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Engadget
- Sam Bankman-Fried says he'll testify next week about FTX Collapse
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Techmeme
- https://on.ft.com/3Y3OtSF
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Boing Boing
- Scientific video reveals how much toilet water sprays into the air when you flush… and it's disgusting
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Lifehacker
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Arts & Letters Daily
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- Pilot, spy, romancer of starlets. Roald Dahl lived a cosmopolitan life before he started writing children’s fiction in the 1960s
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Buzzfeed
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Marketwatch
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NYT Business
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Wikipedia Current Events
December 9
Armed conflicts and attacks
- 2022 North Kosovo crisis
- Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabić says Serbia is close to deploying its troops to North Kosovo after claiming the lives of the Serb minority there are "being threatened," and that the NATO-led Kosovo Force was "failing to protect them." (ABC News)
Disasters and accidents
- Ten people are killed and four others are injured after a coal mine exploded in Sawahlunto, West Sumatra, Indonesia. (AP)
- At least one person is killed after a large explosion occurs during a massive fire at a shopping centre in Moscow, Russia. (Al-Jazeera)
Law and crime
- A court in Moscow sentences prominent opposition figure Ilya Yashin to eight and a half years in prison on charges related to his criticism of the ongoing war in Ukraine. (ABC News)
Science and technology
- A Japanese research team of the Yamagata University announces the discovery of 168 new big figures near the Nazca Lines, Peru. (El Mundo)