Schneier on Security
I have no context for –it`s from Reddit–but one of the commenters adds some context:
The promise of personal AI assistants rests on a dangerous assumption: that we can trust systems we haven’t made trus...
Science Alert
Incredible!
Attention hijacked.
Science-Based Medicine
Via podcasts, Fox News interviews, and "leaked" memos, our FDA leaders are teasing "profound revelations" about dead ...
ScienceNews
A mosquito proboscis repurposed as a 3-D printing nozzle can print filaments around 20 micrometers wide, half the wid...
In the aftermath of slavery, white psychiatrists diagnosed Black people with “religious excitement” and claimed they ...
Scientific American
General-purpose robots remain rare not for a lack of hardware but because we still can`t give machines the physical i...
Scientists have successfully transplanted gene-edited insulin-producing cells into a man with type 1 diabetes—a...
SCOTUSblog
This morning, Friday, Dec. 12, the justices are gathering for their final regularly scheduled private conference of t...
As we regularly note, we read a lot of legal news as we prepare this newsletter. Here`s the most memorable headline w...
Signs of the Times
We`re being hit with the "Super Flu" (allegedly), and that means everyone wants us to wear masks again. We went over ...
In waters off the coast of Brittany, archaeologists have identified an impressive set of submerged stone structures t...
Silver Bulletin (Nate Silver)
Silver Bulletin approval ratings for President Trump – and all presidents since Truman.
Silver Bulletin favorability ratings for the world`s richest man.
Singapore Star
Guwahati (Assam) [India], December 13 (ANI): The ASEAN-India Tourism Professionals Exchange Programme 2025 began in G...
Analysis-Musk`s Mars mission adds risk to red-hot SpaceX IPO
Sky
A senior Hamas commander who was one of the architects of the 7 October 2023 attacks on Israel has been killed in a s...
Belarus has pardoned 123 prisoners, including a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and a key opposition figure who challenged...
The Slavland Chronicles
Was Boris Yeltsin even Russian?
Was he deliberately trying to mess things up?
SMAS de Mafra (Mafra water company)
Snopes
The humorous post made the rounds again in December 2025.
Posts shared testimony from Retes, who claimed ICE agents violently detained him despite his statements that he was a...
Social Europe
The Next Generation EU programme, despite sluggish implementation and limited coverage, reveals how industrial policy...
Kaja Kallas is not the problem; the EU`s dysfunctional institutional architecture is crippling its global influence.
Socialist Worker (UK)
Health secretary Wes Streeting is using the flu outbreak to pressure doctors to end their pay and jobs dispute—and to...
Over 300 workers at the British Library were on strike every day this week over pay and conditions. The strikers, who...
Software Freedom Conservancy
South China Morning Post
London’s Metropolitan Police said on Saturday it had decided not to launch a criminal investigation into allegations ...
Two US service members and one American civilian were killed and three other people wounded in an ambush on Saturday ...
SouthFront
On December 13, the Russian military began advancing from Siversk to nearby areas taking advantage of the chaos that ...
A general strike by the Alawite community on the Syrian coast organized to protest the government`s sectarian policie...
Space.com
Test your space smarts with our weekly crossword challenge, crafted from Space.com`s biggest headlines.
As `The War Between the Land and the Sea` rages on, we look back at the previous TV shows to explode out of the Whoni...
Sputnik News
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russian Defense Minister Andrey Belousov held a meeting with military correspondents, discussing t...
“It’s obvious that he’s trying to evade Trump’s demands to sign an agreement by December 25 ceding certain territorie...
The Straits Times
The balloons have caused over a dozen closures of Vilnius` airport in recent months.
BUDAPEST, Dec 13 - Thousands of Hungarians marched to Prime Minister Viktor Orban`s offices on Saturday, led by oppos...
Strategic Culture
La NATO è impantanata nella corruzione, ma continua ostinatamente a non rendersene conto, perché la propria corruzion...
No frigir dos ovos, a candidatura de Flávio Bolsonaro pôs a nu o fato de que o “centro democrático” só clama por “uni...
Sydney Morning Herald
The actor is focusing on locally produced projects while she settles her family, including a newborn, into Byron Bay ...
Excellent bartending pedigree, chef takeovers, footpath seating and a custom-built hi-fi system bring big concept ene...
Tages-Anzeiger (Switzerland)
Eifersucht, sinkende Umfragewerte, steigende Preise und Israel spalten Trumps Anhänger. Die Maga-Gemeinde ist nach de...
Mit der Rückkehr zur knapp hundertjährigen Times New Roman soll im State Department alles besser werden. Bidens Admin...
Taiwanese Public Opinion Foundation
Taki's Magazine
The Week’s Most Illegal Refugee Jesus Born, Racist White Colors Worn, and Disney Festive Animal Porn Headlines OPERAT...
No doubt the principle that one should speak nothing except good of the recently dead is a decent and civilized one, ...
Tap News (Alternative Media)
Techrights
Information-related warfare relies a lot on computer systems
At least they always run Linux (all of them, since 2015)
TheAltWorld
Social programs, formally called welfare programs, administered in Minnesota under governor Tim Waltz, former Democra...
▪️This confirms this was never about "drugs," and is instead just another neocon regime change operation against [...
Time
Bruna Ferreira revealed the details of her arrest by ICE agents in early November, hitting out at the Press Secretary...
Breaking down the whodunnit at the center of Rian Johnson`s new `Knives Out` movie.
The Times of Israel
After Israel issues evacuation warning, Lebanese Armed Forces request via ceasefire mechanism to access building in s...
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TomDispatch
As more of the Epstein files are released, reminding us of Donald Trump’s close association with Jeffrey Epstein and ...
Tony Greenstein blog
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TruthOut.org
Health savings accounts provide a fig leaf for high deductible insurance plans that leave patients on the hook.
Israel is planning to expel residents of the ancient West Bank town of Sebastia to create a national park for settlers.