The president wrote that the beloved director's apparent homicide was brought on by his opposition to the administration's actions

Nick Reiner, the 32-year-old son of Rob and Michele Reiner, is in custody after the apparent homicide of the director and his wife on Sunday afternoon. Nick Reiner was arrested Sunday night at 9:15 p.m. and booked on a felony charge on Monday at 5:04 a.m., according to the Los Angeles Police Departm…

Stranger Things a scifi fantasy horror series set in the 80s timeline, it got many awards, Primetime Emmy Award nominations and four Golden Globe Award nominationsThey are worried about the special fx for Season 1 they should be more worried about how...

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Flash flooding in Morocco caused by heavy rain hit the coastal town of Safi on December 14. At least 70 homes and businesses have been affected with dozens killed and injured. Drought-hit Morocco often faces severe weather, but Sunday's flooding in Safi is already the deadliest such disaster in at l…

In the absence of federal protections, legal experts have their eyes on states laws that dictate how companies can interact with reproductive health data.

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This past summer, a fire at an electrical substation forced data centers in Loudoun County to rely on backup diesel generators as their power source. Grid failures like this happen often, but this time, shoppers in a nearby Walmart parking lot heard the noisy generators start up and reported smellin…

arXiv:2512.11366v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The deployment of large language models for specialized tasks often requires domain-specific parameter-efficient finetuning through Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) modules. However, effectively fusing these adapters to handle complex, multi-domain composit…

Tesla Inc. shares extended a rally climbing as much as 4.9% Monday and are on pace to close at an all-time high for the first time since December 2024, defying growing concerns about the company’s soaring valuation.

Philip Rivers’s unretirement, at age 44, probably feels familiar to the growing number of retirees — including FIRE members — who return to work. And it’s often not about money.

The child's was trying to watch Diary of a Wimpy Kid - but a film with "strong sex and sex references" played instead.

Danny Kruger says Whitehall machine is ‘overstaffed and badly led’

Bethesda development chief Todd Howard has officially ruled out appearing on the Fallout TV show even in cameo form, insisting he’s better behind the camera than in front of it.

“Lonely City,” the latest song from My Days of 58, comes with a montage video shot by street photographer Daniel Arnold

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The Bondi Beach massacre marks the deadliest terrorist attack in Australia’s history, and the most fatal mass shooting since a lone gunman killed 35 people at Port Arthur in Tasmania on April 28, 1996. That tragedy prompted lawmakers to implement sweeping gun control measures just weeks afterward.

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Zoetis Inc., an animal medicine company, is seeking to raise $1.75 billion in a convertible bond sale.

Want to see how the latest Fed rate cut impacted mortgage rates? Here's what you need to know right now.

arXiv:2512.11105v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: While drug discovery is vital for human health, the process remains inefficient. Medicinal chemists must navigate a vast protein space to identify target proteins that meet three criteria: physical and functional interactions, therapeutic impact, and …

Aave (AAVE) rose 1.6% over the weekend.

President Trump and his advisers have an almost messianic belief the economy will take off in the first quarter of next year, based largely on stimulus from the "One Big Beautiful Bill" he signed in July.For the White House, it's an article of faith.Why it matters: Trump's bullish belief is key to u…

Nearly three years of war have displaced 14 million people and pushed 21 million into acute hunger.

Nutanix continues to expand its multi-cloud strategy, platform and tools with a diversity of interests and capabilities. The organisation’s latest moves see it detail a new enterprise ...

Starfish Space and Impulse Space have revealed the successful execution of the “Remora” mission, marking…
The post Starfish Space announce Autonomous Rendezvous and Proximity mission success with Impulse Space appeared first on NASASpaceFlight.com.

Scientists have discovered that key compounds from cannabis—CBD and THC—show surprisingly strong effects against ovarian cancer cells. Used together, they slow cell growth, reduce colony formation, and may even block the cancer’s ability to spread. Even more promising, the treatment caused minimal h…

arXiv:2512.11505v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: AI-generated text detectors have recently gained adoption in educational and professional contexts. Prior research has uncovered isolated cases of bias, particularly against English Language Learners (ELLs) however, there is a lack of systematic evalu…

arXiv:2512.11240v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: The Linear Arboricity Conjecture asserts that the linear arboricity of a graph with maximum degree $\Delta$ is $\lceil (\Delta+1)/2 \rceil$. For a $2k$-regular graph $G$, this implies $la(G) = k+1$. In this note, we utilize a network flow constructi…

Arc Raiders developer Embark Studios has fully detailed the game’s Cold Snap update and its new cold-weather survival mechanics. Here's everything you need to know.

Artificial intelligence-powered DevOps automation company DuploCloud Inc. today announced the launch of AI DevOps Engineers, a new service that allows companies to leverage agentic workflows to provision, troubleshoot and optimize infrastructure. AI DevOps Engineers are designed to assist with the i…

Read the Monetary Policy Radar preview of the ECB’s December meeting

‘I am 24 years old and just woke up to this’: Everyday traders have been sharing screenshots of big wins from crazy trades, exemplifying the nature of the markets in 2025.

Anomalous amounts of volatile elements found in the Apollo samples brought back from the moon have been traced back to our own planet's leaky atmosphere.

As Michael Mann's cops vs. robbers epic turns 30, we look back on the movie's evolution from tough-guy cult film to a genuine American classic

Natural killer cells act as the immune system’s rapid-response team, but the stress of anxiety and insomnia may be quietly thinning their ranks. A study of young women in Saudi Arabia found that both conditions were linked to significantly fewer NK cells—especially the circulating types responsible …

Warning: the following contains spoilers for part one of Stranger Things season fiveWith just over a week to go until Netflix releases the next batch of Stranger Things episodes, the company has dropped a trailer for the second part of season five. The clip begins in the aftermath of the action-pack…

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Introducing: the AI Hype Correction package AI is going to reproduce human intelligence. AI will eliminate disease. AI is the single biggest, most important inven…

The CEO of Stellar Blade studio Shift Up has received the Presidential Commendation at this year's Korean Content Awards for his work in the games industry.

Investors are gravitating to dollar bonds to ride the rally in emerging-markets, and have poured the most money in two years into a fund tracking the asset class.

The Croatian adaptation of young adult drama series “Skam,” whose second season received a special mention in the best TV series in Central and Eastern Europe category at the NEM Awards in Zagreb, has premiered the trailer (below) for its third season. The new season will premiere on Jan. 1. Season …

When the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship launched its first race through Beijing’s Olympic Park in 2014, the idea of all-electric motorsport still bordered on experimental. Batteries couldn’t yet last a full race, and drivers had to switch cars mid-competition. Just over a decade later, Formula…

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Ivory Coast’s dollar-denominated bonds rose after Fitch Ratings Inc. upgraded the country’s debt, leaving it now just two levels below investment grade at all three major rating companies.

Jimmy Lai spent decades criticizing China’s rulers. He faces up to life in prison after a court found him guilty of national security crimes.

Paul Doyle, 54, is due to be sentenced on Tuesday after admitting 31 offences against 21 adults and eight childrenA former Royal Marine was a “man in a rage” as he mowed down dozens of Liverpool football club fans at a victory parade in what many feared was a terrorist attack, a court has heard.Vict…

Against the backdrop of an already high terror threat in France, the Bondi Beach shooting sounded alarm bells with Hannukah celebrations planned in various French cities. Security and intelligence presence was increased at these places of celebration, on the instructions of interior minister Laurent…

Leading Democrats mourned the loss of acclaimed actor and director Rob Reiner, a longtime advocate for liberal causes, who was found dead alongside his wife Michele in their home in Los Angeles on Sunday. The national figures noted Reiner’s lifelong contributions to film but said his contributions e…

Several kinds of bacteria can give you an upset stomach. Here is how to steer clear of the worst offenders, and what to do if they do make it throughMany people in the modern world, it’s probably fair to say, do not take food poisoning particularly seriously. Yes, most folks wash their hands after h…

Lawyers and relatives of the remand prisoners refusing food fear for their lives as they seek meeting with top minister.

arXiv:2512.11480v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: A Computer-Aided Design (CAD) model encodes an object in two coupled forms: a parametric construction sequence and its resulting visible geometric shape. During iterative design, adjustments to the geometric shape inevitably require synchronized edits…

Low-energy electron emission spectra depend on sample thickness
The post Doorway states spotted in graphene-based materials appeared first on Physics World.

The MAHA ELEVATE model will provide $100M to as many as 30 proposals that incorporate functional and lifestyle medicine for chronic disease management and prevention.

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These earbuds were made for bedtime, and now you can get the SleepEEZ Mini Noise-Blocking True Wireless Earbuds for Sleeping for just $19.97 (reg. $34.99) through Jan. 11.

From our collaborating partner “Living on Earth,” public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by host Steve Curwood with author and climate activist Bill McKibben.  In September 1989, along with a poem from John Updike and fiction from Muriel Spark, the New Yorker published an article t…

Erika Kirk, widow of the late conservative activist Charlie Kirk, said she plans to meet with right-wing podcast host Candance Owens on Monday. “Candace Owens and I are meeting for a private, in-person discussion on Monday, December 15,” Kirk wrote on the social platform X late Sunday. “@RealCandace…

Treasuries posted small gains as investors looked to a swath of delayed US economic reports ahead this week that have the potential to alter expectations for further Federal Reserve interest-rates cuts next year.

Was any song better-produced this year than one based on a Korean drinking game?

Editors note: The Hill has updated this story, published Sunday, that named a person of interest in the Brown University shooting. Authorities late Sunday determined he would be released. Police said Sunday night they plan to release a person of interest detained in connection to the Brown Universit…

The Geminid meteor shower peaked overnight on Dec. 13.

Mason Mount is delivering for Manchester United - but can his performances force him into Thomas Tuchel's World Cup squad?

Quote from: ChrisC on 11/23/2025 05:01 amChris B, I think he threw you with his incorrect use of the word "promote".  He's asking what the mechanism is for him to use your/NSF's L2 imagery inside his educational s...

The world’s top chipmaker wants open source AI to succeed—perhaps because closed models increasingly run on its rivals’ silicon.

Juventus Football Club shares surged after stablecoin issuer Tether made, and was rebuffed on, a €1.1 billion takeover bid, while the club’s fan token saw a double-digit pullback.

If learning a new skill is one of your New Year's resolutions, then you might want to know that MasterClass subscriptions are currently 40 percent off. This brings the top-tier subscription with offline mode and use on up to six devices down from $240 annually to $144. The entry-level plan, which su…

By combining color images from the ground with X-rays taken from space, scientists gain new insight into interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS.

Bitcoin usage still skews toward long-term storage, as seen in how much BTC sits unmoved, says Terahash co-founder Hunter Rogers. But this behavior preserves individual wealth while starving the network.

The decentralized investment firm is using tokens and DAOs to give local communities direct control over energy and infrastructure projects in emerging markets.

Reiner’s own films reshaped modern comedy and drama with their intelligence, empathy and range. But through his company, Castle Rock, he paved the way for Seinfeld, Sorkin and many moreNews: Rob Reiner found dead in apparent homicideGallery: Rob Reiner – a life in picturesMeeting Reiner was like a v…

China has started granting licenses with lengthier terms to allow European companies to obtain critical minerals essential for industries including clean tech, automakers and defense contractors, the EU’s top trade official said.

AA sounds out buyers, and owners of fellow roadside assistance provider prefer IPO of similar valueThe private equity owners of the AA, Britain’s biggest roadside recovery business, are looking for a potential £5bn sale or stock market flotation, while the owners of the rival RAC are targeting a Lon…

Benjamin Lewis pleads guilty to harassing Christians by dumping dead deer and lambs in New ForestA 47-year-old man has admitted harassing Christians by dumping animal carcasses outside churches in and around an English forest.Benjamin Lewis admitted seven offences relating to incidents in which dead…

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arXiv:2512.11690v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: While end-to-end encryption protects the content of messages, it does not secure metadata, which exposes sender and receiver information through traffic analysis. A plausible approach to protecting this metadata is to have senders post encrypted messa…

Wayne and Vanessa Miller were at a Bondi Beach Hanukkah celebration with their two young daughters when gunmen opened fire on Sunday at the famous Australian beach. The Millers tell "CBS Mornings" about their escape from the attack, and how a stranger laid on top of their 3-year-old daughter to prot…

Thailand has for the first time targeted Siem Reap province, home to Cambodia's tourist hub Angkor Wat, Phnom Penh says.

SAN FRANCISCO – University of California spinoff MetaSeismic wasn’t focused on space applications when it began using an artificial intelligence platform to create materials to mitigate vibration and shock. But […]
The post MetaSeismic material mitigates vibration and shock in NASA Marshall testing …

Big AI firms have built their models by hoovering up copyrighted material from the internet as training data. They say this is legal, but copyright holders disagree - and this year they hit back in a major way

Demonstrations have run for fifth day in support of judges and prosecutors who denounced systemic abuse.

Verizon changed policy after he bought the phone, wouldn't unlock it despite FCC rule.

Find the best Dyson deal at Amazon. Save 31% on the Dyson Airstrait at Amazon.

Scientists have discovered a crucial clue to understanding one of nature's most spectacular light shows, the aurora. Research from the University of Southampton reveals that just before these magnetospheric substorms erupt, a distinct pattern of low frequency radio waves appears above the aurora, ra…

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Many industries are eyeing up hydrogen as a source of clean energy, but with supplies of green hydrogen limited, we should prioritise the areas where it could have the most positive impact on carbon emissions, say researchers

Sweden’s biggest commercial banks are among 13 financial companies taking part in a new government-run initiative to better protect the country from threats of hybrid warfare such as cyberattacks.

Chilean stocks hit a fresh record in early trading on Monday and the peso held near a 14-month high after ultra-conservative José Antonio Kast won the presidency by a landslide, heralding the nation’s most dramatic rightward shift in decades.

The two chief executive officers of Netflix Inc. laid out the company’s case for acquiring Warner Bros Discovery Inc., after rival Paramount Skydance Corp. went public with a competing, hostile offer.

Somali-born Minnesota representative says her son was let go once he produced his IDIn the interview with WCCO, Rep. Ilhan Omar said her office has received a flood of calls in the weeks since Trump began targeting her by name and calling her, and other Somalis, “garbage”.Most of those calls, she sa…

Variety of agencies now deliberately provocative on social media, further inflaming discourse on serious issuesWhen Donald Trump posted during his first term on what was then called Twitter, his attacks and rants differed significantly from US federal agency staff’s more cautious and traditional app…

arXiv:2509.19972v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Manipulation of large systems of active particles is a serious challenge across diverse domains, including crowd management, control of robotic swarms, and coordinated material transport. The development of advanced control strategies for complex …

I understand the temptation to run away – I have felt it too. Try to stay in the room, and in the moment. You’ll be glad you didThis is my last column for you. I am shocked and delighted that I’ve been allowed to carry on for almost two years, saying such controversial and true things as: the oedipa…

Yes, we love our roasties – but have we really explored the spud’s potential as a gift, an aesthetic, a mood?All I want for Christmas is … the Nairn Museum potato flask. Showcased as part of the Highland museum’s virtual Advent calendar on Instagram last week, it’s a late-18th-century Staffordshire …

Robbie Savage takes on his first football manager job, but will he regret it?

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The Meta Quest 3S is back on sale at its all-time low price of $250. That's $50 off, or a discount of 17 percent, and matches a deal we saw on Cyber Monday.
The 3S is the more affordable model in the company's current VR headset lineup. It features the same Snapdragon XR2 processor as the more expe…

My boyfriend texted me those dreaded four words: "Is your Spotify down?" Sure enough his, mine and thousands of other users' Spotify accounts appear to be down and out at the moment, with Downdetector recording over 10,000 reports from users. 
Spotify is apparently working on the problem. The accoun…

Nick Reiner was taken into custody Sunday night and booked Monday on suspicion of felony murder

Documentation leaked by a hacker group known as “Black Mirror” indicates that Russia has sought help from China in providing some type of anti-satellite capability against SpaceX’s Starlink constellation. See these sources:https://militarnyi.com/en/n...

Quote from: Senate Daily PressMonday, December 15, 2025The Senate will convene at 3:00 p.m. and following any Leader remarks will be in a period of morning business.At approximately 5:30 p.m., the Senate will vote on cloture on the motion to concu...