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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13 EU countries & Japan condemn Israel’s approval of new West Bank settlements \ stacker news ~news

Thirteen European countries and Japan have condemned Israel’s decision earlier in the month to approve 19 new Jewish settlements in the Occupied ...

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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Nvidia to license Groq technology, hire executives \ stacker news ~tech

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), op...

Surreal, disturbing video shows humanoid robots delivered for border patrol duty

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Surreal and disturbing video shows humanoid robots being delivered for border patrol duty

China will send Walker S2 humanoid robots to patrol the border with Vietnam where humans and machines will share duties.

China is about to send humanoid robots to work at a busy border with Vietnam. UBTECH Robotics has won a $37 million contract, to deploy its Walker S2 machines there starting this month.

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Surreal, disturbing video shows humanoid robots delivered for border patrol duty \ stacker news ~science

China is about to send humanoid robots to work at a busy border with Vietnam. UBTECH Robotics has won a $37 million contract, to deploy its Walker ...

Scientists Discovered a Creature That Breaks a Fundamental Rule of Biology

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Scientists Discovered a Creature That Breaks a Fundamental Rule of Biology

A new study finds that at least one Archaea has surprisingly flexibility when interpreting genetic code, which goes against a long-held rule of bio...

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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Scientists Discovered a Creature That Breaks a Fundamental Rule of Biology \ stacker news ~science

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 sa...

Super simulation shows that something changed in the universe

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Super simulation shows that something changed in the universe

FLAMINGO simulation maps the universe but reveals a puzzling mismatch: galaxies cluster less than theory predicts.

A new super simulation called FLAMINGO maps the universe from its first moments to today, and it intensifies a stubborn cosmology puzzle.

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Super simulation shows that something changed in the universe \ stacker news ~science

A new super simulation called FLAMINGO maps the universe from its first moments to today, and it intensifies a stubborn cosmology puzzle.

BTC slips below $88,000, but Strategy, Circle, Gemini among those sharply lower

Bitcoin price news: BTC slips below $88,000, but Strategy, Circle, Gemini among those sharply lower

Digital asset treasury companies — the year's worst performers — were also hardest hit on Tuesday.

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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BTC slips below $88,000, but Strategy, Circle, Gemini among those sharply lower \ stacker news ~bitcoin

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 ...

Suitcase left in a bank vault for 100 years contained the lost Hapsburg jewels

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Suitcase left in a bank vault for 100 years contained the lost Hapsburg jewels

A suitcase forgotten in Canada reveals private Habsburg jewels, including a nearly one-ounce yellow diamond, after a century in hiding.

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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Suitcase left in a bank vault for 100 years contained the lost Hapsburg jewels \ stacker news ~news

A forgotten suitcase in a Canadian bank vault, opened after more than 100 years, contained famous royal jewels and treasures believed to have been ...

Three people killed in explosion in Moscow: Russian investigators

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Three people, including officers, killed in explosion in Russia’s Moscow

Investigators say the blast in Moscow occurred close to the site where a Russian general was killed on Monday.

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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Three people killed in explosion in Moscow: Russian investigators \ stacker news ~news

Two police ⁠officers and another ‍person have been ‍killed in ⁠blast in southern Moscow, ‌according to the Russian Investigative Committe...

China replaced solar panels with photovoltaic windows and now shows the results

Transparent and up to 75% less energy — 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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China replaced solar panels with photovoltaic windows and now shows the results \ stacker news ~tech

In the past century, energy has been harnessed through various methods, from dams to wind, and through solar radiation. However, in a recent discov...

Despite Being Volatile, Bitcoin Is Looking Strong

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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 “Chain...

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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Despite Being Volatile, Bitcoin Is Looking Strong \ stacker news ~bitcoin

Bitcoin faced a turbulent Q4 in 2025, with December seeing a nearly 9% drop and record volatility since April, yet VanEck’s mid-December “Chain...

Anubis: Open-source web AI firewall to protect from scraper bots

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Anubis: Open-source web AI firewall to protect from scraper bots - Help Net Security

Anubis is an open source AI firewall that adds proof of work challenges to limit large scale web scraping and abusive automated traffic.

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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Anubis: Open-source web AI firewall to protect from scraper bots \ stacker news ~devs

Anubis is an open-source tool designed to protect websites from automated scraping and abusive traffic by adding computational friction before a re...

Scientists Built a Working Brain—And Now the ‘Possibilities Are Endless’

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Scientists Built a Working Brain—And Now the ‘Possibilities Are Endless,’ a Scientist Says

Even consciousness could reveal its secrets someday with this realistic simulation, researchers hope. It will not only provide an inner window on b...

Even consciousness could reveal its secrets someday with this realistic simulation, researchers hope. It will not only provide an inner window on brain disorders, but may become sophisticated enough to mimic the human brain’s full complexity.

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Scientists Built a Working Brain—And Now the ‘Possibilities Are Endless’ \ stacker news ~science

Even consciousness could reveal its secrets someday with this realistic simulation, researchers hope. It will not only provide an inner window on b...

Google's parent buys data center energy specialist Intersect for $4.75 billion

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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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Google's parent buys data center energy specialist Intersect for $4.75 billion \ stacker news ~AI

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 t...

Scientists Confirm the Incredible Existence of ‘Second Sound’

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Scientists Confirm the Incredible Existence of ‘Second Sound’

Here’s visible proof for the first time ever.

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 Confirm the Incredible Existence of ‘Second Sound’ \ stacker news ~science

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 li...

Scientists Used a Diamond to Create a New Phase of Matter

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Scientists Used a Diamond to Create a New Phase of Matter

The researchers are confident that this process can be applied to other material beyond diamonds as well.

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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Scientists Used a Diamond to Create a New Phase of Matter \ stacker news ~science

Since their theoretical discovery in 2012, time crystals have been front-and-center in conversations about how to improve quantum computers. While ...

Two leading experiments reveal combined insights into why matter exists

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Two leading experiments reveal combined insights into why matter exists

Two separate experiments — the NOvA collaboration at Fermilab in Illinois and the T2K experiment in Japan — may help reveal how our universe fo...

Two separate experiments — the NOvA collaboration at Fermilab in Illinois and the T2K experiment in Japan — may help reveal how our universe formed.

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Two leading experiments reveal combined insights into why matter exists \ stacker news ~science

Two separate experiments — the NOvA collaboration at Fermilab in Illinois and the T2K experiment in Japan — may help reveal how our universe fo...

Challenging Long-Held Theories: Evolution Isn’t One-and-Done, New Study Suggests

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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 ...

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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Challenging Long-Held Theories: Evolution Isn’t One-and-Done, New Study Suggests \ stacker news ~science

Repeated environmental changes can lead evolution in unexpected directions, and research from Vermont shows that studying a single population does ...

Scientists build a device that pulls electricity directly from Earth's rotation

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Scientists build a device that pulls electricity directly from Earth's rotation

Physicists at NASA and Princeton generate electricity from the Earth's rotation: could wind energy be our energy source of the future?

Physicists in the United States have built a small device that seems to pull electrical energy from Earth’s rotation itself. The tabletop experiment produced only tens of microvolts.

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Scientists build a device that pulls electricity directly from Earth's rotation \ stacker news ~science

Physicists in the United States have built a small device that seems to pull electrical energy from Earth’s rotation itself. The tabletop experim...

Einstein in a Chip: Hidden Geometry Bends Electrons Like Gravity

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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 maj...

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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Einstein in a Chip: Hidden Geometry Bends Electrons Like Gravity \ stacker news ~science

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 maj...

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.

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Strategy and bitcoin-buying firms face wider exclusion from stock indexes \ stacker news ~bitcoin

Michael Saylor's Strategy (MSTR.O), opens new tab could soon be dropped from MSCI and potentially other major stock indexes, which analysts say cou...