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- The top 25 stories curated by editors and fellow readers!

Editor's Pick

Geoengineering Could Alter Global Climate. Should It?
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this publication we’ve deployed 120 balloons and 90,820 Cooling
Credits which offsets the warming of 90,820 metric tons of CO2 for a
year. This is the equivalent of planting 4,324,761 mature trees that
last for a year, assuming each mature tree absorbs about 21 kilograms
of CO2 per year. Learn more here:
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In April, in the Bay Area town of Alameda, scientists were making
plans to block the sun. Not entirely or permanently, of course: Their
experiment included a device designed to spray a sea-salt mist off the
deck of a docked aircraft carrier. The light-reflecting aerosols, the
scientists hoped, would hang in the air and temporarily cool things
down in the area. It would have been the first outdoor test in the
United States of such a machine, had the city council not shut it down
before the experiment was concluded.

Continued here
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Editor's Note: Over the past few years, geoengineering research and
hype has spawned investment in new startups attempting to capitalize
on growing interest and on impatience with sluggish climate policies.
For example, in 2022, Andrew Song, an entrepreneur, co-founded Make
Sunsets, a startup backed by Silicon Valley-based venture capital
firms like Boost VC and Draper Associates. The company has focused its
efforts on developing balloons releasing stratospheric aerosols,
mainly sulfur dioxide. To make money, the company sells cooling
credits, at a rate of per metric ton of carbon dioxide emissions they
claim to offset, with the idea that corporations buying them can do so
to reach their net-zero emissions targets.

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Meta unveils a new, more efficient Llama model
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Meta has announced the newest addition to its Llama family of
generative AI models: Llama 3.3 70B. In a post on X, Ahmad Al-Dahle,
VP of generative AI at Meta, said that the text-only Llama 3.3 70B
delivers the performance of Meta's largest Llama model, Llama 3.1
405B, at lower cost.

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Chatbots vs AI Chatbots vs Agents: What are they?
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In this article, I am going to discuss what chatbots are, their
different kinds, and how to differentiate between a simple chatbot, an
AI chatbot, and a virtual agent. In the next article, I am going to
talk about AI-enabled chatbots and show how we can use botpress.com to
create one.















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Telemarketer Sentenced for $67M Health Care Fraud and Money Laundering
Scheme
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A Florida man was sentenced today to 15 years in prison for his role
in a wide-ranging conspiracy to defraud Medicare by billing over $67
million for medically unnecessary genetic testing.

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Mysterious New Jersey Drones 'Change Time' on Clocks, Eyewitness
Claims
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A swarm of mysterious drone sightings near President-Elect Donald
Trump's New Jersey Bedminster golf club continue to baffle local
residents, with some now reporting strange changes to their clocks.














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The Silicon Valley Billionaires Steering Trump's Transition
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The week after the November election, President-elect Donald J. Trump
gathered his top advisers in the tearoom at his Florida resort,
Mar-a-Lago, to plan the transition to his second-term government. Mr.

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Former flight director who reviewed Orion heat shield data says there
was no dissent
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When he worked at the agency, Hill played a leading role during the
investigation into the cause of the loss of space shuttle Columbia, in
2003.














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A company that turned homeowners into renters abruptly shuts down
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EasyKnock, a real estate company offering controversial sale-leaseback
deals to financially strapped homeowners, announced abruptly on
Thursday that it is going out of business.

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'Hawk Tuah Girl' Hailey Welch's Crypto Launch Draws Scrutiny
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In an X post, Welch said she and the people behind the coin have not
sold any of their holdings.














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Large drones are flying over New Jersey at night and no one knows why
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For over a week, New Jersey residents have spotted unidentified
aircraft in the northern part of the state, including Morris County
and near Newark -- and now the authorities are urging people to remain
calm.

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Imogen Heap's AI revolution: how one British musician is shaping the
future of music
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Imogen Heap is not your average musician. Her innovative approach to
music-making has persistently embraced technology. From her Grammy
award-winning production work to her use of vocoders and Mi.Mu
electronic gloves, Heap continues to push the boundaries of how music
is created and experienced.














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Apple And Google Scramble To Face Their Role As TikTok Ban Enforcers
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The DC Circuit Court of Appeals today upheld the constitutionality of
a law that requires Apple and Google to remove TikTok from their app
stores by January 19, or face fines into the hundreds of billions of
dollars for failing to do so.

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FBI Warns iPhone And Android Users--Stop Sending Texts
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Republished on December 6 as new cybersecurity regulations are
proposed, and with further warnings following the FBI's encrypted
communications push. Timing is everything.














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GOP FTC Commissioners Abuse "Free Speech" Rhetoric To Push For
Government Control Over Online Speech
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In a disturbing (if unsurprising) trend, Republican FCC and FTC
commissioners are deliberately misusing "free speech" rhetoric in an
Orwellian attempt to justify government intervention to control and
suppress online speech.

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The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2024
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Of the many great books I read this year, the following 10 have stayed
with me, undergirded my thoughts as I go about my days and provoked
excellent, chewy conversations about craft and pleasure, empire and
resistance.














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Why Wouldn't ChatGPT Say This Dead Professor's Name?
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Across the final years of his life, David Mayer, a theater professor
living in Manchester, England, faced the cascading consequences of an
unfortunate coincidence: A dead Chechen rebel on a terror watch list
had once used Mr. Mayer's name as an alias. The real Mr.

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Fighting Discrimination Does Not Entail Defending Shitty Social
Behavior
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I've written several times about the phenomenon of adolescent women on
TikTok pretending to have dissociative identity disorder for social
media clout and attention.













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Badass Russian techie outsmarts FSB, flees Putinland all while being
tracked with spyware
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A Russian programmer defied the Federal Security Service (FSB) by
publicizing the fact his phone was infected with spyware after being
confiscated by authorities.

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LA thinks AI could help decide which homeless people get scarce
housing -- and which don't
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Without enough houses for its growing homeless population, the city is
using machine learning to make its process fairer. Reba Stevens held
her breath as she walked up the steps to the apartment, her
then-6-month-old son perched on her hip.

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A Kid Made $50,000 Dumping Crypto He'd Created. Then Came the Backlash
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In less than 10 minutes, a US teen made a small fortune selling off a
memecoin he'd made on a lark. Traders, feeling swindled, sought
revenge.

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How a Mom Managed to Thru-Hike the Appalachian Trail With 13 Kids
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Hiking the 2,200-mile Appalachian Trail is a monumental achievement
for anyone. Now imagine doing it with 13 kids in tow - it sounds
almost impossible. But that's exactly what Nikki Bettis set out to do.

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The Interview: From Amazon to Space -- Jeff Bezos Talks Innovation,
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Jeff Bezos sits down with Andrew Ross Sorkin at the 2024 New York
Times DealBook Summit to discuss what's next for Amazon, Blue Origin
and his vision for humanity's future in space.

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Why single Chinese women are freezing their eggs in California
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In China, it's illegal for unmarried women to freeze their eggs.

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Why has an additive called Bovaer sparked controversy online?
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Some UK social media users have been pouring milk down their sinks and
toilets in protest at the trial of a new feed additive that claims to
significantly reduce the emission of methane gas in dairy cows.

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Exact burial spot of St. Nicholas, inspiration for Santa Claus,
discovered in Turkish church
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Archaeologists in southern Turkey have just uncovered the original
burial place of Father Christmas himself, formally known as St.
Nicholas, but whose modern nicknames of Santa Claus, Saint Nick and
Kris Kringle are known by children the world over.

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How to trademark a sound, according to Zippo
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The aural status, which is often referred to as a 'soundmark', has
only been granted to a select few brands.

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Look Deep Into the Mind's Eye
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One day in 2005, a retired building surveyor in Edinburgh visited his
doctor with a strange complaint: His mind's eye had suddenly gone
blind. The surveyor, referred to as MX by his doctors, was 65 at the
time.

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Ayn Rand's model of "living money"; and an upside of burnout --
LessWrong
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Epistemic status: Toy model. Oversimplified, but has been anecdotally
useful to at least a couple people, and I like it as a metaphor.

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Boomers are grieving not becoming grandparents - but child-free
Millennials have little sympathy
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Amid falling birth rates and growing numbers of U.S. adults opting to
remain child-free, boomer and Generation X grandparents are mourning
the prospect of ever becoming grandparents.

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Global AI Power Rankings: Stanford HAI Tool Ranks 36 Countries in AI
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From patents to private funding, Stanford's Global Vibrancy Tool
aggregates 42 indicators to reveal which countries lead in AI - and
why the U.S. holds a significant edge over other nations.

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The remarkable innovations inspired by our need to know the night sky
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For most of human history, understanding the behaviours of objects in
the sky was neither a curiosity nor an academic pursuit, as it is
throughout much of the world today.

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Self-eating rocket could help UK take a big bite of space industry
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New developments on a nearly century-old concept for a 'self-eating'
rocket engine capable of flight beyond the Earth's atmosphere could
help the UK take a bigger bite of the space industry.

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The Debanking Craze Reveals Everything Wrong with the Administrative
State
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After an appearance by financier Marc Andreessen on the Joe Rogan
Podcast, Elon Musk's X exploded with indignation that tech
entrepreneurs were being debanked owing to government pressure.
Progressives pounced, saying that the story was exaggerated, and
agencies had been trying to stop debanking.

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Dozens of the world's most cited scientists stop falsely claiming to
work in Saudi Arabia
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This newspaper unveiled that Saudi universities were paying up to
EUR70,000 a year to prestigious researchers to artificially pump up
Arab institutions in international academic rankings The great Saudi
university farce is coming to an end.

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Inside a high-stakes US-China prisoner swap - WSJ (No paywall)
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The 27-year-old doctoral student had been trying for more than eight
years to get his father, Kai Li, out of China, where he was imprisoned
on espionage charges the U.S. government viewed as baseless.

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Retreat of Syrian forces threatens Saigon Moment for Russia - WSJ (No
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A fast-advancing rebel offensive in Syria threatens to dislodge Russia
from a strategic linchpinthat Moscow has used for a decade to project
power in the Middle East, in the Mediterranean and into the African
continent.

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USDA launching mandatory national milk testing program to track H5N1
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With the H5N1 bird flu virus racing through California dairy herds,
the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Friday it is instituting
a national milk testing program that should provide a much clearer
picture of how widespread the virus is in the countrys dairy industry.

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FinCEN Says Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) Reports Are Voluntary
Following Court Decision - Forbes (No paywall)
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Earlier this week, a judge in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern
District of Texas threw the fate of the Corporate Transparency Act
(CTA) into question, blocking the U.S. Department of Treasury from
enforcing the beneficial ownership information (BOI) reporting
requirements across the country.

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How lucrative are MPs second jobs? - The Economist (No paywall)
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GETTING PAID for eating camels penis and sheeps vagina on television
may be an unnatural activity for an MP, but it was lucrative work for
Matt Hancock. The former health secretary, who represented West
Suffolk in the House of Commons for 14 years until May, pocketed
320,000 ($400,000) for appearing on Im a CelebrityGet Me Out of Here
in 2022. Second jobs reward some MPs handsomely. Do they serve their
constituents interests?

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Which of Your Selves Should Win? - The New Yorker (No paywall)
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Before she presented the paper that became her book Transformative
Experience, L.A. Paul remembers thinking, This is going to ruin my
career. She was forty-six, a philosopher with tenure at the University
of Arizona, and she was asking her colleagues to consider the
experience of having a childa vital area of concern in millions of
peoples lives, but rarely discussed in the world of academic
philosophy. Its all going to be over, because here I am talking about
babies.

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Romania annuls election after alleged Russian meddling - FT (No
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Top court orders rerun of presidential vote

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Iran evacuating military in Syria as rebels advance: Report
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Syrian insurgents took control of the central city of Hama following
the retreat of government forces on Thursday, just days after rebels
captured most of Aleppo, Syria's second-largest city. By Friday,
rebels seized the eastern city of Deir ez-Zor while also reaching the
outskirts of Homs, the country's third-largest city.

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The future of AI agents: highly lucrative but surprisingly boring - FT
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Big companies are trumpeting the value of consumer-facing personal
digital helpers to make our lives easier

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The GPT Era Is Already Ending - The Atlantic (No paywall)
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This week, OpenAI launched what its chief executive, Sam Altman,
called the smartest model in the worlda generative-AI program whose
capabilities are supposedly far greater, and more closely approximate
how humans think, than those of any such software preceding it. The
start-up has been building toward this moment since September 12, a
day that, in OpenAIs telling, set the world on a new path toward
superintelligence.

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Is Philosophy the Next LLM Training Frontier?
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IDE: Most will agree that ethical, responsible AI is a touchstone for
developers. Yet, you are proposing an even higher goal --
philosophical AI. How do these concepts meld and overlap? Why do you
see philosophy as the ultimate aim for AI success?

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A Uranium-Mining Boom Is Sweeping Through Texas
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This story originally appeared on Inside Climate News and is part of
the Climate Desk collaboration. In the old ranchlands of South Texas,
dormant uranium mines are coming back online.

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Brexit Problem UK Tap Water Safety at Risk After Testing Labs Shut
Down
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Exclusive: EU countries will share laboratory capacity but UK rules
mean products cannot be tested abroad.

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If you can make this AI bot fall in love, you could win thousands of
dollars
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Ever wondered if you could get an AI bot to fall in love with you? Now
you have the chance. Freysa.ai is a team of anonymous developers
building a series of increasingly meta challenges, designed to
influence how humans think about AI safety.

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DraftKings sued after father-of-two gambles away $1 million of his
wife's money
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Lisa D'Alessando says her husband funded his habit by maxing out her
credit cards and draining their young childrens' savings accounts,
which were funded entirely by gifts they had gotten for Christmas,
their birthdays, and their baptisms, according to the federal lawsuit
filed Thursday and obta

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Elon Musk is not Americas new king. But he might be its new Thomas
Cromwell
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Picture, if you will, the scene in Mar-a-Lago on election night at the
moment when it's become clear that Trump has won. The atmosphere is
hysterical. Trump is in expansive form. He stands surrounded by his
ghastly tribe of dependants, plus AN Other.

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What Companies Should Be Asking Their Security Teams Right Now -
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In a year of febrile politics, rising popular frustration with
institutions, and two separate attempts to assassinate President
Trump, the risks to executives in just about any industry cannot be
minimized. The presence of an estimated more than 400 million firearms
in the United States, combined with easy access to personal location
data, schedules, and life patterns only adds to the danger. How does a
company strike the right approach in preventing the low likelihood,
but very high consequence of an attack on a CEO? One effective
assessment tool for execs and chief security officers alike is to
examine three simple factors of risk: threat, vulnerability, and
consequence. By looking closely at each component, companies can
assess the nature, degree, and seriousness of virtually any risk. Most
importantly, this assessment can guide the all-important decisions
about which resources to employ to reduce it.

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