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Activision Blizzard boss Bobby Kotick departs in just a few days (www.eurogamer.net)

Marjorie Taylor Greene Rages at 'Stupid People' She Has To Work With (www.newsweek.com)

Biden administration pleads with states after millions of kids lose Medicaid coverage (www.politico.com)

According to HHS, nine states are responsible for 60 percent of children’s coverage losses between March and September....

IDF sniper kills two women inside Gaza church, Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem says (edition.cnn.com)

OpenAI Suspends ByteDance's Account After It Used GPT To Train Its Own AI Model (slashdot.org)

TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, has been secretly using OpenAI’s technology to develop its own competing large language model (LLM). “This practice is generally considered a faux pas in the AI world,” writes The Verge’s Alex Heath. “It’s also in direct violation of OpenAI’s terms of service, which state that...

Ubiquiti Users Somehow Being Fed Access to Strangers' Security Cameras (www.404media.co)

Iraqi resistance will fight until last US soldier expelled: Official (new.thecradle.co)

After Water System Privatization, Consumers Get Hosed (substack.perfectunion.us)

In Pennsylvania, residents are resisting a corporate takeover of their water system as state lawmakers attempt to change a law that incentivizes privatization.

Google proposes Project Ellmann, a chatbot that intimately knows you (www.techspot.com)

Jewish woman kicked out of cafe after complaining about antisemitic graffiti scrawled all over bathroom, getting berated by workers (nypost.com)

24/7 solar towers could double energy output (techxplore.com)

HP executive boasts that its controversial ink subscription model is "locking" in customers (www.techspot.com)

HP exec says quiet part out loud when it comes to locking in print customers (www.theregister.com)

HP exec says quiet part out loud when it comes to locking in print customers::Funny how marketing messages change depending on the audience

Cop28 chief says there is ‘no science’ behind demands for phase-out of fossil fuels (www.independent.co.uk)

The Cop28 president has claimed there is no science behind calls to phase-out fossil fuels as a way of limiting global heating to 1.5C....

Could electronic mail undermine conventional post? – archive, 1 December 1983 (www.theguardian.com)

Pirate Bay URL Disappears from Google Knowledge Panel in 'Blocked' Regions (torrentfreak.com)

Airbnb's silent killer: 19 carbon monoxide deaths in 10 years, but detectors still not required (www.nbcnewyork.com)

Dr. Henry Kissinger Dies at Age 100 (www.prnewswire.com)

Tobacco firm calls for tougher rules on vapes (www.bbc.com)

Scientists Create Gene-Hacked Monkey That Glowed Green (futurism.com)

The lab-born primate, developed by Chinese scientists, made history as the world's first live-born "chimeric" monkey. And: he glowed! Green!