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Trump’s first vetoes of his second term hit bipartisan infrastructure projects, draw accusations of retribution - CNBC Jack Smith's closed-door testimony released by House Republicans after Judiciary Committee deposition - NBC News What to know about Nick Shirley, the YouTuber alleging day care fraud in Minnesota - NPR Trump Abandons Effort to Deploy National Guard to Portland, Chicago and LA: Live Updates - The New York Times EU's top diplomat rejects Russian claims of Ukrainian attack on government sites - BBC 19-year-old Camila Mendoza Olmos' remains found, sheriff confirms - San Antonio Express-News SNAP bans on soda, candy and other foods take effect in five states Jan. 1 - ABC7 Los Angeles Take a look at the abandoned New York City subway station where Zohran Mamdani will be sworn in as mayor - Business Insider Documents suggest Kilmar Ábrego García was retaliated against after wrongful deportation - The Guardian Rose Parade organizers brace for near-certain rain as strong storm soaks SoCal - Los Angeles Times Photos of New Year’s celebrations across the globe - AP News China announces it 'successfully completed' Taiwan military maneuvers - ABC News Sydney sends message of peace for New Year's after Bondi attack - BBC Photos show the year in politics as Trump brought change to America in 2025 - CBS News Stock Market Today: Silver Prices Slide; Dow Inches Lower to End 2025 — Live Updates - The Wall Street Journal Some Warren Buffett wisdom on his last day leading Berkshire Hathaway - AP News Trump administration orders aging Colorado coal plant to stay open, one day before closing - Colorado Public Radio Sprinkles Cupcakes founder confirms bakery chain is closing permanently - CBS News Everything Apple Is Releasing in 2026: iPhone Fold, LLM Siri, Low-Cost MacBook and More - MacRumors Samsung unveils its new $200 Galaxy A17 5G smartphone, arriving in January - Engadget Apple drops cryptic teaser for Apple Fitness+: ‘Something big is coming’ in 2026 - 9to5Mac Eurogamer readers' top 50 games of 2025 - "It made me cry three times" - Eurogamer Kennedy Center changed board rules months before vote to add Trump’s name - The Washington Post Watch live: New Year's Eve Times Square celebration to ring in 2026 kicks off - CBS News Who died in 2025? Notable deaths 2025 - BBC Cary Elwes channels 'Princess Bride' in a final farewell to Rob Reiner: 'Life is pain without you' - Los Angeles Times Rueben Bain Jr., other 2026 NFL Draft prospects to know in Miami-Ohio State Playoff game - The Athletic - The New York Times Leistikow's 6 thoughts from Iowa football's bowl win vs Vanderbilt - Hawk Central Celebrini earned way onto Team Canada for Olympics, GM says - NHL.com Brian Schottenheimer: Skipped team flight one factor in Trevon Diggs’ release - NBC Sports All the eclipses, supermoons, meteor showers and planets to spot in 2026 - CNN Ship of Scientists Headed to Doomsday Glacier - Futurism SpaceX shatters its rocket launch record yet again — 165 orbital flights in 2025 - Space NASA could be weeks away from its biggest test in decades - CNN Why flu cases are surging this season. And, protests erupt in Iran over the economy - NPR Flu activity ‘very high’ in Georgia, likely to keep rising - AJC.com More than 2,000 measles cases reported in the US this year as ongoing outbreaks threaten elimination status - CNN Superbug hits 28 states, including Alabama: Where the deadly fungus is spreading - AL.com

BBC News

In pictures: New Year welcomed around the world Anthony Joshua discharged from hospital after Nigeria car crash What are Russians hoping for in 2026, asks Steve Rosenberg How the 'postcode lottery' of parenting really impacts young children We fought for 33 years to abolish not proven verdict after our daughter's murder Detective and crime novelist among new Traitors contestants Energy prices rise slightly for millions of households as temperatures fall Iran protesters try to break into government building as unrest continues EU's top diplomat rejects Russian claims of Ukrainian attack on government sites Condom tax and cheaper childcare: China's plan to boost birth rates Starmer vows to 'defeat decline and division' in new year message Strictly's Ellie and Vito still dancing together every week Diane Keaton, Pope Francis and Ozzy Osbourne... famous faces who left us in 2025 My son was given world's most expensive gene therapy drug - now he can walk Watch: Stunning celestial events that lit up the skies in 2025 Why 2026 is Keir Starmer's make or break year Finnish police seize ship suspected of sabotaging undersea cable Nurse 'lucky to be alive' after crowbar attack at hospital Bottled water from Waitrose recalled over risk it contains glass Trump vetoes first bills of his second term Man charged with murder after car hits pedestrian Tatiana Schlossberg, granddaughter of John F Kennedy, dies aged 35 Passenger describes 'chaos' after head-on Machu Picchu train collision BBC News app The Newscast Review of the Year 2025 Were our 2025 predictions right? Baz Luhrmann's epic Elvis biopic starring Austin Butler Swashbuckling Puss embarks on a brave quest Joshua discharged from hospital after Nigeria car crash Not just results - why Maresca is under pressure McIlroy's omission from honours list questioned Living the dream - Hood plans to open Chinese restaurant with Ally Pally winnings Who will win what in 2026? Make your predictions Cole leaves Leicester after 18 years 'with heavy heart' 'That is divine!' - watch every PL goal of the month winner from 2025

Financial Times (World)

Trump scraps National Guard deployments to Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland Starmer says he is frustrated at pace of change in New Year message US sanctions four traders it says are shipping Venezuelan oil Global stocks post third straight year of double-digit gains How Saudi Arabia and the UAE’s long alliance ruptured Iran replaces central bank governor in effort to contain cost-of-living protests Trump media group plans new token with Crypto.com Labour accuses shadow attorney-general of ‘conflict of interest’ over legal work for Roman Abramovich Canada’s ‘man of steel’ calls for US-style protectionism Companies line up $1tn of asset sales as activists push break-ups Syria removes Assad family from banknotes in currency relaunch Xi hails China’s rising ‘national power’ Zack Polanski: I would be open to working with Labour if Andy Burnham was leader Israel’s allies condemn ban on dozens of aid groups How should the UK celebrate 250 years of American independence? Drug gangs pose grave threat to European security, agency warns FirstFT: US dirty money fines drop 61% this year Eurostar warns of delays after restarting Channel Tunnel services Can Donald Trump save American coal? Labour and Tories are wrecking an election rule of thumb Number of festive drone shows in UK hits record levels Reinsurers extend profit boom as they cut cover to cope with disasters Year in a word: ‘Peace’ ‘What will happen to house prices next year?’ — it’s a tricky question ‘There’s a real dislike, even loathing’: why voters hate Starmer and Reeves

Financial Times (UK)

Starmer says he is frustrated at pace of change in New Year message Labour accuses shadow attorney-general of ‘conflict of interest’ over legal work for Roman Abramovich Zack Polanski: I would be open to working with Labour if Andy Burnham was leader How should the UK celebrate 250 years of American independence? Eurostar warns of delays after restarting Channel Tunnel services Labour and Tories are wrecking an election rule of thumb Number of festive drone shows in UK hits record levels ‘What will happen to house prices next year?’ — it’s a tricky question ‘There’s a real dislike, even loathing’: why voters hate Starmer and Reeves Will I be responsible for unpaid tax on my late mother’s estate? Wild London — mesmerising urban doc is a true David Attenborough event Foreign Office under pressure over activist’s ‘abhorrent’ social media posts Politicians and the romance novel: a love affair A year of fragile resilience in charts Hot property: five homes for sale in Somerset UK civil service continues to grow despite pledge to ‘rewire state’ Why I misread Labour on immigration British business has an opportunity to defy the gloom The deepening divisions reshaping London’s political landscape Elizabeth Line would ‘never’ be built, Portillo wrote when urging cancellation Boost from joining euro would have covered cost of NHS, adviser told Blair UK weighed merits of trying to oust ‘depressingly fit’ Mugabe, records show Actors Idris Elba and Meera Syal receive New Year honours Joyful things to do in January Winter fuel was Labour’s defining mistake

The New York Times

The New Billionaires of the A.I. Boom From A.I. to Chips, Big Tech Is Getting What It Wants From Trump A Wealth Tax Floated in California Has Billionaires Thinking of Leaving Louis V. Gerstner, Who Revived a Faltering IBM in the ’90s, Dies at 83 In Ukraine, an Arsenal of Killer A.I. Drones Is Being Born in War Against Russia Phone Searches at U.S. Borders: What Travelers Need to Know The Wirecutter Show: Tips for Using A.I. Smartly With Kevin Roose Decoding the A.I.-Driven Tech Lingo From 2025 Meet a U.S. Start-Up Trying to Break China’s Rare-Earth Monopoly Gmail to Let Users Change Their Addresses While Keeping Data Twins’ Peaks: The Gilbertson Brothers Want to Rewrite Your Country’s Map Before Electric Vehicles Became Political, There Was the Toyota Prius Worn Down by Worry, Parents Look Longingly at Australia’s Social Media Ban Where Is All the A.I.-Driven Scientific Progress? How Well Does Apple’s Live Translation Work for Japanese? I Tested It in Tokyo. Prominent Leaders Amplify Disinformation About Brown University Shooting Tesla Robotaxis Are Big on Wall St. but Lagging on Roads They Seek to Curb Online Hate. The U.S. Accuses Them of Censorship. Trump Administration Downplays A.I. Risks, Ignoring Economists’ Concerns Handy Phone Features Can Save You Holiday Time

The Guardian

Guinea’s junta chief elected president after opposition boycott Tensions between Saudis and Emiratis over future of Yemen reach boiling point Anthony Joshua’s camp confirm two of his close friends died in Nigeria car crash More than 3,000 migrants died trying to reach Spain in 2025 Central African Republic goes to polls as president seeks third term Trump’s shadow war in Venezuela grows, but country’s strongman leader still clings to power Jair Bolsonaro undergoes second procedure to treat persistent hiccups At least 13 people killed and 98 injured in train derailment in Mexico US struck ‘big facility’ in Venezuela, Trump claimed without offering details Venezuela says it released 99 people detained for 2024 election protests Xi Jinping vows to reunify China and Taiwan in New Year’s Eve speech China forecast to have sold one in every 10 new cars in UK in 2025 ​Two cubicles, 73 women, one long queue: Japan’s female MPs fight for more loos Australia says ‘deeply concerning, destabilising’ Chinese exercises near Taiwan risk inflaming regional tension ‘Tonga is not a threat’: anger as small Pacific nation falls under Trump visa restrictions Woman dies after being swept into ocean from Sydney beach in early hours of New Year’s Day Sydney New Year’s Eve strikes sombre tone as fireworks follow minute’s silence for Bondi Australian beef industry ‘extremely disappointed’ after China hits imports with 55% tariff France targets Australia-style social media ban for children next year Damien Martyn, former Australian Test cricketer, in induced coma with meningitis Finnish police seize vessel suspected of damaging underwater cable Eurostar slowly resumes but passengers face more cancellations and delays €1m Picasso portrait up for grabs for €100 in charity raffle ‘It’s not a hen party hellscape’: Dublin’s Temple Bar strives to shake off its bad reputation Cyprus pledges ‘different mindset’ as it assumes EU presidency ‘We want the mullahs gone’: economic crisis sparks biggest protests in Iran since 2022 UK ministers accused of ‘embarrassing failures’ in Abd el-Fattah case Iran to listen to protesters’ ‘legitimate demands’ after widespread dissent UAE promises to withdraw forces from Yemen after bombing by Saudi Arabia Israeli president’s office denies Trump’s claim Netanyahu pardon is ‘on its way’ Khaleda Zia, first female Bangladesh prime minister, dies aged 80 Polls close in first phase of Myanmar elections widely condemned as a sham Nepal TV host and ex-rapper mayor form alliance for election after youth revolt Myanmar is going to the polls. But it’s not the people who hold the power – it’s China ‘Not for the people’: Myanmar junta prepares for elections designed to legitimise grip on power New Traitors contestants include detective, crime writer and psychologist Children in England to be offered vaccines in their own homes Keir Starmer to woo voters and MPs with new year plan to cut cost of living Greens’ Polanski prepared to work with Burnham but not Starmer ‘to stop Reform’ Waitrose urges customers not to drink Deeside water over shards of glass risk Colorado lawmaker claims Trump’s veto of safe drinking water bill is retaliation Trump administration reportedly freezes all childcare payments to all states Jack Smith told House committee he had ‘proof beyond reasonable doubt’ in cases against Trump Trump backs away from deploying national guard in Los Angeles, Chicago and Portland ICE plans $100m yearlong ‘wartime recruitment’ media blitz to attract new agents

Hacker News

Resistance training load does not determine hypertrophy Scientists unlock brain's natural clean-up system for new treatments for stroke Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway CEO after six decades All-optical synthesis chip for large-scale intelligent semantic vision PyPI in 2025: A Year in Review On privacy and control I canceled my book deal Stewart Cheifet, creator of The Computer Chronicles, has died SigNoz (YC W21, open source observability platform) is hiring across roles Scaffolding to Superhuman: How Curriculum Learning Solved 2048 and Tetris The compiler is your best friend Efficient method to capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere How AI labs are solving the power problem When square pixels aren't square Nvidia GB10's Memory Subsystem, from the CPU Side The most famous transcendental numbers Who invented the transistor? Activeloop (YC S18) Is Hiring MTS – Back End Engineer Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design (2011) [pdf] The rise of industrial software

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Nature

A chiral fermionic valve driven by quantum geometry Random heteropolymers as enzyme mimics Quantifying the global eco-footprint of wearable healthcare electronics Some of your cells are not genetically yours — what can they tell us about life and death? Economic inequality does not equate to poor well-being or mental health How to reduce the environmental impact of wearable health-care devices Sub-Saharan Africa has lost almost one-quarter of its pre-industrial biodiversity Highly efficient LED device built by stacking layers of light-emitting perovskite Can boomerangs bounce? Safe as houses Science in 2050: the future breakthroughs that will shape our world — and beyond Mummies give up their secrets — but not their mystery Put pressure on publishers to follow best practice — external regulation is the answer Daily briefing: Explore 2025 with Leif Penguinson Audio long read: Will blockbuster obesity drugs revolutionize addiction treatment? Probing pollutants: how I use penguin faeces to measure contaminants in Antarctica Why academics should do more consulting — and how to make it work Let 2026 be the year the world comes together for AI safety Nine books to help shape your science career in 2026 The Nature Podcast highlights of 2025 Author Correction: Rolling back human pluripotent stem cells to an eight-cell embryo-like stage Seeding opportunities for Black atmospheric scientists NAC controls nascent chain fate through tunnel sensing and chaperone action Non-equilibrium snapshots of ligand efficacy at the μ-opioid receptor Author Correction: Cryo-EM structure of a natural RNA nanocage Nature's News & Views roundup of 2025 Oddly cool super-hot planet has an atmosphere it shouldn’t Are we living in a parallel universe? The strange physics of Stranger Things ‘A serious problem’: peer reviews created using AI can avoid detection AI and quantum science take centre stage under Trump — but with little new proposed funding Publisher Correction: Covalent targeted radioligands potentiate radionuclide therapy Living water and whispering rocks: Books in brief Hot spot: plants use infrared signals to say they’re ready to reproduce US–Africa bilateral health deals won’t help against diseases that ignore borders Science in 2026: the events to watch for in the coming year Point of no returns: researchers are crossing a threshold in the fight for funding Dogma-defying signalling through G proteins could lead to better pain relief Mazdutide versus dulaglutide in Chinese adults with type 2 diabetes Mazdutide versus placebo in Chinese adults with type 2 diabetes Author Correction: Neuroimmune cardiovascular interfaces control atherosclerosis How the Romans built their empire of concrete Biobanks reveal genetic complexity in human evolution Is bird flu the next pandemic? The science so far Transient hepatic reconstitution of trophic factors enhances aged immunity Gene-specific selective sweeps are pervasive across human gut microbiomes GTP release-selective agonists prolong opioid analgesic efficacy Programmable 200 GOPS Hopfield-inspired photonic Ising machine An integrated view of the structure and function of the human 4D nucleome Palaeometabolomes yield biological and ecological profiles at early human sites Astrocyte CCN1 stabilizes neural circuits in the adult brain An 11-qubit atom processor in silicon The global hydrogen budget Visualizing interaction-driven restructuring of quantum Hall edge states Prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease pathology in the community Titan’s strong tidal dissipation precludes a subsurface ocean Human assembloids recapitulate periportal liver tissue in vitro Spatiotemporal cellular map of the developing human reproductive tract Lesion-remote astrocytes govern microglia-mediated white matter repair Laser spectroscopy and CP-violation sensitivity of actinium monofluoride 3D nanolithography with metalens arrays and spatially adaptive illumination The hidden cost of video-call glitches Stopping the next flu pandemic Beauty is in the eye of the beholder Seven feel-good science stories to restore your faith in 2025 I’ve earned my PhD — what now? Mechanism for water formation on rocky exoplanets demonstrated in the lab Virology’s most wanted: the influenza virus MIT fusion-lab head shot dead: a horror ‘impossible to believe’ Flu’s link to cardiovascular disease shows why vaccination is essential Could tracking animals’ health help to avert the next pandemic? How common is Alzheimer’s? Blood-test study holds surprises Take the News & Views end-of-year quiz: vampire fungus, migratory moths and a 160-year-old mystery The Nature Podcast festive spectacular 2025 The quest to hatch a bird-flu vaccine A modular quantum processor made using phosphorus atoms in silicon

CNN

Some on-air claims about Dominion Voting Systems were false, Fox News acknowledges in statement after deal is announced Dominion still has pending lawsuits against election deniers such as Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell Here are the 20 specific Fox broadcasts and tweets Dominion says were defamatory Judge in Fox News-Dominion defamation trial: 'The parties have resolved their case' 'Difficult to say with a straight face': Tapper reacts to Fox News' statement on settlement Millions in the US could face massive consequences unless McCarthy can navigate out of a debt trap he set for Biden White homeowner accused of shooting a Black teen who rang his doorbell turns himself in to face criminal charges Newly released video shows scene of Jeremy Renner's snowplow accident Jake Gyllenhaal and Jamie Lee Curtis spent the Covid-19 lockdown together Toddler crawls through White House fence, prompts Secret Service response Jamie Foxx remains hospitalized nearly a week after 'medical complication' A 13-year-old dies after participating in a Benadryl TikTok 'challenge' See pizza delivery guy take out suspect fleeing police Netflix is winding down its DVD business after 25 years FTC chair Lina Khan warns AI could 'turbocharge' fraud and scams Eating too much of these foods is driving the rise in type 2 diabetes, study says ADHD medication abuse in schools is a 'wake-up call' Apple CEO was presented with an original Macintosh. See his reaction Democrats bash Justice Clarence Thomas but their plan to investigate ethics allegations is unclear Russia is 'going backwards' in equipment and deploying post WWII-era tanks, according to Western officials Two Russians claiming to be former Wagner commanders admit killing children and civilians in Ukraine 'My stomach is hurting from laughing': Hear panelist's reaction to DeSantis' threat to Disney GOP prepared to block vote to replace Feinstein on Senate Judiciary Oklahoma governor calls on officials to resign over recording of racist and threatening remarks McCarthy slams Biden in handling of US debt US warns Russia not to touch American nuclear technology at Ukrainian nuclear plant Repeated gunshots fired on live TV as ex-lawmaker shot by assassins FDA clears the way for additional bivalent boosters for certain vulnerable individuals Maine authorities detained a person of interest after 4 people were found dead in a home and 3 others shot while driving Southwest says flights resumed after delays caused by 'tech issues' Damar Hamlin cleared to resume football activities after January cardiac arrest Pilot makes history after landing on top of a 56-story hotel Top US Navy admiral defends non-binary sailor amid some Republican criticism Fulton County DA says fake Trump electors are incriminating one another and wants lawyer disqualified High speed trains are racing across the world. But not in America Podcast: One country musician is calling for other artists to oppose assault rifles Here's what you need to know if you haven't filed your return yet — and even if you have Undocumented immigrants are paying their taxes today, too Opinion: Why millionaires like us want to pay more in taxes 'World's longest' purpose-built cycling tunnel opens in Norway Artist rejects photo prize after AI-generated image wins award These ships disappeared in Lake Superior a century ago. Watch as they're found again Erotic images of seniors show sex and intimacy in new light China's economy is off to a solid start, rising 4.5% in Q1 2023 Even when wives make as much as husbands, they still do more at home McDonald's is upgrading its burgers Google-parent stock drops on fears it could lose search market share to AI-powered rivals Bidets save you money and reduce waste — we tested the best options out there 50+ products to make your life easier and our planet cleaner Mother's Day is around the corner. Here are 50+ thoughtful gifts she'll love A head-to-toe guide of how men should dress this spring, and where they should shop 42 of the most useful travel products you can buy on Amazon The 7 best high-yield savings accounts of April 2023 Taxes are due tomorrow. Here's how to file for an extension Composting is an easy way to reduce food waste. Here's how to do it We stopped using aluminum foil for cooking and you should too. Here's what to use instead The beloved Dyson Supersonic hair dryer is at its lowest price ever Everything you need to know about Way Day 2023, Wayfair's biggest sale of the year The 10 best Amazon deals to shop this week Mifepristone saved my life The 2024 presidential alternative many voters will want Why isn't the House Judiciary Committee looking into Thomas? Top secrets come spilling out How did Sudan go from casting off despotic rule to this? Michelle Yeoh set to return in new 'Star Trek' movie Recap: 'Succession' finds dark humor in the aftershocks 'Yellowjackets' leans hard into '90s music nostalgia, and we're here for it Jeremy Renner revisits 'the amazing group of people' who helped him recover from his accident Review: 'Barry' takes a whack at its farewell season

NPR News

Trump will drop push for National Guard deployments in Chicago, LA and Portland, Ore. What Stranger Things gets right about wormholes Photos: The world welcomes the new year Meet five new species discovered in 2025 What to know about Nick Shirley, the YouTuber alleging day care fraud in Minnesota Greetings from Vienna, where an imperial palace hosts a holiday market for all Why flu cases are surging this season. And, protests erupt in Iran over the economy His brother's mental illness isolated his family. Now he's helping other caregivers Out with the mayo: How Ukrainians reclaim holiday food Farmers are about to pay a lot more for health insurance

The Atlantic

The Cult of Costco Facts vs. Clicks: How Algorithms Reward Extremism Five Books About Going Out That Are Worth Staying In For The Holiday Traditions of a Nation Long Dead The MetroCard Never Got Its Due 31 Atlantic Stories You Might Have Missed Britain Should Have Read the Tweets First The Show Won’t Go On The Trump Administration’s Most Paralyzing Blow to Science A Better Way to Think About New Year’s Resolutions The Podcast ‘Productivity’ Trap The Problem With Letting AI Do the Grunt Work The Plan That Foretold Trump’s 2025 Photos: The Year in Volcanic Activity Why the Supreme Court Is Giving ICE So Much Power Mary Todd Lincoln, Taken Out of Context The Sad Dads of Hollywood North Road, Fall 2020 The Slow, Inevitable Death of the Bowl Game Some of Our Most-Read Stories of 2025 The Santa Presidency Good Intentions Gone Bad 55 Facts That Blew Our Minds in 2025 The Year in Food A ‘Trump Class’ Folly on the High Seas

Vox

2025, in 8 minutes Inside Trump’s “no data, just vibes” approach to science The 19 predictions that came true in 2025 — and the 4 that didn’t What the public really thinks about AI The year of “decentering men” Why conservatives should pay parents to stay home In America, surviving a disaster increasingly depends on what you can afford People taking Ozempic are losing muscle mass — and it’s freaking them out Zohran Mamdani on his mayoral transition and what comes next 10 of the best Vox stories of 2025

Al Jazeera

New Year’s Eve celebrations as the world welcomes 2026 Trump says ‘removing’ National Guard from Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland US imposes more sanctions on tankers transporting Venezuelan oil Ivory Coast fight back against Gabon to top AFCON group ahead of Cameroon What is behind the Saudi-UAE rupture in Yemen? Palestinians in Gaza say ‘lives will be destroyed’ by Israel’s NGO ban White House ‘looking at’ denaturalising Somali Americans for alleged fraud Trump Media company announces plans to award shareholders digital tokens Suicide bomber kills at least one police officer in Syria’s Aleppo Finland seizes ship sailing from Russia after suspected cable sabotage Hezbollah weapons deadline: What’s next for Lebanon amid Israeli strikes? Oxfam, Doctors Without Borders slam Israel’s Gaza ban Bulgarians worry over rising prices as country adopts euro Sudan lose to Burkina Faso as Algeria win again at AFCON 2025 Will Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso bloc reshape the Sahel? A marriage of three: Will Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso bloc reshape the Sahel? Four reasons why Benjamin Netanyahu may not want a Gaza ceasefire to hold How is Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill changing US taxes and healthcare in 2026? US jobless claims slow in last full week of 2025 amid weak labour market These are the countries attacked by Israel in 2025 Saudi-UAE fallout and its impact on Yemen’s recognised government Putin says Russia believes it will win in Ukraine in New Year’s Eve address How Donald Trump launched a new push to amass US government data in 2025 This is how the GHF weaponised food aid in Gaza German thieves steal up to $105m in ‘Ocean’s Eleven’ heist: What we know

Ars Technica

Here we go again: Retiring coal plant forced to stay open by Trump Admin Supply chains, AI, and the cloud: The biggest failures (and one success) of 2025 From prophet to product: How AI came back down to earth in 2025 The science of how (and when) we decide to speak out—or self-censor Lawsuit over Trump rejecting medical research grants is settled DOGE did not find $2T in fraud, but that doesn’t matter, Musk allies say NJ’s answer to flooding: it has bought out and demolished 1,200 properties Stranger Things series finale trailer is here Condé Nast user database reportedly breached, Ars unaffected Looking for friends, lobsters may stumble into an ecological trap The top 5 most horrifying and fascinating medical cases of 2025 The 10 best vehicles Ars Technica drove in 2025 US can’t deport hate speech researcher for protected speech, lawsuit says Leonardo’s wood charring method predates Japanese practice Researchers make “neuromorphic” artificial skin for robots China drafts world’s strictest rules to end AI-encouraged suicide, violence A quirky guide to myths and lore based in actual science GPS is vulnerable to jamming—here’s how we might fix it Remembering what Windows 10 did right—and how it made modern Windows more annoying I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret

Slashdot

Tech Startups Are Handing Out Free Nicotine Pouches to Boost Productivity DarkSpectre Hackers Spread Malware To 8.8 Million Chrome, Edge, and Firefox Users OpenAI Is Paying Employees More Than Any Major Tech Startup in History Trump Administration Removes Three Spyware-Linked Execs From Sanctions List France Targets Australia-Style Social Media Ban For Children Next Year NJ's Answer To Flooding: It Has Bought Out and Demolished 1,200 Properties NASA Craft To Face Heat-Shield Test on Its First Astronaut Flight Next Year JPMorgan Says Javice Firms Billed Millions Just for 'Attendance' Net Neutrality Was Back, Until It Wasn't Poor Sleep Quality Accelerates Brain Aging Slashdot Asks: Your Favorite 2025 Movies, TV Shows and Books? Can Colossal's Genetically Engineered Animals Ever Be the Real Thing? California To Require All School Districts To Restrict Student Smartphone Use by 2026 Finland Seizes Ship Suspected of Severing Undersea Cable To Estonia China Demands Netherlands 'Correct Mistakes' Over Seized Chipmaker as Auto Supply Crunch Deepens

Gizmodo

‘Jujutsu Kaisen Modulo’ Is Better Than the OG Manga Series Our 10 Most Anticipated Movies of Early 2026 All of io9’s Best of 2025 Posts, in One Handy Place NASA Needs A Drone Detector At Kennedy Space Center The Best Gadgets of December 2025 Behold ‘Dracula’s Chivito,’ the Largest Planet Nursery Astronomers Have Ever Seen 2025 Was the Year AI Slopified All Our Gadgets Lady Loki Might Be the Most Impressive ‘Marvel Rivals’ Skin Yet Disney to Pay $10 Million After Feds Say It Broke Kids’ Privacy Rules on YouTube After ‘Pluribus’, Revisit Rhea Seehorn’s Next Best Genre Role: ‘Magic: The Gathering’ Tutorial Sorceress DOGE Cuts and Borked Code Delay Important Energy Report A Deadly, Drug-Resistant Fungus Threatens People Around the World, Scientists Warn George Clooney Would Like You to Remember ‘Batman Has Nipples, Dude’ Nepal Is Throwing Out Its Decade-Old Scheme to Clean Mount Everest Right-Wing Influencers Rejoice: Trump Admin Gives a Visa to Accused Russian Propagandist You’ll Be Able to Not Stream ‘Tron: Ares’ From the Comfort of Your Own Home Next Week AI Ruined Job Applications, So People Are Resorting to Dating Apps to Find Work ‘Stranger Things’ Couples, Ranked by How Much Chemistry They Actually Have Artist Behind Viral ‘Beast Jesus’ Restoration Dies at 94 NASA’s New Chief Finds Loophole for Texas Shuttle Switcheroo

Smithsonian Magazine

Archaeologists Discover Mysterious 7,000-Year-Old Stone Wall Beneath the Waves Off the Coast of France The Top Human Evolution Discoveries of 2025, From the Intriguing Neanderthal Diet to the Oldest Western European Face Fossil Lewis Carroll's Personal Copy of 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' Returns to its 'Spiritual Home' in Oxford Happy Public Domain Day to All Who Celebrate! You Can Now Use Betty Boop, Nancy Drew and 'The Maltese Falcon' for Free How Do These ADHD Medications Work in the Brain? The Mechanisms Are Different Than Once Thought, a Study Suggests The Louvre Installs Metal Security Bars on Window Used During $102M Jewel Heist 'Excitement With a Little Dash of Fear': Polar Plunges Ring in the New Year With a Splash. But What Actually Happens to Your Body? After Living Alongside Humans for Millennia, These Italian Brown Bears Have Evolved to Become Less Aggressive Don’t Miss These Ten Celestial Events in 2026, From Aligned Planets to a Total Solar Eclipse This Wild Cat Is Considered 'Possibly Extinct' in Thailand. Researchers Just Caught It on Camera for the First Time in About 30 Years

InfoQ

API Platform Unkey Ditches Serverless After Performance Struggles Presentation: Lessons Learned From Building LinkedIn’s First Agent: Hiring Assistant Kubernetes 1.35 Released with In-Place Pod Resize and AI-Optimized Scheduling ReScript 12.0 Released with New Build System Cloudflare Year in Review: AI Bots Crawl Aggressively, Post-Quantum Encryption Hits 50%, Go Doubles Architectural Lessons From Patreon's Year in Review Google Boosts ART Compile Times by 18% Without Compromising Code Quality QCon AI New York 2025: AI Works, PRs Don't: How AI is Breaking the SDLC and What to Do about it AWS Announces New Amazon EKS Capabilities to Simplify Workload Orchestration Open-Source Agent Sandbox Enables Secure Deployment of AI Agents on Kubernetes Microsoft Foundry Agent Service Simplifies State Management with Long-Term Memory Preview CNCF Launches Certified Kubernetes AI Conformance Programme to Standardise Workloads Presentation: Fix SLO Breaches before They Repeat: an SRE AI Agent for Application Workloads AWS Expands Well‑Architected Guidance with Data Residency and Hybrid Cloud Lens SIMA 2 Uses Gemini and Self-Improvement to Generalize across Unseen 3D and Photorealistic Worlds

Dynomight

Good if make prior after data instead of before Why the chicken crossed the road, according to various entities Underrated reasons to be thankful V Make product worse, get money Dating: A mysterious constellation of facts Pointing machines, population pyramids, post office scandal, type species, and horse urine Will the explainer post go extinct? Y’all are over-complicating these AI-risk arguments Shoes, Algernon, Pangea, and Sea Peoples Dear PendingKetchup You can try to like stuff I guess I was wrong about AI persuasion Futarchy’s fundamental flaw — the market — the blog post Heritability puzzlers New colors without shooting lasers into your eyes My 9-week unprocessed food self-experiment Links for July Do blue-blocking glasses improve sleep? Scribble-based forecasting and AI 2027 The AI safety problem is wanting Thoughts on the AI 2027 discourse Moral puzzles: Man vs. machine Please take my weird moral puzzles quiz Futarchy’s fundamental flaw Optimizing tea: An N=4 experiment My advice on (internet) writing, for what it’s worth DumPy: NumPy except it’s OK if you’re dum The Heat Mirage: My least-favorite internet maneuver I don’t like NumPy How to title your blog post or whatever

Marginal Revolution

Building more will boost labor’s share Wednesday assorted links Existential Risk and Growth “What we got wrong this year” Derek Thompson on 2025 Conor Sen claims Tuesday assorted links What is the greatest artwork of the century so far? I podcast again with Kevin Gentry Monday assorted links Top Posts of 2025 J. M. W. Turner, financial arbitrageur The Inflation Attention Threshold Canada fact of the day Sunday assorted links

Not Boring

My 5 Favorite Not Boring Essays of 2025 Weekly Dose of Optimism #174 Weekly Dose of Optimism #173 Hardware is a Fruit Weekly Dose of Optimism #172 Cable Caballero Weekly Dose of Optimism #171 Weekly Dose of Optimism #170 The Company as a Machine for Doing Stuff Weekly Dose of Optimism #169 Weekly Dose of Optimism #168 Take Weird Ideas Seriously Weekly Dose of Optimism #167 Weekly Dose of Optimism #166 Weekly Dose of Optimism #165 Weekly Dose of Optimism #164 Thatch Weekly Dose of Optimism #163 Weekly Dose of Optimism #162 Weekly Dose of Optimism #161

Coding Horror

The Road Not Taken is Guaranteed Minimum Income Let's Talk About The American Dream Stay Gold, America The Great Filter Comes For Us All I Fight For The Users The 2030 Self-Driving Car Bet Updating The Single Most Influential Book of the BASIC Era Building a PC, Part IX: Downsizing The Rise of the Electric Scooter Electric Geek Transportation Systems An Exercise Program for the Fat Web The Cloud Is Just Someone Else’s Computer What does Stack Overflow want to be when it grows up? There is no longer any such thing as Computer Security To Serve Man, with Software

NASA Breaking News

2026 AAS Town Hall Schedule 2026 AAS Hyperwall Schedule Curiosity Sends Holiday Postcard from Mars Microbiology NASA’s Chandra Rings in New Year With Champagne Cluster The Earth Observer: Offering Perspectives from Space through Time Terra: The End of An Era The Final Earth Observer Editor’s Corner: October–December 2025 The State of CERES: Updates and Highlights 2025 Space Station Science Snapshots

Quanta Magazine

How Dad’s Fitness May Be Packaged and Passed Down in Sperm RNA The Year in Mathematics The Year in Physics The Year in Computer Science The Year in Biology

Science Daily

The deep ocean has a missing link and scientists finally found it Critical minerals are hiding in plain sight in U.S. Mines Time runs faster on Mars and scientists just proved it Most distant supernova: James Webb sees a star explode at cosmic dawn Mini brains reveal clear brain signals of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder Fusion reactors may create dark matter particles Why your vitamin D supplements might not be working Scientists found a dangerous feedback loop accelerating Arctic warming A missing protein may be aging your immune system Losing weight in midlife may have a hidden brain cost Scientists stunned by a massive hydrothermal field off Greece Even one drink a day may raise mouth cancer risk Zombie worms are missing and scientists are alarmed A rare cancer-fighting plant compound has finally been decoded Large Hadron Collider finally explains how fragile matter forms Hidden heat beneath Greenland could change sea level forecasts A massive scientific review put alternative autism therapies to the test MIT scientists find a way to rejuvenate the immune system as we age Stanford scientists uncover why mRNA COVID vaccines can trigger heart inflammation Physicists close in on the elusive sterile neutrino Earth’s worst extinction was followed by a shockingly fast ocean comeback Cancer cells depend on a dangerous DNA repair trick Ancient wolves could only have reached this island by boat Scientists just found the best places to look for ancient life on Mars This hidden flaw has been breaking EV batteries Scientists may have found the best place for humans to land on Mars A new superconductor breaks rules physicists thought were fixed Eating more vitamin C can physically change your skin This tiny chip could change the future of quantum computing Something fundamental about black holes may be changing This strange magnetism could power tomorrow’s AI Scientists replayed evolution and found a surprise Mars dust storms are crackling with electricity MIT just made aluminum 5x stronger with 3D printing The brain has a hidden language and scientists just found it ADHD drugs don’t work the way we thought A Christmas tree 80 light-years wide appears in space A gold catalyst just broke a decade old green chemistry record This common food ingredient may shape a child’s health for life A strange star near a black hole is defying expectations Astronomers discover one of the Universe’s largest spinning structures How Earth endured a planet-wide inferno: The secret water vault under our feet Oceans are supercharging hurricanes past Category 5 This popular painkiller may do more harm than good Back from the dead: “Extinct” fish rediscovered in a remote Bolivian pond after 20 years Scientists found a way to restore brain blood flow in dementia Why some people keep making the same bad decisions Microplastics are leaking invisible chemical clouds into water Where you live may be fueling aggressive breast cancer What are asteroids really made of? New analysis brings space mining closer to reality New technology eliminates “forever chemicals” with record-breaking speed and efficiency Scientists say evolution works differently than we thought What you eat could decide the planet’s future Scientists reverse Alzheimer’s in mice and restore memory Why consciousness can’t be reduced to code AI supercharges scientific output while quality slips We are living in a golden age of species discovery What cannabis really does for chronic pain A surprising brain cleanup reduced epileptic seizures and restored memory This strange ancient snake was hiding in a museum for decades

Spaceflight Now

Launch pad issue delays again Falcon 9 launch of Italian Earth observation satellite Former ULA president and CEO Tory Bruno joins Blue Origin H3 rocket suffers upper stage anomaly, fails to correctly deploy navigation satellite Tory Bruno steps down as President, CEO of ULA Astronauts, launch teams practice Artemis 2 countdown Space Development Agency awards roughly $3.5 billion to 4 companies for 72 missile tracking and warning satellites Rocket Lab launches 4 novel DiskSat satellites for U.S. Space Force, NASA Senate confirms Jared Isaacman as 15th NASA Administrator SpaceX flies Starlink mission using Falcon 9 booster flying for a 30th time SpaceX launches Wednesday morning Starlink mission from Kennedy Space Center

Space Daily

Fly through Webbs cosmic vistas celebrates four years of James Webb discoveries China harnesses nationwide system to drive spaceflight and satellite navigation advances Space-traveled mouse gives birth as China names pioneering "flying mice" crew SSC ground stations to support NASA PExT wideband Ka band test Time-expanded network model cuts complexity in mega constellation launch planning AI systems proposed to boost launch cadence reliability and traffic management China debuts Long March 12A reusable rocket in Jiuquan test flight Space Themed Casino Games Slots, Rockets, and Astronaut Adventures Curiosity Blog, Sols 4750-4762: See You on the Other Side of the Sun Lunar dust model maps how charged grains stick to spacecraft NASA team presses MAVEN recovery before Mars solar conjunction Wind-Sculpted Landscapes: Investigating the Martian Megaripple 'Hazyview' Conventional photon entanglement reveals thousands of hidden topologies in high dimensions Evolution study finds history and environment shifts can steer species in very different directions Webb maps carbon rich atmosphere on distorted pulsar planet

Space News

Landspace targets $1 billion for reusable rockets as IPO application accepted Heliophysics missions move toward operations China to debut reusable Long March 10-derived rocket in first half of 2026 China caps record year for orbital launches with Tianhui-7 and Shijian-29 technology test missions Space Forge generates plasma for LEO semiconductor material production Planet bets on orbital data centers in partnership with Google Space Force offers new Vandenberg launch site ESA confirms data breach The space stories that will shape 2026 Isaacman opens door to alternatives to moving shuttle Discovery to Houston HyPrSpace looks for applications beyond launch for its hybrid propulsion technology Proposal to dismantle NCAR would have space science impacts China hits 90 launches as Guowang deployment continues, Fengyun-4C heads to GEO Synspective tapped to provide satellite imagery for Japan’s new military constellation Former ULA chief Bruno joins Blue Origin Perseverance continues science mission amid uncertainty about Mars Sample Return Innospace plans second launch in 2026 after failure of first Hanbit-Nano rocket Indian rocket launches AST SpaceMobile’s next-gen BlueBird 6 satellite ESA to hire 520 new staff as workforce expansion begins in 2026 How physics AI is transforming the future of space engineering Long March 12A reaches orbit in first reusable launch attempt, but landing fails CACI to buy space technology firm ARKA for $2.6 billion United Launch Alliance chief Tory Bruno resigns Microgravity Research Rideshare Program Launched by Genesis, Experiments from €6K to and from SSO

Martin Fowler

Fragments: December 16 Writing Fragments Fragments Dec 11 Fragments Dec 4 Fragments Nov 19 My Foreword to "Frictionless" The Learning Loop and LLMs Fragments Nov 3 Agentic AI and Security Fragments and Links Understanding Spec-Driven-Development: Kiro, spec-kit, and Tessl Anchoring AI to a reference application To vibe or not to vibe Some thoughts on LLMs and Software Development From Black Box to Blueprint Research, Review, Rebuild: Intelligent Modernisation with MCP and Strategic Prompting Building your own CLI Coding Agent with Pydantic-AI Chatting with Unmesh about building language with LLMs Bliki: Expansion Joints Team OKRs in Action Impact Intelligence, addressing common objections Quick but worthwhile links Actions to improve impact intelligence The Reformist CTO’s Guide to Impact Intelligence How far can we push AI autonomy in code generation? Partner with the AI, throw away the code Who is LLM Generative AI in software and essaying Three worthwhile articles yesterday I still care about the code

Embedded Artistry

What I’ve Been Up To (20251205) Life After Burnout Automating Away the Fun Parts Creating Deterministic Zip Files with Git Commit Timestamps Papers in Systems: Schön on Dynamic Conservatism Reclaim Your Data: Freeing a Wi-Fi Sensor from the Cloud 2022-2023 Quarterly Discussion Panel Archives Exploring Serverless CI/CD for Embedded Devices How to cherry-pick Specific Files from a Commit 2023 in Review Managing Issues and Improving Products After Launch Resolving Git Commit History Divergence Due to Case-Sensitive Rename Operations Responses to the Commentariat on the -Werror Article Leveraging Your Toolchain to Improve Security Best Practices for Safeguarding Your Connected Devices Q&A: How Do You Stay on the Path and Make it to “Done”? Q&A: How Many Iterations Do You Recommend for Scaling From a Prototype to Mass Production? Q&A: To What Degree Should We Understand Other Disciplines? Meson Pattern: Monorepo that Supports Individual Subproject Builds From Concept to Launch: What It Takes to Build and Ship a New Device The Simple Fixes on the Quest for Improved Performance Schrödinger’s Meeting Building a Simplified CLI Using Invoke (for Monorepo Management) Replacing find Shell Commands with Python Q&A: What Pieces of the OTA Update Pipeline Should You Front Load? Q&A: How Do You Manage Updates that Introduce Incompatible Changes? Q&A: Where Should Firmware Update Capabilities Live? Dealing With Duplicated Files in a Monorepo Over-the-Air Updates and Fleet Management at Scale Configuring a Linker Script for Accurate Linker Memory Usage Reporting

Attack Magazine

The Best Gear of the Year Versatile 80s Synth Keys Time’s Running Out To Get Eventide’s Temperance Lite Plugin For Free Istanbul Ghetto Club Vocana – A New Steaming Service Challenging Spotify Arturia Pigments 7: The Best Gets Even Better Start FL Studio Projects In Your Browser With New Web Beta WAVS Launches New Desktop App That Syncs With DAW Playhead, BPM & Key Chloe Battelle – “Proggy House Really Gets The Crowds Going Right Now’ CRSSD Festival Unveils Full Spring 2026 Lineup

DJ TechTools

Traktor MX2: Native Instruments’ New 2-Channel Controller Akai Launches MPC Live III Standalone With 8-Core Processor, Clip Matrix, Stems, and 3D Pads Ableton launches Live 12 Suite rent-to-own plan – and it’s not a subscription Meet the TR-1000: Roland’s new analog/digital drum machine with built-in sampling Spotify (finally) slides into Rekordbox, Serato, and Algoriddim djay (again) – for better or worse? The CDJ-3000X is here: an iterative upgrade of the media player for $3,000 / £2,399 Review: Focusrite Scarlett 18i20 4th Gen Meet Chordcat: a compact sequencer for writing progressions on the go