On this day in 2023 - 12/15/2023

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12/15/2023 - On this day in 2023

Jeff Bezos plays down AI dangers and says one trillion humans could live in huge cylindrical space stations_MARKETWATCH

Elon Musk SLAMS Microsoft Word's inclusiveness checker as it prompts him to reconsider using the word 'insane' - as his fans vent 'wokeism has literally infiltrated everything on this planet’_DAILMAIL

Israeli military recovers three bodies of hostages captured by Hamas in Gaza Strip The Israel Defense Forces said Friday that its troops have recovered three bodies of hostages captured by Hamas during the Oct. 7 attack that launched the war in the Gaza Strip_FOXNEWS

2023 Movies Shot on Film: From ‘Oppenheimer’ to ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ and ‘Maestro’ There's also Wes Anderson's "Asteroid City" and "The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar," and Yorgos Lanthimos’ "Poor Things.”_INDIEWIRE

Google Finally Stops Handing Your Location Data to Cops_GIZMODO

Dog ‘Language Geniuses’ Are Rare but Apparently Real_SCIAM

Fetch AI, SingularityNET Team Up to Squash AI Hallucinations_DECRYPTEMERGE

Biggest solar flare in years temporarily disrupts radio signals on Earth A NASA telescope has captured the biggest solar flare in years, which temporarily knocked out radio communication on Earth_ABC

Ray Kurzweil - 1/10,000.

Alignment - Startups must embrace sustainable scaling strategies_TECHCRUNCH

Israeli military recovers three bodies of hostages captured by Hamas in Gaza Strip The Israel Defense Forces said Friday that its troops have recovered three bodies of hostages captured by Hamas during the Oct. 7 attack that launched the war in the Gaza Strip_FOXNEWS

Pentagon BLOCKED from sending taxpayer dollars to Wuhan lab: Congress takes action in defense bill after $47 million was funneled into grants for 'reprehensible' animal experimentation - including at China's COVID lab-leak site_DAILYMAIL

The lockdown effect: Americans' physical and mental health has deteriorated by every metric since the pandemic - and WFH is partly to blame, major survey says_DAILYMAIL

The ex-IDF paratrooper who could replace George Santos as the Republican in Long Island: Mother-of-seven Ethiopian refugee who fled to Israel at 12, signed up to fight and then moved to the U.S. and got into politics_DAILYMAIL

Top Boston conservative slams Mayor Michelle Wu for her no whites 'WU KLUX KLAN' holiday party: Says there'd have been rioting and looting had races been reversed_DAILYMAIL

Chicago's migrant crisis spirals out of control: City spent nearly $1 million on failed camp before pulling the plug - as officials now IMPOUND buses bringing migrants to the city from Texas on Gov. Greg Abbott's orders_DAILYMAIL

Black Illinois NAACP president issues groveling apology after branding immigrants 'rapists and savages': Now insists she 'loves and values them’_DAILYMAIL

Outrage as transgender woman Melody Wiseheart, 50, competes against TEENAGERS in Canadian swim meet 'and shares changing room with terrified girls’_DAILYMAIL

Michigan imam is seen on video praising jihad and blaming the US for the 'genocide in Palestine' - as experts say it's another example of the rising danger of extremism and more than TWO MILLION people are added to America's terror watchlist_DAILYMAIL

Tom Cruise better keep his wallet wide open - my ex-wife spent £12MILLION on clothes and handbags during our 11-year marriage: Oligarch's 'warning' to Hollywood star, 61, as he 'strikes up romance' with glamorous 36-year-old Russian socialite_DAILYMAIL

California Gov. Gavin Newsom shifts blame on Republican critics for amplifying homeless crisis plaguing San Francisco and claims 'they have to focus on our failures for them to be right' - despite the city facing an exodus over crime_DAILYMAIL

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Ex-FBI counterintelligence agent Charles McGonigal gets FOUR YEARS in prison for working for sanctioned Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska_DAILYMAIL

Rudy Giuliani, 79, arrives in court as jury deliberates on if he'll pay $48M in damages to Georgia election workers he defamed: 'America's Mayor' faces financial ruin after lawyers said damages would be a 'death penalty’_DAILYMAIL

Trump will be BLOCKED from pulling U.S. out of NATO in second term after Congress passes bill to stop any future president leaving key military alliance without Senate approval_DAILYMAIL

Read Sidney Powell's VERY brief apology letter for election interference: Trump ally scrawls THIRTEEN-WORD handwritten note saying sorry for her role in Georgia RICO case - while Kenneth Chesebro manages to fill just three lines_DAILYMAIL

At least two dozen protesters are detained and zip-tied on median after pro-Palestine protest on Philadelphia expressway I-76 during rush hour_DAILYMAIL

Georgia 7th-grade social studies teacher is arrested after shouting 'I should cut your f****g head off' at Muslim student who criticized his Israeli flag_DAILYMAIL

Google will turn off cookies for MILLIONS of people on January 4 - here's what it means for you_DAILYMAIL

Jamboree: Carville's Last Crusade; Netflix Numerology_THEANKLER

Has Social Media Brainwashed You Into Thinking the Economy is Bad?_DAILYBEAST

85-year-old man stabs his wife to death after dispute over pancakes, prosecutors say_CBS

The mystery of the missing binder: How a collection of raw Russian intelligence disappeared under Trump_CNNPOLITICS

‘Dictator’ Trump Plans to Deploy Massive Number of Troops on U.S. Soil_ROLLINGSTONE

Trump’s secret weapon consolidating the GOP: Fear Some anti-Trump voters say the social cost of speaking out can be too high to take the risk. It's the same fear other Republicans have noted in elected officials_NBC

IDF mistakenly kills three hostages in Gaza An investigation has been opened into the circumstances of the killing of the three hostages_JERUSALEMPOST

Shipping firm pauses Red Sea journeys over attacks_BBC

When the New York Times lost its way America’s media should do more to equip readers to think for themselves_ECONOMIST

“For Sale” Sign on Paramount Will Shape Shari Redstone’s Legacy As the mogul entertains offers for relinquishing control of the historic studio, some suitors seem more interested in flipping assets_HOLLYWOODREPORTER

The world's first human brain-scale supercomputer will go live next year_BUSINESSINSIDER

He’s Wanted for Wirecard’s Missing $2 Billion. He’s Now Suspected of Being a Russian Spy. Jan Marsalek, the jet-setting former COO of now-defunct Wirecard, enabled Moscow to fund covert operations around the world, officials say; ‘whiff of Silicon Valley’_WSJ

Women at Fast-Growing Realty Firm Say They Were Drugged and Assaulted_DNYUZ

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