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US$280 in China, US$8,892 in the US: new Chinese cancer drug gets FDA approval (www.scmp.com)
Following the approval of Toripalimab by the Food and Drug Administration, two more Chinese-made cancer drugs have received approval for distribution in the US.
Advertisers Say They Do Not Plan to Return to X After Musk’s Comments (www.nytimes.com)
Elon Musk, the owner of X, criticized advertisers with expletives on Wednesday at The New York Times’s DealBook Summit.
A bride to be discovers a reality bending mistake in Apple's computational photography (appleinsider.com)
A U.K. woman was photographed standing in a mirror where her reflections didn't match, but not because of a glitch in the Matrix. Instead, it's a simple iPhone computational photography mistake.
Julianna Margulies Says ‘Entire Black Community’ May Have Been ‘Brainwashed to Hate Jews’ (www.thedailybeast.com)
“As someone who plays a lesbian journalist on ‘The Morning Show,’ I am more offended by it as a lesbian than I am as a Jew,” the actress said at another point in a new interview.
'Make uniforms genderless': LGBTQ group calls for freedom of choice in Japan schools - The Mainichi (mainichi.jp)
NIIGATA -- A symposium on making gender-neutral school uniforms inclusive of students in the LGBTQ+ community was held Nov. 18 in this central Japan prefectural capital.
MSNBC cancels Mehdi Hasan, a truth-teller in a time of crisis (presswatchers.org)
No high-profile journalist has been more assertive about Palestinian rights than Mehdi Hasan, and MNSBC punished him on Thursday by taking away his shows.
Coal-producing West Virginia is converting an entire school system to solar power (apnews.com)
An entire county school system in coal-producing West Virginia is going solar. The project in Wayne County Schools represents what a developer and U.S. Sen.
‘A mass assassination factory’: Inside Israel’s calculated bombing of Gaza (www.972mag.com)
Permissive airstrikes on non-military targets and the use of an AI system have enabled the Israeli army to carry out its deadliest war on Gaza.
Baldur’s Gate 3 Patch 5 Adds New Playable Epilogue With 3,589 Lines of Extra Dialogue, Much More (www.ign.com)
Truce in Israel-Hamas extended with minutes to spare (apnews.com)
The truce continues. Saved at the last minutes by diplomacy.
Dr. Henry Kissinger Dies at Age 100 (finance.yahoo.com)
A crash course on this asshole: thenation.com/…/kissinger-100-crimes-watergate/
NHS ‘unethical’ in recruiting nurses from short-staffed countries (www.theguardian.com)
Hiring from ‘red-list’ nations risks destabilising healthcare overseas, warns Royal College of Nursing
Mysterious woman tells school board that Scholastic book sparked porn addiction (popular.info)
Burkhardt's gambit has already had an impact. The Conroe school board, after listening to her story, voted to restrict access to Drama, the Scholastic book featuring a kiss, from all students in the 8th grade and below. One of the school board members, Melissa Dungan, suggested replacing Scholastic with SkyTree Book Fairs. "All...
Google Researchers’ Attack Prompts ChatGPT to Reveal Its Training Data (www.404media.co)
ChatGPT is full of sensitive private information and spits out verbatim text from CNN, Goodreads, WordPress blogs, fandom wikis, Terms of Service agreements, Stack Overflow source code, Wikipedia pages, news blogs, random internet comments, and much more.
Warner Bros. CEO Claims Scrapping Films Like Coyote vs. Acme, Batgirl 'Took Real Courage' (www.ign.com)
Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav commented about shelving completed or nearly completed films like Coyote vs. Acme and Batgirl, saying the decisions "took real courage."
Elon Musk to advertisers boycotting X: "Go f**k yourself" (www.axios.com)
Elon Musk pushed back on advertisers boycotting X over antisemitism and other hate speech on the platform formerly known as Twitter during the 2023 DealBook Summit in New York on Wednesday....
Detroit's newest road can charge electric cars as they drive on it (www.axios.com)
Detroit is now home to the country's first chunk of road that can wirelessly charge an electric vehicle (EV), whether it's parked or moving....
Canadian man sentenced to life in prison for ‘incel’-motivated murder (www.theguardian.com)
Man who used machete to murder Toronto massage parlour employee in 2020 pleaded guilty in July
Nazi flags and SS history book found in Ohio Walmart shooter's house, records show (www.nbcnews.com)
The FBI previously said the Nov. 20 shooting may have been at least partly inspired by violent, racist ideology based on evidence collected.
Amazon rainforest destruction slows sharply year to date, report says (www.japantimes.co.jp)
Destruction across the Amazon rainforest so far this year has slowed dramatically, down 55.8% from the same period a year ago.
Hawai'i's AG subpoenaes Maui agencies over deadly wildfire (www.axios.com)
Hawai'i's attorney general has announced subpoenas for three Maui agencies this week as part of an investigation into the catastrophic wildfires that reaped through the island in August....
One in seven HR heads believe men are better suited to top jobs (www.theguardian.com)
‘Shocking’ poll in England and Wales shows nearly one in five reluctant to hire women they think may go on to have children
The Tesla Cybertruck is already being towed and isn't on sale yet (www.autoblog.com)
School Hate Crime: Racist Kid Yells “N Word” While Attacking Black Girl, Breaks Her Nose And Hospitalizes Her. Black Girl Gets Suspended (kansascitydefender.com)
In a shocking, horrifying incident at Shawnee Mission East High School, a Black student was hospitalized after being attacked by a white male student. Despite being the victim, she faces suspension in a case highlighting systemic racism and administrative negligence.
Prominent Women in Tech Say They Don't Want to Join OpenAI's All-Male Board (www.wired.com)
After internal chaos earlier this month, OpenAI replaced the women on its board with men. As it plans to add more seats, Timnit Gebru, Sasha Luccioni, and other AI luminaries tell WIRED why they wouldn't join.
This dev conference organizer seems addicted to making up women (www.theverge.com)
Google Drive users say Google lost their files; Google is investigating (arstechnica.com)
Russia limits women’s access to abortion, citing demographic changes (www.aljazeera.com)
Experts say crackdown on abortion drugs and services is part of a project to instil ‘certain values’ in society.
‘The far right drummed up a militia’: French extremists seize on teen’s murder to stoke violence (www.france24.com)
It all started with the tragic death of a teenage boy attending a village dance in southern France. Although the circumstances surrounding his death remain unclear, members of France’s ultra-right immediately…
Iowa rights groups sue over law banning LGBTQ+ books and discussion in school (www.theguardian.com)
Suit by several families and organizations seek to have law declared as violation of students’ and teachers’ free speech
Meet the Company Fighting to Make AI Ethical for Voice Actors (www.ign.com)
There's a ton of trepidation surrounding AI in the creative industry, but one start-up is trying to give voice actors a way to use the technology ethically - and have control over the way their voices are used.
She lost her entire family in an airstrike, but no one has told her yet (mondoweiss.net)
Ayah Sha’ban was among 14 of her martyred family members in Gaza City. She was presumed dead and wrapped in a white shroud, but a security guard at Al-Shifa’ noticed her breathing and saved her. She still doesn’t know about her family’s fate....
All 41 workers rescued from collapsed Indian tunnel after 17 days (www.aljazeera.com)
The technology behind ChatGPT is evolving insanely fast (www.axios.com)
It's been only a year since OpenAI released ChatGPT, but the technology has evolved at such a rapid pace that the original now seems almost quaint....
In the battle over books, who gets to decide what's age-appropriate at libraries? (www.npr.org)
There are efforts to change how decisions are made about which books libraries should stock and which section they belong in. Some advocate using a national rating system like the one used for movies.
Aichi police face prosecutors over death of detainee denied care (www.japantimes.co.jp)
The man had been placed in solitary confinement as a result of violent behavior and restraining devices were used on him for more than 130 hours.
Russian court extends detention of WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich (www.aljazeera.com)
Wall Street Journal denounces the continued detention of its reporter as a ‘brazen and outrageous attack’ on free press.
Rescuers break through to trapped Indian miners (www.upi.com)
Rescuers in India have broken through a massive mound of debris blocking the entrance to a tunnel and have started freeing 41 trapped miners.
Watch: US police chase 12-year-old in stolen forklift (www.bbc.com)
Police say preliminary investigations show the vehicle was unlocked with the key inside when it was taken.
Five women got eye syphilis from the same man—raising questions (arstechnica.com)
New Zealand scraps world-first smoking ‘generation ban’ to fund tax cuts (www.theguardian.com)
Health experts say axing plan to block sales of tobacco products to next generation will cost thousands of lives