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Germany says will intervene at The Hague on Israel’s behalf, blasts genocide charge (www.timesofisrael.com)

NASA Astronauts Won't Step Foot on the Moon Until September 2026 at the Earliest - IGN (www.ign.com)

The rich now own a record share of stocks (www.axios.com)

Airlines say they found loose parts in door panels during inspections of Boeing 737 Max 9 jets (apnews.com)

Airlines say they found loose parts in door panels during inspections of Boeing 737 Max 9 jets::Federal investigators are learning more about how a door panel flew off an Alaska Airlines jetliner last week.

VW vehicles to converse with drivers via ChatGPT by mid-year (www.volkswagen-newsroom.com)

I guess our car is not our private space anymore, and we are not given a choice when buying a car from Volkswagen.

China Says Cracked Apple AirDrop to Identify Message Sources (www.bloomberg.com)

Can't block admin? (lemm.ee)

Hamas Fighting With Top-Grade Chinese Weapons in Gaza, Says Israel (www.businessinsider.com)

WB’s ‘Ready Player One’ Blockchain, VR, AR, AI ‘Readyverse’ Will Of Course Be A Disaster (www.forbes.com)

Israel bombed Beirut with a Drone, targeting a Hamas official and killing 4-5 others (www.reuters.com)

This is a major escalation that could greatly expand the war and drag hezbollah deeper into the war, which was already involved in skirmishes with Israel in Lebanese regions that Israel occupies....

North Carolina pastor arrested after police say he tried to push wife's coworker into McDonald's deep fryer (www.cbsnews.com)

Research: The Growing Inequality of Who Gets to Work from Home (hbr.org)

Research: The Growing Inequality of Who Gets to Work from Home::There is a large and growing divide in terms of who gets to work from home. Research on job postings found that remote work is far more common for higher paid roles, for roles that require more experience, for full-time work, and for roles that require more...

"Trust and Safety" departments exist to protect the company, not users. (open.substack.com)

Ukraine Awaits Delivery Of First F-16 Jets In Coming Days As Kyiv Seeks To Counter Russian Air Superiority (www.rferl.org)

KYIV – Ukraine will likely receive it first shipment of advanced F-16s in the next few days, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte told President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in a phone call as Kyiv seeks to disrupt Russia’s air superiority over Ukrainian skies amid continued battles on December 23 in the east and south of the country....

GM stops selling the Chevy Blazer EV to deal with ‘software quality issues’ (www.theverge.com)

GM stops selling the Chevy Blazer EV to deal with ‘software quality issues’::The 2024 Chevy Blazer EV is no longer available while GM works on software bugs breaking the electric SUV’s infotainment system and its ability to charge properly.

Wayland-Proxy Load Balancer Helping Firefox Cope With Wayland Issues (www.phoronix.com)

Among the Firefox Wayland bugs, one of the top crash bugs is over a lost connection to a Wayland compositor. For dealing with it is to have a proxy between Firefox and the Wayland compositor to cache messages and prevent compositor message queue overflows.

Weed farmer outraged over cops throwing pizza party after raid (www.newsweek.com)

A weed farmer in California recently filed a lawsuit against the a local sheriff’s office alleging that they conducted an illegal raid of his farm and then threw a pizza party to celebrate....

'Cashing in on Genocide': Israeli Firm Pitches Beachfront Real Estate in Leveled Gaza (www.commondreams.org)

Microsoft is discontinuing Windows Mixed Reality (www.theverge.com)

AI image-generators are being trained on explicit photos of children, a study shows (apnews.com)

Those same images have made it easier for AI systems to produce realistic and explicit imagery of fake children as well as transform social media photos of fully clothed real teens into nudes, much to the alarm of schools and law enforcement around the world....