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
More than one way to sequence a cat.
The first time this has ever been seen.
Science-Based Medicine
Via podcasts, Fox News interviews, and "leaked" memos, our FDA leaders are teasing "profound revelations" about dead ...
There is an entire industry catering to people who, as Webb once famously said on the hilarious Homeopathic A&E s...
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
Scientists have successfully transplanted gene-edited insulin-producing cells into a man with type 1 diabetes—a...
An oil tanker seized by the U.S. this week reportedly used a technique that scrambled its location, but new advanced ...
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
In 1563 Elizabeth Flynte, a servant from Haselor, Warwickshire, described the extra-marital activities of her mistres...
The US president grasps Moscow`s view of what made the hostilities inevitable, the Russian foreign minister has said....
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
Denver police drones- Privacy concerns amid pilot program
Man arrested in murder of 83-year-old Lakewood woman, burglary, arson
Sky
The UK has sanctioned senior commanders of Sudan`s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) over suspected heinous violence includi...
The Belgian prime minister said he is "sceptical" about giving Ukraine a loan using frozen Russian assets, and tells ...
The Slavland Chronicles
Was he deliberately trying to mess things up?
This was the most moral course of action.
SMAS de Mafra (Mafra water company)
Snopes
The images circulated online as House Oversight Democrats continued to release photos, videos and emails from the Eps...
Despite the freedom with which people can customize their characters in the popular game, this particularly image was...
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
Former National Basketball Association (NBA) centre Jason Collins, who has a deadly form of brain cancer, is undergoi...
Christine Choy, a trailblazer for Asian-Americans in independent film and whose documentary on the fatal beating of V...
SouthFront
Russian assault groups crossed the Haichur River from the «Bochany» district and advanced into Huliaipole`s central q...
On December 12, several videos documenting some of the Russian military’s recent operations against Kiev forces surfa...
Space.com
The seven members of the Expedition 74 crew studied stem cells, packed up a cargo ship and maintained their toilet th...
The inaugural ceremony was held at London`s Natural History Museum on Dec. 5.
Sputnik News
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - EU countries have agreed to freeze the Russian Central Bank`s assets held in Europe for an indefin...
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has blocked US Army Chief Dan Driscoll from participating in ...
The Straits Times
The US leader had hinted at this for some weeks now.
Dec 12 - A joint Saudi-Emirati military delegation arrived in Aden to discuss measures aimed at defusing tensions in ...
Strategic Culture
Mentre si celebra il 75º anniversario delle relazioni diplomatiche, il rapporto tra Vietnam e Russia si rafforza su p...
The insane European losers want to save their political necks with World War III.
Sydney Morning Herald
The male is fighting for his life with serious head injuries, while a woman who came to his aid was also allegedly at...
FIFA received five million requests for World Cup tickets in the first 24 hours of the latest sales phase, the world ...
Tages-Anzeiger (Switzerland)
Die Kämpfe zwischen Thailand und Kambodscha haben zahlreichen Menschen das Leben gekostet und Hunderttausende in die ...
Nicht gesperrte Instagram-Konten, eine Klage der Plattform Reddit und ein onkelhafter Premier auf Tiktok: Die Social-...
Taiwanese Public Opinion Foundation
Taki's Magazine
No doubt the principle that one should speak nothing except good of the recently dead is a decent and civilized one, ...
The Column Racket Explained A political columnist should choose a place on the left–right spectrum. It doesn’t matter...
Tap News (Alternative Media)
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TheAltWorld
▪️This confirms this was never about "drugs," and is instead just another neocon regime change operation against [...
Even according to pro-Ukrainian LIVE UAmap, Siversk in northeast Donetsk, Donbass – heavily fortified and defended by...
Time
Breaking down the whodunnit at the center of Rian Johnson`s new `Knives Out` movie.
With the tax credits` end-of-year expiration date looming, some Republicans are defying party leadership and supporti...
The Times of Israel
Sources say US also limited how Israel could use certain intelligence to pursue high-value targets in Gaza * Top ADL ...
Youssef Rajji says Lebanon seeking to prevent escalation and negotiate terror group`s disarmament; denounces Iran as ...
TomDispatch
As more of the Epstein files are released, reminding us of Donald Trump’s close association with Jeffrey Epstein and ...
What self-destructive creatures we turn out to be! Can you even believe it? Only recently, the United Nations Climate...
Tony Greenstein blog
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TruthOut.org
AIPAC spent $2 million to oppose progressive Nida Allam from being elected in North Carolina in 2022.
"I stand before you as a free man, and I want you to remember me this way," Abrego Garcia said.