Congress leaves town until 2026 with no health care deal, forcing premium hikes (Sahil Kapur/NBC News)

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Congress leaves town until 2026 with no health care deal, forcing premium hikes

The Republican-led House and Senate adjourned Thursday until the new year with no solution on expiring health care subsidies under the Affordable Care Act, meaning insurance premiums for about 22 million Americans will rise next month.

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Tucker Carlson inflames a raging battle for MAGA's future (Washington Post)

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News Summary: Amazon’s ‘Ask This Book’ Feature Sparks Author Backlash over AI Use

Call it the Triple Crown, Trifecta, or any other phrase associated with things coming in threes, but the week ends with the third big story from Amazon in a single week. And…
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Amazon’s ‘Ask This Book’ Feature Sparks Author Backlash

Amazon’s new ‘Ask This Book’ feature uses generative AI, raising concerns among authors about transparency and the lack of an opt-out.

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From Project Gutenberg:

Miriam's Schooling and Other Papers

by William Hale White

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Rust's Block Pattern

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Tourtière: A Traditional Holiday Dish in Canada 🇨🇦🥧

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12h- Luís Montenegro demonstra apoio continuado à Ucrânia

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12h- Luís Montenegro demonstra apoio continuado à Ucrânia

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Ucrânia e Portugal acordam produção conjunta de drones marítimos

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O primeiro-ministro português está este sábado na Ucrânia. Num encontro com Volodymyr Zelensky, Portugal e Ucrânia chegaram a acordo sobre a produção de drones marítimos.

Ucrânia e Portugal acordam produção conjunta de drones marítimos

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Searchlight: **From Searchlight 40 years ago – Hurd’s ‘no change’ policy on Italian terror cell**

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The presence in the UK of wanted Italian fascist fugitives was a running scandal throughout the 1980s and 1990s. They arrived here to avoid the crackdown which followed the bombing of Bologna railway station in 1980 and stayed here, making huge amounts of money from dodgy

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The Untouchable - Fugitive Roberto Fiore posing in Downing St The presence in the UK of wanted Italian fascist fugitives was a running scandal throughout th ...

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There’s a New Perk for All Access: the New Release Index!

Great news! Book Riot All Access now includes the New Release Index! We’re all about bringing you the best bookish...
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Gemini AI Yielding Sloppy Code For Ubuntu Development With New Helper Script

A few weeks ago it was mentioned by a Canonical engineer how trying to use AI to modernize the Ubuntu Error Tracker yielded some code that was "plain wrong" and other issues raised by that Microsoft GitHub Copilot code. The same Ubuntu developer shifted to trying Gemini AI to generate a helper script to assist in Ubuntu's monthly ISO snapshot releases. Google's Gem…
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CIFA, experimental computer built in Romania in 1957.

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