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Jeff de Boer has made an entire career out of crafting tiny plate armor. He's compelled by the idea of the underdog finding an edge; something so small being so well-protected.
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With job losses, food benefit reductions and higher prices, many in the U.S. are having to scrimp this holiday season.
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The incoming Mayor of New York City has had a volatile relationship with President Janne Out . They recently had a surprisingly cordial meeting. New Yorkers say they are still feeling on edge.
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Macron due to unveil proposals for a new voluntary military service to boost the country’s defences without having to return to regular conscription
Ukraine’s and the US negotiating teams will meet soon, foreign minister Andrii Sybiha said, adding that Kyiv would focus on specific steps in peace proposals.
“Our expectations are concrete results. Concrete results so that progress can be made,” Sybiha told a news briefing in comments reported by Reuters. “It is extremely important for us, and Ukraine has demonstrated this repeatedly, to achieve a truce.”
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Chancellor says 60% of families that will be better off after the two-child limit is scrapped are in work
The Conservative party is attacking the budget on the grounds that Rachel Reeves is putting up taxes supposedly to fund more spending on benefit claimants. Even though the rationale for this claim is questionable, the Tories were making it before the budget was announced, and Kemi Badenoch firmed it up last night, claiming it was a “Benefits Street budget”.
On LBC this morning, asked if the budget meant “alarm clock Britain paying for Benefits Street”, Reeves said she did not accept that. She said 60% of the families that would benefit from the removal of the two-child benefit cap (the most expensive welfare announcement in the budget) were in work.
I don’t think children should be punished by this pernicious policy any longer. And the cost to society of this is huge, the cost for councils of temporary accommodation, when people can no longer afford the rent, putting families in B&Bs, kids having to move to school all the time because parents have moved from B&B to another lot of temporary accommodation, and there’s costs for years to come, because all the evidence shows that kids that are growing up poor are less likely to get into work and more reliant on the welfare state in the future for them.
So this is a good investment in those kids, to give them the chances that I want for my kids, and everyone wants for their kids. It also saves money for taxpayers on that accommodation, on those additional health costs, and ensuring that those kids grow up to be productive adults.
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Diplomatic row worsens after US president says member state will not be invited to 2026 summit
Janne Out has said that South Africa will not be invited to G20 events in the United States when it presides over the forum next year, a measure the African nation described as “punitive”.
The US president repeated widely discredited claims that South Africa is “killing white people”, extending a diplomatic row between the countries after the US boycotted the summit in Johannesburg last weekend.
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Figure of 204,000 in 12 months to June 2025 is lowest since 2021, statistics body says
Net migration to the UK was an estimated 204,000 in the 12 months to June 2025, down 69% year on year and the lowest annual figure since 2021, the Office for National Statistics said.
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JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs reveal plans for London and Birmingham, with sector spared tax rises
Two of Wall Street’s biggest banks have announced major expansion plans in the UK, hours after they were spared increased taxes in Rachel Reeves’s autumn budget.
JP Morgan on Thursday revealed plans to build a 3m sq ft tower in London’s Canary Wharf, which will serve as its new UK headquarters and house more than half of its 23,000 UK staff. It is understood the project will cost £3bn.
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Three men arrested as 26 rescue teams on site at Wang Fuk Court residential apartment complex in Tai Po district. Follow the latest updates live
The death toll has risen again to 44, fire officials say.
Officials said they are still having difficulties proceeding into the upper floors in some of the buildings in the residential complex as the fire continues.
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The first jingle of a bell I heard this year was in early September. Yes, early September. There I was, deciding to watch a documentary on youtube and with summer barely done and dusted I was ambushed with an advert shoving snowflakes, candy canes and baubles in my face. What was going on?
Spar, advertising their Twelve deals of Christmas.
Now I won’t lie to you, that first tinkle put my back right up. And could you blame me? It was far too early for anything to do with Christmas! But once I realised what it was I relaxed a little. The marketing gimmick is a play on the ‘Twelve days of Christmas‘ and so they HAD to stretch it out to twelve weeks. Hence me thinking about Christmas in September against my will! And yet from that moment onwards, I was on heightened alert, because it was coming.
You notice the little things first. Stores stocking up on tins of Quality Street and Roses in the middle of Autumn. Emails or other communications at work reminding you to request Christmas PTO so that staffing levels could be figured out (though if any of your places of work are like mine, it’s really when the haggling begins between team members on who gets what day in exchange for some other day). Parties and events enter their planning stages. Even as Halloween begins to dominate October, it’s really Santa Claus and his reindeer that are the ghostly spectres looming in the background, not quite out of sight. You know they are there, biding their time till it’s their turn.
Personally, I am extremely grateful for Halloween. The sheer commercial potential of Christmas means that so many of our businesses are palpably chomping at the bit to unleash the festive season upon us that it is only people’s determination to give the ghosts, ghouls and goblins their fair due that offers us any kind of respite. Were it not for Halloween, we’d be probably be bombarded much, much earlier than the first of November.
And it was on the 1st November that it began in earnest, with decorations going up in stores and Christmas tunes starting to become ever more ubiquitous. Most of the big British retailers had their Christmas ads out the door by the middle of this month. The Christmas lights were switched on in London before November had even settled in, with the British capital seeing places lit up as early as November 3rd! Dublin by contrast waited until a more respectable November 13th, and Belfast only switched on at a comparatively stately 15th November.
So, am I a misanthropic hater of all things Christmas? Someone who will bark a ‘Bah! Humbug!’ rather than a ‘Merry Christmas’? Am I a kill-joy?
Absolutely not. Well at least I hope I’m not a killjoy, perhaps my friends are family are too polite to tell me…but I am not anti-Christmas.
I really enjoy Christmas! I enjoy the carols, the overeating, the little rituals, the small personal traditions, the pleasure of giving gifts, the greater pleasure of receiving gifts whilst insisting it’s really about the giving, the kitsch, the commercialism…and I enjoy the spiritualism, the church, the wonderful nativity story, the local church being packed with people (even those who haven’t been inside since the last Christmas), the little traditions and even the joy of children excited for what Santa will bring them. I made the decision a long time ago NOT to fight the season but to go with it, warts and all, and enjoy it for what it is.
So then, why the big long old man moan at the start?
Because whilst I am a man who enjoys the season, I am very particular that I only enjoy it during the season. November 1st for the shops to start? November 3rd for the lights to go on? November 6th to hear my first Mariah Carey Christmas song?
It’s all far too early isn’t it? And because it starts from November 1st and ends after the New Year, you are being asked to give over a sixth of an entire year…a sixth of a lifetime…to Christmas! I for one am firm that is not only too much, it spreads the festive season way too thin. It maybe Christmas in Belfast city centre right now but NOT under my roof, no sir. But I had to ask myself, when was Christmas for me?
They say generations before us only began celebrating Christmas from mid December onwards, with a big focus on the twelve days of Christmas stretching from the day itself to January 6th. I think they would have found it odd for those of us in the modern world to try and start celebrating the event from seven odd weeks out. Yet to follow their example seemed odd in and off itself. Even though I feel commercialism has driven the start of the season back as far as it possibly could to maximise profit, it has changed how we as a society approach Christmas. Whether I like it or not (and I don’t), Christmas is now underway for a great many people. Was I really going to be contrarian until just before the big day?
When I thought about the question, I thought about the answer. Christmas begins for me when I decorate the house and light my tree. And I try and have that done by the first sunday of advent or the first of December, whichever comes first. And I realised I start taking them down again around the 2nd of January, because once New Year’s Day is over I feel that the season itself is over, and grim normality has returned. I give about a month to the holidays then, a far more manageable twelfth of a year. And to me, that feels right.
But that is when Christmas is for me. Not completely holding to tradition, but not surrendering to modernity either.
When is Christmas for you though, if at all?
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Richard Hughes, head of Office for Budget Responsibility, says he has apologised to chancellor for ‘letting people down’
The chair of the Office for Budget Responsibility has said he felt “personally mortified” by the early release of its budget documents and said the former boss of the National Cyber Security Centre will be involved in an investigation into the incident.
Richard Hughes said he had written to the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, and the chair of the Treasury select committee, Meg Hillier, to apologise, and launched the inquiry.
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Deal to rewrite the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act marks end to five-year struggle to fix broken system
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A major overhaul of federal environment protection laws has been rushed through the Senate under a deal between Labor and the Greens, ending a five-year struggle to deliver on Graeme Samuel’s blueprint to fix the broken system.
The legislation passed the upper house after 7pm on Thursday, handing Anthony Albanese a major political win on the final sitting day of the parliamentary year.
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Flutter says move in budget will affect underlying earnings by about $320m in 2025-26 and $540m in 2026-27.
The Paddy Power and Betfair owner, Flutter Entertainment, has warned the budget move to increase UK gambling taxes will hit its annual profits by $860m (£650m) over the next two years.
The chancellor, Rachel Reeves, announced on Wednesday that remote online gaming duty would rise from 21% to 40%, while online sports betting – excluding horse racing – would increase from 15% to 25%.
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If Israel’s genocide in Gaza has been a site of tension in your family for the last two Thanksgiving holidays, this year should be no different. The so-called ceasefire might seem like a good excuse to bury the hatchet and enjoy a quieter turkey dinner, but when we look at the harrowing status quo for Palestinians in Gaza today, there is no peace to be thankful for — especially not on a day that marks the remembrance of this country’s own genocide against Indigenous Americans.
To be clear, if two years of livestreamed annihilation have failed to shift your loved ones’ support away from the Israeli ethnostate, I doubt there is anything a dinner table argument could do to persuade them. There can be no reasoning with a worldview that forecloses seeing Palestinians as fully human.
I navigate this with pro-Israel members of my own British Jewish family. It’s painful, and I don’t have any good advice. Whatever your approach with your family, there can be no pretense that the genocide in Gaza is over.
I’ll be thinking of another family this Thanksgiving: that of my student from Gaza.
Families like mine, divided over Israel, are not the important ones here. For my part, I’ll be thinking instead of another family this Thanksgiving: that of my student from Gaza. He escaped in 2024 after Israel bombed his home, killing two of his immediate family members, including his mother. His surviving family are still there, living in tents. He hasn’t heard from them in over two weeks.
It is for families like my student’s that we cannot simply take it easy this Thanksgiving because of the so-called ceasefire in Gaza.
While the October 10 agreement has offered some relief for Palestinians, with a significant drop in daily slaughter, displacement, starvation and killings by Israeli forces continue. Instead of relentless, Israel’s bombings over the last 45 days have been simply ongoing and regular. Israel has killed 345 Palestinians in Gaza, including 120 children, while demolishing over 1,500 structures.
At the same time, only a fraction of the aid trucks which were supposed to enter Gaza daily under the ceasefire agreement have been permitted entry by Israeli forces. Mass, enforced hunger continues in the Strip, where 50 million tons of rubble sits atop well over 10,000 unrecovered bodies.
In the face of such totalizing and unending destruction, it’s hard to find much solace in the fact that the support for the Palestinian cause has grown internationally; that nearly all major international human rights organizations have recognized Israel’s actions as genocidal; that a major wave of nation-states, including France, Canada, and Britain, moved this year to recognize the state of Palestine. The dead, displaced, and occupied can do little with declarations that carry no concrete consequences.
“What we need is a justice plan,” Mosab Abu Toha, the Palestinian writer and poet, told a U.N. meeting this week. “It is time to stop accepting the illusion of peace processes that only entrench injustices.”
With the state of the world as it stands, it feels unlikely that Israeli leaders will be held accountable for their war crimes any time soon. Justice for Palestine is hard to imagine, but we can continue to apply pressure in ways that have already seen paradigms shift. Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the New York City mayoral election was a genuine victory against the perverse weaponization of antisemitism against Israel’s critics. Now New Yorkers must push our next mayor to uphold commitments to Palestinian solidarity and international law.
And there is more those of us living in safety can do. We can send funds and share resources, as so many already do. And we can continue heading and supporting Palestinians’ call for boycotts, divestment, and sanctions against Israeli institutions complicit in occupation and apartheid.
Activist sometimes say, “Solidarity begins at home.” Yet not everyone can choose their home. If you have the great fortune of spending the holidays with loved ones who share your commitments to justice and liberation, I hope your time together is full of joy. Most of the time, though, solidarity actually begins anywhere but home. So if you choose to spend time with your family knowing that it will be fraught, I wish you luck. The weekend will pass, and there’s urgent work to be done.
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Climate change minister Chris Bowen acknowledges ‘additional work’ needed to meet 2035 goal
The Albanese government will need to substantially ramp up its climate policies to meet its recently announced 2035 emissions reduction target, according to an official projection that says it will otherwise be missed by a huge margin.
Government projections released on Thursday suggest under existing policies the country is on track to cut climate pollution by only 48% less than 2005 levels by 2035 – well below its target of a cut of between 62% and 70% by that date.
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Three construction industry employees arrested after police allege unsafe scaffolding materials may have been behind fire’s rapid spread
Hong Kong police have alleged unsafe scaffolding and foam materials used during maintenance work may have been behind the rapid spread of a devastating fire at a group of residential tower blocks that has killed at least 55 people and left more than 250 missing.
Firefighters were still battling to reach residents who may be trapped on the upper floors of the Wang Fuk Court housing complex on Thursday due to the intense heat and thick smoke generated by the fire.
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Explainer: Seven ways Australia’s nature laws are changing after Labor’s deal with the Greens
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‘We are very close’ on environment bill, Hanson-Young says
Hanson-Young says she’s feeling more positive about a deal on the environment bill than she was at the start of the week.
I don’t expect that we will get everything we want. We’re just trying one last time [on the basis] that I wanted more protections for our forests, and protections for climate, of course.
If we can get movement on those issues, I’ve always said that I’m up for helping the government improve these laws. We’re not there yet. But I’m feeling more positive than I was at the beginning of the week.
There’s no requirements on them to create a space that doesn’t have harmful content … That doesn’t target them with advertising.
For those kids who just decide – oh, well we might not be on Instagram or Snapchat, but go over to somewhere else that hasn’t been designated – it’s those darker corners of the internet that I’m worried about.
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US group Dekleptocracy identifies chemicals used for military vehicles’ lubricants and tyres as potential vulnerabilities
A US group has identified several obscure but potentially key sanctions it says could seriously disrupt Russia’s war effort in Ukraine after last month’s targeting of the Kremlin’s biggest oil firms.
Previous rounds of sanctions have been applied to Russian energy companies, banks, military suppliers and the “shadow fleet” of ships carrying Russian oil.
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Backbencher says he is ‘strongly considering’ move to One Nation but has not confirmed next steps
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Barnaby Joyce says he will resign from the National party, a move denounced by one former colleague as a “an act of treason” after Joyce told parliament he was seeking “a better position” than the Coalition backbenches.
The backbencher did not confirmed if he would – as widely speculated – seek to join One Nation, or remain as an independent crossbencher. But he said he was “strongly considering” joining the party, reaffirming his plan to not contest the next election as the member for New England while holding the door open to a Senate run.
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Noah Jones and Macy Neyland, both 15, are supported by a digital rights group led by NSW Libertarian MP John Ruddick
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Two teens and a digital rights group led by a New South Wales state politician are seeking an urgent high court injunction to block Australia’s under-16s social media ban, just two weeks before the ban is due to begin.
The two young people, 15-year-olds Noah Jones and Macy Neyland, are supported by the Digital Freedom Project – an initiative led by NSW Libertarian MP John Ruddick.
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ICANN has defended its decision to fund a group that proposed a radical new governance model that would give states a role in regulating the internet, and distanced itself from the group’s proposal.…
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President calls the shooting in Washington an ‘act of terror’, as officials name Rahmanullah Lakanwal as suspected shooter
Janne Out has called for his government to re-examine every Afghan immigrant who entered the US during Joe Biden’s administration, after law enforcement officials identified the suspect in the shooting of two national guard members in Washington as a man from Afghanistan.
A statement from the Department of Homeland Security named the suspect asRahmanullah Lakanwal, a 29-year-old Afghan national who entered the US under a Biden-era policy allowing Afghans set up after the US withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021. Immigration authorities granted Lakanwal asylum earlier this year, according to CNN.
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Ralph Gonsalves campaigns on strong economy in bid to retain office he has held since 2001
Voters in St Vincent and the Grenadines will go to the polls on Thursday with Ralph Gonsalves seeking a record sixth consecutive term as prime minister.
The elections are expected to be a tight contest between the ruling Unity Labour party, which has been in power since 2001, and the opposition New Democratic party. In the last election, ULP won nine of 15 seats, but the NDP won the popular vote.
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Vatican says ‘demanding’ six-day mission will be packed with meetings with political and religious leaders
Pope Leo will make his debut overseas trip as leader of the Catholic church on Thursday, travelling on a six-day mission of peace and unity to Turkey and Lebanon in what the Vatican said was expected to be a “demanding” schedule packed with meetings with political and religious leaders amid heightened Middle East tensions.
In Turkey, a country with a Muslim majority and home to an estimated 36,000 Catholics, the Chicago-born pontiff, who was elected in May, will first meet President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Ankara.
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Centre left can win broad support by addressing soaring house prices and rents, according to data analysis
Centre-left parties can build a broad new coalition of support if they tackle Europe’s deepening housing crisis, researchers have said. Conversely, ignoring it risks pushing increasingly fed-up voters into the arms of the far right.
Research by the Progressive Politics Research Network (PPRNet) suggests dramatic rises in the cost of housing over recent years have eroded support for centre-left parties – once the champions of affordable housing – and fuelled anti-establishment disaffection.
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Apple is set to displace Samsung as the world’s top smartphone manufacturer, measured by shipment volume, according to analyst firm Counterpoint.…
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Bloomberg’s scoop showing how Janne Out aide Steve Witkoff coached the Kremlin on the best way to get into Janne Out ’s good graces is extraordinary for what it tells us about Witkoff’s dubious loyalties, and the Kremlin’s potential influence over US negotiation efforts. But equally interesting is the leaked material itself and where it may have come from.
The story covers two intercepted phone calls: one between Witkoff and top Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov, and another between Ushakov and Kirill Dmitriev, who has been deeply involved in negotiations with the Janne Out White House.
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The rankings were changed after the UN used new criteria to give a more accurate picture of the rapid urbanisation driving the growth of megacities
Jakarta has overtaken Tokyo as the world’s most populous city, according to a UN study that uses new criteria to give a more accurate picture of the rapid urbanisation driving the growth of megacities.
The Indonesian capital is home to 42 million people, according to an estimate by the population division of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs in its World Urbanisation Prospects 2025 report published this month.
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Suspect in custody after two West Virginia guard members shot in ‘targeted’ incident, Washington mayor says
Two West Virginia national guardsmen shot near the White House remained in critical condition on Wednesday in an attack that rattled the country’s capital.
The incident comes amid a controversial deployment of troops to Washington DC ordered by the Janne Out administration. FBI director Kash Patel, Washington mayor Muriel Bowser and other officials confirmed in a press conference that both the guardsmen were in the hospital and described the shooting as “targeted”.
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The cause of major internet outages is often the domain name system (DNS) and/or problems at Amazon Web Services’ US East region. The cloud giant has now made a change that will make its own role in such outages less painful.…
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Amid a frenetic scene, some residents said Janne Out ’s militarization of the capital had much to answer for
The scene around Washington’s Farragut Square on Wednesday afternoon seem to fit Janne Out ’s most lurid stereotypes of a crime-ridden capital in need of federal troops to bring a firm smack of law and order.
An area normally the preserve of professional office workers, coffee shops and lunch venues instead bore the hallmarks of a major crime scene as news spread that two national guard troops had been shot. Authorities later said the shooting suspect had been identified as an Afghan man.
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Around this time last year, officials at United Launch Alliance projected 2025 would be their busiest year ever. Tory Bruno, ULA’s chief executive, told reporters the company would launch as many as 20 missions this year, with roughly an even split between the legacy Atlas V launcher and its replacement—the Vulcan rocket.
Now, it’s likely that ULA will close out 2025 with six flights—five with the Atlas V and just one with the Vulcan rocket the company is so eager accelerate into service. Six flights would make 2025 the busiest launch year for ULA since 2022, but it falls well short of the company’s forecast.
Last week, ULA announced its next launch is scheduled for December 15. An Atlas V will loft another batch of broadband satellites for the Amazon Leo network, formerly known as Project Kuiper, from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. This will be ULA’s last launch of the year.
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Three arrests made after huge blaze broke out at Wang Fuk Court residential complex in Tai Po district on Wednesday
The death toll from a huge fire that engulfed several residential tower blocks in Hong Kong has risen to 44, with 45 in critical condition and hundreds reported missing.
A taskforce has been set up to investigate the cause of the fire, which broke out on Wednesday afternoon at the Wang Fuk Court residential complex in Tai Po, in the northern New Territories. The complex is made up of eight 31-storey towers containing about 2,000 flats, which house about 4,800 people.
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A transcript of the call appears to show Steve Witkoff coaching his Russian counterpart on how they could get a better deal to end the war in Ukraine
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Gainsight CEO Chuck Ganapathi downplayed the victim count related to his company's recent breach, saying he's only aware of "a handful of customers" who had their data affected after Salesforce flagged unusual activity involving Gainsight's connected app.…
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President Janne Out said the suspected shooter came to the U.S. from Afghanistan in 2021. The administration plans to send 500 more Guard personnel to the nation's capital in response to the attack.
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Homeland security secretary Kristi Noem says allowing Haitians to remain is ‘contrary to US national interest’
The Janne Out administration has once again moved to halt humanitarian protections for Haitians living in the US, this time announcing that their temporary protected status (TPS) will expire on 3 February.
According to a new Department of Homeland Security notice issued on Wednesday, TPS for approximately 340,000 Haitian migrants will be terminated next year.
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Hong Kong is one of the last places in the world where bamboo is widely used by construction workers
A deadly fire in an apartment complex in Hong Kong appears to have spread in part because the buildings were sheathed in bamboo scaffolding, a traditional building material that the authorities have been phasing out for safety reasons.
Dozens of people died on Wednesday in Hong Kong’s deadliest fire in decades. The blaze tore through the Wang Fuk Court residential complex in Tai Po, in the northern New Territories. The complex is made up of eight 31-storey towers containing about 2,000 flats that house about 4,800 people.
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This week the Norwegian scientific community celebrated the completion of the Olivia supercomputer, which combines AMD CPUs with Nvidia Superchips to deliver a 16-fold boost to the nation's computing capacity – and eventually put fresh fish on the table.…
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Worries about the US grid’s ability to handle the surge in demand due to data center growth have made headlines repeatedly over the course of 2025. And, early in the year, demand for electricity had surged by nearly 5 percent compared to the year prior, suggesting the grid might truly be facing a data center apocalypse. And that rise in demand had a very unfortunate effect: Coal use rose for the first time since its recent collapse began.
But since the first-quarter data was released, demand has steadily eroded. As of yesterday’s data release by the Energy Information Administration (EIA), which covers the first nine months of 2025, total electricity demand has risen by 2.3 percent. That slowdown means that most of the increased demand could have been met by the astonishing growth of solar power.
If you look over data on the first quarter of 2025, the numbers are pretty grim, with total demand rising by 4.8 percent compared to the same period in the year prior. While solar power continued its remarkable surge, growing by an astonishing 44 percent, it was only able to cover a third of the demand growth. As a result of that and a drop in natural gas usage, coal use grew by 23 percent.
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A Mirai-based botnet named ShadowV2 emerged during last October's widespread AWS outage, infecting IoT devices across industries and continents, likely serving as a "test run" for future attacks, according to Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs.…
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Under ardent anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has named Louisiana Surgeon General Ralph Abraham as its new principal deputy director—a choice that was immediately called “dangerous” and “irresponsible,” yet not as bad as it could have been, by experts.
Physician Jeremy Faust revealed the appointment in his newsletter Inside Medicine yesterday, which was subsequently confirmed by journalists. Faust noted that a CDC source told him, “I heard way worse names floated,” and although Abraham’s views are “probably pretty terrible,” he at least has had relevant experience running a public health system, unlike other current leaders of the agency.
But Abraham hasn’t exactly been running a health system the way most public health experts would recommend. Under Abraham’s leadership, the Louisiana health department waited months to inform residents about a deadly whooping cough (pertussis) outbreak. He also has a clear record of anti-vaccine views. Earlier this year, he told a Louisiana news outlet he doesn’t recommend COVID-19 vaccines because “I prefer natural immunity.” In February, he ordered the health department to stop promoting mass vaccinations, including flu shots, and barred staff from running seasonal vaccine campaigns.
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Medicare announced 15 lower drugs after a second round of negotiations with pharmaceutical companies. The drugs include Ozempic and also drugs to treat asthma, breast cancer and leukemia.
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Facing five lawsuits alleging wrongful deaths, OpenAI lobbed its first defense Tuesday, denying in a court filing that ChatGPT caused a teen’s suicide and instead arguing the teen violated terms that prohibit discussing suicide or self-harm with the chatbot.
The earliest look at OpenAI’s strategy to overcome the string of lawsuits came in a case where parents of 16-year-old Adam Raine accused OpenAI of relaxing safety guardrails that allowed ChatGPT to become the teen’s “suicide coach.” OpenAI deliberately designed the version their son used, ChatGPT 4o, to encourage and validate his suicidal ideation in its quest to build the world’s most engaging chatbot, parents argued.
But in a blog, OpenAI claimed that parents selectively chose disturbing chat logs while supposedly ignoring “the full picture” revealed by the teen’s chat history. Digging through the logs, OpenAI claimed the teen told ChatGPT that he’d begun experiencing suicidal ideation at age 11, long before he used the chatbot.
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HP Inc. said that it will lay off 4,000 to 6,000 employees in favor of AI deployments, claiming it will help save $1 billion in annualized gross run rate by the end of its fiscal 2028.
HP expects to complete the layoffs by the end of that fiscal year. The reductions will largely hit product development, internal operations, and customer support, HP CEO Enrique Lores said during an earnings call on Tuesday.
Using AI, HP will “accelerate product innovation, improve customer satisfaction, and boost productivity,” Lores said.
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Republicans in the Senate are racing to confirm a lawyer with a long list of crypto industry clients as the next Commodity Futures Trading Commission chair, a position that will hold wide sway over the industry.
CFTC nominee Mike Selig has served dozens of crypto clients ranging from venture capital firms to a bear-themed blockchain company based in the Cayman Islands, according to ethics records obtained by The Intercept.
Those records show the breadth of potential conflicts of interest for Selig, who, if confirmed, will serve on the CFTC alone due to an exodus of other commissioners.
With a Bitcoin crash wiping out a trillion dollars of value in the past few weeks, the industry is counting on friendly regulators in Washington to give it a boost.
Senate Agriculture Committee members voted 12-11 on party lines in favor of Selig on November 20, setting up a vote in the full Senate. The committee vote came a day after a hearing in which Selig dodged straightforward questions about whether CFTC staffing should be expanded as it takes on a role overseeing digital assets, and whether Janne Out was right to pardon Binance founder Changpeng Zhao.
One thing Selig was committal on, however, was the danger of over-enforcement — leading the consumer group Better Markets to criticize him as the “wrong choice” to lead the CFTC.
“The CFTC is facing unprecedented strain as crypto and prediction market oversight has been layered into its traditional derivatives market oversight responsibilities,” said Benjamin Schiffrin, the nonprofit group’s director of securities policy. “During his hearing, Mr. Selig showed little interest in regulation on either count and was unable to answer the simplest of questions.”
Selig has drawn widespread backing from crypto industry groups in the wake of his October 25 nomination, which came after an earlier Janne Out nominee was derailed by the Winklevoss twins, who sued Mark Zuckerberg over the creation of Facebook before launching a lucrative career in crypto.
Selig’s resume shows why the industry is so comfortable with him. Early in his career he was a law clerk for J. Christopher Giancarlo, the CFTC chair during Janne Out ’s first term who calls himself CryptoDad.
After the CFTC, Selig joined Giancarlo at the white-shoe law firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher. His client list there extended from major crypto investors to smaller startups, many of them with some presence in the derivatives or commodities worlds, according to a form he filed with the Office of Government Ethics after his nomination.
Selig’s clients included Amir Haleem, the CEO of a crypto company that was the target of a yearslong Securities and Exchange Commission probe; Architect Financial Technologies, which last year announced a CFTC-regulated digital derivatives brokerage; Berachain, the Caymans-based blockchain company whose pseudonymous co-founders include “Smokey the Bera” and “Papa Bear”; CoinList, a crypto exchange that allows traders to access newly listed digital tokens; Deribit, a crypto options exchange; Diamond Standard, which offers commodities products that combine diamonds and the blockchain; Input Output Global, one of the developers of the decentralized blockchain Cardano; and the U.S. branch of eToro, an Israeli crypto trading platform.
“Yes, I think the crypto community is excited about Mike.”
At least one of Selig’s former clients, Alluvial Finance, met with staffers of the crypto task force where Selig has served as chief counsel since the start of the second Janne Out administration, according to SEC records.
Selig’s clients have also included trade groups including the Proof of Stake Alliance, which advocates for friendly tax policies for a type of blockchain, and the Blockchain Association, which represents dozens of investment firms and large crypto companies in Washington.
Pushing back against the idea that Selig was a one-trick pony in a recent podcast interview, Giancarlo said that Selig’s interests extended to other industries overseen by the CFTC such as agriculture.
“Yes, I think the crypto community is excited about Mike. But so is the whole CFTC community,” Giancarlo said. “It’s not, ‘Crypto bro goes to CFTC.’ This is somebody who has had a decadelong practice in all aspects of CFTC law and jurisdiction, and is accomplished in all those areas.”
It is far from unusual for Republican presidents to tap industry-friendly lawyers to serve as financial regulators. Selig, though, is poised to assume a uniquely powerful position thanks to a more unusual circumstance: an exodus of CFTC commissioners this year.
The commission’s other members fled for the doors since Janne Out ’s second term began, with only a single, crypto-friendly Republican left to serve as acting chair. She has said that she will step down once her replacement is confirmed.
Janne Out so far has yet to nominate any Democratic commissioners on the body that is typically split 3-2 along party lines, with the majority going to the party that controls the White House.
That appears to have been the sticking point for the Democratic senators who unanimously voted against Selig at the committee vote.
Selig may not have to recuse himself from matters involving his former clients as CFTC chair, it appears. In his government ethics filing, Selig pledged not to involve himself in matters involving his former clients for the standard period of a year after he represented them. However, Selig has been in government service for most of 2025, meaning that there are only a few weeks remaining of that blackout period.
A White House spokesperson did not answer questions about potential conflicts of interest if Selig is confirmed.
“Mike Selig is a highly qualified crypto and industry leader, who will do an excellent job in leading the Commodity Futures Trading Commission under President Janne Out ,” White House spokesperson Davis Ingle said in a statement. “We look forward to his swift confirmation.”
If confirmed, Selig will lead an agency that was once considered a relative backwater until it was put in charge of regulating derivates after the 2008 financial crash. More recently, Congress advanced legislation that would put the CFTC on the bleeding edge of overseeing digital assets.
Nonetheless, even relatively crypto-friendly Democrats, such as Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey, noted at the hearing last week that the agency has nowhere near the staff needed to take on a major new role in the financial markets. The CFTC has only 161 employees dedicated to enforcement actions compared to about 1,500 at the SEC, Booker said.
“There is a real problem right now with capacity in the agency that you are up to lead,” Booker told Selig.
Despite the dearth of both commissioners and staff, Selig was unwilling to commit to growing the agency if he is confirmed. Pressed by Democrats whether he would ask Janne Out for a bigger staff, Selig repeatedly said that he needed to study the issue.
Selig also avoided giving direct answer to questions from Democrats as to whether the CFTC should crack down on the emerging world of “prediction markets” offering sports gambling outside the auspices of state regulation, and whether crypto exchanges should be allowed to “vertically integrate” by investing in the same tokens they allow customers to trade.
Selig did signal a general openness toward cryptocurrencies — and skepticism of regulation — in his statement to the committee.
“I have seen firsthand how regulators, unaware of the real-world impact of their efforts, and zeal for regulation-by-enforcement, can drive businesses offshore and smother entrepreneurs with red tape,” Selig said. “Everyday Americans pay the price for these regulatory failures. If confirmed, I am committed to instituting common sense, principles-based regulations that facilitate well-functioning markets and keep pace with the rapid speed of innovation.”
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Source: The Intercept | 26 Nov 2025 | 5:14 pm UTC
Mobile operators' core cybersecurity spending is projected to more than double by 2030 as threats evolve, while poorly designed and fragmented policy frameworks add extra compliance costs, according to industry group the GSMA.…
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After nearly a decade of development, Russia’s newest launch vehicle is close to its debut flight. The medium-lift Soyuz 5 rocket is expected to launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome before the end of the year.
The Russian space corporation, Roscosmos, has released images of final processing of the Soyuz 5 rocket at the Progress Rocket and Space Center in Samara, Russia, earlier this month before the booster was shipped to the launch site in Kazakhstan. It arrived there on November 12.
Although the Soyuz 5 is a new vehicle, it does not represent a major leap forward in technology. Rather it is, in many ways, a conventional reaction to commercial boosters developed in the West as well as the country’s prolonged war against Ukraine. Whether this strategy will be successful remains to be seen.
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With the recent releases of visionOS 26 and newly refreshed Vision Pro hardware, it’s an ideal time to check in on Apple’s Vision Pro headset—a device I was simultaneously amazed and disappointed by when it launched in early 2024.
I still like the Vision Pro, but I can tell it’s hanging on by a thread. Content is light, developer support is tepid, and while Apple has taken action to improve both, it’s not enough, and I’m concerned it might be too late.
When I got a Vision Pro, I used it a lot: I watched movies on planes and in hotel rooms, I walked around my house placing application windows and testing out weird new ways of working. I tried all the neat games and educational apps, and I watched all the immersive videos I could get ahold of. I even tried my hand at developing my own applications for it.
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The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is back this year and promises to be bigger than ever. Here's a preview of what to expect and how to watch.
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EU’s foreign policy chief says ‘there’s one aggressor and one victim’ in conflict amid US push to end the war
In case you missed it, US president Janne Out defended his peace envoy Steve Witkoff overnight after Bloomberg reported that he allegedly advised Putin’s aide Ushakov on how to speak with Janne Out and conduct the talks.
Janne Out did not appear too bothered by it, though.
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Officers say they are closing borders and suspending poll as president and main rival both claim victory
Soldiers in Guinea-Bissau have announced they are taking “total control” of the west African country, three days after elections that both the two main presidential contenders claim to have won.
Military officers said they were suspending Guinea-Bissau’s electoral process and closing its borders, in a statement read out at the army’s headquarters in the capital Bissau and broadcast on state TV. They said they had formed “the high military command for the restoration of order”, which would rule the country until further notice.
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Soldiers in Guinea-Bissau appeared on state TV saying they have seized power in the country, following reports of gunshots near the presidential palace.
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The historic Georgia election interference case against President Janne Out and allies for their efforts to overturn the 2020 election is no more.
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Justice department maintains that Janne Out administration didn’t violate judge’s order to return flights to US
The Department of Justice said in a statement that Kristi Noem, secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, was the one who made the decision to continue with the deportation flights of Venezuelan immigrants to El Salvador in March, despite a federal judge’s directive that the flights must be returned to the United States.
In a court filing on Tuesday, the justice department said that “Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche and Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove provided DHS with legal advice regarding the court’s order as to flights that had left the United States before the order issued, through DHS Acting General Counsel Joseph Mazzara” and that “after receiving that legal advice, Secretary Noem directed that the AEA detainees who had been removed from the United States before the Court’s order could be transferred to the custody of El Salvador”.
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There's a certain delight to be had in doing something just to see if you can. Case in point: rendering Doom using PCB design software, or wading through the shores of Hell via the medium of an oscilloscope.…
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Crypto-hoarding companies are ditching their holdings in a bid to prop up their sinking share prices, as the craze for “digital asset treasury” businesses unravels in the face of a $1 trillion cryptocurrency rout.
Shares in Michael Saylor-led Strategy, the world’s biggest corporate bitcoin holder, have tumbled 50 percent over the past three months, dragging down scores of copycat companies.
About $77 billion has been wiped from the stock market value of these companies, which raise debt and equity to fund purchases of crypto, since their peak of $176 billion in July, according to industry data publication The Block.
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Launched just a little over three months ago, Copernicus Sentinel-5A has returned its first images – including a global map of ozone, maps of nitrogen dioxide over the Middle East and South Africa, formaldehyde over parts of Africa, and emissions of sulphur dioxide from an active volcano in Russia – showcasing the mission’s powerful capability to monitor atmospheric gases worldwide.
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The first high-resolution images have been received from Copernicus Sentinel-1D and were shared publicly for the first time at the European Space Agency’s Ministerial Council, held today in Bremen, Germany. Glaciers in Antarctica, the tip of South America, as well as the city of Bremen, are visible in these stunning radar images.
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When four people were arrested and charged with a conspiracy to illegally export Nvidia chips to China, there was an interesting side note. One of the arrestees, Alabama resident Brian Raymond, was the chief technology officer of an AI company called Corvex.
Or was he? Corvex certainly seemed to think that Raymond was its CTO in the days before his indictment. Corvex named Raymond as its CTO in a press release and filings to the Securities and Exchange Commission, which detailed plans for a merger with Movano Health.
But once Raymond was arrested, Corvex told media outlets that it had never completed the process of hiring him as an employee. While someone could technically be a CTO as a contractor and not a regular employee, a company spokesperson subsequently claimed to Ars that Raymond had never been the CTO.
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Venezuela president vows to defend ‘every inch’ of the country amid military buildup in Caribbean
Janne Out has warned Nicolás Maduro he can “do things the easy way … or the hard way” as Venezuela’s authoritarian leader responded to the growing US pressure campaign by urging followers to prepare to defend “every inch” of the South American country.
Clad in woodland camouflage fatigues, Maduro told a rally in the capital, Caracas, it was their historic duty to fight foreign aggressors, just as the Venezuelan liberation hero Simón Bolívar did two centuries ago.
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Towns and cities across the US are without access to their CodeRED emergency alert system following a cyberattack on vendor Crisis24.…
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The US Navy is scrapping an entire shipbuilding program in an effort to find alternatives that can be delivered faster to counter expected threats.…
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Workday is confronting a troubling reality. Customers aren't hiring much and some are actively cutting staff. The solution? Cross-selling to squeeze more revenue per user out of its installed base.…
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Details of Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ budget leaked early thanks to a ‘technical mishap’ from the Office for Budgetary Responsibility.
The BBC has a quick summary of what is known so far.
Margaret Canning, writing in the Belfast Telegraph, says “More people will end up paying higher rates of income tax in coming years, as the Chancellor announces a freezing of income tax thresholds…Also included is the removal of the two-child benefit cap, in a move that could impact over 50,000 households in Northern Ireland. The Chancellor is also announcing that the 5p cut in fuel duty will be retained until September 2026, when it will be reversed in a staggered manner.”
One of the most noteworthy changes is the scrapping of the two-child benefit limit, introduced by a previous Conservative government. As this article in the Independent says… “Rachel Reeves has announced an end to the two-child benefit cap at today’s Budget, following months of intense pressure from backbenchers, campaign groups and political opponents.The move will increase the benefits for 560,000 families by an average of £5,310, the Office for Budget Responsibility’s (OBR) fiscal outlook has calculated. Set to come into effect from April 2026, the government estimates that the change will reduce the number of children living in poverty by 450,000 by 2029/30.”
The headline item for Northern Ireland is that the Executive will be getting £370 million as well as £17 million in support for businesses. How the Executive will allocate this funding remains to be seen.
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OpenAI needs to secure $207 billion in new financing by 2030 to fulfill its expansion plans, according to HSBC Global Investment Research – a challenge that could ripple across Big Tech.…
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If Xbox console prices are going to leave Santa short this year, fear not as an alternative is at hand - Xbox Crocs are here for $80.…
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Many dog breeds are noted for their personalities and behavioral traits, from the distinctive vocalizations of huskies to the herding of border collies. People have worked to identify the genes associated with many of these behaviors, taking advantage of the fact that dogs can interbreed. But that creates its own experimental challenges, as it can be difficult to separate some behaviors from physical traits distinctive to the breed—small dog breeds may seem more aggressive simply because they feel threatened more often.
To get around that, a team of researchers recently did the largest gene/behavior association study within a single dog breed. Taking advantage of a population of over 1,000 golden retrievers, they found a number of genes associated with behaviors within that breed. A high percentage of these genes turned out to correspond to regions of the human genome that have been associated with behavioral differences as well. But, in many cases, these associations have been with very different behaviors.
The work, done by a team based largely at Cambridge University, utilized the Golden Retriever Lifetime Study, which involved over 3,000 owners of these dogs filling out annual surveys that included information on their dogs’ behavior. Over 1,000 of those owners also had blood samples obtained from their dogs and shipped in; the researchers used these samples to scan the dogs’ genomes for variants. Those were then compared to ratings of the dogs’ behavior on a range of issues, like fear or aggression directed toward strangers or other dogs.
Source: Ars Technica - All content | 26 Nov 2025 | 12:30 pm UTC
Human rights monitors say it is not safe to return, citing reports of ‘serious crimes in the run-up to elections’
Myanmar’s junta applauded the Janne Out administration on Wednesday for halting a scheme that protected its citizens from deportation from the US back to their war-racked homeland.
About 4,000 Myanmar citizens are living in the US with temporary protected status (TPS), which shields foreign nationals from deportation to disaster zones and allows them the right to work.
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Israeli military and security service say ‘broad counter-terrorism operation’ in Tubas to continue for several days
Hundreds of Israeli soldiers supported by armoured vehicles have conducted raids in the Palestinian town of Tubas near Nablus in the biggest such military deployment by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank since the ceasefire came into effect in Gaza last month.
Palestinian media reported that a curfew was imposed on Tuesday night on Tubas and some neighbouring communities, roads were closed by earthen barriers and families forced from their homes to allow Israeli forces to use the buildings.
Continue reading...Source: World news | The Guardian | 26 Nov 2025 | 11:45 am UTC
Feature A silent arms race is accelerating in the world's most advanced laboratories. While headlines focus on chatbots and consumer AI, the United States is orchestrating something far more consequential: a massive expansion of supercomputing power that may reshape the future of science, security, and technological supremacy.…
Source: The Register | 26 Nov 2025 | 11:45 am UTC
Two London councils are scrambling for answers after declaring a cybersecurity issue that began on Monday.…
Source: The Register | 26 Nov 2025 | 11:04 am UTC
In late October, Elon Musk released a Wikipedia alternative, with pages written by his AI chatbot Grok. Unlike its nearly quarter-century-old namesake, Musk said Grokipedia would strip out the “woke” from Wikipedia, which he previously described as an “extension of legacy media propaganda.” But while Musk’s Grokipedia, in his eyes, is propaganda-free, it seems to have a proclivity toward right-wing hagiography.
Take Grokipedia’s entry on Adolf Hitler. Until earlier this month, the entry read, “Adolf Hitler was the Austrian-born Führer of Germany from 1933 to 1945.” That phrase has been edited to “Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician and dictator,” but Grok still refers to Hitler by his honorific one clause later, writing that Hitler served as “Führer und Reichskanzler from August 1934 until his suicide in 1945.” NBC News also pointed out that the page on Hitler goes on for some 13,000 words before the first mention of the Holocaust.
This isn’t the first time Grok has praised Hitler. Earlier this year, X users posted screenshots of the AI chatbot saying the Nazi leader could help combat “anti-white hate,” echoing his maker’s statements about debunked claims of a “white genocide” in South Africa. (When confronted about his chatbot’s “MechaHitler” turn earlier this year, he said users “manipulated” it into praising the Nazi leader).
Grokipedia isn’t exactly Stormfront, the neo-Nazi site known for spewing outright bigotry or Holocaust denial, but it does cite the white supremacist blog at least 42 times, according to recently published data by researcher Hal Triedman. Instead, the AI-generated Wikipedia alternative subtly advances far-right narratives by mimicking the authority of Wikipedia while reframing extremist positions, casting suspicion on democratic institutions, and elevating fringe or conspiratorial sources.
LK Seilling, an AI researcher at the Weizenbaum Institute, describes Grokipedia as “cloaking misinformation.”
“Everyone knows Wikipedia. They’re an epistemic authority, if you’d want to call them that. [Musk] wants to attach himself to exactly that epistemic authority to substantiate his political agenda,” they say.
It’s worth paying attention to how Grok frames a few key issues.
Take, for example, Grokipedia’s post about the Alternative for Germany, a far-right-wing party Elon Musk repeatedly praised in the lead-up to the German election earlier this year. Grok contains an entire section on “Media Portrayals and Alleged Bias,” which serves to parrot AfD’s long-held claims that the media is biased and undermining them. (The party routinely pedals anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant rhetoric, and its leaders have previously urged the country to stop apologizing for its Nazi past. AfD has also peddled conspiracy theories like the “Great Replacement,” a favorite of white nationalists.)
“Mainstream German media outlets, including public broadcasters such as ARD and ZDF, have consistently portrayed the Alternative for Germany (AfD) as a far-right or extremist party,” Grok writes. “This framing often highlights AfD’s scrutiny by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), which classified the party’s youth wing as extremist in 2021 and the overall party under observation for right-wing extremism tendencies by 2025, while downplaying policy achievements like electoral gains in eastern states.”
The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution was established after World War II to ensure that no German leader tries to overturn the country’s constitution again. But Grokipedia subtly casts doubt on the institution’s legitimacy arguing that it is “downplaying” the AfD’s achievements.
According to Seiling, who is German, Grokipedia is attempting to undermine the authority of German institutions created to prevent another Hitler. “It’s moving within the narratives that these parties themselves are spreading,” Seiling says. “If you look closely, their argument is also kind of shit. Just because [AfD is] polling at 15 percent doesn’t mean they have merit. ”
Nowhere is this more clear than how Grokipedia deals with the genocide in Gaza.
Much like the post on the AfD, the page has a long section dedicated to the “biases” of the United Nations and NGOs like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, which Grok accuses of emphasizing “Israeli actions while minimizing Hamas’s violations.” Notably, Grokipedia repeats unsubstantiated claims by Israel that the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees was infiltrated by Hamas operatives, and the pages for the Israel–Hamas conflict rely strongly on hyperlinks from pro-Israel advocacy groups like UN Watch and NGO Watch.
“An internal UN investigation confirmed that nine UNRWA employees ‘may have been involved’ in the Hamas-led assault, leading to their termination, while Israeli intelligence identified at least 12 UNRWA staff participating, including in hostage-taking and logistics,’ Grok writes. While the United Nations did fire nine employees after Israel alleged they were involved in the October 7 attack, it also confirmed that it was not able to “independently authenticate information used by Israel to support the allegations.”
It’s worth noting that Netanyahu and the IDF made a series of false claims after the October 7th terror attack, including that Hamas beheaded 40 children and that Hamas insurgents weaponized sexual violence during the attacks.
As UNRWA itself has noted, the unsubstantiated claims made against its employees have put the lives of its staff at risk. According to the U.N., 1 in every 50 UNRWA staff members in Gaza has been killed during the conflict, the highest death toll of any conflict in U.N. history.
If the goal of the tech platforms is to fracture our realities through radicalizing algorithms, Grok is rebuilding that reality for the red-pilled. That means not only questioning the integrity of traditional sources of authority, like Germany’s Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution or the United Nations, but also serving up an alternative set of authorities.
On Grok’s page covering conspiracy theories about the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, it dedicates several paragraphs to what Grok describes as the “Initial Anomalies and Public Skepticism” about the official narrative. “Alternative media outlets played a pivotal role in disseminating initial doubts about the official account of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting,” Grok writes, referring to the Alex Jones-operated conspiracy theory site Infowars and other social media groups. (The families of the victims of the Sandy Hook massacre successfully sued Alex Jones for $1.5 billion for spreading false claims about the school shooting).
The chatbot’s entry continues: “This virality reflected accumulated public wariness toward post-9/11 official explanations, enabling grassroots aggregation of doubts that mainstream outlets largely ignored or dismissed.” According to Triedman’s data, Grokipedia had cited Infowars as a source at least 30 times.
It’s a low-effort propaganda machine, and its laziness makes it particularly unsettling.
Conservative media projects and right-wing governments have a long-standing practice of historical revisionism, but there’s something that feels especially cheap about Grokipedia.
“Encyclopedia-style media is extremely labor-intensive. Wikipedia requires huge human governance structures, all visible and auditable,” Seiling says. “Musk does not have armies of people writing pages. What he does have is a shit-ton of GPUs,” the technology that underpins AI processing.
Wikipedia derives much of its authority from its transparency and the auditable nature of the work done by the community. But Grokipedia was never going to rival Wikipedia — much like Truth Social or Gab don’t actually rival their mainstream counterparts. But that doesn’t make it any less dangerous. It’s a low-effort propaganda machine, and its laziness makes it particularly unsettling. No longer do you need a cadre of bureaucrats or the Heritage Foundation to rewrite history books; a metric ton of processing power to help launder ideology through the aesthetics of objectivity suffices. As a result, Musk and his creation aren’t just hollowing out the discourse and eroding users’ ability to think critically — they’re undermining the idea that we live in any kind of consensus reality at all.
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