The recall affects So Delicious Dairy Free's Salted Caramel Cluster ice cream with best by dates of Aug. 8, 2027.

Commons committee monitoring revolving door that gave jobs to George Osborne, Nick Clegg and Tony BlairWhen the billionaire chief executive of AI chipmaker Nvidia threw a party in central London for Donald Trump’s state visit in September, the power imbalance between Silicon Valley and British polit…

Over his six-decade tenure as a ranger, Douglas Follett explained the wonders of nature to park visitors.

arXiv:2512.07829v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Visual generative models (e.g., diffusion models) typically operate in compressed latent spaces to balance training efficiency and sample quality. In parallel, there has been growing interest in leveraging high-quality pre-trained visual represent…

A group of moderate Republicans signed a petition to force a House vote on extending health care tax credits for three years, a major blow to Speaker Mike Johnson.

Former special counsel Jack Smith is testifying behind closed doors on Wednesday over his investigations into President Trump. CBS News Justice Department reporter Jake Rosen has more details.

The company says it is protecting nursing home residents by curbing unnecessary hospital transfers. Whistleblowers allege cost-cutting tactics have endangered the elderlyThree nursing home residents died because employees of the American healthcare giant UnitedHealth Group helped delay or deny them …

Nick Reiner has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder for the stabbing deaths of his parents

The star comedian celebrated the end of the sensational case: "I knew these disgusting lies would be exposed as nothing more than a malicious money grab."

Nomura European Economist Josie Anderson says the bigger-than-expected drop in UK inflation could see more BOE policymakers voting for a rate cut and raises the probability of more cuts than expected in 2026. She speaks to Bloomberg's Francine Lacqua on 'The Pulse.' (Source: Bloomberg)

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Mark Jenner strung along activist who wanted to have children with him in an ‘extremely cruel’ way to infiltrate leftwing circles, Spycops inquiry toldAn undercover officer has admitted he “callously and cruelly” deceived a woman into a five-year relationship while infiltrating leftwing campaigns, t…

arXiv:2512.14308v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Amortized Bayesian inference (ABI) offers fast, scalable approximations to posterior densities by training neural surrogates on data simulated from the statistical model. However, ABI methods are highly sensitive to model misspecification: when obse…

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The Soyuz launched on Nov. 27, 2025 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

While the UK may never rejoin the European Union, it has now been confirmed that the country will return to the Erasmus program it left during Brexit. This means EU students can study in the UK without major bureaucratic hurdles, and British students will have the same opportunities to study across …

This week's STATus Report takes on the CDC's new hepatitis B vaccine guidance for newborns. Host Alex Hogan dives into the controversial recommendation.

Consequence readers voted to highlight Haylee Williams, Rosalía, Sinners, Severance, Pluribus, and more as the best of the best from 2025.
Consequence Readers’ Survey Results: Your Picks for the Best Music, Film, and TV of 2025
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Immediate bonus points for acknowledging that cabling will still exist and will inevitably end up in the habitable volume, and that no matter how nice sweeping curves and soft surfaces and wood effect panels etc look; you will still end up having to sh...

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) on Wednesday called White House border czar Tom Homan "sick" after he said the Trump administration is investigating her for alleged immigration fraud. Independent journalist Nicholas Ballasy asked Omar on Capitol Hill if she had a response to recent comments Homan made dur…

OK, I went ahead and voted for 20. This is my optimistic vote. I'm assuming that by the end of 2026 they will have worked out all of their operations protocols and will be launching about 3 per month using both VIFs. I think they will launch five Atlas...

A Second Amendment clash has erupted between the federal government and the U.S. Virgin Islands

arXiv:2510.19981v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: We propose FutrTrack, a modular camera-LiDAR multi-object tracking framework that builds on existing 3D detectors by introducing a transformer-based smoother and a fusion-driven tracker. Inspired by query-based tracking frameworks, FutrTrack emplo…

Lawmakers, union leaders and education officials say shifting programs out of the department risks losing expertise, adding bureaucracy and weakening support for students and families.

Southwest Airlines’ stock was riding a wave of renewed optimism about U.S. airlines in the new year, including a prediction from Barclays that the once no-frills air carrier will be more profitable in 2026.

The HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter just notched a big milestone, snapping its 100,000th photo of the Red Planet.

The producer's six show Sphere Las Vegas residency begins on March 5.

arXiv:2512.14683v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Hospitals lack automated systems to harness the growing volume of heterogeneous clinical and operational data to effectively forecast critical events. Early identification of patients at risk for deterioration is essential not only for patient care qu…

The token has resistance at the $1.53 and then the $1.64 levels.

Nick Reiner made a brief appearance in court on Wednesday morning on charges of murdering his parents, Rob and Michele Reiner. Reiner did not enter a plea and agreed to postpone his arraignment to Jan. 7. He was shackled and wore a blue suicide-prevention vest. Reiner faces two charges of murder, wi…

Governor Jared Polis warned that breaking up Boulder’s NCAR would put ‘public safety at risk’The Trump administration is breaking up a research center praised as a “crown jewel” of climate research after accusing it of spreading “alarmism” about climate change.Russell Vought, the director of the Whi…

Legislation commits to minimum troop numbers on the continent and continued assistance to Ukraine

An enterprise 5G deployment requires extensive planning. This guide helps you understand 5G use cases and deployment options as well as the latest advances in wireless technology.

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10 years ago, the Rockland Water Coalition stopped a harmful desalination plant pushed by a corporate water giant. Here’s how.
The post How Grassroots Activism Beat a Corporate Water Giant in Rockland County appeared first on Food & Water Watch.

Moviegoing frequency by Gen Z audiences is up in 2025, according to Cinema United’s new “Strength of Theatrical Exhibition” report. Published on Wednesday, the annual analysis seeks to make sense of key industry metrics beyond traditional box-office performance.  “Weekend box office is important, bu…

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The US has increasingly looked abroad to fill teaching shortages. But some educators fear uncertainty under Trump.

Software giant suffers renewed declines after backer Blue Owl pulls out of $10bn project

Get your first month of the DirecTV Signature Entertainment package for $50 through Jan. 6 in first-ever flash holiday sale.

Nick Reiner is set to be arraigned on murder charges for allegedly killing his parents, Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner. CBS News' Adam Yamaguchi has the latest.

Nick Reiner, the son of director Rob Reiner has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder for the stabbing deaths of both his father and his mother. Solange Mougin has more.

The fanout and choreography patterns are two common approaches to event-driven architecture, each offering its own advantages for modern distributed systems.

arXiv:2512.14180v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Radiance field methods (e.g. 3D Gaussian Splatting) have emerged as a powerful paradigm for novel view synthesis, yet their appearance modeling often relies on Spherical Harmonics (SH), which impose fundamental limitations. SH struggle with high-frequ…

Crypto-linked stocks pulled back, with miners like MARA Holdings (MARA) down 4.8% and Core Scientific (CORZ) down 6%.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Wednesday said President Trump’s response to the death of actor-director Rob Reiner and his wife Michele Singer Reiner was “not the way I would have done it.” “I’m asked to give running commentary on everything the president says every five minutes of the day, a…

An AI-generated fake video circulated on #Facebook, falsely claiming a coup d’état in #France. Alerted by a concerned African counterpart, Emmanuel #Macron criticised Facebook after the platform refused to remove the misleading content.

New research shows that social media creators have enormous influence over their audiences' politics—especially those who don't normally share political content.

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Quote from: meekGee on Today at 05:21 pmQuote from: Starship_SpaceX on Today at 05:43 amThe Zhejiang Maritime Safety Administration in China uncovered a case of illegal use of ...

Emerging-market stocks have broadly crushed the U.S. equities market this year, in one of the biggest market surprises of 2025.

The British Medical Association is calling for improved pay and an increase in available jobs for qualified doctors.

A natural vitamin A transporter, RBP4, can awaken latent HIV through NF-κB signalling, offering a new angle for cure strategies. Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a virus that attacks key immune cells, especially CD4 T cells, weakening the body’s ability to fight infections and, without treatmen…

Woods finds attacks against the late director "infuriating and distasteful."
James Woods Defends Rob Reiner Against Trump’s Disparagement
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I said 13, because infrastructure is coming online finally. 2 hangars east, 1 pad west. I am not optimistic about ULA in general but 13 is doable.

Pharma companies have agreed to lower prices and invest in the U.S. in exchange for avoiding tariffs and benefits like faster drug reviews.

This morning, we learned that November was a surprisingly bad month for video game spending across the board. But one console in particular is really struggling, and that's the Xbox.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the blue dwarf galaxy Markarian 178 (Mrk 178) against a backdrop of distant galaxies in all shapes and sizes. Some of these distant galaxies even shine through the diffuse edges of Mrk 178.

Healing tumors, not blasting them.

Federal records show CBP is moving from testing small drones to making them standard surveillance tools, expanding a network that can follow activity in real time and extend well beyond the border.

Mark Cottle, who has metastatic prostate cancer, responds to an article by Carolin WürfelIt’s not just Germans like Carolin Würfel (16 December) who face a challenge with the question “How are you?” When I was diagnosed with metastatic prostate cancer, that question went from being a routine convers…

Rose Byrne, Jennifer Lawrence and Amanda Seyfried give great performances as women who buck convention. But some voters prize ‘likability’ above all else.

Raiffeisen Bank International AG will appoint a former finance chief as its next chief executive officer after years of unsuccessful attempts to sell its Russian unit.

Exclusive: Key figures at frozen assets depository among targets of intimidation campaign, say European intelligence agenciesBelgian politicians and senior finance executives have been subject to a campaign of intimidation orchestrated by Russian intelligence aimed at persuading the country to block…

Several years after it was scrapped, the UK is now set to rejoin the Erasmus scheme in 2027.

This list includes cost-effective stocking stuffers ranging from tech to cosmetics.

Marking the end of the Academy Awards' five-decade run on ABC.
Oscars to Leave ABC, Air Exclusively on YouTube in 2029
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Pokémon TCG's Ascended Heroes preorders could drop at any moment. Here's all the retailers you need to keep an eye on.

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Trump administration is breaking up a research center praised as a “crown jewel” of climate research after accusing it of spreading “alarmism” about climate change. Russell Vough…

Hello and welcome to the newsletter, a grab bag of daily content from the Odd Lots universe. Sometimes it's us, Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway, bringing you our thoughts on the most recent developments in markets, finance and the economy. And sometimes it's contributions from our network of expert…

The creators of the Hitman series have honed their style of- open-ended and spectacle-driven sandboxes across several games, and now they're taking their signature immersive gameplay to the world of James Bond. With 007 First Light, developer IO Interactive is crafting an origin story for the globet…

Canadian researchers tracking bear known as X33991 noticed she had gained a second cub who likely needed helpScientists in Canada have documented a rare case of female polar bear adopting a new cub, in an episode of “curious behaviour” that highlights the complex relationships among the apex Arctic …

The Dyson Airwrap i.d. is down to just $479 at Amazon in both the straight and curly models — its lowest price ever at 26% off.

A new technical paper titled “A Vertically Integrated Framework for Templatized Chip Design” was published by researchers at University of Southern California. Abstract “Developers who primarily engage with software often struggle to incorporate custom hardware into their applications, even though s…

President Trump announced a blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers leaving or entering Venezuela. CBS News' Olivia Rinaldi and Charlie D'Agata have more details.

New global members join CNCF to strengthen community contributions in observability, cloud infrastructure, and cloud native AI SAN FRANCISCO, CA – December 17, 2025 – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for...

arXiv:2512.11844v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: We propose Love First, Know Later: a paradigm shift in computational matching that simulates interactions first, then assesses compatibility. Instead of comparing static profiles, our framework leverages LLMs as text world engines that operate in …

The long-awaited Season 14 return of Fox’s “The Masked Singer” is just a few weeks away, and Variety can exclusively reveal three more costumes: Eggplant, Owl and “14 Karat Carrot” (yes, a nod to the show’s 14th season). Those three join the previously announced Pugcasso, Queen Corgi, Scarab and the…

Almost exactly a month after the debut of Gemini 3 Pro in November, Google has begun rolling out the more efficient Flash version of its latest AI model. According to the company, the new system offers similar "pro-grade" reasoning performance as its flagship model at a fraction of the cost, making …

New rumors of stalled data-center funding have sent Oracle’s stock lower, but some experts argue the negative narrative has gotten too harsh.

The Senate passed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) on Wednesday, sending the mammoth defense policy bill to President Trump for his signature. Senators voted 77-20 on the annual bipartisan package, which checks in at more than 3,000 pages and puts in place the next year’s defense priori…

Scientists say they now know where the 'Beachy Head Lady', an ancient skeleton, actually came from.

It's the latest e-bike company to seek bankruptcy protection after pandemic-era excitement for the category wore off.

Oil rose from a four-and-a-half-year low after the US signaled tougher measures against Russia to spur a peace deal in Ukraine after declaring a blockade of Venezuelan oil exports. Gold rose, approaching record levels, as investors looked ahead to US inflation data and monitored escalating tensions …

In this week’s Crypto Long & Short Newsletter, Jared Lenow’s insights on the DOJ’s increased focus on crypto seizures and what it means for the broader industry – the good, the bad and the ugly. Then, we dive into a year end vibe check with two observations, two predictions and reader favorite quote…

“Fraud became an integral component of Tricolor’s business strategy,” U.S. prosecutors said.

Rhinelander v. Rhinelander was one of the most scandalous trials of the Jazz Age. 100 years later, it reads as a tragedy about the country’s original sin.

arXiv:2512.13999v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Vizing's theorem states that every simple undirected graph can be edge-colored using fewer than $\Delta + 1$ colors, where $\Delta$ is the graph's maximum degree. The original proof was given through a polynomial-time algorithmic procedure that iterat…

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The dressings, including the popular Hidden Valley Ranch, were distributed to retailers across the country.

iHeartRadio is delivering a star-studded show for its live Jingle Ball event. Here’s who to expect and how to stream the show without cable

Comprehensive global e-learning platform Coursera Inc. today announced a merger agreement with prominent online education platform Udemy, Inc. According to Reuters, Coursera will buy Udemy in an all-stock deal. Based on the closing prices of the companies’ common stock on Dec. 16, the combined compa…

Google's Gemini 3 family is now complete with release of Gemini 3 Flash.

Celtic winless in three under new manager NancyLawwell will leave club at the end of DecemberCeltic’s chair, Peter Lawwell, has announced he is to stand down, citing “intolerable” treatment from a section of the club’s support. Lawwell’s exit will intensify a sense of crisis around the Scottish cham…

Former special counsel Jack Smith defended his prosecutions of President Trump in a closed-door deposition with lawmakers on Capitol Hill on Wednesday.

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Quote from: spacenut on Today at 02:56 pmCould comets be made to crash into Mars for more water and possible eventual terraforming?  This was done on Startrek as mentioned in the show "Enterprise". There ...

Zohran Mamdani has been elected Mayor of New York City, and is promising to lower costs and make life easier for New Yorkers through rent freezes, free childcare, and non-profit city owned grocery stores, funded by tax increases on corporations and wealthy residents.

Denver-based Lux Aeterna announced plans Dec. 17 to land its debut reusable satellite at the Koonibba Test Range in South Australia, shortly after launching on a SpaceX rideshare mission in early 2027.
The post Lux Aeterna to land first reusable satellite in Australia appeared first on SpaceNews.

European stocks ceded their earlier gains as renewed concerns around artificial intelligence hit technology shares. The UK’s FTSE 100 outperformed after a bigger-than-expected drop in inflation.