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Sparklers may have led to deadly New Year's Swiss resort bar fire, investigators say - ABC News As Mamdani rises in New York, San Francisco turns away from the left - Politico Israeli Government Accuses Mamdani of Antisemitism Over Canceled Orders - The New York Times Potential ISIS-inspired terror attack thwarted in North Carolina, teen arrested, officials say - CBS News Six killed in clashes between protesters and security forces in Iran - BBC Woman killed in suspected mountain lion attack while hiking in northern Colorado - The Colorado Sun DHS hypes worksite enforcement as fraud allegations rip through Minnesota - Axios Ohio police search for suspect after dentist, wife found murdered at home - 6abc Philadelphia Southern California winter rains break records, with another storm on the way - Los Angeles Times Hopes Fade as Coast Guard Seeks Survivors of Latest Boat Strikes - The New York Times Map: 6.5-Magnitude Earthquake Shakes Mexico - The New York Times Two of the Middle East’s most powerful countries are facing off in Yemen. Here’s what to know - CNN Elon Musk's Grok AI faces scrutiny over sexualized images of women and minors - Reuters Zelensky names spy chief to head presidential office - BBC China’s BYD Surpasses Tesla as World Leader in Electric Car Sales - The New York Times S&P 500 closes higher on first trading day of 2026 as chip stocks offer small boost to the market - CNBC Luxury retailer Saks Global CEO Marc Metrick steps down as bankruptcy looms - Reuters Wall Street Sees Another Banner Year for Markets. Could Anything Stop It? - The New York Times Pebble reboots its thinnest smartwatch with the Pebble Round 2 - TechCrunch Clicks is bringing its first smartphone and a new keyboard to CES 2026 - Engadget LG announces the ‘world’s lightest 17-inch RTX laptop’ - The Verge One UI 8.5 leak confirms Galaxy S26's genius display feature - SamMobile Victoria Jones, daughter of Tommy Lee Jones, found dead in San Francisco - The Guardian Stephen Schwartz Criticizes Kennedy Center, Saying He Won’t Host Gala - The New York Times 'Stranger Things' recap: What worked (and didn't) in the finale - NPR Will Smith sued by former tour member for wrongful termination, sexual harassment - ABC News Team USA announces men’s hockey roster for 2026 Olympics: Snubs, surprises and expectations - The New York Times Playoff Quarterfinal at the Capital One Orange Bowl Recap - College Football Playoff 49ers-Seahawks preview and prediction: Can Brock Purdy and Kyle Shanahan finish off an improbable regular season with a win? - Niners Nation Shai Gilgeous-Alexander Is SI’s 2025 Sportsperson of the Year - Sports Illustrated Fresh bone analysis makes case for earliest ‘ancestor of humankind’, but doubts remain - The Guardian The 1st full moon of 2026 rises tonight! Here's what to expect from January's supermoon Wolf Moon - Space 2026 is the year humanity will finally go back to the moon - Space Look up tonight: Quadrantid meteor shower will peak, joined by 1st supermoon of 2026 - LiveNOW from FOX New York reports record-breaking number of flu hospitalizations in a single week - ABC News Brain organoids are helping researchers, but their use also creates unease - NPR Healthy 18-year-old welder nearly died of anthrax—the 9th such puzzling case - Ars Technica Catholic influencer Paul Kim’s son dies aged five after severe case of the flu - The Independent

BBC News

'Living a nightmare': Families of teens missing after ski resort fire desperate for news Sparklers on champagne bottles likely cause of deadly Swiss bar fire Man, 67, dies after being pulled from sea as search continues Weather warnings extended as snow and ice blanket parts of UK Anthony Joshua's driver charged over Nigeria crash that killed two Trump warns US will intervene if Iran kills protesters Woman felt 'dehumanised' after Musk's Grok AI used to digitally remove her clothes Record year for wind and solar power - but is it enough to stay on track for 2030 targets? FTSE 100 hits 10,000 mark for first time Call for circumcision safeguards after baby death Karting champion, 16, aims for F1 top spot What images and videos tell us about why Swiss bar fire spread so quickly Young Italian golfer feared dead and many injured 'are fighting to live' - what we know so far Watch: Footage shows partygoer trying to put out flames The debate about whether the NHS should use magic mushrooms to treat depression Yemen clashes bring Saudi- and UAE-backed forces into confrontation Your photos as snow covers parts of the UK I swapped my personal trainer for AI - and it's working From Doctor Who to X-Men - archive pictures show stars before they were famous I broke my neck filming Harry Potter but I don't regret being a stunt double 'We need to protect players' - how can tennis avoid breaking point? Politicians have given away too much power to deliver pledges, says PM's ex-aide Double record-breaking year for UK as 2025 confirmed as warmest and sunniest on record MP abused by trolls loses 10 stone after taking Mounjaro Woman killed in suspected mountain lion attack in US Legendary horse trainer Ian Balding, father of broadcaster Clare, dies aged 87 China's BYD overtakes Tesla as world's top EV seller Zelensky names spy chief to head presidential office after corruption row BBC News app The Newscast Review of the Year 2025 Were our 2025 predictions right? Sir David Attenborough explores the surprising wildlife of London Littler to face Van Veen in PDC Worlds final Joshua's driver charged over Nigeria crash that killed two Bradley didn't take chance to curb 'horrific' Ryder Cup abuse - McIlroy Sutton's predictions v singer-songwriter & Newcastle fan Andrew Cushin 'Nancy leaps to his own defence as he feels Old Firm heat' 'Good idea' or taking 'massive chance' - is Rosenior ready for Chelsea? 'We're the right people' - Stokes wants to continue alongside McCullum

Financial Times (World)

FTSE 100 tops 10,000 for first time in new year rally Volodymyr Zelenskyy overhauls Ukraine’s security apparatus Tesla loses EV crown to China’s BYD Trump warns Iran that US will ‘rescue’ protesters Elon Musk’s AI chatbot generates child sexual images Ørsted seeks injunction against US government over project freeze Pouches give Big Tobacco a shortlived pick-me-up Sparklers appear to have caused deadly Swiss bar fire, authorities say Millennium and Citadel deliver double-digit returns but trail smaller rivals A year that will dictate Starmer’s fate as prime minister The quest for quiet in a dangerously noisy world Three questions AI needs to answer Criteria for weight-loss jabs on NHS tightened in large parts of England UK investment platforms to cut fees in effort to woo customers FirstFT: Trump warns Iran that US will ‘rescue’ protesters FTAV’s further reading UK house prices rise less than expected in 2025 as growth slows Submit your questions to FT Editor Roula Khalaf: What will shape 2026? Five big finance questions for 2026 Home Counties most affected by VAT on private school fees, data suggests Iran protests put president’s reform agenda to the test UK financial watchdog closes 100 probes to sharpen enforcement focus The silver linings that could give Keir Starmer some economic cheer What are politicians talking about? Why we should know what we don’t know

Financial Times (UK)

FTSE 100 tops 10,000 for first time in new year rally A year that will dictate Starmer’s fate as prime minister The quest for quiet in a dangerously noisy world Criteria for weight-loss jabs on NHS tightened in large parts of England UK investment platforms to cut fees in effort to woo customers UK house prices rise less than expected in 2025 as growth slows Home Counties most affected by VAT on private school fees, data suggests UK financial watchdog closes 100 probes to sharpen enforcement focus The silver linings that could give Keir Starmer some economic cheer What are politicians talking about? Why supermarkets are taking a bigger slice of UK pizza night Are you sure you want to leave the UK to avoid inheritance tax? The companies driving hopes of a London IPO revival in 2026 Swamp Notes: Is the US economy really K-shaped? Small boat migrant arrivals jump by 13% to 41,000 in 2025 The plot against London Number of women barristers in UK Supreme Court cases fails to increase in 17 years Five simple ways to reset your finances in 2026 ‘Friends and family’ therapy offers new approach to mental health in UK Crackdown on crypto tax evasion comes into force Recipe: The Dusty Knuckle’s persimmon and blue cheese salad 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?

The New York Times

As Schools Embrace A.I. Tools, Skeptics Raise Concerns Even the Sky May Not Be the Limit for A.I. Data Centers The New Billionaires of the A.I. Boom Our 2026 Tech Resolutions + We Answer Your Questions China’s BYD Surpasses Tesla as World Leader in Electric Car Sales 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 From A.I. to Chips, Big Tech Is Getting What It Wants From Trump 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 A Wealth Tax Floated in California Has Billionaires Thinking of Leaving 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

The Guardian

Anthony Joshua’s driver charged with dangerous driving after fatal crash in Nigeria Cremation pyre in Africa thought to be world’s oldest containing adult remains US ‘adapt, shrink or die’ terms for $2bn aid pot will mean UN bowing down to Washington, say experts Guinea’s junta chief elected president after opposition boycott Tensions between Saudis and Emiratis over future of Yemen reach boiling point Maduro urges Trump to abandon ‘illegal warmongering’ and start ‘serious talks’ 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 Kim Jong-un’s daughter visits state mausoleum, fuelling speculation she will be next North Korean ruler NewJeans member Danielle sued for millions after bitter feud with K-pop record label 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 Police to carry long-arm rifles at final Ashes Test in Sydney amid heightened security after Bondi attack Man dies after shooting in Melbourne’s inner north Missing worker could be trapped 1km underground after Queensland mine collapses Aboriginal woman’s death in custody in NT prompts calls for independent investigation Real estate agents under the microscope in Australian-first privacy ‘compliance sweep’ Teenage girl educated in Britain among the missing after Crans-Montana fire ‘Suspension of entry into the US’, paparazzi – and wine: three other reasons George Clooney moved to France Switzerland resort fire ‘likely started by sparklers in champagne bottles’, says attorney general – as it happened Sparklers held near ceiling started Swiss ski resort fire, investigators believe What happened in the Crans-Montana bar fire in Switzerland – visual guide BBC settles with 7 October survivors for filming home ‘without permission’ Yemeni separatists plan to hold independence vote within two years Israel accuses Mamdani of antisemitism on first day as New York mayor Iran officials warn Trump of red line after his threat to ‘rescue’ protesters Two people confirmed dead as Iran protests turn into ‘battlefield’ Ministers cannot go on ignoring the Shamima Begum case, for two important reasons Sewage in drinking water blamed for at least 10 deaths in India’s ‘cleanest city’ 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 Man dies after being pulled from sea as search continues for two missing off Withernsea Jewish groups warned ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans attending match could be seen as ‘antisemitic’ Google AI Overviews put people at risk of harm with misleading health advice Man, 51, dies after getting into difficulty in sea off Brighton beach China’s BYD overtakes Tesla as world’s biggest electric car seller US woman charged with fetal homicide after allegedly inducing own abortion US’s first registry of domestic abusers takes effect in Tennessee College freshman identified as one of three hikers found dead on California’s Mount Baldy DC pipe bomb suspect must remain in jail before trial, judge rules US homeland security condemned for using Japanese artist’s work without consent

Hacker News

2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop NY Fed cash transfers to banks increase dramatically in Q4 2025 Global software engineering job postings outlook – 2026 Linux kernel security work Daft Punk Easter Egg in the BPM Tempo of Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger? Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere Jank Lang Hit Alpha I wrote a batch script to keep my 2011 ThinkPad alive for 24/7 streaming Unix v4 (1973) – Live Terminal TinyTinyTPU: 2×2 systolic-array TPU-style matrix-multiply unit deployed on FPGA Fighting Fire with Fire: Scalable Oral Exams Accounting for Computer Scientists (2011) Clicks Communicator The rsync algorithm (1996) [pdf] Punkt. Unveils MC03 Smartphone Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2026) Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2026) IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn't taken over the world 39th Chaos Communication Congress Videos FracturedJson

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Nature

Science in 2026: what to expect this year 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

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

Is Trump taking too much aspirin? Here's what experts say Yemen's separatists announce a constitution for an independent south DHS pauses immigration applications for an additional 20 countries George Clooney gets French citizenship — and another dust-up with Trump Trump vows to 'rescue' Iran's protesters. Iran warns the U.S. to stay out of it Somali day care centers face threats. And, how Trump could save Obamacare subsidies Slow Epstein files release not as concerning as docs DOJ has withheld, says Ro Khanna Brain organoids are helping researchers, but their use also creates unease U.S. interventions in Latin America and the Caribbean haven't always gone as planned With few Epstein files released, conspiracy theories flourish and questions remain

The Atlantic

Elon Musk’s Pornography Machine The President’s Busy Holiday Trump’s ‘Operation Iranian Freedom’ A Reading Resolution You Can Keep What Dante Is Trying to Tell Us The People Who Marry Chatbots Albert Einstein’s Brilliant Politics Reading Is a Vice One Weird Trick to Feel More Relaxed at Home Trump Almost Has a Point About the Federal Reserve Just Break Your New Year’s Resolution Now The Secret to Loving Winter Iranians Have Had Enough A Bizarre, Challenging Book More People Should Read The Question-Mark Mayoralty Six Months Off the Street 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

Vox

How to kill a rogue AI Elon Musk created a monster that’s tearing the right apart What happens when a city takes women’s unpaid work seriously? One of the most impactful resolutions you can make in the new year 26 things we think will happen in 2026 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”

Al Jazeera

Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,409 Tesla loses place as world’s top electric vehicle seller to China’s BYD How fragile is the US healthcare system? US judge orders DC pipe bomb suspect to remain in custody ahead of trial Palestine advocates praise NYC’s Mamdani for revoking pro-Israel decrees South Carolina measles outbreak grows to 185 cases amid vaccination worries Countries demand Israel lift Gaza aid restrictions as Palestinians suffer Liensberger to miss Olympics after latest serious skiing accident Iran faces growing protests amid deepening economic crisis Angelina Jolie visits Egypt’s Rafah crossing that’s delivering aid to Gaza US authorities arrest 18-year-old accused of plotting ISIL-inspired attack Saudi-backed forces launch offensive against Yemen’s STC Five things you need to know about protests in Iran New Year’s Eve sparklers may have caused deadly Swiss bar fire: Official Nigeria police charge Joshua driver with dangerous driving over fatal crash Pakistan court sentences journalists to life over 2023 pro-Khan protests Ukraine’s Zelenskyy names GUR chief Kyrylo Budanov as top aide Did Tony Blair influence trial of UK soldiers accused of killing Iraqi man? Trump says he takes more aspirin than recommended: Is that dangerous? These are the competing groups controlling territory in Yemen Senegal vs Sudan: AFCON 2025 – team news, start time and lineups Updates: Fighting breaks out in east Yemen along border with Saudi Arabia Venus Williams gets Australian Open wildcard aged 45 The ceasefire did what it was meant to do – make Gaza invisible Why I am on hunger strike in solidarity with Pal Action detainees

Ars Technica

No, Grok can’t really “apologize” for posting non-consensual sexual images Healthy 18-year-old welder nearly died of anthrax—the 9th such puzzling case OpenAI reorganizes some teams to build audio-based AI hardware products Researchers spot Saturn-sized planet in the “Einstein desert” SpaceX begins “significant reconfiguration” of Starlink satellite constellation Final reminder: Donate to win swag in our annual Charity Drive sweepstakes xAI silent after Grok sexualized images of kids; dril mocks Grok’s “apology” Tesla sales fell by 9 percent in 2025, its second yearly decline After half a decade, the Russian space station segment stopped leaking Marvel rings in new year with Wonder Man trailer Research roundup: 7 cool science stories we almost missed “Streaming stops feeling infinite”: What subscribers can expect in 2026 Film Technica: Our top picks for the best films of 2025 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 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

Slashdot

MTV's Music-Only Channels Go Off the Air Google AI Overviews Put People at Risk of Harm With Misleading Health Advice Trump Signs Defense Bill Prohibiting China-Based Engineers in Pentagon IT Work AMD Closes in on Intel in Latest Steam Hardware Survey Reading is a Vice A Decade of BBC Question Time Data Reveals Imbalance in Journalist Guests 'Results Were Fudged': Departing Meta AI Chief Confirms Llama 4 Benchmark Manipulation Ghana Tries To Regulate Online Prophecies The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Prints Final Newspaper, Shifts To All-Digital Format How Nokia Went From iPhone Victim To $1 Billion Nvidia Deal ASUS Announces Price Hikes Starting January 5 Australia's Biggest Pension Fund To Cut Global Stocks Allocation on AI Concerns No Standard iPhone 18 Launch This Year, Reports Suggest IDC Estimates Apple Shipped Just 45,000 Vision Pros Last Quarter Some of Your Cells Are Not Genetically Yours

Gizmodo

Live Updates From CES 2026 in Las Vegas 🔴 Hackers Allegedly Steal Access Tokens, Confidential Documents From European Space Agency Tech Companies Show Feet as They Try to Appeal to Gen Z James Gunn Doesn’t Care If He’s Not Nominated for Best Director Drake Accused of Manipulating Streaming Play Counts With Bots in New Lawsuit Raw Oysters Behind Salmonella Outbreak Sweeping Across the US, CDC Warns Physicists Turn Quantum Chaos Into Something Surprisingly Useful ‘Andor’ Season 2’s Opening Remains One of Its Best Moments Alleged PS5 Jailbreak Method Spikes Prices for Old Star Wars Game on eBay Scientists Scanned 3I/ATLAS for Alien Signals. Here’s What They Found People Spent the Holidays Asking Grok to Generate Sexual Images of Children The Duffer Brothers Took Inspiration From ‘Lord of the Rings’ for the ‘Stranger Things’ End Credits Pebble Revives and Revamps Its Short-Lived Circular Smartwatch The ‘Stranger Things’ Finale Really Tried to Be Everything for Everyone Tesla Sales Skid Even With Cheaper Models and Deep Discounts The ‘Super Flu’ Is Hitting Kids Hard—and Some Aren’t Surviving SpaceX Will Move Thousands of Starlinks Closer to Earth in 2026. Here’s Why Disney World Employee Injured by Runaway ‘Indiana Jones’ Boulder Meta’s New Privacy Policy Opens Up AI Chats for Targeted Ads Scientists Solved the Mystery of the Shark That Bites Perfect Circles

Smithsonian Magazine

The Year's First Bright Supermoon and the Colorful Quadrantid Meteor Shower Coincide This Weekend Take Flight in the New Year With These 15 Photographs of Beautiful Kites Elusive, Critically Endangered Bird—and One of the Closest Living Relatives of Dodos—Was Spotted for the First Time in Five Years When the Bayeaux Tapestry Makes Its Historic Return to England, the British Government Will Insure It for More Than $1 Billion Honey-Making Stingless Bees in the Peruvian Amazon Become the First Insects to Gain Legal Rights 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

InfoQ

Microsoft Research Develops Novel Approaches to Enforce Privacy in AI Models Swiggy Rolls Out Hermes V3: From Text-to-SQL to Conversational AI Amazon S3 Vectors Reaches GA, Introducing "Storage-First" Architecture for RAG Presentation: From Confusion to Clarity: Advanced Observability Strategies for Media Workflows at Netflix Article: The Architect’s Dilemma: Choose a Proven Path or Pave Your Own Way? Things Software Developers Think They Don’t Need to Care about, But Can Impact Their Job Bun Introduces Built-in Database Clients and Zero-Config Frontend Development 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

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

What should I ask Henry Oliver? Friday assorted links *Pluribus* AEA: Honoring Milton Friedman Economic inequality does not equate to poor well-being or mental health One bad trend from 2025, diminution of the dollar’s safe haven status Thursday assorted links Dan Wang 2025 letter Autism Hasn’t Increased My podcast with Neil Joseph Taxation in a strong AI world Building more will boost labor’s share Wednesday assorted links Existential Risk and Growth “What we got wrong this year”

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

Hubble Glimpses Galactic Gas Making a Getaway 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

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

Astronomers ring in the new year with a stunning galaxy collision 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 Myth busted: Your body isn’t canceling out your workout 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 Something hidden deep underground supercharged this Chile earthquake 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 New images reveal what really happens when stars explode Earth’s worst extinction was followed by a shockingly fast ocean comeback Cancer cells depend on a dangerous DNA repair trick A key Alzheimer’s gene emerges in African American brain study Ancient wolves could only have reached this island by boat Scientists just found the best places to look for ancient life on Mars NASA’s Webb telescope just discovered one of the weirdest planets ever This hidden flaw has been breaking EV batteries Scientists may have found the best place for humans to land on Mars Nearly 70% of U.S. adults could now be classified as obese A new superconductor breaks rules physicists thought were fixed This 100-year-old teaching method is beating modern preschools 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 This tiny nerve may help keep the heart young ADHD drugs don’t work the way we thought A Christmas tree 80 light-years wide appears in space This tiny plant is helping solve crimes Did an exploding comet wipe out the mammoths? 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 A planet just vanished. NASA’s Hubble reveals a violent cosmic secret MIT study shows high-fat diets give liver cancer a dangerous head start A "herculean" genetic study just found a new way to treat ADHD Scientists found a way to restore brain blood flow in dementia

Spaceflight Now

Live coverage: SpaceX opens 2026 with launch of Cosmo-SkyMed Earth observation satellite for Italy 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

Space Daily

Anysignal raises 24 million Series A to advance autonomous RF sensing for space and national security TanDEM X marks 15 years mapping Earth in 3D Cyviz awarded two classified NATO defense contracts for mission critical visualization systems MDA Space partners with Canada defence department and Telesat to deliver next generation military satcom Planet delivers first light image from Pelican 6 satellite capturing Lhasa Gonggar Airport Philosopher argues AI consciousness may remain unknowable Hydrogen peroxide thruster qualifies for ESA launcher attitude control ESA reaches new benchmark in autonomous formation flying RTX radar selected to support autonomous X 62A fighter testing DLR completes ground roll tests of HAP alpha uncrewed high altitude solar aircraft SDA expands Tracking Layer satellite awards and related missile defense contracts Muon Space secures Direct to Phase II award for SDA missile warning and tracking mission Australian team maps quantum error memory over time Hubble pinpoints asteroid smash ups in nearby Fomalhaut system SPHEREx completes first full sky infrared map of the cosmos

Space News

Terran Orbital Selected by Lockheed Martin to Provide Satellite Buses for SDA’s Tranche 3 Tracking Layer SpaceX to lower orbits of some Starlink satellites 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

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