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Florida shooting: Mum fatally shot over Christmas present row (www.bbc.co.uk)

The 23-year-old was shot in the chest by her teenage brother while she had her 10-month-old son in a carrier, the Florida sheriff’s office said....

Baltimore's new approach to police training looks at the effects of trauma, importance of empathy (apnews.com)

A three-minute viral video shows an irate Baltimore police officer berating a teenager because he ignored orders to stop skateboarding and called the officer “dude.”...

Study shows AI image-generators being trained on explicit photos of children (www.independent.co.uk)

Study shows AI image-generators being trained on explicit photos of children::Hidden inside the foundation of popular artificial intelligence image-generators are thousands of images of child sexual abuse, according to a new report that urges companies to take action to address a harmful flaw in the technology they built

Mississippi police officer who shot 11-year-old boy in his home after a 911 call has been reinstated after suspension (www.cnn.com)

They have a strong psychic connection (doomscroll.n8e.dev)

Gunman kills 10 people in Prague university shooting (www.reuters.com)

War in Ukraine Has China Cashing In (www.nytimes.com)

The country’s trade with Russia this year has exceeded $200 billion, and makers of cars and trucks are the big winners....

Hermes billionaire to leave £5bn to former gardener (www.telegraph.co.uk)

Xfinity waited 13 days to patch critical Citrix Bleed 0-day. Now it’s paying the price (arstechnica.com)

Xfinity waited 13 days to patch critical Citrix Bleed 0-day. Now it’s paying the price::Data for almost 36 million customers now in the hands of unknown hackers.

Human brain-like supercomputer with 228 trillion links coming in 2024 (interestingengineering.com)

Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Top-Secret Hawaii Compound (web.archive.org)

or ‘Billionaire Haole Builds Underground Apocalypse Bunker On Island Chain Where Locals Find It Increasingly Difficult To Stay’...

Jeffrey Epstein Never Stopped Abusing Women—and His VIP Circle Helped Make It Possible (www.msn.com)

San Fran tech founder is accused of forcing his assistant into a 'slave contract' that called him 'Master' before trafficking her for sex around the world (www.businessinsider.com)

San Fran tech founder is accused of forcing his assistant into a ‘slave contract’ that called him ‘Master’ before trafficking her for sex around the world::The lawsuit says CEO Christian Lanng made the woman sign the “shocking and repulsive” sex slave contract that led to years of “sexual abuse, torture, and...

December Updates: The Spirit of COSMIC (blog.system76.com)

Mouse is an upcoming FPS heavily inspired by old-school Disney cartoons (www.destructoid.com)

How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse) (ploum.net)

Australian woman jailed for 20 years for death of her four children has conviction quashed (www.reuters.com)

Kathleen Folbigg was convicted in 2003 of murdering three of her children, and of manslaughter in the death of her fourth. Folbigg maintained her innocence and said the children had died of natural causes over a decade, from 1989-1999....

Calls for return of masks, airport scanners in Southeast Asia amid Covid surge (www.scmp.com)

Lesbian couple flees Italy as government strips them of parental rights (www.lgbtqnation.com)

Tesla claims California false-advertising law violates First Amendment (arstechnica.com)

Tesla claims California false-advertising law violates First Amendment::Tesla fights DMV complaint that Autopilot is falsely advertised as autonomous.

Production Begins For ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Season 3, ‘Section 31’ Movie Starts In January (trekmovie.com)

Google Loses Antitrust Case Brought by Epic Games (archive.ph)

Original (pay-walled): wsj.com/…/google-loses-antitrust-case-brought-by-…

Senior OpenAI employees claimed Sam Altman was ‘psychologically abusive’: report (bit.ly)

A group of senior employees at OpenAI complained to the company’s former board of directors that CEO Sam Altman was “psychologically abusive” — and the allegations contributed to the shocking decision to fire him, according to a report Friday.