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The Science Behind Why People Are Unkind to Those They Love

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with family, friends, and partners makes it easy to confront them over
trivial matters, with what researchers call “everyday aggression.”

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Editor's Note: Of course, why we choose to hurt someone is layered in
multiple emotional reasons. It may be because of emotional baggage,
the desire to assert control or independence, to test boundaries, or
simply, because people may just expect a lot from the other. Some may
have a fear of intimacy, due to cultural upbringing, or because of
living through traumatic or abusive relationships. Excessive shame,
too, can cause people to act in self-destructive ways (i.e., lie,
cheat, betray, shout)

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"We Build a New City Every Sunday"
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BOGOTA, Colombia--At 4 a.m. on Sunday, Dec. 15, Jerson Osorio stood at
the center of several thousand traffic signs, speed bumps, and
hip-high yellow cones.

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Research: Why Forming Diverse Teams Is Harder in Uncertain Times
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Widespread global uncertainty in the form of the COVID-19 pandemic,
ongoing wars, social uprisings, and rising inflation have led
individuals to feel less of a sense of personal control. New research
finds that this lack of control can drive employees to






















 










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Health insurers limit coverage of prosthetic limbs, questioning their
medical necessity
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When Michael Adams was researching health insurance options last year,
he had one very specific requirement: coverage for prosthetic limbs.
Adams, 51, lost his right leg to cancer 40 years ago, and he has worn
out more legs than he can count.

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Ukraine bets a free market for weapons production can out-innovate
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KYIV, Ukraine?When Andriy Bondarenko, a tech entrepreneur, began
making drones, he had no experience with weapons. Working with a
friend, it took him one month to develop a prototype, which they paid
for with their own money.







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The unlikely ingredient that could end US dependence on Chinese
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Batteries that use sodium could allow the U.S. to create a completely
new supply chain

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How Top Cybersecurity Firms Are Scaling Faster and Smarter to Win in
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The cybersecurity market continues to take off?and so does the
competition. With global spending on information security projected to
hit $212 billion by 2025 according to consultancy Gartner?a 15 percent
increase from 2024?cybersecurity companies face a relentless battle on
two fronts: defending against evolving threats and outpacing rivals to
seize market share.















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Record $600bn pours into global bond funds in 2024 - FT (No paywall)
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Investors piled into fixed income in bet on falling interest rates

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Bond Traders Turn to 2025 Amid Most Agonizing Easing in Decades -
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Yields increase more than any other rate-cut cycle since 1989 Curve
steepens as traders again recalibrate Fed expectations







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A public housing success story
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If you believe in the work we do at Vox, please support us by becoming
a member. Our mission has never been more urgent. But our work isn?t
easy. It requires resources, dedication, and independence. And that?s
where you come in.

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Inside the Chaotic World of Kids Trying to Play Video Games on School
Laptops
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Geometry Spot is a simple-looking website that, on the surface, is
exactly what it advertises: a place to learn more about a form of
mathematics that haunts many high school students. "Why are compasses
needed in geometry?" reads one article. "What is plane geometry?"
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Fining Big Tech isn't working. Make them give away illegally trained
LLMs as public domain
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Opinion Last year, I wrote a piece here on El Reg about being murdered
by ChatGPT as an illustration of the potential harms through the
misuse of large language models and other forms of AI.

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I discovered one way to fight loneliness: The Germans call it a
Stammtisch
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Five years ago I was in Berlin for a few months, and my friend Michael
invited me to a gathering of his beer aficionado friends at a
neighborhood bar. It seemed like a typical bar hang -- until one of
the guys planted a little flag on the table: an insignia for their
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Masks, Smoke, and Mirrors: The untold story of EgyptAir flight 804
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On the 19th of May 2016, an Airbus A320 en route from Paris to Cairo
disappeared from radar at cruising altitude over the Mediterranean
Sea, spiraling to its doom from 37,000 feet until it was dashed
against the night-black water.

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Forget Chrome--Google Starts Tracking All Your Devices In 8 Weeks
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Republished on December 21 with Google's proposals to change search
for iPhone and Android users as a response to the U.S. government's
push for it to sell off Chrome. With Google's last tracking u-turn
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America?s chip war with China will spread - WSJ (No paywall)
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In the continuing chip war between Washington and Beijing, the U.S.
has the clear upper hand on the most cutting-edge technology. But on a
more mundane front of the battle, China might be gaining an advantage.

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America?s private prison complex gears up for Trump deportation
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Private prisons and detention-services providers are getting ready to
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IRS sending "special" stimulus checks to 1 million Americans
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The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) will send out a total of $2.4
billion in "special payments" to 1 million people who did not claim
federal stimulus checks on their tax returns for 2021, the agency
announced on Friday.

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'Sonic' Beats 'Mufasa: The Lion King' at the Box Office
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“Mufasa: The Lion King” sputtered in second place at theaters in
the United States and Canada. “Sonic the Hedgehog 3” was No. 1.

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Donald Trump says Vladimir Putin wants a meeting as soon as possible
about the war with Ukraine
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Earlier this month, Trump met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr
Zelenskyy in Paris along with French President Emmanuel Macron ahead
of the reopening of the Notre Dame Cathedral. After the meeting, Trump
called for an "immediate ceasefire."

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Behind Amazon's quiet launch of Haul, which competes with Temu in
ultra-low-price items from China
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While Haul is only in beta version, demand appears to be outstripping
supply. During a 50% off Black Friday sale, Haul sold out of some
items. Amazon told CNBC it's expanding its selection to hundreds of
thousands of items across dozens of categories in the coming
weeks. 

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Opinion | What Kennedy's Approach to Addiction Gets Wrong
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America can’t go backward on drug policy.

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Trump threatens to take back Panama Canal over a??ridiculousa?? fees
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In a proposal to Chinese investors at a regional business summit,
Ortega said "every day it becomes more complicated to pass through
Panama" and said Nicaragua's canal project could attract Chinese and
American investment, noting that the US had considered building a
Nicaraguan canal as far back as 1854.

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Russian video appears to show Australian man fighting for Ukraine
captured and interrogated
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That page, which did not carry a photo of the user’s face, described
Oscar Jenkins as a “Marketing Consultant and university lecturer”,
with an employment history including as a lecturer at the Tianjin
Modern Vocational Technology College in China, a foreign language
teacher at another Chinese school and several positions in Melbourne
as recently as 2015 – including working at a Toorak club and as a
junior cricket coach.

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The biggest flops and fizzles in 2024 transportation, from Apple Car
to Fisker | TechCrunch
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The California startup, which had developed a teleoperation platform
that allowed a remote driver, sometimes located thousands of miles
away, to operate a vehicle if needed, shut down in March. The company
had raised a total of $95 million from a mix of backers, including
angel investors and early-stage VCs such as Bessemer Venture Partners
and Maniv Mobility, private equity firm InfraBridge and strategic
investors such as ArcBest and ConGlobal.

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Having Your Tonsils Out as a Child May Have a Drastic Impact on Your
Life
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In the US alone, around 300,000 children each year have their tonsils
surgically removed to improve breathing while sleeping or reduce
recurrent infection.

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Surfers Return for Rare Big Wave Contest in Hawaii
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The Eddie Aikau Big Wave Invitational is held only when conditions are
just right. The 45 invited surfers had less than 48 hours to arrive on
the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii, on Sunday.

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Trump Previews Second Term in Sprawling Speech to Conservative
Conference
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President-elect Donald J. Trump repeated false claims about
immigration and the border, slammed diversity initiatives and
discussed the Panama Canal in the 90-minute address.

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Wes Moore Given Bronze Star, Nearly 2 Decades After Army Service
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The Maryland governor had faced a controversy over whether he had
received the medal for his time in Afghanistan.

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Letter Calling for Tracking People of Color Circulates in an Oregon
County
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The letter, distributed in Lincoln County, Ore., tells community
members to report people who may be undocumented, the sheriff’s
office said.

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Trump threatens to try and regain control of Panama Canal
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Several speakers here at the conference were critical of government
spending and of politicians in both parties – however the divisions
inside the Republican Party which have played out in Congress in
recent days were mostly muted.

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Germany Searches for Motives in Christmas Market Attack
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The authorities said they were struggling to understand the motives
behind ramming a car into a Christmas market in the eastern city of
Magdeburg, which left a 9-year-old boy among the five dead.

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Trump Picks a Former Treasury Official as His Top Economist
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Stephen Miran, who served during Donald Trump’s first term and now
works at a hedge fund, has accused the Biden administration of
manipulating markets.

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Opinion | A Picturesque New England Town's Debt to the Right Whale
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We owe it to the right whale — and to so many other species — to
reconstruct what our own history has taken from them.

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Here are the major earnings before the open tomorrow
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Major earnings expected before the bell on Monday include:Anavex Life
Sciences Corp.

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Trump chooses former Treasury official Stephen Miran as Council of
Economic Advisers chair
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President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday said he will former Treasury
Department official Stephen Miran to lead his Council of Economic
Advisers. Miran was a seni

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SA Asks: Which Big Pharmas are likely to announce big M&A deals?
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Last year around this time, several leading drugmakers announced
significant M&A deals to help fill their pipelines, including
Bristol-Myers Squibb's (BMY) proposed takeovers of Karuna and
RayzeBio, and AbbVie's (ABBV) deals to buy ImmunoGen and Cerevel.

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NASA's Parker Solar Probe will fly closer to the sun than ever on
Christmas Eve
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The Parker Solar Probe will be traveling at about 430,000 miles per
hour at the time of its closest-ever pass. It’ll ping the team to
confirm its health on December 27, when it’ll be far enough from the
sun to resume communications.

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Inappropriate apps rated as safe for young children are prevalent in
the App Store, report warns
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Research led by Heat Initiative and ParentsTogether Action looked into
apps rated as appropriate for kids aged 4+, 9+ and 12+.

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Apple's next AirPods Pro could offer heart rate and temperature
monitoring
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The company has also reportedly revived its idea of putting cameras
into AirPods, a rumor we’ve heard a few times over the last year.
According to Gurman, Apple now considers it “a priority” as it
works to bolster its AI services. But, it’d likely be years before
any camera-equipped AirPods make their debut. As for heart rate
monitoring, that may appear much sooner. Gurman writes, “The
capability could be ready for the next-generation AirPods Pro, which
are in early development.”

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Apple is reportedly working on a smart doorbell system that could
unlock your door with Face ID
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According to Mark Gurman, Apple is in the early stages of developing a
device that could compete with the likes of Ring.

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At least 10 killed in plane crash in Brazilian mountain resort
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Gramado is located in the Serra Gaúcha mountains and is popular with
Brazilian tourists who enjoy the cool weather, hiking spots and
traditional architecture. The town was settled by large numbers of
German and Italian immigrants in the 19th century and is a popular
destination for Christmas holidays.

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News Corp and Telstra agree sale of Foxtel to sports streaming service
DAZN for US$2.2bn
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Foxtel had for decades been a highly lucrative revenue stream for News
Corp but the media company had looked to offload the pay television
service under competition from growing numbers of streaming services.

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Woman charged with intimidation after confronting person wearing
pro-Palestine shirt in Sydney Kmart
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She was taken to Granville police station and charged with publicly
threatening violence on grounds of religion, behaving in an offensive
manner in a public place, using offensive language in a public place
and intimidation offences.

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Immediate fire threat moves to NSW as Victoria continues to battle
Grampians blaze
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Authorities said it could take weeks to fully contain the fire ignited
by a lightning strike. Aaron Kennedy, an incident controller, said the
blaze was in very steep, difficult and dry terrain.

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John Pesutto facing Friday leadership spill as Victorian Liberals pull
forward party room meeting
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A federal court judge earlier this month found Pesutto defamed Deeming
by falsely implying in comments he made after the rally that she
knowingly associated and sympathised with neo-Nazis, and ordered him
to pay her more than $300,000 in damages.

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Advocates condemn a??unconscionablea?? denial of water beforeo
mentally ill mana??s death in Sydney prison
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"Corrective Services NSW takes seriously its duty of care to inmates
who they are tasked with keeping safe and secure while under
supervision," the spokesperson said. "Any conduct that jeopardises the
health or wellbeing of inmates or staff is completely unacceptable and
inconsistent with the extremely high standard of behaviour that the
minister expects."

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UK exporters still struggling with post-Brexit rules, says trade body
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A government spokesperson said: “We are resetting the relationship
with our European friends to strengthen ties, secure a broad-based
security pact and tackle barriers to trade … We have been clear that
there will be no return to the customs union, single market or freedom
of movement.”

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Volodymyr Zelenskyy tells Ukrainea??s diplomats to fight for Nato
membership
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Kallas concurred, saying Russia "poses a direct threat to European
security". Across Europe, she said, "we see different hybrid attacks -
whether it's sabotage acts, we see cyber-attacks, also dangerous
shadow fleet, GPS jamming and damage to cables".

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Magdeburg Christmas market attack: authorities received warnings about
suspect
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The head of the far-left BSW party, Sahra Wagenknecht, said: “The
background must be clarified. But above all, we must do more to
prevent such offences, especially as there were obviously specific
warnings and tips in this case that were ignored.”

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Spaina??s huge Christmas lottery spreads riches worth almost a??3bn
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More than half of Sunday's top prize, even if bought in Logroño,
travelled back to Madrid because many winning tickets were held by a
basketball club in the working-class neighbourhood of San
Blas-Canillejas. Young club members and their families gathered to
chant and dance to drums as they do on court.

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