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Paris mayor plans to triple SUV parking tariffs to cut air pollution (www.theguardian.com)

The most credible death battle humanly possible (sh.itjust.works)

U.S. and Ukraine Search for a New Strategy After Failed Counteroffensive (www.nytimes.com)

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Hungry, thirsty and humiliated: Israel's mass arrest campaign sows fear in northern Gaza (apnews.com)

“We were treated like cattle, they even wrote numbers on our hands,” said Ibrahim Lubbad, a 30-year-old computer engineer arrested in Beit Lahiya on Dec. 7 with a dozen other family members and held overnight. “We could feel their hatred.”

TikTok requires users to “forever waive” rights to sue over past harms (arstechnica.com)

Pope Francis: How we deploy AI will be ‘true measure of our humanity’ (thenextweb.com)

One killed, another 26 injured as Ukrainian MP detonates a grenade at a meeting in Ukraine (en.apa.az)

Trains were designed to break down after third-party repairs, hackers find (arstechnica.com)

Trains were designed to break down after third-party repairs, hackers find::The train manufacturer accused the hackers of slander.

The European Union agrees to open membership negotiations with Ukraine and Moldova (apnews.com)

The European Union decided Thursday to open accession negotiations with Ukraine, a stunning reversal for a country at war that had struggled to find the necessary backing for its membership aspirations and long faced obstinate opposition from Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban....

AI models propagate false race-based medical information, Stanford researchers find (stanforddaily.com)

A group of Stanford researchers found that large language models can propagate false race-based medical information.

Footage appears to show Israeli troops destroying property in Gaza - as IDF says it has 'taken action' (news.sky.com)

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DeepSouth (www.westernsydney.edu.au)

A supercomputer capable of mimicking the human brain is set to be activated in 2024. The DeepSouth system, developed by researchers at the International Centre for Neuromorphic Systems, uses spiking neural networks to efficiently emulate large networks of neurons, rivaling the rate of operations in the human brain. This...

IOC boss says individual athletes cannot be punished for acts of their governments, defending move to allow Russians and Belarusians to compete as neutrals (www.bbc.co.uk)

New Hampshire attorney general files second complaint against white nationalist group (apnews.com)

The New Hampshire attorney general is again accusing a white nationalist group of civil rights violations, this time in response to a demonstration outside a Concord café hosting a drag story hour event....

Dropbox spooks users with new AI features that send data to OpenAI when used (arstechnica.com)

Credible Cyber Offense (sh.itjust.works)

“The Ukrainian government’s military intelligence service says it hacked the Russian Federal Taxation Service (FNS), wiping the agency’s database and backup copies.”...

This does put a smile on my face (sh.itjust.works)

One of my back teeth is aching at the moment (literature.cafe)

Colorado cattle industry sues over wolf reintroduction on the cusp of the animals' release (apnews.com)

Just weeks before the deadline for Colorado to begin reintroducing gray wolves under a voter-approved initiative, representatives of the cattle industry association are suing state and federal agencies in the hopes of delaying the predators’ release....