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

Editor's Pick

??(C)? V-Shaped Skillset

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concept known as the "T-shaped skillset". It says you should aim to
have deep expertise in one area (the vertical bar of the "T") and know
atleast a little about a wide range of topics (the horizontal bar).

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Editor's Note: For me, it was really difficult to commit to a single
main skill. I don't have a niche life's work that clearly stands out,
or a specialized role within software. So it forced me to think
through and rank my skills. I used a combination of how much interest
I have in the skill, and how useful it is in terms of practical
application, career growth, etc.

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Two killed by female student in shooting at US Christian school
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Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes identified the attacker on Monday
night as a 15-year-old female student at the school. Authorities say
the attacker was in attendance at Abundant Life Christian School
before opening fire and was found dead at the scene.

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The man who bought everything
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Towards the end of the Second World War, a B-29 bomber crashed near
the city of Tosu on the island of Kyushu in western Japan.















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Russian general killed in explosion in Moscow
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Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, head of the Nuclear, Biological,
Chemical Defence Forces (NBC), was leaving a residential block early
on Tuesday when a device hidden in a scooter was detonated, Russia's
investigative committee said. It added that Kirillov's assistant was
also killed.

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Where did all the manufacturing workers go?
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Inside the Business of Ransomware: Insights from Reddit AMA with
Ransomware Negotiators
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A fascinating Reddit AMA is happening right now with ransomware
negotiators, offering a rare glimpse into the shadowy world of
cybercrime negotiations. These professionals serve as intermediaries
between organizations hit by ransomware attacks and the criminal
groups holding their data hostage.

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MIT researchers introduce Boltz-1, a fully open-source model for
predicting biomolecular structures
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MIT scientists have released a powerful, open-source AI model, called
Boltz-1, that could significantly accelerate biomedical research and
drug development.














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How a young Dutch womans life began when she was allowed to die
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It was a sunny summer morning when Zoe opened the countdown calendar
on her phone. There it was: zero days, seven hours. Another seven
hours. That's the downside of desperately wanting something: the wait
seems to take for ever.

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Australia moves to drop some cryptography by 2030 - before quantum
carves it up
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Australia's chief cyber security agency has decided local orgs should
stop using the tech that forms the current cryptographic foundation of
the internet by the year 2030 - years before other nations plan to do
so - over fears that advances in quantum computing could render it
insecure.














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Massive Earthquake Jolts Vanuatu, Damaging Buildings
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A magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck near Vanuatu early Tuesday
afternoon, triggering small tsunami waves, causing serious damage to
the U.S. Embassy in the capital and knocking out most of the internet
connectivity in the Pacific Island nation.

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States have a shelf life of about 200 years
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I gave a talk on collapse earlier this autumn to the community of
futurists that is co-ordinated by DEFRA, the British government's
Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. It was based on an
article I wrote earlier this year, and discussed here in March.














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Interview: Tae Kim, Author of the Nvidia Way
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My interview with Tae Kim, author of the Nvidia way. A wonderful
conversation and a freakin' great book too.

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Torpedo juice: The legendary, illegal WWII liquor drunk in Alaska and
around the world
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Part of a continuing weekly series on Alaska history by local
historian David Reamer. Have a question about Anchorage or Alaska
history or an idea for a future article? Go to the form at the bottom
of this story.














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GST Council may consider lowering tax on online food delivery to 5%
without input tax credit, says CNBC-TV18
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The GST Council may lower tax on food delivery charges by e-commerce
players such as Zomato and Swiggy to 5% from 18%, CNBC-TV18 reported
on December 16 citing sources.

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New Report Reveals How Anime & Manga Industry Is Using Generative AI
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A recent report from NHK World-Japan highlights how generative AI is
being adopted in the anime and manga industries to ease production
workloads and allow creators to focus on more creative aspects.














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Study reveals AI chatbots can detect race, but racial bias reduces
response empathy
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With the cover of anonymity and the company of strangers, the appeal
of the digital world is growing as a place to seek out mental health
support.

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Ozy Media Founder Carlos Watson Sentenced to Nearly 10 Years in Prison
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Entrepreneur Carlos Watson was sentenced to 116 months in prison on
Monday for his role in the collapse of Ozy Media, the once high-flying
company he founded in 2012.













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Breathing coordinates brain rhythms for memory consolidation during
sleep
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Corresponding author Andrew Sheriff looks at a computer monitor in a
lab.

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HBO Ends Partnership With 'Sesame Street'
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Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit company that makes the venerable
children's educational program, is looking for a new distribution
partner after Warner Bros. Discovery decided not to renew its
agreement to air new episodes of the show on HBO and its streaming
platform, Max.

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Elon Musk to not receive highestlevel government security clearance
reports
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Space entrepreneur Elon Musk is unlikely to receive government
security clearances if he so applied, even as his SpaceX launch
company blasts military and spy agency payloads into orbit, according
to a report on Monday.

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Google's Whisk AI generator will 'remix' the pictures you plug in
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Google has announced a new AI tool called Whisk that lets you generate
images using other images as prompts instead of requiring a long text
prompt.

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Amazon 'aware' of warehouse injury risk, report finds
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Amazon pushes its US warehouse workers to fulfill orders at speeds
that could cause high rates of injury despite being aware of the
risks, an investigation led by Senator Bernie Sanders has found.

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Study reveals how unexpected shifts in cell populations are revising
our understanding of the aging process
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If you looked at two snapshots of the same maple tree taken in July
and December, you'd see a dramatic change from summer's full green
crown to winter's bare branches.

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MicroStrategy Outlook : Nasdaq investors set to gain bitcoin exposure
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The Nasdaq 100 announced MicroStrategy will join one of the most
heavily-traded indexes.

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How humanities classes benefit students in the workplace and combat
loneliness
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Stereotypes abound about liberal arts degrees leading to low-paying
jobs, despite research showing that humanities majors earn salaries
comparable to students in many other majors.

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The innovative, green future of skiing
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As ski resorts around the world grapple with the effects of climate
change, dry slope skiing may be the green answer to the sport's
future.

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Biden's shadow communications strategy is creating a drone conspiracy
crisis
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If you read between the lines, the federal government thinks there's a
good possibility that irresponsible drone pilots are out there looking
for a viral TikTok moment.

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Google's big week was a flex for the power of big tech
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Last week, this space was all about OpenAI's 12 days of shipmas. This
week, the spotlight is on Google, which has been speeding toward the
holiday by shipping or announcing its own flurry of products and
updates.

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Is it true that ... most of us arent getting enough protein
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This is a myth, says Bethan Crouse, a performance nutritionist from
Loughborough University.

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Health Gap at End of Life Is Now Wider in US Than Any Other Country
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Humans today are living longer than ever before, but how many of those
added years are spent in good health? Researchers at the Mayo Clinic
found that people around the world in 2019 were living 9.6 years of
life burdened by disability or disease - an increase of 13 percent
from 2000.

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Russia braced for mammoth rate hike amid fears it's losing the battle
against inflation
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Russia's central bank is expected to carry out a mammoth rate hike
later this week as inflation continues to soar in the war-focused
economy. Russia's consumer price index continues to rise despite
repeated rate hikes by the central bank designed to tame the rampant
price rises.

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Top 10 Breakthroughs of the Year in physics for 2024 revealed -
Physics World
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'It's Mind-Boggling': The Hidden Cost of Our Obsession With Fish Oil
Pills
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The market in this prized commodity is worth billions--but are the
supposed benefits worth the cost to global ecosystems?

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MIT study explains why laws are written in an incomprehensible style
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Legal documents are notoriously difficult to understand, even for
lawyers. This raises the question: Why are these documents written in
a style that makes them so impenetrable? MIT cognitive scientists
believe they have uncovered the answer to that question.

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On the higher fertility of semiconductor workers
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This tweet has gone viral for pointing out the extraordinary fertility
of the employees of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC), the
world's leading manufacturer of semiconductors and producer of nearly
90% of the most advanced chips. Though TSMC employees make up 0.

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Domestic issues pile pressure on Irans president amid foreign policy
setbacks
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The fall of Bashar al-Assad in Syria, the latest in a string of
foreign policy reversals for Iran including the weakening of its
allies in Lebanon and Gaza, has coincided with growing domestic
frustration over rising executions, planned increases in the price of
petrol and a proposed law that impose

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New Mercedes CLA will do 800 miles with just 20 minutes of charging
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Cutting-edge charging tech and a slippery body allow the new Mercedes
CLA to cover over 1,000km with two brief stops

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Trump Loses Bid to Have Hush Money Case Tossed Over Immunity -
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Donald Trump lost his request to throw out his conviction in the New
York hush money case on presidential immunity grounds, though its far
from certain that the case will proceed to sentencing as the
president-elect continues to challenge the verdict.

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Dollar set to extend Trump rally, says Wall Street - FT (No paywall)
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US president-elect unlikely to get his wish of a weaker currency,
according to analysts and investors

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How Did We End Up with Such an Opaque and Costly Health-Care System? -
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On Halloween, my sixteen-year-old daughter slipped and fell on some
broken glass. She came home from a party with a nasty-looking gash on
one of her fingers, and I persuaded her to go to a local emergency
room. After she filled in some forms and I presented our family
insurance card and ascertained that the E.R. was in-network, we were
shown to a patient bay with a hospital bed and chair. A doctor
examined the wound and confirmed that it warranted stitches. Not very
long after that, his assistant came by and numbed my daughters finger
with novocaine. Then he put in two stitches and covered the wound with
a small bandage. On a busy night, we were in and out of the facility
in less than three hours, and we left happy to have received
professional care.

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The secret talks between Syrias new leaders and the Kremlin - The
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At the entrance to Khmeimim air base in western Syria, a portrait of
Vladimir Putin keeps watch. A Russian soldier offers a salute to a
convoy arriving from Homs. In recent days, the Kremlin has withdrawn
hundreds of troops and military vehicles from other parts of Syria, in
a mad scramble to consolidate forces at Khmeimim.

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Can Trump Privatize The Postal Service? What To Know As
President-Elect Says Hes Looking At USPS Changes - Forbes (No paywall)
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President-elect Donald Trump said Monday hes considering trying to
privatize the U.S. Postal Service, confirming recent reporting by The
Washington Post, as the president-elect has long eyed making major
cuts to the federal agencythat may now be possible in his second term.

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Taxi drivers are steering neuroscience toward better understanding
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But in at least one area, taxi drivers do quite well. A new study,
released today in The BMJ, shows that taxi drivers die at lower rates
from Alzheimers disease than people in other professions potentially
because the job involves exercising the parts of the brain that are
responsible for navigation day in and day out.Understanding the
reasons behind this association could have important implications for
everyone else, too, said Anupam B. Jena, a physician and economist at
Harvard who worked on the new study. Are there things that you could
do over your lifetime that might reduce the risk of dementia?

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A Guide to Managing Interconnected AI Systems - Harvard Business
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A doctor uses AI to draft a prior authorization request, transforming
what might be a tedious, time-consuming process into an efficient one.
Yet, if an insurers AI rejects the request based on criteria the
doctors system didnt account for, the result is delays and
frustration. This is the new reality of AI ecosystems: interconnected
networks of intelligent agents and systems that collaborate, compete,
or clash across business units or organizations. These ecosystems can
offer new opportunities but also introduce new complexities and risks.

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Ozy Media Founder Carlos Watson Sentenced to Nearly 10 Years in Prison
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In July, jurors in Brooklyn federal court convicted Watson, 55, of
conspiracy to commit securities fraud, conspiracy to commit wire
fraud, and aggravated identity theft because of actions he took as the
founder of Ozy Media.

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Your blood pressure reading is probably wrong - WSJ (No paywall)
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How someone sits and positions their arm, whether they just had a cup
of joe or chitchat with their practitioner during the measurement, and
other factors can produce readings that are higher or lower than
normal blood pressure.

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Assads fall upends the Middle Easts largest drug empire - WSJ (No
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The fall of Syrias Bashar al-Assad overturned the most profitable
drug-smuggling network in the Middle East, exposing the former regimes
role in manufacturing and trafficking pills that fueled war and social
crises across the region.

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Trump, SoftBank CEO to announce $100 billion investment in US - WSJ
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The president-elect is set to appear with SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi
Son at Mar-a-Lago on Monday.

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The Nvidia Way review: The hard work of tech mastery - WSJ (No
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When Nvidias CEO is asked how to be successful, he will respond: I
wish upon you ample doses of pain and suffering.

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The Internet Missed the Point on Luigi Mangione
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From the moment Luigi Mangione was revealed as the person arrested in
connection with last weeks murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian
Thompson, stories started spinning out about him on social media.
Alibis posted by users who have manipulated photos of Mangione to
suggest he was in different places at the time of the crime are
breaking the Internet. Hes also become somewhat of an online sex
symbol, with users claiming hes too hot to convict and a mug shot
hottie. And after his arrest, he gained about 1,000 followers a minute
on X, as people poured through his past posts.

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11 things to know about Frances new Prime Minister Franois Bayrou
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PARIS Frances new prime minister couldnt be more different from
President Emmanuel Macron. The 73-year-old father of six speaks the
barnais dialect of the Pyrenees, owns a tractor, and spends a lot of
time in the village where he was born.

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