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  • Honduras seeks arrest of ex-President Hernández after Trump pardon
    Honduras' attorney general said Monday that he had ordered Honduran authorities and asked Interpol to execute a 2023 arrest order for Juan Orlando Hernández, pardoned by U.S. President Donald Trump.

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  • When Christmas is a little too bright ... look to Krampus
    If Santa Claus is the good cop of Christmas, then Krampus is the bad one: a creature from European folklore who scares children into behaving themselves, complete with goat horns and gnashing teeth.

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  • Syria marks a year since Assad fled, but struggles to heal
    Syria is struggling to heal a year after the Assad dynasty's repressive 50-year reign came to an end following 14 years of civil war that left the country battered and divided.

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  • Former Trump attorney Alina Habba resigns as top federal prosecutor in New Jersey
    Habba's decision comes as the Justice Department has lost a string of court cases ruling that U.S. attorneys have not been appointed legally, including in Nevada, California and Virginia.

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  • Trump administration announces $12 billion in one-time payments to farmers
    The payments are targeted at row crop farmers in the wake of this year's tariff hikes.

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  • FBI agents sue after being fired for kneeling during racial justice protest
    The FBI agents kneeled during a protest in 2020 not to reflect a left-wing political view, but to de-escalate a volatile situation, they say in court papers. The FBI fired them in September.

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  • Not so fast, Netflix. Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery
    Paramount has launched a hostile bid for the company that's home to Casablanca, Batman and CNN. Just Friday, Netflix and Warner Brothers executives were celebrating a deal they had struck. 

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  • China's trade surplus hits $1 trillion for first time ever
    China's exports to the U.S. have dropped sharply this year, in the face of President Trump's tariffs ? but the country is still finding plenty of customers elsewhere around the world.

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  • ICEBlock app sues Trump administration for censorship and 'unlawful threats'
    The app lets people anonymously share the locations of immigration agents but Apple removed it from its app store under pressure from the Trump administration. Now, the app's developer is suing.

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  • SCOTUS case could expand presidential powers. And, Dems pitch plan for ACA subsidies
    The Supreme Court will hear arguments today in a case about President Trump's firing of a Federal Trade Commissioner. And, Senate Democrats are set to pitch a plan to extend ACA subsidies this week.

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  • Maternity care failings 'much worse' than anticipated, says head of national review
    An interim report by Baroness Amos finds poor care and dirty wards are blighting England?s maternity services.

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  • Pioneering new treatment reverses incurable blood cancer in some patients
    Seven out of 11 patients with incurable cancer who had the treatment appear to be cancer-free.

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  • Ukraine prepares new peace plan as Zelensky rules out giving up land
    Kyiv is seeking to resist a US push for a deal which would see territory handed over to Russia.

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  • Branding and logo for Great British Railways unveiled
    The new red, white and blue branding mirrors the colours of the Union Flag, and will start to appear from next year.

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  • Australia's social media ban for children has left big tech scrambling
    The policy is the culmination of years of pressure on firms over online safety.

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  • Nothing beats it - can you guess what's been named TikTok's UK song of the year?
    Hold My Hand claims the title thanks to the viral 'nothing beats a Jet2holiday' trend.

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  • Paramount launches rival bid for Warner Bros Discovery
    The Hollywood battle to buy Warner Bros Discovery is shaping up to be a blockbuster.

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  • England fast bowler Wood out of Ashes tour
    Fast bowler Mark Wood is ruled out of England?s Ashes tour and replaced in the squad by Matthew Fisher.

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  • Prince Harry's security in UK under review
    It comes after he lost a legal case to have his police protection reinstated when visiting the UK.

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  • Dozens injured after magnitude 7.5 quake strikes northern Japan
    Authorities have warned that a stronger tremor could occur in the coming days.

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  • Researchers spot 700 percent increase in hypervisor ransomware attacks

    Get your Hyper-V and VMware ESXi setups in order, people

    Researchers at security software vendor Huntress say they?ve noticed a huge increase in ransomware attacks on hypervisors and urged users to ensure they?re as secure as can be and properly backed up.?



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  • Intel to explore making chips with mega-corp Tata in India?s first fab

    Chipzilla doesn?t need 28nm product, so maybe this is about landing another outsourced packaging partner

    Intel will explore manufacturing some chips in India?s first fab after forming an alliance with Indian mega-corp Tata.?



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  • Trump says Nvidia can sell H200s to China ? if Washington gets a 25 percent cut

    Blackwell and Rubin kit remain off limits

    US President Donald Trump has signalled he will allow Nvidia to resume sales of its H200 accelerators to China.?



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  • Google says Chrome's new AI creates risks only more AI can fix

    'User Alignment Critic' will review agentic actions so bots don't do things like emptying your bank account

    Google plans to add a second Gemini-based model to Chrome to address the security problems created by adding the first Gemini model to Chrome.?



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  • Bezos-backed Unconventional AI aims to make datacenter power problems go away

    Startup wagers the path to sustainable AI might be found in nature?s most amazing design - the brain

    Interview Naveen Rao founded AI businesses and sold them to Intel and Databricks. He?s now turned his attention to satisfying AI's thirst for power and believes his new company, Unconventional AI, can do it by building chips inspired by nature.?



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  • Publishers say no to AI scrapers, block bots at server level

    The open web is closing down for unwanted automated traffic

    A growing number of websites are taking steps to ban AI bot traffic so that their work isn't used as training data and their servers aren't overwhelmed by non-human users. However, some companies are ignoring the bans and scraping anyway.?



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  • DJ Garman drops the ball instead of the bass in AWS re:Invent keynote

    But the 25 announcements in the last 10 minutes included a few well worth waiting for

    AWS CEO Matt Garman's annual re:Invent keynote was the best kind of keynote, in that you could have slept in for nearly all of it and still been thrilled to pieces, provided you caught the last ten minutes. He concluded what was otherwise an AI-palooza chock full of boring guest speakers with an Andy Jassy style "twenty-five releases in ten minutes," complete with a basketball-style ten-minute shot clock counting down the time.?



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  • Meta and Google turn to NextEra to feed insatiable datacenter power hunger

    The Chocolate Factory will also put its AI to work inside one of America?s biggest utilities

    NextEra Energy on Monday tightened its grip on hyperscaler power demand, adding 2.5 GW of new renewable projects for Meta while deepening its partnership with Google, which already covers about 3.5 GW of capacity.?



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  • ICE-tracking app developer sues Trump admin after Apple spikes the software

    Suit argues forcing Apple to remove app, and threatening dev with legal action is a First Amendment violation

    Does the first amendment allow citizens to track law enforcement activity? After publishing an iOS app that shows where ICE agents have deployed, ICEBlock developer Joshua Aaron saw the Trump admin pressure Apple into pulling the software and threaten him with prosecution. Now he's fighting back.?



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  • 193 cybercrims arrested, accused of plotting 'violence-as-a-service'

    Minors groomed to kill and intimidate victims

    Nearly 200 people, including minors accused of involvement in murder plots, have been arrested over the last six months as part of Europol's Operational Taskforce (OTF) GRIMM. The operation targets what cops call "violence-as-a-service" - crime crews recruiting kids and teens online to carry out contract killings and other real-world attacks.?



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  • ICEBlock lawsuit: Trump admin bragged about demanding App Store removal
    ICEBlock creator sues to protect apps that are crowd-sourcing ICE sightings.

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  • Paramount tries to swipe Warner Bros. from Netflix with a hostile takeover
    Paramount has already proven it can get a controversial merger done.

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  • F1 in Abu Dhabi: And that?s the championship
    A three-way fight down to the wire as the ground effect era comes to a close.

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  • A big bike on a budget: Lectric?s XPress 750
    A budget e-bike that offers more than you might expect.

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  • Meta offers EU users ad-light option in push to end investigation
    Facebook agrees to change "pay or consent" model after talks with European Commission.

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  • The Boys gears up for a supe-ocalypse in S5 teaser
    "So how about it, you lot? One last go?"

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  • Please send help. I can?t stop playing these roguelikes.
    2025 was a very good year for my favorite genre.

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  • Why is my dog like this? Current DNA tests won?t explain it to you.
    Dog behavior is a lot more complicated than any one gene variant.

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  • A massive, Chinese-backed port could push the Amazon Rainforest over the edge
    The port will revolutionize global trade, but it?s sparking destructive rainforest routes.

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  • Streaming service makes rare decision to lower its monthly fees
    This could be just what Fubo and its subscribers need.

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