Is Australia’s Social Media Ban for Kids a Good Idea? On the “Hard Fork” podcast, the hosts Kevin Roose and Casey Newton discuss a new law in Australia barring kids under 16 from social media. By ‘HARD Fork’December 23, 2025

John R. Bolton was ambassador to the United Nations under President George W. Bush and national security adviser under President Donald Trump. The Trump administration reportedly tried to derail the Europeans’ plan in order to deploy the same assets in President Donald Trump’s own peace plan. This was failure pure and simple by leaders Vladimir Putin whom had called little piglets just days before. Trump has repeatedly said, without evidence, that Putin is anxious to have peace in Ukraine. Moreover, the Ukraine crisis has underlined that the E.U., despite its supranational pretensions, is simply not competent in matters of peace and security.

“What do you need?” “Just hang on a minute.” “Hey, somebody get in here and help me pull this stuff out of the way. “I’m coming.” “Get this stuff out of here.” “Hey, she’s still alive in here. Hey, she’s alive. She’s alive, right now.” “We got one injured up here.” “We got one injured.”

Case 1:25-cv-04480 Document 1 Filed 12/22/25 Page 12 of 18 Trump stands in opposition to these values, and his name should not be placed alongside President Kennedy's. President Kennedy's niece Maria Shriver said: It is beyond comprehension that this sitting president has sought to rename this great memorial dedicated to President Kennedy. It is beyond wild that he would think adding his name in front of President Kennedy's name is acceptable. Next thing perhaps he will want to rename JFK Airport, rename the Lincoln Memorial, the Trump Lincoln Memorial. Congress has determined that the Kennedy Center's purpose is to serve as a living memorial to President Kennedy.

On a Hard Forkin’ Christmas, my true love gave to me 12 A.I. bubbles, 11 chimpanzinis, 10 Signal war chats, nine Meta reorgs, eight MechaHitlers, seven White House memecoins, six Roblox scandals, five Bum Bum creams, – Bum, bum bum four Humane pins, three code reds, two robot pants, and a bot trained on all our I.P. – That’s “intellectual property.” – Can Ezra Klein do that? I don’t think so. Merry Christmas, you filthy animals.

Due to regulatory action, Apple has agreed to allow alternative app stores, third-party payment systems for in-app purchases, and in-app links to external offers on iOS in Brazil, according to legal news website MLex and Brazilian blog Tecnoblog. This means that iPhone users in Brazil would gain access to options beyond Apple's App Store, such as the AltStore from Riley Testut and Shane Gill. Apple has already allowed alternative app stores and/or third-party payment systems on iOS in the EU, Japan, and South Korea, and it will likely be forced to do so in the UK and Australia too, due to similar regulations across those regions. AltStore AltStoreApple has opposed alternative app stores due to privacy and security concerns. "If you prefer using apps that have met all of Apple's App Review Guidelines, including Apple's standards for privacy, security, and quality, you can use the App Store," says Apple, in a support document about alternative app distribution.

“I think President Trump is doing an amazing job,” said Pam Aita, a Pennsylvania retiree who lives in bellwether Northampton County. Chris Mudd, an Iowa Trump voter, saw his solar energy business take a hit as Biden-era green energy incentives expired. Several of the Trump voters also voiced concerns the White House was going too far, even as they said tougher enforcement was long overdue. Voters who love Trump and voters who loathe him share a distrust and disaffection toward the government more generally. CNN“Less personal shots toward one another,” was an ask from Knowles, the auto worker and Trump voter in Michigan.

That’s right. That’s right. There’s a lot of stuff going on in the private credit market. We don’t see —— Say what the private credit market is. Sure, so the private credit market is where businesses get loans from sometimes banks, but mostly other types of investors.

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Did DOGE Really Cut Government Spending? Did DOGE really cut government spending? A New York Times analysis found that the group’s biggest claims were largely incorrect, and that its many smaller cuts added up to few savings. Our reporters David Fahrenthold and Margot Sanger-Katz explain. By David A. Fahrenthold, Margot Sanger-Katz, Alexandra Ostasiewicz, James Surdam, Whitney Shefte and Ray WhitehouseDecember 23, 2025

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December 23, 2025 – NBC News is seeing increased momentum across television, streaming, and digital in 2025, reaching 126 million Americans each month and positioning the organization to finish the year once again as the #1 news organization, according to Comscore Content Measurement data through August. In 2025, Dateline also topped ABC’s 20/20 in both key demos on Fridays, averaging 774,000 A25-54 viewers, 529,000 A18-49 viewers and 3.640 million total viewers. NBC News (NBC News and TODAY) package only available from January 2025 to August 2025. TODAY accounts include Today flagship, Shop TODAY, TODAY with Jenna & Friends, TODAY Food and TODAY Parents. NBC News & TODAY podcasts include the Dateline, Nightly News, Meet the Press & TODAY Showcasts, as well as Here’s The Scoop and other original podcasts produced by Dateline, NBC News & TODAY.

I’m extremely familiar with this story because if I ask Gemini to play NPR News Now that’s what it plays and has for the past 40 days. Now I can open these in YT Music, play to my heart’s content. After I had written to the line above I started investigating and YT Music is returning these things. Gemini is selecting the first option returned by YT Music Search regardless of if it’s right or not. Every news podcast I listened to is not on YT Music any more or months old.

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This paper presents an improved Fuzzy-weighted Convolutional Neural Network (F-CNN) for taxonomic classification of bacterial DNA sequences, specifically focusing on the 500-bp segments. The proposed model aims to overcome the limitations of traditional classification methods by leveraging the power of deep learning and fuzzy logic processing. The improved fuzzy deep learning model is proposed to handle the problem of classifying samples with similar probabilities in the classification layer. It incorporates a feature selection stage using various techniques and a fuzzy weighting system to handle the uncertainty associated with similar classes in the classification layer and optimize parameters using fuzzy weights. The experimental results on the Ribosomal Database Project Release 11 (RDP 11) sequences dataset show the superiority of the proposed model, especially at the 500-bp region.