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

Editor's Pick

Can Psychedelics Help CEOs Boost Their Leadership Skills?

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cottage industry is dedicated to the theory that mind-altering drugs
can improve business leadership.

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Editor's Note: Robin Carhart-Harris, a neuroscientist studying the
effect of psychedelics, said that it was possible the drugs could help
leaders in the workplace. Mr. Carhart-Harris, a professor at the
University of California, San Francisco, examines people's brains on
drugs. His brain scans show that psychedelics increase entropy. Where
the brain usually tries to helpfully compress information, these drugs
have the opposite effect, which he argues could shake loose new
thinking on the knotty challenges of leadership.

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Fear of factional fighting drives 100,000 Syrians to northern Kurdish
areas
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Adam Coogle, the deputy Middle East director at Human Rights Watch,
said: “Amid the extraordinary events taking place in Syria, intense
fighting and fear of retaliation and violence by armed groups is
displacing thousands of civilians to areas unprepared for such an
influx.”

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Beware Job Offers Via Text as FTC Says 'Task Scams' Are Skyrocketing
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The gamification of text scams skyrocketed in 2024, according to
Federal Trade Commission data, contributing to consumers losing
hundreds of millions of dollars to schemes they thought were going to
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Texas House introduces bill to establish a strategic bitcoin reserve
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Legislation was introduced in the Texas House of Representatives
Thursday to establish a strategic bitcoin reserve, which could serve
as a proving ground for the U.S. Treasury.

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Ev Williams Was Lonely. He Doesn't Want You to Be.
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Evan Williams did not want to start another start-up.







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South Korea's mountain of plastic waste shows limits of recycling
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South Korea has won international praise for its recycling efforts,
but as it prepares to host talks for a global plastic waste agreement,
experts say the country's approach highlights its limits.

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Is This the Year Everyone Quits Social Media?
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If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a
commission. This helps support our journalism. Learn more. Please also
consider subscribing to WIRED In a post-Twitter world, text-based
social media apps have taken a new shape.















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Businessman Indicted for Manipulating Five Publicly Traded Companies
and Defrauding Investors of Over $200M
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Note: A copy of the indictment can be found here. According to court
documents, Philip Verges, 59, of Dallas, controlled five publicly
traded companies, which he used to engage in an investment fraud
scheme from approximately January 2017 through August 2022.

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Elon Musk wants to replace human fighter pilots with AI drones. That
would be a disaster
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Autonomous AI drones aren't ready for prime-time combat. And the world
isn't ready for them, either. In 2017, Elon Musk told the world he was
certain that artificial intelligence would lead us to World War III.







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British Army zaps drones out of the sky with laser trucks
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The British Army has successfully destroyed flying drones for the
first time using a high-energy laser mounted on an armored vehicle. If
perfected, the technology could form an effective counter-measure
against drone attacks.

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What I Learned From a Reclusive Taliban Commander
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The Taliban commander wore sunglasses and a heavy wool coat, as if he
might leave at any moment. Between us, on a plastic-covered table
doused in fluorescent light, sat an untouched mountain of lamb and
rice.






















 









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Penn condemns professor's support for alumnus charged with killing CEO
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Luigi Mangione in the Class of 2020 Penn yearbook.

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The First Helicopter Crash on Mars: NASA Pinpoints What Went Wrong
During Ingenuity's Final Flight
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It's been nearly a year since the record-breaking Ingenuity helicopter
broke a blade, ending the airborne ventures of the first powered,
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That Biden Stimulus Joke Was Inadvertently Quite Revealing
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This is Totally Normal Quote of the Day, a feature highlighting a
statement from the news that exemplifies just how extremely normal
everything has become. The above quote from Joe Biden's speech at the
Brookings Institution this week was met with laughter.

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A Guide to the Muscles You Forget to Exercise
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Add "tendon day" to your gym routine.






















 









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Parkinson's Law: It's Real, So Use It
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Parkinson's Law states that "work expands so as to fill the time
available for its completion." Although it is counter-intuitive, you
will find that through practice and experience, there is a lot of
truth to this.

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The Incredibly True Story of Renting a Friend in Tokyo
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When you're alone in Tokyo and you need someone to talk to, do as the
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Diagnostic accuracy of deep learning in medical imaging: a systematic
review and meta-analysis
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Deep learning (DL) has the potential to transform medical diagnostics.
However, the diagnostic accuracy of DL is uncertain. Our aim was to
evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of DL algorithms to identify
pathology in medical imaging. Searches were conducted in Medline and
EMBASE up to January 2020.

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Tech predictions for 2025 and beyond
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We have entered an era of unprecedented societal challenges and rapid
technological advancements. Harnessing technology for good has become
both an ethical imperative and a profitable endeavor.

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Running On Empty: How Corporate Cultures Fuel Burnout
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In my work advising organizations, I've observed a disturbing trend
that's about to reach critical mass.

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Designer Babies Are Teenagers Now--and Some of Them Need Therapy
Because of It
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For years now, aspiring parents have been designing their children.
Screening embryos for disease-causing genes during IVF, selecting
their future baby's sex, picking egg and sperm donors to influence
their child's traits.

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Zomato & Temasek backed Shiprocket kicks off around Rs 2,000-2,400
crore IPO
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Top e-commerce enablement platform and logistics-tech unicorn
Shiprocket, which is backed by the likes of Zomato and Temasek has
kicked off the process to launch an initial public offer in 2025,
multiple industry sources in the know told Moneycontrol.

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'There Was Almost a Utopian Feeling to It': How StumbleUpon Pioneered
the Way We Use the Internet
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StumbleUpon, a tool that led users to random websites, had a
stranglehold on millennials in the 2010s. Its influence echoes through
everything we do online.

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Why Crypto Bros Are So Obsessed with 'Debanking'
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Marc Andreessen made headlines recently when he brought up the issue
of "debanking" on the Joe Rogan podcast, claiming that the U.S.
government was "terrorizing" crypto companies with it.

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The World's 50 Most Valuable Sports Teams 2024
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For the ninth straight year, the Dallas Cowboys are the world's most
valuable sports team, worth an estimated $10.1 billion--the first to
cross the 11-figure threshold and $1.3 billion beyond their closest
competition.

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Guide to Saudi Arabia's mad stadium plans for 2034 World Cup
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Fifa has confirmed that Saudi Arabia will be awarded the 2034 World
Cup. The Gulf state emerged as the only bidder and has already started
building ambitious stadiums for the event.

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Our new deal to remove CO2 from the atmosphere by crushing rocks
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Today we're announcing a long-term purchase agreement and equity
investment in carbon removal startup Terradot to help catalyze their
enhanced rock weathering (ERW) approach.

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Venture capitalists bet on Sublime, a startup bringing AI to email
security
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They can then get a sense of Sublime's abilities by uploading emails
to a free service called EML Analyzer, which will use AI to predict if
messages are likely benign, suspicious or malicious. It can pick up on
phrases that often show up in business-email compromise attempts.

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When AI becomes a tool to fight insurance denials
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Mario Aguilar covers technology in health care, including artificial
intelligence, virtual reality, wearable devices, telehealth, and
digital therapeutics. His stories explore how tech is changing the
practice of health care and the business and policy challenges to
realizing tech’s promise. He’s also the co-author of the free,
twice weekly STAT Health Tech newsletter.

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In Time Interview, Trump Plans Jan. 6 Pardons and Deportations as His
First Acts
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Americans “don’t want to see, you know, men playing in women’s
sports. They don’t,” Mr. Trump said. “They don’t want to see
all of this transgender, which is, it’s just taken over.”

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RFK Jr. says Ozempic and other weight-loss meds can't replace a
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“Nothing would do more to improve the health, lifespan and quality
of life for Americans than making GLP inhibitors super low cost to the
public. Nothing else is even close,” Musk wrote Wednesday morning in
a post on X, the social media site he owns.

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Trump says Elon Musk will put America before Tesla or SpaceX
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The valuation of Musk’s companies has risen since the election, with
Tesla stock soaring 69% and reaching new all-time highs. SpaceX and
xAI have also been valued at new highs of $350 billion and $50
billion, giving Musk a net worth of almost $450 billion.

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Banks could soon have overdraft fees capped at $5
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“The CFPB’s rule jeopardizes access to overdraft services when
hardworking Americans face unexpected expenses, leaving them with
worse alternatives like payday loans and pawnshops,” said CEO
Lindsey Johnson in a statement. “The CFPB also disregards the
bank-led innovations that have enhanced consumer benefits and
delivered significant savings within the overdraft ecosystem over the
past decade.”

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Europe tries to boost economy as Trump presidency looms
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There is little sign that major European governments have the
political capital to make these reforms. And all this occurs before
the arrival of a US president who wants to act against jurisdictions
which he argues "rip off" the US, including the European Union.

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Trump rings bell on record stock market - but will it last?
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At the stock exchange on Thursday, Trump kept his comments focused on
other parts of his agenda more palatable to markets: his promises to
lower taxes from 21% to 15% for businesses manufacturing in America,
cut regulation and speed up government approvals.

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F.T.C. Sues Southern Glazer's for Illegal Pricing
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“When local businesses get squeezed because of unfair pricing
practices that favor large chains, Americans see fewer choices and pay
higher prices — and communities suffer,” F.T.C. chair Lina Khan
said in a statement announcing the lawsuit.

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Google thinks the grid can't support AI, so it's spending on solar for
future datacenters
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Google believes the US electricity grid can't deliver the energy
needed to power datacenters that deliver AI services, so has formed an
alliance to build industrial parks powered by clean energy, at which
it will build "gigawatts of datacenter capacity" across the nation.

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ECB Cuts Interest Rates as the Economy Weakens
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Substantial progress has been made reining in inflation in recent
years after it peaked above 10 percent in late 2022, but other risks
are accumulating. Europe faces the prospect of higher tariffs on its
goods exported to the United States imposed during the second term of
President-elect Donald J. Trump. And political turmoil in Germany and
France, the bloc’s two largest economies, is adding to the
uncertainty.

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US man found near Damascus after being freed from Syrian prison
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An American man identifying himself as Travis Timmerman has been found
near the Syrian capital Damascus after being freed from a prison as
rebels took over the country.

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Biden commutes roughly 1,500 sentences and pardons 39 people in
biggest single-day act of clemency
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Joe Biden is commuting the sentences of
roughly 1,500 people who were released from prison and placed on home
confinement during the coronavirus pandemic and is pardoning 39
Americans convicted of nonviolent crimes.

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U.S. Hopes for a Gaza Cease-Fire and Hostage Deal 'This Month'
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Mr. Netanyahu has indicated “that he would like to see this done,”
Mr. Sullivan said. He added, “We see movement from Hamas,”
alluding to possible flexibility in some of the group’s core
demands.

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How America Turned Allies into Enemies in Afghanistan
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Clutching the empty arm of his jacket, the commander spins him around
like a marionette. The man’s sheared limb and ragged scars tell only
half the story: His family was killed next to him, massacred as they
fled the Taliban.

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Biden Commuted the Sentences of 1,500 Americans, a One-Day Record
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Some Democrats have called on Biden to reduce the sentences of all 40
people on death row to life without parole because Donald Trump
supports the death penalty. Members of Biden’s staff have been
debating whether he should issue blanket pardons for a number of
Trump’s perceived enemies to protect them from retribution.

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N.Y.C. Grocery Prices Are High. Could City-Owned Stores Help?
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It is no secret that many Americans are worried about inflation and
the high cost of groceries, and those concerns were a driving factor
in Donald J. Trump's victory.

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Canada considering taxes on commodities exports to US if Trump imposes
tariffs: report
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Canada is considering using export taxes on major commodities exports
to the US if Donald Trump imposes broad tariffs on the country’s
products after he takes office, Bloomberg reported Thursday, citing
officials familiar with talks within Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s
government.

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Critical WordPress plugin vulnerability under active exploit threatens
thousands
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Ars Technica has been separating the signal from the noise for over 25
years. With our unique combination of technical savvy and wide-ranging
interest in the technological arts and sciences, Ars is the trusted
source in a sea of information. After all, you don’t need to know
everything, only what’s important.

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Reddit is removing links to Luigi Mangione's manifesto
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“I’m sure Reddit’s admins find themselves far more aligned with
the class of people like Brian Johnson (sic) than they do with the
rest of us," one commenter wrote in response to moderator
clemthearcher’s post in r/popculturechat, "so the only violence they
care to moderate is that against Brian Johnson (sic) - not misogyny,
racism, homophobia, or the rampant greed of our healthcare industry
which has killed or caused the suffering of hundreds of thousands of
people.”

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ACLU highlights the rise of AI-generated police reports -- what could
go wrong?
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The third point was around transparency, as the public needs to
understand exactly how it works based on analysis by independent
experts, according to the ACLU. Defendants in criminal cases also need
to be able to interrogate the evidence, "yet much of the operation of
these systems remains mysterious." Finally, the group noted that the
use of AI transcriptions might remove accountability around the use of
discretionary power. "For these reasons, the ACLU does not believe
police departments should allow officers to use AI to generate draft
police reports," it said.

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Wife of Wisconsin man accused of faking his own death files for
divorce
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Since Ryan Borgwardt’s return to the US, he has been charged with
misdemeanor obstruction of the search for his body, which spanned more
than 50 days and involved multiple dives by search personnel into
Green Lake.

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American found in Damascus appears to have been released from Syrian
prison
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Maria Cure, of SETF, said: “He has made it a priority while he’s
there to find all Americans wrongfully detained in Syria, including
Majd Kamalmaz, Austin Tice and others whose names are not public.”

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Suspect in UnitedHealthcare CEO killing may not have been a client,
say police
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Mangione is an Ivy League graduate from a prominent Maryland real
estate family. On Wednesday, police said investigators are looking
into an accident that injured Mangione’s back and sent him to an
emergency room in July 2023. They are also looking at his writings
about the injury and his criticism of corporate America and the US
healthcare system.

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