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Wild NFL Week 16, CFP betting recap: ‘Christmas bonanza for bettors’ https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/sports-columns/todd-dewey/wild-nfl-week-16-cfp-betting-recap-christmas-bonanza-for-bettors-3598766/

Has anyone bought anything on #bonanza .com? It’s similar to #ebay but I’ve never heard of it until now. The seller I’m looking at seems to have good feedback, but Bonanza itself has a _lot_ of complaints out there.

A profile of Josh Woodward, the head of Google Labs who is credited with turning around the Gemini app, growing its MAUs from 350M in March to 650M by October (Jennifer Elias/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/20/josh-woodward-google-gemini-ai-safety.html

Google was at risk of losing its dominance — until it promoted this AI executive
Josh Woodward, a 16-year Google veteran, is tasked with running the Gemini app and going head-to-head with OpenAI in the booming generative AI market.

Real Parenting™ in 2025:
Who's got a good (working) strategy for banning any mention of “6-7" within earshot?
Starting to feel like a safety issue over here…
(I had a working "no bro talk" rule where I would just over-exaggerate calling everyone "bro" until it was embarrassing for the main bro-sayer, but trying that same method here would only accentuate/encourage the brainrot.)
Also, if you have no idea what I'm talking about, conside…

I would like to listen to the clean broadcast play-by-play announcer audio with noise-cancelling headphones at a hockey game, rather than the often-incomprehensible booming echo over the arena's PA system mixed with screaming people.
That sounds a lot like an assistive technology.
Possibly once existing as a tiny AM radio station, BYOR.
Does it exist today?
#hockey #audio

"Ford is retreating from EVs — but embracing grid batteries"
#Ford #Batteries #Energy

Ford is retreating from EVs — but embracing grid batteries
Amid its $20B EV failure, the storied automaker will retool a Kentucky plant to try and break into the booming energy storage sector.

Short answer: it won’t.
Conservatives have been calling for this for at least 20 years, and have never understood the question well enough to adequately address privacy, security, and safety concerns. https://flipboard.com/@bbcnews/top-stori…

Australia is banning social media for kids under 16. How will it work?
From 10 December, social media companies will have to take "reasonable steps" to ensure that under-16s in Australia cannot set up accounts on their platforms and that existing accounts are deactivated or removed. The government says the ban - a world-first policy popular with many parents - is aimed …

Wardley: Not a Fan of ChatGPT https://blog.bmannconsulting.com/3m3dmlo7t7k2t

Wardley: Not a Fan of ChatGPT - 3lxsr74rnk22h
Large language models are coherence engines not truth engines, we don't teach the critical thinking needed to properly evaluate the outputs.

Sources: Binance has been exploring ways to reboot its Binance.US affiliate, including a recapitalization to cut CZ's stake, which is a hurdle to expansion (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-17/binan…

Sources: French regulator ACPR is carrying out anti-money laundering checks on Binance and others, as it seeks to determine eligibility for EU MiCA licenses (Claudia Cohen/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20