Value of X has fallen 71% since purchase by Musk and name change from Twitter (www.theguardian.com)
The social media platform X has lost 71% of its value since it was bought by Elon Musk, according to the mutual fund Fidelity....
AI-created “virtual influencers” are stealing business from humans (arstechnica.com)
AI-created “virtual influencers” are stealing business from humans::Brands are turning to hyper-realistic, AI-generated influencers for promotions.
The premise of Black Santas caused a fuss 10 years ago — now, they're everywhere (www.nbcnews.com)
Megyn Kelly went viral when she declared Santa Claus “just is white,” but a decade later the idea of what St. Nick can look like has only expanded....
French city of Montpellier makes public transport free for all residents (www.theguardian.com)
A passenger hid bullets in a baby diaper at New York's LaGuardia Airport. TSA officers caught him (apnews.com)
It was a loaded diaper, but not like you would think....
Texas begins flying migrants from southern border to Chicago. The 1st plane carried over 120 people (apnews.com)
Using AI, researchers identify a new class of antibiotic candidates that can kill a drug-resistant bacterium (phys.org)
Tesla hiring Nordic policy expert as 'WWE-like standoff' with unions intensifies (www.cnbc.com)
Comcast Discloses Hackers May Have Stolen Data on 35.9 Million Xfinity Customers (variety.com)
New browser arrived! - Pissandshittium (pissandshittium.org)
Still better than chrome…
Justice Neil Gorsuch took 10 minutes to approve Dobbs abortion opinion – report (www.theguardian.com)
New York Times reports conservative supreme court justice had no changes to 98-page draft of opinion that removed right to abortion...
Ford's CEO says he definitely didn't pay for that viral video of a stuck Cybertruck needing a rescue on a snowy hill (archive.ph)
Ford’s CEO says he definitely didn’t pay for that viral video of a stuck Cybertruck needing a rescue on a snowy hill::undefined
Polish Hackers Repaired Trains the Manufacturer Artificially Bricked. Now The Train Company Is Threatening Them (www.404media.co)
In one of the coolest and more outrageous repair stories in quite some time, three white-hat hackers helped a regional rail company in southwest Poland unbrick a train that had been artificially rendered inoperable by the train’s manufacturer after an independent maintenance company worked on it. The train’s manufacturer is...
Scientists Discover 512-Year-Old Shark, Which Would Be The Oldest Living Vertebrate On The Planet (www.beautyofplanet.com)
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EU seeks to raise 15 billion euros for Ukraine from Russia's frozen assets (www.hindustantimes.com)
Alex Jones and his conspiracy theories are allowed back on X (www.engadget.com)
Alex Jones and his conspiracy theories are allowed back on X::Elon Musk created a poll on Saturday asking users to vote on whether Alex Jones should be reinstated. After the majority voted “Yes,” the conspiracy theorist best known for calling the Sandy Hook massacre a hoax was given his X account back.
Why scientists are making transparent wood / The results are amazing, that a piece of wood can be as strong as glass (arstechnica.com)
Why scientists are making transparent wood / The results are amazing, that a piece of wood can be as strong as glass::The material is being exploited for smartphone screens, insulated windows, and more.
The international web standards organization W3C is no longer active on X/Twitter and has directed all their followers to Mastodon. (w3c.social)
Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birth home doused in gasoline in arson attempt, 1 arrested (www.fox5atlanta.com)
Google could be working on a shared phone number blocklist for Android (www.androidauthority.com)
Why Doctors and Pharmacists Are in Revolt (www.nytimes.com)
Dr. John Wust does not come off as a labor agitator. A longtime obstetrician-gynecologist from Louisiana with a penchant for bow ties, Dr. Wust spent the first 15 years of his career as a partner in a small business — that is, running his own practice with colleagues....
PrEP: Preventative HIV drug highly effective, study says (www.bbc.com)
A drug which stops HIV infecting the body has proved to be a highly effective “real-world” preventative treatment, a study has confirmed. The results of the research on 24,000 people taking it across England, have been described as “reassuring”....
Steam Linux Marketshare Surges To Nearly 2% In November (www.phoronix.com)
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Two Hamas gunmen open fire at Jerusalem bus stop, killing three (www.reuters.com)
Two Hamas members kill three in morning rush hour attack...