The Republican plans to pick off five Democratic-held congressional seats in Texas once seemed like a sure thing. Not anymore.

*The judge ruled that federal prosecutors had handled material seized from law professor Daniel Richman with “callous disregard” for his constitutional rights.*

Hong Kong’s biggest pro-democracy party voted Sunday to dissolve after more than 30 years of activism, marking the end of an era of the Chinese semiautonomous city ‘s once-diverse political landscape.

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High Value Data Elements

It’s wild just how much they’re trying to shove AI down our throats.

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Ich hätte ihn noch ein wenig schöner inszenieren können, aber so steht er nun hier im Wohnzimmer. War ein schönes Projekt: Ich habe vor einigen Jahren im Sommer trockenes Totholz gesammelt, dann die Äste zugeschnitten, ein Loch in die Mitte gebohrt und auf eine Metallstange (Betonstahl) gesteckt, die in dem Stamm steckt. Das machen wir jetzt schon seit einigen Jahren so. Wenn die Feiertage vorbei sind kommen die Einzelteile in einem großen Kaffeesack aus Jute zurück auf den Speicher. Wir mögen den Baum richtig gerne, er hat nichts gekostet und das aufbauen ist sehr ein schönes Ritual.

Last Wednesday, Palestinian teenager Owais Hammam was on a walk near his home in the West Bank village of Kharbatha Bani Harith, when he was ambushed by a group of Israeli settlers, dragged to a hilltop outpost, and beaten unconscious. From his hospital bed in Ramallah, Hammam spoke to photojournalist Faiz Abu Rmeleh, recounting how both settlers and Israeli soldiers took part in his brutal torture.

*Kourtney Stevenson was allegedly caught on camera spraying meal with chemical that later sickened customers*

Over the past four years, I’ve significantly reduced my social media footprint. There are countless reasons for this, all of which are beyond the scope of this article, but the point I want to make is this: despite my growing apathy and downright hostility towards social platforms, I’ve found YouTube to be an oasis of sorts.

After decades of research and development, humanity finally has a data storage medium that will outlast us.

“Senior party members previously told Reuters they had been approached by Chinese officials or middlemen and told to disband or face severe consequences, including possible arrest.”

In a small room in San Diego last week, a man in a black leather jacket explained to me how to save the world from destruction by AI. Max Tegmark, a notable figure in the AI-safety movement, believes that “artificial general intelligence,” or AGI, could precipitate the end of human life. I was in town for NeurIPS, one of the largest AI-research conferences, and Tegmark had invited me, along with five other journalists, to a briefing on an AI-safety index that he would release the next day. No company scored better than a C+.

SYDNEY (AP) — Two gunmen attacked a Hannukah celebration on a Sydney beach Sunday, killing at least 11 people in what Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called an act of antisemitism and terrorism.

This holiday season isn’t quite so merry for American shoppers as large shares are dipping into savings, scouring for bargains and feeling like the overall economy is stuck in a rut under President Donald Trump, a new AP-NORC poll finds.

As Chileans vote on Sunday, even detractors of ultra-conservative former lawmaker José Antonio Kast say the candidate whose radical ideas lost him the past two elections is likely to become the country’s next leader.

More than a third of Tuvalu citizens have entered the ballot for a world-first climate visa which would allow them to permanently migrate to Australia.

“Almost 6,700 American nationals had applied for a visa to work, be with family or study in the Netherlands by the end of November this year, according to immigration service figures, and that is by far the highest number in the past 10 years.

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Gaza: 800 Days of Genocide

-Most severe incident involving the injury of Philippine citizens in 2025 and since June 17th -More direct Chinese actions (RHIBs) against fishermen -A return to incidents around Sabina -Occurred two days after a joint patrol with the U.S.

The widely-used FFmpeg open-source multimedia library has merged initial support for JPEG-XS.

The BeOS-inspired Haiku operating system has received a recent port of the Go programming language to the platform. Plus Haiku also saw app improvements and more over the month of November.

For those with fond memories of the original Puppy Linux as a lightweight Linux distribution that used to run well back in the day on systems with less than 1GB of RAM, TrixiePup64 is out with a new release of this Puppy Linux based distribution with Debian GNU/Linux components. The new TrixiePup64 11.2 release is based on the latest Debian Trixie sources while continuing to offer separate builds for either X11 or Wayland usage.

Die Demo in München fordert, das Bundesverfassungsgericht soll die AfD auf ihre Verfassungstreue prüfen und gegebenenfalls verbieten. Insgesamt sind laut Polizei circa 2.000 Menschen zusammengekommen. […] Auch in Hamburg wurde parallel zum selben Anlass demonstriert. Rund 4.000 Personen waren es dort nach Polizeiangaben.

The Linux 6.19-rc1 kernel is out to cap off the Linux 6.19 merge window. The kernel release is coming the better part of a day earlier due to Linus Torvalds being in Japan for this past week’s Linux Plumbers Conference and Linux Kernel Maintainer Summit.

Diptyx is a new open-source e-reader now crowdfunding on Crowd Supply, positioning itself as a long-term alternative to locked-down commercial devices. Built around an ESP32 microcontroller and a distinctive dual-screen design, the device focuses on ownership, repairability, and offline reading without DRM or cloud dependencies.

Rust Coreutils 0.5 is now available as the latest milestone for this Rust-based alternative to GNU Coreutils. Rust Coreutils 0.5 continues moving closer to “full GNU compatibility” with nearly a 90% pass rate on the GNU test suite.

Local media says one of the suspects is an imam at a mosque, and police allege he “called for a vehicle attack”.

I debated whether to post this as the privacy community already has excellent websites with https://www.privacyguides.org/ and https://www.privacytools.io/ (which is actually metric on the site).

Thailand’s government reports a rocket attack from Cambodia on Sunday killed a 63-year-old villager.

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