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TIL of Kevin Budden, who caught a deadly taipan by hand and hitchhiked to town still holding the snake. He lost his grip and was bitten, but bagged the snake and made the driver promise to get it t... (en.wikipedia.org)

Google reminds us that Google Chat can be used with friends and family (9to5google.com)

tl;dr: after pushing rcs so hard for years, killing hangouts well after forgetting about it, & hiding it from gmail, google now wants you to use its (and google allo's) successor, google chat.

TIL In Korea babies are classed as 1 year old at birth (they'll be changing to 0 this week to align with international standards) (www.independent.co.uk)

Elon Musk, new owner of Twitter, tweets unfounded, anti-LGBTQ conspiracy theory about Paul Pelosi attack (www.nbcnews.com)

Google Camera Port Hub: Get the best GCam APK for Samsung, Xiaomi, Redmi, and other phones! (www.xda-developers.com)

Google Camera and its post-processing algorithms undoubtedly changed the game in terms of what we expect from smartphone cameras, elevating the Google Pixels to some of the best Android phones you can buy for the camera. That’s the exact reason why Google Camera ports are so highly requested for non-Google devices. With the...

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (www.hpmor.com)

No Bing, no Edge, no upselling: De-crufted Windows 11 coming to Europe soon (arstechnica.com)

Google Store Black Friday: $200 off Pixel 8 Pro. $150 off Pixel 8. $80 off Pixel Watch. Trade-ins seem somewhat boosted. (store.google.com)

I was getting a trade-in quote of $250 for my 128gb 7 Pro last week, now it’s up to $315. Not quite at the $500 I got for my 6 Pro this time last year though.

S Africa’s ruling ANC to back opposition motion to close Israeli embassy (www.aljazeera.com)

Israel-Hamas war: Al Shifa Hospital is a symbol of Palestinian resilience - but Israel claims it has a dark side (news.sky.com)

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How easy it is to publish a false hypothesis: people were nearly a year-and-a-half younger after listening to “When I’m Sixty-Four” (journals.sagepub.com)

Also this research.uh.edu/…/behind-closed-drawers-the-file-…

Old School RuneScape releases Leagues IV Trailblazer, causing the servers to buckle under the strain - MassivelyOP (massivelyop.com)

ProtonDB now accepts Chromebook reports (www.protondb.com)

China launches world’s fastest internet with 1.2 terabit per second link, years ahead of forecasts (www.scmp.com)

Ark: Survival Ascended's Xbox Series X/S release gets last-minute delay (www.eurogamer.net)

Cyprus to clamp down as investigation reveals oligarchs moved assets after Ukraine invasion (www.theguardian.com)

Finland to 'take action' as more asylum seekers arrive via Russia (www.reuters.com)

Amid blowback over Clarence Thomas travel, Supreme Court says it will honor a code of conduct for the first time (www.usatoday.com)

It is the first time in its 234-year history the Supreme Court will honor a code of conduct....

Intel Begins Sorting Out SR-IOV Support For The Xe Kernel Graphics Driver (www.phoronix.com)

The online hate and conspiracies driving a new wave of antisemitism | Ben Judah (www.independent.co.uk)

There has been widespread condemnation of the antisemitism that has followed Hamas’s deadly attack on Israel and the subsequent bombing of Gaza. But the slurs have little to do with Jewish people; instead, they expose Western society as weak, polarised and poisoned by non-stop social media shares and comments, argues Ben Judah