Japan hikes interest rate to highest level since 1995 as inflation bites
It comes as new PM Sanae Takaichi is keen for inflation to fall but also needs low government borrowing costs.Peter Hoskins (BBC News)
Sri Lanka police arrest three for allegedly burning wild elephant
Police said villagers used flaming torches to drive away the elephant, which later died.Koh Ewe (BBC News)
Judge Convicted of Obstructing Agents as They Sought Undocumented Immigrant (Julie Bosman/New York Times)
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Judge Convicted of Obstructing Agents as They Sought Undocumented Immigrant
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Live Updates: Suspect in Brown University Shooting Is Found Dead in New Hampshire (New York Times)
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Live Updates: Suspect in Brown University Shooting Is Found Dead in New Hampshire
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EU to Use Joint Bonds to Give Ukraine a €90 Billion Loan (Bloomberg)
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EU to Use Joint Bonds to Give Ukraine a €90 Billion Loan
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Merry Christmas, America! The Checks Are in the Mail! (Susan B. Glasser/New Yorker)
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Merry Christmas, America! The Checks Are in the Mail!
By Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker. View the full context on memeorandum.memeorandum
Automatically Remove AI Features From Windows 11
It seems like a fair assessment to state that the many ‘AI’ features that Microsoft added to Windows 11 are at least somewhat controversial. Unsurprisingly, this has led many to …read more
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Automatically Remove AI Features From Windows 11
It seems like a fair assessment to state that the many ‘AI’ features that Microsoft added to Windows 11 are at least somewhat controversial. Unsurprisingly, this has led many to wonder …Hackaday
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Curiosity Blog, Sols 4743-4749: Polygons in the Hollow
Written by Lucy Lim, Planetary Scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight CenterMars Science Laboratory Mission Team Members (NASA Science)
New York Times columnist David Brooks appears in latest Epstein photos (Jeremy Barr/The Guardian)
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New York Times columnist David Brooks appears in latest Epstein photos
Brooks, who dismissed Epstein scandal as ‘stupid story’, wrote column expressing lack of interest in developmentsJeremy Barr (The Guardian)
From Project Gutenberg:
The Undersea Tube
by L. Taylor (Lucile Taylor) Hansen
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The Undersea Tube by L. Taylor Hansen
Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.Project Gutenberg
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EU Weighs Using Joint Debt to Loan up to $106 Billion to Ukraine (Bloomberg)
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EU Weighs Using Joint Debt to Loan up to $106 Billion to Ukraine
The European Union is considering a plan to use joint debt to loan as much as €90 billion ($106 billion) to Ukraine, according to a draft proposal seen by Bloomberg.Alberto Nardelli (Bloomberg)
LLMs’ impact on science: Booming publications, stagnating quality
Once researchers turn to LLMs, paper counts go up, quality does not.John Timmer (Ars Technica)
#science : art, skill, or expertness, regarded as the result of knowledge of laws and principles
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