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• Airbus issues major A320 recall after flight-control incident

  • A320 worldwide temporarily grounded by Airbus over flight-control software issue

  • Flights disrupted as Airbus requests modifications to planes

  • Airbus A320 Fly by wire corrupted by radiation in flight

  • Flight disruption warning as Airbus requests modifications to 6k planes

  • Software Issue Hits Planes

  • Airbus grounds A320 aircraft amid solar radiation risk

  Airbus has urged airlines operating A320 family aircraft to take swift protective measures after engineers uncovered a rare but serious susceptibility to intense solar activity. The move follows an incident involving an A320 family jet in which elevated solar radiation levels were found to interfere with data fundamental to the aircraft’s flight-control architecture, prompting an immediate technical response. Intense solar radiation can result from powerful explosions in the solar system. Depending on the class and intensity of the flare, the energy can travel at the speed of light, reaching the earth’s atmosphere within minutes.

• Scientists are baffled as mysterious halo of red light appears over Italian town

Horseshit

• To Get a Man's Attention, Meow Harder

• Study claims to provide first direct evidence of dark matter

• Too hot to sleep? Take a warm shower

• Don't Buy Your Kid a Crappy Bike for Christmas

  • Be prepared to hunt hard and pay high for anything not crap

• Princeton's Breakthrough Qubit Could Make Quantum Computing Practical

• Tidy flying motorcycle with electric microjets opens pre-orders

• 'Unignorable' flying billboards are slated to come to California

• How to Measure the Earth's Radius with Legos

• A Remarkable Assertion from A16Z - by Neal Stephenson

  In this case, though, we have a big company explicitly stating that several of my best-known books just stop mid-sentence, and putting in the word “literally” to eliminate any room for interpretive leeway. This isn’t literary criticism, which consists of statements of opinion. This is a factual assertion that is (a) false, (b) easy to fact-check, and (c) casts my work ethic, and that of my editors, in an unflattering light.

• Bringing Sexy Back. Internet surveillance has killed eroticism

• The Neoliberal Era Was Not Pro-Market Enough

  neoliberalism is now a term of abuse, in part because of the extent to which it dominated the intellectual life of a previous era. There is no going back to neoliberalism, since it was formulated to deal with the problems of a different time, including economic crises resulting from faulty management of the monetary system. Nonetheless, the Krugman quote shows that the debate over pro-market reforms continues, sometimes in the guise of discourse over neoliberalism. From that perspective, it is worth looking at the arguments of critics who say that the reforms of the 1970s and 1980s failed. We will see that they did not, and there is in fact every reason to believe that classical liberalism is still relevant today, providing a guide to policy going forward.

• Scientists identify the evolutionary "purpose" of consciousness

• Who has the most books wins: Nothing Better Than a Whole Lot of Books: In Praise of Bibliomania

• Addiction is not the right model for smartphones

• Seattle passes 70% college grads for first time

• Indus River – Scientists may have solved why this ancient civilization vanished

Epstein

• Jeffrey Epstein Was the Unofficial Advice Columnist for the Elites

• Former MIT scientist Joscha Bach funded by Epstein made racist claims in private

celebrity gossip

• Former Google chief accused of spying on employees through account 'backdoor'

  • Eric Schmidt's ex-mistress sues former Google CEO over alleged stalking, abuse

• Former Intel chief Pat Gelsinger: 'I've been called here for a purpose'

• Simon Cowell is now washing his own blood to ‘age backwards’. What’s so wrong with getting old?

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Social media algorithms can alter political views, browser extension study shows

Musk

• In Memphis, where people fear Elon Musk's supercomputer is making them ill

Electric / Self Driving cars

• China's BEV trucks and the end of diesel's dominance

Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation

• Vatican issues sweeping defense of traditional marriage, pushing back on polygamy.

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Juno Neutrino Observatory Releases First Results

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• iPhone Fold Will Be Creaseless and Cost $2,400, Report Says

• Nvidia reportedly no longer supplying VRAM to its GPU board partners

• Around 500M PCs are holding off upgrading to Windows 11, says Dell

• Swedish publishers file police report against Meta's Zuckerberg for fraud

• Apple and Intel Rumored to Partner on Mac Chips

• Why sci-fi novelist Iain M. Banks was an 'astounding' world-builder

• The Battle over Africa's Great Untapped Resource: IP Addresses

• VMware isn't budging in its pursuit of Siemens for alleged unpaid licenses

• FCC sounds alarm after emergency tones turned into potty-mouthed radio takeover

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• AI Might Not Harm Us in the Way You Think

• OpenAI partners amass $100B debt pile to fund its ambitions

• Why HP's Gamble on AI Is a Betrayal of People and Product

• Google denies 'misleading' reports of Gmail using your emails to train AI

• Tech Titans Amass Multimillion-Dollar War Chests to Fight AI Regulation

• US Patent Office issues new guidelines for AI-assisted inventions

• One-fifth of the jobs at your company could disappear as AI automation takes off

• Japan town retracts bear sighting warning sparked by AI image

• Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism's AI Era

• OpenAI has described its forthcoming AI device.

• OpenAI won't make money by 2030 and needs another $207B, HSBC estimates

• A trillion dollars (potentially) wasted on gen-AI

• OpenAI Loses Discovery Battle, Cedes Ground to Authors in AI Lawsuits

• Major AI conference flooded with peer reviews written by AI

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

• ULA aimed to launch up to 10 Vulcan rockets this year—it will fly just once.

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Data center 'cooling issue' continues to halt CME stock futures trading

  • CME Data-Center Issue Hits Options, Futures Trading

  • Nasdaq, Dow futures resume trade after CME outage

  • Chicago Data Center Overheated–and Shut Down Trade in Key Markets

• Staff at Irish Meta client firm told 400 jobs at risk just ahead of Christmas

• The housing crisis is pushing Gen Z into crypto and economic nihilism

• Dutch chipmaker Nexperia urges Chinese units to help restore supply chain

• Thanksgiving's real drama may be Michael Burry versus Nvidia

• Why 'hold forever' investors are snapping up venture capital 'zombies'

• FedEx joins list of billion-dollar companies laying off workers

• Kalshi hit as Nevada judge deems platform subject to gambling laws; will appeal

Trump

• Trump says he will cancel all Biden executive orders signed by autopen

Left Angst

• Trump says US will 'permanently pause' migration from 'third world countries'

• Denmark sets up 'night watch' to monitor Trump after Greenland row

• Amazon turned our capitalist era of free markets into age of technofeudalism

• She'd have more "MMT" money printing, I assume? Janet Yellen Says the US Is Undermining Its Economic Success

• Hello Europe, Joe Biden is gone - Bert Hubert's writings

  tl;dr: European thinkers and policy makers are acting and talking as if the US federal government and courts are still “normal”, or will soon be so again. They will not, and we should update our world view. Secondly, when we discuss data retention, we often do not specify that this could be a 24/7 location database of all EU phones and cars. If that is the goal, everyone should be super clear about that.

• U.S. may eliminate income tax by end of current admin

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• FBI Sees Dramatic Increase In Arrests Of ‘Nihilistic Violent Extremism,’ Individuals Targeting Children.

• The Google Trends Spike Before the D.C. Shooting Raises New Questions

  According to posts now being shared across political X, the name of the alleged shooter, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, began spiking on Google Trends in Washington, D.C., hours before the attack took place. The claim suggests possible foreknowledge by unknown actors who searched his name long before the first shot was fired. This deserves careful investigation rather than instant dismissal, because attribution in volatile moments requires precision rather than assumptions. The screenshots circulating show three distinct spikes in D.C. Google search interest for the name Rahmanullah Lakanwal at approximately 2:24 a.m., 3:28 a.m., and 8:00 a.m. on November 26. The shooting occurred at roughly 2:15 p.m. that afternoon. If these timestamps are accurate, then it means the name of the suspect was searched repeatedly by someone in the District long before the event became public. The claim quickly triggered speculation that there may have been knowledge of the identity of the shooter before the incident occurred.

  If federal agencies, contractors, or analysts had internal information about an individual who was already flagged for risk or previous conduct, the name could theoretically appear in searches prior to an incident coming to light. There is no evidence of this at present, but it is a hypothesis that only subpoenaed logs or investigative reporting could confirm or rule out. The call for IP subpoenas circulating online is premature, but the underlying concern is not unreasonable. Transparency is the only antidote to speculation.

  • I was struck by how many long involved reports of this person's history were published before the news even got straight the status of the victims.

• Barratry should have consequences: Fulton County taxpayers could be on the hook for millions as Trump case ends: New state law allows defendants in the election interference case to recoup attorneys’ fees from DA Fani Willis’ office.

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• They hate these folks as much as Musk; same reason. Deviation-ism and openly refuting "consensus": Anduril's autonomous weapons stumble in tests and combat

• US Navy accused of cover-up over dangerous plutonium in San Francisco

World

• Switzerland: Data Protection Officers Impose Broad Cloud Ban for Authorities

• Scam Centers Were Blown Up. Was It All for Show?

• EU Council Approves New "Chat Control" Mandate Pushing Mass Surveillance

• Officials Clashed in Investigation of Deadly Air India Crash

• Japan's human washing machines will go on sale to general public

• The VPN panic is only getting started

• Louvre to raise entry fees for non-Europeans

  • Louvre to hike ticket prices for most non-EU tourists by 45%

• Thieves take €90k of snails meant for Michelin-starred restaurants

• Denmark gets ready to cancel Christmas cards

• Petition to formally recognize open source work as civic service in Germany

• Is Europe Awakening at Last to Its Economic Peril?

• The nine pubcos who control over half of all pubs

• France Creates Voluntary Military Service as Europe Faces Russian Threat

• North Korea's Dystopian Smartphones

• In Denmark, 'Night's Watch' Guards Monitor Trump from the Foreign Ministry

Israel

• The Pro-Israel Information War

  The WhatsApp group where Carey’s case came up serves as a kind of switchboard where the various independent players in Silicon Valley’s pro-Israel community swap ideas, identify enemies, and collaborate on ways to defend Israel in the media, academia, and the business world. We have obtained access to thousands of the group’s WhatsApp messages dating back to mid-October, and an intricate spreadsheet where group participants request and claim tasks ranging from social media responses to IDF support shipments.

  • The pro-Hamas operations run out of the UN and may not be written about.

• Video shows Israeli forces shooting Palestinians dead moments after surrender

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Putin's scientists are creating spy pigeons controlled by brain implants

China

• How the deadly Hong Kong fire spread

• Bamboo scaffolding helped build Hong Kong's skyline, but deadly fire may end it

• The China That the World Sees Is Not the One I Live In

• China claims domestically-designed 14nm logic chips can rival 4nm Nvidia silicon

• What China will dominate next

• Is China winning the innovation race?

Health / Medicine

• People Who Don't Lose Weight on Wegovy May Have Genetic Differences

• Ozempic 2.0 is on the way, and it could be even more transformative

• What a federal ban on THC-infused drinks and snacks could mean for hemp industry

Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp

• Bird flu virus could risk pandemic worse than Covid if it mutates

  • So lets make sure we're not spending taxpayer money for anyone to develop mutated versions of it then, k?

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• The mysterious black fungus from Chernobyl that may eat radiation

• Pave the planet! Africa's forests have switched from absorbing to emitting carbon

  • Africa's forests are now emitting more CO2 than they absorb

• Airplane contrails may not be the climate villain once feared

• Gulper sharks are being killed to make cosmetics. New laws could save them

• Air pollution may reduce health benefits of excercise

• Rare flower discovery and what Oxford didn't do that generated controversy

• EPA Delays Requirements to Cut Methane