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  • Sudanese paramilitary drone attack kills 50, including 33 children, doctor group says
    Thursday's attack is the latest in the fighting between the paramilitary group, the Rapid Support Forces, also known as the RSF, and the Sudanese military, who have been at war for over two years.

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  • Russia unleashes drone and missile attack on Ukraine as diplomatic talks continue
    Russia unleashed a major missile and drone barrage on Ukraine overnight into Saturday, after U.S. and Ukrainian officials said they'll meet on Saturday for talks aimed at ending the war.

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  • Takeaways from the latest special election and what it means for control of the House
    There was yet another sign this week of a potential 2026 wave that could hand control of the House of Representatives to Democrats.

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  • West Virginians question National Guard deployments after attack on 2 of their own
    Army Specialist Sarah Beckstrom was fatally shot in Washington, D.C., while Air Force Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe was seriously wounded. Trump says the deployments are necessary to fight crime, but others disagree.

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  • Trump official signals potential rollback of changes to census racial categories
    Trump officials are reviewing changes to racial and ethnic categories that the Biden administration approved for the 2030 census and other federal government forms, a White House agency official says.

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  • HHS changed the name of transgender health leader on her official portrait
    Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered.

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  • Trump's 'garbage' comment met with disappointment in Somalia
    In Somalia, people are pushing back and pointing to the positives after President Trump disparaged their country.

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  • Putin and Modi expand India-Russia economic ties in talks in New Delhi
    India gave Russia's leader a warm welcome in his first visit since his country invaded Ukraine. The visit in part signaled India's defiance of the U.S., which has punished New Delhi for buying Russian oil.

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  • For the first time this century, child deaths under age 5 will likely rise. Why?
    A dramatic drop in mortality for youngsters under age 5 has been one of the great accomplishments in global health. But estimates suggest that in 2025 child deaths will go up.

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  • Appeals court hands Trump a victory, OK'ing firings of two independent agency heads
    The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2 to 1 that President Trump's firings of Democratic members of the Merit Systems Protection Board and the National Labor Relations Board were lawful.

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  • Driving test touts offer instructors £250 monthly kickbacks
    Touts use instructor login details to bulk-book tests and sell them at a huge mark-up, the BBC finds.

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  • Four arrested over defacing of Crown Jewels display case at Tower of London
    The group Take Back Power says its members poured custard and apple crumble on the display.

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  • Young people are getting a 'raw deal', and that's good news for the Greens and Reform
    Frustration among voters under 30 is widespread, writes Laura Kuenssberg.

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  • 'Life being stressful is not an illness' - GPs on mental health over-diagnosis
    Hundreds of GPs in England tell the BBC they are also worried about a lack of help for patients.

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  • Bethlehem Christmas tree lights up for first time since start of Gaza war
    For the past two years all public Christmas celebrations have been cancelled in Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank.

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  • Russia hits Ukraine as US reports progress in talks with Kyiv
    France's president condemns the attack and announces talks in London on Monday with Ukrainian, British and German leaders.

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  • Is your smartwatch controlling your life?
    Millions of us strap them on our wrists 24/7, but they could be making us more stressed.

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  • Shoppers loved the 'fabric queen'. Then, order by order, her story fell apart
    Designer Nerida Hansen admits failing customers who ordered textiles worth thousands of dollars from her businesses.

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  • What should you do if you dislike your friend's partner?
    Former friends Chrishell Stause and Emma Hernan have argued on and off-camera in the Netflix reality show.

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  • McFly star to perform on Strictly for musicals week
    There are just two weeks left in the contest, and things are heating up on the ballroom floor.

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rss: the register

  • And the winner of the Microsoft Christmas sweater is...

    Peak Microsoft is whatever you want it to be. Or not

    The readers have spoken, and the era of peak Microsoft is? open to debate.?



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  • Death to one-time text codes: Passkeys are the new hotness in MFA

    Wanna know a secret?

    Whether you're logging into your bank, health insurance, or even your email, most services today do not live by passwords alone. Now commonplace, multifactor authentication (MFA) requires users to enter a second or third proof of identity. However, not all forms of MFA are created equal, and the one-time passwords orgs send to your phone have holes so big you could drive a truck through them.?



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  • Judge hints Vizio TV buyers may have rights to source code licensed under GPL

    Tentative ruling signals a potential win for SFC?s copyleft enforcement push

    Electronics biz Vizio may be required by a California court to provide source code for its SmartCast TV software, which is allegedly based on open source code licensed under the GPLv2 and LGPLv2.1.?



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  • Crims using social media images, videos in 'virtual kidnapping' scams

    Proof of life? Or an active social media presence?

    Criminals are altering social media and other publicly available images of people to use as fake proof of life photos in "virtual kidnapping" and extortion scams, the FBI warned on Friday. ?



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  • Salesforce has come up with the most credible threat yet to ServiceNow, and Benioff is crowing about it

    Some within the CRM giant balked, but Benioff prevailed

    ServiceNow?s dominant spot among IT service management (ITSM) platforms is facing its ?most credible? threat to date, as longtime platform rival Salesforce has rolled out an AI agent-powered product that has won early plaudits from one of the largest credit unions in the US.?



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  • Novel clickjacking attack relies on CSS and SVG

    Who needs JavaScript?

    Security researcher Lyra Rebane has devised a novel clickjacking attack that relies on Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).?



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  • Cloudflare blames Friday outage on borked fix for React2shell vuln

    Security community needs to rally and share more info faster, one researcher says

    Amid new reports of attackers pummeling a maximum security hole (CVE-2025-55182) in the React JavaScript library, Cloudflare's technology chief said his company took down its own network, forcing a widespread outage early Friday, to patch React2Shell.?



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  • EU metes out first-ever Digital Services Act fine, dings X for blue check deception

    TikTok, by contrast, satisfied DSA concerns over its ad repository transparency

    The European Union has issued its first-ever Digital Services Act fine, slapping Elon Musk's X with a ?120 million penalty for breaching the bloc's rules on ad transparency, data access for researchers, and its revamped blue-checkmark system.?



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  • Microsoft 365 boosts prices in 2026 ? to pay for more AI and security

    All those new features won?t fund themselves

    Microsoft 365 customers have gotten an early Christmas present from Santa Satya: price rises. All that AI goodness isn't going to pay for itself.?



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  • Tech leaders fill $1T AI bubble, insist it doesn't exist

    Even as enterprises defer spending and analysts spot dotcom-era warning signs

    Tech execs are adamant the AI craze is not a bubble, despite the vast sums of money being invested, overinflated valuations given to AI startups, and reports that many projects fail to make it past the pilot stage.?



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rss: ars technica

  • 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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  • Netflix?s $72B WB acquisition confounds the future of movie theaters, streaming
    Netflix's plans to own HBO Max, DC Comics, Harry Potter to face regulatory scrutiny.

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  • Rare set of varied factors triggered Black Death
    Volcanic eruptions in the mid-1340s triggered a chain of events that brought the Black Death to Europe.

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  • SteamOS vs. Windows on dedicated GPUs: It?s complicated, but Windows has an edge
    Ars testing shows SteamOS fares better on iGPUs than powerful graphics cards.

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  • Without evidence, RFK Jr.?s vaccine panel tosses hep B vaccine recommendation
    There is no data supporting a delay and no evidence of harm from a birth dose.

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  • Elon Musk?s X first to be fined under EU?s Digital Services Act
    The biggest changes Musk made to Twitter trigger a $140 million fine under DSA.

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  • Toyota?s new GR GT picks up where the 2000GT and Lexus LFA left off
    The GR GT is a V8 hybrid, and there's an electric Lexus sports car concept, too.

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  • Knight of the Seven Kingdoms trailer brings levity to Westeros
    "Every knight needs a squire, and you look like you need one more than most."

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  • New report warns of critical climate risks in Arab region
    Foundations of daily life are being pushed to the brink by human-caused warming.

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