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Musk changes course on Mars quest and shoots for moon – again (theguardian.com)

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Anthropic tries to hide Claude's AI actions. Devs hate it (theregister.com)

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OK, so Anthropic's AI built a C compiler. That don't impress me much (theregister.com)

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How often does the average person fart? Scientists built a device to find out (scientificamerican.com)

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AI uncovers solutions to Erdős problems, moving closer to transforming math (scientificamerican.com)

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Apple patches decade-old iOS zero-day, possibly exploited by commercial spyware (theregister.com)

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Claude add-on turns Google Calendar into malware courier (theregister.com)

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What came before the big bang? (scientificamerican.com)

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Apple, Google agree to loosen grip on UK app stores (theregister.com)

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Someone's attacking SolarWinds WHD to steal credentials – but we don't know how (theregister.com)

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Child internet safety campaign accused of censoring teenagers' speeches (theguardian.com)

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What were the first animals? The fierce sponge–jelly battle that just won't end (nature.com)

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Microsoft declares 'reliability' a priority for Visual Studio AI (theregister.com)

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BT loses more than 200k broadband customers as profits slump (theguardian.com)

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AWS intruder pulled off AI-assisted cloud break-in in 8 mins (theregister.com)

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Detecting Helium Leaks with Sound in a Physics-Based Sensor (physicsworld.com)

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UK services sector job cuts continue as companies automate, PMI survey shows (theguardian.com)

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The Future of Species – are we on the verge of creating synthetic life? (theguardian.com)

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KDE Binds Itself Tightly to Systemd, Drops Support for Non-Systemd Systems (hackaday.com)

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Firefox makes AI optional, like it probably should have been all along (theregister.com)

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Microsoft's Sinofsky saw Surface fail coming – asked Epstein for advice on exit (theregister.com)

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Autonomous cars, drones cheerfully obey prompt injection by road sign (theregister.com)

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Lennart Poettering, Systemd daddy departs Microsoft for Linux startup (theregister.com)

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Chinese Startup to Build a New Brain-Computer Interface–No Implant Required (wired.com)

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Google to foist Gemini pane on Chrome users in automated browsing push (theregister.com)

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One Hundred Years of Television (diamondgeezer.blogspot.com)

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What happens to the human body in 49C heat? Australians are finding out (theguardian.com)

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'Trump Phone' Still Doesn't Exist, Pre-Order Totals Appear Made Up (techdirt.com)

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Data thieves borrow Nike's 'Just Do It' mantra, claim they ran off with 1.4TB (theregister.com)

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Trump Administration Plans to Write Regulations Using Artificial Intelligence (propublica.org)

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The influencer World Cup: FIFA and TikTok deal targeting an avalanche of posts (theguardian.com)

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China's Deepin Linux gets a slick desktop – and, yes, built-in AI (theregister.com)

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SpaceX lines up Wall Street banks as Musk eyes blockbuster IPO (theguardian.com)

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Tesla Full Self Driving subscription to rise alongside its capabilities (theregister.com)

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Devs begin to assess options for MySQL's future beyond Oracle (theregister.com)

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Section 230 Didn't Fail Rand Paul. He Just Doesn't Like the Remedy That Worked (techdirt.com)

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Anthropic writes Constitution for Claude it thinks will soon be proven misguided (theregister.com)

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What Isaac Roberts Saw Without a Space Telescope (hackaday.com)

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Elon Musk floats idea of buying Ryanair after calling CEO 'an idiot' (theguardian.com)

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World models could unlock the next revolution in artificial intelligence (scientificamerican.com)

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Meta retreats from metaverse after virtual reality check (theregister.com)

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FCC Helps Verizon Make It Harder for You to Switch Wireless Carriers (techdirt.com)

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The stress management app that doesn't even pretend things are OK (cartoon) (theguardian.com)

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X still allowing users to post sexualised images generated by Grok AI tool (theguardian.com)

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Mother of one of Elon Musk's sons sues over Grok-generated explicit images (theguardian.com)

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Six more AI outfits sign for Wikimedia's fastest APIs (theregister.com)

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State Department Threatens UK Because Only the US Is Allowed to Ban Foreign Apps (techdirt.com)

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Americans Overwhelmingly Support Science, but Some Think the U.S. Is Lagging (scientificamerican.com)

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US regulator tells GM to hit the brakes on customer tracking (theregister.com)

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X 'acting to comply with UK law' after outcry over sexualised images (theguardian.com)

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Netflix 'plans to switch to all-cash offer to seal $83B Warner Bros deal' (theguardian.com)

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Pentagon Reportedly Testing Radio Wave Device Linked to 'Havana Syndrome' (scientificamerican.com)

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How London cracked mobile phone coverage on the Underground (ianvisits.co.uk)

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Cloudflare CEO threatens the Winter Olympics after Italy slugs it with a fine (theregister.com)

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Grok turns off image generator for most after outcry over sexualised AI imagery (theguardian.com)

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Cloudflare pours cold water on 'BGP weirdness preceded US attack on Venezuela' (theregister.com)

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Gnome dev gives fans of Linux's middle-click paste the middle finger (theregister.com)

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Hotel staff tricked into installing malware by bogus BSODs (theregister.com)

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Deep in the vaults: the Bank of England's £1.4B Venezuelan gold conundrum (theguardian.com)

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Tube trains could navigate the Underground using the rules of Quantum Physics (ianvisits.co.uk)

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The Setun Was a Ternary Computer from the USSR in 1958 (hackaday.com)

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Reddit overtakes TikTok in UK thanks to search algorithms and Gen Z (theguardian.com)

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[dupe] Explosions reported in Venezuelan capital Caracas (theguardian.com)

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Vaping safer than smoking – so why are people struggling to quit e-cigarettes? (theguardian.com)

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Round and Round (futilitycloset.com)

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Enough of the 'Hey you ' faux-friend nonsense. You're a business, not my mate (theguardian.com)

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China forecast to have sold one in every 10 new cars in UK in 2025 (theguardian.com)

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Be fearful when others are greedy Warren Buffett's sharpest lessons in investing (theguardian.com)

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UK accounting body to halt remote exams amid AI cheating (theguardian.com)

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People Who Drink Bottled Water Daily Get 90k More Microplastic Particles a Year (wired.com)

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The rise of the Merlin birdsong identifying app (theguardian.com)

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Starlink satellite fails, polluting orbit with debris and falling toward Earth (theregister.com)

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Trump Admin Reinvents US Digital Services Program After Elon Musk Fired Experts (techdirt.com)

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Libxml2 Narrowly Avoids Becoming Unmaintained (hackaday.com)

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Poisoned WhatsApp API package steals messages and accounts (theregister.com)

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King William's College – Isle of Man "The World's Most Difficult Quiz" [pdf] (kwc.im)

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High-Speed On-Chip Photonic Memory and Compute Systems (arxiv.org)

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Meta's SAM bot isolates voices and instruments from audio clips (theregister.com)

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Trump Pretends to Block State AI Laws; Media Pretends That's Legal (techdirt.com)

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The Asahi Illusion (futilitycloset.com)

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Christmas code-crackers: GCHQ reveals annual festive card for puzzle fans (theguardian.com)

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UK porn traffic down since beginning of age checks but VPN use up, says Ofcom (theguardian.com)

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How ICE's Plan to Monitor Social Media Threatens Privacy and Civic Participation (techdirt.com)

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Netflix Makes Itself Less Useful, Removes Casting with No Explanation (techdirt.com)

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Faith and Reform: is the religious right on the rise in UK politics? (theguardian.com)

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The Reverse-Centaur's Guide to Criticizing AI – Cory Doctorow (pluralistic.net)

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Three-year-old chess prodigy becomes youngest player to earn official rating (theguardian.com)

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Drunk raccoon found passed out in Virginia liquor store (theguardian.com)

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Cross-Channel Plumbing Fuelled the Allied March on Berlin (hackaday.com)

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Indian order to preload state-owned app on smartphones sparks political outcry (theguardian.com)

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India demands smartphone makers install a government app on every handset (theregister.com)

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Samsung reveals its tri-fold phone – and its desktop mode (theregister.com)

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Could Symbolic AI Unlock Human-Like Intelligence? (nature.com)

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'A step-change': tech firms battle for undersea dominance with submarine drones (theguardian.com)

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Adolescence lasts into 30s – new study shows four pivotal ages for your brain (bbc.com)

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Meta knows how bad its sites are for kids, say lawyers (theregister.com)

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One in four unconcerned by sexual deepfakes created without consent survey finds (theguardian.com)

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Bossware rises as employers keep closer tabs on remote staff (theregister.com)

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Self-destructing thumb drive can brick itself and wipe your secret files away (theregister.com)

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Russia-linked crooks bought themselves a bank for Christmas (theregister.com)