Valve Makes "Boomer Shooter" An Official Genre On Steam (www.gamespot.com)
Valve officially ends Steam support for Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 (www.techspot.com)
California becomes first state to offer health insurance to all undocumented immigrants (abcnews.go.com)
About 700,000 adults between ages 26 and 49 will be eligible as of Jan. 1...
In the Red Sea, the US has no good options against the Houthis (www.aljazeera.com)
Israel 'stealing organs' from bodies in Gaza, alleges rights group (www.euronews.com)
Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said on Sunday it had “concerns” about possible organ theft from Palestinian corpses, following reports by medical professionals in Gaza who examined some bodies after they were released by Israel....
Russia bans anti-war candidate from challenging Putin (www.bbc.com)
Supreme Court rejects Jack Smith’s request for justices to quickly hear Trump immunity dispute (www.cnn.com)
The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a request by special counsel Jack Smith to fast-track arguments on whether Donald Trump has any immunity from federal prosecution for alleged crimes he committed while in office – a move that will likely delay his trial....
Wayfair CEO: Employees need to work longer hours (www.cnn.com)
Wayfair’s CEO has an end-of-year message for employees of the online furniture company: Don’t shy away from doing more work and blending your work with your life....
Social media platform X̶ Twitter suffers global outages (www.bbc.com)
Vase woman buys for $3.99 at Virginia thrift shop sells for more than $100,000 (www.theguardian.com)
A woman who bought a glass vase for $3.99 at a local Goodwill charity shop has seen the piece auctioned off for more than $100,000 after it turned out to be a rare and valuable piece of Italian glassware....
US teacher told student offended by Israeli flag he would ‘slit her throat’, police say (www.theguardian.com)
Georgia teacher arrested after allegedly saying he would cut student’s head off after she objected to his Israeli flag...
USA finds Huawei Mate 60 Pro 'deeply concerning': US Secretary of Commerce threatens new sanctions (www.notebookcheck.net)
DateTime (xkcd.com)
Black man choked and shocked by police died because of drugs, officers' lawyers argue at trial (apnews.com)
Lawyers for three Washington state police officers charged in the 2020 death of a Black man told the jury Tuesday that his death was the result of drug use, not excessive force that included officers choking, shocking and holding him facedown....
Declassified US Intelligence Reveals Massive Russian Losses in Ukraine (www.voanews.com)
Man flies from Denmark to Los Angeles with no passport or plane ticket (www.theguardian.com)
Optimising Ubuntu performance on amd64 architecture (ubuntu.com)
Ukrainian military says it hacked Russia's federal tax agency (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
The Ukrainian government’s military intelligence service says it hacked the Russian Federal Taxation Service, wiping the agency’s database and backup copies....
A gigantic new ICBM will take US nuclear missiles out of the Cold War-era but add 21st-century risks (apnews.com)
A gigantic new ICBM will take US nuclear missiles out of the Cold War-era but add 21st-century risks::A new nuclear missile is coming, a gigantic ICBM called the Sentinel. It marks the largest cultural shift in 60 years in the land leg of the Air Force’s nuclear missile mission.
‘We will not sign our own death certificate’: COP28 talks on the cusp of failure (www.smh.com.au)
Climate-vulnerable nations’ hopes that the world was on the cusp of an agreement to rapidly phase out the use of fossil fuels at the COP28 climate summit were shattered when a new draft text emerged from negotiations drastically watering down such language....
Beeper Mini is back! Now you can text Apple users via iMessage again (blog.beeper.com)
We’ve created an updated version of Beeper Mini that fixes an issue that caused messages not to be sent or received. We even added in a few new feature improvements: chats now open at the last unread message, and we polished the video player a bit!
Zelda Producer Eiji Aonuma Doesn't Really Care About the Series' Chronology (www.ign.com)
Video of Palestinians stripped, forced to sit outside by IDF soldiers raises ire (abcnews.go.com)
Chinese scientists use genetics to boost iron content of corn, offer hope to anaemia sufferers worldwide (www.scmp.com)
Grok refuses to answer a prompt, says its a violation of the "OpenAI Policy" (stackdiary.com)
Twitter enforces strict restrictions against external parties using its data for AI training, yet it freely utilizes data created by others for similar purposes.
