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13 EU countries & Japan condemn Israel’s approval of new West Bank settlements https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/24/middleeast/israel-palestinians-west-bank-hnk-intl Thirteen European countries and Japan have condemned Israel’s decision earlier in the month to approve 19 new Jewish settlements in the Occupied West Bank saying the move harmed the prospects for long term peace and security in the region. “Such unilateral actions, as part of a wider intensification of the settlement policies in the West Bank, not only violate international law but also risk fueling instability,” they said in a joint statement.
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Nvidia to license Groq technology, hire executives https://www.reuters.com/business/nvidia-buy-ai-chip-startup-groq-about-20-billion-cnbc-reports-2025-12-24/ Nvidia (NVDA.O), opens new tab has agreed to license chip technology from startup Groq and hire away its CEO, a veteran of Alphabet's (GOOGL.O), opens new tab Google, Groq said in a blog post on Wednesday. Groq specializes in what is known as inference, where artificial intelligence models that have already been trained respond to requests from users. While Nvidia dominates the market for training AI models, it faces much more competition in inference, where traditional rivals such as Advanced Micro Devices (AMD.O), opens new tab have aimed to challenge it as well as startups such as Groq and Cerebras Systems.
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Scientists Discovered a Creature That Breaks a Fundamental Rule of Biology The building blocks of life are formed from a simple process: DNA is transcribed into RNA, which then becomes proteins. And all life follows the same instructions for how those proteins form—instructions based on 61 codons made of three nucleotides, all of which are combinations of the four nucleic acids named adenine (A), cytosine (C), guanine (G), and uracil (U).
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BTC slips below $88,000, but Strategy, Circle, Gemini among those sharply lower Bitcoin led crypto markets lower Tuesday, down by about 1% over the past 24 hours to just below $88,000. The decline came even as gold, silver and copper all surged to record highs (though have pulled back a bit in Tuesday afternoon trade). U.S. stocks are ahead modestly, the Nasdaq gaining 0.45%.
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Suitcase left in a bank vault for 100 years contained the lost Hapsburg jewels A forgotten suitcase in a Canadian bank vault, opened after more than 100 years, contained famous royal jewels and treasures believed to have been lost forever. This was the private jewel collection of the Habsburg family, and the most valuable piece was a light-yellow diamond that weighs just under one ounce.
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Three people killed in explosion in Moscow: Russian investigators Two police ⁠officers and another ‍person have been ‍killed in ⁠blast in southern Moscow, ‌according to the Russian Investigative Committee. The two traffic police officers were killed overnight on Tuesday into Wednesday in an explosion that occurred when they attempted to arrest a suspicious individual, the Committee said in a statement on Wednesday.
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China replaced solar panels with photovoltaic windows and now shows the results In the past century, energy has been harnessed through various methods, from dams to wind, and through solar radiation. However, in a recent discovery, China has found a way to harness energy using our homes and buildings by inventing photovoltaic windows. With this incredible invention, China is pushing the boundaries of solar generation beyond rooftops and fields.
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Despite Being Volatile, Bitcoin Is Looking Strong Bitcoin faced a turbulent Q4 in 2025, with December seeing a nearly 9% drop and record volatility since April, yet VanEck’s mid-December “ChainCheck” report notes improving liquidity and resetting speculative leverage, providing cautious optimism for long-term holders.
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Anubis: Open-source web AI firewall to protect from scraper bots Anubis is an open-source tool designed to protect websites from automated scraping and abusive traffic by adding computational friction before a request is served. Maintained by TecharoHQ, the project targets a growing problem for site operators who want to keep content accessible to humans while limiting large scale automated collection.
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Google's parent buys data center energy specialist Intersect for $4.75 billion Google's corporate parent on Monday announced an agreement to buy data center energy specialist Intersect for $4.75 billion as part of its effort to secure the vast amounts of electricity needed to power artificial intelligence technology.
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Scientists Confirm the Incredible Existence of ‘Second Sound’ In the world of average, everyday materials, heat tends to spread out from a localized source. Drop a burning coal into a pot of water, and that liquid will slowly rise in temperature before its heat eventually dissipates. But the world is full of rare, exotic materials that don’t exactly play by these thermal rules.
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Scientists Used a Diamond to Create a New Phase of Matter Since their theoretical discovery in 2012, time crystals have been front-and-center in conversations about how to improve quantum computers. While diamond, ice, and any other solid you can think of has a crystal lattice structure that repeats in space (another name for them could be “space crystals”), time crystals, as their name suggests, oscillate in perpetual cycles across time. These crystals, the thinking goes, could form stable forms of quantum memory and error-free quantum circuits, drastically improving a quantum computer’s performance.
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Challenging Long-Held Theories: Evolution Isn’t One-and-Done, New Study Suggests Repeated environmental changes can lead evolution in unexpected directions, and research from Vermont shows that studying a single population does not capture the full story of an entire species. All forms of life exist in environments that are constantly shifting. Seasons change, wet years follow dry ones, and conditions that once favored survival can quickly disappear. Because of this, it is clear that plant and animal populations are continually forced to adapt, says University of Vermont scientist Csenge Petak. What remains uncertain is how these ongoing environmental changes influence the course of evolution itself.
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Einstein in a Chip: Hidden Geometry Bends Electrons Like Gravity A team at UNIGE has uncovered a geometric structure once thought to be purely theoretical at the core of quantum materials, opening the door to major advances in future electronics. How can information be processed almost instantly, or electrical current flow without energy loss? To reach these goals, researchers in both academia and industry are increasingly focused on quantum materials, which operate according to the rules of physics at the smallest scales.
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Strategy and bitcoin-buying firms face wider exclusion from stock indexes https://www.reuters.com/business/strategy-bitcoin-buying-firms-face-wider-exclusion-stock-indexes-2025-12-19 Michael Saylor's Strategy (MSTR.O), opens new tab could soon be dropped from MSCI and potentially other major stock indexes, which analysts say could cost the bitcoin-hoarding giant up to $9 billion in demand for its shares and hurt the wider appeal of the sector.