China Bestsellers: Nobel Prize Boost, Aspirational Nonfiction, and Children’s Classics
Beijing's OpenBook shares their insight into the top books on their international, fiction, nonfiction, and children's bestseller lists.
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Intel ISPC 1.29 Drops Gen9 GPU Targets, Add New Optimizations & Experimental RISC-V
Intel ISPC 1.29 released on Wednesday as the newest feature update to this Implicit SPMD Program Compiler as a C variant able to target Intel hardware from their CPUs to GPUs for SIMD programming...
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⚫ Critical Fortinet Flaws Under Active Attack
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Attackers targeted admin accounts, and once authenticated, exported device configurations including hashed credentials and other sensitive information.
News Summary: Blurb Marks Twenty Years; Media Giants Enter New Battles
The sense of wistfulness, slight melancholy, and looking back through the archives of this post comes not just from the time of year. Following the shocking news of Porter Anderson’s death, this week the literary world…
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Blurb Marks Twenty Years
Blurb marks its twentieth anniversary; new legal and ownership battles are waging among major media companies.Dan Holloway (Alliance of Independent Authors)
2025 was the beginning of the end of the TV brightness war
Improvements to display technology are pushing the limits of what TVs are capable of. Do we need to go further?
2025 was the beginning of the end of the TV brightness war
TVs from Samsung, LG, TCL, Hisense, and Sony keep getting brighter. But do they need to?John Higgins (The Verge)
14 rumors about Venezuela we've investigated
As concerns grew that the Trump administration was seeking to invade Venezuela, we compiled 14 rumors we've tackled about the country.
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Posts claim Polaroids of Trump and Epstein with young females are real. They're wrong
Some of the posts circulating the images inaccurately reported they came from official releases of Jeffrey Epstein files.
Trump gets bored issuing real pardons, tries a fake one (Liz Dye/Public Notice)
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Trump gets bored issuing real pardons, tries a fake one
It's hilarious ... right up until his supporters storm the jail.Liz Dye (Public Notice)
December 2025 National Poll: Trump's Approval Flips Since Start of the Year (Emerson Polling)
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December 2025 National Poll: Trump’s Approval Flips Since Start of the Year - Emerson Polling
Voters Favor “Moderates” in 2028 Matchups The final Emerson College Polling national survey of 2025…Full Release & ResultsCamille Mumford (Emerson Polling)
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Tarpley Hitt: On Filling In the Historical Blanks
In this interview, author Tarpley Hitt discusses researching the doll craze for her new book, Barbieland.
The post Tarpley Hitt: On Filling In the Historical Blanks appeared first on Writer's Digest.
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Flog a Pro: Would You Turn the First Page of this Bestseller?
Email readers, heads up! For the full effect, pause after the excerpt and decide: Would you turn the page? Vote and then scroll for the reveal!
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Trump rebrands Congressionally-approved troop housing subsidy as 'warrior dividend' bonus (Thomas Novelly/Defense One)
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Trump rebrands Congressionally-approved troop housing subsidy as ‘warrior dividend’ bonus
More than $2.9 billion in reconciliation funds was allocated to beef up troop housing allowances. Now, it’s being used for $1,776 checks.Thomas Novelly (Defense One)
Whooping cough cases soar as vaccination rates drop (NBC News)
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Whooping cough cases soar as vaccine rates drop among kids
As of Dec. 6, the CDC logged 26,632 cases of whooping cough in 2025. The last time the U.S. saw so many cases was more than a decade ago in 2014.Erika Edwards (NBC News)
From Project Gutenberg:
Janmaat in de Oost; of, Vestiging van het Nederlandsch gezag op Celebes
by Pieter Louwerse
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Janmaat in de Oost; of, Vestiging van het Nederlandsch gezag op Celebes by Louwerse
Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.Project Gutenberg
« Proposer des réseaux sociaux alternatifs aux jeunes : un levier d’action qui mérite débat »
Une interdiction des réseaux sociaux avant un certain âge est nécessaire mais doit prendre place au sein d’une réflexion plus constructive, pour permettre aux jeunes de commencer leur vie numérique dans un environnement adapté, estime le professeur d…Pierre Tchounikine (Le Monde)
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A part redire que "[les] jeunes (...) conscience de la piètre qualité (...) des relations sociales développées via [ces plateformes]" rien de nouveau.
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