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Wind chills in parts of North Dakota reached minus 70 degrees (minus 56 degrees Celsius), while the heat index in Miami was more than 160 degrees warmer at 92 (33 degrees Celsius). (apnews.com)

Visits to piracy websites have increased 12% in the past four years (www.fastcompany.com)

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GTA 5 Actor Ned Luke Calls Out 'Bulls**t' AI Chatbot That Uses His Voice (www.ign.com)

GTA 5 Actor Ned Luke Calls Out 'Bullst’ AI Chatbot That Uses His Voice::Grand Theft Auto voice actor Ned Luke, who played Michael De Santa in GTA 5, has called out a "fking bulls**t" AI chatbot which uses his voice.

Austrian heiress giving away $36.6M because the government won't tax her inheritance (www.cbc.ca)

Marlene Engelhorn says that when she inherited her grandmother’s multimillion-dollar fortune in 2022, she “wanted to be happy about it.”...

The US failed to track more than $1 billion in military gear given Ukraine, Pentagon watchdog says (apnews.com)

Hertz 180: Rental giant to sell 20,000 EVs and replace them with gas-powered vehicles (www.techspot.com)

Mark Zuckerberg raising cows by feeding them dry fruits and beer, says he wants to create world's best beef (ground.news)

Billionaire Mark Zuckerberg’s next passion is cows and beef. And to start with his passion, he has said that he is raising cows on an island in Hawaii by feeding them macadamia nuts and beer. The idea is, according to Zuckerberg, to create best beef in the world. Critics call cattle-raising project on Hawaii ranch ‘a...

Elon Musk criticized by civil rights groups over claim that diversity efforts make flying less safe (www.nbcnews.com)

In several posts on X, Musk claimed without evidence that diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives put airline customers in danger....

Linux 6.8 Network Optimizations Can Boost TCP Performance For Many Concurrent Connections By ~40% (www.phoronix.com)

NATO Directorate Warned Azov Remained ‘Fanatics,’ Recruits Acquired Canadian-Made Rifles. (www.readthemaple.com)

ChatGPT could soon replace Google Assistant on your Android phone (www.androidauthority.com)

Steam has now officially stopped supporting Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1. (www.theverge.com)

Steam has now officially stopped supporting Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1.::95.57 percent of surveyed Steam users are already on Windows 10 and 11, with nearly 2 percent of the remainder on Linux and 1.5 percent on Mac — so we may be talking about fewer than 1 percent of users on these older Windows builds. Older...

More Americans can now get insulin for $35 (www.cnn.com)

More Americans with diabetes will get a break on their insulin costs in 2024....

Does Wayland really break everything? (Nate Graham's OG post ref'd in the Phoronix article) (pointieststick.com)

Israel hits Bethlehem in Christmas raids on occupied West Bank (www.aljazeera.com)

FBI says it’s investigating after reports of violent threats to Colorado judges in Trump case (edition.cnn.com)

The FBI is working with law enforcement officials in Colorado in the wake of threats made against state Supreme Court justices who ruled last week to remove Donald Trump from the state’s 2024 presidential ballot....