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At the top of Benjamin Netanyahu's agenda: self-preservation (www.cbc.ca)

Like many Israelis, Galon blames Netanyahu for not preventing the Hamas-led attacks on Oct. 7, which left more than 1,200 dead and resulted in the capture of more than 250 hostages. Israel responded with a ferocious military campaign in Gaza that has killed upward of 35,000 people, according to the Gaza health ministry....

Three-year-old CPU beats Intel's fastest current chip in RAM benchmark — 7 GHz Core i9-11900K tops 8.3 GHz Core i9-14900KS in PYPrime 32B (www.tomshardware.com)

Lives on hold as Israel continues war on Gaza | Al Jazeera Newsfeed (youtu.be)

China-Russia relations: Putin and Xi no longer have a partnership of equals (www.bbc.com)

TLDR:****- China’s president Xi wants to maintain an alliance with Putin’s Russia, while also knowing that close ties with a pariah puts at risk his stable ties with the West which he needs to help his ailing economy....

Crockett slams Greene as ‘racist’ following contentious House committee meeting | CNN Politics (edition.cnn.com)

Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett criticized Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, calling her “racist,” following a tense House Oversight markup Thursday evening that quickly devolved into personal attacks....

Why Piracy Fears are Keeping Some Researchers from Accessing the Games They Need (www.ign.com)

"Labyrinths" — Star Trek: Discovery Episode Discussion

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A Serial Killer from the U.S. Preyed on Young Women in Canada (www.nytimes.com)

Do companies store facial and voice recognition data from the thousands of hours of zoom/teams calls that their employees use?

I heard a person call into a show the other day, voice only, and talk about some poor working conditions at a factory. Made me think about how it would probably be so easy for nefarious bosses to be able to identify that person through voice recognition SW with all of the data that comes from us looking directly into cameras and...

Do we need to create increasingly more children for a stable economy?

So in the whole anti-natalism/pro-natalism conversation (which I’m mostly agnostic/undecided on, currently), my friend who is a pro-natalist, argued that the success/stability of our world economy is dependent on procreating more children each year than the previous year, so that we not only replace the numbers of the people...