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What social rejection teaches your brain -- USC News

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explores how we learn from social acceptance and rejection.

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Editor's Note: When participants adjusted their beliefs about how much
others valued them, areas linked to social rejection were activated.
In contrast, acceptance triggered the ventral striatum, a region
associated with reward learning from money, praise or other positive
experiences.

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Bronze Age massacre victims likely cannibalised
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Scientists have uncovered the aftermath of an "exceptionally violent"
attack about 4,000 years ago in Somerset when at least 37 people
appear to have been butchered and likely eaten.

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Counter-Drone Systems For Yachts Are Growing In Popularity
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While aerial drone attacks on maritime vessels have thus far focused
on commercial and naval ships, there is growing concern that
quarter-billion dollar-plus superyachts, and the VIPs who own and
cruise in them, may be vulnerable.















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"The Lina Khan approach will quickly die": Trump FTC pick signals big
antitrust changes
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President-elect Donald Trump's nomination of Andrew Ferguson to chair
the Federal Trade Commission signals a break from the aggressive
stance of the commission under President Joe Biden.

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Watchdog to issue new guidance after report finds air fryers may be
listening
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The Information Commissioner's Office will be updating its guidance
after a Which? report found two air fryer manufacturers have been
sending personal data to servers in China.














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'Waging war on science': Researchers worry about their jobs under
Trump 2.0
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Over the years, Donald Trump hasn't exactly been a champion of
science.

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Swedish minister open to new measures to tackle energy crisis, blames
German nuclear phase-out
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Sweden is ready to introduce new measures to tackle the country's
soaring energy prices, Energy Minister Ebba Busch announced on
Thursday (12 December), blaming Germany's nuclear phase-out for the
crisis in the country and at EU level.














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Bosses struggle to police workers use of AI - FT (No paywall)
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Staff are adopting large language models faster than companies can
issue guidelines on how to do so

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Private Credit Wants a Top Spot on Your Mobile Investing App -
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Nonbank lenders are making it easy for ordinary people to buy their
products, as interest from institutions flatlines.














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Apple plans thinner, foldable iPhones to revive growth - WSJ (No
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Apple is preparing a series of major design and format changes to its
lineup of iPhones and potentially other products, a bid to revive
growth after years of offering largely incremental upgrades.

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Why Musk doesnt have access to SpaceXs biggest government secrets -
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The payloads SpaceX launches into the heavens for the U.S. military
and spy agencies are usually treated as a government secret, shared
only with select employees at the rocket company who hold special
security clearances.














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China races to squelch unrest as signs of economic malaise spread -
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Knife attacks and car rammings have officials unnerved about
widespread societal discontent.

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The trouble with searching Google for the best - WSJ (No paywall)
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Shopping sites tout five stars. No. 1 rankings. Media endorsements.
But how do you know whats real?














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Outgoing CDC director girds against an overhaul, and tries to calm
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As her tenure as director of the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention winds down, Mandy Cohen is in persuasion mode
simultaneously trying to convince critics of the CDC in the incoming
administration that the agency has re-focused since its pandemic-era
missteps, and calm nervous staff about what is to come.

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In South Korea, a Blueprint for Resisting Autocracy? - The New Yorker
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On Saturday evening, a week and a half after South Koreas President,
Yoon Suk-yeol, declared martial law and deployed soldiers outfitted
for war against citizens and lawmakers in his own country, the
National Assembly voted to remove him from power. Two-thirds of the
legislative bodyincluding at least twelve members of Yoons partyvoted
in favor of impeachment, as more than a million Koreans surrounded the
parliamentary complex, in Seoul, chanting, singing K-pop, and waving
glow sticks and signs (Arrest Yoon Suk-yeol for treason!) in the
shivering cold. Historically, politics has followed the public square,
Lee Chang-geun, an autoworker and union organizer who travelled from
another province to attend the demonstration, told me. This has been a
dangerous situation, but I believe in the Korean democracy, in the
basic functioning of the system.














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Heart Failure May Soon Be Reversible with New Gene Therapy
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In what may represent a new frontier in treating one of the world's
deadliest chronic conditions, researchers have developed a gene
therapy that appears to reverse heart failure--restoring the heart's
pumping power and dramatically improving survival rates, at least in a
large animal model.

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The 5 Best Leadership Summits To Attend In 2025
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The rate of change is changing. Nothing will ever be the same. For
this reason, CEO's and senior leadership in every industry are well
served to attend a leadership summit where they can learn to act amid
chaos rather than get stuck because of it.













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Serbia: Authorities using spyware and Cellebrite forensic extraction
tools to hack journalists and activists
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Serbian police and intelligence authorities are using advanced phone
spyware alongside mobile phone forensic products to unlawfully target
journalists, environmental activists and other individuals in a covert
surveillance campaign, a new Amnesty International report has
revealed.

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Do job titles matter in tech?
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During the hiring process, a candidate didn't negotiate his salary but
asked for a higher title. (Staff engineer instead of Senior). I was
surprised and tried to understand why. Unfortunately, yes, they do
matter in many instances.

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Building an AI Assistant for Legal Citations
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The Bluebook-- hauntingly familiar to every lawyer--has always been
the gold standard for legal citations. Yet if you've ever navigated
its pages, you know it's dense, intricate, and not exactly designed
for the digital era.

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The Arc of Innovation Bends toward Decadence
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For years, people have bemoaned the sorry state of innovation.
Compared with the great inventions of the industrial era, the
inventions of our own time seem pathetic. In today's Sunday Rerun, I
offer a different take: We're as innovative as ever, but the focus of
innovation has shifted.

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Donald Trump can run for a third term in 2028, Steve Bannon suggests
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The top Trump ally appeared to reference the wording of the 22nd
Amendment to the Constitution, which states, "No person shall be
elected to the office of the President more than twice." Bannon said
Republican lawyer Mike Davis, who was reportedly in line for the role
of attorney general, noted that the Constitution does not specify
whether this applies only to consecutive terms.

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That Study About Toxic Black Kitchen Utensils Was Kind of Wrong
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If you recently threw out all of your black plastic kitchen utensils
after reading any of the dozens of articles that were published online
about them being dangerous, I've got some bad news for you.

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OnlyFans Models Are Usuing AI Chatbots to Talk Dirty for Them
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That OnlyFans model you're having a personal, one-on-one chat with?
There's a chance it's not actually them -- at least not a
flesh-and-blood version of them. It might be an AI bot designed to
sound just like them.

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Frustrated with high drug costs, biohackers are reverse engineering
medical treatments
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Why pay $84,000 for a hepatitis C drug when you can make it at home?
But such DIY chemistry raises safety concerns"); } The crescendo of
outrage at the health care system lately has some arguably valid
complaints. Take insulin for example. Affordable insulin is so hard to
come by in the U.S.

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Fear, hope and bitterness: Syria?s refugees contemplate life after
Bashar Assad
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AMMAN, Jordan ? Until last week, the idea of being able to go back
home seemed an impossible dream for many Syrian refugees. Now, the
fall of Syria?s dictator Bashar Assad has opened the door for their
return.

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I received a first but it felt tainted and undeserved inside the
university AI cheating crisis
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The email arrived out of the blue: it was the university code of
conduct team. Albert, a 19-year-old undergraduate English student,
scanned the content, stunned. He had been accused of using artificial
intelligence to complete a piece of assessed work.

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The tale of two Shanghais
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As an adolescent, I used to be obsessed with skyscrapers. I made daily
visits to the Skyscraper City forums, eagerly waiting for progress
photos as supertall skyscrapers went up around the world. Shanghai is
the largest of the many major cities concentrated around the Yangtze
Delta.

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Owen Hatherley, Bulgarian Dreams -- Sidecar
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Just outside Sofia's city centre sits a high-rise concrete hotel,
visible from many directions silhouetted against Mount Vitosha, the
hulking mountain on the outskirts of the Bulgarian capital.

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People Are Turning to Chatbots to Solve All Their Life Problems. Are
They on a Slippery Slope?
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Steadily, but subtly, generative AI is making inroads into our
personal and professional lives.

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Four Decades After the Fall of Argentina's Dictatorship, a Fight Over
the Country's Darkest Chapter Is Reopening Grievous Wounds
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The former Navy School of Mechanics, in Buenos Aires, sits on a leafy
campus of whitewashed buildings and grassy plazas running alongside
the Avenida del Libertador, one of the city's main thoroughfares.

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These Neurons in the Abdomen Help Form the Gut-Brain Connection
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Scientists have identified two types of brain cells in the abdomen
that appear to control different aspects of digestion.

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We Get It, You're Under a Lot of Pressure. Here's How to Shift Your
Mindset to Deal
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Four science-backed tips for keeping it cool while you are feeling
pressure, and expressing your best rather than your authentic self.

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Eating Spaghetti by the Fistful Was Once a Neapolitan Street Spectacle
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A hungry visitor strolling through the narrow streets of 19th-century
Naples would have encountered a wealth of food options--some more
tempting than others. Vendors hawked meats and cakes, women cooked up
soups and omelets, and goats patiently awaited milking.

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Scientists develop coral-inspired material to revolutionise bone
repair
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Researchers at Swansea University have developed a revolutionary bone
graft substitute inspired by coral which not only promotes faster
healing but dissolves naturally in the body after the repair is
complete.

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Oldest known stone tablet inscribed with Ten Commandments to be
auctioned
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NEW YORK (AP) -- The oldest known stone tablet inscribed with the Ten
Commandments, dating from 300 to 800 A.D., will be sold in New York
this month, Sotheby's auction house said.

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Cottonandsquidbone sponge can soak up 99.9 of microplastics scientists
say
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A sponge made of cotton and squid bone that has absorbed about 99.9%
of microplastics in water samples in China could provide an elusive
answer to ubiquitous microplastic pollution in water across the globe,
a new report suggests.

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Why the genetic-testing revolution left some people behind -- and what
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You have full access to this article via your institution. When
Mary-Claire King embarked on a painstaking 17-year-long hunt for a
gene linked to breast cancer, she had no inkling that its discovery
would be saving lives some three decades later.

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TikTok is a go-to news source for young people. Legacy media wants in.
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Big news brands were slow to join the video platform but now are
experimenting with reaching a new audience there.

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The Feds game plan on interest-rate cuts keeps shifting - WSJ (No
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Investors widely expect a third-in-a-row rate cut this week. Officials
are ready to slowor even stoplowering rates after that.

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Untangling Americas love-hate relationship with corporate power - WSJ
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The assassination of a health-insurance executive reveals frustration
with big business weeks after a business leader was elected president.
Whats going on?

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Is Americas opioid epidemic finally burning out? - The Economist (No
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Standing in the bitter cold outside the DeCoach Recovery Centre, a
drug treatment clinic on the edge of an ocean of car parking in
Hamilton, Ohio, Scott Weaver explains where his life went off track.
First, he says, about ten years ago he was in a car wreck. I started
taking pills, he explains, but I wasnt hooked on them at that time.

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South Korea's Impeachment Crisis Strains Its Alliance with the U.S
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“Washington couldn’t have asked for a better ally and partner than
the Yoon government,” said Duyeon Kim, a fellow with the Center for
a New American Security. “Until we know who South Korea’s
president is, the U.S. just lost a key partner at the leader level
whose personal conviction aligns with Washington’s values and
approach to regional and global issues, particularly when dealing with
authoritarian states.”

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Opinion | A Mild Defense of Lara Trump
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Once up a time, the best way for a woman to make it to either chamber
of Congress was as the freshly minted widow of a member who died in
office. Since the 1930s, seven women have been appointed to serve out
the Senate terms of their late husbands, according to the Center for
American Women and Politics. Over on the House side, 39 women have won
special elections to succeed their late husbands. And we’re not
talking ancient history. In 2021, Julia Letlow won a special election
to fill the seat of her spouse, who died of complications of Covid-19
just days before being sworn in.

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Scores for Adults Are Dropping on Tests of Basic Skills
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An international test of adults' "basic skills" shows that an
increasing number of Americans are struggling to do moderately complex
tasks that involve reading and math.

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Mayotte cyclone: health services in ruins as rescuers race to reach
survivors
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The UN humanitarian agency, OCHA, said 1.7 million people were in
danger from the cyclone, and that the remnants of it could still cause
“significant rainfall” on Malawi on Monday. Zimbabwe and Zambia
could also expect heavy rains, it added.

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Gambling giant deliberately hid identities of high risk customers,
financial crime watchdog alleges in unique court case
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In Australia, Gambling Help Online is available on 1800 858 858. The
National Debt Helpline is at 1800 007 007. In the UK, support for
problem gambling can be found via the NHS National Problem Gambling
Clinic on 020 7381 7722, or GamCare on 0808 8020 133. In the US, call
the National Council on Problem Gambling at 800-GAMBLER or text
800GAM.

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Netanyahu says he held a??friendlya?? talks with Trump over Syria and
Gaza hostages
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The Israeli military said the three Gaza City houses belonged to
militants planning imminent attacks. It said steps were taken to
reduce risk to civilians, including the use of precise munitions and
aerial surveillance. The IDF issued a photo showing the weapons it
seized in Beit Lahiya that included explosives and dozens of grenades.
In Beit Hanoun, the IDF said it struck dozens of militants from the
air and on the ground and captured others.

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NeurIPS keynote speaker apologizes for reference to Chinese student
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A speaker at the annual NeurIPS AI conference has drawn criticism --
not for her opinions about AI, but the way she referred to a Chinese
student.

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This stealthy African stablecoin startup already processed over $1B in
cross-border payments | TechCrunch
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Like other platforms issuing or using stablecoin technology, Juicyway
has had to acquire money transmitter licenses to operate – in its
case, across the U.S., the U.K., Canada and Nigeria – given the
regulatory ambiguity surrounding crypto and stablecoin issuance and
usage globally. Over the next few years, the three-year-old fintech
might acquire similar licenses in other African countries as it looks
to become the platform where Africans and those doing business on the
continent can easily convert African currencies to local ones and
back. 

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Revisiting 19th-century Paris with VR | TechCrunch
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Anthony Ha is TechCrunch’s weekend editor. Previously, he worked as
a tech reporter at Adweek, a senior editor at VentureBeat, a local
government reporter at the Hollister Free Lance, and vice president of
content at a VC firm. He lives in New York City.

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