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Congress replaces statue of white supremacist with statue of anti-LGBTQ+ zealot (www.lgbtqnation.com)

Boat found in connection with hit-and-run that killed Florida teen: Authorities (abcnews.go.com)

T-6 Instructor Pilot Dies After Ejection Seat Goes Off on the Ground (www.airandspaceforces.com)

Kill your clone before they find you in DoubleWe (www.gamingonlinux.com)

AMD launches Ryzen 7 8700F and Ryzen 5 8400F — budget Zen 4 CPUs without the RDNA 3 integrated graphics (www.tomshardware.com)

Hungary teases veto over new EU Russian gas sanctions (www.politico.eu)

Budapest opposes measures “that might have a negative impact on EU gas market” — a stance that could kill the EU’s effort to squeeze Moscow’s gas revenue....

Biden expected to quadruple tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles to 100%: Source (abcnews.go.com)

Valhalla Shores (Eric Heitmann and Aria Siren) (soundcloud.com)

Twilight (Eric Heitmann Cover by Time 2 Relax) (soundcloud.com)

Merry Christma… no wait…!

Bumble's billboard ads sneered at celibacy as an alternative to dating — and the company got stung (apnews.com)

The dating app Bumble got stung after running billboard ads that appeared to sneer at celibacy as an alternative to meeting people online....

Facing an Endless Barrage, Ukraine’s Air Defenses Are Withering (www.nytimes.com)

U.S. threats led to rupture of vital military ties, Nigerien leader says (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Parishioners stopped teen with a rifle from entering church with 60 children inside (www.nbcnews.com)

Children were inside St. Mary Magdalen in Abbeville, Louisiana, waiting to take their first Holy Communion, the church said....

Microsoft is testing Game Pass ads on the Windows 11 Settings homepage (www.ghacks.net)

Microsoft’s announcement: “We are introducing a new Game Pass recommendation card on the Settings homepage. The Game Pass recommendation card on Settings Homepage will be shown to you if you actively play games on your PC. As a reminder – the Settings homepage will be shown only on the Home and Pro editions of Windows 11...

Elon Musk laid off the Tesla Supercharger team; now he’s rehiring them (arstechnica.com)

I can’t imagine anyone that has decent prospects would agree to go back to Tesla after getting canned with those kinds of wild swings in decision making.

Major ChatGPT-4o update allows audio-video talks with an “emotional” AI chatbot (arstechnica.com)

US airlines are suing the Biden administration over a new rule to make certain fees easier to spot (apnews.com)

U.S. airlines are suing to block the Biden administration from requiring greater transparency over fees that the carriers charge their passengers, saying that a new rule would confuse consumers by giving them too much information during the ticket-buying process....

UN says total number of deaths in Gaza remains unchanged after controversy over revised data (www.cnn.com)

The total number of dead also does not include the approximately 10,000 people who are still missing and trapped under the rubble, the officials added....

Israeli tanks push deeper into Rafah, battles rage in northern Gaza (www.reuters.com)

Web publishers brace for carnage as Google adds AI answers (www.washingtonpost.com)

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In Coastal British Columbia, the Haida Get Their Land Back (hakaimagazine.com)

Hello GPT-4o (openai.com)

GPT-4o (“o” for “omni”) is a step towards much more natural human-computer interaction—it accepts as input any combination of text, audio, and image and generates any combination of text, audio, and image outputs. It can respond to audio inputs in as little as 232 milliseconds, with an average of 320 milliseconds,...

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