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UK cuts contribution to Aids, tuberculosis and malaria fund by 15%
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/nov/11/uk-cuts-contribution-aids-tuberculosis-malaria-fund

China cites Biden’s message to Xi
that Japan could build nuclear weapons ‘overnight’
Beijing releases 30-page report that includes a call for international community to
‘take concrete and strong measures’
against Japan’s nuclear ambitions
https://…

China cites Biden’s message to Xi that Japan could build nukes ‘overnight’
Beijing releases 30-page report that includes a call for international community to ‘take concrete and strong measures’ against Japan’s nuclear ambitions.

Amid US public media funding cuts, a look at how the model of private donations can lead to an audience that's older, whiter, and richer than average Americans (Sarah Scire/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/funding-c…

Funding cuts may make public radio more reliant on old, rich, white donors
After years of interviews, research, and writing, Laura Garbes submitted the final draft of her book on public radio in December 2024. By the time Listeners Like Who? Exclusion and Resistance in the Public Radio Industry published last month, a lot had changed. Following Trump’s election and fede…

Optimal binary codes from $\mathcal{C}_{D}$-codes over a non-chain ring
Ankit Yadav, Ritumoni Sarma, Anuj Kumar Bhagat
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09057 https://

Optimal binary codes from $\mathcal{C}_{D}$-codes over a non-chain ring
In \cite{shi2022few-weight}, Shi and Li studied $\mathcal{C}_D$-codes over the ring $\mathcal{R}:=\mathbb{F}_2[x,y]/\langle x^2, y^2, xy-yx\rangle$ and their binary Gray images, where $D$ is derived using certain simplicial complexes. We study the subfield codes $\mathcal{C}_{D}^{(2)}$ of $\mathcal{C}_{D}$-codes over $\mathcal{R},$ where $D$ is as in \cite{shi2022few-weight} and more. We find the Hamming weight distribution and the parameters of $\mathcal{C}_D^{(2)}$ for various $D$, and identi…

First Circuit reverses block on Trump's Planned Parenthood funding cuts | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/first-circuit-reverses-block-on-trumps-planned-parenthood-funding-cuts/

"A sperm bank for cheetahs could one day save the world's fastest land animal from extinction"
#Cheetahs #Animals #Conservation

Sperm bank for cheetahs could one day save world's fastest land animal
Experts worry cheetahs may one day be on the brink of extinction and need artificial reproduction to save them.

OpenAI quietly adopted Anthropic's "skills" mechanism in ChatGPT and Codex; ChatGPT's skills include creating and modifying spreadsheets, docx files, and PDFs (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/12/openai-skills/

OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI
One of the things that most excited me about Anthropic’s new Skills mechanism back in October is how easy it looked for other platforms to implement. A skill is just …

Majority of CDC staff fired after Trump admin's 'chaos' have returned to work: report - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/cdc-2674177903/

UK sports publisher GRV cut ~60 staff since September, reducing its workforce to 94, citing drops in Google traffic; other sports sites report similar declines (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/uk-based-sports-publish…

UK-based sports publisher cuts 60 staff due to Google updates
UK-based sports website publisher GRV Media has let go of 60 staff since September as a result of falling Google referral traffic.

Italy's antitrust authority says it reduced the record fine imposed on Amazon in 2021, from €1.13B to €752M, after a recalculation (Elvira Pollina/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/italy-antitrust-cuts-amazon-record-fine-8782-million-20…