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When disaster strikes, the world opens WhatsApp

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messaging app has transformed communication in conflict and crisis
areas.

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Editor's Note: After an unsuccessful attempt to smuggle himself to
Europe, Ahmad was deported back to Afghanistan, where he lives today
in hiding. WhatsApp is how he keeps in touch with the few people he
trusts. He depends on the app's end-to-end encryption to keep the
Taliban from finding him. "It's more safe than a phone call," he said.
"Mobile phones, SIM cards, voices - these three can be tracked
easily."

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Assad is gone. Will Syrian refugees go home?
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How to Protect Yourself From the Salt Typhoon Hack, No Matter What the
FBI Says
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Hackers have gained sweeping access to U.S. text messages and phone
calls -- and in response, the FBI is falling back on the same
warmed-over, bad advice about encryption that it has trotted out for
years.















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'Holiday Heart' Is a Serious Medical Issue Triggered by Festive Booze
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It's the time of year for workplace Christmas parties, and gatherings
with family and friends. Maybe you'll drink a lot in one go. Then you
feel your heart beating fast or irregularly. Maybe there's a flutter
in your chest or neck. Maybe you feel dizzy or short of breath.

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UnitedHealth Is Strategically Limiting Access to Critical Treatment
for Kids With Autism
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Linux banned Russian contributors. Does my FOSS project need to worry
about U.S. Sanctions?
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Since the Linux project removed a number of entries from the
MAINTAINERS file, all of whom were putatively Russian, in October,
we've been receiving questions about U.S. sanctions against Russia and
what, if anything, we should do about them.

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What Is Entropy? A Measure of Just How Little We Really Know.
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Exactly 200 years ago, a French engineer introduced an idea that would
quantify the universe's inexorable slide into decay. But entropy, as
it's currently understood, is less a fact about the world than a
reflection of our growing ignorance.














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Ozempic could be linked to a common cause of sudden blindness, another
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Novo Nordisk's (NVO-2.68%) blockbuster diabetes drug Ozempic may have
a potential link with an eye condition that causes vision loss,
according to a non-peer reviewed study published Thursday on medRxiv.

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McKinsey & Company to pay $650 million for role in opioid crisis while
executives avoid trials
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The global consulting firm McKinsey and Company Friday agreed to pay
$650 million to settle a federal probe into its role in helping
"turbocharge" sales of the highly addictive opioid painkiller
OxyContin for Purdue Pharma, the U.S. Justice Department announced on
Friday.














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Trump vows to end 'very costly' daylight saving time
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US President-elect Donald Trump has said he wants to end daylight
saving time (DST), arguing that it is "inconvenient" and "very costly"
to Americans. DST is the practice of moving the clock ahead by one
hour in the spring and back an hour in the autumn to make better use
of natural daylight.

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Hair Regeneration Slowed by Intermittent Fasting
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Summary: New research shows that intermittent fasting, while
beneficial for metabolic health, may slow hair regrowth by impairing
hair follicle stem cells (HFSCs). In mice, fasting caused HFSCs to
undergo apoptosis during extended fasting periods due to oxidative
stress and free fatty acid buildup.














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When a Crystal Ball Isn't Enough to Make You Rich - Elm Partners
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Big Tech's New AI Obsession: Agents That Do Your Work for You -
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AI agents go beyond chatbots. This is really the rise of digital
labor.














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Sam Altman reckons with a growing threat to OpenAI: Elon Musk - FT (No
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Tesla chiefs influence over Donald Trump encourages ChatGPT-maker into
patriotic pitch to incoming administration

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Trump's Policy Plans Could Hit Restaurant Industry, Seafood Prices and
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Sweeping deportations pledged by President-elect Donald Trump could
pose an economic shock for the restaurant industry in ways that echo
the pandemic: pricier menus, rising wages, and shuttered storefronts,
economists and some restaurateurs worry.














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Broken promises, lax scrutiny: Inside Massachusettss failure to
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The phone call to Steward Health Care chief executive Ralph de la
Torre from the states top health official came days after a veteran
nurse at Stewards Good Samaritan Medical Center was fired for a
devastating lapse one that a federal investigation later deemed a
violation of basic care.

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Warriors Land LeBron James From Lakers in Blockbuster Trade Proposal
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In a league where play empowerment is at the forefront, wild moments
are sure to arise. Recently, one of the biggest stories around the NBA
has been about Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James.













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After Impeachment, South Korea Is Left With No Elected Leader
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By voting to impeach Mr. Yoon on Saturday, the National Assembly
delivered a crushing vote of no confidence in a leader who had been
unpopular through his term. Outside the legislature, people danced in
the streets, celebrating Mr.

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Meet Angelique Angarni-Filopon: Oldest Miss France clinches crown,
aged 34
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Story highlights After winning the contest, Angarni-Filopon gets a
year-long salary from the Miss France firm, access to a Paris
apartment and various gifts from sponsors.

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This industry is defying China's retail slump, thanks to young
people's 'emotional' spending
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CHONGQING - Amid an economic slowdown that has cast a pall over job
prospects, young people in China are turning increasingly to figurines
and soft toys to lighten their moods.

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Detroit-area library says Chicago man can keep overdue baseball book
-- 50 years later
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DETROIT (AP) -- Fifty years later, a man who grew up in suburban
Detroit tried to return a very overdue baseball book to his boyhood
library. The answer: You can keep it -- and no fine.

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For the past few months, mysterious drone like craft the size of a car
have been sighted all over the country, with the nexus of recent
reports coming out of New Jersey.

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What happened to Iranian proxies in Syria?
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They were part of Iran's "Axis of Resistance" -- Syria-based proxy
groups created to defend the former Assad regime as part of Iran's
campaign to expand its influence across the Middle East.

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Clever Hans, Plato, and Large Language Models
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is inextricably linked to natural
intelligence; however, for longer than this field has existed,
philosophers and computer scientists have questioned whether or not
such a link with regards to intelligence is tenable to begin with.

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Jamie Foxx Is "Recovering" With Stitches After Physical Altercation
During Birthday Dinner
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The Oscar winner was celebrating his birthday at Mr. Chow in Beverly
Hills when someone from another table threw a glass at him in a
physical altercation, according to a statement shared by his
publicist.

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Should Programming Languages be Safe or Powerful?
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Should a programming language be powerful and let a programmer do a
lot, or should it be safe and protect the programmer from bad
mistakes? Contrary to what the title insinuates, these are not
diametrically opposed attributes.

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School smartphone ban results in better sleep and improved mood
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Psychologists at the University of York, who tested the impact that
smartphones have on children's behaviour for a new two-part
documentary series for Channel 4, found that a ban in school impacted
positively on sleep and mood.

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Trump nominees should 'steer clear' of undermining polio vaccine,
McConnell says
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, a
childhood polio survivor, said any of President-elect Donald Trump's
nominees seeking confirmation should "steer clear" of efforts to
discredit the polio vaccine.

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Iranian singer Parastoo Ahmadi arrested after performing concert
without hijab
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Iranian singer Parastoo Ahmadi was arrested on Saturday after
performing a YouTube concert without wearing the obligatory hijab.
Local media report two of Ahmadi's musicians - Ehsan Birghidar and
Sohail Faqih Nasiri - were also arrested.

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Primary school children left in tears after vicar tells them Santa
isnt real
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Breaking the illusion that Santa is not real is a parental ritual
usually handled with painstaking care. For students at a primary
school in Hampshire, however, their childhood wonder was torn to
shreds after a vicar told pupils the bearded gift-bearer was made up.

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George Stephanopoulos and ABC apologize to Trump, are forced to pay
$15 million to settle defamation suit
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ABC News and their top anchor George Stephanopoulos have reached a
settlement with Donald Trump in his defamation suit, which will result
in the news network paying the president-elect $15 million.

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Generative AI's Continuing Copyright Problems, an Essay in Memory of
Suchir Balaji, 1998 - 2024
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In early November, I had a stimulating Zoom call with a former OpenAI
employee and Berkeley graduate named Suchir Balaji, who had just left
OpenAI. To my shock, I just learned that he died, three weeks later,
an apparent suicide, according to police reports.

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390,000 WordPress accounts stolen from hackers in supply chain attack
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A threat actor tracked as MUT-1244 has stolen over 390,000 WordPress
credentials in a large-scale, year-long campaign targeting other
threat actors using a trojanized WordPress credentials checker.

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Pelosi Gets Hip Replacement After Fall During Congressional Trip
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House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) underwent a hip
replacement after falling during a congressional trip to Luxembourg,
her office said Saturday.

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Vegetable Recall Update As FDA Issues Most Serious Concern Level
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The federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced the
recall of a range of vegetable products produced by 4Earth Farms of
Commerce, California, is a Class I risk classification, the most
dangerous it can issue.

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World's biggest iceberg heads north after escaping vortex
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The world's biggest iceberg is on the move again after being trapped
in a vortex for most of the year. A23a is 3,800 sq km (1,500 sq
miles), which is more than twice the size of Greater London, and is
400m (1,312ft) thick.

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5 ways Google migrating Chrome OS to Android is a good thing
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Chromebooks are capable and popular devices. There are even higher-end
Chromebooks, called Chromebook Plus devices, that add AI capabilities
to the Chromebook to make it a more useful device.

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Big Oil wants to help Big Tech power artificial intelligence data
centers
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Exxon Mobil and Chevron are jumping into the race to power artificial
intelligence data centers, as the two oil majors bet tech companies
will ultimately turn to natural gas to meet their tremendous energy
needs. Exxon unveiled plans this week to build a natural gas plant to
power a data center.

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The Biggest Medical Breakthroughs of 2024
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Science and medicine typically move in spurts and stumbles. But every
once in a while, a genuine breakthrough does come along and
substantially improve how doctors can manage or treat a particular
health problem.

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'I felt like a breathing corpse': Stories from people freed from
Syria's torture prison
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It was a defining moment of the fall of the Syrian regime - rebels
freeing inmates from the country's most notorious prison. A week on,
four men speak to the BBC about the elation of their release, and the
years of horror that preceded it.

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Cooking oil linked to colon cancer in early study, tied to
inflammation
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Researchers have revealed another potential reason to avoid
ultraprocessed foods.

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Pilot avoids jail over crash that killed UK tourist
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British tourist Jocelyn Spurway, 29, was killed and 21-year-old Irish
woman Hannah O'Dowd seriously injured when the aircraft hit the sand
on Middle Island in January 2017.

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Mars rover makes epic climb to explore some of the oldest rocks in the
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After a months-long climb up the side of a crater on Mars, NASA's
Perseverance rover has finally emerged on its rim -- and now faces a
4-billion-year-old landscape never before explored on the red planet.

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Why China is losing interest in English - The Economist (No paywall)
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IN PREPARATION FOR the summer Olympics in 2008, the authorities in
Beijing, the host city and Chinas capital, launched a campaign to
teach English to residents likely to come in contact with foreign
visitors. Police, transit workers and hotel staff were among those
targeted. One aim was to have 80% of taxi drivers achieve a basic
level of competency.

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Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
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Absinthe, once the 'Green Fairy' - muse of painters and poets - came
to haunt the last decades of 19th-century France.

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Mexico is using an AI-powered app to prevent suicides
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Last fall, school administrators at the University of Yucatan asked
Abraham Slim, a 23-year-old medical student, to fill out a survey on
his smartphone. The questions on the survey did not relate to his
subjects but probed into his mental health.

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Did you perceive the invisible gorilla after all?
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The 'invisible gorilla' study is a staple of undergraduate psychology
teaching.

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Ann Arbor hopes to bring rooftop solar to the masses by creating a
utility
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Why did city officials want to pursue a sustainable energy utility? We
have to nest it in the climate goals and the reality of our electric
system. Our charge in the Office of Sustainability and Innovations is
to think about how we get to 100% renewable electricity powering the
community.

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UN cybercrime treaty faces uncertain future under Trump
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The United Nations is on the verge of formally adopting a
controversial new cybercrime convention that contains significant
human rights risks.

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Eggs may be secret to high IQ in babies
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Want to ensure your bundle of joy is a bundle of smarts, too? Eggs may
be the key to ensuring a high IQ in infants - but pregnant women would
need to eat up to nine per day for the best results. Fortunately,
there are alternatives.

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The 3 areas in blue above, contain roughly 50% of Australia's
population, which means that the area in white contains the other 50%.
So to be fair it's just under half live in those three areas but how
does this compare to other countries?

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