EU unlikely to confiscate Russian central bank assets - officials (www.reuters.com)
Appeals court upholds ‘pharma bro’ Martin Shkreli lifetime ban from drug industry (www.cnbc.com)
Appeals court upholds ‘pharma bro’ Martin Shkreli lifetime ban from drug industry::Martin Shkreli served a criminal sentence for securities fraud related to a pharmaceuticals company he founded.
Why are so many Russians freezing in their homes? (www.dw.com)
Russia boasts a massive energy infrastructure, but a recent wave of heating system breakdowns has left many of its citizens scrambling to keep the frost outside. We are still using the communal infrastructure that was made during the Soviet era," said Svetlana Razvorotneva, a Russian lawmaker and member of the committee in...
IBM scraps rewards program for staff inventions, wipes away cash points | Big Blue staffers aren’t pleased to lose out on potential bonuses (www.theregister.com)
IBM scraps rewards program for staff inventions, wipes away cash points | Big Blue staffers aren’t pleased to lose out on potential bonuses::Big Blue staffers aren’t pleased to lose out on potential bonuses
The return-to-office wars are over (www.axios.com)
Just 6 out of 158 U.S. CEOs said they’ll prioritize bringing workers back to the office full-time in 2024, according to a new survey released by the Conference Board....
Alaska flight incident reveals another feature Boeing didn’t inform pilots about - Federal investigators said that Boeing didn’t make pilots aware that when a plane rapidly depressurizes, the cockp... (www.politico.com)
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Boeing 737 Max 9: United Airlines finds loose bolts during inspections (www.bbc.co.uk)
Generative AI Has a Visual Plagiarism Problem (spectrum.ieee.org)
Generative AI Has a Visual Plagiarism Problem::Experiments with Midjourney and DALL-E 3 show a copyright minefield
Alabama still can’t find heart missing from prisoner’s body (www.al.com)
New cars bought in the UK must be zero emission by 2035 (www.theregister.com)
AG Letitia James wins $740,000 settlement from online mental health provider Cerebral (brooklyneagle.com)
AG Letitia James wins $740,000 settlement from online mental health provider Cerebral::Letitia James announced that her office obtained a settlement from an online mental health provider with a complicated cancellation process.
Xbox Slammed For AI-Generated Art Promoting Indie Games (kotaku.com)
Could 2024 be the year of the diagonal linux desktop? (www.tomshardware.com)
Thanks to @redcalcium for providing a better link. This post originally linked to tomshardware.
4 billion if statements (andreasjhkarlsson.github.io)
Merry Christmas (reddthat.com)
#christmas #unions
Childhood vaccine exemptions are at an all-time high. Doctors worry diseases like measles could return (abcnews.go.com)
Israeli Soldiers Violently Assault Palestinian Journalist Live on CNN (www.commondreams.org)
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Newest NATO member Finland signs defence pact with US (www.euronews.com)
NATO’s newest member, Finland, has announced it will sign a bilateral defence cooperation agreement next week with the United States....
Adam Mosseri spells out Threads’ plans for the fediverse | The head of Instagram says a full integration with the fediverse could take ‘the better part of a year’ (www.theverge.com)
Why Americans are going hungry despite a strong economy (www.nbcnews.com)
Biden invites Zelensky to White House Tuesday as war funding dries up (www.france24.com)
Hunter Biden indicted on nine tax charges, adding to gun charges in special counsel probe (apnews.com)
Threads has hashtags now (www.theverge.com)
“Tags work a little differently than hashtags do on platforms like Instagram and X (formerly Twitter). When composing a Threads post, you start a tag by tapping the # symbol and then typing out your topic. But instead of being limited to just one word, you can type out a whole phrase (with spaces!) and add special characters,...
‘I don’t know what else to do’: Carnival Cruise customer spent 2K on trip. Now that she’s passed away, they want a $1,300 cancellation fee (www.dailydot.com)
Big ole business just itching to get more money from people’s grief… until they’re called out in front of enough people online.