Six held over plot to disrupt London Stock Exchange (www.bbc.com)
Facebook bans ads for award-winning Votes for Women board game’s new Kickstarter, claims it is a “sensitive social issue” (boardgamewire.com)
Israel Bombed an Al Jazeera Cameraman — and Blocked Evacuation Efforts as He Bled to Death (theintercept.com)
“IT WAS AS if a storm had targeted us.” On the afternoon of December 15, an Israeli airstrike slammed into the Farhana school in Khan Younis where Al Jazeera Gaza bureau chief Wael al-Dahdouh and his cameraman, Samer Abu Daqqa, had just wrapped up filming the aftermath of an earlier bombardment in the area....
eBay hit with $3M fine, admits to “terrorizing innocent people” (arstechnica.com)
eBay hit with $3M fine, admits to “terrorizing innocent people”::eBay must pay maximum fine for putting Massachusetts couple “through pure hell.”
Ending affirmative action in college admissions opened a floodgate, reporter says (www.npr.org)
Star Trek: The Deep Space Nine episode that predicted a US crisis [bbc.com] (www.bbc.com)
Grand jury declines to indict Ohio woman facing charges after she miscarried (abcnews.go.com)
Brittany Watts, 34, miscarried at nearly 22 weeks....
Nvidia will have to copy our frame generation approach, says AMD (www.pcgamesn.com)
Case dropped against jail guards on duty night Epstein died (www.nbcnews.com)
Substack removes multiple newsletters including pro-Nazi content amid growing pressure (www.cnn.com)
Although the platform has explicit guidelines banning content that incites violence, a November article in The Atlantic pointed out at least 16 different newsletters with Nazi symbols, as well as many more supporting far-right extremism, leading to calls for change from many Substack authors and a refusal from leadership.
MSI's AI-powered gaming monitor helps you cheat at 'League of Legends,' looks great doing it (www.tomshardware.com)
Google may be planning to ship a major kernel upgrade to all its (Tensor-powered) pixel phones. (androiddev.social)
Good news for android overall. Hopefully, this could be extended to other OEMs by 2025 and not be optional like virtual A&Bs when it arrives....
About 75,000 Deloitte staff have been given access to a generative artificial intelligence chatbot to create PowerPoint presentations and write emails and code in an attempt to boost productivity (www.ft.com)
About 75,000 Deloitte staff have been given access to a generative artificial intelligence chatbot to create PowerPoint presentations and write emails and code in an attempt to boost productivity::About 75,000 staff to be given access to ‘PairD’ tool with advice to validate ‘accuracy and completeness’
Researchers publish open-source repository using NLP to analyse the bias in BBC reporting on Palestine. (github.com)
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Marjorie Taylor Greene Fined $12,000 For Alleged Illegal Super PAC Solicitations (www.forbes.com)
The Google Home app is finally on the right path (www.androidauthority.com)
TIL that the telescope that capted the Wow! Signal (only likely candidate to be of ET origin) was razed to make room for a golf course (skeptoid.com)
Berlin’s plan for driverless magnetic trains derided by climate groups (www.theguardian.com)
'The Last of Us' Was the Most-Pirated Show of 2023 (gizmodo.com)
Into the endless expanse with them (slrpnk.net)
The first EV with a lithium-free sodium battery hits the road in January (www.engadget.com)
China uses AI to generate propaganda on YouTube, report finds (www.rfa.org)
In a YouTube video, a voice in English announces that China has researched and developed its own ultra-thin 1-nanometer chip – a staggering claim given that the chip isn’t expected in commercial devices for another decade....
Lucid’s $50,000 Tesla Challenger Under Development, CEO Suggests (insideevs.com)
Lucid’s $50,000 Tesla Challenger Under Development, CEO Suggests::Lucid CEO Peter Rawlinson said the company’s next model line-up will target a mass-market family car segment.
Liquidation of Wikimedia RU [Wikipedia Signpost] (en.wikipedia.org)
Briefly: Stanislav Kozlovsky, the director of Russian Wikimedia project (which supports the Russian Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikisource, etc.), has been declared a “foreign agent” by Russia. He has been forced to resign from his job at the Moscow State University. Following the event, Russian Wikimedia has decided to dissolve...