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

Editor's Pick

An AI system has reached human level on a test for 'general
intelligence'. Here's what that means

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o3 model scored at human level on a benchmark test for artificial
general intelligence – far higher than any results before.

Continued here
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Editor's Note: The ability to accurately solve previously unknown or
novel problems from limited samples of data is known as the capacity
to generalise. It is widely considered a necessary, even fundamental,
element of intelligence.

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Walmart illegally opened costly deposit accounts for one million
delivery drivers, lawsuit claims
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More than one million delivery drivers collectively paid more than $10
million in fees after Walmart and Branch Messenger illegally opened
costly deposit accounts in their names without consent, the Consumer
Financial Protection Bureau alleges in a lawsuit filed Monday against
the retailer and payme

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'A stroke left me with an Italian accent'
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On 4 May, Althia Bryden was found in her bed unresponsive and with her
face visibly drooping on the right side. The 58-year-old, from
Highbury, north London, was rushed to hospital and found to have had a
stroke that had left her unable to speak or feel the upper-right side
of her body.






















 










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Shrooms, Food Poisoning, and Mafia-Controlled Clubs: When the Biggest
90s Rave Artists Went to Russia
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Back in the early-1990s, the UK was still recovering from a two
year-long recession cited by some analysts as the worst experienced
since the 1930s. At the same time, a turbulent post-Soviet Russia had
not only just narrowly avoided a civil war, but also seen its own
economy head into freefall.

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The Technology for Autonomous Weapons Exists. What Now?
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nOe bluebird day in 2021, employees of Fortem Technologies traveled to
a flat piece of Utah desert. The land was a good spot to try the
company's new innovation: an attachment for the DroneHunter -- which,
as the name halfway implies, is a drone that hunts other drones.







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Coca Cola's AI-Generated Ad Controversy, Explained
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Coca-Cola has released a series of AI-generated Christmas ads that
sparked mockery and disgust from social media users.

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How did human butts evolve to look that way?
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Ed: Welcome to Butt Month. Every Tuesday in September, Massive will
publish an article on the evolution, science, and technology
surrounding the butt. If it touches the butt, we'll be covering it.
Why Butt Month? Why not.















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Francis Ford Coppola: 'I Have Nothing Left to Lose'
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F rancis Ford Coppola is sitting in a large, library-like space that
is right next to the gift-shop area of his Inglenook Winery in Napa,
California, behind a usually closed set of doors. The awards, family
pictures, and massive collection of vintage zoetropes are all in the
lobby.

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How Light Tells You When to Sleep, Focus and More
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We have trillions of body clocks - a central one in the brain and
others in each cell of our body. Here's how they work with light to
control our health.







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What's so Special About the Human Brain?
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Torrents of data from cell atlases, brain organoids and other methods
are finally delivering answers to an age-old question.

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Million GPU clusters, gigawatts of power - the scale of AI defies
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Comment Next year will see some truly monstrous compute projects get
underway as the AI boom enters its third year. Among the largest
disclosed so far is xAI's plan to expand its Colossus AI supercomputer
from an already impressive 100,000 GPUs to a cool million.






















 









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FTC Finalizes Order with Marriott and Starwood Requiring Them to
Implement a Robust Data Security Program to Address Security Failures
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The Federal Trade Commission finalized an order requiring Marriott
International, Inc.

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Drinking tea and coffee linked to lower risk of head and neck cancer
in study
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If the only thing getting you through a mountain of present-wrapping
is a mug of tea or coffee, be of good cheer. Researchers have found
people who consume those drinks have a slightly lower risk of head and
neck cancers.














 









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Will We Ever Trust Robots?
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If most robots still need remote human operators to be safe and
effective, why should we welcome them into our homes?

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Climate Change Is Pushing Some Governments to the Breaking Point
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One country offers a glimpse into the future of warming and unrest.






















 









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Gut microbiota linked to functional changes in psychiatric disorders,
study reveals
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A study of individuals with various psychiatric disorders found that
gut microbiota composition is associated with changes in psychological
functioning.

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AirPods Pro 3 to Get Health Features Like Heart Rate Monitoring: Mark
Gurman
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AirPods Pro 3 are expected to launch as a successor to the AirPods Pro
(2nd generation), which were unveiled in 2022. The earphones were
upgraded with hearing aid capabilities in September 2024 via a
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Nordstrom Family Strikes Deal to Buy Out Namesake Chain
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Nordstrom, one of the country's oldest department stores, said Monday
that it would be taken private by its founding family and a Mexican
retail business, reaching an agreement after months of speculation
over a potential buyout of the business.

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Over 1,000 North Korean casualties in Ukraine war -- Seoul
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South Korea says there have been over 1,000 North Korean soldiers
killed or injured since joining Russia's war against Ukraine.
Ukraine's president said the number was higher than 3,000 North Korean
casualties.

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Why you may want to cheer for money-market funds - WSJ (No paywall)
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Money funds remain an attractive place for excess cash, and can help
keep a lid on short-term borrowing costs.

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Justin Sun wants to be the Musk of crypto - WSJ (No paywall)
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President-elect Donald Trumps newest ally in the cryptocurrency
markets is a Chinese-born entrepreneur who has been accused of fraud
by U.S. regulators and recently spent $6.2 million on a banana.

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Driving an EV? Big oil hopes you dont cut down on plastic too - WSJ
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One word: plastics." Career advice given to Dustin Hoffmans aimless
character in The Graduate" turned out to be pretty solid. Since the
films 1967 release, global plastic use has risen twentyfold. But the
plot is thickening just as Big Oil grows dependent on the
wonder-material.

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The impossible rules of gentle parenting - WSJ (No paywall)
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If you have kids, and have gone within 10 feet of Instagram or TikTok,
youve been served at least a couple videos explaining how to be a
gentle parentand youve probably felt your fair share of mom or dad
guilt.

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Want to lower your Alzheimers risk? Taxi drivers offer a clue - WSJ
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A new study found that U.S. taxi and ambulance drivers had the lowest
percentage of deaths attributed to Alzheimers disease among more than
400 occupations. The drivers mostly worked before GPS navigation
systems were widely used.

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This AI Company Is The S&P 500s Best Performing Stock Of 2024 (Hint:
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The best-performing stock on the S&P 500 this year isnt Nvidia or
Tesla, but rather another, more under-the-radar name benefitting from
the artificial intelligence gold rush: Palantir Technologies, the
data-hungry defense contractor run by eccentric billionaire Alex Karp.

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How premodern energy shaped Britain - The Economist (No paywall)
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Entering Shadow Woods, a coppice just outside the town of Haven in
West Sussex, England, is like stepping into a medieval fairy-tale.
Before the Industrial Revolution, coppicing, a method of harvesting
wood on a multi-year cycle by cutting trees back to a stump, helped
meet Britains energy needs. After the tree, usually hazel, hornbeam or
oak, is cut, new shoots spring to life. A coppiced tree looks more
like a porcupine than the arboreal lollipop of a childs picture book.
Shadow Woods was largely abandoned after the second world war and many
of the trees are now overstood, grown beyond the point at which they
would be harvested, shading the ground and preventing the growth of
any new saplings. But they have kept their shape. From each of the
hornbeams as many as half a dozen thin trunks rise from a thick stump,
resembling the crown of some pagan god.

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The New Nosferatu Drains the Life from Its Predecessor - The New
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Robert Eggerss remake of the German director F. W. Murnaus 1922
vampire classic, Nosferatu, may be presumptuous, but its not cynical.
Murnaus film, a silent, is an adaptation of Bram Stokers Draculaan
unauthorized one, which led to a lawsuit from Stokers widow, who won a
judgment that the film be destroyed. (The movie, which had already
premired, survived as a result of a few prints that had already been
exported.) The essence of the original Nosferatu is the prevalenceand
destructive powerof age-old metaphysical evil amid a seemingly orderly
society. Eggerss version (which he both wrote and directed), though
closely modelled on Murnaus film, expands on its situations and themes
significantly, and also extrapolates from them in directions all its
own.

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Banks Sue Fed in Challenge to How Stress Tests Are Conducted -
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The Federal Reserve doesnt allow for appropriate public input when
designing bank stress tests, bank trade groups said in a lawsuit
seeking to force the central bank to open the design of the tests to
public comment.

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Christmas With the Kranks explains everything wrong with pop culture
now
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a member. Our mission has never been more urgent. But our work isnt
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where you come in.

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Mental Health Leveled Up in 2024
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Progress in addressing mental health is notoriously slow and mostly
incremental. Breakthrough treatments tend to be rare, and trained
professionals too few to meet the demand for services, which is
increasing. But 2024 was a pivotal yearthanks to the culmination of
decades of research and post-pandemic attention to mental-health
issues.

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Why is travel getting more expensive? We asked the experts
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Whether it's flights, hotels or destination taxes, travellers keen to
see the world are now paying more. Here's what you need to know.
Inflation is on everyone's mind.

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FDA says decongestant in many cold medicines doesn't work. What does
help?
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Changes are coming to the cold and cough aisle of
your local pharmacy: U.S. officials are moving to phase out the
leading decongestant found in hundreds of over-the-counter medicines,
concluding that it doesn't actually relieve nasal congestion.

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We Asked Cardiologists To Share The One Food They Would Never Eat, And
Some Of The Answers Might Surprise You
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Most of us are aware that certain habits are flat-out terrible for our
hearts. Smoking? Forget about it. A sedentary lifestyle -- yep, that
will eventually get you. But with diet culture still running rampant,
the foods that are "good" and "bad" can feel a bit murkier.

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NASA astronauts share special Christmas holiday message from
International Space Station
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NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station shared a
special Christmas holiday message for everyone back on Earth.

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Will the NFL have an emergency plan in place for the Netflix games?
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On Wednesday, Netflix will stream NFL games for the first time ever,
only weeks after a disastrous, for many, experience with the streaming
of the Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson fight.

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Sudan slides deeper into famine, experts say
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War-hit Sudan is sliding into a "widening famine crisis" that has been
marked by worsening starvation and a surge in acute malnutrition, an
independent group of food security experts says. Famine has spread to
five areas, with 24.

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NASA's Parker Solar Probe celebrates Christmas with record smashing
'kiss' of the sun
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On Christmas Eve (Dec. 24), a NASA spacecraft made history by coming
closer to the sun than any spacecraft ever has before. This
record-breaking feat was conducted by the Parker Solar Probe, which
flew to within 3.8 million miles (6.

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FDA says the Zepbound shortage is over. Here's what that means for
compounding pharmacies, patients who used off-brand versions
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The roughly $1,000 monthly price tag of Eli Lilly's weight loss drug
Zepbound put the blockbuster treatment out of reach for Willow
Baillies, 29, whose insurance does not cover it.

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Hospitals trial AI to spot type 2 diabetes risk
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Two NHS hospital trusts in London are using AI technology to see if
they can spot type 2 diabetes in patients up to a decade in advance of
the condition occuring.

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Zelenskyy accuses Slovak PM Fico of helping Putin weaken Europe
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"Moscow provides significant discounts to Fico, but Slovakia pays for
them. Such discounts are not free--payments to Russia are made through
sovereignty or murky schemes." Zelenskyy said that details of this
financing were revealed during the European leaders' meeting in
Brussels on Thursday Dec.

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Over 207 executed in Port-au-Prince massacre: UN report
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The report by the UN Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH) and the Office
of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) covers the period
between 6 and 11 December, during which 134 men and 73 women were
killed.

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One third of adults can't delete device data
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The UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has warned that many
adults don't know how to wipe their old devices, and a worrying number
of young people just don't care. Clearing personal data off an old
device is an important step before ditching it or handing it on to
another user.

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Former Harvard president Larry Summers slams Ivy League schools for
putting 'social justice' over excellence
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BYWith a large percentage of students graduating Ivy Leagues with top
GPAs, Larry Summers, former Harvard president, is worried.

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Prosecutors withdraw appeal of dismissed case against Alec Baldwin in
fatal movie set shooting
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SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) -- New Mexico prosecutors won't pursue an appeal
of a court's decision to dismiss an involuntary manslaughter charge
against Alec Baldwin in the fatal shooting on a cinematographer on the
set of a Western movie, the Santa Fe district attorney's office
announced Monday.

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Australian towns evacuated over Christmas as fires rage
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Residents in an Australian region engulfed by bushfires were given two
hours to return home to collect their belongings before Christmas on
Tuesday, as emergency crews try to contain the blaze.

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How Magdeburg attack mobilizes Germany's extreme right
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Racist attacks against migrants have come in the wake of the deadly
Christmas market attack in Magdeburg. Observers warn of Germany's
extreme-right scene mobilizing over the incident. The motive of Talib
A.*, the perpetrator of the deadly Christmas Market attack in
Magdeburg, is still unclear.

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With S-400s Out, Russia's Days Of Controlling Syria's Airspace Are
Over
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As part of its drawdown from Syria following the dramatic collapse of
President Bashar al-Assad's regime in early December, Russia has
packed up some of its most advanced S-400 and S-300 air defense
missile systems.

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The Blake Lively Story Is About More Than Blake Lively
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Spacecraft Attempts Closest-Ever Approach to Sun
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The hope is the probe could help us to better understand how the Sun
works.

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Cats eat Palestinian corpses in Gaza amid devastating Israeli
onslaught
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Local authorities condemn 'horrific' Israeli crimes as hospitals,
camps, and staff guarding aid are bombed again A woman mourns a
Palestinian killed in an Israeli air strike on Nasser hospital in Khan
Younis, 23 December (Reuters/Hatem Khaled) Cats were seen eating the
corpses of Palestinians i

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Starbucks strike expands, closes nearly 60 US stores
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The strike, which began Friday in Los Angeles, Chicago and Starbucks'
hometown of Seattle, spread Monday to stores in Boston, Dallas and
Portland, Ore. Workers in New York, Denver, Pittsburgh and other
cities had also joined the strike over the weekend.

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