30. Kubespec
  31. Shtetl-Optimized » Blog Archive » The Google Willow thing
  32. ElectricSQL · Local-first. Electrified. — Active cloud sync for local-first app development. You develop local-first apps. We provide the cloud sync. Without changing your database or your code.
  33. Fermat’s Last Theorem — how it’s going | Xena — Progress and backsliding in the attempt to put Fermat's last theorem into a computer-proof system. What is most interesting is the way professional mathematicians address flaws in proofs, and the degree to which published proofs have flaws.
  34. Common Misconceptions about Compilers
  35. The Death Generator — Originally for generating fake screenshots of Sierra game overs, now up to 50+ games as of 2024. source: https://github.com/foone/SierraDeathGenerator
  36. blendergpt.org
  37. Try Deep Research and our new experimental model in Gemini, your AI assistant — Try Deep Research, a new research assistant in Gemini Advanced, and a chat optimized version of Gemini 2.0 Flash Experimental.
  38. How to Think About Time
  39. The 70% problem: Hard truths about AI-assisted coding — Implications for the future This "70% problem" suggests that current AI coding tools are best viewed as: Prototyping accelerators for experienced developers Learning aids for those committed to understanding development MVP generators for validating ideas quickl…
  40. Some Other America, One I Do Not Know — Some people are very upset about the public reaction to the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. The killing has generated horror, but also mocking memes, a wave of hostility towards the healthcare industry, and rhetoric that stops barely short of calling the murder ju…
  41. A 'doom loop' of climate change and geopolitical instability is beginning
  42. Quantus
  43. The Pixel Canvas Shimmer Effect — Hover effect where a bloom of tiny pixels light up, their glow staggering from the center to the edges of its container.
  44. Sally Rooney: When are we going to have the courage to stop the climate crisis? – The Irish Times
  45. The Washington Post burns its own archive
  46. TRELLIS: Structured 3D Latents for Scalable and Versatile 3D Generation
  47. Location Data Firm Offers to Help Cops Track Targets via Doctor Visits
  48. The Hawk Tuah Memecoin Rug Pull Is The Apotheosis Of Bag Culture | Defector
  49. Air Fry Pro - Quick reference cook times for popular recipes
  50. How Wall Street Billionaires Avoid Paying Medicare Taxes — ProPublica — How a Decades-Old Loophole Lets Billionaires Avoid Medicare Taxes Some of Wall Street’s richest and most powerful figures are using a legal loophole to avoid paying millions of dollars in taxes earmarked for health care, a ProPublica investigation found.
  51. “We’re Still Gonna Say No”: Inside UnitedHealthcare’s Effort to Deny Coverage to Chronically Ill Patient — https://www.propublica.org/article/unitedhealth-healthcare-insurance-denial-ulcerative-colitis?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
  52. Startup will brick $800 emotional support robot for kids without refunds: Embodied says it will try to refund recent purchases but makes no promises | Ars Technica
  53. BibliOdyssey: Sanborn Fire Insurance Map Typography
  54. Who and What comprise AI Skepticism? - by Benjamin Riley
  55. How WhatsApp for business changed the world - Rest of World
  56. skuep/AIOC: Ham Radio All-in-one-Cable
  57. Apple Intelligence in iOS 18.2: A Deep Dive into Working with Siri and ChatGPT, Together - MacStories — I’m completely uninterested in generative products that aim to produce images, video, or text to replace human creativity and input. I find products that create fake “art” sloppy, distasteful, and objectively harmful for h…
  58. Gemini 2.0 Flash: An outstanding multi-modal LLM with a sci-fi streaming mode — Gemini 2.0 Flash: An outstanding multi-modal LLM with a sci-fi streaming mode https://ift.tt/zsHi5n7 google.gemini, ai, llms, multi-modal
  59. The devil and Luigi Mangione — Luigi Mangione appeared to try everything for chronic pain from a back injury that hampered his physical livelihood and dating life, and struggled to receive support even as he tried to provide it for others.
  60. From X to Bluesky: why are people fleeing Elon Musk’s ‘digital town square’? | Social media | The Guardian
  61. Genie 2: A large-scale foundation world model - Google DeepMind
  62. The UX of LEGO Interface Panels — The UX of LEGO Interface Panels
  63. Diátaxis Framework — > The Diátaxis framework aims to solve the problem of structure in technical documentation. It adopts a systematic approach to understanding the needs of documentation users in their cycle of interaction with a product.
  64. What Type of Guy is the alleged UHC shooter? — Assessing Luigi Mangione's media diet made me laugh: > The basic line is something like: The world is getting worse and phones are killing us; politics won’t save us but technology might; in the meantime, lift weights, take supplements, listen to podcasts.
  65. UnlistedJobs | Jobs not listed anywhere
  66. Opinion | My Last Column: Finding Hope in an Age of Resentment - The New York Times
  67. PostgreSQLで時間枠を適切に扱う設計 - そーだいなるらくがき帳
  68. ev.medium.com
  69. Israel Strikes Military Assets Across Syria to Keep Them From Rebels - The New York Times — via NYT > Israel News https://nyti.ms/3o4Y88O
  70. Chatbots urged teen to self-harm, suggested murdering parents, lawsuit says - Ars Technica
  71. Taking on the Tyranny of the Tech Bros | WIRED
  72. Biden commutes roughly 1,500 sentences in biggest single-day act of clemency | AP News
  73. AI Is the Black Mirror - Nautilus
  74. Alleged CEO Shooter Luigi Mangione Was Radicalized by Pain — A journey through his online footprint and influences
  75. Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is – Whatever — Favourite Metaphor This Month: "If Life were a video game, Straight-White-Male would be the lowest difficulty setting."
  76. CLI Guidelines — An open-source guide to help you write better command-line programs, taking traditional UNIX principles and updating them for the modern day. #Linux #Programming
  77. 18 Life-Learnings from 18 Years of The Marginalian – The Marginalian — via The Marginalian https://bit.ly/3B5k75p
  78. GitHub - lmarzen/esp32-weather-epd: A low-power E-Paper weather display powered by an ESP32 microcontroller. Utilizes the OpenWeatherMap API.
  79. Cursor Directory
  80. Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell | Hacker News
  81. BoldVoice | The Accent Oracle
  82. Airport Typeface
  83. The Theory and Technique of Electronic Music
  84. Which cold and cough medicines actually do anything? | Vox — Put down that cough medicine https://www.vox.com/health/390303/cough-cold-medicine-flu-fever-sudafed health
  85. Writing down (and searching through) every UUID · eieio.games — I couldn't remember every UUID so I wrote them all down
  86. The Color of Memory: Albert Kahn’s Archives of the Planet — The Public Domain Review
  87. DuckDBを使ったシンプルで安価なデータマネジメント - Speaker Deck
  88. The Trump Administration Loves to See Liberal Infighting. Let's Not. | Teen Vogue — Stay up-to-date with the politics team. Sign up for the Teen Vogue Take. In the wake of Donald Trump’s first election in 2016, people sprung into action: Membership in existing groups such as the Democratic Socialists of America doubled, whil…
  89. The AI revolution is running out of data. What can researchers do?
  90. Evolving my ergonomic setup (or, my laptop with extra steps) | nicole@web
  91. Arctic tundra is now emitting more carbon than it absorbs, US agency says | Arctic | The Guardian
  92. Century-Scale Storage
  93. The ‘Ghost Gun’ Linked to Luigi Mangione Shows Just How Far 3D-Printed Weapons Have Come | WIRED
  94. My Quest to Make the Perfect At-Home Pizza - The Atlantic
  95. book on ELectronic music
  96. [2412.06769] Training Large Language Models to Reason in a Continuous Latent Space
  97. Solved By Modern CSS: Feature Image — Using container queries and CSS :has() to build a feature image.
  98. Django and Postgres for the Busy Rails Developer
  99. Get a solar panel for your balcony now ☀️ - Michael Stapelberg — via @robdaemon@tenforward.social boost of https://mas.to/@zekjur/113629467739136031
  100. Digital consumption keeps me from getting better at my job — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42379970

The Next Web

  1. Head of Microsoft for Startups: Europe just needs time to spawn more winners
  2. Finnish startup bags €29M to decarbonise this niche building material
  3. Scientifica raises €200M to fund and provide lab space for deep tech startups
  4. Upvest — which powers stock trading on Revolut, N26, Bunq — secures €100M
  5. What we learned after taking part in a 100-day innovation sprint
  6. Dutch startup’s new battery material could wean Europe off Chinese graphite
  7. Where do startups come from? Ideas and entrepreneurs, of course
  8. UK police trial high-tech wristbands to keep dementia patients safe
  9. Propelling satellites with electricity and salt? No problem for this Parisian startup
  10. Time for a move? These are the top cities in Europe for developers right now

Smashing Magazine

  1. An Introduction To CSS Scroll-Driven Animations: Scroll And View Progress Timelines
  2. Mastering SVG Arcs
  3. The Importance Of Graceful Degradation In Accessible Interface Design
  4. Creating An Effective Multistep Form For Better User Experience
  5. Dreaming Of Miracles (December 2024 Wallpapers Edition)
  6. The Hype Around Signals
  7. Why You Should Speak At Events As An Early-Career Professional
  8. AI’s Transformative Impact On Web Design: Supercharging Productivity Across The Industry
  9. Open-Source Meets Design Tooling With Penpot
  10. Bundle Up And Save On Smashing Books And Workshops
  11. Alternatives To Typical Technical Illustrations And Data Visualisations
  12. Why Optimizing Your Lighthouse Score Is Not Enough For A Fast Website
  13. Ingredients For A Cozy November (2024 Wallpapers Edition)
  14. Designing For Gen Z: Expectations And UX Guidelines
  15. CSS min() All The Things
  16. It’s Here! How To Measure UX & Design Impact, With Vitaly Friedman
  17. Using Multimodal AI Models For Your Applications (Part 3)
  18. Build A Static RSS Reader To Fight Your Inner FOMO
  19. How A Bottom-Up Design Approach Enhances Site Accessibility
  20. Interview With Björn Ottosson, Creator Of The Oklab Color Space
  21. Crows, Ghosts, And Autumn Bliss (October 2024 Wallpapers Edition)
  22. How To Manage Dangerous Actions In User Interfaces
  23. The Timeless Power Of Spreadsheets
  24. Embracing Introversion In UX
  25. SVG Coding Examples: Useful Recipes For Writing Vectors By Hand
  26. Creating Custom Lottie Animations With SVGator
  27. How To Build Custom Data Visualizations Using Luzmo Flex
  28. Why Anticipatory Design Isn’t Working For Businesses
  29. How To Create A Weekly Google Analytics Report That Posts To Slack
  30. Sticky Headers And Full-Height Elements: A Tricky Combination
  31. The Big Difference Between Digital Product And Web Design
  32. Goodbye Summer, Hello September (2024 Wallpapers Edition)
  33. Integrating Image-To-Text And Text-To-Speech Models (Part 2)
  34. Generating Unique Random Numbers In JavaScript Using Sets
  35. Mastering Typography In Logo Design
  36. Regexes Got Good: The History And Future Of Regular Expressions In JavaScript
  37. Pricing Projects As A Freelancer Or Agency Owner
  38. How To Defend Your Design Process
  39. If I Was Starting My Career Today: Thoughts After 15 Years Spent In UX Design (Part 2)
  40. Best Of Pro Scheduler Libraries

Wirecutter

  1. The Best Women’s White T-Shirts
  2. It’s Not Too Late to Return Those Holiday Gifts You Hate
  3. The Best Electric Razor
  4. The Best Handheld Gaming Console
  5. The Best Pill Boxes
  6. Our Favorite Shower Caps
  7. Microplastics Are Everywhere. Here’s How to Avoid Eating Them.
  8. The Best Baby Bottles and Bottle Brush
  9. Can’t Get an Even Bake? This ‘Toast Test’ Can Help.
  10. How ‘The Great Christmas Light Fight’ Stars Put Together Their Showstopping Holiday Displays

Sweethome

  1. The Best Sunrise Alarm Clock
  2. The Best Smart Bird Feeders
  3. The Best Food Storage Containers
  4. The Best Respirator Mask for Smoke and Dust
  5. The Best Mousetrap
  6. Small Bathroom Ideas
  7. The 23 Best Host and Hostess Gifts
  8. The Best Leaf Blower
  9. I Saved 2,000 Pounds of Food Waste From the Landfill With This Simple Composter
  10. The Best Throw Blankets

Hacker News

  1. Sharing new research, models, and datasets from Meta FAIR
  2. Exotic new superconductors delight and confound
  3. The Pentium FDIV bug, reverse-engineered
  4. Show HN: @smoores/epub, a JavaScript library for working with EPUB publications
  5. Making my first robot as a software engineer
  6. Show HN: Imposter Attack – Among Us-themed infrared game made with ESP32
  7. Schrödinger's IPv6 Cat
  8. Web Origami, for making websites where you can understand how they’re made
  9. An Italian town that built its own sun (2021)
  10. Ask HN: What should I do with meet.hn?
  11. Noninvasive imaging method can penetrate deeper into living tissue
  12. "All your base are belong to us" intro to my 2004 MIT Spam Conference talk
  13. Elon Musk wanted an OpenAI for-profit
  14. SCCS roach motel
  15. Donald Bitzer has died
  16. Pompeii experts back Pliny's account of Mount Vesuvius eruption date
  17. MarkItDown: Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown
  18. Test
  19. HyperDX (YC S22) is hiring engineers to build open source observability
  20. Bit-permuting 16 u32s at once with AVX-512
  21. 0x01 – Killing Windows Kernel Mitigations
  22. Show HN: Rain hashes – well designed, simple and fast variable sized hashes
  23. NASA believes it understands why Ingenuity crashed on Mars
  24. Garbage collected smart pointers in Rust via concurrent cycle collection
  25. Fermat's Last Theorem – how it’s going
  26. Evaporograph and Infra Red Images
  27. A new video captures a 1968 demo of IBM’s Executive Terminal
  28. Animals in Espionage
  29. Three mistakes from Dart/Flutter's weak PRNG
  30. People who are good at reading have different brains: study

Ars Technica

  1. Werner Herzog muses on mysteries of the brain in Theater of Thought
  2. Elon Musk slams SEC as agency threatens charges in Twitter stock probe
  3. Don’t use crypto to cheat on taxes: Bitcoin bro gets 2 years
  4. F1 Arcade trip report: Great sims make for a compelling experience
  5. The US military is now talking openly about going on the attack in space
  6. Twirling body horror in gymnastics video exposes AI’s flaws
  7. Americans spend more years being unhealthy than people in any other country
  8. Rocket Report: Chinese national flies drone near Falcon 9, Trouble down under
  9. Are LLMs capable of non-verbal reasoning?
  10. Character.AI steps up teen safety after bots allegedly caused suicide, self-harm
  11. Critical WordPress plugin vulnerability under active exploit threatens thousands
  12. Report: AT&T, Verizon aren’t notifying most victims of Chinese call-records hack
  13. Generating power with a thin, flexible thermoelectric film
  14. Studies pin down exactly when humans and Neanderthals swapped DNA
  15. OpenAI introduces “Santa Mode” to ChatGPT for ho-ho-ho voice chats
  16. The optical disc onslaught continues, with LG quitting Blu-ray players
  17. Google steps into “extended reality” once again with Android XR
  18. Intel Arc B580 review: A $249 RTX 4060 killer, one-and-a-half years later
  19. AI helps ID paint chemistry of Berlin Wall murals
  20. Weight loss drugs may also treat addiction, Alzheimer’s, and heart disease

Digg

  1. Am I Crazy To Be Concerned That My Mother-In-Law Took Out Two Secret Life Insurance Policies On Me, And Other Advice Column Questions
  2. European Workers Are Happier Than Americans — Here's The Proof
  3. Once-Popular Male Names That Have Fallen Out Of Use, Ranked
  4. Eight Buck Wild Shenanigans From The Office Holiday Party
  5. Six Jobs Where You Can Take It Easy All Day
  6. Shocking Stories Of The Worst Things A Friend Has Ever Said
  7. There's Only One US State Where Women Freelancers Earn More Than Men
  8. You're More Likely To Get A Job In These American Cities
  9. Ten Life Hacks That Will Make Your Life More Bearable, According To Reddit
  10. Seven Times A Role Massively Changed An Actor's Life
  11. Truck Driver Faces Instant Karma After Being A Total Jerk To Everyone
  12. Three Work Rules In Japanese Culture That Are Unlike Anywhere Else
  13. Office Romances Are More Common Than You Might Think
  14. Five Things Only The Middle Class Own, Not The Rich
  15. Digg's 10 Best Games Of 2024: Grant Brunner's Favorites
  16. The Pandemic's Impact On The US Box Office, In One Bleak Chart
  17. Have Capitalists Killed The Internet?
  18. Fool Your Friends With This Cold-Weather Trick Passing Your Scarf Through Your Neck
  19. Putting Your Favorite Blue Jeans in the Freezer? Why This Viral Advice Is Horrible
  20. This Simple Card Trick Seems Completely Impossible
  21. Kid Steals The Show With His Nonstop Dance Moves
  22. Dentist Explains Everything You Need To Know About Dental Insurance, And Why Things Just Cost So Much
  23. Woman Reveals What It's Like To Be A Working Actress In Today's Economy
  24. Climber Tommy Caldwell Pushed His Kidnapper Off A Cliff. Here's What He Learned From The Experience
  25. Man Has Bred The Ultimate Pigeon And We May Have Gone Too Far
  26. If Netflix And Golf Are Your Retirement Goals, You're In Big Trouble
  27. Five Times Adults Bought Something They Had Wanted Since Childhood
  28. The Luigi Mangione Fan Club, And This Week's Other Best Memes, Ranked
  29. 'The Daily Show' On Pete Hegseth's Promise To Stop Drinking If He Becomes Defense Secretary
  30. Remember These Tips To Avoid A Nasty Surprise On Your Hospital Bill

New Scientist

  1. Are vast amounts of hydrogen fuel hidden below Earth's surface?
  2. Mpox became a global health emergency for the second time in 2024
  3. Eight healthy habits could slow the ageing of your brain
  4. Magic mushrooms found in Africa are a species new to science
  5. Why AI must learn to admit ignorance and say 'I don't know'
  6. Dazzling auroras lit up the skies in 2024 and we may see more in 2025
  7. Over 70 per cent of students in US survey use AI for school work
  8. The US Navy wants to use quantum computers for war games and much more
  9. The sun may spit out giant solar flares more often than we thought
  10. Ancient genomes reveal when modern humans and Neanderthals interbred
  11. What are the mystery drones flying over the US?
  12. The shine began to wear off AI in 2024 as advances slowed down
  13. Global forecast for 2025 sees temperatures falling back below 1.5°C
  14. Climate chaos accelerated in 2024 as we hit 1.5°C for the first time
  15. Bowel cancer is rising in younger people around the world
  16. Parker Solar Probe will soon go deeper into the sun than ever before
  17. Another record has been set for the most entangled logical qubits
  18. Earth may have had its water delivered by a vast cloud of vapour
  19. Liquid metal unlocks a way to make artificial blood vessels
  20. Pre-eclampsia could be treated with mRNA technology
  21. Space was for sale in 2024 as private missions led by Elon Musk boomed
  22. Dogs pull harder on the leash when they wear a harness than a collar
  23. Bird flu suddenly got serious in 2024, infecting dozens of people
  24. Energy-hungry AI is already harming health – and it's getting worse
  25. Arctic tundra is now a source – not a sink – of carbon emissions
  26. Game-changing archaeology from the past 5 years – and what’s to come
  27. Extreme heat may rapidly sap the ocean’s ability to absorb CO2
  28. Is Google's new Willow quantum computer really such a big deal?
  29. Ultracold atoms measure gravity with surprising precision
  30. Screwworm: Why is this flesh-eating parasite making a comeback?
  31. What is Disease X and do we need to worry about it?
  32. Thirteen proteins in your blood could reveal the age of your brain
  33. Mathematicians have figured out the best sofa shape for moving around
  34. AI found a new way to create quantum entanglement
  35. Believing in Santa Claus doesn't make children act nicer at Christmas
  36. Chips linked with light could train AI faster while using less energy
  37. Mathematicians have discovered a mind-blowing new kind of infinity
  38. 'Killer' cells explain differences in immunity between the sexes
  39. These are the most mind-melting physics discoveries of 2024
  40. Mesopotamians felt happiness in their liver and anger in their thighs
  41. Antarctica is in crisis and we are scrambling to understand its future
  42. Melting permafrost makes 'drunken forests' store less carbon
  43. Conservationists are collecting semen from endangered wild sharks
  44. We finally have an explanation for 2023’s record-breaking temperatures
  45. Why scientists scanned giant hailstones in a dentist's office
  46. H5N1 bird flu is closer to gaining pandemic potential than we thought
  47. Plants laced with a variety of fungi are more popular with bees
  48. Tencent seems unaffected by US AI chip export ban, research shows
  49. Robotic rat uses AI to befriend real rodents
  50. Implant made with living neurons connects to mouse brains
  51. Toddler bones show mammoths were the main food of the first Americans
  52. DeepMind AI predicts weather more accurately than existing forecasts
  53. Flying robot leaps upwards and then takes to the air like a bird
  54. New forms of animals made by fusing several comb jellies together
  55. A small asteroid hit Earth and burned up over Siberia
  56. When, and where, did the covid-19 pandemic really begin?
  57. Chatbot gives medical advice to hundreds of users in largest trial yet
  58. Temporary scalp tattoo can be used to record brain activity
  59. Most comprehensive picture yet of how organs age at different rates
  60. Heatwaves are surpassing the extremes predicted by climate models
  61. Swarms of cyborg cockroaches could be manufactured by robots
  62. Ancient footprints show how early human species lived side by side
  63. Life on Mars could be surviving in an area deep underground
  64. The way Cheerios stick together has inspired a new kind of robot
  65. Social media algorithms can change your views in just a single day
  66. AI can analyse a decomposing body to help pinpoint the time of death
  67. A little bit of fear can bring down levels of inflammation in the body
  68. Bird flu may be adapting to become more infectious to humans
  69. Ocean acidification is reaching deeper waters
  70. Robot balloons are snapping centimetre-resolution photos of the US
  71. How could Ukraine stop Russia’s new Oreshnik missile?
  72. Fossilised droppings tell the story of dinosaurs' rise to power
  73. Orcas have begun wearing salmon hats again – and we may soon know why
  74. Record-breaking diamond storage can save data for millions of years
  75. How safe is the US food supply?
  76. Changing a single number among billions can destroy an AI model
  77. Forest schools don't actually boost most children's mental health
  78. Super-bright black holes could reveal if the universe is pixelated
  79. Salt batteries are finally shaping up – that's good for the planet
  80. What will it take to solve our planet's plastic pollution crisis?
  81. Older people may have better immunity against bird flu virus
  82. This start-up is removing carbon from a polluted New York City river
  83. Why gene editors want to treat fetuses when they are still in the womb
  84. Anger over COP29 finance deal threatens progress on carbon cuts
  85. Exploding interstellar space rocks could explain mystery radio flashes
  86. IBM entangled two quantum chips to work together for the first time
  87. AI simulations of 1000 people accurately replicate their behaviour
  88. Hunter-gatherers built a massive fish trap in Belize 4000 years ago
  89. Meteorite crystals show evidence of hot water on ancient Mars
  90. Risk algorithm used widely in US courts is harsher than human judges
  91. Bacteria found in asteroid sample – but they're not from space
  92. Crushed rocks outpace giant fans in race to remove CO2 from air
  93. Majority of people believe their devices spy on them to serve up ads
  94. What to know about creatine, the gym supplement with wide benefits
  95. Chimpanzees seem to get more technologically advanced through culture
  96. Brainwave experiment shows minke whales have ultrasonic hearing
  97. World's thinnest spaghetti won't please gourmands but may heal wounds
  98. Common chemical in drinking water hasn't been tested for safety
  99. Iceland’s Reykjanes volcanic eruption captured in stunning drone shots
  100. A sliver of lab-grown wood has been made from stem cells

Slashdot

  1. Google's NotebookLM AI Podcast Hosts Can Now Talk To You, Too
  2. Tumblr Adds Reddit-Like 'Communities'
  3. Russian Watchdog Blocks Viber Messaging App
  4. The US Military is Now Talking Openly About Going On the Attack in Space
  5. Officials Demand Explanation On Mysterious Drone Sightings
  6. UnitedHealthcare's Optum Left an AI Chatbot, Used By Employees To Ask Questions About Claims, Exposed To the Internet
  7. Silicon Valley's Perks Culture is Largely Dead
  8. HDMI 2.2 Specs With Increased Bandwidth To Be Announced at CES 2025
  9. US Lawmakers Tell Apple, Google To Be Ready To Remove TikTok From App Stores on January 19
  10. Microsoft Quietly Axes Skype Credit and Phone Number Sales To Push Subscriptions
  11. Klarna Stopped All Hiring a Year Ago To Replace Workers With AI
  12. Legal Tech Unicorn EvenUp Relied Heavily on Humans Despite AI Claims
  13. US Curbs Scope of China Science Accord Amid Tech Rivalry
  14. Texas House Introduces Bill To Establish a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve
  15. Scrabble Star Wins Spanish World Title Despite Not Speaking Spanish

BoingBoing

Core77

  1. Core77 Weekly Roundup (12-9-24 to 12-13-24)
  2. An "E+Bike" by Industrial Design Firm Springtime
  3. A Tabletop RPG Dice Set Alternative in a Credit Card Form Factor
  4. An Obscure Industrial Design Classic: Angelo Lelii's Polifemo Floor Lamp
  5. Conversion Kit Turns Beds into Rocking Beds
  6. From China, a Hi-Tech "Luxury" Kitchen Sink with Crazy Features
  7. Ox Delivers' Flatpack EV Truck Creates Prosperity in Africa
  8. Roof Hacks: A Leafblower vs. Sheets of Ice
  9. A Floating Sauna, Made with Unrecyclable Wind Turbine Blades
  10. Step Aside, Yule Log: NASA's Rocket Engine Fireplace
  11. Brilliant Furniture Design: Simone Giertz's Swivel-Arm Chair Valet
  12. An Explosion of VR Simulators, by FuninVR
  13. Xreal's AR Glasses are a Fraction of the Price of Apple's Vision Pro
  14. Bjarke Ingels Group Designs a Tent-Like Structure for Glamping
  15. The All-New Electric Popemobile, by Mercedes-Benz

CNET

  1. Best Internet Providers in Chandler, Arizona
  2. 12 Best Digital Gift Cards for Food, Drinks and Cookware in 2024
  3. What to Pack and What to Avoid in Your Carry-On Bag to Breeze Through TSA Lines
  4. Avapow Jump Starter
  5. Hair Dryer Brush Set
  6. Lenovo IdeaCentre AIO 27 Review: This Budget All-in-One PC Is Bigger, but Not Better
  7. Renpho HEPA Air Purifier
  8. Want to Try Elden Ring Nightreign Early? Here's How You Can
  9. Best Gifts Under $300 for the Holidays 2024
  10. New 'Secret Level' Clip Features Arnold Schwarzenegger as King Aelstrom
  11. 28 Amazing Gift Cards for Everyone on Your Holiday List
  12. Model Engine Kit
  13. Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3i
  14. How to Get Affordable Care Act Insurance During Open Enrollment
  15. A Peek at Arnold Schwarzenegger in Prime Video's Secret Level video
  16. Groview Bluetooth Projector
  17. Yangming Nightstand
  18. College Football Playoff: First-Round Matchups, Schedule, How to Watch and More
  19. Should You Buy or Rent Your Router? I Wasted Almost $1K on Equipment Fees
  20. LinkChef Immersion Blender
  21. Not All Beds Are Made the Same. We Went Behind the Scenes to See How the Foam in Your Mattress Is Created
  22. Gourmia Panorama
  23. PlayStation 5 Slim
  24. JBL Tune Beam
  25. Ring Up This Deal for $250 Off a New OnePlus 12 Phone

Reddit

The Verge

  1. The long-shot plan to save TikTok from a US ban
  2. ChatGPT Projects are fancy folders for your AI chats
  3. Peak Design denies snitching on Luigi Mangione
  4. Texas sues New York doctor for prescribing abortion pills via telemedicine
  5. A Gemini-boosted Google Assistant is now available on some Nest speakers
  6. The best Nintendo Switch controllers to buy right now
  7. Apple’s AI summary mangled a BBC headline about Luigi Mangione
  8. The Nintendo Switch 2, as described by Dbrand
  9. Amazon is shipping the Kindle Colorsoft again, but it’s unclear if it’s fixed
  10. Elmo needs a new streaming home after Max drops Sesame Street

Wired

  1. Tips for ChatGPT’s Voice Mode? Best AI Uses for Retirees? Our Expert Answers Your Questions
  2. Some Educated Guesses About Trump’s Second Term
  3. The New Jersey Drone Mystery May Not Actually Be That Mysterious
  4. Former ByteDance Intern Accused of Sabotage Among Winners of Prestigious AI Award
  5. Why the US Military Can't Just Shoot Down the Mystery Drones
  6. 9 Best Online Photo Printing Services That We Tested (2024)
  7. Wayve’s AI Self-Driving System Is Here to Drive Like a Human and Take On Waymo and Tesla
  8. Human Misuse Will Make Artificial Intelligence More Dangerous
  9. Use Android’s Built-In Settings to Cut Your Phone Usage Time in Half
  10. 8 Best Baby Carriers (2024): Wraps, Slings, and Packs
  11. No One Needs a Luigi Mangione Show
  12. Blacksky Is Nothing Like Black Twitter—and It Doesn’t Need to Be
  13. What Billionaire Frank McCourt Would Actually Do With TikTok
  14. 23 Gifts for Dads Who Don't Need Anything (2024)
  15. As the Mastermind of Far-Right ‘Active Clubs’ Goes to Prison, His Violent Movement Goes Global
  16. Logitech Promo Code: Exclusive 10% Off in December 2024
  17. Western Digital Promo Code: 10% Off in December
  18. The 24 Best Movies on Apple TV+ Right Now (December 2024)
  19. RFK Plans to Take on Big Pharma. It’s Easier Said Than Done
  20. Hands On With Google's Gemini-Powered Smart Glasses, Android XR, and Project Moohan Headset

LifeHacker

  1. The Best Ways to Find a Running Track Near You (and a Beginner’s Workout to Try)
  2. ChatGPT Can Finally See
  3. My Best Advice for Shipping Holiday Cookies Without Ruining Them
  4. You Can Max Out Your IRA Contributions for Longer Than You Might Think
  5. Toxic Christmas Tree Water and Other Holiday Pet Dangers You Never Knew About
  6. WhatsApp Now Lets You Call Select Members of a Group Chat
  7. My Favorite Amazon Deal of the Day: The Fire Stick Xbox Game Pass Bundle
  8. It’s Time to Learn What ‘Core Sleep’ Actually Is
  9. Google Maps’ Best Feature Is About to Get a Lot Less Useful
  10. This iPhone 15 Pro Max Is Less Than $900
  11. Now Is the Best Time to Get a Deal on a Used Car
  12. This Free App Archives and Deletes Your Tweets
  13. The 28 Best Holiday and Christmas Movies on Netflix Right Now
  14. Seven Ways to Make Hosting Little Kids for the Holidays Less Stressful for Everyone
  15. Seven Home Maintenance Tasks Everyone Forgets to Do
  16. How to Make Your Christmas Tree Last as Long as Possible
  17. The Best TV Series to Stream This Week
  18. The Best New Movies to Stream This Week
  19. Naughty Dog’s Next Game Is Nothing Like ‘The Last of Us’
  20. Ciri Takes the Lead Role in 'The Witcher 4'
  21. Instagram Won't Snitch If You Screenshot
  22. Every Must-Have App and Game for the Meta Quest 3 and Meta Quest 3S
  23. 'Mewing,' 'Sigma,' and Other Gen Z and Gen Alpha Slang You Might Need Help Decoding
  24. Everything You Can Do With Apple's New AI Image Generator
  25. 11 Great Cookbooks for Everyone on Your Gift List
  26. How to Do Strength Workouts on a Garmin Watch
  27. Google Messages Aren't Always End-to-End Encrypted
  28. One of the Best Value OLED TVs Is at Its Lowest Price Right Now
  29. These ‘Hacks’ Will Actually Dry Out Your Christmas Tree Faster
  30. My Favorite Amazon Deal of the Day: The Ultimate Ears Wonderboom 4 Speaker
  31. AT&T's Messaging App Is Officially Dead
  32. You'll Soon Be Able to Share Your AirTag's Location With Your Airline
  33. Five Unexpected Subscription Services That Can Actually Save You Money
  34. I’m Always Cold, and the Dreo Solaris Is the Best Space Heater I’ve Tried
  35. The ‘Magic Basket’ Method Breaks Decluttering Into Two Manageable Steps
  36. The Best Chrome Extensions of 2024, According to Google
  37. What People Are Getting Wrong This Week: CEO Shooter Conspiracy Theories
  38. How to Browse the Dark Web
  39. You Can Get the Sonos Ace Wireless Headphones for Their Lowest Price Ever Right Now
  40. You Should Plan Your 2025 Travel During These 'Dead Weeks'
  41. Why a Chest Strap Is the Best Way to Track Your Heart Rate During Exercise
  42. Apple Just Patched These 20 Security Vulnerabilities With iOS 18.2
  43. The Best Free Way to Get Around a Paywall to Read an Article (and a Few More Methods to Try)
  44. For the First Time, You’ll Be Able to Stream the Oscars
  45. Seven Custom Lists I Use on My Hearth Display (and How to Make Them)
  46. Three Great Deals on iPads That Will Arrive Before Christmas
  47. The Best Stretches for a Stiff Lower Back
  48. This Is The Ultimate Mouse Customization Tool for Mac
  49. The Best Apps of 2024, According to Apple
  50. The Refurbished Steam Deck OLED Is a Stupid Good Deal
  51. 'Chaat' Is the Cookbook to Warm Your Winter Bones
  52. Six Services You Can Hire to Make Moving Day Less Horrible
  53. Google’s Gemini 2.0 Is All About Efficiency
  54. All the Winter Cleaning and Organization Tasks You Should Tackle Before the New Year
  55. With iOS 18.2, Apple Intelligence Finally Has Image Generation
  56. What's New on Netflix in January 2025
  57. The Best New iOS Features for People Who Hate AI
  58. My Favorite Amazon Deal of the Day: Sony WH-1000XM5 Headphones
  59. 21 of the Best Christmas Horror Movies
  60. This Tool Can Create Captions for Any Audio on Your Android
  61. iOS 18.2 Is Here With New Apple Intelligence Features
  62. Four Ways to Keep Your Houseplants Happy in Winter
  63. The Newest Amazon Echo Dot Is at Its Lowest Price Ever Right Now
  64. The Out-of-Touch Adults' Guide to Kid Culture: The CEO Killer and Hawk Tuah Girl
  65. My Favorite Food Gifts (That Aren’t Kitchen Tools)
  66. Please Don't Use ChatGPT to Buy My Gift This Year
  67. Here's What a Paid Bluesky Subscription Might Look Like
  68. Verizon Just Killed Its Messaging App
  69. This Is the Best Authy Alternative for Two-Factor Authentication
  70. You Can Still Apply for a Payout in the ‘Fortnite’ Settlement
  71. Eleven Unusual Things You Can Find in Vending Machines
  72. Six Financial Resolutions You Should Make (Besides the Obvious Ones)
  73. The Best Movies and TV Shows to Watch on Max This Month
  74. This Picture Frame TV Is $800 Off Right Now
  75. My Favorite Gift Ideas for Someone Who Is Glued to Their Laptop All Day
  76. My Favorite Amazon Deal of the Day: The Sonos Era 100
  77. You Can Now Play These Multiplayer Games on YouTube
  78. The Specialty Cleaning Tools That Are Actually Worth It
  79. You Should Probably Pay for AppleCare+
  80. What Homeowners Insurance Will (and Won't) Cover If Your Holiday Party Goes Awry
  81. The Smart Home Devices I Use to Protect Against Leaks and Electrical Fires
  82. Everything We Know So Far About Apple's First Smart Display
  83. The Best Movies and TV Shows to Watch on Hulu This Month
  84. These Dyson Hair Styling Tools Are All at Their Lowest Prices Right Now
  85. The Best Movies and TV Shows to Watch on Prime This Month
  86. You Can Now Try Out Sora, OpenAI's AI Video Generator
  87. The Christmas Decorations You Can (and Should) Cheap Out On
  88. Use the ‘$1 Rule’ Before Making an Impulsive Purchase
  89. My Favorite Amazon Deal of the Day: The Amazon Fire HD 10 Tablet
  90. What to Do If You’re Being 'Managed Out' of Your Job
  91. How Much Stretching It Takes to Make You More Flexible, According to Science
  92. Meredith's Training Diaries: How I Crushed My Marathon Personal Record
  93. The Bose SoundLink Micro Is the Lowest Price It's Ever Been
  94. 28 Modern Christmas Classics to Watch Before the Holidays
  95. 11 Sci-Fi Movies You Should Share With Your Kids (That Aren’t ‘Star Wars’ or ‘E.T.’)
  96. Why You Might Not Need to Add ‘Reddit’ to Your Google Searches Anymore
  97. 15 of the Best Species of Live Christmas Trees (and Which to Choose)
  98. These Anker Holiday Deals Will Get You Juiced Up
  99. You Can Get the Samsung Galaxy Tab S10+ for Its Lowest Price Ever
  100. I Live With Chronic Illness, and Smart Tech Helps Me Manage My Life

The Onion

The Register

  1. Scumbag gets 30 years in the clink for running CSAM dark-web chatrooms, abusing kids
  2. Musk's lawyer asks the SEC to quit pestering the shy and retiring billionaire
  3. Google Timeline location purge causes collateral damage
  4. 'Tis the season to test the RHEL and AlmaLinux 10 betas
  5. Doing business in US? Don't wait for state ruling on AI to act, warns former Senate chief of staff
  6. Ingenuity helicopter's flying days cut short by featureless Martian terrain
  7. Android beefs up Bluetooth tag stalker protections
  8. Intel execs discuss the possibility of spinning off foundry
  9. systemd begrudgingly drops a safety net while a challenger appears, GNU Shepherd 1.0
  10. 2024 according to Cloudflare: Global traffic up, Google still king, US churning out bots
  11. Backup failed, but the boss didn't slam IT – because his son was to blame
  12. Broadcom says VMware is a better money-making machine than it hoped
  13. Astroscale orbital janitor gets within 15 meters of space junk
  14. North Korea's fake IT worker scam hauled in at least $88M over six years
  15. American cops are using AI to draft police reports, and the ACLU isn't happy
  16. FCC throws open 6 GHz band to unlicensed low-power gizmos
  17. Cruise shutdown blastzone increases – Microsoft takes $800M charge
  18. Google thinks the grid can't support AI, so it's spending on solar for future datacenters
  19. Apache issues patches for critical Struts 2 RCE bug
  20. Lights out for 18 more DDoS booters in pre-Christmas Operation PowerOFF push
  21. British Army zaps drones out of the sky with laser trucks
  22. Firefox ditches Do Not Track because nobody was listening anyway
  23. Aliens, spy balloons, or drones? SUV-sized mystery objects spotted in US skies
  24. Australia lays fiendish tax trap for Meta – with an expensive escape hatch
  25. Citrix goes shopping in Europe and returns with gifts for security-conscious customers
  26. China preps another rocket that Beijing hopes will become its workhorse
  27. Epic coughs up the dirty V-Bucks: Fortnite's 'dark pattern' refunds hit accounts
  28. Apple reportedly building AI server processor with help from Broadcom
  29. Blocking Chinese spies from intercepting calls? There ought to be a law
  30. Intel turmoil prompts S&P Global to downgrade chipmaker's credit rating
  31. Facebook, Threads, WhatsApp, Instagram stumble on and offline in global outage
  32. Krispy Kreme Doughnut Corporation admits to hole in security
  33. China gorging on silicon before Uncle Sam slams the door
  34. Good news! You'll soon be able to send faxes again with Windows 11 24H2
  35. Google Gemini 2.0 Flash comes out with real-time conversation, image analysis
  36. Microsoft hijacks keyboard shortcut to bring Copilot to your attention
  37. Cruise robotaxis parked forever, as GM decides it can't compete and wants to cut costs
  38. Three more vulns spotted in Ivanti CSA, all critical, one 10/10
  39. A decade on from maiden flight, NASA's Orion is still waiting for its Moon moment
  40. Linux 6.12 is the new long term supported kernel
  41. Blue Origin's New Glenn will launch any day now – but it better hurry up
  42. Doctor Who theme added to national sound archive to honor innovation, longevity
  43. US names Chinese national it alleges was behind 2020 attack on Sophos firewalls
  44. Indian police demand Starlink identify alleged drug smugglers
  45. Judge hands WP Engine a win in legal fight with Automattic
  46. US Commerce Dept coughs up $6.1B Christmas present for Micron
  47. Tesla sued over alleged Autopilot fail in yet another fatal accident
  48. Microsoft holds last Patch Tuesday of the year with 72 gifts for admins
  49. US military grounds entire Osprey tiltrotor fleet over safety concerns
  50. Oracle gets Big Red reality check after financials fail to impress

TechMeme

  1. The US DOJ indicts 14 North Korean nationals for allegedly making $88M+ via fraud by working as remote IT workers for US companies from April 2017 to March 2023 (Jonathan Greig/The Record)
  2. The BBC complains to Apple after Apple Intelligence's notification summary falsely suggested the BBC had published an article saying Luigi Mangione shot himself (Graham Fraser/BBC)
  3. Sources: Walmart is leading a $300M+ round alongside Ribbit Capital for Walmart-majority-owned fintech venture, One, giving it a $2.5B pre-money valuation (Bloomberg)
  4. Sources: the US is preparing rules restricting the sale of GPUs to some countries in Southeast Asia and the Middle East, to limit China's ability to access them (Wall Street Journal)
  5. In a blog post, OpenAI says "You can't sue your way to AGI", and publishes emails from Elon Musk showing he wanted to own OpenAI and run it as a for-profit (Ina Fried/Axios)
  6. Report: Apple will stop selling the iPhone SE and iPhone 14 series at 2024's end in the EU, as the USB-C universal charging connector deadline comes into effect (Benjamin Mayo/9to5Mac)
  7. Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski says Klarna's investment in AI let it stop hiring a year ago and its headcount fell 22% to 3,500, mostly due to attrition (Bloomberg)
  8. Private-credit firm Sixth Street commits $4B in capital upfront for Affirm to underwrite four- to six-month installment loans, a source says starting in 2025 (Leslie Picker/CNBC)
  9. Liquid, which is building "liquid foundation models" inspired by the architecture of worm brains, raised a $250M Series A led by AMD at a $2.3B valuation (Bloomberg)
  10. How Anthropic's Claude became the chatbot of choice for AI industry insiders, who say its responses feel more creative and empathetic and less gratingly robotic (Kevin Roose/New York Times)
  11. Google rolls out NotebookLM Plus, the enterprise version of NotebookLM with higher limits and added access and data management controls, as part of Agentspace (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
  12. Google Cloud launches Agentspace to let enterprises create and deploy AI agents for sales, marketing, HR, software development, and more (Larry Dignan/Constellation Research)
  13. Google rolls out interactive Audio Overviews in NotebookLM, an "experimental feature" that lets users talk to the AI "hosts" of the podcast-like overviews (Jay Peters/The Verge)
  14. OpenAI says ChatGPT's three-hour outage on December 11 was caused by a new telemetry service configuration deployed to collect Kubernetes control plane metrics (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
  15. A Texas man gets a two-year sentence for underreporting capital gains from selling $3.7M in bitcoin, the first such prosecution based entirely on cryptocurrency (Adam James/The Block)