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Damning report labels FBI 'rudderless ship' under Kash Patel -- with him and Dan Bongino more concerned with building 'personal résumés' (Miranda Devine/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/11/30/opinion/damning-report-labels-fbi-rudderless-ship-under-kash-patel-with-he-and-dan-bongino-more-concerned-with-building-personal-resumes/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251201/p15#a251201p15

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ClassicalLive
Benjamin Britten:
🎵 The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, Op 35 - "Thou hast made me"
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday asked the country’s president to grant him a pardon from corruption charges,
seeking to end a long-running trial that has bitterly divided the nation.
Netanyahu is the only sitting prime minister in Israeli history to stand trial,
after being charged with fraud, breach of trust and accepting bribes in three separate cases
accusing him of exchanging favors with wealthy political supporters.
He hasn’t been convi…

Israeli leader Netanyahu requests a pardon to end his ongoing corruption trial
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has asked Israel's president for a pardon during his ongoing corruption trial. His office on Sunday confirmed the request was submitted to the president's legal department. The president's office called it an “extraordinary request” with “significant implications.” Netanyahu faces charges of fraud, breach of trust and accepting bribes. But he hasn't been convicted. He denies the allegations and calls the trial a witch hunt. The request follows U…

Hong Kong's benchmark Hang Seng Index rose 28% in 2025, its best percentage performance since 2017, driven by tech, AI, and semiconductor stocks (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/stocks/hon…

📊 How good are Chinese CPUs? Benchmarking the Loongson 3A6000
https://lemire.me/blog/2025/11/23/how-good-are-chinese-cpus-benchmarking-the-loongson-3a6000/

How good are Chinese CPUs? Benchmarking the Loongson 3A6000
I maintain a few widely used libraries that have optimized code paths based on the specific processor being used. We started supporting Loongson processors in recent years, but I did not have access to a Loongson processor until now. To my knowledge, they are not widely distributed in North America. This made it difficult for … Continue reading How good are Chinese CPUs? Benchmarking the Loongson 3A6000

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ClassicalLive
Benjamin Britten:
🎵 The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, Op 35 - "Death, be not proud"
#BenjaminBritten
https://open.spotify.com/track/7d1A6FiNQP1E9mEm23Bwas

The evolution of influence operations
from crude Russian troll farms to sophisticated AI systems using large language models;
the discovery of GoLaxy documents revealing a "Smart Propaganda System" that collects millions of data points daily, builds psychological profiles, and generates resilient personas;
the fundamental challenges of measuring effectiveness;
GoLaxy's ties to Chinese intelligence agencies;
operations targeting Hong Kong's…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ClassicalLive
Benjamin Britten:
🎵 The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, Op 35 - "At the round earth's imagined corners"
#BenjaminBritten
https://open.spotify.com/track/0H0O24mjk8vNQzrBBj4MSt

Researchers unveil PropensityBench, a benchmark showing how stressors like shorter deadlines increase misbehavior in agentic AI models during task completion (Matthew Hutson/IEEE Spectrum)
https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-agents-safety

AI Agents Care Less About Safety When Under Pressure
Can AI agents resist pressure or do they crack? Discover how PropensityBench tests their likelihood to misbehave when put under pressure.

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Glasgow Improvisors Orchestra & Glasgow Improvisors Orchestra:
🎵 Free Improvisation
#GlasgowImprovisorsOrchestra
https://open.spotify.com/track/1BmSnDPeEgtI9lYp4resjj