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

Editor's Pick

There's an alternative to the social broligarchy emerging

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CEO announced he is handing control to a non-profit organization,
stating that it should not be owned by an individual. It seems that
not wanting to become another Zuck or Musk is now a thing.Free Our
Feeds has a $30m plan to take back social media from the

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Editor's Note: Whilst it can feel like there is no light at the end of
the tunnel, it's important to remember there are different ways
forward. Much of the progress we are seeing is not necessarily new.
Efforts for the indie and a more ethical web have been going on behind
the scenes for years. The good news is that it feels like more change
and traction is starting to bear fruit. Bluesky is one such example
that has been gaining traction.

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How to raise kids to identify misinformation
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It's more important than ever to raise kids who can sift through
evidence, identify reliable sources, and think for themselves. Last
summer, 7-year-old Zusha came home from day camp frightened by a scary
story.

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A Federal Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump's Executive Order Redefining
Birthright Citizenship
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A federal judge has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump's
executive order ending the constitutional guarantee of birthright
citizenship regardless of the parents' immigration status.















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Microplastics block blood flow in the brain, mice study reveals
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For the first time, scientists have tracked microplastics moving
through the bodies of mice in real time1. The tiny plastic particles
are gobbled up by immune cells, travel through the bloodstream and
eventually become lodged in blood vessels in the brain.

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LinkedIn accused of training AI on private messages
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LinkedIn was this week accused of giving third parties access to
Premium customers' private InMail messages for AI model training.














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Elon Musk Controversial Salute Image Beamed on Tesla Factory in Berlin
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An image of Elon Musk making a controversial salute during a speech on
Monday was projected onto Tesla's Gigafactory in Berlin. The display
featured Musk's gesture alongside the words "Heil Tesla." Newsweek
reached out to Tesla's communications team for comment on Wednesday.

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Trump tells Putin to end 'ridiculous war' in Ukraine or face new
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US President Donald Trump has warned he will impose high tariffs on
Russian goods and impose further sanctions if it fails to end the war
in Ukraine.














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What to Know About 'Stargate,' OpenAI's New Venture Announced by
President Trump
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President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced a $500 billion joint
venture between OpenAI, Softbank, MGX and Oracle to build new
datacenters to power the next wave of artificial intelligence (AI) -
in an early signal that his Administration would embrace the
technology.

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Apple's biggest innovation of the last 25 years isn't the iPhone
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There's a new year upon us, with 2025 capping off a quarter-century of
the modern Apple and its definitive role in personal computing
innovation. In particular, 2025 marks 25 years of Apple's intuitive
experience that turns elements of hardware and software into a magical
coherence.














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Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single Repository
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Early Google employees decided to work with a shared codebase managed
through a centralized source control system. This approach has served
Google well for more than 16 years, and today the vast majority of
Google's software assets continues to be stored in a single, shared
repository.

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Property tycoon Ren Benko arrested in Austria - FT (No paywall)
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Signa founder taken into custody as flight risk more than a year after
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The Gaza ceasefire is stoking violence in the West Bank - The
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THE PALESTINIAN villages of al-Funduk and Jinsafut have been under
unofficial curfews since January 20th. Armoured vehicles of the Israel
Defence Forces (idf) patrol their deserted streets. At the exits from
other towns and villages in the West Bank, long queues of vehicles
wait hours for inspection at Israeli checkpoints.

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Fact Check: Did Barack Obama, Kamala Harris make "Nazi" salutes?
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The controversy around Elon Musk's inauguration "gesture", which some
on social media have compared to a Nazi salute, has led to the
reemergence of photos of Barack Obama, Elizabeth Warren, Hillary
Clinton, and Kamala Harris, striking poses with their arms
outstretched in similar fashion.














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An odd year in movies, explained by this years Oscar nominations
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Fearless journalism is more important than ever. When news breaks, you
need to understand what actually matters and what to do about it. At
Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been
more vital. But we cant do it on our own.

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Exclusive: Warren's Plan for Musk to Cut U.S. Spending
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While many Democrats in Congress want nothing to do with the
billionaire who spent a fortune to help elect Donald Trump, the
Massachusetts Senator says she wants to find common ground with Musk
in his new role leading the White House's Department of Government
Efficiency (DOGE). In a letter she sent him Thursday morning, Warren
proposed 30 recommendations for eliminating $2 trillion in federal
spending over the next decade, according to a copy of the letter
obtained by TIME. The list includes several of the progressive icons
long-held policy fixations: renegotiating Department of Defense (DOD)
contracts that independent analysts have found waste billions each
year; reforming the Medicare Advantage insurance program and allowing
Medicare to negotiate lower costs of prescription drugs; and closing
tax loopholes for corporations and the wealthiest earners.














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AI can predict career success from a facial image, study finds
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The researchers from Ivy League schools and others used photos from
LinkedIn and photo directories of several top US MBA programs to
determine what is called the Big Five personality traits for 96,000
graduates.

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Climate world learns to speak Republican
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The difference cemented a change in tactics for climate-conscious
officials and advocates that has been a long time coming but wasnt
guaranteed until Trump reclaimed the U.S. presidency.













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Apple, Google mobile ecosystems face UK probe under new tech rules -
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The U.K.s Competition and Markets Authority is investigating mobile
ecosystems controlled by Apple and Alphabets Google to work out if
they need to obey a strict new law governing digital competition.

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Inside the Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy DOGE divorce - WSJ (No paywall)
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WASHINGTONThe Department of Government Efficiency was originally
envisioned as a joint Elon MuskVivek Ramaswamy mission outside the
federal government. Now it is all Elonand he is inside.

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Bank of Japan must weigh Trump trade threats as it tightens policy -
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The Bank of Japankicked off a global market selloff last time it
raised interest rates. The likely rate increase this week will be less
dramatic, but the real suspense lies in what comes next for the yen.

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Presidential pardons escalate as modern political weapon - WSJ (No
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WASHINGTONU.S. presidents have held the right to pardon crimes since
the countrys founding, and they have exercised it often with political
and personal considerations in mind. But legal scholars said the
powers bounds have never been so stretched as Monday, when incoming
President Trump used it to relitigate the Jan. 6, 2021, riot and
departing President Biden used it not for mercy but as a protective
shield.

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OpenAIs Stargate deal heralds shift away from Microsoft | Company
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Microsofts absence from OpenAIs Stargate announcement follows months
of tension between the companies and signals a new era in which the
longtime partners will be less reliant on each other.

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Will This Founder's Spite App Destroy Snapchat? - Inc (No paywall)
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Last week, app growth guru Nikita Bier debuted his newest app,
Explode, on X. One video showed the ghost from Snapchats logo blowing
up, followed by the text: Snapchat 2011-2025. Another showed the ghost
flatlining in a hospital bed.

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What science actually tells us about sex and gender - STAT (No
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Northern Lights Forecast: These 10 States Could See Aurora Borealis
Tonight As Geomagnetic Storm Nears - Forbes (No paywall)
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An incoming geomagnetic storm will likely bring northern lights
displays to more states in the northern U.S. this weekend, with a
chance to see the phenomenon Thursday night, according to the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

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Two New Fires Erupt in San Diego Sparking Evacuations: Live Updates
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Two new fires have erupted today in San Diego, sparking evacuations,
as dangerously dry and windy weather conditions continue. The Gilman
Fire broke out in the La Jolla neighborhood, near Gilman Drive, at
around 2:13 p.m. PST and is already spreading at a moderate pace.

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'IndiGo Offered Rs 6,000 To Delete Social Media Post': Man Who Missed
Flight That Took Off 15 Minutes Early
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An IndiGo passenger alleged that the airline attempted to bribe him to
remove his critical social media post about them. An IndiGo passenger,
who missed his flight after notification about updated timings came
just 2.

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We asked four teens to swap their smartphones for flip phones. Here's
what happened.
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For 14-year-old Ben Cohen-Vigder, accidentally losing his smartphone
on the school bus last February ended up gaining him so much more.

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Felix Feng, Giant in the Field of Prostate Cancer, Dies at 48
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The UC San Francisco and global oncology communities mourn the death
of Felix Y. Feng, MD, a nationally renowned radiation oncologist and a
leading figure in genitourinary cancer research.

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Samsung Electronics Slashes Foundry Investment by Over 50% for 2025
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Samsung Electronics has announced a significant reduction in its
foundry division's facility investment for this year, cutting the
budget by more than half compared to the previous year.

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How Dubai Chocolate Took Over the World
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It was a pregnancy craving for knafeh that got Sarah Hamouda dreaming
in chocolate, imagining a bar that recalled the crunchy-creamy Middle
Eastern dessert of her British Egyptian childhood. She'd never made
chocolate before.

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Democratizing Access To Open-Source GenAI With Pipeshift
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As the generative artificial intelligence phenomenon gathers pace,
many enterprises are still working out how to get the best out of the
large language models on which GenAI is built.

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A Florida Man's Meat, Cheese, and Butter Diet Caused His Hands to Seep
out Cholesterol
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If you've ever wondered why we're always told to eat in moderation,
this recent case study of a man in Florida provides a perfect example.
The man's doctors detail how his "carnivore diet" led him to get such
high levels of cholesterol that it literally started seeping out of
his body.

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Once-in-a-lifetime southern snow eclipses records that stood for
decades
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ATLANTA (AP) -- Sun-soaked Florida and other parts of the South appear
to have shattered snowfall records in what many are calling a
once-in-a-lifetime chance to witness sandy snowscapes on beaches, of
all places.

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Emilia Perez leads Oscar nominations with Wicked and the Brutalist
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All four of the locks made it in here - including Demi Moore, who
continues her astonishing comeback thanks to her performance in body
horror The Substance. She is joined by fellow frontrunners Mikey
Madison (Anora), Cynthia Erivo (Wicked) and Karla Sofia Gascon (Emilia
Perez).

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5 TikToK Alternatives--And The Pros And Cons Of Each
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It looked like the TikTok ban was imminent, but then it wasn't.
President Donald Trump has opted not to enforce the law banning TikTok
nationwide for 75 days to allow its China-based owner ByteDance more
time to sell a stake in the platform or reach a deal.

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TikTok is 'severely damaging' young people -- unlike its Chinese
equivalent, 'The Anxious Generation' author tells BI
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The Chinese equivalent of TikTok is less harmful to young people than
TikTok, a leading social-media expert said. He made the comments in an
interview with Business Insider at the World Economic Forum in Davos
on Tuesday.

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Swede dreams: How Sweden is embracing its sleepy side
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Sweden's long, cold nights might put you off going there in winter,
unless, that is, you are in search of that elusive 21st-Century
luxury: a good night's sleep. The ferry cuts through the icy Baltic
waters as it makes its way around the eastern Swedish archipelago.

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Researchers say new attack could take down the European power grid
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First, the attack must control a sufficient number of gigawatts (by
the researchers' calculations (no one really knows how many). Second,
it must overpower the legitimate signals sent by the three EFR
transmitting facilities. And third, it must occur at an optimal time.

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Subaru Security Flaws Exposed Its System for Tracking Millions of Cars
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Now-fixed web bugs allowed hackers to remotely unlock and start
millions of Subarus. More disturbingly, they could also access at
least a year of cars' location histories--and Subaru employees still
can.

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Adolescents with authoritarian leanings exhibit weaker cognitive
ability and emotional intelligence
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A recent study published in the Journal of Personality has found that
adolescents with lower levels of both cognitive and emotional
abilities are more likely to hold authoritarian attitudes, whether on
the left or right of the political spectrum.

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Why the Next Energy Race Is for Underground Hydrogen
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It might sound like something straight out of the 19th century, but
one of the most cutting-edge areas in energy today involves drilling
deep underground to hunt for materials that can be burned for energy.

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Why Amazon is struggling to crack Argentina
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A few weeks before Christmas, Amalia Bulacios found the perfect gift
for her daughter. The Disney Princess backpack she wanted was around
$40 on Amazon -- a fourth of what similar items cost in Buenos Aires.

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When A.I. Passes This Test, Look Out
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If you're looking for a new reason to be nervous about artificial
intelligence, try this: Some of the smartest humans in the world are
struggling to create tests that A.I. systems can't pass. For years,
A.I. systems were measured by giving new models a variety of
standardized benchmark tests.

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Hamas Takes Charge in Gaza After 15 Months of War
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The morning the cease-fire in Gaza went into effect, masked members of
Hamas's military wing drove through the streets of Gaza in clean,
white pickups, carrying Hamas flags and automatic rifles.

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How Chinese A.I. Start-Up DeepSeek Is Competing With Silicon Valley
Giants
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The day after Christmas, a small Chinese start-up called DeepSeek
unveiled a new A.I. system that could match the capabilities of
cutting-edge chatbots from companies like OpenAI and Google. That
alone would have been a milestone.

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Scale AI CEO says China has quickly caught the U.S. with the DeepSeek
open-source model
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When asked which U.S. artificial intelligence startups are leading the
AI race right now, Wang said that models each have their own strengths
â for instance, OpenAI's models are great at reasoning, while
Anthropic's are great at coding.

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OpenAI's agent that can do work for you is here
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Operator was designed “to refuse harmful requests and block
disallowed content,” OpenAI said, adding that the startup can send
warnings and revoke access over multiple violations through its
moderation systems. The AI agent “is trained to ensure that the
person using it is always in control and asks for input at critical
points,” the startup added.

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Google-backed, AI-developed drugs are headed to trial by 2026,
DeepMind CEO says
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Earlier this month, Insilico released positive topline results from
two phase 1 trials of an AI-designed drug meant to help people with
Inflammatory Bowel Disease. The startup also said researchers had used
its AI-driven platform to identify potential treatments for
endometriosis.

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Yes, Trump can rename the Gulf of Mexico - just not for everyone.
Here's how it works
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Among the blizzard of executive orders issued by Donald Trump on his
first day back in the Oval Office was one titled Restoring Names that
Honor American Greatness. It unilaterally renamed "the area formerly
known as the Gulf of Mexico" as the "Gulf of America".

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