BBC News

  1. Prince Andrew says he 'ceased all contact' with alleged Chinese spy
  2. 'My colleague had heart attack as bricks hurled' - summer riots police speak out
  3. No-one gets France's difficulty more than me, says Macron's new PM Bayrou
  4. Watch: Dancing crowds in Aleppo celebrate end of Assad regime
  5. Two arrested after Christmas fairground ride crashes to the ground
  6. Xi Jinping not expected to attend Trump inauguration
  7. Crown of Thorns returns to Notre-Dame Cathedral after fire
  8. Wife of former rugby star 'heartbroken' over flood death
  9. BBC complains to Apple over misleading shooting headline
  10. Geminid meteor shower promises multi-coloured streaks of light
  11. Steven Bartlett sharing harmful health misinformation in Diary of CEO podcast
  12. Man jailed for life for murdering partner's two-year-old daughter
  13. The dark fandom behind healthcare CEO murder suspect
  14. Questions over Andrew's judgement and finances raised again
  15. François Bayrou commands respect - but can he save France from crisis?

Hacker News

  1. Sharing new research, models, and datasets from Meta FAIR
  2. Exotic new superconductors delight and confound
  3. The Pentium FDIV bug, reverse-engineered
  4. Show HN: @smoores/epub, a JavaScript library for working with EPUB publications
  5. Making my first robot as a software engineer
  6. Show HN: Imposter Attack – Among Us-themed infrared game made with ESP32
  7. Schrödinger's IPv6 Cat
  8. Web Origami, for making websites where you can understand how they’re made
  9. An Italian town that built its own sun (2021)
  10. Ask HN: What should I do with meet.hn?
  11. Noninvasive imaging method can penetrate deeper into living tissue
  12. "All your base are belong to us" intro to my 2004 MIT Spam Conference talk
  13. Elon Musk wanted an OpenAI for-profit
  14. Donald Bitzer has died
  15. MarkItDown: Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown

r/Reddit Frontpage

  1. TIL: In 2016, a man stole $5 million from his workplace as an accounting department manager over the course of 7 years and spent $1 million of it on a single mo…
  2. Inside Chernobyl, scientists have discovered a black fungus feeding on deadly gamma radiation.
  3. ‘If Ukraine fails, war will come to the streets of European cities,’ former foreign minister says
  4. She took a DNA test for fun. Police used it to charge her grandmother with murder in a cold case
  5. My city paints butterflies where young people have died in drunk driving accidents to raise awareness.
  6. "Intergalactic was inspired by Akira"
  7. RFK's Lawyer Has Asked the F.D.A. to Revoke Approval of the Polio Vaccine
  8. I am a mature man, I am a mature man, I am aaaaa
  9. Honor Blackman 1964
  10. Feminine advantage in harm perception obscures male victimization - Harm toward women is perceived as more severe than similar harm toward men, a disparity root…
  11. Woman who falsely accused Duke lacrosse players of assault in 2006 publicly admits she lied
  12. Real luxuries [image]
  13. My goofy best friend who we rescued a few years ago
  14. Video of teenage Rihanna revealing Jay-Z joked about 'throwing her out the window' if she didn't sign a deal goes viral
  15. Americans, what is your insurance horror story?

lobste.rs

  1. Helix: Why (And How) I Use It
  2. Majjit LSP
  3. 3 shell scripts to improve your writing, or "My Ph.D. advisor rewrote himself in bash."
  4. The Jujutsu version control system
  5. Less talk, more code
  6. SCCS roach motel
  7. Auth bypass in Go SSH package
  8. When Your Webcam Doesn’t Work: Solving Firefox and PipeWire Issues
  9. Ki, a multi-cursor structural editor
  10. A new video captures a remarkable 1968 demo of IBM’s Executive Terminal
  11. "Rules" that terminal programs follow
  12. Algorithms for high performance terminal apps
  13. WebTransport (WebSockets 2.0) talk at RubyConf
  14. C++ exception performance three years later
  15. The Humble For Loop in Rust

Slashdot

  1. Google's NotebookLM AI Podcast Hosts Can Now Talk To You, Too
  2. Tumblr Adds Reddit-Like 'Communities'
  3. Russian Watchdog Blocks Viber Messaging App
  4. The US Military is Now Talking Openly About Going On the Attack in Space
  5. Officials Demand Explanation On Mysterious Drone Sightings
  6. UnitedHealthcare's Optum Left an AI Chatbot, Used By Employees To Ask Questions About Claims, Exposed To the Internet
  7. Silicon Valley's Perks Culture is Largely Dead
  8. HDMI 2.2 Specs With Increased Bandwidth To Be Announced at CES 2025
  9. US Lawmakers Tell Apple, Google To Be Ready To Remove TikTok From App Stores on January 19
  10. Microsoft Quietly Axes Skype Credit and Phone Number Sales To Push Subscriptions
  11. Klarna Stopped All Hiring a Year Ago To Replace Workers With AI
  12. Legal Tech Unicorn EvenUp Relied Heavily on Humans Despite AI Claims
  13. US Curbs Scope of China Science Accord Amid Tech Rivalry
  14. Texas House Introduces Bill To Establish a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve
  15. Scrabble Star Wins Spanish World Title Despite Not Speaking Spanish

Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers

  1. An Introduction To CSS Scroll-Driven Animations: Scroll And View Progress Timelines
  2. Mastering SVG Arcs
  3. The Importance Of Graceful Degradation In Accessible Interface Design
  4. Creating An Effective Multistep Form For Better User Experience
  5. Dreaming Of Miracles (December 2024 Wallpapers Edition)
  6. The Hype Around Signals
  7. Why You Should Speak At Events As An Early-Career Professional
  8. AI’s Transformative Impact On Web Design: Supercharging Productivity Across The Industry
  9. Open-Source Meets Design Tooling With Penpot
  10. Bundle Up And Save On Smashing Books And Workshops
  11. Alternatives To Typical Technical Illustrations And Data Visualisations
  12. Why Optimizing Your Lighthouse Score Is Not Enough For A Fast Website
  13. Ingredients For A Cozy November (2024 Wallpapers Edition)
  14. Designing For Gen Z: Expectations And UX Guidelines
  15. CSS min() All The Things

The Onion

  1. Pregnant Women Turned Away From ERs Despite Federal Law
  2. Coworker Asks If Woman Interested In Reliving Childhood Trauma On Work Volleyball Team
  3. Hormel Introduces New Chili Formula For Mothers Who Can’t Produce Own Chili
  4. Study Finds Repeatedly Patting Thighs Still Remains Best Way To Get Sat On
  5. Trump Campaign Hacked By Iran
  6. J.D. Vance Accuses Tim Walz Of Stolen Valor For Wearing ‘Grill Master’ Apron
  7. Newly Sober God Admits He Has No Recollection Of Creating Universe
  8. Crush Not Texting You Because His Feelings So Strong That They Scare Him, Finds Imaginary Study
  9. Tim Walz: ‘I Have Killed, And I Will Kill Again’
  10. R. Kelly Petitions Supreme Court To Watch Him Pee
  11. Third Person Dies In Boar’s Head Deli Meat Listeria Outbreak
  12. Sofa So Good
  13. Tim Walz: A Career Timeline
  14. Study: Gen Z Having Less Sex Due To Allure Of Leftovers At Home
  15. Dr. Scholl’s Recalls All Products After Announcing Only Way To Fix Flat Feet Is With Eugenics

WIRED

  1. Tips for ChatGPT’s Voice Mode? Best AI Uses for Retirees? Our Expert Answers Your Questions
  2. Some Educated Guesses About Trump’s Second Term
  3. The New Jersey Drone Mystery May Not Actually Be That Mysterious
  4. Former ByteDance Intern Accused of Sabotage Among Winners of Prestigious AI Award
  5. Why the US Military Can't Just Shoot Down the Mystery Drones
  6. 9 Best Online Photo Printing Services That We Tested (2024)
  7. Wayve’s AI Self-Driving System Is Here to Drive Like a Human and Take On Waymo and Tesla
  8. Human Misuse Will Make Artificial Intelligence More Dangerous
  9. Use Android’s Built-In Settings to Cut Your Phone Usage Time in Half
  10. 8 Best Baby Carriers (2024): Wraps, Slings, and Packs
  11. No One Needs a Luigi Mangione Show
  12. Blacksky Is Nothing Like Black Twitter—and It Doesn’t Need to Be
  13. What Billionaire Frank McCourt Would Actually Do With TikTok
  14. 23 Gifts for Dads Who Don't Need Anything (2024)
  15. As the Mastermind of Far-Right ‘Active Clubs’ Goes to Prison, His Violent Movement Goes Global

Core77

  1. Core77 Weekly Roundup (12-9-24 to 12-13-24)
  2. An "E+Bike" by Industrial Design Firm Springtime
  3. A Tabletop RPG Dice Set Alternative in a Credit Card Form Factor
  4. An Obscure Industrial Design Classic: Angelo Lelii's Polifemo Floor Lamp
  5. Conversion Kit Turns Beds into Rocking Beds
  6. From China, a Hi-Tech "Luxury" Kitchen Sink with Crazy Features
  7. Ox Delivers' Flatpack EV Truck Creates Prosperity in Africa
  8. Roof Hacks: A Leafblower vs. Sheets of Ice
  9. A Floating Sauna, Made with Unrecyclable Wind Turbine Blades
  10. Step Aside, Yule Log: NASA's Rocket Engine Fireplace
  11. Brilliant Furniture Design: Simone Giertz's Swivel-Arm Chair Valet
  12. An Explosion of VR Simulators, by FuninVR
  13. Xreal's AR Glasses are a Fraction of the Price of Apple's Vision Pro
  14. Bjarke Ingels Group Designs a Tent-Like Structure for Glamping
  15. The All-New Electric Popemobile, by Mercedes-Benz

MacRumors: Mac News and Rumors - All Stories

  1. What You Can and Can't Make With iOS 18.2's Genmoji Feature
  2. iOS 18.2: Here's How Mail Categories Work
  3. Best Apple Deals of the Week: Steep Discounts Hit Apple Watches and Bands, Plus Sales on AirTag, Anker, and More
  4. Report: Apple to Stop Selling iPhone 14 and iPhone SE in EU This Month
  5. Apple Begins Selling New Vision Pro Carry Sling and Exclusive Charging Accessories
  6. The MacRumors Show: Apple's 2024 – Year in Review
  7. M2 iPad Air Holiday Deals Include $100 Off and All-Time Low Prices at Best Buy
  8. Best Buy Takes Up to $200 Off M4 iPad Pro, Available From $849
  9. Apple CEO Tim Cook Hosts King Charles III at UK Headquarters
  10. AirPods to Be Made in India for the First Time Next Year
  11. iPhone 17 Air Model Enters Product Introduction Phase at Foxconn
  12. WhatsApp Rolls Out Calling Updates for Desktop and Mobile
  13. iOS 18.2 Includes New Find My Option for Sharing Lost Luggage Location With Airlines
  14. Google Debuts Android XR Operating System for Mixed Reality Headsets and Smart Glasses
  15. YouTube TV Gets Major Price Hike

Ars Technica - All content

  1. Werner Herzog muses on mysteries of the brain in Theater of Thought
  2. Elon Musk slams SEC as agency threatens charges in Twitter stock probe
  3. Don’t use crypto to cheat on taxes: Bitcoin bro gets 2 years
  4. F1 Arcade trip report: Great sims make for a compelling experience
  5. The US military is now talking openly about going on the attack in space
  6. Twirling body horror in gymnastics video exposes AI’s flaws
  7. Americans spend more years being unhealthy than people in any other country
  8. Rocket Report: Chinese national flies drone near Falcon 9, Trouble down under
  9. Are LLMs capable of non-verbal reasoning?
  10. Character.AI steps up teen safety after bots allegedly caused suicide, self-harm
  11. Critical WordPress plugin vulnerability under active exploit threatens thousands
  12. Report: AT&T, Verizon aren’t notifying most victims of Chinese call-records hack
  13. Generating power with a thin, flexible thermoelectric film
  14. Studies pin down exactly when humans and Neanderthals swapped DNA
  15. OpenAI introduces “Santa Mode” to ChatGPT for ho-ho-ho voice chats

Boing Boing

  1. Tripping on psilocybin helped traumatized and depressed COVID-19 frontline healthcare workers
  2. U.S. Department of Defense conducts test
  3. Hire the wrong people, misfile important documents, remove batteries from remotes, and other suggestions for corporate sabotage
  4. Blue Cross denies $8K life-saving drug — Kansas City student risks fatal bleeding
  5. Dropped phone leads cops to axe-wielding thief in $2.7M Beverly Hills heist
  6. Best book covers of 2024
  7. Woman's "delay, deny, depose" threat lands her in jail, but MAGA nuts can threaten with guns
  8. California DMV sorry for issuing vanity plate mocking October 7 attack on Israel
  9. Two mathematicians just solved a centuries-old prime number puzzle that experts thought impossible
  10. How to make Elvis's famous Fool's Gold sandwich: The King's 8,000-calorie obsession
  11. Merriam-Webster's word of the year is "polarization"
  12. Let them eat centrism: Macron picks another prime minister from his own camp
  13. History's most catastrophic costume party, hosted by a mad king who thought he was made of glass
  14. CNN's MAGA snowflake Scott Jennings melts down when Democratic panelist gets too close: "Don't touch me!" (video)
  15. 1968 IBM demo of its Executive Terminal

Engadget is a web magazine with obsessive daily coverage of everything new in gadgets and consumer electronics

  1. OpenAI published more of Elon Musk’s emails if that’s something you want to read
  2. Bosch signs agreement for up to $225 million in CHIPS Act funding
  3. Google’s NotebookLM Audio Overviews will now let you call in with a question
  4. A US Congressman tried (and failed) to fake his Spotify Wrapped for political gain
  5. Xbox Series X review (2024): Unfulfilled potential
  6. The Game Awards 2024: The 15 biggest announcements and new trailers including The Witcher 4 and Elden Ring
  7. Airbnb is deploying “anti-party technology” to ruin your NYE party
  8. ZeniMax Online Studios workers form their own union
  9. Skype phases out credits and phone numbers
  10. Elden Ring Nightreign is a co-op spinoff coming in 2025
  11. RGG reveals a Virtua Fighter revival and a brawler set in the 1910s
  12. The best Christmas gifts for everyone on your 2024 holiday shopping list
  13. Anker's 3-in-1 power bank drops to just $20, plus the rest of this week's best tech deals
  14. The best stocking stuffer gifts under $50
  15. The best white elephant gifts that everyone will love

The Register

  1. Hollywood plays unwitting Cameo in Kremlin plot to discredit Zelensky
  2. To be, or not to be, in the office. Has returning to work stalled?
  3. Google's Project Ellman: Merging photo and search data to create digital twin chatbot
  4. Competing Section 702 surveillance bills on collision path for US House floor
  5. Musk takes SEC 'Twitter sitter' consent decree appeal to US Supreme Court
  6. Microsoft to intro dedicated mode for Cloud PCs
  7. AMD thinks it can solve the power/heat problem with chiplets and code
  8. Open source forkers stick an OpenBao in the oven
  9. Uncle Sam plows $42M into nurturing fusion breakthrough
  10. Datacenters feeling the heat to turn hot air into cool solutions
  11. That call center tech scammer could be a human trafficking victim
  12. Messed up metadata could be to blame for Microsoft's Windows printer woes
  13. Time for a Geeko remix: openSUSE is looking for a new logo
  14. Microsoft's relationship with OpenAI now in competition regulator's sights
  15. Systemd 255 is here with improved UKI support

The Next Web

  1. Head of Microsoft for Startups: Europe just needs time to spawn more winners
  2. Finnish startup bags €29M to decarbonise this niche building material
  3. Scientifica raises €200M to fund and provide lab space for deep tech startups
  4. Upvest — which powers stock trading on Revolut, N26, Bunq — secures €100M
  5. What we learned after taking part in a 100-day innovation sprint
  6. Dutch startup’s new battery material could wean Europe off Chinese graphite
  7. Where do startups come from? Ideas and entrepreneurs, of course
  8. UK police trial high-tech wristbands to keep dementia patients safe
  9. Propelling satellites with electricity and salt? No problem for this Parisian startup
  10. Time for a move? These are the top cities in Europe for developers right now

LifeHacker

  1. The Best Ways to Find a Running Track Near You (and a Beginner’s Workout to Try)
  2. ChatGPT Can Finally See
  3. My Best Advice for Shipping Holiday Cookies Without Ruining Them
  4. You Can Max Out Your IRA Contributions for Longer Than You Might Think
  5. Toxic Christmas Tree Water and Other Holiday Pet Dangers You Never Knew About
  6. WhatsApp Now Lets You Call Select Members of a Group Chat
  7. My Favorite Amazon Deal of the Day: The Fire Stick Xbox Game Pass Bundle
  8. It’s Time to Learn What ‘Core Sleep’ Actually Is
  9. Google Maps’ Best Feature Is About to Get a Lot Less Useful
  10. This iPhone 15 Pro Max Is Less Than $900
  11. Now Is the Best Time to Get a Deal on a Used Car
  12. This Free App Archives and Deletes Your Tweets
  13. The 28 Best Holiday and Christmas Movies on Netflix Right Now
  14. Seven Ways to Make Hosting Little Kids for the Holidays Less Stressful for Everyone
  15. Seven Home Maintenance Tasks Everyone Forgets to Do

NYT > World News

  1. Live Updates: Images Suggest Russia Is Packing Up Equipment in Syria
  2. Europe Begins to Ask if Syrians Can Go Home After al-Assad’s Fall
  3. Macron Appoints François Bayrou as France’s New Prime Minister
  4. Ukrainian Women Are Traveling to the Front Line to Keep Love Alive
  5. With al-Assad Gone, Syrians Search Prisons for Traces of Their Loved Ones
  6. Russia Launches Missile Attack on Ukraine’s Energy Infrastructure
  7. Iranians Confront Their Leaders Over Syria Debacle
  8. Prince Andrew’s Links to Chinese Spy Suspect Revealed by U.K. Court
  9. Turkey Emerges as a Big Winner in the Wake of al-Assad’s Ouster
  10. How America Turned Allies into Enemies in Afghanistan
  11. Trump’s Pick as Mideast Adviser, Massad Boulos, Is a Truck Salesman
  12. Young Koreans, Seeing Democracy at Stake, Take to the Streets
  13. Milei Tames Inflation in Argentina With Painful Policies, Sparking Applause and Anger
  14. Chinese-Flagged Ship Suspected of Cutting Cables Remains Halted Weeks Later
  15. Joy Buoys Syria’s First Friday Prayers Since Assad Ouster, but Hardships Loom

The Verge - All Posts

  1. The long-shot plan to save TikTok from a US ban
  2. ChatGPT Projects are fancy folders for your AI chats
  3. Peak Design denies snitching on Luigi Mangione
  4. Texas sues New York doctor for prescribing abortion pills via telemedicine
  5. A Gemini-boosted Google Assistant is now available on some Nest speakers
  6. The best Nintendo Switch controllers to buy right now
  7. Apple’s AI summary mangled a BBC headline about Luigi Mangione
  8. The Nintendo Switch 2, as described by Dbrand
  9. Amazon is shipping the Kindle Colorsoft again, but it’s unclear if it’s fixed
  10. Elmo needs a new streaming home after Max drops Sesame Street

DEV Community

  1. Building a Security System, with motion detection and time based settings using Arduino
  2. WIkipedia summarizer
  3. # Building a Robust Application with Change Data Capture: A Practical Journey Through Debezium, Kafka, and PostgreSQL
  4. The Limits of "Fake it Till You Make it" in the Software Engineering Career
  5. Advent of Code '24 - Day 13 Claw Contraption
  6. MariaDB (Bite-size Article)
  7. Why Many Developers Abandon Their First Projects
  8. How to Build a Collapsible Side Content in React, Inspired by Jira
  9. What’s your favorite framework for building GenAI applications? (LangChain, Haystack, LlamaIndex, or others?) 🚀
  10. SQL database projects intro
  11. Azure Synapse PySpark Toolbox 001: Input/Output
  12. Day 13: Docker Multistage Builds

Al Jazeera – Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera

  1. ‘Inconvenient’: Trump aims to end ‘costly’ daylight saving time in the US
  2. District attorney seeks death penalty in case highlighted in US election
  3. More than 30 Palestinians killed in an Israeli strike on Nuseirat
  4. Turkiye’s Erdogan offers to mediate in Sudan-UAE disputes
  5. Will Syria’s new leadership be inclusive and recognised by world powers?
  6. Protesters turn K-Pop light sticks into symbol of resistance
  7. How does AI threaten our environment?
  8. UN human rights office resumes activities in Venezuela despite Maduro clash
  9. Dutch court rejects bid to halt arms exports to Israel as Gaza war rages
  10. Elon Musk’s election talk sparked concern in swing state, emails reveal
  11. Blinken meets Iraqi PM in Baghdad to discuss ISIL, Syria
  12. Syrians celebrate regime’s fall across the nation
  13. McKinsey to pay $650m to settle US opioid consulting probe
  14. What does Bashar al-Assad’s fall mean for Syria and the region?
  15. “I’m looking for my uncle” A personal story from Syria

The Guardian

  1. Syrian rebels reveal year-long plot that brought down Assad regime
  2. Prince Andrew says he ‘ceased all contact’ with alleged Chinese spy after government advice
  3. Shard to share title of tallest building in UK as new skyscraper gets green light
  4. Steven Bartlett accused of amplifying dangerous health claims on his podcast
  5. West Ham mourn ‘unimaginably devastating’ death of 15-year-old academy goalkeeper
  6. Mother and boyfriend wheeled body of toddler around Ipswich after murder
  7. Texas sues New York doctor accused of mailing abortion pills across state lines
  8. BBC says it has complained to Apple over AI-generated fake news attributed to broadcaster
  9. Man jailed for life for raping and killing NHS worker on park bench
  10. Fury grows as US politicians demand answers about mysterious drones
  11. Argentina’s president Javier Milei given Italian citizenship, sparking outrage
  12. ‘Middle class women of a certain age’ reclaim Gregg Wallace insult – and wear it with pride
  13. What are the flying objects spotted in New Jersey?
  14. ‘What a circus’: eligible US voters on why they didn’t vote in the 2024 presidential election
  15. Strictly 2024: 10 of the best dances – from Pete’s PVC trousers to Punam’s couple’s choice