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• Ars Technica - All content
• Merriam-Webster’s word of the year delivers a dismissive verdict on junk AI content
• Stranger Things S5 trailer teases Vol. 2
• Microsoft will finally kill obsolete cipher that has wreaked decades of havoc
• Ford ends F-150 Lightning production, starts battery storage business
• Microsoft takes down mod that re-created Halo 3 in Counter-Strike 2

• Phoronix
• Fedora Games Lab Looks To Be Revitalized As Modern Linux Gaming Showcase
• GIMP 3.2-RC2 Brings Bug Fixes & Minor Refinements
• Torvalds On Linux Security Modules: "I Already Think We Have Too Many Of Those Pointless Things"
• Fedora 44 Could Work Nicely "Out Of The Box" On Snapdragon-Powered Windows ARM Laptops
• Flatpak Adds Support For Building OCI Bundles Using Zstd Compressed Layers

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• The Year in Biology
• String Theory Inspires a Brilliant, Baffling New Math Proof
• Cryptographers Show That AI Protections Will Always Have Holes
• Why Is Ice Slippery? A New Hypothesis Slides Into the Chat.
• The Polyglot Neuroscientist Resolving How the Brain Parses Language

• Universe Today
• China's Shenzhou-21's Crew Test New Spacesuits During Spacewalk
• Uranus and Neptune might be rock giants
• It Didn't Take Long For Earth's Ancient Oceans To Become Oxygenated
• The Radio Signal That Predicts Aurora Storms
• A New Laboratory Explores How Planets Begin

• Scientific American Content: Global
• RNA May Be Common throughout the Cosmos, New Study Suggests
• Getting a COVID Vaccine while Pregnant Slashes Risk of Premature Birth, Major New Study Finds
• How Rising Rates of Uninsured Children Will Increase Pediatric Cancer Deaths
• Videos Show Hummingbirds Jousting Like Medieval Knights in Rare Mating
• 2025 Nears Climate Heat Record, Mpox Variant Discovered, and Hobbit Extinction Explained

• ProPublica
• Amid Trump’s Proposed Pipeline Safety Rollbacks, Senator Questions Regulators’ Industry Ties
• Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
• Immigrants in Alabama Can Face Harsher Sentences Than Citizens for the Same Crimes
• The FDA Rarely Forces Manufacturers to Recall Dangerous Medical Devices, Watchdog Report Finds
• Utah Leaders Are Hindering Efforts to Develop Solar Despite a Goal to Double the State’s Energy Supply

• Jacobin
• In Media MergerMania 2025, We All Lose
• RIP Rob Reiner — a Mensch Who Made the Films We All Love
• Aber Kawas’s Pro-Worker, Pro-Palestine Campaign
• Trump Wants Puerto Rico to Be the US’s Aircraft Carrier
• The American People Don’t Want a Bigger Military Budget

• Follow the Money
• Russian oligarchs exploit European treaties to sue Ukraine for hundreds of millions
• Newsletter | The Commission has just 19 staff responsible for hundreds of EU transparency requests
• Newsletter | Frozen Russian assets, cancer-linked sperm and vanishing ships
• Russia’s shadow fleet shakes off Western sanctions to keep oil revenues flowing
• Podcast | The hidden U.S. influence on Europe’s policymaking

• Mother Jones
• Rob Reiner Was a Mensch. In Death, He Showed Us Trump’s a Schmuck.
• Conservative Influencers Blame Brown University Shooting on a “Leftist Activist”
• Donald Trump Hates That Rob Reiner’s Political Legacy Extends Far Beyond Hollywood
• Bill Pulte Promoted a Memecoin Run by an Influencer Facing Fraud Charges
• Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.

• The Guardian
• When Secret Santa goes disastrously wrong: ‘It was the most awful thing – I just wanted to cry’
• How are you? If you’re German, like me, you might struggle to answer | Carolin Würfel
• What is ‘home’ now? A woman’s two-year search for safety in the ruins of Gaza
• ‘We hate it. It’s desecration’: the real cost of HS2
• ‘No water, no life’: Iraq’s Tigris River in danger of disappearing

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• Ebusco lijdt verlies van €50 mln, kaspositie slinkt naar €1,1 mln

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• Watch: Will Mercosur deal be stopped by the French farmers?
• ‘Heartless’ and 'disgusting': Donald Trump reaction to Rob Reiner’s murder slammed online
• Ford walks back EV ambitions amid falling demand and hostile politics
• GPHG 2025: The world's best luxury watchmakers pick their favourite timepieces
• Christmas travel chaos: All the European airport strikes to expect in December

• The Japan Times: All Stories
• Chaos in Kolkata, confetti in Delhi: Messi wraps up eventful India tour
• Panda fans throng Ueno zoo to bid farewell to Xiao Xiao and Lei Lei
• Private equity firm Longreach may sell stake in Wendy’s First Kitchen
• Government presents draft of retrial system revision
• Groundwater survey finds 49 cases of use by parties believed to be foreign

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• 'Gruuts op Rianne': medewerkers Universiteit Maastricht trots op 'hun' informateur
• Limburg vecht voor behoud innovatieve bedrijven
• Justitie in hoger beroep na vrijspraak Limburgse soeverein
• Einstein Telescoop? Dan wel Limburgs landschap beschermen
• Identiteit dode op snelweg nog niet bekend: nog veel vragen

• Nieuws, achtergronden en onderzoeksjournalistiek - NRC
• Hoe test de overheid of algoritmes onbedoeld discrimineren? Het CPB bouwde er een tool voor
• ‘Hallucineren’ is door Van Dale uitgeroepen tot Woord van het Jaar: in het AI-tijdperk heeft het een nieuwe betekenis gekregen
• De dienstplicht ontduiken in Oekraïne: ‘Ik verwijt mezelf dat ik een lafaard ben.’
• Trump klaagt BBC aan wegens smaad en eist 10 miljard dollar
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• De Groene Amsterdammer
• Hoe vallen Bontenbals avances richting het radicaal-rechtse JA21 te rijmen met zijn beroep op fatsoen?
• De natte droom van rechts Amerika: christelijke mannen grijpen de totale macht
• In de Maga-wereld die Trump voor ogen heeft is de Europese Unie een vijand
• Grootmeester Alexander Donchenko vertelde na winst over een droom. Eerder kon niet, dat had ongeluk kunnen brengen
• De best verzorgde boeken, een anonieme veiling en een spektakelstuk: deze cultuur tipt De Groene

• News - South China Morning Post
• China’s build-up of Yellow Sea facilities expected to fuel South Korean suspicions
• Hong Kong jobless rate unchanged at 3.8% on back of ‘solid’ economic expansion
• 31% of Hong Kong firms to boost hiring next quarter but AI threatens junior jobs
• Worker unconscious with head injury after falling from scaffolding in Hong Kong
• Hong Kong selects 2 artists for 2026 Venice Biennale to explore life’s ‘poetic rhythms’

• Axios
• Bondi Beach shooting "motivated by Islamic State ideology," Australia PM says
• Trump hits BBC with lawsuit over Jan. 6 speech editing
• Trump admin says it's "escalating" review of Mark Kelly to an "official" investigation
• Ukraine and U.S. divided over territory after intense negotiations
• Trump says Rob Reiner was "very bad for our country" in new attacks