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The capacitor that Apple soldered incorrectly at the factory
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There have been some past rumblings on the internet about a capacitor
being installed backwards in Apple's Macintosh LC III. The LC III was
a "pizza box" Mac model produced from early 1993 to early 1994, mainly
targeted at the education market.

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Building LLMs is probably not going be a brilliant business
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Large language models (LLMs) like Chat-GPT and Claude.ai are whizzy
and cool. A lot of people think that they are going to be The Future.
Maybe they are -- but that doesn't mean that building them is going to
be a profitable business. In the 1960s, airlines were The Future.















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Tunable ultrasound propagation in microscale metamaterials
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Acoustic metamaterials -- architected materials that have tailored
geometries designed to control the propagation of acoustic or elastic
waves through a medium -- have been studied extensively through
computational and theoretical methods.

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DEA passenger searches halted after watchdog finds signs of civil
rights violations and racial profiling
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The Justice Department has ordered the Drug Enforcement Administration
to suspend its longstanding practice of searching passengers at
airports -- and seizing their cash -- after the department's internal
watchdog raised concerns that it was fueling widespread civil rights
violations and poten














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Satellite space junk might wreak havoc on the stratosphere
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Earth's space junk may be wreaking havoc on the stratosphere. The
rapid surge in satellite megaconstellations is connecting much of the
world to broadband internet. But each year, hundreds of those
satellites die, burning up in the atmosphere as they fall.

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Denmark in talks with China over ship linked to cut undersea cables,
foreign ministry says
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Denmark, which has been monitoring a Chinese vessel anchored off its
coast after two Baltic Sea cables were cut, said on Monday it was in
talks with China over the ship.














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Setelinleikkaus: When Finns snipped their cash in half to curb
inflation
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All Finns were required to take out a pair of scissors and snip their
banknotes in half. This was known in Finland as setelinleikkaus, or
banknote cutting. Anyone who owned any of the three largest
denomination Finnish banknotes — the 5000 markka note, the 1000, or
the 500 — was required to perform this operation immediately. The
left side of the note could still be used to buy things, but at only
half its value. So if a Finn had a 1000 markka note in their wallet,
henceforth he or she could now only buy 500 markka worth of items at
stores. As for the right side, it could no longer be spent and
effectively became a bond (more on this later).

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Oil Steady Ahead of OPEC+ Meeting as Cease-Fire Reduces Risks -
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Alliance is likely to delay increase to output, delegates say API
reports US crude stockpiles shrank by 5.9 million barrels














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Chinas defence minister placed under investigation for corruption - FT
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US officials say probe is part of a wider operation to uncover graft
in the Peoples Liberation Army

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Why Is Gratitude So Difficult? - The New Yorker (No paywall)
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Does Gratitude to R for -ing Imply Gratitude that R -ed? isnt a
question we often ask ourselves on Thanksgiving. Translated into plain
Englishits the title of a scholarly article by the philosopher Tony
Manelait asks whether its possible to be grateful to someone for doing
something without being grateful that the same something has happened.
The idea isnt that complicatedat least, not at first. Imagine, Manela
writes, that Yakov and Ruth work together in a factory with dangerous
machinery. Yakov gets one of his hands stuck in a machine:














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Israel and Hizbullah strike a fragile deal to end their war - The
Economist (No paywall) [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=101290&nl=daily]
IT HARDLY LOOKED as if a truce was imminent. The afternoon of November
26th saw Israel launch dozens of air strikes on Beiruts southern
suburbs, some of the heaviest bombardment this year. Then the Israeli
army told people to evacuate the heart of the Lebanese capital, an
area where Hizbullah, a Shia militia, has no armed presence. Traffic
jams stretched for kilometres as panicked residents fled.

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Ex-FBI Informant Accused Of Making False Claims Against Bidens
Indicted On New Tax Charges - Forbes (No paywall)
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Alexander Smirnov, the former FBI informant who was accused earlier
this year of making false statements about President Joe Biden and his
son Hunter Biden, was indicted Tuesday on unrelated tax charges
accusing him of concealing millions of dollars worth of income.














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Case of bird flu infection in British Columbia is still a mystery, for
now - STAT (No paywall) [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=101290&nl=daily]
Health officials in British Columbia, Canada, have closed for now
their investigation into how a teenager there became infected with
H5N1 bird flu because they have run out of leads to pursue, the
provinces public health officer said Tuesday.

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How Entertainment Lawyer John Branca Negotiated for the Beatles Songs
Catalog - Harvard Business Review (No paywall)
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In 1985, pop music superstar Michael Jackson instructed his attorney,
John Branca, to bid for the Northern Songs music catalog, which
contained the songs of the Beatles. In a challenging negotiation,
Branca secured the rights to the collection.














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Trump returns to maximum pressure as era of Biden alliances ends - WSJ
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WASHINGTONPresident-elect Donald Trumps brandishing of tariffs on
goods from Canada, Mexico and China marks the passage from one era to
another: Partnerships are out, and coercion is in.

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China is bombarding tech talent with job offers. The West is freaking
out. - WSJ (No paywall) [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=101290&nl=daily]
Executives at Zeiss SMT, which makes indispensable components to build
the worlds most powerful semiconductors, got some troubling news last
fall. Headhunters from Huawei Technologies, the Chinese tech firm,
were trying to poach its employees.













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Japans latest stimulus package takes new focus: Boosting tax-free
income - WSJ (No paywall) [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=101290&nl=daily]
TOKYO-Japans new, minority government has just launched a now nearly
annual attempt at stimulating its economythis time toying with the
controversial idea of keeping more of consumers income tax-free.

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Tribal lands were stolen. What happens when those ancestral
territories are returned?
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you to believe.

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Saving the Colorado River: Utah Farmers Lead with Drought-Resilient
Methods
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Facing record-breaking heat and a dwindling water supply, Utah farmers
are experimenting with innovative crops to sustain agriculture in the
arid West. Rancher Matt Redd, who operates Dugout Ranch near
Canyonlands National Park, is among those leading the charge.

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Oil watchers say inflation risks will stave off Trump's Canada tariff
threat
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Higher fuel prices could be in the cards if President-elect Donald
Trump follows through with his tariff threats on Canada, according to
industry experts, who are skeptical on whether the new levies will
ever be implemented.

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This start-up is removing carbon from a polluted New York City river
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In November, I toured a shipping container bristling with tubes and
wires, perched beside New York City's East river. It is the test site
of a start-up called Vycarb, which recently began adding crushed rocks
and other chemicals to the water to remove carbon dioxide from the
atmosphere.

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South Korean star's baby scandal sparks national debate
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Jung Woo-sung, a 51-year-old A-lister in South Korea's film industry,
confirmed via his agency on Sunday that he is the father of
35-year-old model Moon Ga-bi's newborn son.

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Leonardo DiCaprio's Viral Moment in Fiji Is Raising Eyebrows
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Leonardo DiCaprio is making headlines for the wrong reason. The
50-year-old Hollywood icon faced backlash after a viral video showed
him appearing to ignore a traditional Fijian farewell performance at a
luxury hotel in Nadi.

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'Drill, baby, drill' is unlikely under Trump, Exxon says
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"I think a radical change is unlikely because the vast majority, if
not everybody, is primarily focused on the economics of what they're
doing," Mallon said on Tuesday at a conference in London.

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How political upheaval inspired the French Impressionists
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Impressionism is perhaps the most-viewed and best-loved movement in
art history. A new exhibition, first shown in Paris, looks back 150
years to its founding moment and to the darkness hidden behind all
that light.

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Meet the Anonymous Woman Journalist Reporting Inside Taliban-Run
Afghanistan
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Sign up for The Media Today, CJR's daily newsletter. On Monday
evening, media figures gathered at the Sheraton Grand in London for
the annual awards of the Foreign Press Association.

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OpenAI hits pause on video model Sora after artists leak access in
protest
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OpenAI had granted hundreds of artists free, early access to Sora, to
test the new artificial intelligence video generator. But about 20
artists given access to the tool argued the company had taken
advantage of their unpaid labor and were using them to burnish the
company's image.

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Trump Picks Stanford Doctor Who Opposed Lockdowns to Head N.I.H.
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President-elect Donald J. Trump said on Tuesday evening that he had
selected Dr.

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Hacker in Snowflake Extortions May Be a U.S. Soldier
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Two men have been arrested for allegedly stealing data from and
extorting dozens of companies that used the cloud data storage company
Snowflake, but a third suspect -- a prolific hacker known as
Kiberphant0m -- remains at large and continues to publicly extort
victims.

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Donald Trump's tariffs on Mexico could devastate border region, Texas
economists warn
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Databricks closes in on multibillion funding round at $55 billion
valuation to help employees cash out
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San Francisco-based Databricks is raising at least another $5 billion
in its latest funding round -- though it could raise up to $8 billion
given the round is ongoing -- according to several sources who asked
not to be named because the discussions were private.

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Why Most Companies Are Struggling With Infrastructure as Code
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Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is a fundamental practice for
cloud-native applications and infrastructure to define, provision, and
manage IT infrastructure.

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Teen Mathematicians Tie Knots Through a Mind-Blowing Fractal
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Three high schoolers and their mentor revisited a century-old theorem
to prove that all knots can be found in a fractal called the Menger
sponge.

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OpenAI gets new $1.5 billion investment from SoftBank, allowing
employees to sell shares in a tender offer
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Last month OpenAI launched a search feature within ChatGPT, its viral
chatbot, that positions the high-powered AI startup to better compete
with search engines like Google, Microsoft's Bing and
Perplexity.

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Y Combinator often backs startups that duplicate other YC companies,
data shows -- it's not just AI code editors
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The Silicon Valley dream is to build a tech startup that is such a
unique idea it alters the commercial universe and turns its founders
into billionaires. Participating in the Valley's most famed startup
factory, Y Combinator, is often part of that dream.

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The Evolution of China's Semiconductor Industry under U.S. Export
Controls
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Since I last wrote about China's responses to U.S. export controls in
these pages, in February 2024, much has changed, both in terms of U.S.
export control measures and the situation on the ground in China.

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Fast Fashion Affects Climate, Exploits Workers and Creates Enormous
Textile Waste - Scientific American (No paywall)
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Fast fashion's focus on the continual production of new clothing is
marked by speedy cycles that give the concept its name. Fast fashion
is intended to quickly copy high-end designs, but with low-quality
materials, resulting in poorly made clothing intended to be worn once
or twice before being thrown away.

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The US is losing the ability to deter war with China - WSJ (No
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America is rapidly losing the ability to deter China in the Taiwan
Strait and elsewhere due to a weak defense industrial base. The Trump
administration can revitalize this base by increasing procurement
funds, making defense systems critical for warfighting and deterrence
in Asia a priority, and cutting excessive contracting regulations.

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What Trumps new tariff threats mean for the US economy - WSJ (No
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The stiff duties that President-elect Donald Trumpthreatened against
the U.S.s neighbors and big trading partners, along with the
additional tariffs he promised against China, could raise prices for
Americans on everything from fresh fruit from Mexico to lumber from
Canada and Chinese electronics.

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The impossible mission to enforce an Israel-Hezbollah cease-fire - WSJ
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BEIRUTFor nearly two decades, thousands of United Nations peacekeepers
have been helpless to stop the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah
from rearming along Israels border since the two sides previous war.

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Donald Trump and Elon Musk could radically reshape NASA. Here's how
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From America's 250th birthday to the the 2026 World Cup,
President-elect Donald Trump will enjoy the global spotlight during a
number of major events in two years' time. But one will likely be
sweeter for him than all others: he is poised to become only the
second president in history to place a phone call to the moon.

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Erdogan Is Plotting His Next Power Grab
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Recep Tayyip Erdoan is a political survivor. For more than 20 years,
first as Turkeys Prime Minister and then as its President, he has
weaved his way through the kinds of crises that end the careers of
even the most resourceful and resilient of leaders: runaway inflation,
a spiraling currency, the arrival of millions of refugees, a
devastating earthquake, corruption accusations, mass protests,
international condemnation and pressure, and a 2016 coup attempt.

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Two Presidents, Two Policies, One Superpower: America in Transition
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“Leaders in capitals around the world are trying to take advantage
of the moment to try to curry favor with Trump himself at a time when
it may still be possible to shape his agenda,” she added. And Mr.
Trump’s “inner circle is dismissive of the traditional Washington
protocols that might suggest some discretion during the transition.”

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A New Mega-Ship From Europe Heads to the Caribbean
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But what the Swiss, family-run MSC company hopes will really set the
World America apart is the European influence on the ship’s design,
its restaurants, activities and service. There will be Swarovski
crystal stairs, a Mediterranean-inspired promenade, Italian marble
details, as well as fresh croissants, authentic mozzarella and pasta,
and artisanal coffee from Lavazza, an Italian company.

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Trump Selects Jamieson Greer as Trade Representative
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In his next term, Mr. Trump has promised to again make aggressive use
of the government’s authority over trade. On Monday, he said he
would impose tariffs on all products coming into the United States
from Canada, Mexico and China on his first day in office.

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Inside the Plastic Industry's Battle to Win Over Hearts and Minds
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The corporate strategizing laid out in the documents provides a
behind-the-scenes look at a battle being waged over the future of
plastic. Nations are gathering in Busan, South Korea this week to
hammer out details of a global plastic treaty that might tackle
pollution at its source, by limiting its production — an approach
that the plastic industry has vehemently opposed.

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Opinion | R.F.K. Jr. and Trump's MAGA Science Agenda
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While most Americans still support the benefits of vaccination,
Republicans today tend to be more vaccine hesitant than Democrats and
more distrustful of the pharmaceutical industry generally. Compared
with Democrats, Republicans are more likely to believe that the Food
and Drug Administration is preventing natural cures from reaching the
public because of corporate influence and that genetically modified
organisms threaten public health. In short, Republican attitudes
toward the scientific and medical establishment increasingly resemble
the worldview embodied by Mr. Kennedy.

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The truth about raw milk and why experts are 'absolutely horrified' by
the trend
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Public health officials in California detected bird flu in a sample of
raw milk this month. The virus first spread to dairy cattle in the US
in March. The discovery comes amid an increasingly heated public
debate about the merits and drawbacks of raw milk.

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Apple ordered to open up in-app purchases in Brazil
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Brazil's antitrust regulator Cade has ruled that Apple must lift
restrictions on in-app purchases within 20 days, Reuters reports.
Otherwise, if the iPhone maker doesn't comply, it faces fines of
$43,000 per day.

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Billionaire Warren Buffett Has Invested $91 Billion (at Cost) in These
2 Unstoppable Stocks
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