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World

Where ISIS is still active today

Today at 23:20 PM, via NPR

The Islamic State lost its territorial stronghold in the Middle East years ago, but its influence didn’t disappear. NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Aaron Zelin about how ISIS looks now.

Business

South Africa kissed these 28 cars goodbye

Today at 16:00 PM, via BusinessTech

South Africa has said goodbye to 28 cars over the past two years, as carmakers reassessed their local lineups and global strategies.

Sport

If Williamson wants war, we will have it – Simpson

Today at 21:13 PM, via BBC News

Callum Simpson says Troy Williamson “will have a war if he wants it” as both fighters make weight ahead of Saturday’s British, European and Commonwealth super-middleweight showdown in Leeds.

Education

Scott C. Beardsley Named University of Virginia’s New President

Today at 22:26 PM, via New York Times

The selection of Scott Beardsley by the G.O.P.-appointed board comes after the previous president resigned under pressure from the Trump administration. A new Democratic-appointed board could try to overturn the choice.

Science/Tech

Riot Games Is Making an Anti-Cheat Change That Could Be Rough On Older PCs

Today at 23:40 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: At this point, most competitive online multiplayer games on the PC come with some kind of kernel-level anti-cheat software. As we’ve written before, this is software that runs with more elevated privileges than most other apps and games you run on your PC, allowing it to load in earlier and detect advanced methods of cheating. More...

Science/Tech

The DOJ’s Jeffrey Epstein Files Are Here

Today at 23:21 PM, via Wired

Forced by an act of Congress, the Justice Department has released “hundreds of thousands” of pages of documents related to Epstein—but not everything, as is required by law.

Science/Tech

Microsoft Made Another Copilot Ad Where Nothing Actually Works

Today at 22:41 PM, via Slashdot

Microsoft’s latest holiday ad for its Copilot AI assistant features a 30-second montage of users seamlessly syncing smart home lights to music, scaling recipes for large gatherings, and parsing HOA guidelines — none of which the software can actually perform reliably when put to the test. The Verge methodically tested each prompt shown in the ad and found that Copilot repeatedly hallucinated...

Science/Tech

All That Cheap Chinese Stuff Is Now Europe’s Problem

Today at 22:02 PM, via Slashdot

President Trump’s closure of the de minimis customs loophole in May — which previously allowed Chinese packages valued under $800 to enter the U.S. duty-free — has redirected a flood of cheap goods toward Europe, where similar exemptions for packages under $175.8 in the EU and $180 in the UK remain intact. The shift has been swift: exports of low-value Chinese packages to the U.S. have dropped...

Health

Trump Announces Pricing Deals With Nine Drugmakers

Today at 21:28 PM, via New York Times

The companies agreed to sell most of their drugs to Medicaid at the prices they charge in European countries and to sell drugs directly to consumers through a planned TrumpRx website.

Health

Why the New Cannabis Classification Matters

Today at 12:04 PM, via New York Times

Moving cannabis to a category of drugs that includes some common medicines will have implications for research, businesses and patients.