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- Bike Rack Battle Royale: Küat Piston Pro vs. Thule Epos 2
- Ode to the Ski Swap
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- This Super Steel Is Revolutionizing Knives. Is it Worth The Price?
- The 5 Most Affordable Places to Buy a Mountain Cabin
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The Verge
- Apple has seemingly found a way to block Android’s new iMessage app
- The spreadsheet revealing who got cut at Spotify
- Amazon scammers used hacks and bribes to make millions off fake returns
- There won’t be a small Chevy Bolt EV on GM’s Ultium platform
- Apple Wallet ticket sharing is becoming more like NameDrop
- Threads is counting down to an EU launch next week
- An ‘AI’ fast food drive-thru is mostly just human workers in the Philippines
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Engadget
- Beeper Mini’s iMessage integration is on the fritz
- CRISPR-based gene editing therapy approved by the FDA for the first time
- Alan Wake 2 to dispatch a new game plus mode on December 11
- The FTC is reportedly looking into Microsoft’s $13 billion OpenAI investment
- Threads countdown hints at EU launch on December 14
- Microsoft is hiring dozens of ZeniMax QA contractors as unionized employees
- Sonos home theater gear is up to 25 percent off, plus the rest of the best tech deals this week
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Wired
- The First Crispr Medicine Is Now Approved in the US
- Google’s NotebookLM Aims to Be the Ultimate Writing Assistant
- ‘Den of Wolves’ Will Be a Sci-Fi Heist
- The 19 Best Movies on Apple TV+ Right Now
- Elijah Wood and Mike Tyson Cameo Videos Were Used in a Russian Disinformation Campaign
- Why It Took Meta 7 Years to Turn on End-to-End Encryption for All Chats
- Google’s Gemini Is the Real Start of the Generative AI Boom
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Techmeme
- As Beeper Mini experiences an outage, Beeper CEO says “all data indicates” that Apple possibly found a way to cut off the app's ability to function
- Warning from OpenAI leaders helped trigger Sam Altman’s ouster
- Sources: Apple is reorganizing its hardware engineering team as Tang Tan, its VP in charge of iPhone and Watch product design, plans to step down in February
- Tracxn: Indian startups raised ~$7B in 2023, the lowest since 2018 and down from ~$25B in 2022 and ~$37B in 2021; Bessemer made only one deal in India in 2023
- Microsoft agrees to convert 77 TCWGlobal contract staff at ZeniMax into unionized employees, as part of negotiations with CWA-affiliated ZeniMax Workers United
- X Is Working to Lure Smaller Advertisers as Elon Musk Keeps Alienating Big Brands
- Threads is counting down to an EU launch next week
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Hacker News
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Slashdot
- Amazon Says Thieves Swiped Millions by Faking Product Refunds
- 'Unprecedented Mass Coral Bleaching' Expected in 2024, Says Expert
- Apple Aims To Make a Quarter of the World's iPhones in India
- Tencent Unveils Big-Budget Open-World Game
- UK Class-Action Targets Mobile Phone Operators With $4.15 Billion Damages Claim
- Global Carbon Emissions From Fossil Fuels To Hit Record High
- Particle Physicists Offer a Road Map for the Next Decade
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Futurism
- Readers Want Publications to Label AI-Generated Content
- Meta's New Image-Generating AI Is Trained on Your Instagram and Facebook Posts
- This Cartoonish New Robot Dog Somehow Looks Even Scarier
- NASA Says It's Trying to Bring the Hubble Back Online
- Silicon Valley Guys Casually Calculating Probability Their AI Will Destroy Humankind
- Busted! Drive-Thru Run by "AI" Actually Operated by Humans in the Philippines
- Elon Musk Says CEO of Disney Should Be Fired, Seemingly for Hurting His Feelings
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404 Media
- Behind the Blog: 'Wow Technology,' AI Content Creators, and Fake Cops
- Verizon Gave Phone Data to Armed Stalker Who Posed as Cop Over Email
- Here's the Video For Our Second FOIA Forum: AI Surveillance and Pickleball
- Nicki Minaj Stans Have Built an AI-Generated, Sci-fi World
- ‘The Community Is Scrambling:’ Patreon Banned a Ton of 'Adult Baby/Diaper Lover' Furries
- Reuters Takes Down Blockbuster Hacker-for-Hire Investigation After Indian Court Order
- Annual Reminder: 23andMe Is a Dangerous Christmas Gift That Could Have Unforeseen Impacts on Your Entire Family, Your Children, Etc
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Polygon
- The best Modern Warfare 3 guns to use in Season 1
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Boing Boing
- This refurbished Lenovo ThinkCentre M900 makes a great gift for multi-taskers and it's on sale for only $189.99
- U.S. vetoes UN Security Council vote for Gaza ceasefire
- Lauren Boebert spent campaign funds to see boyfriend in bike race
- Xitter CEO tries yesterday's slang for today's embarrassment
- Rotten news for Newsmax: Dominion gets access to journalists' text messages
- Global Dynasties' Wealth Jumps 43% in 1 year
- Megyn Kelly says Trump's mental decline is obvious
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Lifehacker
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- What Finally Got the Scuffs Out of My (Borrowed) Patent Leather Shoes
- 15 of the Best Movie Podcasts to Help You Find Your Next Favorite Film
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- What People Are Getting Wrong This Week: The 'Vibecession'
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Buzzfeed
- Selena Gomez Confirmed That She's Had Botox
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- Forget The Classics, These 11 Christmas Movies Might Make You Question Reality Because Of How Bizarre They Are
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Brightside
- 10+ People Who Felt Absolute Terror While Home Alone
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- 12 People Who Got a Sudden ’’Ick’’ Towards Their Love Interest
- I Refuse to Share My Inheritance With My Dad and Brother After Discovering a Family Secret
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Wikipedia Current Events
December 8
Armed conflicts and attacks
- 2023 Guayana Esequiba crisis
- Amid growing border tensions between Guyana and Venezuela, the U.S. embassy in Guyana announces that the United States Southern Command will conduct joint flight operations with the Guyana Defence Force. (Reuters)
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Foreign involvement in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- The Kiel Institute reports that pledges of aid to Ukraine have been significantly scaled back, falling to their lowest level since the start of the war. Aid promised to Ukraine between August and October 2023 fell almost 90 percent from the same period in 2022. (Al Jazeera)
- Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure
- Russia launches 19 cruise missiles from Tu-95s at Ukrainian cities, including the capital Kyiv, killing at least one civilian in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast and injuring several others. At least 14 missiles are intercepted. (Reuters)
- Foreign involvement in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Syrian civil war
- Iran–Israel conflict during the Syrian civil war
- Syria says an Israeli airstrike has killed four people in a vehicle in Madinat al-Baath, Quneitra Governorate. Local media reports the victims were affiliated with Iran-backed militias. Shortly after the airstrike, rocket sirens are triggered in Israel's Galilee region. (The Jerusalem Post)
- Iran–Israel conflict during the Syrian civil war
- 2023 Israel–Hamas war
- The Gaza Antiquities Ministry reports that the Great Mosque of Gaza, the oldest mosque in the Gaza Strip, was destroyed by Israeli bombardment. (South China Morning Post)
International relations
- Armenia–Azerbaijan relations
- Armenia and Azerbaijan agree to exchange prisoners of war and work towards a peace treaty to formally end the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and normalize relations. (BBC News)
Politics and elections
- 2023 Guatemalan general election
- The Attorney General's Office says that the results of the 2023 general election, won by Bernardo Arévalo, are "null and void" and should be "annulled". The Organization of American States condemned the actions and called them an "attempted coup d'état". (Prensa Libre) (Prensa Libre) (Prensa Libre)
On This Day
December 8: Feast of the Immaculate Conception (Roman Rite Catholicism); Rōhatsu in Japan
- 1777 – American Revolutionary War: British commander-in-chief Sir William Howe withdrew his troops from the Battle of White Marsh to Philadelphia.
- 1963 – After being struck by lightning while in a holding pattern, Pan Am Flight 214 crashed near Elkton, Maryland, U.S., killing all 81 people on board.
- 1980 – English musician John Lennon was murdered at the entrance of the Dakota, his residence in New York City.
- 2009 – Bombings in Baghdad carried out by the Islamic State of Iraq killed at least 127 people and injured at least 448 others.
- 2010 – The Japanese experimental spacecraft IKAROS (model pictured) flew by Venus at a distance of 80,800 km (50,200 mi), completing its planned mission to demonstrate solar-sail technology.