Censorship by Stealth: The West’s Algorithmic Gatekeepers
The powerful Western states have weaponized the social media algorithms to silence the truth and further pro-West propaganda. The Invisible Grip ofАббас Хашемит (New Eastern Outlook)
The powerful Western states have weaponized the social media algorithms to silence the truth and further pro-West propaganda. The Invisible Grip ofАббас Хашемит (New Eastern Outlook)
Ravenous big tech is here to feast on our resources — and its lobbying playbook is only just getting started
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Alastair Crooke- Putin does not want a ‘deal’. What he insists on is a legally binding treaty – as he has repeatedly stated.thealtworld (TheAltWorld’s Newsletter)
Horses: AI progress is steady. Human equivalence is sudden
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Nintendo Switch 2 System Update 21.1.0 Is Now Live, Here Are The Full Patch Notes
Available for Switch as well.Following a firmware update for the Switch 2 and Switch in November, Nintendo has now rolled out a December update (and perhaps the last system update of 2025).According to the official Nintendo support page, this latest update includes some general system stability improvements. If we do hear about anything else ...
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SANAA, Dec. 08 (YPA) - The Sanaa-based Specialized Criminal Court started on Monday the trial of defendants accused of operating a spy network for the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Israeli Mossad, as well as Saudi spy agency.During a heariاحسن (Yemen Press Agency)
The Universal Weight Subspace Hypothesis
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We show that deep neural networks trained across diverse tasks exhibit remarkably similar low-dimensional parametric subspaces.arXiv.org
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Somehow we blinked and the so called big sales period has come and gone, yet the bargain bins refuse to take the hint.
Starting Jan. 1, traditional Medicare recipients in Washington state will face a new hurdle to get certain procedures covered — private AI companies that get paid based on how many claims they deny.Stephen Howie (KUOW Public Radio)
Horses: AI progress is steady. Human equivalence is sudden
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HAVANA, Cuba, Dec 5 (ACN) Cuba is the only Latin American country that, since 1976, has signed a cooperation agreement with the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), located in Dubna, Moscow Region, making it one of its member states, a Russia…www.cubanews.acn.cu
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Trump Tears Down East Wing of White House Looking for Banandium Gem
The destruction of the White House's East Wing was reportedly brought about by an unexpected source: Donkey Kong Bananza.
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russia's Yug battlegroup took control of the settlement of Chervonoe in the Donetsk People's Republic, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Monday.Sputnik International
"We call on the world to exert greater international pressure on Israel to force it to halt the daily attacks against journalists, and we also call for their protection," he emphasized.Ed Newman (Radio Habana Cuba)
AI should only run as fast as we can catch up
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Assassin's Creed Shadows Update To Resolve Switch 2 Crashes And Stability Issues
It's scheduled for "next week".Last week, we ran a story here on Nintendo Life about how Assassin's Creed Shadows on Switch 2 was "unplayable" for some players due to repeated game crashes.Now, in a post on the official Assassin's Creed social media account, Ubisoft has acknowledged these "stability issues" and how it can "lead to crashes". ...
European countries have suffered cumulative economic losses of 1.6 trillion euros over four years due to anti-Russian sanctions, the Russian Foreign Ministry informed on Sunday.Cuba Si
Multiple Countries Boycott Eurovision Over Israel’s Participation
Several European broadcasters including Ireland, Spain, and the Netherlands announced a boycott of the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest after Israel was allowed to participate, arguing it’s inappropriate given the humanitarian suffering in Gaza. What do you think?
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Judge on Palestine Action case has ties to Israel lobby, with Asa Winstanley
Asa Winstanley, associate editor, reports on some important recent legal victories for Palestine in the UK, while highlighting one judge’s disturbing conflic...The Electronic Intifada (YouTube)
Kroger acknowledges that its bet on robotics went too far
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The retailer’s decision to close three automated fulfillment centers reflects the stark changes in grocery e-commerce that have taken place in the years since it launched its partnership with Ocado.Sam Silverstein (Grocery Dive)
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High On Life 2 Is Getting A Physical Edition Courtesy Of Limited Run Games
High on Life 2 $60 | Releases February 13, 2026 See at Amazon See at GameStop See at Best Buy High on Life 2 is launching on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PC, and Game Pass on February 13, 2026, which is right around the corner. Limited Run Games is publishing the physical console version of Sasquatch Games' colorful and irreverent ...
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High on Life 2 launches on February 13, 2026, and preorders are available now.Brendan Hesse (GameSpot)
Santiago, Chile, Dec 8 (Prensa Latina) With regional campaign events and a televised debate, Chilean presidential candidates Jeannette Jara and Jose Antonio Kast will seek to convince undecided voters, with one week remaining before the runoff.Ileana Ferrer Fonte (Prensa Latina)
Mr.daydreamer #10「ハムレットマシーン」が12月7日に神奈川・Art Center NEWにて開幕した。 Mr.daydreameは福岡県を拠点に活動する演劇ユニット。今回は、ハイステージナタリー (Yahoo!ニュース)
Show HN: Fanfa – Interactive and animated Mermaid diagrams
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Paste Mermaid, watch it breathe with cinematic SVG animation.fanfa.dev
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GameStop's "Trade Anything" Day Actually Included Taxidermy
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No more O'Reilly subscriptions for me
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Trials avoid high risk patients and underestimate drug harms
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Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.NBER
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Juggalo Returns From Near Death Experience to Confirm Dark Carnival Is Real
HOLLAND, Mich. — A Juggalo who goes by the name Ice-Dawg awoke in the hospital after being declared legally dead for 10... Read the full masterpiece
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A Juggalo who goes by the name Ice-Dawg awoke in the hospital after being declared legally dead for 10 minutes to confirm the Dark Carnival is real.bobbykorec (HARDTIMES)
This is the most effective way to reform the European security architecture and keep the peace, but a lot will depend on Poland.Andrew KORYBKO (Oriental Review)
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Opinion: Fuck You, You Absolute Fucker — Guest Opinion by Your Dad Trying to Hang Icicle Christmas Lights
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劇団普通「季節」が12月5日に東京・シアタートラムにて開幕した。 「季節」は、世田谷パブリックシアターが新たな才能と出会うために2024年度からスタートしたプログラム「世田谷パブリックシアター フステージナタリー (Yahoo!ニュース)
Amp, Inc. – Amp is spinning out of Sourcegraph
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Pokemon TCG Pocket, Dredge, & Cyberpunk win Apple Game of the Year honors
Apple's Game of the Year list is largely divided by platform, with iPad, iPhone, Mac, and Apple Vision Pro each naming their own best game.
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Apple’s Game of the Year list is largely divided by platform, with iPad, iPhone, Mac, and Apple Vision Pro each naming their own best game.Alissa McAloon (Game Developer)
BRICS is an informal group of states comprising the Federative Republic of Brazil, the Russian Federation, the Republic of India, the People's Republic of China and the Republic of South Africa.BRICS
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Konami has teamed up with Lofi Studio to produce a lo-fi beats video of Silent Hill f. Directly inspired by the classic visuals of the Lofi girl, Hinako is depicted writing in her room, journaling, or studying. The video is 24 minutes long and features fittingly soothing yet unsettling audio to provide an ambiance fitting [...]
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Konami and Lofi Studio have released a Silent Hill f lo-fi beats video starring Hinako. The 24-minute video blends relaxing visuals with eerie ambiance, inspired by the Lofi Girl aesthetic.Orpheus Joshua (Noisy Pixel)
Delivery robots take over Chicago sidewalks
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As companies dispatch more of the app-based food delivery robots into neighborhoods, some Chicagoans are sounding the alarm, citing safety and accessibility concerns.Alec Karam (Block Club Chicago)
One year after Assad’s fall, what’s happening in Syria? | Ep. 137
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Capcom COO Haruhiro Tsujimoto confirms plans to expand Mega Man, Ace Attorney, and Devil May Cry with new titles, remakes, and ports as part of long-term growth in its 2025 Integrated Report.Orpheus Joshua (Noisy Pixel)
Icons in Menus Everywhere – Send Help
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Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.blog.jim-nielsen.com
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Microsoft Download Center Archive
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The case for the EU to seize even the 207 bn euros is a very shaky one, which is likely to be the final nail…A A (Strategic Culture Foundation)
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Has the cost of building software dropped 90%?
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Agentic coding tools are dramatically reducing software development costs. Here's why 2026 is going to catch a lot of people off guard.Martin Alderson
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The EU may impose mandatory customs duties on Chinese goods if China does not take steps to resolve the chronic trade imbalance with the EU, French President Emmanuel Macron said in an interview with the newspaper Les Echos.newsmaker newsmaker (English News front)
So EU residents will pay more for needed goods from China because the Chinese market couldn't possibly have any interest of products coming from France.
The same jokers who appeared as proponents of "competitiveness" and "free market" a few years ago while trying to bust unions, are now threatening with tariffs.
Such pathetic losers some world leaders appear to be. Every time they get to lose in their own game they change the rules to fit them. How else can you describe the puppets running EU states?
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Show HN: DuckDB for Kafka Stream Processing
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Create a stream processor that reads data from Kafka in less than 5 minutes.sql-flow.com
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A Y-20 transport aircraft carrying the Chinese troops participating in the China-Singapore Exercise Cooperation-2025 joint army training arrived at the Changi Air Base, Singapore on December 8, 2025.eng.chinamil.com.cn
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Being the second city in a country that is notoriously one of the most boring in Africa hardly makes Nouadhibou exactly a metropolis. It is, though, anGareth Johnson (Young Pioneer Tours)
GitHub no longer uses Toasts
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in reply to Acta Populi • • •The EU monarchy (non elected EVER leader) is about to conduct global crime by illegally confiscating funds trusted to its centralized banking system, to finance a war, by conditionally asking the borrower to spend it nearly all in a handful of arms industries (primarily German, secondarily French) in the name of all EU residents/taxpayers. They are even seeking legal grounds to violate a veto vote against it. IOW Hungarians will be billed and charged even when their government vetoed against the decision.
When in the end the beneficiary will be unable to pay for loans, same multinationals will receive resources and infrastructure as exchange for the "assistance". They are doing precisely what the US has done till now with the exception the US didn't confiscate Russian funds to do it, they had their taxpayers charged so their multinationals (oil, grain, coal) will receive a big chunk of Ukraine's resources.
The facilitator for all this is a slimy used car salesman failed actor named Zelensky.
On the other hand, the evil enemy they are up against, in its state and other propaganda media outfits still retains Google (media/gstatic) scripts running in the background.
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My imagination to provide a rational explanation for why that is has been exhausted. But before your country asks you or your children to go fight a war, just think on who the beneficiaries of that war will be, win or lose. Those dirtballs have all bases covered.
Even 16th century British pirates were more moral than these thugs have been.
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