‘There’s Nothing Quite as Distressing as This Piece’

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What to Cook This Week

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NFT marketplace LooksRare, which launched on Jan. 10, had $9.5B+ in trading volume, $8.3B+ of which seems to be users "wash trading" between their own wallets (Andrew Hayward/Decrypt)

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NFT marketplace LooksRare, which launched on Jan. 10, had $9.5B+ in trading volume, $8.3B+ of which seems to be users “wash trading” between their own wallets  —  CryptoSlam says the vast majority of the hot NFT marketplace's sales are illegitimate trades made to manipulate the token rewards model.

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Cincinnati has had difficulties protecting Burrow.

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Freedom Convoy: Truckers cause chaos in Ottawa after second day of protests

Truckers blocked streets around parliament in a second day of protests against a vaccine mandate.

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Mason Greenwood: Man Utd player arrested over rape claim

Greater Manchester Police says a man in his 20s is being held following allegations on social media.

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As Storms Intensify, the Job of TV Weather Person Gets More Serious

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DR Congo issues death sentences for murder of UN experts

Zaida Catalan and Michael Sharp had been investigating abuses after clashes in the Kasai region.

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Visa says customers made $2.5B in payments with its crypto-linked cards in its fiscal Q1 of 2022, which was 70% of its crypto volume for all of FY 2021 (Frank Holland/CNBC)

Frank Holland / CNBC:
Visa says customers made $2.5B in payments with its crypto-linked cards in its fiscal Q1 of 2022, which was 70% of its crypto volume for all of FY 2021  —  - Visa said during its recent earnings call that customers made $2.5 billion in payments with its crypto-linked cards in its fiscal first quarter of 2022.

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In New York City, opinions ranged from ‘it’s terrible’ to ‘it doesn’t seem that bad.’

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Freedom Convoy: Why Canadian truckers are protesting in Ottawa

The 'Freedom Convoy' is protesting vaccine mandates but police are worried about fringe elements.

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Russia: Military drill moved further from Irish shore

Simon Coveney says the news was "welcome" following days of speculation over the exercise.

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Be Here Now: How to Exercise Mindfully

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A US appeals court upholds California's net neutrality law, saying a 2017 decision by the FCC to reverse federal internet protections could not bar state action (David Shepardson/Reuters)

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A US appeals court upholds California's net neutrality law, saying a 2017 decision by the FCC to reverse federal internet protections could not bar state action  —  A U.S. Court of Appeals on Friday upheld California's net neutrality law, saying a 2017 decision by the Federal Communications Commission …

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Restaurants to Customers: Don’t Call Us, We Won’t Call You

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Winter Olympics: Global sponsors quiet ahead of Beijing Games

A week before the Beijing Games start global partners are lying low amid a US-China diplomatic spat.

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The FAA says it has reached a deal with Verizon and AT&T to let them expand their networks near airports while allowing aircraft to land safely (Niraj Chokshi/New York Times)

Niraj Chokshi / New York Times:
The FAA says it has reached a deal with Verizon and AT&T to let them expand their networks near airports while allowing aircraft to land safely  —  The federal agency said an agreement with Verizon and AT&T would enable the wireless providers to expand their networks while allowing aircraft to land safely.

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OpenSea says over 80% of NFTs minted for free on its service are plagiarized works, fake collections, and spam, but reverses decision to limit free NFT creation (Jordan Pearson/VICE)

Jordan Pearson / VICE:
OpenSea says over 80% of NFTs minted for free on its service are plagiarized works, fake collections, and spam, but reverses decision to limit free NFT creation  —  After reversing course on a limit to the amount of free NFTs a user can create, OpenSea said the decision was due to the amount of fraud and spam.

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Waymo sues California DMV to keep secret safety details, including descriptions of driverless car crashes, and says the data should be designated a trade secret (Russ Mitchell/Los Angeles Times)

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Waymo sues California DMV to keep secret safety details, including descriptions of driverless car crashes, and says the data should be designated a trade secret  —  Waymo, the driverless car company operating an autonomous taxi fleet in San Francisco, is suing the California Department of Motor Vehicles.

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The US FCC approves "nutrition labels" forcing ISPs to show prices, speed, and more, plus network management practices like throttling, starting on November 15 (Makena Kelly/The Verge)

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The US FCC approves “nutrition labels” forcing ISPs to show prices, speed, and more, plus network management practices like throttling, starting on November 15  —  It's part of the Biden administration's plan to boost market competition  —  Understanding your broadband speeds …

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Writers Guild Nominations: ‘Don’t Look Up,’ ‘Licorice Pizza’ and More

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Xiomara Castro: Honduras swears in its first female president

Xiomara Castro's arrival marks the end to the right-wing National Party's 12-year reign.

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Meta rebrands Oculus Quest as Meta Quest, leading to criticism on social media; the rebrand was originally announced in October (Derrek Lee/Android Central)

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Meta rebrands Oculus Quest as Meta Quest, leading to criticism on social media; the rebrand was originally announced in October  —  “Meta Quest” is just so fetch.  —  What you need to know  — Meta changes the social media accounts of its VR brand to Meta Quest.

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The Best Veggie Burgers Are Made With Vegetables

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Swiss bank UBS to acquire robo-adviser Wealthfront, which has 470K+ clients in the US, for $1.4B, as it looks to use AI to pitch services to the world's wealthy (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
Swiss bank UBS to acquire robo-adviser Wealthfront, which has 470K+ clients in the US, for $1.4B, as it looks to use AI to pitch services to the world's wealthy  —  UBS Group AG agreed to buy U.S. robo-adviser Wealthfront for $1.4 billion in cash, as Chief Executive Officer Ralph Hamers tapped …

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‘What Do I Want From This Crazy Thing Called Life?’

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Russia Ukraine: US sends Moscow formal response over crisis

The secretary of state says he has offered Russia a serious diplomatic path but will help defend Ukraine.

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ID.me backtracks and says it does in fact use "1:many facial recognition" across large databases, a practice that's more "problematic" than "1:1 face matching" (Tonya Riley/CyberScoop)

Tonya Riley / CyberScoop:
ID.me backtracks and says it does in fact use “1:many facial recognition” across large databases, a practice that's more “problematic” than “1:1 face matching”  —  Identity verification company ID.me uses a type of powerful facial recognition that searches …

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Apple releases iOS 15.3 and macOS Monterey 12.2 with a fix for the IndexedDB API bug in Safari, as well as iPadOS 15.3, watchOS 8.4, tvOS 15.3, and HomePod 15.3 (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)

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Apple releases iOS 15.3 and macOS Monterey 12.2 with a fix for the IndexedDB API bug in Safari, as well as iPadOS 15.3, watchOS 8.4, tvOS 15.3, and HomePod 15.3  —  Apple's latest round of software updates is now rolling out to the public. iOS 15.3 is now available to iPhone users …

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The federal consumer bureau wants to stamp out what it calls ‘junk fees.’

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Turkey: Airport warehouse roof collapses in snowstorm

Heavy snowfall across parts of Turkey has caused an airport warehouse roof to collapse.

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Internal Pentagon document: Microsoft's HoloLens-based Army goggles, part of a $22B program started in 2018, are behind schedule and not yet combat ready (Anthony Capaccio/Bloomberg)

Anthony Capaccio / Bloomberg:
Internal Pentagon document: Microsoft's HoloLens-based Army goggles, part of a $22B program started in 2018, are behind schedule and not yet combat ready  —  Microsoft Corp.'s new multifunction goggle system for the U.S. Army shows promise, but the $22 billion program isn't yet ready for combat deployment …

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Michael Avenatti Will Represent Himself During Remainder of His Trial

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Frank Dutton, Who Took On Apartheid’s Crimes, Dies at 72

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Ukraine: What is Nato and why doesn't Russia trust it?

Nato countries are trying to help Ukraine in the face of a possible Russian invasion.

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Review of Intel's 12th Gen Alder Lake-H Core i9-12900HK, tested in a 17-inch MSI Raider GE76 laptop: excellent outright performance with poor energy efficiency (Brett Howse/AnandTech)

Brett Howse / AnandTech:
Review of Intel's 12th Gen Alder Lake-H Core i9-12900HK, tested in a 17-inch MSI Raider GE76 laptop: excellent outright performance with poor energy efficiency  —  At CES this year, Intel officially announced its expanded Alder Lake processor lineup, including the performance-laptop focused H-Series chips …

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US Commerce Department says the global chip shortage will stretch into at least H2 2022, based on information from 150+ companies in the supply chain (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
US Commerce Department says the global chip shortage will stretch into at least H2 2022, based on information from 150+ companies in the supply chain  —  The Biden administration has concluded that a global semiconductor shortage will persist until at least the second half of this year …

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Taqueria Ramírez Brings a Mexico City Specialty to Brooklyn

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Chip startup Ceremorphic raises a $50M Series A and unveils QS 1, which is built on TSMC's 5nm node and designed to excel at tasks like AI model training (Dan Muse/VentureBeat)

Dan Muse / VentureBeat:
Chip startup Ceremorphic raises a $50M Series A and unveils QS 1, which is built on TSMC's 5nm node and designed to excel at tasks like AI model training  —  Today, Ceremorphic, a startup, is coming out of stealth mode with $50 million of series A funding along with the announcement of the QS 1 chip …

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The military announces a takeover in the West African nation of Burkina Faso.

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Biden to video call European allies over Ukraine

The US president will hold a secure call with leaders of the UK, France and Germany, among others.

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Internal docs: Facebook's low-data service for developing countries, advertised as being free, has regularly led to unexpected charges for users for months (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal:
Internal docs: Facebook's low-data service for developing countries, advertised as being free, has regularly led to unexpected charges for users for months  —  Its program for low-income countries, designed to boost growth outside the U.S., leads to unexpected charges; the company blames software glitches

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Meta unveils AI Research SuperCluster, a supercomputer for AI research, claiming it will have 16K GPUs and be the world's fastest upon completion in mid-2022 (James Vincent/The Verge)

James Vincent / The Verge:
Meta unveils AI Research SuperCluster, a supercomputer for AI research, claiming it will have 16K GPUs and be the world's fastest upon completion in mid-2022  —  Designed to train the next-generation of machine learning systems  —  Social media conglomerate Meta is the latest tech company to build an …

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Covid: Clashes at Belgium protest against restrictions

A rally sees violent exchanges in Brussels as tens of thousands marched against Covid restrictions.

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Sources: Apple is readying the widest array of new hardware products in its history this fall; Joe Bass, head of software engineering for Apple's car team left (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is readying the widest array of new hardware products in its history this fall; Joe Bass, head of software engineering for Apple's car team left  —  Apple Inc. is nearing its first launch event of the year, with a new iPhone SE and iPad on tap.

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