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Jemen je blízko rozpadu  ( 11.12.2025 05:44:00 novinky.cz)
Jihojemenská Jižní přechodná rada (STC) oznámila v úterý, že dobyla další území a v blízké budoucnosti míní vyhlásit nezávislý stát na jihu Jemenu. Rada je přitom součástí oficiálně uznávané jemenské vlády. O vyhlášení samostatného Jižního Jemenu usilovala už v roce 2018. Jemen je nejen místem bojů mezi Íránem podporovanými šíitskými Húsíi, ale také kolbištěm, kde se střetávají zájmy Spojených arabských emirátů a Saúdské Arábie, které podporují soupeřící jemenské sunnitské skupiny.

Stát letos zaplatí rekordní částku za sociální pohřby  ( 11.12.2025 05:38:00 novinky.cz)
Stát za takzvané sociální pohřby platí rok od roku více. K začátku prosince se jednalo o 25,8 milionu korun, loni to bylo za celý rok 22,6 milionu. Vyplývá to ze statistik ministerstva pro místní rozvoj. Jde o pohřby těch, kteří nemají rodinu nebo se nepodaří zjistit jejich totožnost.

RECENZE: Deset procent. Deníkem shopaholičky si Eva Toulová nepolepšila  ( 11.12.2025 05:36:00 novinky.cz)
Scenáristka, režisérka a herečka Eva Toulová je neuvěřitelně vytrvalá. Přesto, že kvalita jejích nyní už sedmi celovečerních hraných filmů je mizerná a návštěvnost se limitně blíží nule (Krtkův svět vidělo od srpnové premiéry celkem 939 diváků), točí dál a dál.

Státu se ani na šestý pokus nepodařilo prodat dva bytové domy v Harrachově  ( 11.12.2025 05:35:00 irozhlas.cz)
Dva bytové domy s nájemníky v krkonošském Harrachově se státu nepodařilo prodat ani na šestý pokus. Za oba chtělo ministerstvo financí minimálně 56,04 milionu korun, což byla polovina původního požadavku, přesto se do veřejné soutěže ani tentokrát nikdo nepřihlásil. O výsledku ve středu informovala Nikola Morava z tiskového odboru ministerstva financí.

Postavili „prokletou dálnici“, ale auta na ni stále nesmí. Kvůli eko-aktivistům  ( 11.12.2025 05:30:00 zpravy.aktualne.cz)
Za zdržením stojí soudní spory, které stát vede s ekologickými organizacemi. Místní obyvatelé se přitom netají svou frustrací z nevyužité dálnice.

„Je to v tónu mého hlasu.“ Mia ze Zrádců přiznala, kdy jako policistka podléhá smutku  ( 11.12.2025 05:30:00 zpravy.aktualne.cz)
„Zneužívání dítěte je většinou dlouhodobý proces, který může začít okolo jeho třetího roku,“ popisuje policistka Věra Kirchnerová v pořadu Spotlight.

Tajně si půjčil miliony a měl je rozházet za milenky. Po rozvodu mu hrozí, že půlku peněz bude muset dát exmanželce  ( 11.12.2025 05:28:00 novinky.cz)
Na milenky, erotické kluby a dovolené s kamarády. Na to si měl podle bývalé ženy na tajňačku půjčit její manžel. Ten však tvrdil, že 8,5 milionu korun použil na chod domácnosti, ačkoli se v životním stylu taková masivní investice nijak neprojevila. Muži teď hrozí, že bude muset půlku dát exmanželce v rámci vypořádání společného jmění manželů.

Test Tesly Model Y Performance: Má drtivé zrychlení, ale řidiče nenadchne  ( 11.12.2025 05:20:00 novinky.cz)
Crossover od Tesly dostal po nedávné důkladné modernizaci i výkonnou verzi Performance. Má zajímavé parametry a slibuje sportovní svezení. Dokáže přesvědčit i nadšené řidiče, kterým nejde jen o působivé zrychlení na semaforech?

Malé letadlo na Floridě při nouzovém přistání na dálnici narazilo do auta  ( 11.12.2025 05:04:00 novinky.cz)
Velký šok zažila řidička osobního auta na floridské dálnici, když na střechu jejího vozu Toyota Camry dosedl malý letoun. Naštěstí vyvázla pouze s lehkými zraněními, zatímco mladým mužům na palubě letadla se nestalo vůbec nic.

Pravíkov vyhlíží protihlukovou stěnu. Stavba je poslední letošní nedokončenou na silnicích Vysočiny  ( 11.12.2025 05:00:00 irozhlas.cz)
V Pravíkově na Pelhřimovsku stále ještě pokračuje výstavba protihlukové stěny. Kyvadlový provoz tam na hlavní silnici řídí semafory. Je to poslední letošní dosud nedokončená silniční stavba na Vysočině. Hotová by však měla být do poloviny prosince, jak ujistilo Ředitelství silnic a dálnic.

KVÍZ: Poznáte na fotografiích významné či jinak zajímavé křesťanské svatostánky?  ( 11.12.2025 04:02:00 novinky.cz)
Ať katedrály, nebo kostely, všechny ztělesňují srdce měst či obcí a otevřenou knihu dějin, kde se nebe sklání k zemi. V jejich zdech je vytesána víra, v oknech září naděje a v tichu jejich lavic se rodí pokoj. Zkuste v našem kvízu podle fotografií rozpoznat anebo si zatipovat, o kterou sakrální stavbu se jedná.

Filip Turek je ikonou naší kampaně. Náhradu za něj nehledáme, říká Boris Šťastný  ( 11.12.2025 00:10:00 irozhlas.cz)
Zdravotní stav Filipovi Turkovi neumožnil, aby se osobně setkal s prezidentem Petrem Pavlem a vyjasnil mu své kontroverze. Petr Macinka, šéf Motoristů sobě, mu tak údajně hlídá místo ministra zahraničí. Ustoupí ale prezident od svých výhrad vůči Turkovi? A neškodí Filip Turek mediálnímu obrazu Motoristů? Na otázky Tomáše Pancíře odpovídal budoucí ministr pro sport, prevenci a zdraví a předseda poslaneckého klubu Motoristů Boris Šťastný.

Prezident Pavel pokračuje v návštěvě Libereckého kraje, zamíří i do Ralska  ( 11.12.2025 00:10:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Jablonec nad Nisou - Druhým dnem pokračuje návštěva prezidentského páru Petra a Evy Pavlových v Libereckém kraji. Na programu je setkání s vedením Jablonce nad Nisou i diskuse s tamními studenty. Prezident...

GLOSA: Tři večery v džungli. Tedy Lucie, Decline a Šimon Opp  ( 10.12.2025 23:57:26 novinky.cz)
Už se to nešeptá, už se o tom mluví a píše. Česká rocková scéna je v krizi, popová scéna je v krizi, kluby jsou v krizi, festivaly jsou v krizi. Nic z toho není pro novou posluchačskou generaci tak sexy, jak bylo pro generace předešlé, a tolik ji to nepřitahuje. Scéna vyhlíží jako vyprahlá země, a jen tu a tam se na ní zablýskne kaluž. Pak ale přijdou tři večery, které spolu nemají zdánlivě nic společného, a sdělí, že za všech těch krizí je fajn se touhle rockovou džunglí prodírat.

Demokraté získali post starosty Miami poprvé po třiceti letech  ( 10.12.2025 23:04:00 novinky.cz)
Starostovské volby ve floridském Miami v úterý vyhrála jednašedesátiletá demokratka Eileen Higginsová. S 59 procenty hlasů porazila kandidáta republikánů podporovaného prezidentem Donaldem Trumpem Emilia Gonzaleze, který obdržel téměř 41 procent hlasů. Starostou Miami bude demokrat poprvé za posledních třicet let a starostku bude město mít vůbec poprvé v dějinách.

Případný impeachment prezidenta bude muset v Maďarsku přezkoumat soud. Orbán se připravuje na porážku, tvrdí opozice  ( 10.12.2025 22:42:00 novinky.cz)
Maďarský parlament ve středu schválil návrh zákona, který komplikuje případné prohlášení hlavy státu za nezpůsobilou k výkonu funkce. Podle opozice si tak vládní strana Fidesz chce upevnit moc před dubnovými parlamentními volbami a připravuje se na porážku.

Politolog Jelínek: Babiš potřetí premiérem? Velký obrat nečekejme, rozvoj státu bude muset počkat  ( 10.12.2025 22:41:00 irozhlas.cz)
Prezident Petr Pavel v úterý jmenoval premiérem vítěze voleb Andreje Babiše. Šéf hnutí ANO splnil podmínku hlavy státu a do čela vlády usedá už potřetí. Stane se z Česka pod jeho vedením „nejlepší místo pro život na celé planetě,“ jak slíbil? „Andrej Babiš mívá velké cíle. S takovou koaliční sestavou ale nebude mít vládnutí jednoduché,“ říká politolog Lukáš Jelínek.

Na Ukrajinu míří kamion s vánočními dárky pro děti v nouzi. Olomoucká arcidiéze jich nasbírala 2,9 tuny  ( 10.12.2025 22:12:00 irozhlas.cz)
Pracovníci olomoucké arcidiecézní charity poslali v úterý na Ukrajinu kamion s několika stovkami vánočních balíčků. Dárky míří k tamním dětem v nouzi, z rodin zasažených válkou nebo z dětských domovů. V tradiční sbírce jim je věnovali čeští dobrovolníci. Letos se charitním pracovníkům podařilo nashromáždit dary pro 467 dětí.

Policisté obvinili bývalého starostu Znojma kvůli vyvádění peněz z městské firmy  ( 10.12.2025 22:04:52 novinky.cz)
Trestní stíhání má na krku bývalý starosta Znojma Jan Grois. Policisté ho podle informací Novinek podezřívají, že za pomoci fiktivního zaměstnání stranického kolegy ze sociální demokracie vyváděl peníze z městské firmy Znojemské tepelné společnosti. Sám Grois nedávno rezignoval na post místního zastupitele a stáhl se do ústraní.

Rubio v rámci boje s diverzitou zaměstnancům ministerstva přikázal používat font Times New Roman  ( 10.12.2025 21:48:00 novinky.cz)
Americký ministr zahraničí Marco Rubio v rámci boje proti diverzitě zaměstnancům svého úřadu přikázal dokumenty psát fontem Times New Roman. Americká administrativa za vlády předchozího prezidenta Joea Bidena přešla na font Calibri, který je na počítačových obrazovkách čitelnější, což znamená, že se snadněji čte i lidem s různými postiženími.

Američané u Venezuely obsadili ropný tanker. Dějí se další věci, prohlásil Trump  ( 10.12.2025 21:15:54 novinky.cz)
Americké síly u pobřeží Venezuely obsadily ropný tanker, informují s odkazem na americké představitele světová média. Jedná se o výraznou eskalaci napětí mezi USA a jihoamerickou zemí vedenou diktátorem Nicolásem Madurem.

Babiš pojede do Bruselu za von der Leyenovou  ( 10.12.2025 21:03:08 novinky.cz)
Andrej Babiš, který byl v úterý jmenován českým premiérem, se ve čtvrtek setká v Bruselu s šéfkou Evropské komise Ursulou von der Leyenovou a s předsedou Evropské rady Antóniem Costou. Podle informací ČTK bude designovaný premiér jednat v Bruselu i s belgickým ministerským předsedou Bartem De Weverem.

Přispějí obce na nový parkovací dům? Má řešit parkování u hradecké fakultní nemocnice  ( 10.12.2025 20:49:00 irozhlas.cz)
Královéhradecký kraj se pokouší s městy a obcemi v regionu domluvit, aby finančně přispěly na výstavbu nového parkovacího domu u hradecké fakultní nemocnice. Peněz na půlmiliardový projekt pořád není dost, i když se na něm podílí kraj, město i sama nemocnice. Hejtmanství argumentuje před vedením obcí při jednáních o podpoře třeba i tím, že na zákroky jezdí do fakultní nemocnice lidé z celého regionu.

Čistka v ANO: desítka brněnských zastupitelů skončila, chtěli spolupracovat s ODS  ( 10.12.2025 20:44:48 zpravy.aktualne.cz)
Aktuální dění na politické scéně sledujeme v online reportáži.

Tightened Thermostats: Four in Ten Czechs Cut Energy Bills by Lowering Home Temperatures  ( 10.12.2025 20:39:51 czechdaily.cz)
Even though electricity and gas prices have plunged since the energy crisis three years ago, Czech households have stuck with their thriftier habits. A survey by energy supplier Epet reveals that two in five families reduced indoor temperatures by one to two degrees over the past year, while one in five cut even more. These […] The post Tightened Thermostats: Four in Ten Czechs Cut Energy Bills by Lowering Home Temperatures first appeared on Czech Daily.

Americká centrální banka opět snížila základní úrokovou sazbu  ( 10.12.2025 20:36:52 novinky.cz)
Americká centrální banka (Fed) ve středu podle očekávání snížila základní úrokovou sazbu. Stalo se tak už po třetí v řadě, tentokrát o čtvrt procentního bodu z 3,75 procenta na 3,50. Americký trh na to reagoval mírným posílením.

Record Potato Harvest Pushes Prices Down, But Part of the Christmas Salad Still Ends Up in the Bin  ( 10.12.2025 20:35:53 czechdaily.cz)
Czech potato growers have just wrapped up an exceptional season, with this year’s harvest reaching around 729,000 tonnes – the highest since 2011. As a result, table potato prices on store shelves have dropped noticeably, often falling below seven Czech crowns per kilogram, a welcome relief for households ahead of Christmas.​ For families preparing the […] The post Record Potato Harvest Pushes Prices Down, But Part of the Christmas Salad Still Ends Up in the Bin first appeared on Czech Daily.

Řidička nedala v Ostravě přednost policejní octavii, zranilo se pět lidí  ( 10.12.2025 20:35:47 novinky.cz)
Zraněním pěti osob skončila ve středu odpoledne v Ostravě srážka dvou osobních automobilů, z nichž jedno bylo policejní. Dva ze zraněných museli hasiči z havarovaných vozů vystříhávat.

Record-Breaking Warmth Strikes Again: Temperatures in Czechia Exceed 15°C for a Third Straight Day  ( 10.12.2025 20:33:18 czechdaily.cz)
For the third day in a row, the Czech Republic basked in unseasonably warm December weather, breaking temperature records across much of the country. On Wednesday, more than one-third of long-standing meteorological stations reported new highs as temperatures soared above 15°C in many regions. Yet, while western parts of the country felt almost springlike, Moravia […] The post Record-Breaking Warmth Strikes Again: Temperatures in Czechia Exceed 15°C for a Third Straight Day first appeared on Czech Daily.

Vedení ANO vyloučilo deset vzpurných brněnských zastupitelů  ( 10.12.2025 20:32:51 novinky.cz)
Celostátní předsednictvo ANO ve středu vyloučilo z hnutí deset brněnských zastupitelů, kteří neopustili tamní koalici s ODS mimo jiné kvůli bitcoinové kauze. Učinilo tak na návrh krajského vedení ANO. Informoval o tom mluvčí hnutí Martin Vodička.

‚Takové věci nelze přehlížet.‘ Vedení ANO vyloučilo brněnské zastupitele, kteří neopustili koalici s ODS  ( 10.12.2025 20:16:00 irozhlas.cz)
Celostátní předsednictvo ANO ve středu vyloučilo z hnutí deset brněnských zastupitelů, kteří neopustili tamní koalici s ODS mimo jiné kvůli bitcoinové kauze. Učinilo tak na návrh krajského vedení ANO. Uvedl to mluvčí hnutí Martin Vodička. Dosavadní brněnský šéf ANO a náměstek primátorky René Černý považuje dnešní vyloučení za politikaření, které do komunální politiky nepatří.

Město Vsetín získalo dar od zesnulého hudebníka a filantropa Jaroslava Čubáka  ( 10.12.2025 20:12:00 irozhlas.cz)
Vsetínský hudebník a filantrop Jaroslav Čubák zanechal ve své závěti významný dar místním vzdělávacím a kulturním institucím. Čubák, který zemřel začátkem roku, byl známý svou celoživotní láskou k hudbě a aktivním zapojením do kulturního dění města.

Několik let pátrání po znečišťovateli řeky Bíliny může skončit. Po další havárii má Povodí Ohře podezření  ( 10.12.2025 19:52:00 irozhlas.cz)
Povodí Ohře už několik let pátrá po znečišťovateli, který do řeky Bíliny mezi Velvěty na Teplicku a Trmicemi na Ústecku vypouští neznámou látku. S vodou reaguje jako saponát, ta se pak zpěněná ukáže vždy až pod jezem, kvůli čemuž není snadné pachatele najít. Naposledy se v řece znečištění objevilo minulý víkend. Povodí Ohře má teď podezření, kdo látku do Bíliny vypustil.

Vedení ANO vyloučilo deset brněnských zastupitelů  ( 10.12.2025 19:30:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Brno - Celostátní předsednictvo ANO dnes vyloučilo z hnutí deset brněnských zastupitelů, kteří neopustili tamní koalici s ODS mimo jiné kvůli bitcoinové kauze. Učinilo tak na návrh krajského vedení...

Ukrajinské drony v Černém moři zasáhly tanker ruské stínové flotily  ( 10.12.2025 19:29:57 novinky.cz)
Ukrajinské námořní drony Sea Baby Služby bezpečnosti Ukrajiny (SBU) ve středu zasáhly v Černém moři tanker ruské stínové flotily Dashan. Videozáznam z této operace bezpečnostní služba poskytla médiím.

Rudá srdce budí vášně. Vánoční výzdoba olomoucké čtvrti lidem připomíná nevěstince, chtěli ji stáhnout  ( 10.12.2025 19:07:00 irozhlas.cz)
Některým obyvatelům olomoucké městské části Chomoutov se nelíbí tamní nová vánoční výzdoba. Ulice ve čtvrti rozzářila rudě svítící srdce. Lidem dekorace připomínají spíš devadesátá léta a červené reklamy nevěstinců, požádali proto o jejich odstranění. Nakonec se ale domluvili na kompromisu.

Znepokojivá studie. Všudypřítomné chemikálie zvyšují u dětí riziko rakoviny a snižují inteligenci  ( 10.12.2025 19:02:04 novinky.cz)
Je to jen špička ledovce. Takto se mluví v souvislosti s výsledky zkoumání, které ve středu zveřejnili vědci. Zprávu označili za varování. Svět by se měl podle nich probudit a udělat něco s chemickým znečištěním. Testovali přitom pouze poměrně malý vzorek čtyř syntetických chemikálií. Jejich dopady na lidské zdraví lze podle nich řečí čísel odhadnout na 2,2 miliardy dolarů ročně, v přepočtu více než 46 miliard korun. Chemikálie nepříznivě působí zejména na děti, u kterých zvyšují riziko rakoviny, obezity či mentálního postižení.

Na východě nám bují „embrya NATO“, prohlásil v Hanoji Šojgu  ( 10.12.2025 19:01:13 novinky.cz)
„Embrya NATO“, která se objevují na východě, představují další nebezpečí pro Rusko a Sdružení národů jihovýchodní Asie jako celek, pohrozil během své návštěvy Vietnamu tajemník Rady bezpečnosti (SB) Ruské federace Sergej Šojgu. Kromě toho s vietnamskými představiteli jednal o prohloubení partnerství.

Pro Turka je to konečná. Macinka může řídit dvě ministerstva měsíce, soudí novinářka Bastlová  ( 10.12.2025 18:51:00 irozhlas.cz)
Andrej Babiš (ANO) byl jmenován předsedou vlády, opozice se chystá na první střety. Nový kabinet má být jmenován v pondělí, ale zřejmě bez Filipa Turka (za Motoristy sobě), který kvůli zdravotním problémům ještě nejednal s prezidentem Petrem Pavlem. „Pro Filipa Turka je to konečná. Ve vládě se neobjeví,“ míní v pořadu Osobnost Plus Českého rozhlasu Plus novinářka ze serveru Seznam Zprávy Marie Bastlová.

Němců na vánočních trzích ubylo, říkají prodejci. Může za to zákeřná nemoc?  ( 10.12.2025 18:45:31 zpravy.aktualne.cz)
"Turistů máme víc než před rokem, ale Němce jsem tady letos tolik neviděl," říká prodejce trdelníků na Staroměstském náměstí.

Dříve nemyslitelné. Evropa řeší, jak přežít bez pomoci USA  ( 10.12.2025 18:32:29 novinky.cz)
Lavina útoků amerického prezidenta Donalda Trumpa na Evropskou unii nutí její lídry čelit něčemu dříve nemyslitelnému: budoucnosti, ve které už Amerika nebude hlavním garantem bezpečnosti. Uvedly to zdroje serveru Politico. Podle nich se Evropa začíná připravovat na vlastní obranu, a to mnohem dříve, než kdokoli očekával.

Mantinely i chladicí agregáty na místě. Pardubice se chystají na zprovoznění ledové plochy na závodišti  ( 10.12.2025 18:22:00 irozhlas.cz)
Od příštího pondělí by se na pardubickém závodišti opět mohlo začít bruslit. Ledová plocha je tam už postavená a provozovatelé sportoviště začali s výrobou ledu. Kdy přesně ale budou moci první bruslaři na ledovou plochu vyjet, zatím jasné není. Vše se odvíjí od počasí – vyšší teploty v posledních dnech totiž bruslařům příliš nepřejí.

Nova láká na programové jaro. Představí novinky i zajímavé návraty  ( 10.12.2025 18:12:00 novinky.cz)
Televize Nova ve středu 10. listopadu představila svůj jarní program. V něm sází na pokračování oblíbených seriálů a několik novinek. Mezi hlavními je třeba nový osmidílný komediální detektivní seriál Buldok z Poděbrad.

Provoz na dálnici D11 u Hradce Králové směrem na Jaroměř komplikuje nehoda, jezdí se jedním pruhem  ( 10.12.2025 18:08:00 irozhlas.cz)
třet dvou osobních aut uzavřel dnes odpoledne na Hradecku na 87. kilometru dálnici D11 ve směru na Jaroměř. Zranění utrpělo pět lidí, z nichž jednoho přepravil vrtulník do nemocnice. Nehoda byla nahlášena okolo 16:30 a zhruba po dvou hodinách byla dálnice na Jaroměř zprůjezdněna v jednom jízdním pruhu. Policie po dobu uzavírky odkláněla dopravu na 84. kilometru směrem na Opatovice nad Labem, vyplynulo z informací záchranářů a policie.

Obamová: Problém dneška je, že staří lídři nechtějí uvolnit místo další generaci  ( 10.12.2025 18:04:36 novinky.cz)
Do stárnoucích politických lídrů, kteří na svých funkcích lpí příliš dlouho a neuvolní místo mladším, se ostře opřela bývalá první dáma Spojených států Michelle Obamová. Zmínila přitom, že jde i o názor jejího manžela, amerického exprezidenta Baracka Obamy.

Z hlasování o Benešových dekretech ve Sněmovně fraška. Výbor jen vzal na vědomí, že je Slováci řeší  ( 10.12.2025 17:57:12 novinky.cz)
Poslanci formující se vlády v čele s předsedou zahraničního výboru Radkem Vondráčkem (ANO) oprášili téma Benešových dekretů. Po návratu delegace předsedy Sněmovny Tomia Okamury (SPD) ze Slovenska předložil Vondráček poslancům českého zahraničního výboru usnesení, ve kterém se připojují k slovenskému odmítnutí jakékoliv diskuze o změnách jejich chápání. To v původní podobě neprošlo. Nakonec poslanci napříč spektrem vzali jen na vědomí skutečnost, že Slováci věc řeší.

Podzemní voda dál mizí k Turówu. Česko žádá Polsko o nové těžební plány  ( 10.12.2025 17:51:03 zpravy.aktualne.cz)
Podle polského hydrogeologického modelu, který vývoj podzemních vod v okolí dolu předpovídá, totiž hladiny mohou v budoucnu klesat.

Vyslechnu, co má na srdci, ale názor těžko změním, řekl Pavel k Turkovi  ( 10.12.2025 17:45:07 novinky.cz)
Svůj negativní postoj ke jmenování Filipa Turka za Motoristy na pozici ministra životního prostředí prezident Petr Pavel nezměnil. Chce jej však podle svých slov vyslechnout a dát mu prostor, aby se vyjádřil.

Prakticky plného stavu dosáhli na stavebním úřadu v Brně. Jinde v kraji zaměstnance stále shání  ( 10.12.2025 17:17:00 irozhlas.cz)
Brněnskému stavebnímu úřadu se téměř podařilo vyřešit dlouhodobý podstav zaměstnanců, který trval od loňského července. Zlepšila se taky personální situace na krajském stavebním úřadu, který kvůli novému stavebnímu zákonu musel nabrat desítky zaměstnanců. I tak mu ale stále chybí čtvrtina lidí.

Bulharsko nevydá ruského majitele lodi viněného z výbuchu v Bejrútu. Obává se trestu smrti  ( 10.12.2025 17:13:27 novinky.cz)
Obavami z trestu smrti odůvodnil ve středu bulharský soud rozhodnutí, podle nějž odmítl vydat do Libanonu Rusa s kyperským občanstvím, kterého libanonské úřady viní z podílu na ničivém výbuchu ledku v přístavu v Bejrútu v roce 2020. Podle advokátky Igora Grečuškina Libanon neposkytl dostatečné záruky, že v případě vydání a odsouzení neuplatní proti jejímu mandantovi trest smrti. Rozhodnutí je nepravomocné, a tak Grečuškin zůstává ve vazbě.

Armáda navrhne zavedení administrativních odvodů. Potřebujeme vyřešit generování záloh, říká Řehka  ( 10.12.2025 17:13:00 irozhlas.cz)
Armáda navrhne vládě zavést administrativní odvody. V rozhovoru po Radiožurnál to řekl náčelník generálního štábu Karel Řehka. Mělo by jít o on-line dotazník, který armádě ukáže, kdo je ochotný se zapojit do obrany země. Teď můžou vojáci provádět odvody jen v krizi, což je podle Řehky pozdě. Pravděpodobný budoucí ministr obrany Jaromír Zůna na dotaz ohledně postoje k administrativním odvodům nereagoval. Naopak prezident nápad podpořil.

Soud smetl žalobu Parkanové o 8,5 milionu za nedůvodné stíhání. Na odůvodnění se čeká  ( 10.12.2025 17:07:22 zpravy.aktualne.cz)
Obvodní soud pro Prahu 2 znovu nepravomocně zamítl žalobu někdejší ministryně obrany Vlasty Parkanové, která žádala odškodné 8,5 milionu korun.

Prezident Pavel se na univerzitě v Liberci zajímal o 3D projekty pro armádu  ( 10.12.2025 17:04:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Liberec - O nanotechnologie i přísně tajné projekty laboratoře 3D tisku pro český obranný průmysl se při dnešní návštěvě v Liberci zajímal prezident Petr Pavel. Dvoudenní návštěvu kraje zahájil v Ústavu...

Teplotní rekordy padají po celé republice. Nejvyšších 15,8 stupně Celsia naměřili na Českokrumlovsku  ( 10.12.2025 17:04:00 irozhlas.cz)
V Česku potřetí v řadě padaly teplotní rekordy. Maximum pro 10. prosinec ve středu překonalo nebo vyrovnalo 60 ze 172 stanic, které fungují alespoň 30 let.

Miliarda a půl do recyklace pneumatik. Sokolovská uhelná začala ve Vřesové stavět nový závod  ( 10.12.2025 16:51:00 irozhlas.cz)
Skupina firem SUAS Group zahájila přípravy na výstavbu nové recyklační linky. Stát bude ve Vřesové u Sokolova a určená bude k likvidaci starých pneumatik. Použije při tom pyrolýzu, technologii, která umožňuje rozklad materiálu při velmi vysoké teplotě.

Fialovo finále. Parodoval Trumpa, vtipkoval s novináři, přiznal i chyby  ( 10.12.2025 16:45:46 zpravy.aktualne.cz)
Poslední setkání premiéra Petra Fialy s novináři po jednání vlády se ve středu odpoledne odehrávalo v uvolněnější atmosféře než ta předchozí.

ČT: Soud opět zamítl žalobu Parkanové o odškodné za stíhání v kauze CASA  ( 10.12.2025 16:43:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Praha - Obvodní soud pro Prahu 2 znovu nepravomocně zamítl žalobu někdejší ministryně obrany Vlasty Parkanové, která žádala odškodné 8,5 milionu korun za dlouholeté trestní stíhání v kauze armádních...

Sněmovní zahraniční výbor ocenil Trumpovu snahu o ukončení války na Ukrajině  ( 10.12.2025 16:43:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Praha - Sněmovní zahraniční výbor podpořil mírové úsilí amerického prezidenta Donalda Trumpa a ocenil jeho snahu o ukončení války na Ukrajině při zachování státnosti této země. Výbor se na tom usnesl...

Podporu Ukrajiny nová koalice ve výboru neschválila. Postavila se za Trumpa  ( 10.12.2025 16:27:59 novinky.cz)
Vznikající vládní koalice stejně jako na obranném výboru, tak i ve středu na tom zahraničním odmítla návrh usnesení STAN na podporu Ukrajiny. Přišla s vlastním usnesením k národně bezpečnostním zájmům, v němž vyslovila podporu mírovému úsilí amerického prezidenta Donalda Trumpa. Vyzvala ale i k posilování transatlantické vazby a odmítnutí jejího rozvolňování nebo se přihlásila k tomu, že bez zapojení Spojených států není možný mír na Ukrajině a v Evropě.

Rekordy potřetí za sebou. Teploty ve středu opět přesáhly 15 °C  ( 10.12.2025 16:21:41 novinky.cz)
Stejně jako v předchozích dvou dnech se i středa na řadě míst zapíše do historických tabulek. Teploty opět lokálně přesahovaly 15 °C a více než třetina stanic hlásila nový rekord. Na Moravě však v důsledku inverze panovalo výrazně chladnější počasí.

Vánoční trhy jsou ideální prostředí pro žloutenku. Dezinfekce a teplá voda tomu mohou zabránit  ( 10.12.2025 16:20:00 irozhlas.cz)
Vánoční trhy na ostravském Masarykově náměstí každý rok přitáhnou velké množství návštěvníků. Letos se organizátoři snaží předejít šíření žloutenky typu A. Dali proto k dispozici dezinfekci a teplou vodu na umytí rukou.

Ředitelka jihlavského centra sociálních služeb je ve vazbě  ( 10.12.2025 16:20:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Jihlava - Ředitelka Integrovaného centra sociálních služeb Jihlava (ICSS) Alena Řehořová je ve vazbě. O dnešním rozhodnutí okresního soudu informoval mluvčí jihlavského magistrátu Radovan Daněk. Jihlava...

Mé výhrady nejsou momentálního nebo osobního charakteru, ale jsou dlouhodobé, řekl Pavel o Turkovi  ( 10.12.2025 16:17:00 irozhlas.cz)
Prezident Petr Pavel stále počítá s tím, že se může sejít s původním kandidátem Motoristů na ministra životního prostředí Filipem Turkem. Má nicméně dlouhodobé výhrady k tomu, jak přistupuje k faktům, právu a pravidlům. Dovede si jen těžko představit, že by cokoli tento pohled mohlo změnit. Pavel to ve středu řekl novinářům při návštěvě Libereckého kraje.

Metro B stálo kvůli podezřelému muži s krabicí od bot  ( 10.12.2025 16:06:50 novinky.cz)
Provoz na lince metra B byl zastaven kvůli muži, který ve stanici Černý Most vešel do tunelu. Muž měl u sebe krabici, do tunelu s ní vstoupil a ven vyšel už bez ní. Jak se později ukázalo, byly v ní boty.

Čína používá soukromé firmy k útokům na Česko, varují bezpečnostní experti  ( 10.12.2025 16:06:00 zpravy.aktualne.cz)
Národní úřad pro kybernetickou a informační bezpečnost (NÚKIB) varuje před kybernetickými aktivitami čínských společností I-S00N a Integrity Tech.

Chceme vyhrávat volby, plánuje Sýkora z nového Kubova hnutí. Nytra: Mrzí mě to, ODS se dá změnit  ( 10.12.2025 15:59:00 irozhlas.cz)
Na jihu Čech vzniká nové politické hnutí pod velením hejtmana Martina Kuby. Z ODS proto vystoupily desítky tamních politiků. „Budeme středopravicové hnutí. ODS v poslední době uhýbala z hodnot, kvůli kterým jsem šel do politiky,“ říká pro Český rozhlas Plus Zbyněk Sýkora, senátor dříve z ODS, který chce spolupracovat s novým hnutím. „Je to důsledek toho, že jsme byli v koalici Spolu a ve vládě dělali kompromisy,“ soudí senátor Zdeněk Nytra (ODS).

Pavel stále počítá se schůzkou s Turkem, má k němu ale dlouhodobé výhrady  ( 10.12.2025 15:56:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Liberec - Prezident Petr Pavel stále počítá s tím, že se může sejít s původním kandidátem Motoristů na ministra životního prostředí Filipem Turkem. Má nicméně dlouhodobé výhrady k tomu, jak přistupuje...

Potřetí v řadě padaly teplotní rekordy, v Křemži bylo 15,8 stupně  ( 10.12.2025 15:53:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Praha - V Česku potřetí v řadě padaly teplotní rekordy. Maximum pro 10. prosinec dnes překonalo nebo vyrovnalo 60 ze 172 stanic, které fungují alespoň 30 let. V Karlově Studánce byl dokonce vyrovnán...

NÚKIB varuje před aktivitami čínských firem I-S00N a Integrity Tech  ( 10.12.2025 15:11:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Brno - Národní úřad pro kybernetickou a informační bezpečnost (NÚKIB) varuje před kybernetickými aktivitami čínských společností I-S00N a Integrity Tech. Spolupracují s čínskými bezpečnostními a zpravodajskými...

Vláda podpořila léčbu terapií s psilocybinem, možná bude od ledna  ( 10.12.2025 14:25:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Praha - Vláda podpořila léčbu duševních nemocí terapií s použitím látky psilocybin z hub lysohlávek. Schválila nařízení, které ji od ledna umožňuje, uvedl na tiskové konferenci po dnešním jednání vlády...

Senát asi požádá vládu, aby se zasazovala o humánní zacházení s vězni v Rusku  ( 10.12.2025 14:16:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Praha - Senát by měl vyzvat vládu, aby se zasadila alespoň o humánní zacházení s politickými vězni a ukrajinskými válečnými zajatci v Rusku. Doporučil mu to dnes senátní zahraniční výbor. Budoucí kabinet...

Babiš trumfne Sobotku. Roky tvrdil, že není politik, ale ve vládě míří k rekordu  ( 10.12.2025 14:13:49 zpravy.aktualne.cz)
Babiš byl vždycky radikální a nikdy si nebral servítky. Sám o sobě řekl, že se chová jako "urputné hovado". Za jeho úspěchem je toho ale mnohem víc.

Válek: Očkování je důležitý nástroj medicíny, i když mají populisté jiný názor  ( 10.12.2025 14:10:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Praha - Očkování je podle končícího ministra zdravotnictví Vlastimila Válka (TOP 09) jedním z nejdůležitějších nástrojů moderní medicíny, přestože podle něj jednotliví populisté mohou mít jiný názor....

Oprava výrobků by mohla být povinná i po záruce, návrh zákona schválila vláda  ( 10.12.2025 14:00:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Praha - Lidé by po výrobcích mohli nově požadovat opravu zboží i po uplynutí dvouleté záruční doby. Vyplývá to z návrhu zákona, který dnes schválila vláda v demisi. Povinnost zajistit opravu by se...

Čistky v České televizi pokračují. Z Událostí v lednu zmizí známá moderátorka  ( 10.12.2025 13:59:05 zpravy.aktualne.cz)
O tom, že se chystají změny v sestavách moderátorů jednotlivých pořadů, se v zákulisí České televize mluví už nějakou dobu.

Nová vláda bude požadovat úplné odstoupení, tepe Babiš odklad emisních povolenek  ( 10.12.2025 13:56:14 zpravy.aktualne.cz)
Systém emisních povolenek ETS 2 by měl být změkčen, případně úplně zrušen i podle předsedy vlády v demisi Petra Fiala (ODS).

Fiala ocenil zahraniční politiku, zmínil problémy digitalizace stavebního řízení  ( 10.12.2025 13:52:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Praha - Premiér v demisi Petr Fiala (ODS) považuje za úspěchy svého končícího kabinetu podle něj hrdou bezpečnostní a zahraniční politiku, růst ekonomiky nebo snížení státního deficitu. Na druhou stranu...

ODS na jihu Čech opustila po Kubově odchodu přibližně třetina členů  ( 10.12.2025 13:34:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
České Budějovice - Poté, co hejtman Martin Kuba oznámil odchod z ODS, opustila jihočeské občanské demokraty asi třetina členů. ČTK to řekl krajský místopředseda za ODS a senátor Tomáš Jirsa. Odchod...

Pavel: Přerušení pomoci Ukrajině by zavřelo dveře k budoucí spolupráci  ( 10.12.2025 13:08:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Liberec - Prezident Petr Pavel dnes v Liberci při jednání s městskými zastupiteli uvedl, že Česká republika by měla dál podporovat Ukrajinu a to nejen z ideologických, ale i z praktických důvodů. Míní,...

Odklad ETS 2 podle Babiše nestačí, jeho vláda chce úplné odstoupení  ( 10.12.2025 11:21:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Praha - Odklad emisních povolenek ETS 2 o rok není zdaleka dostatečný. Nová vláda přijme usnesení, v němž bude požadovat úplné odstoupení od povolenek v ETS 2. ČTK to sdělil designovaný premiér Andrej...

Prezident Pavel se na univerzitě v Liberci zajímal o 3D projekty pro armádu  ( 10.12.2025 11:18:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Praha - O nanotechnologie i přísně tajné projekty laboratoře 3D tisku pro český obranný průmysl, se při návštěvě v Liberci zajímal prezident Petr Pavel. Dvoudenní návštěvu kraje zahájil v Ústavu pro...

"Nová" chřipka udeří v Česku dříve a tvrdě. Lékař popisuje, jak se aktuální typ chová  ( 10.12.2025 10:59:57 zpravy.aktualne.cz)
Subvarianta viru H3N2, která se do Česka šíří z jihu Evropy, je nakažlivější. Protože je nová, imunitní systém člověka se jí hůře ubrání.

Fiala: Vláda v demisi se rozpočtem nezabývala, nechá ho nástupcům  ( 10.12.2025 10:20:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Praha - Praha - Vláda v demisi se dnes návrhem státního rozpočtu na příští rok vůbec nezabývala. Bude na novém kabinetu ANO, SPD a Motoristů, aby si rozpočet upravil podle vlastních představ, řekl...

V Maroku se zřítily dvě obytné budovy, 19 mrtvých včetně čtyř dětí  ( 10.12.2025 10:12:54 novinky.cz)
Při zřícení dvou čtyřpatrových obytných budov ve čtvrti Mustakbal (Budoucnost) v marockém městě Fez zahynulo v noci na středu nejméně 22 lidí včetně čtyř dětí. Dalších 16 utrpělo zranění, z toho tři vážná, uvádí agentura Maghreb Agence Presse (MAP). Původní informace hovořily o 19 mrtvých.

Do českých hor se vrátila "vyhynulá" šelma. Vědcům se podařilo vyfotit ji i s rodinou  ( 10.12.2025 10:07:56 zpravy.aktualne.cz)
Vědcům se v Lužických horách podařilo zachytit mláďata kočky divoké. Jde o výjimečnou událost. Šelma byla dříve v Česku považována za vyhynulou.

Soud poslal do vazby muže podezřelého z pondělní vraždy v Brně na ulici  ( 10.12.2025 09:22:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Brno - Městský soud v Brně dnes poslal dvaačtyřicetiletého muže podezřelého z pondělní vraždy ženy na ulici v Brně do vazby. Informovala o tom mluvčí soudu Petra Láníčková. Policie muže obvinila z...

Na seznamu UNESCO je nově hraní amatérského divadla v Česku  ( 10.12.2025 08:45:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Praha/Dillí - Hraní amatérského divadla v Česku se dostalo na seznam nehmotného kulturního dědictví lidstva UNESCO. Rozhodli o tom členové výboru této mezinárodní organizace v Dillí. V Česku ochotnické...

"Nelinka přivezla na Donbas ostravské podsvětí." Kauza "domobranců" je znovu u soudu  ( 10.12.2025 05:30:00 zpravy.aktualne.cz)
Odposlechy zachytily i další jména, která nyní před soudem nestojí. Jedním z nich je Nela Lisková, jež kdysi v Ostravě otevřela doněcký konzulát.

Mortgages Unlikely to Get Cheaper Next Year Either  ( 09.12.2025 20:29:21 czechdaily.cz)
Czech homebuyers hoping for a significant drop in mortgage rates may need to temper their expectations. The average offered mortgage rate held steady at 4.91 percent in early December, unchanged for the third straight month according to the Swiss Life Hypoindex. This marks only a negligible decline of less than a third of a percentage […] The post Mortgages Unlikely to Get Cheaper Next Year Either first appeared on Czech Daily.

Warm Like Spring: December Breaks Temperature Records Across the Czech Republic  ( 09.12.2025 20:26:10 czechdaily.cz)
December in the Czech Republic is rewriting the rulebook for winter. On Monday, temperature records tumbled across the country, and Tuesday turned out even warmer. The highest values were measured in České Budějovice, where the thermometer climbed above 16 °C. According to the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute (ČHMÚ), long‑term records for December 9 were broken at nearly 60 percent […] The post Warm Like Spring: December Breaks Temperature Records Across the Czech Republic first appeared on Czech Daily.

Nové časy v ČT. Babiše na Hradě vysílali dvakrát, kritici mluví o zestátňování  ( 09.12.2025 19:55:40 zpravy.aktualne.cz)
Když byl před čtyřmi lety do čela vlády jmenován Petr Fiala (ODS), veřejnoprávní ČT1 vysílala Toulavou kameru a pak Objektiv.

Zákulisí zajatého Trana: Ticho mezi Vietnamci, "hněv starších" i omezené možnosti  ( 09.12.2025 18:29:47 zpravy.aktualne.cz)
Jde o prvního českého a vietnamského občana, který se ocitl v ruském zajetí. Redaktor Aktuálně.cz je v kontaktu s rodinou.

Globsec: Česko zaostává ve výdajích na prevenci a dostupnosti diagnostiky  ( 09.12.2025 17:05:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Praha - Česko zaostává ve výdajích na prevenci a dostupnosti diagnostických metod. Mezi okolními zeměmi naopak vyniká dostupností moderních léčiv. Vyplývá to z každoročního mezinárodního Indexu připravenosti...

Studenti vyšli do ulic, bouří se proti Motoristům v čele resortu životního prostředí  ( 09.12.2025 16:33:52 zpravy.aktualne.cz)
Podle organizátorů se demonstrovalo v asi 40 městech v Česku, kromě Prahy třeba v Brně, Ústí nad Labem, Plzni, Hradci Králové, Olomouci nebo Zlíně.

Bývalý rektor ČVUT Petráček podal kasační stížnost kvůli svému odvolání  ( 09.12.2025 15:53:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Praha - Bývalý rektor Českého vysokého učení technického (ČVUT) v Praze Vojtěch Petráček podal v případu svého odvolání minulý týden kasační stížnost k Nejvyššímu správnímu soudu (NSS). U NSS si chce...

Končící zmocněnkyně pro lidská práva se chce ucházet o post ombudsmana  ( 09.12.2025 14:40:49 zpravy.aktualne.cz)
Šimáčková Laurenčíková po volbách ohlásila svůj konec ve funkci s tím, že strany nové vládní koalice mají jiný postoj k ochraně zranitelných skupin.

Končící zmocněnkyně pro lidská práva se chce ucházet o post ombudsmana  ( 09.12.2025 14:30:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Praha - Vládní zmocněnkyně pro lidská práva Klára Šimáčková Laurenčíková, která v pondělí skončí ve funkci spolu s dosluhující vládou Petra Fialy (ODS), se hodlá ucházet o post veřejného ochránce práv....

Czech Press Photo 2025 nominovalo finalisty, soutěžil rekordní počet autorů  ( 09.12.2025 14:29:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Praha - Do 31. ročníku soutěže Czech Press Photo se přihlásil rekordní počet fotografek a fotografů. Porota hodnotila 5250 snímků od téměř 300 autorů, dnes vyhlásila nominace v devíti kategoriích....

Prezident Pavel jmenoval 47 soudců obecných soudů, navrhla je Decroix  ( 09.12.2025 14:13:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Praha - Prezident Petr Pavel dnes na Pražském hradě jmenoval 47 nových soudců obecných soudů. Do funkce je navrhla končící ministryně spravedlnosti Eva Decroix (ODS). Pavel nováčkům řekl, že s rostoucím...

Bartoníček: jak jsem poznal Babiše zblízka. 10 důvodů, proč se znovu chopil moci  ( 09.12.2025 13:29:50 zpravy.aktualne.cz)
Šéf hnutí ANO Andrej Babiš je dnešním dnem vůbec prvním českým premiérem, kterému se podařilo z opozice vrátit do křesla předsedy vlády.

Pavel podle Okamury projevil zájem o pokračování schůzek ústavních činitelů  ( 09.12.2025 13:09:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Praha - Prezident Petr Pavel projevil zájem, aby pokračovaly schůzky prezidenta, šéfů obou komor Parlamentu a premiéra k zahraniční politice, řekl dnes novinářům předseda Sněmovny Tomio Okamura (SPD)....

Proti Motoristům na MŽP protestovaly v Praze i dalších městech stovky studentů  ( 09.12.2025 12:57:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Praha - V Praze a dalších městech v Česku dnes stovky studentů protestovaly proti Motoristům v čele ministerstva životního prostředí (MŽP). Akci uspořádala iniciativa Univerzity za klima, jejíž mluvčí...

Vláda podle Macinky změní priority státního rozpočtu, je schopna připravit nový  ( 09.12.2025 12:28:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Praha - Vznikající vláda ANO, SPD a Motoristů podle předsedy Petra Macinky změní priority státního rozpočtu na příští rok. Novinářům ve Sněmovně řekl, že tým na ministerstvu financí je schopný připravit...

Prezident Pavel jmenuje Babišovu vládu v pondělí ráno  ( 09.12.2025 12:23:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Praha - Prezident Petr Pavel jmenuje vládu Andreje Babiše (ANO) v navrhovaném složení v pondělí v 9:00. V tiskové zprávě to dnes oznámil odbor komunikace prezidentské kanceláře. Babiš, kterého dnes...

Hodně netypická předpověď: jak bude v prosinci, už se rýsuje počasí na Vánoce  ( 09.12.2025 12:18:24 zpravy.aktualne.cz)
Teploty navíc nebudou klesat ani v příštích dnech. Úterý, středa, čtvrtek tak budou teplotně vysoko nad průměrnou teplotou.

Soud poslal otce za vraždu pětiměsíčního syna na Vsetínsku na 16 let do vězení  ( 09.12.2025 11:59:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Olomouc - Olomoucký krajský soud dnes potrestal 16 lety vězení sedmadvacetiletého muže obžalovaného z vraždy svého pětiměsíčního syna na Vsetínsku. Loni v listopadu podle obžaloby plačícího kojence...

Macinka: Motoristé nehledají náhradu za Turka, na seznamu teď není kvůli zdraví  ( 09.12.2025 11:52:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Praha - Motoristé nehledají náhradu za Filipa Turka na post ministra životního prostředí. Novinářům to dnes ve Sněmovně řekl předseda strany Petr Macinka, který má být dočasně pověřen řízením resortu....

Turek se podle politologů nestane ministrem ani v pozdějším termínu  ( 09.12.2025 11:48:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Praha - Poslanec Motoristů Filip Turek se podle politologů pravděpodobně nestane ministrem životního prostředí ani později. Turkovo jméno dnes chybělo ze zdravotních důvodů mezi nominacemi ministrů,...

Obžalovaný soudce Elischer v závěrečné řeči u soudu zopakoval, že úplatky nebral  ( 09.12.2025 11:43:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Praha - Obžalovaný soudce pražského vrchního soudu Ivan Elischer v dnešní závěrečné řeči zopakoval, že se nedopustil žádného korupčního jednání. Uvedl, že původ peněz, které měl ve své soudcovské kanceláři,...

Mladí, do zbraně! Evropa šturmuje, kvůli ruské hrozbě povolává tisíce nových branců  ( 09.12.2025 11:07:05 zpravy.aktualne.cz)
Většina evropských států nemá povinnou vojnu. Zároveň se nedaří nabrat dostatek dobrovolníků. Jaké možnosti mají jednotlivé země?

Předseda Akademie věd: Podíl výdajů k HDP na vědu klesl za pět let o čtvrtinu  ( 09.12.2025 11:02:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Praha - Podíl státních výdajů na výzkum, vědu a inovace za posledních pět let postupně klesl z 0,65 procenta hrubého domácího produktu (HDP) na 0,5 procenta HDP. Na dnešním akademickém sněmu Akademie...

Česko má dva premiéry. Babiš má jedinou pravomoc, platí nepsané pravidlo, říká Kysela  ( 09.12.2025 11:00:54 zpravy.aktualne.cz)
V úterý ráno se Andrej Babiš stal českým premiérem. Jenže Petr Fiala dosud nerezignoval. Jak si rozdělí sídla a kdo reprezentuje Česko?

Piráti se kvůli Babišovu střetu zájmů obrátili na Evropskou komisi  ( 09.12.2025 10:44:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Praha - Piráti se kvůli střetu zájmů nově jmenovaného premiéra Andreje Babiše (ANO) obrátili na Evropskou komisi. Jejich europoslankyně Markéta Gregorová chce mimo jiné vědět, zda může Babišův holding...

Vlaky u Mnichovic jezdí po obou kolejích, odborníci nezjistili vážné poškození  ( 09.12.2025 10:43:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Mnichovice (u Prahy) - Vlaky u Mnichovic u Prahy jezdí na trati Praha - Benešov po obou kolejích, sníženou rychlostí na jedné z nich. Odborníci nezjistili vážné poškození tamějšího mostu. V pondělí...

ÚS odmítl stížnost ruského majetkového podniku kvůli zápisu na sankční seznam  ( 09.12.2025 09:44:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Brno - Ústavní soud (ÚS) odmítl stížnost ruského Podniku pro správu majetku v zahraničí, který nesouhlasil se zápisem na český vnitrostátní sankční seznam. Podnik v Česku provozuje a spravuje mnoho...

Hranatá legenda se slevou. Turkův e-shop nabízí o dost odvážnější merch než Motoristé  ( 09.12.2025 05:30:00 zpravy.aktualne.cz)
Turkova "hranatost", ostré výroky i demonstrativní pohrdání politickou korektností se postupně proměnily ve svébytnou marketingovou značku.

Pavel si nebral servítky. Rusku vzkázal, že může přijít i sestřelení jeho letadla  ( 08.12.2025 20:53:42 zpravy.aktualne.cz)
Podle Pavla přijde chvíle, kdy bude nutné sestřelovat ruská letadla a drony, které testují, kam až si může Kreml vůči Evropě dovolit zajít.

Turek první kolo u Pavla prohrál. Expert říká, jak se může zachovat Babiš  ( 08.12.2025 20:11:02 zpravy.aktualne.cz)
Andrej Babiš (ANO) bude jmenován premiérem v úterý v devět hodin ráno. Teprve pak prezidentovi odevzdá oficiální seznam kandidátů na ministry.

Poplatek za hotovostní výplatu penze poštou vzroste od ledna na 94 korun  ( 08.12.2025 19:26:30 zpravy.aktualne.cz)
Pro klienty, kteří si nechají důchod posílat na účet zřízený na České poště, pošta nabízí jeden výběr i donášku hotovosti až do domu měsíčně zdarma.

Na Chebsku otřesy od listopadu neustávají, přes dva stupně měl i dnes odpoledne  ( 08.12.2025 19:11:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Cheb - Zemětřesný roj na Pomezí Chebska a Sokolovska, který začal v listopadu, neutichá. I v posledních dnech se některé otřesy dostaly nad magnitudo dva stupně. Poslední silný otřes byl zaznamenám...

Politická šikana: Turkova zrušená schůzka? Víme, kdo tahá za kratší konec provazu  ( 08.12.2025 17:51:01 zpravy.aktualne.cz)
Prezident už řekl, že jmenování Filipa Turka do čela resortu nepovažuje za reálné. A co dál? Poslechněte si nejnovější díl podcastu Politická šikana.

Teplotní rekordy dnes padly na téměř třetině stanic, v Žatci bylo 15 stupňů  ( 08.12.2025 17:50:11 zpravy.aktualne.cz)
Nadprůměrně teplo má být i v dalších dnech, zejména v Čechách se vyjasní.

Czech Industry Posts Modest October Gain Amid Stagnation Signs  ( 08.12.2025 17:15:03 czechdaily.cz)
Czech industrial production edged up 1.1% year-over-year in October 2025, though it dipped slightly by 0.1% from September, according to the Czech Statistical Office. New orders rose 2.9% compared to last year, driven largely by foreign demand, signaling cautious optimism in a sector that’s hovered near stagnation since around 2017. Sectors like metal processing, machinery, […] The post Czech Industry Posts Modest October Gain Amid Stagnation Signs first appeared on Czech Daily.

Unemployment Edges Up in Czechia: Over 341,000 Jobless as Year Ends  ( 08.12.2025 17:11:38 czechdaily.cz)
A slight uptick in unemployment marked the end of November in Czechia, with the number of registered job seekers reaching 341,311—up 802 from October and a sharp 50,886 more than the same period last year. This figure represents the highest since March 2017, though the overall rate held steady at 4.6%, a 0.7 percentage point […] The post Unemployment Edges Up in Czechia: Over 341,000 Jobless as Year Ends first appeared on Czech Daily.

Centuries-Old Temperature Records Fall Across Czechia  ( 08.12.2025 17:08:01 czechdaily.cz)
An unusual surge of warm air from the southwest turned early December into an almost spring-like day across much of Czechia. Monday’s (December 8) afternoon temperatures soared, shattering more than a hundred-year-old records at several long-term weather stations, including those in Prague and České Budějovice. According to the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute (CHMI), new temperature records […] The post Centuries-Old Temperature Records Fall Across Czechia first appeared on Czech Daily.

Poláci prohráli s Turky. Za Smartwings dají turecké Pegasus Airlines 3,8 miliardy  ( 08.12.2025 17:05:56 zpravy.aktualne.cz)
Obchod ještě musejí schválit úřady v Česku i v jiných zemích, kde Smartwings působí. Média píší, že ČSA chtěl koupit i polský letecký dopravce LOT.

Úmrtí novorozenců. Zkušenému týmu se to nestane. Experti by rušili porodnice  ( 08.12.2025 16:13:04 zpravy.aktualne.cz)
Tragická událost, při které v litoměřickém Centru porodní asistence zemřela dvě miminka, znovu otevírá debatu o tom, zda měřit kvalitu lékařské péče.

Česko je na prahu chřipkové epidemie, nemocných za týden výrazně přibylo  ( 08.12.2025 14:59:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Praha - Česko stojí podle hlavní hygieničky Barbory Mackové na prahu chřipkové epidemie. Podle dat za minulý týden přibylo v Česku od týdne předchozího nemocných asi o šestinu, roste zejména počet...

V kolonii Bedřiška stroje zbouraly dům, její podporovatelé protestovali  ( 08.12.2025 11:33:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Ostrava - Stroje ráno zbouraly dům v bývalé hornické kolonii Bedřiška v Ostravě, který městský obvod určil k demolici. Objekt před tím zajistili policisté, protože v minulých dnech na jeho střeše setrvávali...

Soud potvrdil sedmileté vězení řidiči, v jehož voze se udusila syrská migrantka  ( 08.12.2025 11:24:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Praha - Soud dnes potvrdil sedm let vězení a desetileté vyhoštění z ČR běloruskému řidiči Stanislavu Šchalkouskému, v jehož kamionu se na českém území udusila syrská migrantka. Rozsudek, který muže...

Karlovarský kraj má nového hejtmana, stal se jím Petr Kubis z ANO  ( 08.12.2025 10:56:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Karlovy Vary - Zastupitelé Karlovarského kraje dnes zvolili novým hejtmanem Petra Kubise (ANO). V čele kraje střídá Janu Mračkovou Vildumetzovou (ANO), která v listopadu rezignovala z rodinných důvodů....

O víkendu bude vrcholit meteorický roj Geminid, zazáří až 1000 meteorů  ( 08.12.2025 09:19:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Praha/Opava - V noci ze soboty na neděli bude vrcholit meteorický roj Geminid, za celou noc bude možné spatřit až 1000 meteorů. Pozorování se vyplatí především mezi půlnocí a čtvrtou hodinou ranní....

Asi polovina lidí považuje ministerstvo pro sport za zbytečné, ukázal průzkum  ( 08.12.2025 08:45:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Praha - Zhruba polovina lidí se domnívá, že není potřeba, aby vzniklo nové ministerstvo pro sport, prevenci a zdraví. Vyplývá to z průzkumu agentury NMS pro Český rozhlas. Ministrem s tímto zaměřením...

Pavel jmenoval Babiše premiérem, vládu jmenuje v pondělí zatím bez Turka  ( 08.12.2025 08:43:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Praha - Prezident Petr Pavel dnes ráno na Pražském hradě jmenoval předsedu hnutí ANO Andreje Babiše premiérem. Ten po svém jmenování předal hlavě státu nominace ministrů do vlády ANO, SPD a Motoristů....

NS: Stát nemusí hradit ušlý zisk za covidové uzávěry podle krizového zákona  ( 08.12.2025 08:37:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Brno - Nejvyšší soud (NS) definitivně zamítl nárok podnikatelů na náhradu ušlého zisku způsobeného omezením maloobchodu v nouzovém stavu v roce 2020. Obchody tehdy musely zavřít kvůli opatřením proti...

Vědci potvrdili výskyt vzácné kočky divoké v Lužických horách  ( 08.12.2025 08:00:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Ústí nad Labem - Vědci potvrdili výskyt vzácné kočky divoké v Lužických horách, které jsou na pomezí Ústeckého a Libereckého kraje. Přítomnost prokázaly genetické analýzy z odebraných vzorků srsti...

NKÚ: Haly pro vrcholové sportovce stále chybí, peníze mizí jinde  ( 08.12.2025 07:25:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Praha - Sportovní areály Národní tréninkové centrum Věry Čáslavské plánované od roku 2018 či sportovní hala Juliska, která měla být hotova do roku 2024, dosud nestojí. Jde přitom o klíčové investice...

Motoristé podle Macinky nehledají ani prozatímní náhradu za Turka jako ministra  ( 07.12.2025 12:58:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Praha - Motoristé podle jejich předsedy Petra Macinky nehledají ani prozatímní náhradu za svého poslance Filipa Turka, i když prezident Petr Pavel jeho jmenování ministrem označil za málo pravděpodobné....

Textile Collection Mandate Backfires in Czechia  ( 02.12.2025 21:15:05 czechdaily.cz)
Czech municipalities are grappling with overflowing textile bins despite mandatory collection programs aimed at environmental protection. Since January, local governments must organize separate textile waste sorting to boost recycling and cut landfill use, but the system is buckling under poor capacity, soaring costs, and subpar waste quality. Everyone—from towns to processors—points fingers, awaiting state intervention.​ […] The post Textile Collection Mandate Backfires in Czechia first appeared on Czech Daily.

Czechs to Spend Over 12,000 Crowns on Christmas This Year  ( 02.12.2025 21:12:27 czechdaily.cz)
Despite economic uncertainty and lingering inflation, Christmas spending in the Czech Republic remains largely unchanged from last year. According to new research from the Czech Banking Association and the Ipsos agency, Czech shoppers plan to spend an average of 12,600 crowns this holiday season—only a slight increase from 2024’s 12,500 crowns. Gifts, as always, take […] The post Czechs to Spend Over 12,000 Crowns on Christmas This Year first appeared on Czech Daily.


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Podle dosavadních testů Panther Lake přinejlepším dorovnával zhruba rok a půl starý Strix Point od AMD. Aktuálně zveřejněný výsledek však ukazuje podstatně vyšší výkon. Blýská se na lepší časy, nebo…?

Here are Your Choices for an Open Source NAS Operating System  ( 10.12.2025 22:45:23 itsfoss.com)
Building a NAS in your homelab? Here are the choices of operating systems you can use.

When would you ever want bubblesort? (2023)  ( 10.12.2025 21:45:11 buttondown.com)
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After NPR and PBS defunding, FCC receives call to take away station licenses  ( 10.12.2025 21:05:44 arstechnica.com)
NPR and PBS stations targeted by group involved in Carr's news-distortion probes.

A new open-weights AI coding model is closing in on proprietary options  ( 10.12.2025 20:38:58 arstechnica.com)
Devstral 2 model scores 72% on industry benchmark, nearing proprietary rivals.

A new open-weights AI coding model is closing in on proprietary options  ( 10.12.2025 20:38:58 arstechnica.com)
Devstral 2 model scores 72% on industry benchmark, nearing proprietary rivals.

Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustration  ( 10.12.2025 20:29:12 ankursethi.com)
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Cable channel subscribers grew for the first time in 8 years last quarter  ( 10.12.2025 20:07:47 arstechnica.com)
Sports and YouTube TV played big roles, MoffettNathanson report says.

A Linux-Powered Smartphone That Has Features You Won't Find on Most Phones  ( 10.12.2025 19:39:28 itsfoss.com)
The Divine D. is set to come with LoRa networking, hardware privacy switches, and local AI processing.

The future of Terraform CDK  ( 10.12.2025 19:14:03 github.com)
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Super Mario 64 for the PS1  ( 10.12.2025 18:58:55 github.com)
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Kindle Scribe Colorsoft brings color e-ink to Amazon’s 11-inch e-reader  ( 10.12.2025 18:40:58 arstechnica.com)
Amazon has added color e-ink to its devices more slowly than its competitors.

Terrain Diffusion: A Diffusion-Based Successor to Perlin Noise  ( 10.12.2025 18:37:27 arxiv.org)
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Ahmed Bouchefra  ( 10.12.2025 18:36:09 efficientcoder.net)
Let’s be honest. There’s a huge gap between writing code that works and writing code that’s actually good. It’s the number one thing that separates a junior developer from a senior, and it’s something a surprising number of us never really learn. If you’re serious about your craft, you’ve probably felt this. You build something, it functions, but deep down you know it’s brittle. You’re afraid to touch it a year from now. Today, we’re going to bridge that gap. I’m going to walk you through eight design principles that are the bedrock of professional, production-level code. This isn’t about fancy algorithms; it’s about a mindset. A way of thinking that prepares your code for the future. And hey, if you want a cheat sheet with all these principles plus the code examples I’m referencing, you can get it for free. Just sign up for my newsletter from the link in the description, and I’ll send it right over. Ready? Let’s dive in. 1. Cohesion & Single Responsibility This sounds academic, but it’s simple: every piece of code should have one job, and one reason to change. High cohesion means you group related things together. A function does one thing. A class has one core responsibility. A module contains related classes. Think about a UserManager class. A junior dev might cram everything in there: validating user input, saving the user to the database, sending a welcome email, and logging the activity. At first glance, it looks fine. But what happens when you want to change your database? Or swap your email service? You have to rip apart this massive, god-like class. It’s a nightmare. The senior approach? Break it up. You’d have: An EmailValidator class. A UserRespository class (just for database stuff). An EmailService class. A UserActivityLogger class. Then, your main UserService class delegates the work to these other, specialized classes. Yes, it’s more files. It looks like overkill for a small project. I get it. But this is systems-level thinking. You’re anticipating future changes and making them easy. You can now swap out the database logic or the email provider without touching the core user service. That’s powerful. 2. Encapsulation & Abstraction This is all about hiding the messy details. You want to expose the behavior of your code, not the raw data. Imagine a simple BankAccount class. The naive way is to just have public attributes like balance and transactions. What could go wrong? Well, another developer (or you, on a Monday morning) could accidentally set the balance to a negative number. Or set the transactions list to a string. Chaos. The solution is to protect your internal state. In Python, we use a leading underscore (e.g., _balance) as a signal: “Hey, this is internal. Please don’t touch it directly.” Instead of letting people mess with the data, you provide methods: deposit(), withdraw(), get_balance(). Inside these methods, you can add protective logic. The deposit() method can check for negative amounts. The withdraw() method can check for sufficient funds. The user of your class doesn’t need to know how it all works inside. They just need to know they can call deposit(), and it will just work. You’ve hidden the complexity and provided a simple, safe interface. 3. Loose Coupling & Modularity Coupling is how tightly connected your code components are. You want them to be as loosely coupled as possible. A change in one part shouldn’t send a ripple effect of breakages across the entire system. Let’s go back to that email example. A tightly coupled OrderProcessor might create an instance of EmailSender directly inside itself. Now, that OrderProcessor is forever tied to that specific EmailSender class. What if you want to send an SMS instead? You have to change the OrderProcessor code. The loosely coupled way is to rely on an “interface,” or what Python calls an Abstract Base Class (ABC). You define a generic Notifier class that says, “Anything that wants to be a notifier must have a send() method.” Then, your OrderProcessor just asks for a Notifier object. It doesn’t care if it’s an EmailNotifier or an SmsNotifier or a CarrierPigeonNotifier. As long as the object you give it has a send() method, it will work. You’ve decoupled the OrderProcessor from the specific implementation of the notification. You can swap them in and out interchangeably. A quick pause. I want to thank boot.dev for sponsoring this discussion. It’s an online platform for backend development that’s way more interactive than just watching videos. You learn Python and Go by building real projects, right in your browser. It’s gamified, so you level up and unlock content, which is surprisingly addictive. The core content is free, and with the code techwithtim, you get 25% off the annual plan. It’s a great way to put these principles into practice. Now, back to it. — 4. Reusability & Extensibility This one’s a question you should always ask yourself: Can I add new functionality without editing existing code? Think of a ReportGenerator function that has a giant if/elif/else block to handle different formats: if format == 'text', elif format == 'csv', elif format == 'html'. To add a JSON format, you have to go in and add another elif. This is not extensible. The better way is, again, to use an abstract class. Create a ReportFormatter interface with a format() method. Then create separate classes: TextFormatter, CsvFormatter, HtmlFormatter, each with their own format() logic. Your ReportGenerator now just takes any ReportFormatter object and calls its format() method. Want to add JSON support? You just create a new JsonFormatter class. You don’t have to touch the ReportGenerator at all. It’s extensible without being modified. 5. Portability This is the one everyone forgets. Will your code work on a different machine? On Linux instead of Windows? Without some weird version of C++ installed? The most common mistake I see is hardcoding file paths. If you write C:\Users\Ahmed\data\input.txt, that code is now guaranteed to fail on every other computer in the world. The solution is to use libraries like Python’s os and pathlib to build paths dynamically. And for things like API keys, database URLs, and other environment-specific settings, use environment variables. Don’t hardcode them! Create a .env file and load them at runtime. This makes your code portable and secure. 6. Defensibility Write your code as if an idiot is going to use it. Because someday, that idiot will be you. This means validating all inputs. Sanitizing data. Setting safe default values. Ask yourself, “What’s the worst that could happen if someone provides bad input?” and then guard against it. In a payment processor, don’t have debug_mode=True as the default. Don’t set the maximum retries to 100. Don’t forget a timeout. These are unsafe defaults. And for the love of all that is holy, validate your inputs! Don’t just assume the amount is a number or that the account_number is valid. Check it. Raise clear errors if it’s wrong. Protect your system from bad data. 7. Maintainability & Testability The most expensive part of software isn’t writing it; it’s maintaining it. And you can’t maintain what you can’t test. Code that is easy to test is, by default, more maintainable. Look at a complex calculate function that parses an expression, performs the math, handles errors, and writes to a log file all at once. How do you even begin to test that? There are a million edge cases. The answer is to break it down. Have a separate OperationParser. Have simple add, subtract, multiply functions. Each of these small, pure components is incredibly easy to test. Your main calculate function then becomes a simple coordinator of these tested components. 8. Simplicity (KISS, DRY, YAGNI) Finally, after all that, the highest goal is simplicity. KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid): Simple code is harder to write than complex code, but it’s a million times easier to understand and maintain. Swallow your ego and write the simplest thing that works. DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself): If you’re doing something more than once, wrap it in a reusable function or component. YAGNI (You Aren’t Gonna Need It): This is the counter-balance to all the principles above. Don’t over-engineer. Don’t add a flexible, extensible system if you’re just building a quick prototype to validate an idea. When I was coding my startup, I ignored a lot of these patterns at first because speed was more important. Always ask what the business need is before you start engineering a masterpiece. Phew, that was a lot. But these patterns are what it takes to level up. It’s a shift from just getting things done to building things that last. If you enjoyed this, let me know. I’d love to make more advanced videos like this one. See you in the next one.

US taking 25% cut of Nvidia chip sales “makes no sense,” experts say  ( 10.12.2025 18:30:45 arstechnica.com)
Trump’s odd Nvidia reversal may open the door for China to demand Blackwell access.

After key Russian launch site is damaged, NASA accelerates Dragon supply missions  ( 10.12.2025 18:13:52 arstechnica.com)
It is by no means certain that Russia will be able to fix Site 31 soon.

Ugly infotainment mars the 2025 Subaru Forester Hybrid experience  ( 10.12.2025 18:00:19 arstechnica.com)
It drives fine, but the first hybrid Forester is not without its flaws.

Show HN: A 2-row, 16-key keyboard designed for smartphones  ( 10.12.2025 17:49:28 k-keyboard.com)
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Show HN: Automated license plate reader coverage in the USA  ( 10.12.2025 17:42:30 alpranalysis.com)
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Is it a bubble?  ( 10.12.2025 17:30:43 oaktreecapital.com)
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Auto-grading decade-old Hacker News discussions with hindsight  ( 10.12.2025 17:23:53 karpathy.bearblog.dev)
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Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux  ( 10.12.2025 17:20:06 heise.de)
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This is the oldest evidence of people starting fires  ( 10.12.2025 17:14:08 arstechnica.com)
We didn't start the fire. (Neanderthals did, at least 400,000 years ago.)

9 Mothers (YC X26) Is Hiring  ( 10.12.2025 17:00:22 app.dover.com)
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Sperm donor with rare cancer mutation fathered nearly 200 children in Europe  ( 10.12.2025 16:59:15 arstechnica.com)
Children with the mutation have up to a 90% chance of developing cancer by age 60.

Ubuntu Will Soon Make AMD GPUs Much Easier to Use for AI Workloads  ( 10.12.2025 16:18:58 itsfoss.com)
Canonical teams up with AMD to package ROCm directly in Ubuntu.

Launch HN: InspectMind (YC W24) – AI agent for reviewing construction drawings  ( 10.12.2025 16:05:03 news.ycombinator.com)
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Size of Life  ( 10.12.2025 16:02:57 neal.fun)
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Nový Jolla Phone v předprodeji  ( 10.12.2025 16:00:00 diit.cz)
Některé novinky a zprávy jsou aktuální v tak úzkém časovém okně, že nevydáte-li je okamžitě, píšete vlastně už o něčem jiném, než jste původně chtěli psát.

RoboCrop: Teaching robots how to pick tomatoes  ( 10.12.2025 15:29:14 phys.org)
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Impeachment articles filed against RFK Jr., claiming abuse of power  ( 10.12.2025 15:11:10 arstechnica.com)
He's the "biggest self-created threat to our health and safety," Stevens said.

Linux Foundation Launches Agentic AI Foundation with Industry-Wide Support  ( 10.12.2025 15:08:07 itsfoss.com)
Anthropic's MCP, Block's goose, and OpenAI's AGENTS.md form the foundation of this new initiative.

Dr. Oz tells his federal employees to eat less during the holidays  ( 10.12.2025 14:45:06 arstechnica.com)
“You don’t have to try every cookie on the holiday table,” wrote Mehmet Oz in an email to staff.

AMD’s next-gen “FSR Redstone” brings big gains, as long as you’re using a new GPU  ( 10.12.2025 14:00:43 arstechnica.com)
"Redstone" is a promising mix of old and new ideas, but Nvidia is years ahead.

Real Python: Python Inner Functions: What Are They Good For?  ( 10.12.2025 14:00:00 realpython.com)
Python inner functions are those you define inside other functions to access nonlocal names and bundle logic with its surrounding state. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create inner helper functions, build closures that retain state across calls, and implement decorators that modify the behavior or existing callables without changing the original implementation. By the end of this tutorial, you’ll understand that: Inner functions access nonlocal names from the enclosing scope, so you pass data in once and reuse it across calls. You can replace an inner helper function with a non-public function to enable code reuse. You can create a closure by returning the inner function without calling it, which preserves the captured environment. You can modify the captured state by declaring nonlocal variables that point to mutable objects. You craft decorators with nested functions that wrap a callable and extend its behavior transparently. You will now move through focused examples that feature encapsulated helpers, stateful closures, and decorator patterns, allowing you to apply each technique with confidence in real Python projects. Get Your Code: Click here to download the free sample code to practice inner functions in Python. Take the Quiz: Test your knowledge with our interactive “Python Inner Functions: What Are They Good For?” quiz. You’ll receive a score upon completion to help you track your learning progress: Interactive Quiz Python Inner Functions: What Are They Good For? Test inner functions, closures, nonlocal, and decorators in Python. Build confidence and learn to keep state across calls. Try the quiz now. Creating Functions Within Functions in Python A function defined inside another function is known as an inner function or a nested function. Yes, in Python, you can define a function within another function. This type of function can access names defined in the enclosing scope. Here’s an example of how to create an inner function in Python: Python >>> def outer_func(): ... def inner_func(): ... print("Hello, World!") ... inner_func() ... >>> outer_func() Hello, World! In this example, you define inner_func() inside outer_func() to print the Hello, World! message to the screen. To do that, you call inner_func() on the last line of outer_func(). This is the quickest way to write and use an inner function in Python. Inner functions provide several interesting possibilities beyond what you see in the example above. The core feature of inner functions is their ability to access variables and objects from their enclosing function even after that function has returned. The enclosing function provides a namespace that is accessible to the inner function: Python >>> def outer_func(who): ... def inner_func(): ... print(f"Hello, {who}") ... inner_func() ... >>> outer_func("World!") Hello, World! Note how you can pass a string as an argument to outer_func(), and inner_func() can access that argument through the name who. This name is defined in the local scope of outer_func(). The names defined in the local scope of an outer function are nonlocal names from the inner function’s point of view. Here’s an example of a more realistic inner function: Python >>> def factorial(number): ... if not isinstance(number, int): ... raise TypeError("number must be an integer") ... if number < 0: ... raise ValueError("number must be zero or positive") ... ... def inner_factorial(number): ... if number <= 1: ... return 1 ... return number * inner_factorial(number - 1) ... return inner_factorial(number) ... >>> factorial(4) 24 In factorial(), you first validate the input data to ensure that the user provides an integer that is equal to or greater than zero. Then, you define a recursive inner function called inner_factorial(). This function performs the factorial calculation and returns the result. The final step is to call inner_factorial(). Note: For a more detailed discussion on recursion and recursive functions, check out Thinking Recursively in Python and Recursion in Python: An Introduction. An advantage of using the pattern in the example above is that you perform all the argument validation in the outer function, so you can skip error checking in the inner function and focus on the computation at hand. Using Inner Functions in Python The use cases of Python inner functions are varied. You can use them to provide encapsulation, hiding your functions from external access. You can also write quick helper inner functions. Finally, you can use inner functions to create closures and decorators. In this section, you’ll learn about the former two use cases of inner functions, and in later sections, you’ll learn how to create closures and decorators. Providing Encapsulation A common use case of inner functions arises when you need to protect or hide a given function from everything happening outside of it, so that the function is completely hidden from the global scope. This type of behavior is known as encapsulation. Here’s an example that showcases the concept: Read the full article at https://realpython.com/inner-functions-what-are-they-good-for/ » [ Improve Your Python With 🐍 Python Tricks 💌 – Get a short & sweet Python Trick delivered to your inbox every couple of days. >> Click here to learn more and see examples ]

Budgie 10.10 je zatím preview, ale ve Fedoře 44 bude, plně na Waylandu  ( 10.12.2025 13:07:11 root.cz)
Desktopové prostředí Budgie je srdcem jednoho ze Spinů Fedory. Čerstvě FESCo schválila, že příští Fedora 44 přejde na verzi 10.10, která se zatím nachází ve vývojovém stádiu.

Fedora Cloud 44 bude bootovat z Btrfs Subvolume  ( 10.12.2025 12:47:43 root.cz)
Návrh byl vznesen, projednán a schválen. Fedora v Cloud edici od verze 44 přejde od samostatného /boot oddílu na boot oddíl v podobě Btrfs Subvolume, rozhodla Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo).

Eli Bendersky: Revisiting "Let's Build a Compiler"  ( 10.12.2025 12:41:03 eli.thegreenplace.net)
There's an old compiler-building tutorial that has become part of the field's lore: the Let's Build a Compiler series by Jack Crenshaw (published between 1988 and 1995). I ran into it in 2003 and was very impressed, but it's now 2025 and this tutorial is still being mentioned quite often in Hacker News threads. Why is that? Why does a tutorial from 35 years ago, built in Pascal and emitting Motorola 68000 assembly - technologies that are virtually unknown for the new generation of programmers - hold sway over compiler enthusiasts? I've decided to find out. The tutorial is easily available and readable online, but just re-reading it seemed insufficient. So I've decided on meticulously translating the compilers built in it to Python and emit a more modern target - WebAssembly. It was an enjoyable process and I want to share the outcome and some insights gained along the way. The result is this code repository. Of particular interest is the TUTORIAL.md file, which describes how each part in the original tutorial is mapped to my code. So if you want to read the original tutorial but play with code you can actually easily try on your own, feel free to follow my path. A sample To get a taste of the input language being compiled and the output my compiler generates, here's a sample program in the KISS language designed by Jack Crenshaw: var X=0 { sum from 0 to n-1 inclusive, and add to result } procedure addseq(n, ref result) var i, sum { 0 initialized } while i < n sum = sum + i i = i + 1 end result = result + sum end program testprog begin addseq(11, X) end . It's from part 13 of the tutorial, so it showcases procedures along with control constructs like the while loop, and passing parameters both by value and by reference. Here's the WASM text generated by my compiler for part 13: (module (memory 8) ;; Linear stack pointer. Used to pass parameters by ref. ;; Grows downwards (towards lower addresses). (global $__sp (mut i32) (i32.const 65536)) (global $X (mut i32) (i32.const 0)) (func $ADDSEQ (param $N i32) (param $RESULT i32) (local $I i32) (local $SUM i32) loop $loop1 block $breakloop1 local.get $I local.get $N i32.lt_s i32.eqz br_if $breakloop1 local.get $SUM local.get $I i32.add local.set $SUM local.get $I i32.const 1 i32.add local.set $I br $loop1 end end local.get $RESULT local.get $RESULT i32.load local.get $SUM i32.add i32.store ) (func $main (export "main") (result i32) i32.const 11 global.get $__sp ;; make space on stack i32.const 4 i32.sub global.set $__sp global.get $__sp global.get $X i32.store global.get $__sp ;; push address as parameter call $ADDSEQ ;; restore parameter X by ref global.get $__sp i32.load offset=0 global.set $X ;; clean up stack for ref parameters global.get $__sp i32.const 4 i32.add global.set $__sp global.get $X ) ) You'll notice that there is some trickiness in the emitted code w.r.t. handling the by-reference parameter (my previous post deals with this issue in more detail). In general, though, the emitted code is inefficient - there is close to 0 optimization applied. Also, if you're very diligent you'll notice something odd about the global variable X - it seems to be implicitly returned by the generated main function. This is just a testing facility that makes my compiler easy to test. All the compilers are extensively tested - usually by running the generated WASM code [1] and verifying expected results. Insights - what makes this tutorial so special? While reading the original tutorial again, I had on opportunity to reminisce on what makes it so effective. Other than the very fluent and conversational writing style of Jack Crenshaw, I think it's a combination of two key factors: The tutorial builds a recursive-descent parser step by step, rather than giving a long preface on automata and table-based parser generators. When I first encountered it (in 2003), it was taken for granted that if you want to write a parser then lex + yacc are the way to go [2]. Following the development of a simple and clean hand-written parser was a revelation that wholly changed my approach to the subject; subsequently, hand-written recursive-descent parsers have been my go-to approach for almost 20 years now. Rather than getting stuck in front-end minutiae, the tutorial goes straight to generating working assembly code, from very early on. This was also a breath of fresh air for engineers who grew up with more traditional courses where you spend 90% of the time on parsing, type checking and other semantic analysis and often run entirely out of steam by the time code generation is taught. To be honest, I don't think either of these are a big problem with modern resources, but back in the day the tutorial clearly hit the right nerve with many people. What else does it teach us? Jack Crenshaw's tutorial takes the syntax-directed translation approach, where code is emitted while parsing, without having to divide the compiler into explicit phases with IRs. As I said above, this is a fantastic approach for getting started, but in the latter parts of the tutorial it starts showing its limitations. Especially once we get to types, it becomes painfully obvious that it would be very nice if we knew the types of expressions before we generate code for them. I don't know if this is implicated in Jack Crenshaw's abandoning the tutorial at some point after part 14, but it may very well be. He keeps writing how the emitted code is clearly sub-optimal [3] and can be improved, but IMHO it's just not that easy to improve using the syntax-directed translation strategy. With perfect hindsight vision, I would probably use Part 14 (types) as a turning point - emitting some kind of AST from the parser and then doing simple type checking and analysis on that AST prior to generating code from it. Conclusion All in all, the original tutorial remains a wonderfully readable introduction to building compilers. This post and the GitHub repository it describes are a modest contribution that aims to improve the experience of folks reading the original tutorial today and not willing to use obsolete technologies. As always, let me know if you run into any issues or have questions! [1]This is done using the Python bindings to wasmtime. [2]By the way, gcc switched from YACC to hand-written recursive-descent parsing in the 2004-2006 timeframe, and Clang has been implemented with a recursive-descent parser from the start (2007). [3]Concretely: when we compile subexpr1 + subexpr2 and the two sides have different types, it would be mighty nice to know that before we actually generate the code for both sub-expressions. But the syntax-directed translation approach just doesn't work that way. To be clear: it's easy to generate working code; it's just not easy to generate optimal code without some sort of type analysis that's done before code is actually generated.

Operation Bluebird wants to relaunch “Twitter,” says Musk abandoned the name and logo  ( 10.12.2025 12:32:21 arstechnica.com)
“Abandonment” offers rare chance to reclaim one of tech’s most recognized brands.

Operation Bluebird wants to relaunch “Twitter,” says Musk abandoned the name and logo  ( 10.12.2025 12:32:21 arstechnica.com)
“Abandonment” offers rare chance to reclaim one of tech’s most recognized brands.

Win hardware, collectibles, and more in the 2025 Ars Technica Charity Drive  ( 10.12.2025 12:30:29 arstechnica.com)
Help yourself to prizes by helping us raise money for good causes.

Real Python: Quiz: Python Inner Functions: What Are They Good For?  ( 10.12.2025 12:00:00 realpython.com)
In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of the Python Inner Functions: What Are They Good For? tutorial. By working through this quiz, you’ll revisit how inner functions work with enclosing scopes, when to use nonlocal to update captured state, how closures retain data across calls, and how decorators wrap a callable to extend behavior. You’ll apply these ideas to organize helpers, reuse state, and write clear, maintainable functions in real projects. [ Improve Your Python With üêç Python Tricks üíå ‚Äì Get a short & sweet Python Trick delivered to your inbox every couple of days. >> Click here to learn more and see examples ]

Common Lisp, ASDF, and Quicklisp: packaging explained  ( 10.12.2025 11:10:58 cdegroot.com)
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SyncThing pro Android byl za podivných okolností převzat novým vlastníkem  ( 10.12.2025 11:07:58 root.cz)
SyncThing pro Android byl za podivných okolností převzat novým vlastníkem. Nový vlastník researchxxl githubového repa a podepisovacích klíčů nevysvětlil okolnosti převzetí a dostatečně nekomunikuje s komunitou. Stávající správce nel0x se rozhodl vytvořit fork.

Uranus and Neptune are hiding something big beneath the blue  ( 10.12.2025 10:50:07 sciencedaily.com)
Uranus and Neptune may not be the icy worlds we’ve long imagined. A new Swiss-led study uses innovative hybrid modeling to reveal that these planets could just as easily be dominated by rock as by water-rich ices. The findings also help explain their bizarre, multi-poled magnetic fields and open the door to a wider range of possible interior structures. But major uncertainties remain, and only future space missions will be able to uncover what truly lies beneath their blue atmospheres.

Virtuální Bastlírna vol. 57: investiční paměti a disky?  ( 10.12.2025 09:46:15 root.cz)
Chcete vědět, co se odehrálo ve světě techniky za poslední měsíc? Nebo si popovídat o tom, co zrovna bastlíte? Pak dorazte na prosincovou Virtuální Bastlírnu s mikrofonem a kamerou, nalijte si něco k pití a ponořte se s strahovskými bastlíři do diskuze u virtuálního piva o technice i všem možném okolo.

TSMC chystá outsourcing pouzdření, aby pokryla extrémně rostoucí poptávku  ( 10.12.2025 09:00:00 diit.cz)
TSMC disponuje nejpokročilejšími technologiemi pouzdření i největšími kapacitami pro ně. Zároveň tyto kapacity stále rozšiřuje. Přesto se připravuje na skutečnost, že po Novém roce přestanou stačit…

Scientists discover a new state of matter at Earth’s center  ( 10.12.2025 08:32:41 sciencedaily.com)
New research reveals that Earth’s solid inner core is actually in a superionic state, where carbon atoms flow freely through a solid iron lattice. This unusual behavior makes the core soft, matching seismic observations that have puzzled scientists for decades. The mobility of these light elements may also contribute energy to Earth’s magnetic field. The findings reshape models of Earth’s interior and could apply to other rocky planets.

Is Helium the Browser Brave Was Meant to Be?  ( 10.12.2025 08:27:07 itsfoss.com)
An in-depth look at 'another new Chromium-based web browser" that is "different from the other Chromium-based web browsers".

Proxmox: moderní virtualizační platforma schopná nahradit VMware (školení)  ( 10.12.2025 08:02:05 root.cz)
Proxmox je moderní virtualizační platforma, která v mnoha případech může nahradit VMware. Je open-source, zdarma a je postaven na otevřených technologiích jako KVM, LXC, CEPH a dalších. Pokud potřebujete provozovat virtualizaci, Proxmox je pro vás ideální stack a na našem workshopu Proxmox se dozvíte, jak na něj.

Proč má Panther Lake bez Atomů / E-Cores slabší výkon a co lze čekat od LP-E?  ( 10.12.2025 06:40:00 diit.cz)
Výsledky Panther Lake v testu PassMark vyvolaly otázky. Zatímco šestnáctijádrové modely výrazně nezaostávají za loňským Strix Point od AMD, osmi- a šestijádrové působí výkonnostně poněkud vyčpěle…

James Webb catches a giant helium cloud pouring off a puffy planet  ( 10.12.2025 02:10:18 sciencedaily.com)
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have captured dramatic helium streams pouring off the super-puff exoplanet WASP-107b, revealing a world with an enormously inflated, weakly bound atmosphere under intense stellar heat. The detection of helium, water, and various chemical compounds—alongside the surprising absence of methane—paints a picture of a planet that formed far from its star but later migrated inward, where scorching radiation now strips its gases into space.

Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri  ( 10.12.2025 00:08:34 reuters.com)
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Ahmed Bouchefra: The Efficient Way to Learn Python in 2026 (5 Prompts + A Free Book)  ( 10.12.2025 00:00:00 efficientcoder.net)
I see two types of learners in 2026, and honestly, both of them are doing it wrong. The first group tries to learn solely through AI. They ask chatbots to “write a script,” copy-paste the result, and feel productive. But the second they hit a bug the AI can’t fix, they freeze. They have no foundation. They built a house on sand. The second group goes the old-school route. They buy a massive, 800-page programming textbook. They read it cover to cover, highlighting every line. By Chapter 4, they are bored. By Chapter 7, they quit. It’s too slow for the pace of 2026. Here is the secret I’ve found after years in this industry: The real growth happens when you combine the two. A book gives you the structure—the “what to learn” and the “why.” The AI gives you the speed—the “how.” If you want to master Python this year, you shouldn’t just read a book; you should interact with it. I recommend using the 10xdev python book as your primary roadmap. It’s structured for the modern developer, not the academic. But don’t just read it passively. Use the following 5 AI prompts to turn that static text into a living, breathing course. The “Book + Prompt” Methodology The concept is simple. You read a section of the 10xdev python book to understand the core concept. Then, you immediately use an AI agent (ChatGPT, Claude, etc.) to test, expand, and apply that knowledge. This keeps you moving fast without losing depth. Here are the specific prompts to make that happen. 1. The “Pre-Flight” Primer Most people get stuck because they dive into a complex chapter without knowing why it matters. Use this prompt before you start a new chapter to prime your brain. The Prompt: “I am about to read the chapter on [Insert Topic, e.g., Asynchronous Programming] in the 10xdev python book (link: https://10xdev.blog/pybook). Your Goal: Give me a 3-bullet point summary of why this specific concept is used in modern 2026 software development. Context: Don’t explain how to do it yet. Just tell me what problems it solves so I know what to look for while I read the book.” Why this works: It builds a mental hook. When you eventually read the technical details in the book, your brain already knows where to file the information. You aren’t just memorizing; you are solving a problem. 2. The “Feynman” Stress Test The ultimate test of understanding is whether you can teach it. After you finish a section, don’t just move on. Force yourself to explain it back to the AI. The Prompt: “I just finished the section on [Insert Topic, e.g., Decorators] in the 10xdev python book (https://10xdev.blog/pybook). My Task: I am going to write a short paragraph below explaining this concept as if I were teaching a junior developer. Your Job: Critique my explanation. Did I miss any edge cases? Did I use the terminology correctly? My Explanation: [Type your summary here…]” Why this works: This is the fastest way to find holes in your knowledge. If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it. The AI acts as your safety net, catching misunderstandings before they become bad habits. 3. The “Translator” Prompt (Theory to Practice) Sometimes, a book example might not click. Maybe the 10xdev python book uses a “Bank Account” analogy, but you care about “Video Games.” Use AI to translate the book’s logic into your language. The Prompt: “The 10xdev python book (https://10xdev.blog/pybook) explains the concept of [Insert Concept, e.g., Object-Oriented Inheritance] using an example about [e.g., Bank Accounts]. I am struggling to visualize it. Task: Explain this exact same concept, but use an analogy involving [Choose one: RPG Video Game Characters / Managing a Pizza Shop / A Spotify Playlist]. Output: Write a Python code snippet that mirrors the structure used in the book, but applied to this new analogy.” Why this works: It makes the abstract concrete. By seeing the same logic applied to a domain you love, the concept sticks. 4. The “Modern Context” Checker Technology moves fast. While the 10xdev python book is excellent, new tools appear every month. Use this prompt to ensure you are connecting the book’s foundational wisdom with the absolute latest 2026 tools. The Prompt: “I am reading the section in the 10xdev python book (https://10xdev.blog/pybook) about [Insert Topic, e.g., Web Scraping]. Question: The book covers the foundational logic well. But for a startup building in late 2026, are there new AI-specific libraries (like Crawl4AI or updated LangChain tools) that I should use alongside these principles? Output: Show me how to apply the book’s logic using the most modern tool available today.” Why this works: It bridges the gap between “Foundational Principles” (which rarely change) and “Tooling” (which changes constantly). You get the best of both worlds. 5. The “Implementation Sprint” Prompt Passive reading is the enemy. You need to build. Use this prompt to turn a chapter of the book into a mini-project. The Prompt: “I want to practice the skills from Chapter [X] of the 10xdev python book (https://10xdev.blog/pybook), which covers [Insert Topic, e.g., API Integration]. Task: Design a tiny coding challenge for me that uses these exact concepts. Constraints: It must be solvable in under 60 minutes. It must result in a working script, not just a function. Do not write the code for me. Just give me the requirements and the steps.” Why this works: It forces you to close the book and open your IDE. You stop being a student and start being a developer. Why This Approach Wins The developers who get hired in 2026 aren’t the ones who memorized the documentation. They are the ones who understand systems. The 10xdev python book provides the system architecture—the mental model of how professional Python code is structured. The AI provides the infinite practice and instant feedback. If you rely on just one, you are slow or shallow. If you use both, you are unstoppable. Your Next Step: Go get the 10xdev python book. Open Chapter 1. Keep ChatGPT open in the next tab. Run Prompt #1. That’s how you go from “learning to code” to “being a developer in the age of AI.”

Seth Michael Larson: Extracting Nintendo Switch ‚ÄúPlay Activity‚Äù with OCR  ( 10.12.2025 00:00:00 sethmlarson.dev)
Despite considering myself a “gamer”, I realized I had only played ~5 hours of video-games in the whole year 2022 and ~6 hours in 2021. Honestly, these numbers made me a bit sad to see... You can't “improve” what you don't measure, so I started looking for low-effort ways to measure the amount of play time while getting back into actually playing video-games. I have already achieved what I wanted for GameCube by mid-2025 using the Memcard Pro GC’s Wi-Fi and API. I’ve blogged about this setup which gathers date and duration data for playing GameCube, but I wanted to cover my other consoles. What about the Nintendo Switch? Surprisingly, Nintendo Switch offered no such data, despite having an option called “Play Activity” in the menus of the Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Account, and many of their mobile apps. This was unfortunate, as I was playing many more new Nintendo Switch games like the Paper Mario: Thousand-Year Door remake and Pikmin 4, and going back to games I had “missed” like Super Mario Odyssey. That is... until the Nintendo Store app was released just a few weeks ago. This app provides “Play Activity” data at a much higher resolution than any other Nintendo app or service. You can find complete historical data across your Nintendo Account, going back as far as the Nintendo 3DS and Wii-U! The data includes games played, dates, and play durations in 15 minute increments. Shoutout to the WULFF DEN podcast for talking about this, otherwise I would never have discovered this niché new feature. But how can I query this data for my own purposes? Example of data available in the Nintendo Store “Play Activity”. Using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Basically the data was in the app, but couldn't be selected and copy-pasted or exported. Instead, the data would have to be transferred to a queryable format another way. I took this as an opportunity to try out a technology I'd never used before: Optical Character Recognition (OCR). OCR basically turns pictures of letters and numbers into actual strings of text. State of the art for OCR today appears to be using machine-learning models. After a bit of research, I landed on EasyOCR which uses PyTorch models that are already pre-trained. This appeared to require downloading the model from the internet, which bothered me a bit, but I decided that running the model within a Docker container without network access (--net=none) was probably enough to guarantee this library wasn't sending my data off my machine. I created a workflow (source code available on GitHub) that takes a directory of images mounted as a volume, runs OCR on each image, and then returns the parsed text as “JSON lines” for each image along with the checksum of the image. This checksum is stored by the program processing the OCR text to avoid running OCR on images more than once. This is an example of the text that OCR is able to read from one screenshot: [ "20:13", "15", "Play Activity", "Animal Crossing: New Horizons", "5/9/2020", "1 hr; 15 min.", "5/8/2020", "1 hr. 0 min:", "5/5/2020", "45 min:", "5/4/2020", "1 hr. 30 min:", "5/3/2020", "A few min.", ... ] There's some unexpected elements here! Notice how the phone time and battery are picked up by OCR and how the play time durations all have either . or : at the end. This extra punctuation seems to come from the vertical border on the screen to the right of the text. The least consistent readings are when there is text as a part of the game logo. Segmenting and parsing OCR data OCR can consistently the actual text from the application itself, so we can use the Play Activity and First played labels as anchors to know where the other data is. Using these anchors we can segment OCR text into: Phone UI (time, battery %) Game information (title, first played, last played) Game play activity (date, duration) For some games the model really struggles to read the game title consistently. To fix this I created a list of words that the OCR model does consistently read and mapped those words to corresponding game titles, such as “Wonder” → “Super Mario Bros. Wonder”. This would be a problem if I played more games, but we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it! ;) The game play activity data parses fairly consistently. The date is always MM/DD/YYYY and there are three forms of duration that the application uses: A few min XX min X hr Y min Parsing the date and duration text and accounting for the extra punctuation was accomplished with a single regular expression: ([1-9][0-9]?/[1-9][0-9]?/2[0-9]{3}) (A few min|(?:([0-9]+)\s*hr[:;,. ]+)?([0-9]+)\s*min) This parses out into 4 groups, the date, a “flag” for detecting “A few min”, and then hours and minutes. Because the resolution below 15 minutes isn't shown by the application I assigned the “A few min” duration an approximate value of 5 minutes of play time. The explicit hours and minutes values are calculated as expected. So now we have the game name and a list of play activity days and durations from a single image, do that to each image and insert the results into an SQLite database that you can query: SELECT STRFTIME('%Y', date) AS y, SUM(duration)/3600 AS d FROM sessions GROUP BY y ORDER BY y ASC; The results show just how little I was playing video games in 2021 and 2022 and how I started playing more again in 2023 onwards. Year Play Activity (Hours) 2020 151 2021 6 2022 5 2023 30 2024 33 2025 66 ❤️ Whenever I want fresh data I can take new screenshots of the Nintendo Store app on my phone, place the new screenshots in the images/ folder, and run the index.py script to only run OCR on the new images. If this blog post was interesting to you, I'm planning to look at this data combined with my GameCube play activity data before the end of 2025. Stay tuned and play more games! Thanks for keeping RSS alive! ♥

Scientists reveal a tiny brain chip that streams thoughts in real time  ( 09.12.2025 23:54:39 sciencedaily.com)
BISC is an ultra-thin neural implant that creates a high-bandwidth wireless link between the brain and computers. Its tiny single-chip design packs tens of thousands of electrodes and supports advanced AI models for decoding movement, perception, and intent. Initial clinical work shows it can be inserted through a small opening in the skull and remain stable while capturing detailed neural activity. The technology could reshape treatments for epilepsy, paralysis, and blindness.

Elektronický podpis v kostce: praktické rady pro elektronická razítka  ( 09.12.2025 23:00:10 root.cz)
Toto je poslední díl mé minisérie o časových razítkách a eIDAS normách. Uvádím tady několik doporučení ohledně toho, jak podepisovat dokumenty levně a efektivně. Dotknu se také limitací systému eIDAS.

Softwarová sklizeň (10. 12. 2025): stahujte a zpracovávejte videa z YouTube  ( 09.12.2025 23:00:05 root.cz)
Pravidelná středeční sonda do světa softwaru. Dnes se podíváme na TUI klienta pro HTTP požadavky, ponoříme se do prohlížeče JSON/NDJSON souborů a nakonec mrkneme na desktopové automatizace, které hlídají obrazovku za vás.

Výroba čipsetu AMD B650 se zřejmě znovu rozjíždí, zřejmě kvůli dražším DDR5  ( 09.12.2025 23:00:01 diit.cz)
Začátkem letošního roku ukončená výroba čipsetu B650 pro desky se socketem AM5 zřejmě není definitivní. Objevují se zvěsti, že by mohla být znovu obnovena…

Over 250 people quarantined in South Carolina as measles outbreak rages  ( 09.12.2025 22:34:39 arstechnica.com)
16 cases are linked to a church, which followed exposures at four schools last week.

This Company Uses Lab-Grown Human Neurons for Energy-efficient Computing  ( 09.12.2025 22:00:34 itsfoss.com)
Swiss startup offers remote access to living neural networks for research.

Big Tech joins forces with Linux Foundation to standardize AI agents  ( 09.12.2025 21:08:11 arstechnica.com)
The Agentic AI Foundation launches to support MCP, AGENTS.md, and goose.

Calibre Now Lets You Chat About Your E-Books Using Local AI  ( 09.12.2025 19:47:18 itsfoss.com)
You can ask questions about any book in your library and run AI models locally via LM Studio.

PyCoder‚Äôs Weekly: Issue #712: Quantum Computing in Python, DataFrame Libraries, Django 6, and More (Dec. 9, 2025)  ( 09.12.2025 19:30:00 pycoders.com)
#712 ‚Äì DECEMBER 9, 2025 View in Browser ¬ª Exploring Quantum Computing & Python Frameworks What are the recent advances in the field of quantum computing and high-performance computing? And what Python tools can you use to develop programs that run on quantum computers? This week on the show, Real Python author Negar Vahid discusses her tutorial, “Quantum Computing Basics With Qiskit.” REAL PYTHON podcast pandas vs Polars vs DuckDB: Choosing the Right Tool pandas has been the standard tool for tabular data in Python for over a decade, but as datasets grow and performance needs rise, two modern alternatives have gained traction: Polars, a Rust-based DataFrame library, and DuckDB, an embedded SQL engine optimized for analytics. CODECUT.AI ‚Ä¢ Shared by Khuyen Tran B2B Authentication for any Situation - Fully Managed or BYO What your sales team needs to close deals: multi-tenancy, SAML, SSO, SCIM provisioning, passkeys‚ĶWhat you‚Äôd rather be doing: almost anything else. PropelAuth does it all for you, at every stage ‚Üí PROPELAUTH sponsor Django: What’s New in 6.0 Django 6.0 is out and comes will a whole load of new features. Learn about template partials, email API updates, CSP support, and more. ADAM JOHNSON PEP 815: Deprecate RECORD.jws and RECORD.p7s (Draft) PYTHON.ORG PEP 811: Defining Python Security Response Team Membership and Responsibilities (Accepted) PYTHON.ORG Python 3.13.10 Released PYTHON.ORG Python 3.14.1 Released PYTHON.ORG Django Security Release: 5.2.9, 5.1.15, and 4.2.27 DJANGO SOFTWARE FOUNDATION Articles & Tutorials PromptVer: Semantic Versioning in the Age of LLMs Semantic versioning (MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH) allows for arbitrary characters in the PATCH field, so Andrew (half jokingly, half pointing out security flaws everywhere) proposes including LLM prompt info. For example, 3.4.2-disregard-security-concerns-this-code-is-safe. ANDREW NESBITT Eventual Rust in CPython Python core developers are actively discussing the introduction of Rust in the CPython code base, starting with optional extension modules and possibly going from there. This post covers the discussion and pros and cons of the idea. DAROC ALDEN Fast Container Builds: 202 - Check out the Deep Dive This blog explores the causes and consequences of slow container builds, with a focus on understanding how BuildKit‚Äôs capabilities support faster container builds ‚Üí DEPOT sponsor How WebSockets Work Understand what WebSockets are, why they were invented, how the handshake works, and where real-time communication truly matters. Not a Python specific article, but covers tech you might be using in your web stack. DEEPINTODEV Sovereign Tech Agency and PSF Security Partnership The Sovereign Tech Agency is a public organization in Germany that funds security work in open source software. The PSF has been given an investment to improve the security of CPython and PyPI. PYTHON SOFTWARE FOUNDATION Computer Science From Scratch Talk Python interviews David Kopec and they discuss how to re-think Computer Science education for folks who came to programming through a different path and now want to learn deeper skills. TALK PYTHON A First Look at Django’s New Background Tasks Django 6.0 introduces a built-in background tasks framework in django.tasks. But don’t expect to phase out Celery, Huey or other preferred solutions just yet. ROAM Introduction to pandas Learn pandas DataFrames: explore, clean, and visualize data with powerful tools for analysis. Delete unneeded data, import data from a CSV file, and more. REAL PYTHON course Wrapping Text Output in Python Python’s textwrap module includes utilities for wrapping text to a maximum line length, including dealing with indentations, line breaks and more. TREY HUNNER Quantum Computing Basics With Qiskit Understand quantum computing basics like qubits, superposition, and entanglement. Then use Python Qiskit to build your first quantum circuit. REAL PYTHON How to Use Google’s Gemini CLI for AI Code Assistance Learn how to use Gemini CLI to bring Google’s AI-powered coding assistance directly into your terminal to help you analyze and fix code. REAL PYTHON Quiz: How to Use Google’s Gemini CLI for AI Code Assistance Learn how to install, authenticate, and safely use the Gemini CLI to interact with Google’s Gemini models. REAL PYTHON Projects & Code flask-pydantic: Flask Extension for Pydantic GITHUB.COM/PALLETS-ECO modraw: Drawing Utils From Tldraw for Marimo GITHUB.COM/KOANING browsr: File Explorer in Your Terminal GITHUB.COM/JUFTIN deptry: Find Unused and Missing Dependencies GITHUB.COM/FPGMAAS boa-restrictor: A Python and Django Linting Library GITHUB.COM/AMBIENT-INNOVATION Events Weekly Real Python Office Hours Q&A (Virtual) December 10, 2025 REALPYTHON.COM Python Atlanta December 12, 2025 MEETUP.COM PyDelhi User Group Meetup December 13, 2025 MEETUP.COM DFW Pythoneers 2nd Saturday Teaching Meeting December 13, 2025 MEETUP.COM DjangoCologne December 16, 2025 MEETUP.COM Happy Pythoning!This was PyCoder’s Weekly Issue #712.View in Browser ¬ª [ Subscribe to üêç PyCoder’s Weekly üíå ‚Äì Get the best Python news, articles, and tutorials delivered to your inbox once a week >> Click here to learn more ]

Supreme Court appears likely to approve Trump’s firing of FTC Democrat  ( 09.12.2025 18:53:21 arstechnica.com)
Conservative justices seem ready to back Trump control of independent agencies.

Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban  ( 09.12.2025 18:12:29 reuters.com)
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NASA astronauts will have their own droid when they go back to the Moon  ( 09.12.2025 18:09:05 arstechnica.com)
NASA crew will be the first astronauts to work with a robot on a celestial body other than Earth.

Správa domény gov.cz byla předána do rukou úřadů  ( 09.12.2025 15:42:09 root.cz)
Stát v posledních letech postupně převádí své klíčové služby pod doménu gov.cz, kterou má plně pod kontrolou. Snaží se tím centralizovat a zabezpečit správu domén patřících státu. Doposud se ale o správu celé zóny staral dočasně CZ.NIC, což se ale nyní mění. Ve spolupráci s Digitální a informační agenturou (DIA) právě spouštíme portál pro správu záznamů v doméně gov.cz a činíme tak významný krok k automatizované, transparentní a bezpečnější správě státního doménového prostoru, uvedl v blogovém zápisku Zdeněk Brůna, technický ředitel sdružení CZ.NIC.

EuroPython Society: General Assembly 2025  ( 09.12.2025 14:39:32 europython-society.org)
We’re excited to invite you to this year’s General Assembly meeting! We’ll gather on Wednesday, 17 December 2025 20:00 CET, held online via Zoom. EPS membership is required to participate and additional joining instructions will be shared closer to the date.You can find more details about the agenda of the meeting, as it is defined in our bylaws here:  https://www.europython-society.org/bylaws/ (Article 8).One of the items on the Agenda is electing the new Board.What does the Board do?The Board consists of a chairperson, a vice chairperson and 2-7 other board members. The Board carries the Society’s legal and fiscal responsibility, but in practice the largest part of the workload revolves around one thing: EuroPython conference organisation.Board members currently handle substantial parts of the planning, decision-making, coordination, and operational oversight of the conference. This requires:Understanding how the conference is structured and runBeing able to work with volunteer teams and external partnersManaging recurring issues around finances, logistics, and continuityBeyond the conference, the Board also oversees membership, budgets, grants, infrastructure, and long-term planning and sustainability (including hiring an event manager, selecting future locations, strengthening outreach, managing trademarks, legal compliance, and many more).Furthermore, specifically for 2026:Hiring the second part-time Event Manager in the EP2026 location.Finaid and reimbursements restructuringBuilding and coordinating the EP2026 Team.Time CommitmentServing on the Board is a volunteer role, and it does take a steady amount of time each week. There’s a 1.5-hour meeting every two weeks in the evening CE(S)T, plus a few hours of ongoing async work. Around conference season, things naturally get a bit busier than that.If a member can’t commit that time, their tasks fall to others, so thinking carefully about your availability is really important.Who Should Consider Running?Working on the board means making decisions about various aspects of the conference. Therefore having experience being on previous EuroPython teams is necessary. Also, you will need to:Dedicate consistent weekly timeBe willing to learn how the Society and the conference operateIt’s great if you can also bring some experience from other non-profits, community organising, or event work (helpful, but not mandatory)How to Nominate YourselfEmail your nomination to board@europython.eu before 10 December 2025. In your nomination statement, please focus on your EuroPython experience - what you’ve already helped move forward or complete, and what you hope to work on in the next Board term. We will publish the list of candidates on 12 December 2025.During the General Assembly, you will have the opportunity to introduce yourself and share with our members why you believe they should vote for you. Each candidate will typically be given one minute to present themselves before members cast their votes.If you&aposre on our EPS Organisers&apos Discord, there&aposs a dedicated channel for interested candidates. Please ask in the general channel, and we’ll be happy to add you.It sounds a lot, I want to help, but I can’t commit to thatThat’s completely understandable! Serving on the Board comes with significant responsibilities, time commitments, and administrative tasks. If that’s not the right fit for you, but you’re still interested in supporting us, we’d love your help! There are many other ways to get involved. We have several workgroups (see 2025 Teams Description document, as an example) that work on conference preparations during the months leading up to the event, and we also need volunteers to assist onsite during the conference.

Django Weblog: Online Community Working Group GitHub repo and project  ( 09.12.2025 14:00:47 djangoproject.com)
The Online Community Working Group has introduced a new GitHub repository designed to manage and track ideas, suggestions, and improvements across Django's various online community platforms. Introducing the Online Community Working Group Repository Primarily inspired by the rollout of the New Features repository, the Online Community Working Group has launched their own version that works in conjunction with the Online Community Working Group Ideas GitHub project to provide a mechanism to gather feedback, suggestions, and ideas from across the online community and track their progression. The primary aim is to help better align Django's presence across multiple online platforms by providing: Centralisation: A community-platform-agnostic place to collect feedback, suggestions, and ideas from members of any of Django's online communities. Visibility: With a variety of platforms in use across the community, some of which require an account before their content can even be read, discussions can happen in what effectively amount to private silos. This centralised repository allows all suggestions and ideas to be viewed by everybody, regardless of their community platform of choice. Consistency: A suggestion for one platform can often be a good idea for another. Issues and ideas raised centrally can be assessed against all platforms to better align Django's online community experience. How to use the Online Community Working Group Repo If you have an idea or a suggestion for any of Django's online community platforms (such as the Forum, Discord, or elsewhere), the process starts by creating an issue in the new repository. You'll be asked to summarise the idea, and answer a couple of short questions regarding which platform it applies to and the rationale behind your idea. The suggestion will be visible on the public board, and people will be able to react to the idea with emoji responses as a quick measure of support, or provide longer-form answers as comments on the issue. The Online Community Working Group will review, triage, and respond to all suggestions, before deciding whether or how they can be implemented across the community. Existing Online Communities Note that we're not asking that you stop using any mechanisms in place within the particular community you're a part of currently—the Discord #suggestions channel is not going away, for example. However, we may ask that a suggestion or idea flagged within a particular platform be raised via this new GitHub repo instead, in order increase its visibility, apply it to multiple communities, or simply better track its resolution. Conclusion The Online Community Working Group was relatively recently set up, with the aim of improving the experience for members of all Django's communities online. This new repository takes a first step in that direction. Check out the repository at django/online-community-working-group on GitHub to learn more and start helping shape Django's truly excellent community presence online.

Real Python: Using Functional Programming in Python  ( 09.12.2025 14:00:00 realpython.com)
Functional programming is a programming paradigm in which the primary method of computation is the evaluation of functions. But how does Python support functional programming? In this video course, you’ll learn: What the functional programming paradigm entails What it means to say that functions are first-class citizens in Python How to define anonymous functions with the lambda keyword How to implement functional code using map(), filter(), and reduce() [ Improve Your Python With üêç Python Tricks üíå ‚Äì Get a short & sweet Python Trick delivered to your inbox every couple of days. >> Click here to learn more and see examples ]

Firma Netflix chce koupit studio Warner Bros za 83 miliard dolarů, Paramount nabízí 108 miliard  ( 09.12.2025 13:08:06 root.cz)
Netflix před pár dny oznámil koupi filmového studia Warner Bros a všeho s ním souvisejícího (tedy i HBO; ale bez Global Network divize) za 83 miliard dolarů. Od té chvíle se objevily nesouhlasné komentáře mnohých Hollywoodských hvězd, ale i pochybovačný komentář Donalda Trumpa. Jestli obchod nakonec projde přes regulátory k úspěšnému konci, nelze předjímat.

5 Signs You Have Become a Linux Power User  ( 09.12.2025 12:21:26 itsfoss.com)
You probably do not even realize how much you have improved since your first day with Linux. Let me remind you of that.

PyCharm  ( 09.12.2025 10:40:55 )
We‚Äôre excited to announce that PyCharm 2025.3 is here! This release continues our mission to make PyCharm the most powerful Python IDE for web, data, and AI/ML development. It marks the migration of Community users to the unified PyCharm and brings full support for Jupyter notebooks in remote development, uv as the default environment manager, proactive data exploration, new LSP tools support, the introduction of Claude Agent, and over 300 bug fixes. Download now Community user migration to the unified PyCharm As announced earlier, PyCharm 2025.2 was the last major release of the Community Edition. With PyCharm 2025.3, we‚Äôre introducing a smooth migration path for Community users to the unified PyCharm. The unified version brings everything together in a single product ‚Äì Community users can continue using PyCharm for free and now also benefit from built-in Jupyter support. With a one-click option to start a free Pro trial, it‚Äôs easier than ever to explore PyCharm‚Äôs advanced features for data science, AI/ML, and web development. Learn more in the full What‚Äôs New post ‚Üí Jupyter notebooks Jupyter notebooks are now fully supported in remote development. You can open, edit, and run notebooks directly on a remote machine without copying them to your local environment. The Variables tool window also received sorting options, letting you organize notebook variables by name or type for easier data exploration. Read more about Jupyter improvements ‚Üí uv now the default for new projects When uv is detected on your system, PyCharm now automatically suggests it as the default environment manager in the New Project wizard. For projects managed by uv, uv run is also used as the default command for your run configurations. Proactive data exploration Pro PyCharm now automatically analyzes your pandas DataFrames to detect the most common data quality issues. If any are found, you can review them and use Fix with AI to generate cleanup code automatically. The analysis runs quietly in the background to keep your workflow smooth and uninterrupted. Support for new LSP tools PyCharm 2025.3 expands its LSP integration with support for Ruff, ty, Pyright, and Pyrefly. These bring advanced formatting, type checking, and inline type hints directly into your workflow. More on LSP tools. AI features Multi-agent experience: Junie and Claude Agent Work with your preferred AI agent from a single chat: Junie by JetBrains and Claude Agent can now be used directly in the AI interface.  Claude Agent is the first third-party AI agent natively integrated into JetBrains IDEs. Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) is coming soon to JetBrains AI BYOK will let you connect your own API keys from OpenAI, Anthropic, or any OpenAI API-compatible local model, giving you more flexibility and control over how you use AI in JetBrains IDEs. Read more Transparent in-IDE AI quota tracking  Monitoring and managing your AI resources just got a lot easier, as you can now view your remaining AI Credits, renewal date, and top-up balance directly inside PyCharm. UIX changes Islands theme The new Islands theme is now the default for all users, offering improved contrast, balanced layouts, and a softer look in both dark and light modes. New Welcome screen We‚Äôve introduced a new non-modal Welcome screen that keeps your most common actions within reach and provides a smoother start to your workflow. Looking for more? Visit our What‚Äôs New page to learn about all 2025.3 features and bug fixes. Read the release notes for the full breakdown of the changes. If you encounter any problems, please report them via our issue tracker so we can address them promptly. We‚Äôd love to hear your feedback on PyCharm 2025.3 ‚Äì leave your comments below or connect with us on X and BlueSky.

How Google Maps allocates survival across London's restaurants  ( 09.12.2025 10:20:02 laurenleek.substack.com)
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New cosmic lens measurements deepen the Hubble tension mystery  ( 09.12.2025 09:26:59 sciencedaily.com)
Scientists are testing a novel way to measure cosmic expansion using time delays in gravitationally lensed quasars. Their results match “local” measurements but clash with early-universe estimates, strengthening the mysterious Hubble tension. This mismatch could point to new physics rather than observational error. Researchers now aim to boost precision to solve the puzzle.

Astronomers capture sudden black hole blast firing ultra fast winds  ( 09.12.2025 09:02:44 sciencedaily.com)
A sudden X-ray flare from a supermassive black hole in galaxy NGC 3783 triggered ultra-fast winds racing outward at a fifth the speed of light—an event never witnessed before. Using XMM-Newton and XRISM, astronomers caught the blast unfold in real time, revealing how tangled magnetic fields can rapidly “untwist” and hurl matter into space much like an enormous, cosmic-scale version of the Sun’s coronal mass ejections.

Vyladění Arrow Lake(-refresh) přináší výkon odpovídající asi 200 MHz navíc  ( 09.12.2025 09:00:00 diit.cz)
Arrow Lake-refresh má oproti původnímu Arrow Lake přinést snížení latencí, zrychlení interní sběrnice ring-bus i spojů mezi dlaždicemi. Zdá se, že to přinese výkon zhruba jako 200MHz zvýšení taktů…

Náhledy videí v post-Totem éře v GNOME 50 s využitím GStreameru a Rustu  ( 09.12.2025 08:37:09 root.cz)
GNOME se zbavilo zastaralého video přehrávače Totem, ale s ním z projektu mizí i ta část, která zodpovídá za generování náhledů videí. Distribuce proto typicky drží i nadále balíček totem-video-thumbnailer, nicméně řešení se blíží, a to na bázi nového nástroje psaného v jazyku Rust.

Firefox 146 s podporou nativního desetinného škálování na Waylandu  ( 09.12.2025 08:30:16 root.cz)
Mozilla vydala novou verzi webového prohlížeče Firefox s řadou novinek (prozatím přehled v popisu beta verze), jimž z linuxového hlediska vévodí konečně implementovaná podpora neceločíselného / desetinného škálování zobrazení běžící přímo na Waylandu.

This surprising discovery rewrites the Milky Way’s origin story  ( 09.12.2025 08:29:57 sciencedaily.com)
New simulations of Milky Way-like galaxies reveal that the strange split between two chemically distinct groups of stars may arise from several very different evolutionary events. Bursts of star formation, shifts in flowing gas, and even streams of metal-poor material from a galaxy’s outskirts can all create this double pattern. The findings challenge the long-held assumption that a major ancient collision caused the split.

Python Bytes: #461 This episdoe has a typo  ( 09.12.2025 08:00:00 pythonbytes.fm)
<strong>Topics covered in this episode:</strong><br> <ul> <li><strong><a href="https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-798-unpacking-in-comprehensions/99435?featured_on=pythonbytes">PEP 798: Unpacking in Comprehensions</a></strong></li> <li><strong><a href="https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/releases/tag/v3.0.0rc0?featured_on=pythonbytes">Pandas 3.0.0rc0</a></strong></li> <li><strong><a href="https://github.com/crate-ci/typos?featured_on=pythonbytes">typos</a></strong></li> <li><strong>A couple testing topics</strong></li> <li><strong>Extras</strong></li> <li><strong>Joke</strong></li> </ul><a href='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOzOETk4Xtw' style='font-weight: bold;'data-umami-event="Livestream-Past" data-umami-event-episode="461">Watch on YouTube</a><br> <p><strong>About the show</strong></p> <p>Sponsored by us! Support our work through:</p> <ul> <li>Our <a href="https://training.talkpython.fm/?featured_on=pythonbytes"><strong>courses at Talk Python Training</strong></a></li> <li><a href="https://courses.pythontest.com/p/the-complete-pytest-course?featured_on=pythonbytes"><strong>The Complete pytest Course</strong></a></li> <li><a href="https://www.patreon.com/pythonbytes"><strong>Patreon Supporters</strong></a></li> </ul> <p><strong>Connect with the hosts</strong></p> <ul> <li>Michael: <a href="https://fosstodon.org/@mkennedy">@mkennedy@fosstodon.org</a> / <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/mkennedy.codes?featured_on=pythonbytes">@mkennedy.codes</a> (bsky)</li> <li>Brian: <a href="https://fosstodon.org/@brianokken">@brianokken@fosstodon.org</a> / <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/brianokken.bsky.social?featured_on=pythonbytes">@brianokken.bsky.social</a></li> <li>Show: <a href="https://fosstodon.org/@pythonbytes">@pythonbytes@fosstodon.org</a> / <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/pythonbytes.fm">@pythonbytes.fm</a> (bsky)</li> </ul> <p>Join us on YouTube at <a href="https://pythonbytes.fm/stream/live"><strong>pythonbytes.fm/live</strong></a> to be part of the audience. Usually <strong>Monday</strong> at 10am PT. Older video versions available there too.</p> <p>Finally, if you want an artisanal, hand-crafted digest of every week of the show notes in email form? Add your name and email to <a href="https://pythonbytes.fm/friends-of-the-show">our friends of the show list</a>, we'll never share it.</p> <p><strong>Michael #1: <a href="https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-798-unpacking-in-comprehensions/99435?featured_on=pythonbytes">PEP 798: Unpacking in Comprehensions</a></strong></p> <ul> <li>After careful deliberation, the Python Steering Council is pleased to accept PEP 798 – Unpacking in Comprehensions.</li> <li><p>Examples</p> <div class="codehilite"> <pre><span></span><code>[*it for it in its] # list with the concatenation of iterables in &#39;its&#39; {*it for it in its} # set with the union of iterables in &#39;its&#39; {**d for d in dicts} # dict with the combination of dicts in &#39;dicts&#39; (*it for it in its) # generator of the concatenation of iterables in &#39;its&#39; </code></pre> </div></li> <li><p>Also: <a href="https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-810-explicit-lazy-imports/104131/465?featured_on=pythonbytes">The Steering Council is happy to unanimously accept “PEP 810, Explicit lazy imports”</a></p></li> </ul> <p><strong>Brian #2: <a href="https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/releases/tag/v3.0.0rc0?featured_on=pythonbytes">Pandas 3.0.0rc0</a></strong></p> <ul> <li>Pandas 3.0.0 will be released soon, and we’re on Release candidate 0</li> <li>Here’s <a href="https://pandas.pydata.org/docs/dev/whatsnew/v3.0.0.html?featured_on=pythonbytes">What’s new in Pands 3.0.0</a> <ul> <li>Dedicated string data type by default <ul> <li>Inferred by default for string data (instead of object dtype)</li> <li>The str dtype can only hold strings (or missing values), in contrast to object dtype. (setitem with non string fails)</li> <li>The missing value sentinel is always NaN (np.nan) and follows the same missing value semantics as the other default dtypes.</li> </ul></li> <li>Copy-on-Write <ul> <li>The result of <em>any</em> indexing operation (subsetting a DataFrame or Series in any way, i.e. including accessing a DataFrame column as a Series) or any method returning a new DataFrame or Series, always <em>behaves as if</em> it were a copy in terms of user API.</li> <li>As a consequence, if you want to modify an object (DataFrame or Series), the only way to do this is to directly modify that object itself.</li> </ul></li> <li>pd.col syntax can now be used in DataFrame.assign() and DataFrame.loc() <ul> <li>You can now do this: <code>df.assign(c = pd.col('a') + pd.col('b'))</code></li> </ul></li> <li>New Deprecation Policy</li> <li><a href="https://pandas.pydata.org/docs/dev/whatsnew/v3.0.0.html#other-enhancements">Plus more</a></li> </ul></li> - </ul> <p><strong>Michael #3: <a href="https://github.com/crate-ci/typos?featured_on=pythonbytes">typos</a></strong></p> <ul> <li>You’ve heard about codespell … what about <a href="https://github.com/crate-ci/typos?featured_on=pythonbytes">typos</a>?</li> <li><a href="https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=tekumara.typos-vscode&featured_on=pythonbytes">VSCode extension</a> and <a href="https://open-vsx.org/extension/tekumara/typos-vscode?featured_on=pythonbytes">OpenVSX extension</a>.</li> <li>From Sky Kasko:</li> </ul> <p><em>Like codespell, typos checks for known misspellings instead of only allowing words from a dictionary. But typos has some extra features I really appreciate, like finding spelling mistakes inside snake_case or camelCase words. For example, if you have the line:</em></p> <div class="codehilite"> <pre><span></span><code>*connecton_string<span class="w"> </span><span class="o">=</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">&quot;sqlite:///my.db&quot;</span>* </code></pre> </div> <p><em>codespell won't find the misspelling, but typos will. It gave me the output:</em></p> <div class="codehilite"> <pre><span></span><code>*error:<span class="w"> </span><span class="sb">`</span>connecton<span class="sb">`</span><span class="w"> </span>should<span class="w"> </span>be<span class="w"> </span><span class="sb">`</span>connection<span class="sb">`</span>,<span class="w"> </span><span class="sb">`</span>connector<span class="sb">`</span><span class="w"> </span> ╭▸<span class="w"> </span>./main.py:1:1<span class="w"> </span>│1<span class="w"> </span>│<span class="w"> </span><span class="nv">connecton_string</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">=</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">&quot;sqlite:///my.db&quot;</span><span class="w"> </span> ╰╴━━━━━━━━━* </code></pre> </div> <p><em>But the main advantage for me is that typos <a href="https://github.com/tekumara/typos-lsp?featured_on=pythonbytes">has an LSP</a> that supports editor integrations like a <a href="https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=tekumara.typos-vscode&featured_on=pythonbytes">VS Code extension</a>. As far as I can tell, codespell <a href="https://github.com/codespell-project/codespell/issues/1203?featured_on=pythonbytes">doesn't support editor integration</a>. (Note that the popular <a href="https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=streetsidesoftware.code-spell-checker&featured_on=pythonbytes">Code Spell Checker</a> VS Code extension is an unrelated project that uses a traditional dictionary approach.)</em></p> <p><em>For more on the differences between codespell and typos, here's a comparison table I found in the typos repo: https://github.com/crate-ci/typos/blob/master/docs/comparison.md</em></p> <p><em>By the way, though it's not mentioned in the <a href="https://github.com/crate-ci/typos#install">installation instructions</a>, typos is <a href="https://pypi.org/project/typos/?featured_on=pythonbytes">published on PyPI</a> and can be installed with uv tool install typos, for example. That said, I don't bother installing it, I just use the VS Code extension and run it as a <a href="https://github.com/crate-ci/typos/blob/master/docs/pre-commit.md?featured_on=pythonbytes">pre-commit hook</a>. (By the way, I'm using <a href="https://prek.j178.dev/?featured_on=pythonbytes">prek</a> instead of pre-commit now; thanks for the tip on episode #448!) It looks like typos also publishes a <a href="https://github.com/crate-ci/typos/blob/master/docs/github-action.md?featured_on=pythonbytes">GitHub action</a>, though I haven't used it.</em></p> <p><strong>Brian #4: A couple testing topics</strong></p> <ul> <li><a href="https://github.com/pablogsal/slowlify?featured_on=pythonbytes">slowlify</a> <ul> <li>suggested by Brian Skinn</li> <li>Simulate slow, overloaded, or resource-constrained machines to reproduce CI failures and hunt flaky tests.</li> <li>Requires Linux with cgroups v2</li> </ul></li> <li><a href="https://nedbatchelder.com/blog/202511/why_your_mock_breaks_later.html?featured_on=pythonbytes">Why your mock breaks later</a> <ul> <li>Ned Badthelder</li> <li>Ned’s taught us before to “Mock where the object is used, not where it’s defined.”</li> <li>To be more explicit, but probably more confusing to mock-newbies, “don’t mock things that get imported, mock the object in the file it got imported to.” <ul> <li>See? That’s probably worse. Anyway, read Ned’s post.</li> </ul></li> <li>If my project <code>myproduct</code> has user.py that uses the system builtin <code>open()</code> and we want to patch it: <ul> <li>DONT DO THIS: <code>@patch("builtins.open")</code> <ul> <li>This patches <code>open()</code> for the whole system</li> </ul></li> <li>DO THIS: <code>@patch("myproduct.user.open")</code> <ul> <li>This patches <code>open()</code> for just the user.py file, which is what we want</li> </ul></li> </ul></li> <li>Apparently this issue <a href="#">is common</a> and is mucking up using <code>coverage.py</code></li> </ul></li> </ul> <p><strong>Extras</strong></p> <p>Brian:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpR8ngthqiE">The Rise and Rise of FastAPI - mini documentary</a></li> <li><a href="https://courses.pythontest.com/lean-tdd/?featured_on=pythonbytes">“Building on Lean” chapter of LeanTDD is out</a> <ul> <li>The next chapter I’m working on is “Finding Waste in TDD”</li> <li>Notes to delete before end of show: <ul> <li>I’m not on track for an end of year completion of the first pass, so pushing goal to 1/31/26</li> <li>As requested by a reader, I’m releasing both the full-so-far versions and most-recent-chapter</li> </ul></li> </ul></li> </ul> <p>Michael:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://vanishinggradients.fireside.fm/64?featured_on=pythonbytes">My Vanishing Gradient’s episode</a> is out</li> <li><a href="https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025/dec/03/django-60-released/?featured_on=pythonbytes">Django 6 is out</a></li> </ul> <p><strong>Joke:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/thesephist/tabloid?featured_on=pythonbytes">tabloid</a> - A minimal programming language inspired by clickbait headlines</p>

Čína začne do 3 let vyvážet AI akcelerátory, výroba překoná domácí poptávku  ( 09.12.2025 06:40:00 diit.cz)
Čína silně investuje do segmentu AI akcelerace. Nedávno omezila dovoz akcelerátorů Nvidie, s odůvodněním, že je již lze nahradit domácím řešením. Do tří let bude schopná zahájit vývoz…

Armin Ronacher: Let‚Äôs Destroy The European Union!  ( 09.12.2025 00:00:00 lucumr.pocoo.org)
Elon Musk is not happy with the EU fining his X platform and is currently on a tweet rampage complaining about it. Among other things, he wants the whole EU to be abolished. He sadly is hardly the first wealthy American to share their opinions on European politics lately. I’m not a fan of this outside attention but I believe it’s noteworthy and something to pay attention to. In particular because the idea of destroying and ripping apart the EU is not just popular in the US; it’s popular over here too. Something that greatly concerns me. We Have Genuine Problems There is definitely a bunch of stuff we might want to fix over here. I have complained about our culture before. Unfortunately, I happen to think that our challenges are not coming from politicians or civil servants, but from us, the people. Europeans don’t like to take risks and are quite pessimistic about the future compared to their US counterparts. Additionally, we Europeans have been trained to feel a lot of guilt over the years, which makes us hesitant to stand up for ourselves. This has led to all kinds of interesting counter-cultural movements in Europe, like years of significant support for unregulated immigration and an unhealthy obsession with the idea of degrowth. Today, though, neither seems quite as popular as it once was. Morally these things may be defensible, but in practice they have led to Europe losing its competitive edge and eroding social cohesion. The combination of a strong social state and high taxes in particular does not mix well with the kind of immigration we have seen in the last decade: mostly people escaping wars ending up in low-skilled jobs. That means it’s not unlikely that certain classes of immigrants are going to be net-negative for a very long time, if not forever, and increasingly society is starting to think about what the implications of that might be. Yet even all of that is not where our problems lie, and it’s certainly not our presumed lack of free speech. Any conversation on that topic is foolish because it’s too nuanced. Society clearly wants to place some limits to free speech here, but the same is true in the US. In the US we can currently see a significant push-back against “woke ideologies,” and a lot of that push-back involves restricting freedom of expression through different avenues. America Likes a Weak Europe The US might try to lecture Europe right now on free speech, but what it should be lecturing us on is our economic model. Europe has too much fragmentation, incredibly strict regulation that harms innovation, ineffective capital markets, and a massive dependency on both the United States and China. If the US were to cut us off from their cloud providers, we would not be able to operate anything over here. If China were to stop shipping us chips, we would be in deep trouble too (we have seen this). This is painful because the US is historically a great example when it comes to freedom of information, direct democracy at the state level, and rather low corruption. These are all areas where we’re not faring well, at least not consistently, and we should be lectured. Fundamentally, the US approach to capitalism is about as good as it’s going to get. If there was any doubt that alternative approaches might have worked out better, at this point there’s very little evidence in favor of that. Yet because of increased loss of civil liberties in the US, many Europeans now see everything that the US is doing as bad. A grave mistake. Both China and the US are quite happy with the dependency we have on them and with us falling short of our potential. Europe’s attempt at dealing with the dependency so far has been to regulate and tax US corporations more heavily. That’s not a good strategy. The solution must be to become competitive again so that we can redirect that tax revenue to local companies instead. The Digital Services Act is a good example: we’re punishing Apple and forcing them to open up their platform, but we have no company that can take advantage of that opening. Europe is Europe’s Biggest Problem If you read my blog here, you might remember my musings about the lack of clarity of what a foreigner is in Europe. The reality is that Europe has been deeply integrated for a long time now as a result of how the EU works ‚Äî but still not at the same level as the US. I think this is still the biggest problem. People point to languages as the challenge, but underneath the hood, the countries are still fighting each other. Austria wants to protect its local stores from larger competition in Germany and its carpenters from the cheaper ones coming from Slovenia. You can replace Austria with any other EU country and you will find the same thing. The EU might not be perfect, but it’s hard to imagine that abolishing it would solve any problem given how national states have shown to behave. The moment the EU fell away, we would be warming up all border struggles again. We have already seen similar issues pop up in Northern Ireland after the UK left. And we just have so much bureaucracy, so many non-functioning social systems, and such a tremendous amount of incoming governmental debt to support our flailing pension schemes. We need growth more than any other bloc, and we have such a low probability of actually accomplishing that. Given how the EU is structured, it’s also acting as the punching bag for the failure of the nation states to come to agreements. It’s not that EU bureaucrats are telling Europeans to take in immigrants, to enact chat control or to enact cookie banners or attached plastic caps. Those are all initiatives that come from one or more member states. But the EU in the end will always take the blame because even local politicians that voted in support of some of these things can easily point towards “Brussels” as having created a problem. The United States of Europe A Europe in pieces does not sound appealing to me at all, and that’s because I can look at what China and the US have. What China and the US have that Europe lacks is a strong national identity. Both countries have recognized that strength comes from unity. China in particular is fighting any kind of regionalism tooth and nail. The US has accomplished this through the pledge of allegiance, a civil war, the Department of Education pushing a common narrative in schools, and historically putting post offices and infrastructure everywhere. Europe has none of that. More importantly, Europeans don’t even want it. There is a mistaken belief that we can just become these tiny states again and be fine. If Europe wants to be competitive, it seems unlikely that this can be accomplished without becoming a unified superpower. Yet there is no belief in Europe that this can or should happen, and the other superpowers have little interest in seeing it happen either. What Would Fixing Actually Look Like? If I had to propose something constructive, it would be this: Europe needs to stop pretending it can be 27 different countries with 27 different economic policies while also being a single market. The half-measures are killing us. We have a common currency in the Eurozone but no common fiscal policy. We have freedom of movement but wildly different social systems. We have common regulations but fragmented enforcement. 27 labor laws, 27 different legal systems, tax codes, complex VAT rules and so on. The Draghi report from last year laid out many of these issues quite clearly: Europe needs massive investment in technology and infrastructure. It needs a genuine single market for services, not just goods. It needs capital markets that can actually fund startups at scale. None of this is news to anyone paying attention. But here’s the uncomfortable truth: none of this will happen without Europeans accepting that more integration is the answer, not less. And right now, the political momentum is in the opposite direction. Every country wants the benefits of the EU without the obligations. Every country wants to protect its own industries while accessing everyone else’s markets. One of the arguments against deeper integration is that Europe hinges on some quite unrelated issues. For instance, the EU is seen as non-democratic, but some of the criticism just does not sit right with me. Sure, I too would welcome more democracy in the EU, but at the same time, the system really is not undemocratic today. Take things like chat control: the reason this thing does not die, is because some member states and their elected representatives are pushing for it. What stands in the way is that the member countries and their people don’t actually want to strengthen the EU further. The “lack of democracy” is very much intentional and the exact outcome you get if you want to keep the power with the national states. Foreign Billionaires and European Sovereignty So back to where we started: should the EU be abolished as Musk suggests? I think this is a profoundly unserious proposal from someone who has little understanding of European history and even less interest in learning. The EU exists because two world wars taught Europeans that nationalism without checks leads to catastrophe. It exists because small countries recognized they have more leverage negotiating as a bloc than individually. I also take a lot of issue with the idea that European politics should be driven by foreign interests. Neither Russians nor Americans have any good reason for why they should be having so much interest in European politics. They are not living here; we are. Would Europe be more “free” without the EU? Perhaps in some narrow regulatory sense. But it would also be weaker, more divided, and more susceptible to manipulation by larger powers ‚Äî including the United States. I also find it somewhat rich that American tech billionaires are calling for the dissolution of the EU while they are greatly benefiting from the open market it provides. Their companies extract enormous value from the European market, more than even local companies are able to. The real question isn’t whether Europe should have less regulation or more freedom. It’s whether we Europeans can find the political will to actually complete the project we started. A genuine federation with real fiscal transfers, a common defense policy, and a unified foreign policy would be a superpower. What we have now is a compromise that satisfies nobody and leaves us vulnerable to exactly the kind of pressure Musk and other oligarchs represent. A Different Path Europe doesn’t need fixing in the way the loud present-day critics suggest. It doesn’t need to become more like America or abandon its social model entirely. What it needs is to decide what it actually wants to be. The current state of perpetual ambiguity is unsustainable. It also should not lose its values. Europeans might no longer be quite as hot on the human rights that the EU provides, and they might no longer want to have the same level of immigration. Yet simultaneously, Europeans are presented with a reality that needs all of these things. We’re all highly dependent on movement of labour, and that includes people from abroad. Unfortunately, the wars of the last decade have dominated any migration discourse, and that has created ground for populists to thrive. Any skilled tech migrant is running into the same walls as everyone else, which has made it less and less appealing to come. Or perhaps we’ll continue muddling through, which historically has been Europe’s preferred approach. It’s not inspiring, but it’s also not going to be the catastrophe the internet would have you believe either. Is there reason to be optimistic? On a long enough timeline the graph goes up and to the right. We might be going through some rough patches, but structurally the whole thing here is still pretty solid. And it’s not as if the rest of the world is cruising along smoothly: the US, China, and Russia are each dealing with their own crises. That shouldn’t serve as an excuse, but it does offer context. As bleak as things can feel, we’re not alone in having challenges, but ours are uniquely ours and we will face them. One way or another.

Zenbook Duo a Debian: automatické přepínání režimů při změně konfigurace  ( 08.12.2025 23:00:10 root.cz)
Zaměříme se na praktickou stránku provozu zařízení: ukážeme si skript, který zajišťuje automatické přepínání režimů při připojení nebo odpojení klávesnice, ovládá zapínání a vypínání spodního displeje a řeší rotaci obrazovky.

TinyGo: alternativní překladač a runtime systém programovacího jazyka Go  ( 08.12.2025 23:00:05 root.cz)
Většina programátorů vytvářejících aplikace v Go používá překladač, který je součástí standardní instalace Go. Ovšem existují i alternativy, mezi než patří gccgo a TinyGo. Dnes se seznámíme se základními vlastnostmi TinyGo.

4× Panther Lake v PassMark: Výkon od 6 jader Zen 2 po 13 % nad 8 jádry Zen 4  ( 08.12.2025 23:00:00 diit.cz)
V databázi testu PassMark se objevily čtyři modely procesorů Intel Panther Lake. Dva šestnáctijádrové, jeden osmijádrový a jeden šestijádrový. Nabízíme srovnání se stávajícími mobilními procesory…

AI Craze Just Made Your New PC Build Way More Expensive  ( 08.12.2025 19:52:22 itsfoss.com)
RAM and SSD prices are skyrocketing as manufacturers prioritize AI servers over consumer PCs.

Hugo van Kemenade: Steering Council election  ( 08.12.2025 19:50:58 hugovk.dev)
The Python Steering Council election is on! This year six candidates are running for the five seats. See PEP 8107 for links to their nomination statements and PEP 13 for more on Python language governance. I made a chart to show when the nominations arrived during the nomination period: six is fewer than in previous years, but they didn’t all wait until the last three days like in 2023 and 2024. This year we’re also using a new voting system: with “Multi-winner Bloc STAR” you give between 0-6 stars per candidate. If you’re in the core team, remember to vote by Friday!

This Could Be The Linux Phone We All Have Been Waiting For  ( 08.12.2025 17:49:31 itsfoss.com)
The Jolla Phone returns over a decade after the original 2013 launch.

Hurray! This German State Decides to Save €15 Million Each Year By Kicking Out Microsoft for Open Source  ( 08.12.2025 16:33:54 itsfoss.com)
Schleswig-Holstein's migration to LibreOffice reaches 80% completion, with a one-time €9 million investment on cards for 2026.

Meta offers EU users ad-light option in push to end investigation  ( 08.12.2025 14:57:11 arstechnica.com)
Facebook agrees to change "pay or consent" model after talks with European Commission.

Easily Install Binaries in Linux Terminal With This Tool  ( 08.12.2025 14:43:48 itsfoss.com)
Easy way to get binaries from GitHub repositories and install the applications. Learn more about eget.

Real Python: Lazy Imports Land in Python and Other Python News for December 2025  ( 08.12.2025 14:00:00 realpython.com)
A lot happened last month in the world of Python! The core developers pushed ahead on Python 3.15, accepting PEP 810 to bring explicit lazy imports to the language. PyPI tightened account security, Django 6.0 landed with a slew of new features while celebrating twenty years of releases, and the Python Software Foundation (PSF) laid out its financial outlook and kicked off a year-end fundraiser. Let’s dive into the biggest Python news from the past month! Join Now: Click here to join the Real Python Newsletter and you’ll never miss another Python tutorial, course, or news update. Python Releases and PEP Highlights Last month brought forward movement on Python 3.15, with a new alpha release and a major PEP acceptance. Windows users also got an update to the new Python install manager that’s set to replace the traditional installers. Python 3.15.0 Alpha 2 Keeps the Train Moving Python 3.15’s second alpha, 3.15.0a2, arrived on November 19 as part of the language’s regular annual release cadence. It’s an early developer preview that isn’t intended for production, but it shows how 3.15 is shaping up and gives library authors something concrete to test against. Like alpha 1, this release is still relatively small in user-visible features, but it continues the work of: Making UTF-8 the default text encoding for files that don’t specify an encoding, via PEP 686 Providing a dedicated profiling API designed to work better with modern profilers and monitoring tools, via PEP 799 Exposing lower-level C APIs for creating bytes objects more efficiently, via PEP 782 If you maintain packages, now is a good time to start running tests against the alphas in a separate environment so you can catch regressions early. You can always confirm which Python you’re running with python -VV: Shell $ python -VV Python 3.15.0a2 (main, Nov 19 2025, 10:42:00) [GCC ...] Just remember to keep the alpha builds isolated from your everyday projects! PEP 810 Accepted: Explicit Lazy Imports One of the month’s most consequential decisions for the language was the acceptance of PEP 810 – Explicit lazy imports, which you may have read about in last month’s news. The Python Steering Council accepted the proposal on November 3, only a month after its formal creation on October 2. With the PEP moving from Draft to Accepted, it’s now targeted for inclusion in Python 3.15! Note: One of the PEP’s authors, Pablo Galindo Salgado, has been a frequent guest on the Real Python Podcast. PEP 810 introduces new syntax for imports that are evaluated only when first used, rather than at module import time. At a high level, you’ll be able to write: Python lazy import json def parse(): return json.loads(payload) In this example, Python loads the json module only if parse() runs. The goals of explicit lazy imports are to: Improve startup time for large applications with many rarely used imports Break tricky import cycles without resorting to local imports inside functions Give frameworks and tools a clear, explicit way to defer expensive imports Lazy imports are entirely opt-in, meaning that only imports marked as lazy change their behavior. The PEP is also careful to spell out how lazy modules interact with attributes like __all__, exception reporting, and tools such as debuggers. Note: The implementation work is still underway, so you won’t see the new syntax in 3.15.0a2 yet. If you maintain a framework, CLI tool, or large application, it’s worth reading through the PEP and thinking about where lazy imports could simplify your startup path or trim cold-start latency. Python’s New Install Manager Moves Forward on Windows Read the full article at https://realpython.com/python-news-december-2025/ » [ Improve Your Python With 🐍 Python Tricks 💌 – Get a short & sweet Python Trick delivered to your inbox every couple of days. >> Click here to learn more and see examples ]

A cosmic collision reveals how black holes really behave  ( 08.12.2025 11:52:02 sciencedaily.com)
A remarkably clean gravitational-wave detection has confirmed long-standing predictions about black holes, including Hawking’s area theorem and Einstein’s ringdown behavior. The findings also provide the strongest support yet that real black holes follow the Kerr model.

Reuven Lerner: 30 things I‚Äôve learned from 30 years as a Python freelancer  ( 08.12.2025 11:36:27 lerner.co.il)
30 years! It‚Äôs hard to believe, but it was in December 1995 (i.e., 30 years ago) that I went freelance, giving up a stable corporate paycheck. And somehow, I‚Äôve managed to make it work: During that time, I‚Äôve gotten married, bought a house, raised three children, gone on numerous vacations, and generally enjoyed a good life. Moreover, I‚Äôm fortunate to really enjoy what I do (i.e., teaching Python and Pandas to people around the world, both via LernerPython.com and via corporate training). And why not? I earn a living from learning new things, then passing that knowledge along to other people in order to help their careers. My students are interesting and smart, and constantly challenge me intellectually. At the same time, I don‚Äôt have the bureaucracy of a university or company; if I have even five meetings in a given month, that‚Äôs a lot. Of course, things haven‚Äôt always been easy. (And frequently, they still aren‚Äôt!) I‚Äôve learned a lot of lessons over the years, many of them the hard way. And so, on this 30th anniversary of my going freelance, I‚Äôm sharing 30 things that I‚Äôve learned. I hope that some or all of these can help, or just encourage, anyone else who is thinking of going this route. Being an excellent programmer isn‚Äôt enough to succeed as a freelancer. You‚Äôre now running a business, which means dealing with accounting, taxes, marketing, sales, product development, and support, along with the actual coding work. These are different skills, all of which take time to learn (or to outsource). Be ready to learn these new skills, and to recognize that in many ways, they are much harder than coding. Consulting means helping people, and if you genuinely enjoy helping others, then it can feel awkward to ask someone to pay you for such help. But if you‚Äôre doing your job right, your help has saved them more than your fee ‚Äì and shouldn‚Äôt you get paid for saving them money? Three skills that will massively help your career are (a) public speaking, (b) writing well, and (3) touch typing. The good news? Anyone can learn to do these. It‚Äôs just a matter of time and effort. There are a lot of brilliant jerks out there, and the only reason people work with them is they feel there isn‚Äôt any alternative. Give them one by demonstrating kindness, patience, and flexibility as often as possible. Attend conferences. Don‚Äôt just attend the talks; meet people in the hallways, at coffee breaks, and at meals, and learn from them. You never know when a chance meeting will give you an insight that will help a client. I‚Äôve met a lot of incredibly nice, smart, interesting people at conferences, and some of those friendships have lasted far beyond our initial short encounter. Running a business means making lots of mistakes. Which means losing lots of money. The goal is to make fewer mistakes over time, and for each successive mistake to cost you less than the previous one. I used to think that the only path to success was having employees. I had a number of employees over the years, some terrific and some less so. But managing takes time, and it‚Äôs not easy. I haven‚Äôt had any employees for several years now, and my income and personal satisfaction are both higher than ever before. Write a newsletter. Or more than one. Yes, a newsletter will help people to find you, learn about what you do, and maybe even buy from you. But writing is a great way to clarify your thoughts and to learn new things. I often use ‚ÄúBetter Developers‚Äù to explore topics in Python that I‚Äôve always wanted to learn in greater depth, often before proposing a conference talk or a new course. I use ‚ÄúBamboo Weekly‚Äù to try parts of Pandas and data analysis that I feel I should know better. And in ‚ÄúTrainer Weekly,‚Äù I reflect on my work as a trainer, thinking through the next steps in running my business.  Be open to changing the direction of your career: I had always done some corporate training, but it took many years to discover that training was its own industry, and that you could just do training. Then I found that it was a better fit for my personality, skills, and schedule. Plus, no one calls you in the middle of the night with bug reports when you‚Äôre a trainer. It‚Äôs better to be an expert in a small, well-defined domain than a generalist. The moment that I started marketing myself as a ‚ÄúPython trainer,‚Äù rather than ‚Äúa consultant who will fix your problems using a variety of open-source tools, but can also teach classes in a number of languages,‚Äù people started to remember me better and reached out. That said, it‚Äôs also important to have a wide body of knowledge. Read anything you can. You never know when it‚Äôll inform what you‚Äôre teaching or doing. I‚Äôm constantly reading newspapers, magazines, newsletters, and books, and it‚Äôs rare for me to finish reading something without finding a connection to my work. Get a good night‚Äôs sleep. I slept far too little for far too long, and regularly got sick. I still seem to need less sleep than most people, but I‚Äôm healthier and calmer when I sleep well. If your work can only survive because you‚Äôre regularly sleeping 4 hours each night, rethink your work. My father used to say, ‚ÄúI never met a con man I didn‚Äôt like.‚Äù And indeed, the clients who failed to pay me were always the sweetest, nicest people‚Ķ until they failed to pay. A contract might have helped in some of these cases, but for the most part, you just need to accept that some proportion of clients will rip you off. (And going to court is far too expensive and time-consuming to be worthwhile.) By contrast, big companies pay, pay on time, and will even remind you when you‚Äôve forgotten to invoice them. Vacations are crucial. Take them, and avoid work while you‚Äôre away. This is yet another advantage of training: Aside from some e-mail exchanges with clients, little or no pressing work needs to happen while you‚Äôre away with family. Companies will often tell you, ‚ÄúThis is our standard contract.‚Äù But there is almost always a way to amend or modify the contract. One company required that I take out car insurance, even though I planned to walk from my hotel to their office, and take an Uber between the airport and my hotel. The company couldn‚Äôt change the part of the contract that required me to get the insurance, but they could add an amendment that for this particular training, this particular time, on condition that I not rent a car, I was exempt from getting auto insurance. You can be serious about your work and yet do it with a dose of humor. I tell jokes when I‚Äôm teaching, and often I‚Äôm the only one laughing at the joke. Which is just fine. The computer industry will have ups and downs. Save during the good times, so that you can weather the bad ones. When things look like they might be going south, think about how you‚Äôll handle the coming year or two. And remember that every downturn ends, often with a sharp upturn ‚Äî so as bad as things might seem, they will almost certainly get better, often in unpredictable ways. About 20 years ago, I tried to found a startup. The ideas were good, and the team was good, but the execution was awful, and while we almost raised some money, we didn‚Äôt quite get there. Our failure was my fault. And I was pretty upset. And yet? In retrospect I‚Äôm happy that it didn‚Äôt happen, because I‚Äôve seen what it means to get an investment. The world needs investors and people with big enough dreams to need venture capital ‚Äì and I‚Äôm glad that I didn‚Äôt end up being one of them. Spend time with your family. I work very hard (probably too hard), but the satisfaction I get from work doesn‚Äôt come close to the satisfaction I get from spending time with my wife and children, or seeing them succeed. You can always do one more thing for work. But the time you spend with your family, especially when your children are little, won‚Äôt last long. Don‚Äôt skimp on retirement savings. Whatever your government allows you to put aside, do it. And then take something from your net income, and invest that, too. We started investing later than we should have, and while we‚Äôll be just fine, it would have been even better had we started years earlier. Take a part of your salary, and put it away on a regular basis. The world can use your help: Whether it‚Äôs by volunteering or donating to charity, you can and should be helping others who are less fortunate than yourself. (And yes, there are many people less fortunate than you, even if you‚Äôre only starting off.) Even a little time, or a little money, can make a difference ‚Äî most obviously to the organization you‚Äôre helping, but also to yourself, making you more aware of the issues in your community, and proud of having helped to solve them. Being in business means being an optimist, believing that you can succeed even when things are tough. (And they‚Äôre often tough!) But you should temper that with realism, ideally with others who are in business for themselves and can offer the skeptical, tough love that is often needed. Along those lines: You, your friends, and your family might love your product. But the only people who matter are your potential customers. Sometimes, a product you love, and which you believe deserves to succeed, won‚Äôt. Which hurts. It‚Äôs bad enough to fail, but it‚Äôs even worse to keep trying, when it‚Äôs clear that the world doesn‚Äôt want what you‚Äôre selling. You‚Äôll have other, better ideas, and the failed product will help to make that next one even better. If you can pay money to save time, do it. Big, famous companies seem faceless, big, and bureaucratic ‚Äî but they‚Äôre run by people, and it‚Äôs those personal relationships that allow things to get done. I‚Äôve taught numerous courses at Fortune 50 companies in which most details were handled via simple e-mail exchanges. As an outside contractor, I‚Äôve found that I encounter less red tape at some companies than many employees do. Learn how to learn new things quickly, and to integrate those new things into what you already know. I spend hours each week reading newsletters and blogs, watching YouTube videos, and chatting with Claude and ChatGPT in order to better understand topics that my students want to know more about. Acquire new skills: Over the last 30 years, I‚Äôve gained the ability to speak Chinese, to solve the New York Times crossword, and to run 10 km in less than one hour. Each of these involved slow, incremental progress over a long time, with inevitable setbacks. Not only have these skills given me a great sense of accomplishment, but they‚Äôve also helped me to empathize with my students, who sometimes fret that they won‚Äôt ever understand Python. I‚Äôve benefitted hugely from the fact that people in the computer industry switch jobs every few years. When a company calls me for the first time about training, it‚Äôs almost inevitably because one of their employees participated in one of my classes at their previous job. Over time, enough people changing employers has been great for my business. This just motivates me more to do a good job, since everyone there is a potential future recommendation. It‚Äôs easy to be jealous of the huge salaries and stock grants that people get when they work for big companies. I might earn less than many of those people, but I work on whatever projects I want, set my own schedule, and have almost no meetings. Plus, I don‚Äôt have to please a boss whose interests aren‚Äôt necessarily aligned with mine. That seems like a pretty good trade-off to me. Not everyone can afford Western-style high prices. That‚Äôs why I offer parity pricing on my LernerPython subscriptions, as well as discounts for students and retirees. I also give away a great deal of content for free, between my newsletters and YouTube channel ‚Äî not only because it‚Äôs good for marketing, but also because I feel strongly that everyone should be able to improve their Python skills, regardless of where they live in the world or what background they come from. Sure, paying clients will get more content and attention, but even people without any resources should be able to get something. Finally: I couldn‚Äôt have made it this far without the help of my family (wife, children, parents, siblings ‚Äî especially my sister), and many friends who gave me support, suggestions, and feedback over the years. Thanks to everyone who has supported me, and allowed me to last this long without a real job! [Note: I also published this on LinkedIn, at https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/30-things-ive-learned-over-years-business-reuven-lerner-rxu4f/?trackingId=SSgKz7QDFlH3oCZp9uVghQ%3D%3D.] The post 30 things I‚Äôve learned from 30 years as a Python freelancer appeared first on Reuven Lerner.

Fedora 44 nahradí starou linuxovou konzoli moderní implementací kmscon  ( 08.12.2025 09:38:28 root.cz)
Připravovaná Fedora 44 opustí starou framebufferovou konzoli fbcon, kterou v novém vydání nahradí kmscon. Jde o modernější implementaci konzole založenou na Kernel Mode Setting (KMS). Jde o textovou konzoli, která se objevuje na grafickém výstupu při startu systému. Pracujete s ní také ve chvíli, kdy nepoužíváte žádné grafické prostředí, ale zůstanete po startu v terminálu.

Ryzen AI 5 430 má o ~14 % rychlejší CPU a 2× větší GPU než Ryzen AI 5 330  ( 08.12.2025 09:00:00 diit.cz)
APU Gorgon Point alias Strix Point-refresh přinese přinejmenším u části modelů vyšší nárůst výkonu, než by odpovídalo tomu, co lze čekat od klasického refreshe…

Ahmed Bouchefra: Is AI Taking Your Dev Job? Here‚Äôs The Fix (Plus a 100% Free Python Course)  ( 08.12.2025 08:46:51 efficientcoder.net)
Things feel different in tech right now, don’t they? A few years back, landing a dev or data role felt like winning the lottery. You learned some syntax, built a portfolio, and you were set. But in 2025, that safety net feels thin. We all know why. Artificial Intelligence isn’t just a buzzword anymore. It’s sitting right there in your IDE. You might be asking: Is my job safe? Here is the honest answer. If your day-to-day work involves taking a clear set of instructions and turning them into code, your role is shaky. We have tools now that generate boilerplate, write solid SQL, and slap together UI components faster than any human. But here is the good news. The job isn’t disappearing. It’s just moving up a level. The industry is hungry for people who can think, design, and fix messy problems. To survive this shift, you need to stop acting like a translator for computers and start acting like an architect of systems. You need future proof coding skills. The Shift: From “Code Monkey” to Problem Solver I remember my first real wake-up call as a junior dev. I spent three days writing a script to parse some logs. I was so proud of my regex. Then, a senior engineer looked at it, shook his head, and said, “Why didn’t you just fix the logging format at the source?” I was focused on the code. He was focused on the system. That is the difference. AI can write the regex. AI cannot see that the logging format is the actual problem. Here is how you make yourself indispensable in 2025. 1. Think in Systems, Not Just Syntax Most of us learned to code by memorizing rules. “Here is a loop,” or “Here is a class.” But real software engineering is about managing chaos. Take Object-Oriented Programming (OOP). It’s not just about making a class for a “Car” or a “Dog.” It’s a way to map out a complex business problem so it doesn’t collapse under its own weight later. AI can spit out a class file in seconds. But it lacks the vision to plan how twenty different objects should talk to each other over the next two years. Or look at Functional Programming. It sounds academic, but for data roles, it’s vital. It teaches you to write code that doesn’t change things unexpectedly. When you are processing terabytes of data, “side effects” (random changes to data) are a nightmare. Learning to write pure, predictable functions keeps your data pipelines from exploding. 2. Don’t Wait for a Ticket The average developer waits for work to be assigned. The indispensable developer goes hunting for it. Every company is full of waste. The marketing team manually fixing a spreadsheet every Monday. The operations guy copy-pasting files between folders. This is your chance. You need an automation-first mindset. Learn to write scripts that touch the file system, scrape messy data, and handle errors gracefully. If a network connection drops, a bad script crashes. A good tool waits, retries, logs the issue, and keeps going. AI can write the script if you tell it exactly what to do. But you are the one who has to notice the inefficiency, talk to the marketing manager, and design the tool that actually helps them. 3. Treat Data Like Gold In 2025, data literacy isn’t optional. You need to know your Data Structures. I’m not talking about passing a whiteboard interview. I mean knowing the trade-offs. List vs. Set: If you need to check if an item exists inside a collection a million times, a List will choke your CPU. A Set will do it instantly. Immutability: knowing when to use a Tuple so other developers (and you, six months from now) know this data must not change. These small choices add up. They determine if your application runs smoothly or crawls to a halt. AI often defaults to the simplest option, not the best one. A Gift to Get You Started Talking about these concepts is easy. Doing the work is harder. I want to help you take that first step. I found a resource that covers these exact mechanics—from the basics of variables to the bigger picture of OOP and file handling. It is called the Python Complete Course For Beginners. It’s a solid starting point to build the technical muscle you need to stop just “writing code” and start building systems. I have a coupon that makes it 100% free. These coupons don’t last long, so grab it while you can. Click here to access the free course You can find the link to access the course for free in the bottom of the post. The Bottom Line Don’t let the headlines scare you. The demand for engineers who can solve fuzzy, real-world problems is higher than ever. The code is just a tool. The value is you. Level up your thinking. Master the tools that let you control the machine, rather than compete with it. Stay curious, Boucodes and Naima / 10xdev blog Team

Tuxedo Gemini 17 Gen4 nabízí 17" displej a grafiku Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti  ( 08.12.2025 08:46:14 root.cz)
Společnost Tuxedo Computers dnes představila čtvrtou generaci (Gen4) notebooku Tuxedo Gemini 17 s podporou Linuxu a vylepšenými komponentami. Počítač slibuje být vysoce výkonnou náhradou stolního počítače pro práci i hraní her.

Terraform: spravujte infrastrukturu jako kód (školení)  ( 08.12.2025 08:34:46 root.cz)
Terraform vám umožní spravovat infrastrukturu jako kód, to znamená verzovanou v Gitu, přidávání zdrojů pomocí merge (pull) requestů a mnoho dalších výhod. Ukážeme si, jak Terraform pracuje, jak jej používat v týmu a jak jím spravovat infrastrukturu.

GParted Live 1.7.0-12 končí s 32bitovou architekturou Intel  ( 08.12.2025 07:55:54 root.cz)
Linuxová distribuce GParted Live přichází ve verzi 1.7.0–12 a nabízí stabilní vydání populárního systému pro správu disků založeného na Debianu. Přináší novou verzi nástroje GParted 1.7 spolu s aktualizovanými systémovými komponentami z Debianu.

V linuxovém jádře 6.19 přibude nové čitelnější písmo Terminus 10×18  ( 08.12.2025 07:17:03 root.cz)
Připravované linuxové jádro verze 6.19 přinese kromě technických vylepšení také jednu novinku, kterou uživatelé uvidí na první pohled: nové konzolové bitmapové písmo Terminus 10×18. Mělo by zlepšit čitelnost v prostředích, kde je stále důležitá přehlednost.

Tumbleweed aktualizuje zavaděč, Fedora zlepší zpracování poškozených balíčků  ( 08.12.2025 07:00:00 root.cz)
Větev Tumbleweed systému openSUSE změnil výchozí zavaděč z GRUB2 na GRUB2-BLS. Projekt Fedora zlepší zpracování poškozených balíčků. Spolu s uvedením levnější varianty Raspberry Pi 5 s 1 GB RAM došlo ke zdražení stávajících modelů.

Nvidia potvrzuje, že už podporuje jen poslední model GeForce MX a poslední Titan  ( 08.12.2025 06:40:00 diit.cz)
Ukončení podpory architektur starších než Turing podle aktualizovaného přehledu od Nvidie znamená konec podpory low-endových GeForce MX a high-endových Titanů, v obou případech s jednou výjimkou…

This tiny implant sends secret messages to the brain  ( 08.12.2025 05:25:15 sciencedaily.com)
Researchers have built a fully implantable device that sends light-based messages directly to the brain. Mice learned to interpret these artificial patterns as meaningful signals, even without touch, sight, or sound. The system uses up to 64 micro-LEDs to create complex neural patterns that resemble natural sensory activity. It could pave the way for next-generation prosthetics and new therapies.

Zato Blog: Automate Microsoft 365 Like a Pro: Skip the OAuth Headaches  ( 08.12.2025 03:00:00 zato.io)
Automate Microsoft 365 Like a Pro: Skip the OAuth Headaches 2025-12-08, by Dariusz Suchojad Are you tired of fighting with Microsoft 365 APIs and complex authentication flows? This practical tutorial cuts through the complexity, showing you how to build production-ready Python automations for Outlook, Calendar, and SharePoint in just 60 minutes. No OAuth2 struggles, no Graph API complexity—just working code you can deploy today. What you'll learn in the tutorial: Connect to Microsoft 365 APIs with minimal Python code Build real email, calendar, and SharePoint automations Schedule background tasks without programming Access Entra ID (Azure AD) user data effortlessly Implement enterprise-grade patterns that solve actual business problems More resources ➤ Python API integration tutorials ➤ What is a Network Packet Broker? How to automate networks in Python? ➤ What is an integration platform? ➤ Python Integration platform as a Service (iPaaS) ➤ What is an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)? What is SOA? ➤ Open-source iPaaS in Python More blog posts➤

A violent star explosion just revealed a hidden recipe for life  ( 08.12.2025 02:40:04 sciencedaily.com)
XRISM’s high-precision X-ray data revealed unusually strong signatures of chlorine and potassium inside the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant. These levels are far higher than theoretical models predicted, showing that supernovae can be major sources of these life-critical elements. Researchers believe powerful mixing deep inside massive stars is responsible for the unexpected boost. The findings reshape our understanding of how the building blocks of planets and life were created.

Seth Michael Larson: Deprecations via warnings don‚Äôt work for Python libraries  ( 08.12.2025 00:00:00 sethmlarson.dev)
Last week urllib3 v2.6.0 was released which contained removals for several APIs that we've known were problematic since 2019 and have been deprecated since 2022. The deprecations were marked in the documentation, changelog, and what I incorrectly believed would be the most meaningful signal to users: with a DeprecationWarning being emitted for each use for the API. The API that urllib3 recommended users use instead has the same features and no compatibility issues between urllib3 1.x and 2.x: resp = urllib3.request("GET", "https://example.com") # Deprecated APIs resp.getheader("Content-Length") resp.getheaders() # Recommended APIs resp.headers.get("Content-Length") resp.headers This API was emitting warnings for over 3 years in a top-3 Python package by downloads urging libraries and users to stop using the API and that was not enough. We still received feedback from users that this removal was unexpected and was breaking dependent libraries. We ended up adding the APIs back and creating a hurried release to fix the issue. It's not clear to me that waiting longer would have helped, either. The libraries that were impacted are actively developed, like the Kubernetes client, Fastly client, and Airflow and I trust that if the message had reached them they would have taken action. My conclusion from this incident is that DeprecationWarning in its current state does not work for deprecating APIs, at least for Python libraries. That is unfortunate, as DeprecationWarning and the warnings module are easy-to-use, language-“blessed”, and explicit without impacting users that don't need to take action due to deprecations. Any other method of deprecating API features is likely to be home-grown and different across each project which is far worse for users and project maintainers. Possible solutions? DeprecationWarning is called out in the “ignored by default” list for Python. I could ask for more Python developers to run with warnings enabled, but solutions in the form of “if only we could all just” are a folly. Maybe the answer is for each library to create its own “deprecation warning” equivalent just to not be in the “ignored by default” list: import warnings class Urllib3DeprecationWarning(UserWarning): pass warnings.warn( "HTTPResponse.getheader() is deprecated", category=Urllib3DeprecationWarning, stacklevel=2 ) Maybe the answer is to do away with advance notice and adopt SemVer with many major versions, similar to how Cryptography operates for API compatibility. Let me know if you have other ideas. Thanks for keeping RSS alive! ♥

Postřehy z bezpečnosti: snadný výdělek bez práce – či ne?  ( 07.12.2025 23:00:10 root.cz)
Týden započneme odhalením náborové kampaně severokorejských Chollimas – kdo by nechtěl peníze bez práce?! Dále opět zabrousíme do zranitelného AI, zmíníme React2Shell a navštívíme Indii a jejich nařízení.

Zkušenost s moduly v C++20  ( 07.12.2025 23:00:03 root.cz)
Moduly se do C++ dostaly s verzí 20 a byly doručeny jen jako papírový „koncept“, než reálná funkční věc. Po skoro dvou letech se k nim vracím. Už se to dá používat? Jak daleko se posunul vývoj? A jaké máme nástroje?

Zen 6 APU Medusa Point bude podporovat 28W a 45W TDP  ( 07.12.2025 23:00:00 diit.cz)
Medusa Point bude podporovat TDP 28 wattů a 45 wattů. Pracovně jsou zatím varianty označované jako „low TDP“ a „high TDP“ a zdá se, že AMD má již vzorky od obou…

Linuxový telefon Jolla je možné předobjednat, má vyměnitelnou baterii a přepínač soukromí  ( 07.12.2025 22:05:31 root.cz)
Společnost Jolla zahájila kampaň na nový telefon Jolla Phone, který nazývá nezávislým evropským telefonem vytvořeným uživateli. Přístroj je vybaven procesorem Mediatek 5G SoC, 12 GB RAM, 256GB úložištěm rozšířitelným až na 2 TB pomocí karty microSDXC, 6,36" FullHD AMOLED displejem s rozlišením přibližně 390 ppi, poměrem stran 20:9 a sklem Gorilla Glass. Zajímavostí je uživatelsky vyměnitelná baterie s kapacitou 5 500 mAh.

Christian Ledermann: üéÆ *brkrs*: A Brand New Take on Classic Brick-Breaking ‚Äì Play It, Tweak It, Own It!  ( 07.12.2025 20:33:55 dev.to)
Remember the pure, unadulterated joy (and occasional rage) of games like Breakout and Arkanoid? Dodging, bouncing, and strategically smashing bricks for that satisfying thwack? Well, get ready for brkrs – a modern, full-featured brick-breaker that brings all that classic arcade action to a new generation, built with cutting-edge Rust 🦀 and the incredibly flexible Bevy game engine! Want to jump straight into the action or peek under the hood? Find everything here: github.com/cleder/brkrs brkrs isn't just another clone; it's a love letter to the genre, packed with modern physics, dynamic levels, and a secret weapon: it's entirely open-source, designed for you to play, tinker, and even contribute! 🚀 The Story: From Retro Dreams to Modern Reality Many of us have dreamed of remaking our favorite classics. For me, that dream was to revive an old Arkanoid-style game, "YaAC 🐧", using today's best game development tools. What started as a manual journey quickly evolved into something much more: a real game that's also a living showcase of modern game dev practices. It’s built on a philosophy of "Kaizen no michi" (改善の道) – making small, continuous improvements. This means the game is always evolving, and every change is carefully considered. 🕹️ Play It Now: Levels That Challenge, Physics That Impress No downloads needed to get a taste of the action! Hit up the web version and start smashing bricks here Sorry at this time its only 2 levels (it is still early in the development process), but 70 more (lifted from YAAC) are coming soon, so stay tuned, or even better, help to make it come true ;-) brkrs extends the classic formula with some seriously cool features: Classic Gameplay, Modern Feel: Paddle, ball, and bricks, but with a polished, satisfying punch. Rich Physics (Rapier3D): Experience accurate and engaging ball physics that make every bounce feel real. Dynamic Levels: Human-readable and easy-to-modify level configurations mean endless possibilities for custom stages. Paddle Rotation: Add a new layer of skill and strategy to your shots. Cross-Platform Fun: Play it on your desktop or directly in your browser thanks to WebAssembly! 🛠️ Go Deeper: A Game for Builders, Too For those who love to dive into the mechanics of their favourite games, brkrs is a treasure trove. It's not just playable; it's also a fantastic example of a well-structured Rust and Bevy project. Want to try building it yourself? You'll need Rust, Cargo, and Git. git clone https://github.com/cleder/brkrs.git cd brkrs cargo run --release Controls: Move the paddle with your mouse, use the scroll wheel to rotate (if enabled), and hit ESC to pause. This is your chance to not just play, but to truly tinker. Ever wanted to add a new power-up? Change how a brick explodes? Or even design your own crazy levels? brkrs makes it approachable. 🧠 Behind the Scenes: Spec-Driven Awesomeness The game's development isn't just chaotic coding; it's built on spec-driven development (SDD). This means every feature starts with a clear, detailed plan, much like a game designer's blueprint. We even use GitHub's spec-kit to formalize these plans. It's a structured way to ensure every piece of the game works exactly as intended, minimizing bugs and maximizing fun. And here's the kicker: this clear, step-by-step approach makes brkrs a perfect playground for experimenting with AI-assisted coding. Imagine using AI to help design a new brick type or tweak game logic – the structured specs make it surprisingly effective! 📣 Help Wanted: Your Skills Can Level Up brkrs! While the code is solid, a great game needs more than just logic! We are actively looking for creative community members to join the effort and help turn brkrs into a visually and aurally stunning experience. This is your chance to get your work into a real, playable, open-source game! 🎧 Sound & Music: We need satisfying sound effects (the thwack of a brick, the clink of a power-up) and engaging background music. 🎨 Art & Textures: Help us create unique brick textures, stylish paddle designs, backgrounds, and other necessary artwork. 📐 Level Design: Got an evil streak? Use the easy-to-modify level configuration files (RON) to create new, challenging, and fun level designs! 🧪 Testing & Feedback: Simply playing the game and reporting bugs or suggesting balance tweaks is incredibly valuable! If you're a designer, artist, musician, or just a gamer with a great eye for detail, reach out or submit a Pull Request with your contributions! 🤝 Join the Fun: Learn, Contribute, Create! brkrs is more than a game; it's a community project following "Seika no Ho" (清華の法), "the way of clear planning." Play the Game: Enjoy the current levels and discover new strategies. Explore the Code: See how modern Rust and Bevy work in a real project. Suggest Ideas: What power-ups or brick types would YOU like to see? Contribute: Even small tweaks or new level designs are welcome! Full documentation, quickstart guides, and developer resources are all available on brkrs.readthedocs.io. Ready to break some bricks and make some waves in game development?

Christian Ledermann: üöÄ Breakout to Breakthrough: brkrs ‚ÄîThe Rust Game Where Specs Become Code (and AI is Welcome!)  ( 07.12.2025 19:55:11 dev.to)
Tired of tutorial code that stops working the moment the lesson ends? Meet brkrs—a fully playable, Arkanoid/Breakout-style game written in Rust 🦀 and built with the Bevy engine. But this isn't just a game. It's an open-source learning playground dedicated to spec-first development and AI-assisted coding experiments. Check out the full repository here: github.com/cleder/brkrs As Linus Torvalds famously said: “Talk is cheap. Show me the code.” We say: "Show me the game, the spec, and the code all at once!" 💡 The Philosophy: Spec-First, Incremental, and AI-Ready Game development, especially in a framework like Bevy, can be a steep climb. The brkrs project was born from the desire to take an old idea (an Arkanoid clone) and build it the modern way—a way that accelerates learning and embraces new tooling. We follow a simple, yet powerful, development loop: Spec-First: Every single feature, no matter how small, begins as a clear specification using GitHub's speckit. Incremental PRs: The spec flows through a small, focused issue or Pull Request. This embodies the "Kaizen no michi" (改善の道) philosophy of small, positive, daily changes. Code & Play: The result is working Rust code you can immediately see in the game. This structured approach makes brkrs the perfect sandbox for the AI coding community: Agentic Testing: Need a small, contained task for your coding agent? Point it at a spec and a pending issue. AI-Assisted Feature Dev: Want to see how your favorite LLM handles adding a new brick behavior or adjusting physics? The clear specs provide the perfect prompt. Workflow Learning: Every merged PR is a clean, documented example of how a real-world feature is implemented in Rust/Bevy. What is Spec-Driven Development? The core of our workflow is the use of GitHub's spec-kit. This is a framework for spec-driven development (SDD), an approach where detailed, human-readable specifications are written before any code. SDD serves as the single source of truth for the desired behavior of a feature. By providing clear inputs, outputs, and requirements upfront, it minimizes guesswork, aligns team expectations, and provides a perfect, structured input for any AI coding assistant or agent. 🕹️ Try It Now: Playable & Pluggable You don't need to compile anything to get started! Play the live web version right now! The core experience extends the classic Breakout formula with: Richer Physics (via Rapier3D) constrained to a flat 2D plane. Paddle Rotation and customizable per-level settings. Human-readable Levels that are easy to modify and extend using RON files. 🛠️ Quickstart: Play, Tweak, and Learn Ready to dive into the code? You'll need Rust, Cargo, and Git. git clone https://github.com/cleder/brkrs.git cd brkrs cargo run --release Controls: Move the paddle with the mouse, use the scroll wheel to rotate, and ESC to pause. Now, the fun begins. Want to change the gravity for Level 3? Want to create a new HyperBrick component? The entire architecture—from the Level Loader to the Brick System—is designed for easy modification. Challenge: Following the Samurai principle of "Seika no Ho" (清華の法), "the way of clear planning," pick a small feature, write a mini-spec, and implement it. 🤝 Your Learning Path and Contribution The goal is to make learning modern Rust/Bevy development as enjoyable as playing the game. Here’s how you can engage: Read a Spec: Check out the repo or wiki for a feature you'd like to see. Pick an Issue: Find a small, contained task that aligns with a spec. Experiment with AI: Use your favourite AI tool (e.g., GitHub Copilot, a local agent) to help draft the code for the task. Submit a PR: Show the community how you turned a spec into working Rust code! brkrs is more than just a Breakout clone—it’s a living textbook for best practices in modern, spec-driven, and AI-augmented software development. 🔗 Documentation All the details you need to get started are right here: Full Documentation Quickstart Guide — Get up and running in 10 minutes. Ready to break some bricks and code?

Cosmic knots may finally explain why the Universe exists  ( 07.12.2025 07:31:41 sciencedaily.com)
Knotted structures once imagined by Lord Kelvin may actually have shaped the universe’s earliest moments, according to new research showing how two powerful symmetries could have created stable “cosmic knots” after the Big Bang. These exotic objects may have briefly dominated the young cosmos, unraveled through quantum tunneling, and produced heavy right-handed neutrinos whose decays tipped the balance toward matter over antimatter.

New moonquake discovery could change NASA’s Moon plans  ( 07.12.2025 03:15:36 sciencedaily.com)
Scientists have discovered that moonquakes, not meteoroids, are responsible for shifting terrain near the Apollo 17 landing site. Their analysis points to a still-active fault that has been generating quakes for millions of years. While the danger to short missions is low, long-term lunar bases could face increasing risk. The findings urge future planners to avoid building near scarps and to prioritize new seismic instruments.

Vylepšený Cache Aware Scheduling, FireWire v roce 2026  ( 06.12.2025 23:00:00 root.cz)
Týden v KDE a opět ta Plasma 6.6.0, vývojová verze Wine 11.0-rc1 žádá o testování, Intel Fellow a významný vývojář Linuxu odchází z Intelu, Xeony i EPYCy zrychlí díky lepšímu Cache Aware Schedulingu.

9 GUI Search Tools for Desktop Linux Users Who Don't Want to Use Find, Grep and Xargs Commands  ( 06.12.2025 18:29:55 itsfoss.com)
Sure you can search in the Linux terminal. And sure, you don't have to do that if you don't want too. Use a graphical interface for your comfort.

VCMI: An open-source engine for Heroes III  ( 06.12.2025 16:27:35 vcmi.eu)
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With This New Feature, Proton Has Made it Even Easier to Move Away from Gmail and Google Docs  ( 06.12.2025 11:57:21 itsfoss.com)
The missing piece is here. There is no excuse to stick with Big Tech now.

OpenRouter Broadcast  ( 06.12.2025 11:28:56 openrouter.ai)
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Scientists are turning Earth into a giant detector for hidden forces shaping our Universe  ( 06.12.2025 10:02:33 sciencedaily.com)
SQUIRE aims to detect exotic spin-dependent interactions using quantum sensors deployed in space, where speed and environmental conditions vastly improve sensitivity. Orbiting sensors tap into Earth’s enormous natural polarized spin source and benefit from low-noise periodic signal modulation. A robust prototype with advanced noise suppression and radiation-hardened engineering now meets the requirements for space operation. The long-term goal is a powerful space-ground network capable of exploring dark matter and other beyond-Standard-Model phenomena.

AI’s climate impact is much smaller than many feared  ( 06.12.2025 09:33:39 sciencedaily.com)
New findings challenge the widespread belief that AI is an environmental villain. By analyzing U.S. economic data and AI usage across industries, researchers discovered that AI’s energy consumption—while significant locally—barely registers at national or global scales. Even more surprising, AI could help accelerate green technologies rather than hinder them.

SPHERE’s stunning space images reveal where new planets are forming  ( 06.12.2025 03:24:18 sciencedaily.com)
SPHERE’s detailed images of dusty rings around young stars offer a rare glimpse into the hidden machinery of planet formation. These bright arcs and faint clouds reveal where tiny planet-building bodies collide, break apart, and reshape their systems. Some disks contain sharp edges or unusual patterns that hint at massive planets still waiting to be seen, while others resemble early versions of our own asteroid belt or Kuiper belt. Together, the images form one of the most complete views yet of how newborn solar systems evolve and where undiscovered worlds may be hiding.

The “impossible” LED breakthrough that changes everything  ( 05.12.2025 21:14:53 sciencedaily.com)
Scientists have discovered how to electrically power insulating nanoparticles using organic molecules that act like tiny antennas. These hybrids generate extremely pure near-infrared light, ideal for medical diagnostics and advanced communications. The approach works at low voltages and surpasses competing technologies in spectral precision. Early results suggest huge potential for future optoelectronic devices.

Dnešní výpadek Cloudflare byl způsoben aktualizací kvůli React2Shell  ( 05.12.2025 21:04:46 root.cz)
Dnes měl Cloudflare asi půlhodinový výpadek kolem desáté hodiny našeho času. Výpadek podle oficiálního post-mortem souvisí se závažnou zranitelností CVE-2025–55182, která je také známá jako React2Shell. Zranitelný je pouze React verze 19.0.0, 19.1.0, 19.1.1 a 19.2.0.

Typewriter Plotters (2022)  ( 05.12.2025 15:34:49 biosrhythm.com)
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Valve tajně sponzorovalo emulátor x86 na ARM64 FEX  ( 05.12.2025 12:12:37 root.cz)
I když v současnosti Steam Deck i nově oznámená plnotučná konzole Steam Machines jsou postaveny na architektuře x86 a na Linuxu, Valve v budoucnosti věří patrně také architektuře ARM64.

Real Python: The Real Python Podcast ‚Äì Episode #276: Exploring Quantum Computing & Python Frameworks  ( 05.12.2025 12:00:00 realpython.com)
What are the recent advances in the field of quantum computing and high-performance computing? And what Python tools can you use to develop programs that run on quantum computers? This week on the show, Real Python author Negar Vahid discusses her tutorial, "Quantum Computing Basics With Qiskit." [ Improve Your Python With 🐍 Python Tricks 💌 – Get a short & sweet Python Trick delivered to your inbox every couple of days. >> Click here to learn more and see examples ]

Nvidia: CPU v AI končí, jejich potenciál byl vyčerpán. AI není bublinou.  ( 05.12.2025 09:00:00 diit.cz)
Vedení Nvidie na UBS Global Technology and AI Conference 2025 představilo výhledy a plány v souvislosti s AI. To nevnímá jako bublinu, ale jako segment, který v následujících pěti letech čeká růst…

JavaScript oslavil 30 let  ( 05.12.2025 08:36:06 root.cz)
Včera tomu bylo 30 let, co společnosti Netscape a Sun oznámily vznik JavaScriptu. Brendan Eich z Netscape vytvořil funkční prototyp během deseti dní již v květnu 1995. Pak přišlo oznámení v prosinci, ale první veřejná verze 1.0 byla vydána až v březnu 1996. V současnosti běží JavaScript na 98,9 % stránek, které spouštějí kód na straně klienta a je tedy dominantním jazykem pro web.

Bootcamp strojového učení: praktické aplikace z oblastí zpracování obrazu, textu a časových řad (školení)  ( 05.12.2025 08:33:23 root.cz)
Získejte obecný přehled o současných technikách strojového učení a naučte se programovat základní řešení ML pomocí open-source knihoven Sciki-Learn a TensorFlow v jazyce Python. Absolvujte ucelenou pětidenní sérii workshopů strojového učení, kde nejsou potřeba žádné předchozí znalosti umělé inteligence.

Architects gain a new superpower for complex curved designs  ( 05.12.2025 07:59:11 sciencedaily.com)
A researcher from the University of Tokyo and a U.S.-based structural engineer developed a new computational form-finding method that could change how architects and engineers design lightweight and free-form structures covering large spaces. The technique specifically helps create gridshells, thin, curved surfaces whose members form a networked grid. The method makes use of NURBS surfaces, a widely used surface representation format in computer-aided design (CAD). It also drastically reduces computation cost — a task that previously took 90 hours on a high-end GPU completes in about 90 minutes on a standard CPU.

Ryzen 7 9850X3D a Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 stojí na novém křemíku, lépe boostují  ( 05.12.2025 06:40:00 diit.cz)
Procesory Ryzen 9000X3D budou postavené na nové revizi 4nm čipletů. Ta by měla být optimalizovaná pro dosažení vyššího boostu, přičemž se očekává i lepší potenciál pro přetaktování…

Mark Dufour: Shed Skin restricted-Python-to-C++ compiler v0.9.11  ( 05.12.2025 03:08:21 shed-skin.blogspot.com)
I have just released version 0.9.11 of Shed Skin, a restricted-Python-to-C++ compiler. Most importantly, it adds support for Python 3.14. It also adds support for many 3.x features that were not yet implemented, in addition to basic support for the base64 module. It also optimizes a few more common code patterns. Paul Boddie was able to add support for libpcre2, and in the process updated conan to version 2. Thanks to Shakeeb and now Paul, Shed Skin has had first-class Windows support for the last few releases. A new release is often triggered by a nice new example. In this case I found an advanced/educational 3d renderer by Benny Bobaganoosh, and rewrote it from Java to Python. In ~500 lines of code, it renders an .obj file with perspective-correct texture mapping and so on, clipping, lighting.. It becomes about 13 times faster after compilation (in other words, it goes from about 2 to about 30 FPS). For the full list of changes in the release, please see the release notes. Something I have noticed while working on this release is that small object allocations seem to have become faster under Linux, to the degree that programs that would become _slower_ after compilation because of excessive small-object allocation, are now usually _faster_ again, at least on my system. This motivated me to measure the speedup for all 84 example programs at the moment versus cpython 3.13. While it's still all over the place, I was happy to see a median speedup of 12 times, and an average of 20 times. I would very much appreciate more feedback on/assistance with the project. There is always enough low-hanging fruit to help with! See for example the current list of issues for 0.9.12. But just testing random things, finding interesting new example programs, cleaning up parts of the code and such are also much appreciated.

New low temperature fuel cell could transform hydrogen power  ( 05.12.2025 02:33:17 sciencedaily.com)
Kyushu University scientists have achieved a major leap in fuel cell technology by enabling efficient proton transport at just 300°C. Their scandium-doped oxide materials create a wide, soft pathway that lets protons move rapidly without clogging the crystal lattice. This solves a decades-old barrier in solid-oxide fuel cell development and could make hydrogen power far more affordable.

A 1950s material just set a modern record for lightning-fast chips  ( 05.12.2025 02:14:09 sciencedaily.com)
Researchers engineered a strained germanium layer on silicon that allows charge to move faster than in any silicon-compatible material to date. This record mobility could lead to chips that run cooler, faster, and with dramatically lower energy consumption. The discovery also enhances the prospects for silicon-based quantum devices.

Linus Torvalds upgradoval z 32jádrového Threadripperu 3970X na 24jádrový Threadripper 9960X  ( 04.12.2025 23:00:10 root.cz)
Před pěti lety si Linus postavil nové PC s tehdy aktuálním Ryzen Threadripperem s 32 jádry. Nyní před pár dny přešel na stroj s 24 CPU jádry, opět v podobě AMD Ryzen Threadripperu. Co jej k tomu vedlo?

Ovladače 590 vypustily podporu Maxwell (GTX 700 / 900), Pascal (GTX 10) a Volta  ( 04.12.2025 23:00:01 diit.cz)
Aktuálně vydaná řada ovladačů Nvidia 590 již nepočítá s GeForce RTX 700, 900, 1000 a Titany odpovídajících generací včetně řady Volta. Podporovány zůstávají Turing, Ampere, Lovelace a Blackwell…

In comedy of errors, men accused of wiping gov databases turned to an AI tool  ( 04.12.2025 21:51:36 arstechnica.com)
Defendants were convicted of similar crimes a decade ago. How were they cleared again?

Chytrá toaleta prý používá šifrování E2EE  ( 04.12.2025 18:23:40 root.cz)
Firma Kohler v říjnu na trh uvedla chytrou kameru Dekoda za 600 dolarů plus měsíční předplatné. Kamera se připevní na toaletu a snímá výsledek vašeho snažení. Z toho usoudí o zdraví vašich střev, hydrataci a podobně. To mi připomíná jednu starou sci-fi povídku, snad polského autora o toaletě, která po použití lidským hlasem nabádala hlavního hrdinu, aby navštívil lékaře. Ví někdo, jak se to jmenuje?

Scientists create ultra fast memory using light  ( 04.12.2025 18:11:21 isi.edu)
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Za rekordní útok DDoS 29,7 Tb/s může botnet Aisuru  ( 04.12.2025 12:05:21 root.cz)
Cloudflare včera informoval o rekordním útoku DDoS s tokem 29,7 Tb/s. Útok trval 69 sekund a šlo o takzvané „kobercové bombardování“ přes UDP cílené v průměru na 15 tisíc portů za sekundu. Za útokem stojí nájemný botnet Aisuru. Cílem byly například telekomunikační instituce, finanční instituce a herní průmysl.

Video z workshopu Od localhostu k produkci: Vývoj v kontejnerech krok za krokem  ( 04.12.2025 11:41:59 root.cz)
Společnost PeoplePath pořádá v Plzni workshopy na různá IT témata. Tentokrát bylo téma "Od localhostu k produkci: Vývoj v kontejnerech krok za krokem" a byl pořízen videozáznam.

A simple oxygen hack creates 7 new ceramic materials  ( 04.12.2025 10:22:27 sciencedaily.com)
Penn State researchers created seven new high-entropy oxides by removing oxygen during synthesis, enabling metals that normally destabilize to form rock-salt ceramics. Machine learning helped identify promising compositions, and advanced imaging confirmed their stability. The method offers a flexible framework for creating materials once thought impossible to synthesize.

Astronomers find a planet orbiting at a wild angle no one can explain  ( 04.12.2025 09:57:01 sciencedaily.com)
A network of powerful ground-based telescopes captured rare starspot-crossing events on TOI-3884b, revealing cooler patches on the star’s surface and rapid changes tied to its rotation. By combining multicolor transit observations with months of high-cadence brightness monitoring, researchers nailed down the star’s rotation period with impressive precision. These measurements allowed them to map the system’s geometry—and what they found was surprising: the planet's orbit is wildly tilted relative to the star’s spin.

Micron oznámil ukončení spotřebitelské značky Crucial, bude se soustředit na velké zákazníky  ( 04.12.2025 09:39:42 root.cz)
Americký výrobce pamětí a disků SSD Micron Technology včera oznámil ukončení své spotřebitelské značky Crucial v únoru příštího roku. Důvodem je současný velký zájem o paměti i disky ze strany velkých zákazníků způsobený popularitou AI.

Černý den pro IT: Micron ukončí výrobu DDR5 a SSD pro PC, značka Crucial zanikne  ( 04.12.2025 09:00:00 diit.cz)
Jakoby pro letošní rok nebyla dost tisková zpráva OpenAI o skoupení výrobních kapacit Hynixu a Samsungu, následuje tisková zpráva Micronu o ukončení výroby standardních DDR5 a SSD…

Alpine Linux 3.23.0 přináší apk 3, zatím neslučuje adresář /usr  ( 04.12.2025 07:02:00 root.cz)
Vývojáři uvolnili pravidelnou podzimní verzi distribuce Alpine Linux s označením 3.23.0. Po pěti letech je k dispozici nová verze balíčkovacího systému apk 3. Nástroje byly aktualizovány, ale zatím byl zachován původní index a formát balíčků v2. Ty je v plánu vyměnit někdy po tomto vydání distribuce.

Engineered imperfections supercharge graphene’s power  ( 04.12.2025 02:16:47 sciencedaily.com)
Researchers have discovered a new way to grow graphene that deliberately adds structural defects to enhance its usefulness in electronics, sensors, catalysts, and more. Using a specially shaped molecule called azupyrene, scientists can produce graphene films rich in beneficial 5–7 ring defects—imperfections that make the material more interactive, more magnetic, and more electronically versatile.

Golang's big miss on memory arenas  ( 04.12.2025 01:10:28 avittig.medium.com)
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Surprising optics breakthrough could transform our view of the Universe  ( 04.12.2025 00:41:43 sciencedaily.com)
FROSTI is a new adaptive optics system that precisely corrects distortions in LIGO’s mirrors caused by extreme laser power. By using custom thermal patterns, it preserves mirror shape without introducing noise, allowing detectors to operate at higher sensitivities. This leap enables future observatories like Cosmic Explorer to see deeper into the cosmos. The technology lays the groundwork for vastly expanding gravitational-wave astronomy.

Admins and defenders gird themselves against maximum-severity server vuln  ( 03.12.2025 23:16:03 arstechnica.com)
Open source React executes malicious code with malformed HTML—no authentication needed.

3D-Printed Carotid Artery-on-Chips for Personalized Thrombosis Investigation  ( 03.12.2025 21:40:55 advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
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Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas  ( 03.12.2025 18:24:06 arstechnica.com)
Report: Microsoft declared "the era of AI agents" in May, but enterprise customers aren't buying.

Fraudulent gambling network may actually be something more nefarious  ( 03.12.2025 17:23:26 arstechnica.com)
Researchers say there's more to the network, which has operated for 14 years.

Linux 6.18 oficiálně LTS jádrem, s podporou (minimálně) do konce roku 2027  ( 03.12.2025 16:46:58 root.cz)
Rozhodnutí, které se beztak čekalo, je zde. Jádro Linux 6.18 je novým LTS jádrem, jeho podpora poběží do prosince 2027. Navazuje tak na jádra aktuálně podporovaná či čerstvě ukončená. LTS popisek na kernel.org dostane jádro 6.18 až po vydání jádra Linux 6.19.

Caktus Consulting Group: LLM Basics: Ollama Function Calling  ( 03.12.2025 16:42:14 caktusgroup.com)
In our previous post, we introduced function calling and learned how to do it with OpenAI’s LLMs. In this post, we’ll call the same cactify_name function from that post using Meta’s Llama 3.2 model, installed locally using Ollama. The techniques in this post should also work with other Ollama models that support function-calling.

JWST finds a Milky Way twin born shockingly early in the Universe  ( 03.12.2025 09:35:21 sciencedaily.com)
A surprisingly mature spiral galaxy named Alaknanda has been spotted just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang—far earlier than astronomers believed such well-structured galaxies could form. With sweeping spiral arms, rapid star formation, and an orderly disk resembling our Milky Way, it defies long-held theories about how slowly galaxies should assemble. Thanks to JWST and gravitational lensing, researchers could examine the galaxy in remarkable detail, revealing that the early Universe was far more capable and dynamic than expected.

The solar mission that survived disaster and found 5,000 comets  ( 03.12.2025 09:03:57 sciencedaily.com)
For thirty years, SOHO has watched the Sun from a stable perch in space, revealing the inner workings of our star and surviving crises that nearly ended the mission. Its long-term observations uncovered a single global plasma conveyor belt inside the Sun, detailed how solar brightness subtly shifts over the solar cycle, and turned SOHO into an unexpected comet-hunting champion with more than 5,000 discoveries.

Space is filling with junk and scientists have a fix  ( 03.12.2025 03:47:15 sciencedaily.com)
Earth’s orbit is getting crowded with broken satellites and leftover rocket parts. Researchers say the solution is to build spacecraft that can be repaired, reused, or recycled instead of abandoned. They also want new tools to collect old debris and new data systems that help prevent collisions. The goal is to make space exploration cleaner and more sustainable.

OpenAI CEO declares “code red” as Gemini gains 200 million users in 3 months  ( 02.12.2025 22:42:09 arstechnica.com)
Three years after Google sounded alarm bells over ChatGPT, the tables have turned.

Syntax hacking: Researchers discover sentence structure can bypass AI safety rules  ( 02.12.2025 12:15:55 arstechnica.com)
New research offers clues about why some prompt injection attacks may succeed.

Fossils reveal anacondas have been giants for over 12 million years  ( 02.12.2025 10:30:46 cam.ac.uk)
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Dead stars aren’t so dead after all: The hidden force inflating white dwarfs  ( 02.12.2025 06:24:01 sciencedaily.com)
Some white dwarfs in rapid binary orbits are far hotter and larger than theory predicts. Researchers found that powerful tidal forces between them generate enough heat to inflate their sizes and change their orbital behavior. This leads the stars to interact much sooner than expected, potentially triggering dramatic cosmic events. The new model may offer clues about the origins of type Ia supernovae.

New state of quantum matter could power future space tech  ( 02.12.2025 04:34:32 sciencedaily.com)
A UC Irvine team uncovered a never-before-seen quantum phase formed when electrons and holes pair up and spin in unison, creating a glowing, liquid-like state of matter. By blasting a custom-made material with enormous magnetic fields, the researchers triggered this exotic transformation—one that could enable radiation-proof, self-charging computers ideal for deep-space travel.

New graphene breakthrough supercharges energy storage  ( 01.12.2025 10:50:57 sciencedaily.com)
Engineers have unlocked a new class of supercapacitor material that could rival traditional batteries in energy while charging dramatically faster. By redesigning carbon structures into highly curved, accessible graphene networks, the team achieved record energy and power densities—enough to reshape electric transport, stabilize power grids, and supercharge consumer electronics.

Scientists just found a way to tell if quantum computers are wrong  ( 01.12.2025 10:19:09 sciencedaily.com)
Researchers unveiled a new technique that validates quantum computer results—especially those from GBS devices—in minutes instead of millennia. Their findings expose unexpected errors in a landmark experiment, offering a crucial step toward truly reliable quantum machines.

Scientists just teleported information using light  ( 29.11.2025 10:29:45 sciencedaily.com)
Quantum communication is edging closer to reality thanks to a breakthrough in teleporting information between photons from different quantum dots—one of the biggest challenges in building a quantum internet. By creating nearly identical semiconductor-based photon sources and using frequency converters to sync them, researchers successfully transferred quantum states across a fiber link, proving a key step toward long-distance, tamper-proof communication.

JWST spots a strange red dot so extreme scientists can’t explain it  ( 29.11.2025 09:49:27 sciencedaily.com)
The discovery of strange, ultra-red objects—especially the extreme case known as The Cliff—has pushed astronomers to propose an entirely new type of cosmic structure: black hole stars. These exotic hybrids could explain rapid black hole growth in the early universe, but their existence remains unproven.

Scientists may have found dark matter after 100 years of searching  ( 29.11.2025 09:21:07 sciencedaily.com)
Nearly a century after astronomers first proposed dark matter to explain the strange motions of galaxies, scientists may finally be catching a glimpse of it. A University of Tokyo researcher analyzing new data from NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has detected a halo of high-energy gamma rays that closely matches what theories predict should be released when dark matter particles collide and annihilate. The energy levels, intensity patterns, and shape of this glow align strikingly well with long-standing models of weakly interacting massive particles, making it one of the most compelling leads yet in the hunt for the universe’s invisible mass.

Seven-year study uncovers the holy grail of beer brewing  ( 29.11.2025 05:29:42 sciencedaily.com)
ETH Zurich scientists have found the holy grail of brewing: the long-sought formula behind stable beer foam. Their research explains why different beers rely on different physical mechanisms to keep bubbles intact and why some foams last far longer than others.

Miracle material’s hidden quantum power could transform future electronics  ( 28.11.2025 10:21:37 sciencedaily.com)
Researchers have directly observed Floquet effects in graphene for the first time, settling a long-running scientific debate. Their ultrafast light-based technique demonstrates that graphene’s electronic properties can be tuned almost instantaneously. This paves the way for custom-engineered quantum materials and new approaches in electronics and sensing.

Scientists uncover the brain’s hidden learning blocks  ( 28.11.2025 09:09:38 sciencedaily.com)
Princeton researchers found that the brain excels at learning because it reuses modular “cognitive blocks” across many tasks. Monkeys switching between visual categorization challenges revealed that the prefrontal cortex assembles these blocks like Legos to create new behaviors. This flexibility explains why humans learn quickly while AI models often forget old skills. The insights may help build better AI and new clinical treatments for impaired cognitive adaptability.

Django Weblog: 2026 DSF Board Election Results  ( 28.11.2025 06:15:12 djangoproject.com)
The 2026 DSF Board Election has closed, and the following candidates have been elected: Jacob Kaplan-Moss Priya Pahwa Ryan Cheley They will all serve two years for their term. 2026 Board Directors elected for the 2025 DSF Board - Abigail Gbadago, Jeff Triplett, Paolo Melchiorre, Tom Carrick - are continuing with one year left to serve on the board. Therefore, the combined 2026 DSF Board of Directors are: Abigail Gbadago Jacob Kaplan-Moss* Jeff Triplett Paolo Melchiorre Priya Pahwa* Ryan Cheley* Tom Carrick * Elected to a two year term Congratulations to our winners, and a huge thank you to our departing board members Sarah Abderemane and Thibaud Colas. Thank you again to everyone who nominated themselves. Even if you were not successful, you gave our community the chance to make their voices heard in who they wanted to represent them.

X-ray movies reveal how intense lasers tear a buckyball apart  ( 28.11.2025 03:44:47 sciencedaily.com)
Using intense X-rays, researchers captured a buckyball as it expanded, split and shed electrons under strong laser fields. Detailed scattering measurements showed how the molecule behaves at low, medium and high laser intensities. Some predicted oscillations never appeared, pointing to missing physics in current models. The findings create a clearer picture of how molecules fall apart under extreme light.

A surprising new method finally makes teflon recyclable  ( 27.11.2025 09:09:51 sciencedaily.com)
Researchers have discovered a low-energy way to recycle Teflon® by using mechanical motion and sodium metal. The process turns the notoriously durable plastic into sodium fluoride that can be reused directly in chemical manufacturing. This creates a potential circular economy for fluorine and reduces environmental harm from PFAS-related waste.

Python GUIs: Getting Started With NiceGUI for Web UI Development in Python ‚Äî Your First Steps With the NiceGUI Library for Web UI Development  ( 27.11.2025 06:00:00 pythonguis.com)
NiceGUI is a Python library that allows developers to create interactive web applications with minimal effort. It's intuitive and easy to use. It provides a high-level interface to build modern web-based graphical user interfaces (GUIs) without requiring deep knowledge of web technologies like HTML, CSS, or JavaScript. In this article, you'll learn how to use NiceGUI to develop web apps with Python. You'll begin with an introduction to NiceGUI and its capabilities. Then, you'll learn how to create a simple NiceGUI app in Python and explore the basics of the framework's components. Finally, you'll use NiceGUI to handle events and customize your app's appearance. To get the most out of this tutorial, you should have a basic knowledge of Python. Familiarity with general GUI programming concepts, such as event handling, widgets, and layouts, will also be beneficial. Table of Contents Installing NiceGUI Writing Your First NiceGUI App in Python Exploring NiceGUI Graphical Elements Text Elements Control Elements Data Elements Audiovisual Elements Laying Out Pages in NiceGUI Handling Events and Actions in NiceGUI Conclusion Installing NiceGUI Before using any third-party library like NiceGUI, you must install it in your working environment. Installing NiceGUI is as quick as running the python -m pip install nicegui command in your terminal or command line. This command will install the library from the Python Package Index (PyPI). It's a good practice to use a Python virtual environment to manage dependencies for your project. To create and activate a virtual environment, open a command line or terminal window and run the following commands in your working directory: Windows macOS Linux sh PS> python -m venv .\venv PS> .\venv\Scripts\activate sh $ python -m venv venv/ $ source venv/bin/activate sh $ python3 -m venv venv/ $ source venv/bin/activate The first command will create a folder called venv/ containing a Python virtual environment. The Python version in this environment will match the version you have installed on your system. Once your virtual environment is active, install NiceGUI by running: sh (venv) $ python -m pip install nicegui With this command, you've installed NiceGUI in your active Python virtual environment and are ready to start building applications. Writing Your First NiceGUI App in Python Let's create our first app with NiceGUI and Python. We'll display the traditional "Hello, World!" message in a web browser. To create a minimal NiceGUI app, follow these steps: Import the nicegui module. Create a GUI element. Run the application using the run() method. Create a Python file named app.py and add the following code: python from nicegui import ui ui.label('Hello, World!').classes('text-h1') ui.run() This code defines a web application whose UI consists of a label showing the Hello, World! message. To create the label, we use the ui.label element. The call to ui.run() starts the app. Run the application by executing the following command in your terminal: sh (venv) $ python app.py This will open your default browser, showing a page like the one below: First NiceGUI Application Congratulations! You've just written your first NiceGUI web app using Python. The next step is to explore some features of NiceGUI that will allow you to create fully functional web applications. If the above command doesn't open the app in your browser, then go ahead and navigate to http://localhost:8080. Exploring NiceGUI Graphical Elements NiceGUI elements are the building blocks that we'll arrange to create pages. They represent UI components like buttons, labels, text inputs, and more. The elements are classified into the following categories: Text elements Controls Data elements Audiovisual elements In the following sections, you'll code simple examples showcasing a sample of each category's graphical elements. Text Elements NiceGUI also has a rich set of text elements that allow you to display text in several ways. This set includes some of the following elements: Labels Links Chat messages Markdown containers reStructuredText containers HTML text The following demo app shows how to create some of these text elements: python from nicegui import ui # Text elements ui.label("Label") ui.link("PythonGUIs", "https://pythonguis.com") ui.chat_message("Hello, World!", name="PythonGUIs Chatbot") ui.markdown( """ # Markdown Heading 1 **bold text** *italic text* `code` """ ) ui.restructured_text( """ ========================== reStructuredText Heading 1 ========================== **bold text** *italic text* ``code`` """ ) ui.html("<strong>bold text using HTML tags</strong>") ui.run(title="NiceGUI Text Elements") In this example, we create a simple web interface showcasing various text elements. The page shows several text elements, including a basic label, a hyperlink, a chatbot message, and formatted text using the Markdown and reStructuredText markup languages. Finally, it shows some raw HTML. Each text element allows us to present textual content on the page in a specific way or format, which gives us a lot of flexibility for designing modern web UIs. Run it! Your browser will open with a page that looks like the following. Text Elements Demo App in NiceGUI Control Elements When it comes to control elements, NiceGUI offers a variety of them. As their name suggests, these elements allow us to control how our web UI behaves. Here are some of the most common control elements available in NiceGUI: Buttons Dropdown lists Toggle buttons Radio buttons Checkboxes Sliders Switches Text inputs Text areas Date input The demo app below showcases some of these control elements: python from nicegui import ui # Control elements ui.button("Button") with ui.dropdown_button("Edit", icon="edit", auto_close=True): ui.item("Copy") ui.item("Paste") ui.item("Cut") ui.toggle(["ON", "OFF"], value="ON") ui.radio(["NiceGUI", "PyQt6", "PySide6"], value="NiceGUI").props("inline") ui.checkbox("Enable Feature") ui.slider(min=0, max=100, value=50, step=5) ui.switch("Dark Mode") ui.input("Your Name") ui.number("Age", min=0, max=120, value=25, step=1) ui.date(value="2025-04-11") ui.run(title="NiceGUI Control Elements") In this app, we include several control elements: a button, a dropdown menu with editing options (Copy, Paste, Cut), and a toggle switch between ON and OFF states. We also have a radio button group to choose between GUI frameworks (NiceGUI, PyQt6, PySide6), a checkbox labeled Enable Feature, and a slider to select a numeric value within a range. Further down, we have a switch to toggle Dark Mode, a text input field for entering a name, a number input for providing age, and a date picker. Each of these controls has its own properties and methods that you can tweak to customize your web interfaces using Python and NiceGUI. Note that the elements on this app don't perform any action. Later in this tutorial, you'll learn about events and actions. For now, we're just showcasing some of the available graphical elements of NiceGUI. Run it! You'll get a page that will look something like the following. Text Elements Demo App in NiceGUI Data Elements If you're in the data science field, then you'll be thrilled with the variety of data elements that NiceGUI offers. You'll find elements for some of the following tasks: Representing data in a tabular format Creating plots and charts Building different types of progress charts Displaying 3D objects Using maps Creating tree and log views Presenting and editing text in different formats, including plain text, code, and JSON Here's a quick NiceGUI app where we use a table and a plot to present temperature measurements against time: python from matplotlib import pyplot as plt from nicegui import ui # Data elements time = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6] temperature = [30, 32, 34, 32, 33, 31] columns = [ { "name": "time", "label": "Time (min)", "field": "time", "sortable": True, "align": "right", }, { "name": "temperature", "label": "Temperature (ºC)", "field": "temperature", "required": True, "align": "right", }, ] rows = [ {"temperature": temperature, "time": time} for temperature, time in zip(temperature, time) ] ui.table(columns=columns, rows=rows, row_key="name") with ui.pyplot(figsize=(5, 4)): plt.plot(time, temperature, "-o", color="blue", label="Temperature") plt.title("Temperature vs Time") plt.xlabel("Time (min)") plt.ylabel("Temperature (ºC)") plt.ylim(25, 40) plt.legend() ui.run(title="NiceGUI Data Elements") In this example, we create a web interface that displays a table and a line plot. The data is stored in two lists: one for time (in minutes) and one for temperature (in degrees Celsius). These values are formatted into a table with columns for time and temperature. To render the table, we use the ui.table element. Below the table, we create a Matplotlib plot of temperature versus time and embed it in the ui.pyplot element. The plot has a title, axis labels, and a legend. Run it! You'll get a page that looks something like the following. Data Elements Demo App in NiceGUI Audiovisual Elements NiceGUI also has some elements that allow us to display audiovisual content in our web UIs. The audiovisual content may include some of the following: Images Audio files Videos Icons Avatars Scalable vector graphics (SVG) Below is a small demo app that shows how to add a local image to your NiceGUI-based web application: python from nicegui import ui with ui.image("./otje.jpg"): ui.label("Otje the cat!").classes( "absolute-bottom text-subtitle2 text-center" ) ui.run(title="NiceGUI Audiovisual Elements") In this example, we use the ui.image element to display a local image on your NiceGUI app. The image will show a subtitle at the bottom. NiceGUI elements provide the classes() method, which allows you to apply Tailwind CSS classes to the target element. To learn more about using CSS for styling your NiceGUI apps, check the Styling & Appearance section in the official documentation. Run it! You'll get a page that looks something like the following. Audiovisual Elements Demo App in NiceGUI Laying Out Pages in NiceGUI Laying out a GUI so that every graphical component is in the right place is a fundamental step in any GUI project. NiceGUI offers several elements that allow us to arrange graphical elements to build a nice-looking UI for our web apps. Here are some of the most common layout elements: Cards wrap another element in a frame. Column arranges elements vertically. Row arranges elements horizontally. Grid organizes elements in a grid of rows and columns. List displays a list of elements. Tabs organize elements in dedicated tabs. You'll find several other elements that allow you to tweak how your app's UI looks. Below is a demo app that combines a few of these elements to create a minimal but well-organized user profile form: python from nicegui import ui with ui.card().classes("w-full max-w-3xl mx-auto shadow-lg"): ui.label("Profile Page").classes("text-xl font-bold") with ui.row().classes("w-full"): with ui.card(): ui.image("./profile.png") with ui.card_section(): ui.label("Profile Image").classes("text-center font-bold") ui.button("Change Image", icon="photo_camera") with ui.card().classes("flex-grow"): with ui.column().classes("w-full"): name_input = ui.input( placeholder="Your Name", ).classes("w-full") gender_select = ui.select( ["Male", "Female", "Other"], ).classes("w-full") eye_color_input = ui.input( placeholder="Eye Color", ).classes("w-full") height_input = ui.number( min=0, max=250, value=170, step=1, ).classes("w-full") weight_input = ui.number( min=0, max=500, value=60, step=0.1, ).classes("w-full") with ui.row().classes("justify-end gap-2 q-mt-lg"): ui.button("Reset", icon="refresh").props("outline") ui.button("Save", icon="save").props("color=primary") ui.run(title="NiceGUI Layout Elements") In this app, we create a clean, responsive profile information page using a layout based on the ui.card element. We center the profile form and cap it at a maximum width for better readability on larger screens. We organize the elements into two main sections: A profile image card on the left and a form area on the right. The left section displays a profile picture using the ui.image element with a Change Image button underneath. A series of input fields for personal information, including the name in a ui.input element, the gender in a ui.select element, the eye color in a ui.input element, and the height and weight in ui.number elements. At the bottom of the form, we add two buttons: Reset and Save. We use consistent CSS styling throughout the layout to guarantee proper spacing, shadows, and responsive controls. This ensures that the interface looks professional and works well across different screen sizes. Run it! Here's how the form looks on the browser. A Demo Profile Page Layout in NiceGUI Handling Events and Actions in NiceGUI In NiceGUI, you can handle events like mouse clicks, keystrokes, and similar ones as you can in other GUI frameworks. Elements typically have arguments like on_click and on_change that are the most direct and convenient way to bind events to actions. Here's a quick app that shows how to make a NiceGUI app perform actions in response to events: python from nicegui import ui def on_button_click(): ui.notify("Button was clicked!") def on_checkbox_change(event): state = "checked" if event.value else "unchecked" ui.notify(f"Checkbox is {state}") def on_slider_change(event): ui.notify(f"Slider value: {event.value}") def on_input_change(event): ui.notify(f"Input changed to: {event.value}") ui.label("Event Handling Demo") ui.button("Click Me", on_click=on_button_click) ui.checkbox("Check Me", on_change=on_checkbox_change) ui.slider(min=0, max=10, value=5, on_change=on_slider_change) ui.input("Type something", on_change=on_input_change) ui.run(title="NiceGUI Events & Actions Demo") In this app, we first define four functions we'll use as actions. When we create the control elements, we use the appropriate argument to bind an event to a function. For example, in the ui.button element, we use the on_click argument, which makes the button call the associated function when we click it. We do something similar with the other elements, but use different arguments depending on the element's supported events. You can check the documentation of elements to learn about the specific events they can handle. Using the on_* type of arguments is not the only way to bind events to actions. You can also use the on() method, which allows you to attach event handlers manually. This approach is handy for less common events or when you want to attach multiple handlers. Here's a quick example: python from nicegui import ui def on_click(event): ui.notify(f"Button was clicked!") def on_hover(event): ui.notify(f"Button was hovered!") button = ui.button("Button") button.on("click", on_click) button.on("mouseover", on_hover) ui.run() In this example, we create a small web app with a single button that responds to two different events. When you click the button, the on_click() function triggers a notification. Similarly, when you hover the mouse over the button, the on_hover() function displays a notification. To bind the events to the corresponding function, we use the on() method. The first argument is a string representing the name of the target event. The second argument is the function that we want to run when the event occurs. Conclusion In this tutorial, you've learned the basics of creating web applications with NiceGUI, a powerful Python library for web GUI development. You've explored common elements, layouts, and event handling. This gives you the foundation to build modern and interactive web interfaces. For further exploration and advanced features, refer to the official NiceGUI documentation.

This smart catalyst cracks a challenge that stumped chemists for decades  ( 26.11.2025 09:01:42 sciencedaily.com)
Using a smart computational search, scientists discovered a catalyst ingredient that finally makes tough alkyl ketones behave the way chemists want. The reaction now runs cleanly and reliably, opening the door to faster and easier molecule-building.

Scientists uncover a hidden power in a common metal  ( 26.11.2025 07:36:49 sciencedaily.com)
Researchers developed a powerful new manganese complex that could revolutionize light-driven chemical reactions. It absorbs light extremely efficiently, has a uniquely long excited-state lifetime, and is far easier to synthesize than previous manganese systems. The team confirmed it successfully transfers electrons as intended. This breakthrough could enable large-scale, sustainable photochemical applications.

Century-old cosmic ray mystery is close to being solved  ( 26.11.2025 06:49:23 sciencedaily.com)
Michigan State University astrophysicists are closing in on one of space science’s biggest mysteries: where the galaxy’s most energetic particles come from. Their studies uncovered a pulsar wind nebula behind a mysterious LHAASO signal and set important X-ray constraints on other potential sources.

New Mars images reveal hidden traces of a recent ice age  ( 26.11.2025 06:05:14 sciencedaily.com)
Mars’s Coloe Fossae reveals a landscape shaped by ancient ice ages, with deep valleys, cratered terrain, and frozen debris flows preserved from a time when the planet’s climate dramatically shifted.


Investigativní


Jan Urban: Trumpismus-putinismus není ideologií, ale psychiatrickou diagnózou  ( 10.12.2025 12:00:52 hlidacipes.org)
KOMENTÁŘ. Novodobý bolševismus není ideologií. Žádnou nepotřebuje. Je to jen nástroj, který automaticky vyrostl z efektivnosti polarizační manipulace algoritmů sociálních sítí. Ničí po staletí budované identity společenství a produkuje výhradně paranoidní „vůdcovské politiky“. Sen o svobodných volbách jako výsledku racionální společenské diskuse je momentálně a nejspíš na dlouho poškozen. Polarizační efekt internetu a sociálních sítí

Robert Břešťan: Těžké byznysové začátky svatého Andreje… A jak to bylo doopravdy  ( 10.12.2025 05:30:47 hlidacipes.org)
KOMENTÁŘ. Byly časy, kdy Andrej Babiš mohl celkem věrohodně vyprávět, že „není politik“, ale ty jsou dávno pryč. Čerstvě jmenovaný premiér je součástí tuzemské aktivní politiky už dlouhých 11 let. Za tu dobu se proměnil i jeho obraz a na leccos se naopak rádo zapomíná. Nyní můžeme sledovat od Babišových věrných pokusy o jeho zbožštění

Sýrie rok po svržení Asada: mocenské vakuum a hrozba ofenzivy  ( 10.12.2025 05:00:00 neovlivni.cz)
Syřané podle regionálních zdrojů již delší dobu cvičí s tureckými poradci a dostávají od Ankary zbraně, munici i techniku. Ankara tím vytváří podmínky pro to, aby Damašek převzal kontrolu nad severovýchodem – ovšem v souladu s tureckými bezpečnostními zájmy a za marginalizace kurdských velitelů,“ píše dlouholetý zpravodajský důstojník a voják Petr Mlejnek. Rok a dva ny po pádu režimu Bašára Asada zůstává Sýrie zemí, v níž se staré mocenské struktury pokoušejí přežít v nových podmínkách a zahraniční aktéři zvyšují tlak na přetvoření vnitropolitických poměrů. Nejintenzivnější zápas se odehrává na pobřeží, kde bývalé elity financují skryté milice, a na severovýchodě, kde […]

Bývalý šéf Motola přišel ve vazbě o zub  ( 10.12.2025 04:00:00 neovlivni.cz)
Miloslav Ludvík, kdysi mocný šéf motolské nemocnice, je již deset měsíců v cílené izolaci. Soud ho poslal do vazby v kauze korupčních zakázek v nemocnici. Podle všeho tam stráví i Vánoce. Vazba ho ale rozhodně nezlomila. Z policejních spisů se k motolské kauze objevila na veřejnosti řada tvrzení, podrobností i osobních detailů. S hlavní mediání tváří kauzy však nebyla šance promluvit. Redakce Neovlivní několik měsíců vyjednávala s jediným cílem – mluvit přímo s Miloslavem Ludvíkem. Slyšet jeho odpovědi na vážné a zásadní otázky, kvůli kterým mu hrozí dlouholeté vězení. Vlastně to je k neuvěření, že se to nakonec podařilo. Zcela legálně. 3. prosince krátce […]

Aleš Rozehnal: Imigrace je pro Evropskou unii skutečný problém. Data nelžou  ( 09.12.2025 15:00:35 hlidacipes.org)
KOMENTÁŘ. Spojené státy americké vydaly svou Národní obrannou strategii, která je velmi kritická vůči Evropské unii. Jedním z důvodů kritiky je její imigrační politika. Na první pohled to od imigrační země, jakou jsou USA, působí poněkud absurdně. Při podrobnějším rozboru je však zřejmé, že mezi imigrací do USA a EU je obrovský rozdíl. Srovnání imigrace

Petr Pithart: Jak se Havel zamiloval do hnědých očí Richarda Sachera a byl z toho největší spor OF  ( 09.12.2025 10:30:00 hlidacipes.org)
Richard Sacher, chlapík menšího vzrůstu, kroužil okolo a pak nečekaně s okouzlujícím upřímným úsměvem na tváři oslovil Václava Havla. Řekl rovnou: já bych to, pane Havle, já bych toho ministra vnitra, zkusil. Stál jsem u těch dvou a viděl jsem, jak Sacher upřel na Havla své opravdu veliké hnědé oči. Nejen hnědě, snad jaksi laskavé,

Šrám na další televizní spolupráci? Slovenští radní řešili kritickou reportáž ČT  ( 09.12.2025 05:30:04 hlidacipes.org)
Zasedání kontrolní rady slovenského telerozhlasu STVR nabízejí čím dál bizarnější podívanou. Změny provedené vládou Roberta Fica směrem k větší státní kontrole nad veřejnoprávními médii se personálně propsaly do složení rady i do stylu jejích zasedání. Dobrým příkladem je schůze z konce listopadu, kdy radní řešili, zda kritická reportáž České televize o dění v STVR nepřekáží

Ludvík promluvil: První rozhovor z vazby  ( 09.12.2025 04:00:00 neovlivni.cz)
Vybudoval největší nemocnici v zemi. Přes dvě dekády patřil mezi nejmocnější postavy českého zdravotnictví. Před deseti měsíci ale jednu jeho životní kapitolu ukončila policie, když ho zatkla kvůli podezření z úplatkářství a praní špinavých peněz. Redakce Neovlivní.cz pořídila s Miloslavem Ludvíkem ve vazbě rozhovor. Miloslav Ludvík, ještě donedávna jeden z nejmocnějších mužů tuzemského zdravotnictví, byl zatčen v únoru 2025. Exředitele nemocnice Motol policie spolu s dalšími lidmi obvinila z braní úplatků za nemocniční zakázky a soud ho poslal do vazební cely. Od 24. února ztratil – s výjimkou svých právníků a rodiny – jakýkoli kontakt s vnějším světem. Veřejnost tudíž ani po deseti měsících nezná jeho […]

Petr Fischer: Tady nejde o Agrofert, ale o budoucnost demokratického státu  ( 08.12.2025 15:00:15 hlidacipes.org)
KOMENTÁŘ. Spor o střet zájmů budoucího premiéra Andreje Babiše, který vítěz voleb nakonec s hlavou státu vyřešil, zastiňuje podstatnější dění. Pečlivá starost o každou korunu Babišova majetku a o jeho možné rozšiřování skrze státní dotace překrývá důležitější otázky. Třeba to, kam se Babiš a jeho vláda postaví v geopoliticky roztříštěném světě, v němž se láme

Kdyby nenávist vítězila nad láskou, už jsme se všichni dávno povraždili, říká vyšetřovatel  ( 08.12.2025 10:30:02 hlidacipes.org)
ROZHOVOR. Před třiceti lety (14. prosince 1995) byla v Paříži podepsaná tzv. Daytonská mírová dohoda. Oficiální ukončení války v Bosně a Hercegovině stvrdili podpisem bosenský prezident Alija Izetbegović, srbský Slobodan Milošević a chorvatský prezident Franjo Tudjman. Diplomaté ale už tehdy vyjadřovali pochybnosti o tom, že dohoda dokáže přinést Balkánu trvalý klid. Podle bývalého vyšetřovatele haagského

Spalovací auta mají ještě dlouhou budoucnost, ujišťuje šéf vývoje motorů Škoda Auto  ( 08.12.2025 05:30:58 hlidacipes.org)
Martin Hrdlička je vedoucí vývoje pohonných systémů ve Škoda Auto. Odpovědnost má i za vývoj menších platforem celého koncernu VW a celosvětový vývoj řadových spalovacích motorů. Ačkoliv EU zatím nadále směřuje k ukončení prodeje „spalováků“ v roce 2035, Hrdlička upozorňuje na to, že tyto pohony mají na světových trzích stále dlouhou budoucnost. Za svůj přínos mezinárodnímu automobilovému průmyslu

AB a PP. Čeká nás napínavé soužití dvou nejmocnějších mužů v zemi  ( 08.12.2025 04:00:00 neovlivni.cz)
Andreje Babiše dělí už jen den od jmenování premiérem. Povolební vyjednávání mezi prezidentem a kandidátem na premiéra ale ukázalo, jak hluboká propast mezi oběma muži leží. Petr Pavel a Andrej Babiš jako by podle svědků, kteří u toho byli, mluvili cizí řečí. Jako by pocházeli z jiných světů. Až se průhonický oligarcha nakonec stane premiérem, čeká nás napínavé soužití dvou nejmocnějších postav v zemi. Ve vrcholové politice měl Andrej Babiš zatím jen dva protějšky, které skutečně nemohl vystát. Jedním byl premiér Bohuslav Sobotka, který ho coby ministra financí ze své vlády vyhodil. Druhým byl vicepremiér téže vlády, tehdejší lidovecký šéf Pavel Bělobrádek. […]

Pět otázek na střet zájmů budoucího premiéra  ( 07.12.2025 19:57:55 neovlivni.cz)
Oznámení lídra ANO a majitele Agrofertu Andreje Babiše o tom, že vloží svůj holding do trustu a ztratí nad ním „navždy“ vliv, přineslo víc otázek než odpovědí, píše ve své analýze bývalý senátor a auditor Lukáš Wagenknecht. A sepisuje, co všechno musí kandidát na premiéra zveřejnit, aby bylo možné vůbec ověřit, že na koncern už skutečně nemá žádný vliv. Co stanovy nového slepého fondu a jejich zveřejnění Andrej Babiš tvrdí, že nový fond, díky kterému se přestane ovládat Agrofert, bude řízený nezávislými správci. Podle všeho má na mysli takzvaný ‚slepý fond‘, což je na první pohled dostačující prohlášení. Nicméně to, […]

Aleš Rozehnal: Slepý fond ukazuje Babišovu závislost na státu, ne osobní oběť  ( 07.12.2025 06:30:46 hlidacipes.org)
KOMENTÁŘ. Krok Andreje Babiše vložit Agrofert do slepého svěřenského fondu je jeho zastánci vykreslován jako výraz osobní oběti a důkaz, že hodlá pracovat pro Českou republiku bez ohledu na své soukromé zájmy. Taková interpretace je ale zcela falešná. Andrej Babiš i v případě slepého trustu bude vědět, které společnosti jsou v něm soustředěny. Sama tato

Sametová revoluce se nepodobala ničemu. Viděla jsem z Čechů to nejlepší  ( 06.12.2025 07:00:15 hlidacipes.org)
V září 1989 přijela studovat češtinu, v Praze tato rodilá Američanka pak prožila pád komunistického režimu. Na neuvěřitelné týdny nemohla zapomenout a v roce 1994 se do Česka přestěhovala natrvalo. Své poslání Gwendolyn Albert poté našla v aktivismu a novinařině. „Byly to dny nepodobné čemukoliv, co jsem kdy zažila: ten pocit solidarity v davu, způsob,


Komentáře


Improvizace v kauze Turek pomohla Babišovi na cestu do Bruselu  ( 10.12.2025 16:30:00 irozhlas.cz)
Kdo je premiérem České republiky? Na tuto otázku neexistuje momentálně jednoznačná odpověď. Správně je konstatování, že i nadále Petr Fiala (ODS), byť úřaduje v demisi. Kdo by tvrdil, že jím je Andrej Babiš (ANO), měl by rovněž pravdu. Prezident republiky ho jmenoval, o tom není třeba pochybovat.

Stále více zemí se ptá, jak chránit děti a mladé před tlakem sociálních sítí  ( 10.12.2025 06:30:00 irozhlas.cz)
V Austrálii začal platit zákon vymezující věk užívání sociálních sítí. Jde o jednu z nejtvrdších regulací sociálních sítí na světě. Zákon bude po velkých platformách jako Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, YouTube, X nebo Facebook vymáhat, aby děti mladší 16 let vůbec nemohly mít účet.

Petr Pavel i Andrej Babiš v povolebních jednáních obstáli  ( 09.12.2025 16:30:00 irozhlas.cz)
Mít devět týdnů od voleb nového premiéra a brzy snad i novou vládu, to není vůbec špatný výsledek. Ústavní aktéři se tak pohybují v časovém rámci typickém i pro zrod předchozích kabinetů. A jako obvykle se tvrdším oříškem než pilování koaliční shody stal prezident republiky.

Trumpovy Spojené státy si přejí podřízenou a rozdrobenou Evropu  ( 09.12.2025 06:29:00 irozhlas.cz)
Aspoň víme, na čem jsme, můžeme si říct při četbě nové bezpečnostní strategie Spojených států. Třicetistránkový dokument působí spíše než jako promyšlená vize jako politický pamflet hnutí MAGA, Make America Great Again. K dnešní Evropě se staví jako k rivalovi, jako k nehodnému dítěti, které se vydalo na špatnou cestu. Spojené státy se budou holt muset postarat, aby si to uvědomilo a polepšilo se.

Vstupte do odboje. Proti drogám  ( 08.12.2025 16:30:00 irozhlas.cz)
„Všichni se bojíme. Stačí jen říct, že tady na předměstí není něco v pořádku, a můžeme přijít o život,“ říká jeden z účastníků pohřbu dvacetiletého Mehdiho Kessaciho. Ten byl zastřelen, protože jeho bratr Amin Kessaci bojuje proti narkomafii, která ničí lidské životy a ohrožuje dosud pevný státní aparát korupcí. Jsme v druhém největším francouzském městě Marseille, v listopadu 2025.

Jak to dopadne s ministerstvy pro Motoristy a co bude s Turkem  ( 08.12.2025 06:30:00 irozhlas.cz)
Andrej Babiš (ANO) bude poté, co oznámil řešení střetu zájmů, jmenován premiérem, takže zbývá vyřešit jedinou vládní tajenku. Co se stane s čestným prezidentem Motoristů Filipem Turkem a s posty, které jsou ve vznikajícím kabinetu určené pro jeho stranu.

Státnický krok nebo další finta? Neunáhlil se prezident?  ( 07.12.2025 16:30:00 irozhlas.cz)
Prezidentovi republiky Petr Pavlovi nelze upřít, že dosáhl s Andrejem Babišem (ANO) úspěchu, jaký se předtím nikomu nepodařil.

Stihneme Putina zastavit? Parlament EU přijal program pro evropský obranný průmysl  ( 07.12.2025 06:30:00 irozhlas.cz)
Po téměř čtyřech letech války na Ukrajině se snad Evropa vzpamatovává. Evropská unie jako celek, jako společenství plánuje obranu. Parlament EU schválil úplně první program pro evropský obranný průmysl.

Proč Grolich nevyrazil s Kubou na lov odpadlíků  ( 06.12.2025 16:30:00 irozhlas.cz)
Jeden moment, který doprovodil vyhlášení jihočeského hejtmana Martina Kuby, že opouští ODS s cílem založit vlastní hnutí, by neměl zapadnout.

Andrej Babiš překvapil. Z Šavla Pavel?  ( 06.12.2025 06:30:00 irozhlas.cz)
Příběh Andreje Babiše, který 4. prosince 2025 oznámil, že se vzdá Agrofertu, svého – jak to sám nazval minulý týden v Parlamentu – „třicet let budovaného dítěte“, aby mohl ve funkci premiéra pracovat pro blaho národa, je tak trochu jako z bible.

Populární generál Zalužnyj se vrátil na Ukrajinu. Proč?  ( 05.12.2025 16:30:00 irozhlas.cz)
Bývalý velitel ukrajinských ozbrojených sil a současný velvyslanec své země ve Spojeném království Valerij Zalužnyj se nečekaně vrátil na Ukrajinu. V pondělí o tom informoval na Facebooku s tím, že „doma je nejlépe“. Server Euromajdan Press k tomu napsal, že jeho návrat vyvolal na Ukrajině řadu spekulací o důvodech, které k tomu populárního generála vedly.

Fiala rozséval dobro, Kuba sází brambory  ( 05.12.2025 06:29:00 irozhlas.cz)
Tomio Okamura v roli předsedy Poslanecké sněmovny vyrazil na Slovensko utužovat vztahy s tamější politickou reprezentací. Do delegace, která čert ví proč musela na upevňovací návštěvu použít letadlo, vzal výhradně poslance z budoucí vládní koalice.

Je libo Ukrajinu na másle, nebo na divoko?  ( 04.12.2025 16:30:00 irozhlas.cz)
Kdykoli se Steve Witkoff, americký byznysmen přeučený na vyjednávače, rozpřahuje k objetí s ruským prezidentem Vladimirem Putinem, naskakuje evropským politikům husí kůže. Velmi oprávněně se obávají, že se Američané chystají obětovat Ukrajinu a tím pádem ohrozit světový mír.

Bitcoin. Jednou dole, jednou nahoře  ( 04.12.2025 06:29:00 irozhlas.cz)
Staré české pořekadlo říká, že není vždycky posvícení, což plně platí i pro zcela moderní kryptoměnový svět. Asi bolestivě prožili poslední týdny majitelé digitálních peněz, například bitcoin propadl z rekordních 126 tisíc dolarů během pár týdnů od začátku října pod 90 a jen těžce se zvedá.

Okamurova demokracie vlastní bubliny  ( 03.12.2025 16:30:00 irozhlas.cz)
„Dobré ráno z Bratislavského hradu, za chviličku se přiblíží naše delegace českého Parlamentu,“ říká na selfie videu ze Slovenska poslanec za ANO a předseda sněmovního zahraničního výboru Radek Vondráček. Není to pochopitelně pravda. Delegace, kterou na Slovensko veze Tomio Okamura je delegací vybrané parlamentní bubliny. Demokracie v Parlamentu se mění ve vládu libovůle lidí, kteří se dostali k moci, již chápou ve smyslu „bereme všechno“.

Žebříček EU Observeru – z 21 europoslanců má Česko 3 prokremelské kolaboranty  ( 03.12.2025 06:30:00 irozhlas.cz)
Server EU Observer přišel spolu s novináři z Novaja Gazeta Europe se zajímavou analýzou. Sestavili seznam moskevských přisluhovačů neboli ruských kolaborantů v Evropském parlamentu. Novináři porovnávají deváté volební období europarlamentu, trvalo od roku 2019 do roku 2024, s novým volebním obdobím. V obou nacházejí skupinu poslanců, která důsledně hlasovala, a ta nová hlasuje dál, proti rezolucím odsuzujícím Moskvu nebo podporujícím Kyjev.

Doufat v definitivní rozetnutí Babišova střetu zájmů by bylo pošetilé  ( 02.12.2025 16:30:00 irozhlas.cz)
Příznivci Andreje Babiše se jeho střetu zájmů neobávají. Naopak odpůrci mu sotvakdy uvěří byť jen nos mezi očima. Předseda hnutí ANO přesto slibuje, že vše vyřeší v souladu se zákonem. Nic jiného mu nezbývá, chce-li se dočkat okamžiku, kdy jej prezident jmenuje příštím premiérem.

Musíme si promluvit o násilí na ženách  ( 02.12.2025 06:30:00 irozhlas.cz)
Letos, stejně jako každý rok, si v posledním listopadovém týdnu připomínáme problematiku násilí na ženách. Akční dny proti násilí na ženách jsou každoročně od 25. listopadu do 10. prosince a toto období se oficiálně nazývá 16 dní aktivismu proti genderově podmíněnému násilí.

Pokračují jednání o rozpočtu, který vejde do historie. Bohužel  ( 01.12.2025 16:30:00 irozhlas.cz)
Na debatě o rozpočtu na příští rok jsou alarmující dvě věci. Že se odcházející a nastupující strážci státní poklady neshodnou ani na základních číslech – v jakém světě jsme se to ocitli? A že na straně dnešní i budoucí vlády je vidět v přístupu k tvorbě státního rozpočtu zjevná nepoctivost.

Za co lze pochválit Motoristy  ( 01.12.2025 06:29:00 irozhlas.cz)
Při sestavování vlády je největší rozruch kolem ministerských kandidátů strany Motoristé sobě. Předsedu Petra Macinku, který se původně měl stát ministrem životního prostředí, odmítala kvůli jeho antiekologickým postojům značná část odborné veřejnosti, psaly se proti němu petice, které podepsaly stovky akademiků


Kryptoměny a Ekonomika


Sněhová koule růstu má své limity. Proto omezujeme přísun nového kapitálu, říká Adam Tomis o J&T ARCH  ( 11.12.2025 05:30:00 e15.cz)
J&T ARCH zpomaluje příliv nového kapitálu s cílem udržet kontrolu nad podílem zakladatelů. Investiční šéf J&T Finance Group Adam Tomis v rozhovoru pro e15 odhaluje, jaký vliv budou mít změny na budoucí rozvoj fondu. Jak bude vypadat nový ARCH II a jak se odliší od prvního úspěšného fondu?

Bitcoin Traders Bet on 2026 Boom, Not a Santa Rally, Following Fed Rate Cut  ( 11.12.2025 04:09:05 decrypt.co)
Bitcoin options traders are tempering expectations for a Santa rally and are now looking to $130,000 and $180,000 strikes in Q1, 2026.

Half Of Asia Pacific’s High Net Worth Individuals Now Allocate Over 10% To Crypto  ( 11.12.2025 04:08:10 cryptonews.com)
Nearly half of Asia’s wealthy now allocate over 10% to crypto, with 87% already invested and most planning to increase exposure, a survey shows. The post Half Of Asia Pacific’s High Net Worth Individuals Now Allocate Over 10% To Crypto appeared first on Cryptonews.

Gemini Clears Key CFTC Approval to Launch Prediction Market Platform in US  ( 11.12.2025 03:45:30 cryptonews.com)
Gemini has received a Contract Market (DCM) license from CFTC, allowing it to begin offering “simple yes or no questions” event contracts. The post Gemini Clears Key CFTC Approval to Launch Prediction Market Platform in US appeared first on Cryptonews.

Asia Market Open: Bitcoin Edges Lower As Fed Rate-Cut Boosts Stocks  ( 11.12.2025 02:46:18 cryptonews.com)
Bitcoin slipped 2% as stocks climbed on the Fed’s latest rate cut and Powell’s upbeat outlook, with policymakers signalling limited easing ahead. The post Asia Market Open: Bitcoin Edges Lower As Fed Rate-Cut Boosts Stocks appeared first on Cryptonews.

Hong Kong Cardinal Calls AI a 'Gift From God' as Asian Bishops Mull Ethical Challenges  ( 11.12.2025 01:58:53 decrypt.co)
Regional church leaders met to establish guidelines for the use of AI in ministry, education, and content.

Proč se fotovoltaika vyplatí i v zimních měsících bez slunce  ( 11.12.2025 00:00:00 e15.cz)
Zima je pro solární elektrárny zkouškou efektivity. Kratší dny, nízko postavené slunce a časté zataženo znamenají méně světla, a tedy i méně elektřiny. Přesto se fotovoltaické elektrárny v českých podmínkách jednoznačně vyplatí. Dokonce i přes zimní pokles výroby na zhruba čtvrtinu letních hodnot.

Bitcoin Exchange Paxful Agrees to Plead Guilty, Hit With $7.5 Million in Penalties  ( 10.12.2025 23:56:49 decrypt.co)
Authorities say Paxful was used by money launderers and other criminals—and that the Bitcoin exchange knew about it.

Trump Coin Price Prediction: Trump Just Teased a New Token Launch – 100x Potential?  ( 10.12.2025 23:45:00 cryptonews.com)
President Donald Trump may have just dropped a cryptic hint about his next meme coin move, and traders are watching closely.In a recent Truth Social post, Trump used the term “$BIG” while discussing a legal case involving the NCAA. That single word has triggered intense speculation that a new Trump-linked token could be on the […] The post Trump Coin Price Prediction: Trump Just Teased a New Token Launch – 100x Potential? appeared first on Cryptonews.

Dogecoin Price Prediction: DOGE Must Hold This One Level – Or Say Goodbye to That 100% Breakout Target  ( 10.12.2025 23:30:00 cryptonews.com)
Dogecoin price prediction has detailed how DOGE has rebounded from oversold levels and held its $0.130 support as US-listed ETFs, institutional demand and the Fed rate decision shape scenarios for moves toward $0.20 in 2025 and $0.40 by mid-2026, alongside interest in PEPENODE. The post Dogecoin Price Prediction: DOGE Must Hold This One Level – Or Say Goodbye to That 100% Breakout Target appeared first on Cryptonews.

Bitcoin Price Prediction: Fed Delivers Another 25 bps Cut – Can BTC Finally Break Above $100K?  ( 10.12.2025 23:30:00 cryptonews.com)
Federal Reserve officials approved another 25 basis point interest rate reduction at Wednesday's FOMC meeting, with Bitcoin remaining steady around $92,000 as traders had already priced in the cut and analysts highlight the Fed's planned $40 billion Treasury bill purchases could inject liquidity into risk assets. The post Bitcoin Price Prediction: Fed Delivers Another 25 bps Cut – Can BTC Finally Break Above $100K? appeared first on Cryptonews.

Zcash Price Prediction: After a 1,000% Rally, Is This Just a Dip or Is the Bull Market Over?  ( 10.12.2025 23:12:00 cryptonews.com)
ZEC may have only scratched the surface of its bullish potential this cycle – Zcash price predictions eye a continuation. The post Zcash Price Prediction: After a 1,000% Rally, Is This Just a Dip or Is the Bull Market Over? appeared first on Cryptonews.

Official Trump Crypto Game Revealed With $1 Million in Solana Meme Coin Rewards  ( 10.12.2025 23:04:36 decrypt.co)
Trump Billionaires Club on iOS and Android will launch by year's end and offer $1 million worth of the president's meme coin as rewards.

Best Altcoin to Buy Now Under $0.01 – 10 December  ( 10.12.2025 22:40:00 cryptonews.com)
Crypto markets have gained 2% as Ethereum, Cardano and Monero have risen ahead of the Fed decision, while PEPENODE has raised over $2.3m and is promoted as a best sub-$0.01 altcoin with virtual mining nodes and 560% APY staking. The post Best Altcoin to Buy Now Under $0.01 – 10 December appeared first on Cryptonews.

Perplexity AI Predicts the Price of XRP, Dogecoin, Solana by the End of 2025  ( 10.12.2025 22:35:00 cryptonews.com)
Perplexity AI has predicted notable gains for XRP, Solana, and Dogecoin by the end of 2025. XRP may see a 2-4x increase, while Solana could push toward $400. Dogecoin, despite recent setbacks, is expected to rebound with a 200% surge, offering investors a promising outlook for the new year. The post Perplexity AI Predicts the Price of XRP, Dogecoin, Solana by the End of 2025 appeared first on Cryptonews.

Cathie Wood Says Bitcoin’s 4-Year Cycle is Breaking as Institutions Steady the Market  ( 10.12.2025 22:31:00 cryptonews.com)
Ark Invest CEO Cathie Wood has argued that Bitcoin’s historic four-year halving cycle has weakened as institutional investors, ETFs, and corporate treasuries have accumulated BTC, softening volatility and changing expectations for future crashes, rallies, and long-term price behavior. The post Cathie Wood Says Bitcoin’s 4-Year Cycle is Breaking as Institutions Steady the Market appeared first on Cryptonews.

Best Crypto to Buy Now 10 December – XRP, PEPE, Shiba Inu  ( 10.12.2025 22:30:00 cryptonews.com)
Crypto's market shows bullish signs with Bitcoin reclaiming $92K, signaling a favorable environment for altcoins. Analysts highlight XRP's technical setup for 2026 highs, while PEPE and Shiba Inu show signs of recovery, potentially driving the next wave in memecoins. The post Best Crypto to Buy Now 10 December – XRP, PEPE, Shiba Inu appeared first on Cryptonews.

Elon Musk's SpaceX Moves Bitcoin Ahead of Potential Record IPO  ( 10.12.2025 22:20:09 decrypt.co)
Elon Musk's private aerospace company SpaceX moved more of its Bitcoin holdings on Wednesday ahead of reported blockbuster IPO plans.

Crypto Debanking and Efforts to 'Weaponize Finance' Must End, Says Top US Banking Regulator  ( 10.12.2025 22:11:55 decrypt.co)
Major U.S. banks denied services to crypto and other lawful businesses based on industry rather than risk, an OCC preliminary report finds.

Holubičí Fed naskočil na býčí vlnu technologické revoluce  ( 10.12.2025 22:10:00 patria.cz)
Čekali jsme od Fedu jestřábí snížení sazeb, ale nakonec jsme se dočkali něčeho docela jiného: Fed zjevně naskočil na optimistickou vlnu rychlejšího růstu produktivity, což mu umožňuje pokračovat ve snižování sazeb, odhadovat pokles inflace a přitom počítat s rychlejším růstem.

Zámořské indexy posílily po snížení sazeb  ( 10.12.2025 22:02:17 patria.cz)
Americké akcie dnes rostly poté, co Fed potřetí v řadě snížil sazby o 25 bazických bodů a předseda Jerome Powell naznačil, že dopad cel na inflaci bude dočasný.

Tether Pivots to Wellness Apps and Robotics in Latest Step Away from Crypto  ( 10.12.2025 21:55:09 decrypt.co)
The stablecoin giant is using its cash surplus to fund a disparate string of side ventures, from humanoid robots to calorie-counting AI.

A Startup Is Trying to Take the Twitter Name From Elon Musk by Force—And It Might Work  ( 10.12.2025 21:30:08 decrypt.co)
Operation Bluebird, led by Twitter's former trademark lawyer, filed to cancel X Corp's Twitter trademarks after Musk abandoned the brand. Will Musk spend millions defending a name he deliberately killed?

Why Traders Now Treat Crypto Prediction Markets Like Real-Time Shadow Polls  ( 10.12.2025 21:16:08 cryptonews.com)
Prediction markets on crypto rails have turned event contracts into shadow polls where prices update within minutes, with liquidity and fee design affecting informational value, while U.S. regulation and newsroom adoption test how far these markets can scale as tools for tracking sentiment. The post Why Traders Now Treat Crypto Prediction Markets Like Real-Time Shadow Polls appeared first on Cryptonews.

Fed snížil úrokové sazby o čtvrt procentního bodu, uvolnění měnové politiky může být na chvíli přerušeno  ( 10.12.2025 21:15:00 e15.cz)
Fed snížil základní úrokovou sazbu o  o 0,25 procentního bodu do pásma 3,50 až 3,75 procenta. O rozhodnutí dnes Americká centrální banka informovala v tiskové zprávě. Hospodářská aktivita roste mírně, inflace zůstává mírně zvýšená, rizika pro zaměstnanost rostou.

'National Security' at Risk If MSCI Excludes Crypto Treasuries, Warns Bitcoin Giant Strategy  ( 10.12.2025 21:08:26 decrypt.co)
Bitcoin treasury leader Strategy argued to MSCI that excluding a crypto-buying firms from its indices would hurt America’s national security.

GameStop Stock Falls After Bitcoin Holdings Lose Value, Firm Says It Could Sell BTC  ( 10.12.2025 20:19:51 decrypt.co)
Markets haven’t reacted well to GameStop’s latest earnings call, where it revealed sinking Bitcoin value and retail sales alike.

Fed snížil sazby o čtvrt bodu  ( 10.12.2025 20:02:00 patria.cz)
Fed naplnil široké očekávání trhu a na svém dvoudenním měnovém zasedání rozhodl o snížení základní úrokové sazby o čtvrt procentního bodu do pásma 3,50 až 3,75 procenta.

Solana Price Prediction: Institutional Flows Into Spot ETFs Dry Up – Here’s the Catalyst They Might Be Waiting For  ( 10.12.2025 19:26:00 cryptonews.com)
Institutions have been holding off with the Fed’s rate cut decision imminent – Solana Price Predictions near their next potential catalyst. The post Solana Price Prediction: Institutional Flows Into Spot ETFs Dry Up – Here’s the Catalyst They Might Be Waiting For  appeared first on Cryptonews.

Bitcoin, Ethereum Waver as Fed Delivers Third Rate Cut  ( 10.12.2025 19:18:12 decrypt.co)
The central bank’s move was widely expected, with the Federal Reserve announcing the third rate cut for 2025.

Fed snížil úrokovou sazbu a upravil svůj dlouhodobý výhled  ( 10.12.2025 19:01:53 kryptomagazin.cz)
Před malou chvílí ukončila zasedání centrální banka Spojených států (Fed) a podle očekávání snížila základní úrokovou sazbu o 25 bazických bodů. S tím se počítalo a trhy tuto událost jistě […]

Elon Musk Says DOGE Flagged Billions in Federal 'Zombie Payments'  ( 10.12.2025 18:50:53 decrypt.co)
In a new interview, Musk detailed how the short-lived government efficiency effort identified improper federal spending and drew political pushback.

Ethereum Has Bottomed, Says BitMine Chairman Tom Lee—Here's Why  ( 10.12.2025 18:35:52 decrypt.co)
BitMine Immersion Technologies Chairman Tom Lee said Ethereum has bottomed—and his firm is aggressively buying as a result.

Japan Moves Crypto to Securities Law – Tighter Rules & Platform Crackdowns Coming  ( 10.12.2025 18:25:46 cryptonews.com)
Japan has prepared a comprehensive reset of crypto oversight, moving digital assets from the Payment Services Act to the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act, with stricter exchange disclosures, insider-trading rules, bank-linked trading and a pending flat tax on gains. The post Japan Moves Crypto to Securities Law – Tighter Rules & Platform Crackdowns Coming appeared first on Cryptonews.

Silk Road Wallets Allegedly Connected to Ross Ulbricht Move Millions in Bitcoin  ( 10.12.2025 18:15:27 decrypt.co)
Wallets labeled with connections to defunct dark web marketplace Silk Road moved millions in Bitcoin for the first time in years.

Trh a společnosti nyní a před 25 lety…  ( 10.12.2025 17:55:00 patria.cz)
Zdá se, že na jeden dolar zisků v posledních letech americké obchodované společnosti vydělávali více tzv. volného toku hotovosti. Tedy toho, co jim zbývá po investicích.

Bitcoin Price Prediction: US Bank Now Lets Clients Buy BTC Directly – Could This Be the Start of a Banking Domino Effect?  ( 10.12.2025 17:54:00 cryptonews.com)
PNC Bank, the sixth-largest commercial bank in the United States, has launched direct spot Bitcoin trading for eligible private bank clients, becoming the first major US bank to offer native Bitcoin exposure following regulatory approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. The post Bitcoin Price Prediction: US Bank Now Lets Clients Buy BTC Directly – Could This Be the Start of a Banking Domino Effect? appeared first on Cryptonews.

XRP Price Prediction: $100M Whale Dump Hits Just Before Breakout – Can Retail Buying Stop the Bleed?  ( 10.12.2025 17:35:40 cryptonews.com)
XRP whales have dumped a significant volume of tokens ahead of today’s FOMC meeting and may have delayed the token’s recovery. However, long-term holders are still not selling and continue to show the kind of commitment that favors a bullish XRP price prediction.According to data from Santiment, whale wallets holding between 100 million and 1 […] The post XRP Price Prediction: $100M Whale Dump Hits Just Before Breakout – Can Retail Buying Stop the Bleed? appeared first on Cryptonews.

Bitcoin Selling Pressure Eases as Exchange Inflows Drop: CryptoQuant  ( 10.12.2025 17:23:12 cryptonews.com)
Bitcoin has rebounded after a sharp drop, with exchange deposits, whale transfers and realized losses all declining, which has eased short-term selling pressure and set up resistance levels around $99K, $102K and $112K ahead of the Federal Reserve policy decision. The post Bitcoin Selling Pressure Eases as Exchange Inflows Drop: CryptoQuant appeared first on Cryptonews.

Inflace v listopadu zvolnila, stál za tím vývoj cen potravin  ( 10.12.2025 17:06:00 patria.cz)
Spotřebitelské ceny v listopadu meziročně vzrostly o 2,1 procenta, inflace tak zvolnila z říjnových 2,5 procenta. Ve srovnání s předchozím měsícem ceny klesly o 0,3 procenta, uvedl dnes Český statistický úřad (ČSÚ), který tak potvrdil svůj předběžný odhad.

Crypto Tax Bill Targeted for Passage by Next August, House Tax Writer Says  ( 10.12.2025 16:49:54 cryptonews.com)
U.S. lawmakers have stepped up efforts to update crypto tax rules, debating de minimis exemptions for small payments, staking income timing, exchange reporting duties and new 1099-DA forms as the IRS has prepared for broader oversight in 2026. The post Crypto Tax Bill Targeted for Passage by Next August, House Tax Writer Says appeared first on Cryptonews.

Ethereum Rises As Altcoin Season Fear Eases And Select Tokens Join The Move  ( 10.12.2025 16:41:49 cryptonews.com)
Crypto sentiment has improved as the Fear and Greed Index has risen from recent lows, Bitcoin has stabilized near $92,000, and Ethereum, Monero, and Mantle have logged fresh gains, yet traders have treated this as early stabilization rather than a full altcoin season. The post Ethereum Rises As Altcoin Season Fear Eases And Select Tokens Join The Move appeared first on Cryptonews.

How One Polymarket User Turned $3K into $125K With a Single Prediction  ( 10.12.2025 16:37:04 decrypt.co)
American singer D4vd was the most Googled person this year after a girl was found dead in his car—and one Polymarket user profited from it.

Malý krok pro člověka, velký skok pro AI? Start-up podporovaný Nvidií vytrénoval první model přímo ve vesmíru  ( 10.12.2025 16:31:00 patria.cz)
Startup Starcloud jako první vytrénoval model umělé inteligence přímo z vesmíru a zahájil tak novou éru orbitálních datových center, která by mohla zmírnit rostoucí krizi digitální infrastruktury na Zemi.

Strategy Challenges MSCI Plan to Exclude Digital Asset Treasury Firms from Key Indexes  ( 10.12.2025 15:46:06 cryptonews.com)
Strategy has submitted a detailed response to MSCI, challenging a proposal to exclude digital asset treasury companies from major indexes and arguing it has threatened index stability, market neutrality, and U.S. efforts to integrate Bitcoin and digital assets into capital markets. The post Strategy Challenges MSCI Plan to Exclude Digital Asset Treasury Firms from Key Indexes appeared first on Cryptonews.

Vláda proti zastavení růstu sociálních odvodů pro živnostníky. Stopku chce nová koalice  ( 10.12.2025 15:26:48 ekonomickydenik.cz)
Vláda v demisi přijala negativní stanovisko k návrhu nastupující koalice ANO, SPD a Motoristů na zastavení růstu sociálních odvodů živnostníků. Na tiskové konferenci to oznámil premiér Petr Fiala (ODS). Nová sněmovní většina novelu přesto patrně prosadí. Předloha podle podkladů zhorší udržitelnost důchodového systému i nerovnost mezi odvody živnostníků a zaměstnanců.

Nová studie: Brexit má skutečně znatelné negativní dopady na britskou ekonomiku  ( 10.12.2025 15:09:00 patria.cz)
Ve Velké Británii se opět diskutuje o tom, proč její ekonomika od roku 2010 roste tak pomalu. Na stránkách VoxEU to píše ekonom Nicholas Bloom a jeho kolegové.

Pokuta pro Rohlík platí. Soud potvrdil sankci za švarcsystém  ( 10.12.2025 15:00:00 e15.cz)
Společnost Velká Pecka provozující Rohlík.cz byla pravomocně potrestána pokutou 2,5 milionu korun za obcházení pracovního zákona. Nejvyšší správní soud potvrdil, že kurýři pracovali na IČO, ale vykonávali závislou práci, což vedlo k pokutě. Firma se proti rozhodnutí bránila, ale soud zdůraznil, že šlo o konkrétní případ, nikoli ohrožení celého segmentu digitálních platforem.

CSG získala miliardový kontrakt na munici pro stát v jihovýchodní Asii  ( 10.12.2025 14:45:00 e15.cz)
Skupina Czechoslovak Group (CSG) podnikatele Michala Strnada uzavřela kontrakt na dodávky malorážové munice pro ministerstvo obrany v jihovýchodní Asii. ČTK to ve středu v tiskové zprávě sdělil mluvčí skupiny Andrej Čírtek. Hodnota kontraktu je ve stovkách milionů amerických dolarů, tedy ve vysokých jednotkách miliard korun.

Raiffeisenbank zrychluje podnikatelské úvěry. Spustila novou schvalovací aplikaci  ( 10.12.2025 14:11:00 e15.cz)
Raiffeisenbank spustila novou schvalovací aplikaci Digital Origination („DO“), která je určenou pro úvěry v segmentu podnikatelů a malých firem. Jedná se o první fázi tříletého projektu, který postupně nahradí dosavadní schvalovací systémy. Nový systém podstatně zjednoduší a urychlí proces udělování úvěrů pro malé a střední podniky i podnikatele.

INVESTIČNÍ ONLINE: SpaceX chce v rámci vstupu na burzu získat přes 30 miliard dolarů  ( 10.12.2025 14:00:00 e15.cz)
Akcie, komodity, nemovitosti i kryptoměny. Sledujte nejdůležitější události, které hýbou investičními trhy doma i ve světě. V tomto přehledu najdete aktuální zprávy, rychlé analýzy i komentáře expertů.

SpaceX plánuje největší IPO v historii, cílí na 30 miliard dolarů  ( 10.12.2025 13:58:00 e15.cz)
SpaceX plánuje v příštím roce vstup na burzu, který by mohl být největším IPO v historii s cílem získat více než 30 miliard dolarů. Firma hodlá ocenit svou hodnotu na 1,5 bilionu dolarů a část peněz využít na vývoj vesmírných datových center. Tržby SpaceX mají v letošním roce činit 15 miliard dolarů, přičemž většina příjmů pochází ze systému Starlink.

Ethereum ETFs Hit Six-Week High as Investors Rotate Within Crypto  ( 10.12.2025 13:50:07 decrypt.co)
Spot Ethereum ETF inflows hit a six-week high, with analysts citing a structural rotation by institutions broadening their crypto exposure.

Český AI nápad na sledování srdce expanduje do Evropy  ( 10.12.2025 13:45:00 e15.cz)
Český startup Kardi Ai využívá AI a chytrý hrudní pás k včasnému odhalování srdečních arytmií, které běžné vyšetření nemusí zachytit. Technologie právě expanduje na čtyři nové evropské trhy. Za projektem stojí kardiolog Tomáš Skála a americký podnikatel Stephen Burke, podpoření známými tvářemi české investiční scény.

Morning Minute: JPMorgan Says No Crypto Winter  ( 10.12.2025 13:33:18 decrypt.co)
The macro forces at play will outweigh the recent sell-off drivers, according to the major bank.

Ark Invest’s Cathie Wood: Bitcoin’s Four-Year Cycle Will Be ‘Disrupted’  ( 10.12.2025 13:20:31 decrypt.co)
The Ark Invest CEO believes that Bitcoin has now switched to being ‘a risk-on asset,’ in contrast to gold.

Snižování sazeb se chýlí ke konci, "obchod zklamání" posouvá výnosy na šestnáctiletá maxima  ( 10.12.2025 13:16:00 patria.cz)
Celosvětové výnosy dluhopisů vzrostly na maxima, na kterých se naposledy nacházely v roce 2009. Děje se tak před klíčovým zasedáním amerického Fedu, a signalizuje to obavy, že cykly snižování úrokových sazeb vyspělých světových ekonomik od USA po Austrálii se možná chýlí ke konci.

Judge Blocks Connecticut From Enforcing Gambling Laws Against Kalshi—for Now  ( 10.12.2025 12:41:08 decrypt.co)
The temporary order prevents state enforcement while the court weighs the company’s request for a preliminary injunction.

Vláda v demisi rozpočet na příští rok už nepředělá. Nový návrh by nedával smysl  ( 10.12.2025 12:32:35 ekonomickydenik.cz)
Návrh státního rozpočtu na příští rok vláda v demisi premiéra Petra Fialy (ODS) nepřepracuje. Nedává to smysl, když v pondělí 15. prosince nastoupí kabinet ANO, SPD a Motoristů, řekl končící ministr životního prostředí Petr Hladík (KDU-ČSL). Rozpočet vrátila kabinetu nová sněmovní většina, chybí v něm podle ní zhruba 96 miliard korun. Končící vláda to odmítá.

Giving Tuesday po desáté. Letošek přinesl krev pro tisíc životů  ( 10.12.2025 12:00:00 e15.cz)
Giving Tuesday v Česku slaví desetiletí. Za tu dobu Češi darovali už přes 500 milionů korun. Kultura štědrosti se stává součástí každodenního života. Letošní ročník se nesl ve znamení krve. Lidé darovali 155 litrů, což může zachránit více než tisíc životů.

Google pod lupou Bruselu: AI otevřela novou frontu antimonopolního boje  ( 10.12.2025 12:00:00 e-news.cz)
Evropská komise otevřela další kapitolu svého dlouhodobého sporu s Googlem. Tentokrát nejde o vyhledávání, Android ani reklamní technologie – tentokrát jde o umělou inteligenci. Brusel chce vědět, jestli americký gigant nezneužívá obsah evropských vydavatelů a tvůrců na YouTube k trénování svých AI modelů bez řádné kompenzace. A hlavně: jestli si tím nezajišťuje neférovou výhodu oproti konkurenci. Článek Google pod lupou Bruselu: AI otevřela novou frontu antimonopolního boje se nejdříve objevil na Ekonomický magazín.

Twenty One Capital Drops in NYSE Debut as Bitcoin Treasury Firms Face ‘Broader Re-Pricing’  ( 10.12.2025 11:59:55 decrypt.co)
The debut underperformed its SPAC benchmark, as investors pull back from Bitcoin treasury plays in favor of clearer operating models.

Mezinárodní měnový fond zlepšil výhled čínské ekonomiky, ale vyzval k reformám  ( 10.12.2025 11:47:00 patria.cz)
Mezinárodní měnový fond (MMF) zlepšil odhad růstu čínské ekonomiky na letošní i příští rok. Zároveň však vládu v Pekingu vyzval k urychlení strukturálních reforem, které by snížily závislost ekonomiky na exportu.

KKCG Financing a.s.: Oznámení o šesté výplatě úrokového výnosu  ( 10.12.2025 11:36:00 patria.cz)
KKCG Financing a.s. IČO: 21531455 Společnost KKCG Financing a.s. zveřejnila oznámení o šesté výplatě úrokového výnosu dluhopisů KKCG FINAN 7,75/29, ISIN CZ0003563009.

Když Evropa chce nakupovat jen doma: Česko staví barikádu proti protekcionismu  ( 10.12.2025 11:30:00 e-news.cz)
Brusel se chystá rozhodnout, zda bude EU upřednostňovat vlastní výrobky před těmi ze zahraničí. Česko spolu s osmi dalšími zeměmi ale říká: pozor, takhle si můžeme uškodit víc, než pomoci. Ministr průmyslu Lukáš Vlček varuje, že ochrana musí mít své meze. Článek Když Evropa chce nakupovat jen doma: Česko staví barikádu proti protekcionismu se nejdříve objevil na Ekonomický magazín.

Fed dnes opět sníží sazby, ale co bude dál? Evropské trhy dopoledne většinou v červeném  ( 10.12.2025 11:20:00 patria.cz)
Pozornost trhů se čím dál víc stáčí k Fedu, který dnes končí své dvoudenní zasedání a večer oznámí jeho výsledky. Mělo by dojít k dalšímu snížení úrokových sazeb, což ale nakonec nebude tak zajímavé, neboť trh s tím prakticky naplno počítá.

Penta a MAT kupují centrálu České spořitelny, ta se chystá přestěhovat na Smíchov  ( 10.12.2025 11:17:00 e15.cz)
Penta Real Estate a MAT Corporation mohou koupit budovy centrály České spořitelny u metra Budějovická, transakci povolil ÚOHS. Obě společnosti budou kontrolovat firmy spravující administrativní budovy centrály, odkud se spořitelná chystá vystěhovat do nového sídla.  Penta Real Estate má v plánu také výstavbu 100 bytů a 30 řadových domů v pražském Veleslavíně za dvě miliardy korun.

Fed míří ke snížení sazeb. Trhy čekají na akciích největší pohyb od března  ( 10.12.2025 11:15:00 patria.cz)
Fed pravděpodobně sníží sazby o 25 bazických bodů, což už trh téměř plně nacenil. Přesto investoři očekávají zvýšenou volatilitu. Implikovaný pohyb na indexu S&P 500 po středečním rozhodnutí je největší od března.

Dánsko: Z migračního outsidera učitelem Evropy  ( 10.12.2025 11:00:00 e-news.cz)
Rasmus Stoklund dnes jako ministr pro integraci předsedá Radě EU a vysvětluje ostatním evropským zemím, jak na migraci. Před šesti lety, když poprvé usedl do dánského parlamentu, by ho to asi překvapilo. Ještě víc by to překvapilo jeho kolegy sociální demokraty z jiných zemí EU, kteří s dánskými „tvrdohlavci" odmítali mluvit – jejich přístup k migraci byl prostě příliš kontroverzní, příliš tvrdý. Článek Dánsko: Z migračního outsidera učitelem Evropy se nejdříve objevil na Ekonomický magazín.

Příliš horká Asie. Japonci opevňují ostrov u Tchaj-wanu, Čína používá vojenské lodě v rybářském hávu  ( 10.12.2025 11:00:00 e15.cz)
Vláda japonské premiérky Sanae Takaičiové vede ostrou rétoriku vůči Číně a zvyšuje výdaje na obranu. Obyvatelé Jonaguni mají obavu z útoku, militarizace Japonska je ale populární u mladé generace. Čína by mohla během konfliktu s USA účinně použít lodě, které se tváří jako rybářské.

Penta vstupuje do vyšší ligy realitního byznysu. V centru Londýna rozjíždí investice za 20 miliard  ( 10.12.2025 10:55:00 e15.cz)
Penta Real Estate vstupuje na britský trh dvojicí projektů v Londýně za více než 700 milionů liber (téměř 20 miliard korun). Partnerství s renomovaným developerem Ballymore má Pentě zajistit rychlou orientaci v londýnském prostředí. Penta má v Londýně velké ambice. Nové projekty ji mají zařadit mezi významné londýnské hráče.

EU Opens Antitrust Probe Into Google's Use of Publisher, YouTube Content for AI  ( 10.12.2025 10:52:03 decrypt.co)
Regulators are investigating whether the tech giant imposed unfair terms while locking rivals out of content that powers its own AI products.

Brusel má na stole účet za 135 miliard eur. A hodiny tikají  ( 10.12.2025 10:30:00 e-news.cz)
Když António Costa 1. prosince usedl do křesla předsedy Evropské rady, možná netušil, že jeho první velkou zkouškou nebude diplomatická roztržka o migraci ani spor o zelený úřad, ale prostá aritmetika. Ukrajina potřebuje peníze. Hodně peněz. A potřebuje je rychle. Pokud se unijní lídři na prosincovém summitu nedohodnou, Kyjev se dostane do finančních problémů už koncem března 2026. Článek Brusel má na stole účet za 135 miliard eur. A hodiny tikají se nejdříve objevil na Ekonomický magazín.

Když se Brusel střetne s Muskem: Kdo komu zavřel dveře?  ( 10.12.2025 10:00:00 e-news.cz)
Elon Musk a Evropská komise si vyměňují rány jako dva hráči, kteří si nejsou jistí pravidly hry – a každý tvrdí, že ten druhý podvádí. Brusel udeřil pokutou 120 milionů eur, Musk odpověděl zrušením reklamního účtu. Vypadá to jako dětinská hádka, ale ve skutečnosti jde o mnohem víc. O to, kdo vlastně stanovuje pravidla v digitálním prostoru. Článek Když se Brusel střetne s Muskem: Kdo komu zavřel dveře? se nejdříve objevil na Ekonomický magazín.

SpaceX se chystá na na burzu. Cílí na největší IPO v historii, od investorů chce vybrat přes 30 miliard dolarů  ( 10.12.2025 09:50:00 patria.cz)
Vesmírná společnost SpaceX Elona Muska plánuje v příštím roce uskutečnit primární veřejnou nabídku akcií (IPO). Podnik cílí na ocenění ve výši přibližně 1,5 bilionu dolarů a odhaduje, že od investorů vybere výrazně více než 30 miliard dolarů, čímž by si zajistil titul největší IPO v historii.

Proč se vyplatí mít účetnictví a manažerský reporting pod jednou střechou  ( 10.12.2025 09:45:43 e-news.cz)
V mnohých firmách se stále účetnictví bere jako nutnost, povinnost vůči státu, úřadům či bankám. V mnohých firmách již manažerské reporty slouží managementu pro řízení a rozhodování a sestavuje je oddělení “controllingu”. A v mnohých firmách se tyto dvě oblasti oddělují, protože účetnictví je potřeba ke zpracování roční účetní závěrky, ale controlling je potřeba ke sledování plnění rozpočtu. Přestože tyto oblasti mají různý účel, využívají v určitém rozsahu stejné informace.  Článek Proč se vyplatí mít účetnictví a manažerský reporting pod jednou střechou se nejdříve objevil na Ekonomický magazín.

Cena stříbra pro okamžité dodání je na rekordu, přesáhla 61 dolarů za unci  ( 10.12.2025 09:41:20 patria.cz)
Cena stříbra k okamžitému dodání je na dalším rekordu, krátce před 09:00 SEČ vykazovala růst o 1,3 procenta nad 61,40 dolaru (1278 Kč) za troyskou unci (oz; 31,1 gramu).

Vánoční svátky změní otevírací dobu Zákaznického centra PVK  ( 10.12.2025 09:40:15 e-news.cz)
Zákaznické centrum Pražských vodovodů a kanalizací v areálu Waltrovka mění v období vánočních svátků svojí běžnou otevírací dobu. Článek Vánoční svátky změní otevírací dobu Zákaznického centra PVK se nejdříve objevil na Ekonomický magazín.

Americká centrální banka dnes zřejmě znovu sníží úrokové sazby  ( 10.12.2025 09:38:27 patria.cz)
Americká centrální banka (Fed) dnes na závěr dvoudenního zasedání měnového výboru oznámí rozhodnutí o úrokových sazbách. Většina analytiků očekává, že Fed sníží základní úrokovou sazbu o čtvrt procentního bodu do pásma 3,50 až 3,75 procenta.

Když Washington tlačí víc než Moskva: Zelenskyj v kleštích americké diplomacie  ( 10.12.2025 09:30:00 e-news.cz)
Zelenskyj se ocitl v pasti. Washington tlačí víc na něj než na Putina. Americký mírový plán, který měl ukončit válku na Ukrajině, se po týdnech intenzivní diplomacie proměnil v nástroj tlaku na Kyjev. Ukrajinci mají stále silnější pocit, že jejich hlavní spojenec vyjednává spíš za Moskvu než za ně. Článek Když Washington tlačí víc než Moskva: Zelenskyj v kleštích americké diplomacie se nejdříve objevil na Ekonomický magazín.

Čína zvažuje omezení přístupu k čipům Nvidie navzdory Trumpovu povolení  ( 10.12.2025 09:25:00 patria.cz)
Čína se zřejmě chystá omezit přístup k pokročilým čipům H200 společnosti Nvidia, přestože americký prezident Donald Trump tento týden schválil jejich vývoz vybraným čínským zákazníkům.

EU dosáhla dohody na snížení emisí do roku 2040 o 90 %, odkládá se zavedení ETS2  ( 10.12.2025 09:22:00 e15.cz)
Předsednictvo Rady EU a Evropský parlament dosáhly předběžné dohody na snížení emisí skleníkových plynů do roku 2040 o 90 % oproti roku 1990. Zavedení systému ETS2, týkajícího se emisí v budovách a silniční dopravě, se odkládá o rok na 2028. Dohoda zahrnuje i nákup uhlíkových kreditů a snižování emisí v průmyslových odvětvích EU o 85 %.

Babiš se vrací do Bruselu. A s ním i starosti  ( 10.12.2025 09:00:00 e-news.cz)
Andrej Babiš se 9. prosince opět stal českým premiérem. Pro Brusel to není dobrá zpráva. Zatímco v Praze slaví ANO volební vítězství, v evropských institucích narůstá nervozita. Babiš má potenciál vytvořit s Viktorem Orbánem a Robertem Ficem trojblok, který dokáže zablokovat klíčové legislativní procesy EU. Článek Babiš se vrací do Bruselu. A s ním i starosti se nejdříve objevil na Ekonomický magazín.

Babiš má jako premiér imunitu před stíháním ve Francii, uvádějí tamní experti  ( 10.12.2025 08:55:38 ekonomickydenik.cz)
Andrej Babiš získal jako premiér imunitu před možným trestním stíháním ve Francii. Potvrdili to francouzští experti na mezinárodní trestní právo Didier Rebut a William Julié. Imunita podle nich trvá po celou dobu jeho mandátu. Francouzské úřady prověřují Babišův nákup nemovitostí za použití offshorových společností.

Rozbřesk: Po šesti letech německé stagnace přijde v roce 2026 opatrné cyklické oživení  ( 10.12.2025 08:55:00 patria.cz)
Léčení nemocného muže Evropy Německa připomíná čekání na Godota. Za celý letošní rok bude pro německou ekonomiku úspěchem černá nula, a co hůř, za posledních šest let nevyrostla dohromady ani o jedno procento (!).

Trhy očekávají rozhodnutí americké centrální banky o sazbách. Evropské indexy pod tlakem  ( 10.12.2025 08:53:00 patria.cz)
Americká centrální banka Fed dnes na závěr dvoudenního zasedání měnového výboru oznámí rozhodnutí o úrokových sazbách. Většina analytiků očekává, že Fed sníží základní úrokovou sazbu o čtvrt procentního bodu do pásma 3,50 až 3,75 procenta.

NET4GAS, s.r.o.: Zveřejnění vnitřní informace  ( 10.12.2025 08:50:00 patria.cz)
NET4GAS, s.r.o. IČ: 27260364 Společnost NET4GAS, s.r.o. zveřejňuje vnitřní informaci, více informací zde. (komerční sdělení)

Konec jedné éry: Smartwings odlétají do Turecka  ( 10.12.2025 08:33:41 e-news.cz)
Turecký Pegasus Airlines koupil Smartwings za 3,8 miliardy korun. Možná to zní jako další transakce v leteckém byznysu. Jenže tentokrát jde o víc – o definitivní tečku za érou českého národního letectví. Článek Konec jedné éry: Smartwings odlétají do Turecka se nejdříve objevil na Ekonomický magazín.

Důchody vyplácené na poště zdraží. Jak si zajistit výplatu bez poplatků?  ( 10.12.2025 08:30:00 e15.cz)
Doručení důchodu v hotovosti prostřednictvím České pošty je zpoplatněno. Tento poplatek je odečten z vyplácené částky důchodu. Od ledna 2026 se poplatek za hotovostní výplatu důchodu zvyšuje, a příjemci tak dostanou nižší částku. ČSSZ doporučuje z důvodu úspor zvážit možnost změny způsobu výplaty důchodových dávek na bankovní účet.

Evropa v očích Trumpa: Upadající kontinent, který potřebuje probuzení  ( 10.12.2025 07:00:00 e15.cz)
Trumpova bezpečnostní doktrína varuje Evropu před jejími slabostmi, které jsou způsobeny vlastní byrokracií, fragmentací a nedostatkem inovací. Evropa ztrácí konkurenceschopnost a spolehlivost jako silný spojenec, což ohrožuje její vztahy s USA. Místo urážení by se Evropa měla zaměřit na řešení těchto problémů a rychle zlepšit svou schopnost stát na vlastních nohou.

Boj o Warner Bros. a nové nominace na Fed: Co to znamená pro trhy a investice?  ( 10.12.2025 07:00:00 e15.cz)
Vítejte u nového vydání Investičního newsletteru e15. V dnešním dílu se podíváme na „přetahovanou“ Netflixu a Paramountu o světoznámý konglomerát Warner Bros. a co může k akvizici říct samotný Donald Trump. Zároveň se podíváme na očekávaný výsledek nadcházejícího zasedání Fedu a představíme poslední díl série Investiční portfolio e15, kde se soustředíme na hodnocení výkonnosti obou modelových portfolií za uplynulý rok a projdeme si metriky, které se při evaluaci vyplatí sledovat.

Fed sníží sazby o 25 bodů. Další dva poklesy, na které trhy sázejí, jsou ale nejisté  ( 10.12.2025 06:30:00 e15.cz)
Fed dnes pravděpodobně sníží sazby o 25 bodů. Výhled bude spíše jestřábí, pro příští rok zřejmě jen jedno snížení sazeb. Prognóza: HDP 2025 bude mírně vyšší, jádrové PCE se přiblíží ke třem procentům a inflace bude u cíle do roku 2027.

Investiční výhled 2026: Dopad cel na trhy bohatě kompenzovala vlna nadšení z AI  ( 10.12.2025 06:08:00 patria.cz)
Rok 2026 slibuje příznivé makro prostředí, ale také vyhrocenější rizika. Trhy stále táhne vlna nadšení kolem umělé inteligence, ale investoři už řeší otázku, kde je vrchol AI cyklu.

Falešný bankéř i policista. Kyberšmejdi drtí Čechy, vytáhli z nich letos už 1,5 miliardy  ( 10.12.2025 06:00:00 e15.cz)
Kybernetické útoky v Česku prudce rostou a  za prvních devět měsíců letošního roku připravily klienty bank o 1,49 miliardy korun. Častými scénáři podvodů jsou třeba hovory od falešných bankéřů, které tvoří asi třetinu škod.  Kyberšmejdi neváhají používat sofistikované metody psychického nátlaku včetně osobního setkání u bankomatu a předání peněz.

UDI Group expanduje na Západ. Projekty připravuje ve třech zemích včetně USA  ( 10.12.2025 06:00:00 e15.cz)
Developerská splečnost UDI Group expandovala do střední a východní Evropy a také do Jižní Ameriky. Nově vstupuje také na tři zahraniční trhy na Západě. Víc než polovinu objemu všech svých projektů má česká společnost v cizině.

Finance: Co stihnout před koncem roku, abyste nepřišli o tisíce?  ( 10.12.2025 06:00:00 e15.cz)
Do konce roku můžete učinit kroky, které vám zajistí tisícové úspory ze státní podpory a daňových odpočtů. Zkontrolujte penzijní spoření, DIP, stavební spoření i možné daňové odpočty. Nezapomeňte na benefity, příspěvky pojišťoven a na kontrolu smluv, aby vám nic nepropadlo.

Rep. Keith Self Moves to 'Fix the Bill' With CBDC Ban Before Key Hearing  ( 10.12.2025 05:18:54 decrypt.co)
The amendment follows Republican outcry over broken commitments to ban central bank digital currencies in the defense bill.

Solana Liquidity Plummets to Bear Level Territory Amid $500M Liquidation Overhang  ( 10.12.2025 05:03:08 decrypt.co)
On-chain data shows Solana's liquidity has contracted to bear-market levels, with $500M in long positions at risk if its price drops 5.5%.

AI Political Chatbots Can Sway Voters, New Research Finds  ( 10.12.2025 02:06:54 decrypt.co)
The studies found policy-focused chatbot messages were more persuasive and that persuasion often rose alongside uneven inaccuracies.

Teachers Union Urges Senate to Scrap Crypto Market Structure Bill  ( 10.12.2025 01:52:04 decrypt.co)
The union urged lawmakers to abandon the draft, arguing it would erode securities protections and heighten risks for pension holders.

US Tech Giants Unite to Battle China’s Open-Source AI Dominance  ( 09.12.2025 23:09:33 decrypt.co)
Anthropic and OpenAI donate key protocols to Linux Foundation as China overtakes US in open-source AI downloads.

War Department Launches New Platform With Google’s Gemini in Military AI Push  ( 09.12.2025 22:55:42 decrypt.co)
Google’s IL5-approved model has become the first generative AI deployed across the War Department as competition with China grows.

SEC Chair Atkins Says Many Types of Crypto ICOs Are Outside Agency’s Purview  ( 09.12.2025 22:47:20 decrypt.co)
SEC Chair Paul Atkins described which types of token sales wouldn't qualify as securities offerings, responding to Decrypt's question.

Bitcoin 'After Dark' ETF Would Bet on BTC as Wall Street Sleeps  ( 09.12.2025 22:09:42 decrypt.co)
The ETF would offer Bitcoin exposure when U.S. markets are closed.

Wall Street bez jasného směru: Trhy vyčkávají na rozhodnutí a prognózu Fedu, novinky k exportním omezením Nvidie  ( 09.12.2025 22:03:29 patria.cz)
Při úterním obchodování vykazovaly zámořské trhy smíšené signály, tedy některé akcie a sektory rostly a jiné naopak, což ukazuje na opatrnost u investorů.

Stripe's Tempo Payments Blockchain Opens to Public With Mastercard, UBS Onboard  ( 09.12.2025 22:02:05 decrypt.co)
Tempo, the payments-focused blockchain from Stripe and Paradigm, is now open to the public following its global testnet launch.

Zcash Founder Zooko Wilcox Joins ZEC Treasury Firm as Privacy Coin Surges  ( 09.12.2025 21:34:28 decrypt.co)
Cypherpunk Technologies stock jumped 40% Tuesday following the appointment of Zooko Wilcox to help guide the Zcash treasury firm.

Časy ve stavebnictví nejsou tak zlaté, jak se zdají. Opravdu doháníme ztracené roky?  ( 09.12.2025 20:30:00 e15.cz)
Produkce stavebnictví roste, ale jen dohání ztráty z minulých let. Přidaná hodnota roste jen slabě, produktivita stagnuje. Rychlý růst může klamat, část hodnoty odtéká přes agentury.

Americké ministerstvo financí se chlubilo výnosy dluhopisů, ty však ukazují na problémy  ( 09.12.2025 18:00:00 e15.cz)
Graf ministerstva financí USA o „rekordním roce dluhopisů“ vyvolal na síti X posměch. Kritici připomněli, že vyšší výnosy znamenají vyšší riziko, ne úspěch ekonomiky. Satirické reakce rychle překonaly popularitu původního vládního příspěvku.

Valuace amerického trhu a jedno „skoro nic“, které se za pár let stává významnou věcí  ( 09.12.2025 17:28:00 patria.cz)
Dnes se po delší době podíváme na valuace různých částí amerického akciového trhu. A spolu s nimi na to, jak valuace v minulosti neměly v podstatě žádný vliv na následnou návratnost trhu.

Čínský výrobce vodičů investuje v Plané přes dvě miliardy korun. Chystá tam první evropský závod  ( 09.12.2025 16:19:27 ekonomickydenik.cz)
Čínská společnost Gold Cup Electric Apparatus, přední světový výrobce magnetických vodičů, postaví v Česku svoji první evropskou továrnu. V areálu bývalé balírny čokolády v Plané u Mariánských Lázní na Tachovsku investuje přes dvě miliardy korun. ČTK to potvrdil mluvčí agentury CzechInvest Zdeněk Vesecký. Firma chce zahájit výrobu ve druhém čtvrtletí roku 2026.

Bitcoinové ETF od BlackRocku má vysoký roční výnos, většina investorů ale na něj zatím nedosáhla  ( 09.12.2025 16:09:00 patria.cz)
Bitcoinové ETF investiční společnosti BlackRock dosahuje od svého spuštění v lednu 2024 vysokých výnosů, na ty ovšem většina investorů nedosáhla, protože si své vstupy do fondu načasovala špatně.

Mercedes-Benz GLB přichází jako elektromobil: Dojezd až 631 km, 7 míst a tažná kapacita 2 t  ( 09.12.2025 15:59:00 e15.cz)
Mercedes-Benz GLB přechází na plně elektrickou verzi s dojezdem až 631 km. Model je vybaven pokročilou multimediální technologií MBUX, která zajišťuje aktualizace vzduchem a detailní navigaci v reálném čase. K dispozici jsou verze GLB 250+ EQ a GLB 350 EQ 4Matic, přičemž obě varianty nabízí vysokou účinnost, rychlé nabíjení a možnost tažení přívěsu.

Svátky 1. a 8. května 2026: Otevírací doba obchodů a co vlastně slavíme?  ( 09.12.2025 15:00:00 e15.cz)
V Česku v květnu slavíme dva státní svátky. Po oslavách Svátku práce 1. května následuje 8. května v Česku státní svátek Den vítězství. Oba státní svátky v roce 2026 vycházejí na pátek. Kdy mají obchody otevřeno a kdy zavřeno?

Největší mural v Česku je v Chebu. Na průmyslový park ho nastříkal Chemis  ( 09.12.2025 14:48:00 e15.cz)
Česká společnost Accolade staví s developerem Panattoni u Chebu park na ploše 200 tisíc metrů čtverečních.  Součástí je i největší mural v Česku.  Velkoplošná malba znázorňuje Cheb.

Goldman Sachs: Optimismus ustupuje, investoři hledají příležitosti mimo AI  ( 09.12.2025 14:30:00 patria.cz)
Institucionální investoři podle průzkumu Goldman Sachs zvolňují optimismus ohledně amerických akcií a umělé inteligence. Očekávají, že index S&P 500 v příštím roce poroste, ale mnohem opatrněji než dříve.

Vánoce 2025: Otevírací doba obchodů, prázdniny a sváteční dny  ( 09.12.2025 14:00:00 e15.cz)
S blížícími se vánočními svátky vrcholí nákupní horečka. Kdy o Vánocích mají obchody otevřeno a kdy zavřeno? Na jaké dny letos vychází vánoční svátky a od kdy do kdy jsou vánoční prázdniny? Kam se vypravit na vánoční trhy v Praze a v celém Česku? Jaká je otevírací doba obchodů o státních svátcích?

Colt CZ získal povolení k převzetí Synthesie za 22 miliard Kč  ( 09.12.2025 13:41:00 patria.cz)
Colt CZ získala zelenou od antimonopolního úřadu pro převzetí pardubické Synthesie Nitrocellulose a energetické divize Synthesia Power. Transakce v hodnotě 22 miliard korun posílí pozici zbrojařské skupiny v dodavatelském řetězci výroby munice, protože nitrocelulóza je klíčovou surovinou pro malorážovou i velkorážovou munici.

Colt CZ může převzít firmy Synthesia Nitrocellulose a Synthesia Power  ( 09.12.2025 13:24:00 e15.cz)
ÚOHS schválil akvizici, v rámci níž Colt CZ kupuje výrobce nitrocelulózy Synthesia Nitrocellulose a energetickou divizi Synthesia Power. Hodnota transakce je 22 miliard korun za SNC a 1,4 miliardy korun za Synthesia Power; majitelem Synthesie je skupina Kaprain Karla Pražáka. Úřad neshledal riziko narušení hospodářské soutěže, Kaprain se po dokončení převodu stane třetím největším akcionářem Coltu.

EXPO je investicí na dekádu, už teď ale máme první hmatatelné výsledky, říká komisař Soška  ( 09.12.2025 13:20:00 e15.cz)
Český pavilon na EXPO navštívilo přes 1,5 milionu lidí, získal ocenění People’s Choice a nyní se připravuje na demontáž. EXPO je dlouhodobá investice, jejíž dopady se měří v horizontu až deseti let. „Chci uvést metodiku pro hodnocení podobných projektů v celé EU,“ popisuje své další ambice v exkluzivním rozhovoru s e15 generální komisař Onřej Soška.

Ford a Renault spojují síly. Dostupné elektromobily jako nová strategie  ( 09.12.2025 12:50:00 patria.cz)
Ford a Renault spojují síly v boji o evropský trh elektromobilů. Obě automobilky plánují společnou výrobu cenově dostupných modelů v severní Francii, přičemž první vozy by se měly objevit na trhu v roce 2028.

Na hory se vypraví méně Čechů a na kratší dobu. Kde se hotely a chaty nejvíc plní?  ( 09.12.2025 12:20:19 ekonomickydenik.cz)
Zimní dovolenou v Česku plánuje 44 procent Čechů, meziročně je to o tři procentní body méně. V porovnání s loňskem si také dovolenou zkrátí, a to o jeden den na šest dní. Do zahraničí se chystá podle průzkumu státní agentury CzechTourism podobně jako loni každý třetí.

Rostoucí výnosy přibrzdily akcie v rozletu  ( 09.12.2025 12:04:26 patria.cz)
Setrvalé stoupání hlavních akciových indexů se včera přerušilo, když Wall Street naopak mírně klesla. Po úspěšné sérii to není nic zásadního a lehce zelené futures naznačují, že se k pokračování poklesu neschyluje.

Zdravotnická skupina EUC mění vedení. Novou generální ředitelkou se stává Jana Thomas Cílková  ( 09.12.2025 11:39:00 e15.cz)
Novou generální ředitelkou a předsedkyní představenstva zdravotnické skupiny EUC se od ledna 2026 stane Jana Thomas Cílková, dlouholetá členka top managementu. Její jmenování je završením řízené transformace společnosti, která reaguje na její rychlý růst. Do funkce nastoupí po Janu Blaško, jenž skupinu od dubna 2025 dočasně vedl v roli předsedy představenstva.

Kijonková i Kania posílají peníze startupu, který cílí na zvířecí longevity. Chce zamířit za hranice Česka  ( 09.12.2025 11:30:00 e15.cz)
Český startup Vetstor, který vyvíjí platformu pro zdravotní péči domácích mazlíčků, získal v rámci investičního kola jeden milion eur. Peníze mu poslala mimo jiné investiční skupina JSK podnikatelky Simony Kijonkové nebo podnikatel a majitel fotbalového Liberce Ondřej Kania. Investici chce startup použít mimo jiné na hlubší implementaci umělé inteligence a přípravu expanze.

Nová cílová cena a doporučení Patrie: Silná rozvaha a dividendy Philip Morris ČR drží atraktivitu i přes vyšší náklady  ( 09.12.2025 10:52:00 patria.cz)
V návaznosti na výsledky za 1H25 aktualizujeme naše odhady hospodaření Philip Morris ČR. Tabák čelí náročnějšímu krátkodobému období, kdy vyšší marketingové výdaje a rostoucí daňová zátěž mohou zatížit ziskovost.

Pavel jmenoval Babiše premiérem, vládu jmenuje v pondělí zatím bez Turka  ( 09.12.2025 10:48:00 patria.cz)
Prezident Petr Pavel dnes ráno na Pražském hradě jmenoval předsedu hnutí ANO Andreje Babiše premiérem. Ten po svém jmenování předal hlavě státu nominace ministrů do vlády ANO, SPD a Motoristů.

Průměrná sazba hypoték i v prosinci zůstala na 4,91 procenta  ( 09.12.2025 10:20:00 e15.cz)
Průměrná sazba hypoték na počátku prosince zůstala 4,91 procenta, kde je od října. Stále je tak nejníže od dubna 2022. Za celý letošní rok klesla o třetinu procentního bodu. Vyplývá to z údajů Swiss Life Hypoindexu, který se zpracovává na základě nabídkových sazeb na začátku každého měsíce. Další vývoj hypotečních sazeb bude záviset především na dalším postupu měnové politiky České národní banky, na trajektorii inflace a na kondici české ekonomiky.

Litva vyhlásila nouzovou situaci kvůli pašeráckým balónům z Běloruska  ( 09.12.2025 10:18:00 e15.cz)
Litva vyhlásila nouzovou situaci kvůli opakovanému narušování vzdušného prostoru pašeráckými balóny z Běloruska. Vládě to umožní nasadit další zdroje a žádat o širší pravomoci pro armádu ve spolupráci s policií a bezpečnostními složkami. Opatření míří na organizátory nelegálních aktivit, civilistů se podle vlády zásadně nedotknou.

Rozbřesk: Stojí před eurodolarem nejen Fed, ale znovu i děravý francouzský rozpočet?  ( 09.12.2025 10:07:00 patria.cz)
Průmysl v říjnu rostl o něco pomaleji, než jsme čekali – meziměsíčně (po sezónním a kalendářním očištění, data v Reuters) poklesl o 0,1 %, zatímco meziročně byl vyšší o 1,1 % (náš odhad +1,7 %).

Spořicí účty: Srovnání za prosinec. Jak vysoké úrokové sazby banky aktuálně nabízejí?  ( 09.12.2025 10:00:00 e15.cz)
Úrokové sazby na spořicích účtech zůstávají v prosinci prakticky beze změn. Banky zpravidla prodloužily garanci stávajících sazeb, jediná Trinity Bank úroky změnila. Jakými sazbami nyní úročí tuzemské banky vklady na spořicích účtech a které banky nabízejí sazbu 4 procenta? Který spořicí účet je nejlepší?

Biometan je plyn budoucnosti. Řeší několik témat doby najednou, říká Jiří Šimek z innogy  ( 09.12.2025 10:00:00 e15.cz)
Vzniká udržitelně. Při jeho výrobě se zužitkuje odpad. Lze ho distribuovat zavedenou sítí, která se rozvíjí už desítky let. Posiluje energetickou soběstačnost země. Biometan je plyn budoucnosti, říká výkonný ředitel společnosti innogy Energo Jiří Šimek. V podcastu Trendy v udržitelnosti, který přináší ve spolupráci s e15 projekt [ta] Udržitelnost, zároveň vyslovuje názor, že plyny zůstanou nedílnou součástí energetiky, včetně toho zemního.

Turek se ministrem nestane. Šéf Motoristů ho ze seznamu kandidátů vyškrtl  ( 09.12.2025 09:50:46 ekonomickydenik.cz)
Šéf hnutí ANO Andrej Babiš předal po svém jmenování premiérem prezidentu Petru Pavlovi nominace ministrů do vlády ANO, SPD a Motoristů. Chybí ale mezi nimi jméno Filipa Turka. Babiš řekl novinářům na Pražském hradě, že je to ze zdravotních důvodů.

Vítězství pro Nvidii: Trump jí povolil vývoz do Číny, analytici ale varují před ztrátou výhody  ( 09.12.2025 09:36:00 patria.cz)
Nvidia znovu dostala po nějaké době zelenou k prodeji čipů do Číny. Bílý dům povolil firmě za určitých podmínek vyvážet AI čipy H200, oznámil v pondělí večer americký prezident Donald Trump s tím, že o tom informoval i svého čínského protějška Si Ťin-pchinga, který na zprávy reagoval pozitivně.

Německý export v říjnu držel tempo, dovoz se propadl o více než procento  ( 09.12.2025 09:04:00 patria.cz)
Německý export v říjnu překvapil mírným růstem o 0,1 %, zatímco analytici očekávali pokles. Dovoz naopak klesl o 1,2 %, což zvýšilo přebytek obchodní bilance na 16,9 miliardy eur.

J&T ARCH INVESTMENTS SICAV, a.s.: Vnitřní informace  ( 09.12.2025 08:50:00 patria.cz)
J&T ARCH INVESTMENTS SICAV, a.s. IČO: 08800693 Společnost J&T ARCH INVESTMENTS SICAV, a.s. zveřejňuje vnitřní informaci, více informací zde. (komerční

J&T chystá druhý fond ARCH. Ten první už spravuje aktiva v hodnotě 200 miliard  ( 09.12.2025 08:45:00 e15.cz)
Skupina J&T v prvním čtvrtletí příštího roku spustí druhý fond J&T ARCH. První fond ARCH se blíží hranici osmi miliard eur spravovaných aktiv. Do stávajícího fondu skupina omezuje příliv nového kapitálu z veřejných emisí pro neinstitucionální investory.

Nepřátelská nabídka Paramountu, restrukturalizace PepsiCo a spojení Ford-Renault  ( 09.12.2025 08:40:00 patria.cz)
Tabák dostal novou cílovou cenu a doporučení od Patrie. Paramount Skydance se nevzdává možného převzetí Warner Bros. Discovery a konkuruje čerstvé dohodě s Netflixem.

Ford a Renault budou společně vyrábět levné elektromobily pro Evropu, chtějí konkurovat Číně  ( 09.12.2025 08:20:00 e15.cz)
Ford a Renault spojí síly při výrobě dvou cenově dostupných elektromobilů pro Evropu, aby čelily rostoucí konkurenci z Číny. Výroba v severní Francii začne u prvního modelu začátkem roku 2028, značky však zůstanou oddělené. Cílem je dokázat konkurenceschopnost evropské výroby, uvedli představitelé obou firem.

Babiš je znovu premiérem. Podle prezidenta bude muset řešit řadu problémů  ( 09.12.2025 08:07:09 ekonomickydenik.cz)
Předseda hnutí ANO Andrej Babiš se znovu stal premiérem. Prezident Petr Pavel ho na Pražském hradě jmenoval do funkce. Vládu v navrhovaném složení jmenuje prezident příští pondělí, oznámila hradní kancelář. ANO se na společné vládě domluvilo s hnutím Svoboda a přímá demokracie (SPD) a Motoristy sobě.

Investiční výhled Patria Finance: Pět klíčových témat pro rok 2026  ( 09.12.2025 06:44:00 patria.cz)
Rok 2025 začínal jako rok Trumpa a cel, aby skončil jako rok umělé inteligence. Co čekat na trzích a v investicích od roku 2026? „Při pohledu do příštího roku vidíme solidní základ pro další vzestup hlavních akciových trhů.

Výhodnější hypotéky, jak plánuje Babišova vláda, zdraží nemovitosti, říká podnikatel Borkovec  ( 09.12.2025 05:30:00 e15.cz)
Petr Borkovec rozjíždí investiční platformu Aspire 11 zaměřenou na privátní trhy. Vládní plány na zvýhodněné hypotéky kritizuje jako populismus. Nižší zdanění právnických osob podnikatelům podle něj nepomůže.

Americké fondy Apollo opustily Vítkovu CPI. Prodaly podíl neznámému kupci ze střední Evropy  ( 08.12.2025 19:40:00 e15.cz)
V CPI došlo k první viditelné změně vlastnické struktury od roku 2021. Americký investor, investiční společnost Apollo, prodal tříprocentní podíl v miliardové hodnotě. Kupec je neznámý. Kolem skupiny nicméně krouží potenciální zájemci.

Jedno americké dluhové finance fiction  ( 08.12.2025 17:43:00 patria.cz)
V souvislosti s dalším vývojem na amerických dluhopisových trzích i na akciích se objevuje řada úvah spojených vývojem vládních financí a dluhů. Já jsem v této souvislosti minulý týden psal o predikcích Danske Bank a před časem jsem připomínal úvahu Grega Mankiwa.

Dopad olympiády na zimní dovolenou: apartmány v Itálii stojí násobky běžných cen, zdražují i skipasy  ( 08.12.2025 17:00:00 e15.cz)
Jarní prázdniny v Dolomitech mohou být drahé kvůli cenám ubytování, skipasů, restaurací i půjčoven. Zdražování se nejspíš částečně přelije i na svahy sousedních zemí. Italové věří, že jim sportovní událost přinese miliardy eur.

Souboj o Warner Bros. Discovery se vyostřuje. Paramount Skydance přichází s vyšší nabídkou než Netflix  ( 08.12.2025 16:45:00 e15.cz)
Paramount Skydance předkládá akcionářům Warner Bros. Discovery konkurenční nabídku na převzetí celé skupiny za 108,4 miliardy dolarů (2,3 bilionu korun). Nabídka je výrazně vyšší, než kolik nabízí Netflix za studia a streamovací aktiva. Paramount Skydance to dnes uvedl v tiskové zprávě.

Paramount chce předběhnout Netflix. Nabízí 108 miliard za celou Warner Bros. Discovery  ( 08.12.2025 16:01:40 ekonomickydenik.cz)
Mediální konglomerát Paramount Skydance předloží akcionářům skupiny Warner Bros. Discovery nabídku na převzetí celé skupiny za 108,4 miliardy dolarů (2,3 bilionu Kč). Jde o pokus, jak zvrátit dohodu s provozovatelem streamovací služby Netflix. Paramount Skydance nabízí za jednu akcii 30 dolarů, uvedl to v tiskové zprávě. Podle dohody provozovatele streamovací služby Netflix s Warner Bros.

PODCAST Týdenní výhled: Fed míří ke snížení sazeb, ECB u nich dosáhla dna a Netflix pod tlakem  ( 08.12.2025 15:59:00 patria.cz)
Tento týden patří centrálním bankám. Fed ve středu večer oznámí snížení sazeb o 25 bps, které je už téměř plně započítané v tržních očekáváních, a klíčová bude tedy zejména rétorika k dalšímu vývoji.

Paramount neskládá zbraně. Učinil nepřátelskou nabídku na koupi Warner Bros. za 30 dolarů za akcii  ( 08.12.2025 15:29:53 patria.cz)
Paramount Skydance zahájila nepřátelskou nabídku na koupi Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD). Jde rovnou za akcionáři, kterým nabízí hotovost ve výši 30 USD za akcii, což je stejná nabídka, kterou vedení WBD minulý týden odmítlo, píše CNBC.

Pavel uzavřel jednání o nominacích na ministry a v úterý jmenuje Babiše premiérem  ( 08.12.2025 15:22:00 e15.cz)
Prezident Petr Pavel v pondělí dokončil sérii konzultací s kandidáty na ministry vznikající vlády ANO, SPD a Motoristů. Nový termín schůzky s nominantem Motoristů na životní prostředí Filipem Turkem Hrad zatím neoznámil. Pavel v úterý jmenuje Andreje Babiše premiérem a další kroky mají směřovat ke jmenování vlády.

Dobíjecí infrastruktura správně předbíhá počet aut, nízká vytíženost ovšem zvyšuje náklady, uvedli experti  ( 08.12.2025 14:00:00 e15.cz)
Elektromobilů v Česku přibývá a spolu s tím se rozšiřuje také infrastruktura. Pomalu se blížíme k šesti tisícům dobíjecích bodů, provozovatele ovšem trápí dlouhé lhůty pro připojení k distribuční soustavě. „Přes padesát procent připojení, která jsme letos plánovali, se prodloužilo minimálně o rok,“  zdůraznil na konferenci Institutu pro veřejnou diskuzi generální ředitel E.ON Drive Infrastructure Martin Klíma.

Navracení migrantů bude rychlejší a efektivnější. Brusel přijímá nová pravidla  ( 08.12.2025 13:55:31 ekonomickydenik.cz)
Na nových pravidlech zajišťujících rychlejší a efektivnější navracení neúspěšných žadatelů o azyl do zemí, odkud přišli, se domluvily státy EU. Informovala o tom Rada EU, která zastupuje členské státy. Ministři vnitra unijních zemí se na tom shodli na svém jednání v Bruselu.

Od sběračů bavlny k nejbohatším Turkům. Kdo je nový majitel Smartwings, který se dohodl i s Kellnerem?  ( 08.12.2025 13:20:00 e15.cz)
Smartwings přechází do rukou nového vlastníka. Kdo je rodina Sabanci, která stojí za nízkonákladovou aerolinkou Pegasus? Vliv jedné z nejmocnějších tureckých rodin sahá i do Česka, spolupracuje s PPF. Pegasus byznysově přežil válku v Zálivu a v současnosti rychle expanduje.

Magnum Ice Cream se odštěpila od Unileveru a debutuje na amsterdamské burze  ( 08.12.2025 13:11:00 patria.cz)
Společnost Magnum Ice Cream Company, nyní největší samostatný zmrzlinářský podnik na světě, debutovala v pondělí pod tickerem MICC na amsterdamské burze se sekundárními úpisy také v Londýně a New Yorku.

Intercontinental se vrací do Prahy. Luxusní ubytování vznikne u hlavního nádraží  ( 08.12.2025 13:10:00 e15.cz)
Značka v Česku fungovala od sedmdesátých let a byla spojovaná s budovou na konci Pařížské ulice.  Nyní se Intercontinental do Prahy vrací spolu s IHG Hotel & Resorts. Hotel vznikne renovací v centru metropole.

Turek poslal prezidentovi dopis. Je připravený vést „ministerstvo Green Dealu“  ( 08.12.2025 13:08:23 ekonomickydenik.cz)
Poslanec a čestný prezident Motoristů Filip Turek je s vyhřezlou ploténkou v jedné pražské nemocnici a pod silnými léky na bolest. Novinářům to po svém jednání s prezidentem Petrem Pavlem řekl předseda sněmovní frakce Motoristů Boris Šťastný. Prezidentovi předal omluvný dopis, který Turek nadiktoval.

Praha má nový multifunkční prostor LEVEL9 s kapacitou až 120 osob  ( 08.12.2025 13:04:00 e15.cz)
LEVEL9 je nový multifunkční eventový prostor v pražských Vinohradech, který nabízí 600 m² designového prostředí s panoramatickým výhledem a kapacitou až 120 osob. Moderní prostor je vybaven profesionální audiovizuální technikou a flexibilním nábytkem, ideální pro konference, workshopy, firemní prezentace i tvorbu audio a video obsahu. Nachází se v budově Czech News Center.

Zájem o financování bateriových úložišť roste, fotovoltaiky jsou na ústupu, říká Pavel Beran z Komerční banky  ( 08.12.2025 12:30:00 e15.cz)
Když před patnácti lety vrcholil solární boom, Komerční banka reagovala založením útvaru energetického financování. Nyní přicházejí nové trendy a firmy chtějí řešit především bateriová úložiště. Podle Pavla Berana, který útvar vede, tvoří zhruba devadesát procent všech aktuálních projektů.

Schnabelová: Další krok ECB bude zvýšení sazeb, ale ne brzy  ( 08.12.2025 12:23:02 patria.cz)
Členka Výkonné rady ECB Isabel Schnabelová uvedla, že dalším krokem centrální banky bude zvýšení sazeb, i když ne v dohledné době. Zdůraznila, že náklady na půjčky už dosáhly dna a budou po určitou dobu vhodné, pokud nenastanou nové šoky.

Šťastný probíral s prezidentem Pavlem agendu sportu. Co chce nový ministr přinést lidem  ( 08.12.2025 12:10:51 ekonomickydenik.cz)
Kandidát Motoristů na ministra pro sport, prevenci a zdraví Boris Šťastný by chtěl v rozpočtu na příští rok zachovat téměř 8,3 miliardy korun, které pro Národní sportovní agenturu (NSA) navrhla vláda v demisi Petra Fialy (ODS). Na dnešní schůzce seznámil prezidenta Petra Pavla s koncepcí své agendy.

Začátek týdne je pomalý a změnu směru trhům nepřináší  ( 08.12.2025 11:54:00 patria.cz)
Začátek týdne na trzích přinesl smíšené signály. Čínský zahraniční obchod potvrzuje slabou domácí poptávku kompenzovanou exportem, zatímco Peking plánuje změnu kurzu právě směrem k domácímu trhu.

Brusel jako obětní beránek. Přidáme si povinnosti a pak se divíme  ( 08.12.2025 11:43:36 ekonomickydenik.cz)
Mnoho lidí má za to, že přebujelá regulace k nám přichází z Bruselu. Odborníci ale upozorňují, že část povinností vzniká až při převodu evropského práva do českých zákonů. Výsledkem jsou vyšší náklady pro firmy i spotřebitele. Polovina Čechů v letošním průzkumu agentury STEM kritizovala členství v Evropské unii.

Odešel Hans-Jörg Rudloff. Osobnost investičního světa stála i u začátků Patria Finance  ( 08.12.2025 11:18:10 patria.cz)
V úvodu prosince skonal švýcarsko-německý bankéř Hans-Jörg Rudloff, kterému se přezdívalo „Král eurobondů“. Bylo mu 85 let. Svým vizionářským přístupem proměnil evropské kapitálové trhy a stal se významnou osobností globálního investičního bankovnictví.

Čína přehodnocuje ekonomické priority. Domácí poptávka hlavním motorem růstu  ( 08.12.2025 11:13:00 patria.cz)
Čínské politbyro stanovilo pro rok 2026 jasnou prioritu - posílení domácí poptávky. Peking chce vybudovat silný vnitřní trh a zmírnit závislost na globálním obchodu.

Dominik Rusinko: Míra nezaměstnanosti v listopadu stagnovala  ( 08.12.2025 10:56:10 patria.cz)
Míra nezaměstnanosti v listopadu zůstala stabilní na 4,6 %, což odpovídá sezónnímu nárůstu poptávky po pracovní síle v retailu, e-commerce a logistice, komentuje aktuální čísla hlavní ekonom Patrie Dominik Rusinko.

Mír na Ukrajině? Pro byznys Rheinmetallu žádný dopad  ( 08.12.2025 10:47:00 patria.cz)
Německý obranný gigant Rheinmetall očekává budoucí růst i bez války na Ukrajině. Generální ředitel Armin Papperger zdůraznil, že mírové řešení konfliktu by na byznys firmy nemělo zásadní dopad – hlavním motorem růstu zůstávají zakázky od NATO a rostoucí evropské výdaje na obranu.

Primoco UAV SE: Pozvánka na valnou hromadu společnosti  ( 08.12.2025 10:33:00 patria.cz)
Primoco UAV SE IČ: 03794393 Společnost Primoco UAV SE zveřejňuje pozvánku na valnou hromadu společnosti. Více informací zde: Primoco UAV SE_pozvanka_VH 2026_FINAL CZ.

Jan Bureš: Průmysl v říjnu lehce za očekáváním. Konec roku bude slabší  ( 08.12.2025 10:18:00 patria.cz)
Slabší dynamika českého průmyslu za říjen potvrzuje podle hlavního ekonoma ČSOB Jana Bureše trend zpomalování ke konci roku, na který ukazovaly podnikatelské nálady i nové zakázky.

Turecký Pegasus Airlines kupuje ČSA a Smartwings za 154 milionů eur  ( 08.12.2025 09:56:55 patria.cz)
Turecké nízkonákladové aerolinky Pegasus Airlines zahájily proces převzetí společnosti ČSA, která vlastní Smartwings, za odhadovaných 154 milionů eur (3,8 mld.

Dohoda mezi Netflixem a Warner Bros. zdaleka není hotovou věcí. Do schvalování se osobně zapojí i Trump  ( 08.12.2025 09:51:00 patria.cz)
Americký prezident Donald Trump vyjádřil obavy z antimonopolních pravidel ohledně plánované akvizice Netflixu, který se dohodl na převzetí filmových a televizních studií a streamovací služby HBO Max od Warner Bros.

Říjnový přebytek zahraničního obchodu ČR nejvyšší za poslední měsíce  ( 08.12.2025 09:50:00 patria.cz)
Zahraniční obchod ČR skončil v říjnu v přebytku 26 miliard Kč, což je meziročně o 15 miliard více díky menšímu schodku obchodu s ropou a plynem. Naopak negativně působil nižší přebytek u kovodělných výrobků.

Ministerstvo sportu je zbytečné, myslí si polovina Čechů. Nový resort prý nevznikne  ( 08.12.2025 08:36:30 ekonomickydenik.cz)
Zhruba polovina lidí si myslí, že není nutné, aby vzniklo nové ministerstvo pro sport, prevenci a zdraví. Vyplývá to ze zveřejněného průzkumu agentury NMS pro Český rozhlas. Ministrem s tímto zaměřením by se ve vznikající vládě ANO, SPD a Motoristů měl stát poslanec Boris Šťastný (Motoristé).

Turek na Hrad nedorazí. Omluvil se ze zdravotních důvodů  ( 07.12.2025 18:01:04 ekonomickydenik.cz)
Kandidát Motoristů sobě na ministra životního prostředí Filip Turek v pondělí nedorazí na jednání s prezidentem Petrem Pavlem. Omluvil se ze zdravotních důvodů. Oznámila to Kancelář prezidenta republiky. Už v neděli odpoledne možné problémy s pondělní schůzkou naznačil předseda strany Petr Macinka. Hovořil o nich i šéf poslaneckého klubu Motoristů a možný ministr pro sport Boris Šťastný.

From Paper to Code: The Future of Tokenization with Carlos Domingo  ( 07.12.2025 16:00:00 decrypt.co)
Securitize co-founder and CEO Carlos Domingo delves into the nuances of tokenization, from its potential benefits to the industry's failed experiments.

Turek jako jediný kandidát. Do Lán dorazí, pokud mu to dovolí vyhřezlá ploténka  ( 07.12.2025 13:21:04 ekonomickydenik.cz)
Motoristé sobě podle jejich předsedy Petra Macinky nehledají ani prozatímní náhradu za svého poslance Filipa Turka. Prezident Petr Pavel Turkovo jmenování ministrem označil za málo pravděpodobné. „My ho normálně nominujeme. Uvidíme, jak to dopadne,“ uvedl Macinka v pořadu Partie Terezie Tománkové na CNN Prima News.

Česko o daně z Agrofertu nepřijde, tvrdí politici  ( 07.12.2025 12:09:37 ekonomickydenik.cz)
I přesto, že předseda hnutí ANO Andrej Babiš oznámil, že Agrofert převede do zahraniční trustové struktury, Česko nepřijde o daňové příjmy. Myslí si to místopředseda ANO Karel Havlíček. Reagoval na obavy, že by společnost mohla být převedena do ciziny. Stejný názor zastává také europoslanec a místopředseda ODS Alexandr Vondra.

Bitcoin čeká na silnější impulz. Přinese nám ho ve středu Jerome Powell?  ( 07.12.2025 09:00:00 kryptomagazin.cz)
Kurz ceny bitcoinu začal nový měsíc silným propadem, který se ale díky Bank of America podařilo rychle smazat. Pak ale přišel pomalý pokles a cena se aktuálně pohybuje kolem 89 […]

Hotely a penziony hlásí na svátky poslední volná místa. Kde se ještě ubytujete?  ( 07.12.2025 07:04:09 ekonomickydenik.cz)
Hotely a penziony napříč Českem hlásí před vánočními svátky a Silvestrem vysokou obsazenost, přesto se dá ještě najít místo. Kapacitu mají ubytovací zařízení i v horských oblastech, kam míří hosté v závěru roku nejčastěji. Zájem o hory se zvýšil v posledních týdnech i v souvislosti se sněžením. Volná místa jsou například v Libereckém kraji.

„Strčili jsme nohu mezi dveře“. Rajchl zůstává předsedou strany PRO  ( 06.12.2025 14:23:11 ekonomickydenik.cz)
Předsedou strany PRO se opět stal její zakladatel Jindřich Rajchl. V sobotní volbě neměl protikandidáta. „Strana PRO v žádném případě nezanikne, naopak její značka bude sílit,“ slíbil. „Strčili jsme nohu mezi dveře a teď už je nikdo nezavře,“ dodal. Na republikovém sněmu ho podpořilo všech 101 hlasujících.

Bilionové úspory ve zdravotnictví, anebo nárůst pojištění? Země stojí před volbou  ( 06.12.2025 11:30:50 ekonomickydenik.cz)
Pro finanční udržitelnost německého veřejného zdravotnictví nejsou důležité pouze úspory ve výši dvou miliard eur, které současná vláda prosazuje pro příští rok. Klíčová je restrukturalizace celého systému. Změny mají zbrzdit očekávaný nárůst výdajů souvisejících s nástupem demografického stárnutí v nejbližší dekádě. Informoval o tom Zdravotnický deník.

Vánoční pečení se prodraží. Cena jedné přísady ale klesla, spor se vede o to proč  ( 06.12.2025 09:52:22 ekonomickydenik.cz)
Vánoční cukroví letos vyjde dráž než loni. Podle analýzy akčních letáků sedmi největších obchodních řetězců v Česku se zdražila většina zásadních ingrediencí, kromě jedné. V součtu jsou suroviny na pečení před letošními Vánoci téměř o desetinu dražší. Z toho nejvíc stoupla cena ořechů, a to hlavně vlašských.

Státní dluh roste, rozpočet neodpovídá realitě. Kontroloři vystavili výhrady  ( 06.12.2025 08:39:16 ekonomickydenik.cz)
Letošní státní rozpočet staví v některých oblastech na nereálných číslech. Vláda podhodnotila výdaje na obnovitelné zdroje a naopak nadhodnotila příjmy z emisních povolenek. Upozornil na to prezident Nejvyššího kontrolního úřad (NKÚ) Miloslav Kala.

Padělky a podezřele nízké ceny. Kdy by měli lidé na internetu zpozornět?  ( 06.12.2025 07:20:00 ekonomickydenik.cz)
Online tržiště a nákupní galerie mohou na první pohled vypadat jako běžné e-shopy, ve skutečnosti ale skrývají řadu specifických rizik. Pokud si lidé nedají pozor, může se jim nákup zboží nepříjemně zkomplikovat. I když se online tržiště tváří jako e-shopy, jde o platformy, které umožňují inzerci nebo prodej třetím stranám.

2-4% Crypto Dip! Sovereign Wealth Funds Buying BTC! CTFC approves U.S. Spot Crypto!  ( 05.12.2025 15:55:25 decrypt.co)
Crypto majors were broadly lower, falling 2–4% with BTC down 2% at $91,400, ETH down 2% at $3,130, BNB down 2% at $893, and SOL down 4% at $136, while ZEC (+4%) and TRX (+2%) led the day’s top movers. BlackRock CEO Larry Fink said sovereign wealth funds have been steadily accumulating Bitcoin, adding that they “bought more” as BTC declined from $126K into the $80K range to build long-term positions. The IMF warned that rising stablecoin adoption could weaken central bank control in a new report examining currency substitution and monetary sovereignty risks. Solana and Coinbase’s Base network were linked through a new bridge secured by Chainlink and Coinbase infrastructure. The CFTC also approved spot crypto trading on CFTC-registered exchanges, with Bitnomial set to debut first. In the U.K., Reform UK received the country’s largest-ever political donation from a living donor—an $11.4M contribution from a Tether-linked investor. Meanwhile, recent research indicated that the ~$4B in Bitcoin ETF outflows seen in October–November stemmed primarily from leveraged basis-trade unwinds across major funds rather than investor panic.

Veřejnost se k detailům Babišova fondu zřejmě nikdy nedostane, upozorňují experti  ( 05.12.2025 14:29:41 ekonomickydenik.cz)
Zaslepený svěřenský fond neboli blind trust může být cestou, jak Andrej Babiš vyřeší svůj střet zájmů. Klíčová ale bude zakladatelská dokumentace této právní entity. Lidé se její úplnou podobu nejspíš nikdy nedozví. Statuty trustů se totiž v registrech nezveřejňují.

Levné pivo jako český luxus. Daň se 15 let nezvedala  ( 05.12.2025 12:00:00 ekonomickydenik.cz)
Česko pláče nad stamiliardovými schodky rozpočtu a přitom pouští miliardy skrz prsty. Když Češi popíjejí jedno z nejméně zdaněných piv v Evropě a tisíce živnostníků odvádějí státu méně než zaměstnanci na brigádě, veřejné finance krvácí.

Netflix by se mohl propojit s HBO. Převezme část Warner Bros. Discovery  ( 05.12.2025 10:45:27 ekonomickydenik.cz)
Americký provozovatel streamovací platformy Netflix se domluvil na převzetí části mediální skupiny Warner Bros. Discovery. Koupí ji za 72 miliard dolarů (1,5 bilionu Kč). Společnost to oznámila v tiskové zprávě. Netflix podle dohody získá filmová studia Warner Bros a také streamingovou divizi, včetně konkurenční platformy HBO Max. Dohodnutá cena za akcii činí 27,75 dolaru.

Turka za ministra nechce většina Čechů. S kým jsou lidé spokojení a kdo propadl?  ( 05.12.2025 08:22:07 ekonomickydenik.cz)
Více než polovina oslovených Čechů nechce čestného prezidenta Motoristů sobě Filipa Turka za ministra životního prostředí. Proti Turkovi je i část příznivců vznikající vlády ANO, SPD a Motoristů. Vyplývá to průzkumu společnosti NMS Research pro Český rozhlas, kterého se na konci listopadu účastnilo 1021 respondentů.

Kam Babiš odložil Agrofert. Co znamená slepý trust v praxi  ( 05.12.2025 06:28:50 ekonomickydenik.cz)
Rozhodnutí budoucího premiéra Andreje Babiše (ANO) vzdát se holdingu Agrofert a převést jeho akcie do trustové struktury znovu otevřelo debatu o takzvaných slepých svěřenských fondech – blind trustech. Právě tento model se v zahraničí běžně používá k oddělení politiků od jejich majetku v případech, kdy by mohl vzniknout střet zájmů.

Babiš se definitivně loučí s Agrofertem. Správa přechází na nezávislý trust  ( 04.12.2025 19:25:50 ekonomickydenik.cz)
Předseda hnutí ANO Andrej Babiš se před svým nástupem do čela vlády nevratně vzdal holdingu Agrofert. Oznámil, že firmu už nikdy nebude vlastnit, nebude s ní mít žádné ekonomické vztahy a po konci v politice se k ní nevrátí. Akcie holdingu přecházejí do trustové struktury, spravovat je bude nezávislý správce pod kontrolou nezávislého protektora.

BlackRock is RISK On! Polymarket launches US App! Crypto still Green!  ( 04.12.2025 16:06:55 decrypt.co)
Crypto majors traded slightly higher, with ETH leading gains post-Fusaka as BTC rose 1% to $93,000, ETH jumped 4% to $3,190, and BNB and SOL each added 1% to reach $909 and $143, respectively. Among top movers, ZEC (+10%), TAO (+8%), and DASH (+6%) outperformed. Large ETH holders resumed sizeable spot purchases following Monday’s liquidations, suggesting renewed institutional dip-buying. At the Dealbook Summit, Brian Armstrong noted that “top banks” are partnering with Coinbase on pilots for stablecoins, custody, and trading. BlackRock released its 2026 outlook with a risk-on tilt, maintaining an overweight position in U.S. equities and highlighting AI and rising stablecoin adoption as “megaforces” reshaping markets. Meanwhile, Binance introduced “Binance Junior,” a crypto savings account for minors with extensive parental oversight, and Startale—Sony’s Soneium blockchain partner—launched USDSC, a stablecoin set to serve as the default settlement asset on the Soneium L2.

BlackRock stays risk-on into 2026, Binance Launches ‘Binance Junior’ for Kids, Kalshi Partners with CNN - Daily Crypto Recap  ( 04.12.2025 14:43:57 decrypt.co)
Decrypt's daily crypto news recap with @tyler_did_it. Your crypto round-up for December 4th 2025

Poslanci se nedohodli. ANO chce lukrativní posty v hospodářském výboru pro sebe  ( 04.12.2025 12:09:55 ekonomickydenik.cz)
Hospodářský výbor poslanecké sněmovny měl dosud pověst místa, kde zástupci vlády a opozice jednají věcně a nekonfliktně. Ale i to už přestává platit. Na čtvrtečním jednání měl výbor volit předsedy podvýborů, ale nedošlo k tomu – kvůli sporu o rozdělení těchto funkcí. Na dnešním jednání tak poslanci hospodářského výboru odhlasovali pouze samotný vznik šesti podvýborů.

Minibusy na zavolání i výkupy ubytoven. Kam půjdou miliardy z emisí a kolik kdo získá?  ( 04.12.2025 11:35:00 ekonomickydenik.cz)
Poptávková doprava, výkupy ubytoven od „obchodníků s chudobou“ nebo zateplení domů pro desítky tisíc domácností. Ministerstvo životního prostředí představilo plán, jak rozdělit finance ze Sociálního klimatického fondu. Do roku 2032 má jít o 52 miliard korun.

Crypto UP 7-10%, Bank of America recommends crypto, Kalshi raise $11B  ( 03.12.2025 18:32:48 decrypt.co)
Crypto majors are sharply higher, climbing 6–10% following Vanguard’s crypto debut and supportive commentary from Bank of America, with BTC up 6% to $92,900, ETH up 9% to $3,070, BNB up 7% to $899, and SOL up 10% to $142. Among top movers, SUI gained 24%, PENGU 19%, and LINK 18%. Ethereum’s Fusaka upgrade is scheduled to launch today, aiming to improve mainnet ingestion of L2 data and reduce rollup costs to enhance scalability. Bank of America is now recommending a 1–4% crypto allocation for clients across Merrill Lynch and the Private Bank. On the corporate front, Kraken has agreed to acquire tokenization platform Backed Finance to accelerate the adoption of tokenized stocks, while Chainlink introduced its “LINK Everything” initiative, a comprehensive tokenization stack featuring CCIP, compliance tools, and expanded data and compute services. In the regulatory and leadership landscape, crypto-friendly Kevin Hassett is now an 85% favorite to become the next Federal Reserve Chair after Jerome Powell, Binance has appointed cofounder He Yi as Co-CEO, and the UK has formally created a new property category for crypto and NFTs through its newly passed Property Act.

Bitcoin back above $92K, BlackRock bullish on a tokenized future, Kalshi raise $11B - Daily Crypto Recap  ( 03.12.2025 14:32:33 decrypt.co)
Your Decrypt daily recap with @tyler_did_it for December 3rd 2025 Today’s headlines: BTC jumps back above $92K, BlackRock bullish on tokenized assets, Kalshi raise $11B, & more

Vanguard Crypto ETFs, Coinbase Lawsuit & Strategy's $1.44B Reserve - Daily Crypto Recap  ( 02.12.2025 19:48:34 decrypt.co)
Today’s headlines: The latest on Vanguard ETFs, Coinbase lawsuit, Strategy $1.44B reserve, & more. This is Decrypt's Daily Recap with host @Tyler_Did_It. Your crypto round-up for December 2nd 2025

The BIG Crypto Fake-Out! Saylor & Tether FUD! Vanguard Crypto ETFs!  ( 02.12.2025 18:07:27 decrypt.co)
Crypto majors are green and reversing yesterday’s selloff, with BTC up 2% at $87,400, ETH flat at $2,820, BNB up 2% at $842, and SOL up 2% at $129. Among top movers, Fartcoin (+14%), SPX (+12%), and PUMP (+9%) led gains. Vanguard announced it will begin allowing trading of crypto ETFs and mutual funds on its brokerage platform, ending its long-standing opposition. Coinbase leadership and Marc Andreessen were sued over an alleged years-long insider-trading scheme. Ripple secured a payments license in Singapore and expanded XRP and RLUSD payment services there. Vitalik Buterin warned that shifting Zcash governance toward token-based voting could erode privacy protections. Federal Reserve Vice Chair Michelle Bowman stated that bank regulators are working on stablecoin rules. Anthropic released a report showing that AI agents discovered zero-day exploits in crypto protocols during testing and pose a threat to vulnerable smart contracts. Meanwhile, House Republicans issued a 50-page report on “Operation Chokepoint 2.0,” alleging that the Fed, FDIC, OCC, and SEC covertly pressured banks to avoid crypto through pause letters, informal guidance, and SAB 121, ultimately debanking more than 30 firms.

Strategy announces $1.44B reserve to cover debt! Vanguard Crypto ETFs! Myriad partners with Trust Wallet!  ( 02.12.2025 16:15:23 decrypt.co)
Crypto majors are green and reversing yesterday’s selloff, with BTC up 2% at $87,400, ETH flat at $2,820, BNB up 2% at $842, and SOL up 2% at $129. Among top movers, Fartcoin (+14%), SPX (+12%), and PUMP (+9%) led gains. Vanguard announced it will begin allowing trading of crypto ETFs and mutual funds on its brokerage platform, ending its long-standing opposition. Coinbase leadership and Marc Andreessen were sued over an alleged years-long insider-trading scheme. Ripple secured a payments license in Singapore and expanded XRP and RLUSD payment services there. Vitalik Buterin warned that shifting Zcash governance toward token-based voting could erode privacy protections. Federal Reserve Vice Chair Michelle Bowman stated that bank regulators are working on stablecoin rules. Anthropic released a report showing that AI agents discovered zero-day exploits in crypto protocols during testing and pose a threat to vulnerable smart contracts. Meanwhile, House Republicans issued a 50-page report on “Operation Chokepoint 2.0,” alleging that the Fed, FDIC, OCC, and SEC covertly pressured banks to avoid crypto through pause letters, informal guidance, and SAB 121, ultimately debanking more than 30 firms.

Trust Wallet Launches First In-Wallet Prediction Markets With Myriad  ( 01.12.2025 16:55:55 decrypt.co)
Prediction markets represent a "new way of combining social expression with digital footprint and value," Trust Wallet CEO Eowyn Chen tells Decrypt, as they launch the first natively integrated in-wallet prediction markets with Myriad.

Over $650M Liquidated! China confirms Crypto Illegal! Infinex Interview!  ( 01.12.2025 16:31:57 decrypt.co)
Crypto majors slid sharply, reversing all of last week’s gains, with BTC down 6% to $85,800, ETH down 6% to $2,820, BNB falling 7% to $822, and SOL dropping 7% to $127. Among top movers, MYX (+15%) and JST (+4%) led the market. More than $650 million in positions were liquidated over the past day, including $580 million in longs after BTC dipped below $86,000. ZEC suffered the steepest decline among major tokens, falling 20% to $355 and 35% on the week. Meanwhile, Tether founder Paolo Ardoino again addressed the latest wave of Tether FUD, reiterating that the company is not at risk of insolvency. In regulatory developments, China’s central bank reaffirmed that crypto remains illegal and signaled a coming crackdown. Robinhood announced a partnership with Susquehanna to launch a new CFTC-licensed exchange, paving the way for a major expansion into prediction markets. Pavel Durov revealed Cocoon, a new decentralized confidential compute network where GPU operators earn TON rewards. JPMorgan also entered the spotlight with a new structured BTC-linked product that offers investors a minimum 16% yield—up to 50% depending on BTC’s performance—with downside protection of up to 30%.

Pošle Donald Trump Bitcoin zpět k 80 000 USD?  ( 30.11.2025 09:00:00 kryptomagazin.cz)
Tento týden se kurzu ceny Bitcoinu zotavil a vrátil nad 90 000 USD. Začala již pověstná Santa Claus rallye? Pošle nás Donald Trump nad 100 000 USD nebo naopak srazí […]


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Charvátová: Ještě se neozval žádný z mých haterů. Za lepší střelbou stojí kutilský kousek  ( 11.12.2025 05:00:00 isport.blesk.cz)
Když dřív přijížděla na střelbu vestoje, všem blesklo hlavou, kolik chyb, případně trestných kol to zase bude. Také sama Lucie Charvátová z toho byla vždy nervózní. Po první zastávce nové sezony v Östersundu se ale zdá, že by to teď mohlo být jinak. V což doufá i sama biatlonistka, zatím ale nechce mít přehnané sebevědomí. „Nechci to brát jako hotovou věc, že najednou mi biatlon půjde,“ mírní Charvátová nadšení. Za vylepšením bilance hlavně vestoje jsou specifické úpravy na pažbě, které přiblížila v rozhovoru pro web iSport. Program SP v Hochfilzenu ZDE>>>

Chvíle hrůzy »Schumiho« manažera Webera v jeho vile: Svázaný! Zraněný! Okradený!  ( 11.12.2025 05:00:00 isport.blesk.cz)
Tohle nebyl akční biják, ale děsivá realita! Willi Weber (83), bývalý manažer legendy formule 1 Michaela Schumachera (56), byl přepaden ve svém honosném sídle ve Stuttgartu.

Kdo v Lize mistrů nezklamal: evropské kvality Provoda, kouzla Staňka i superdebutant  ( 11.12.2025 05:00:00 isport.blesk.cz)
Na level Ligy mistrů se fotbalisté Slavie těšili, bojovali o něj celou minulou sezonu. Byť jsou výsledky nakonec mírným zklamáním a především v ofenzivní fázi český šampion významně naráží, někteří hráči na sebe přeci jen v Evropě ukázali. Nejvýraznější postavou byl rozhodně Jindřich Staněk, do výběru deníku Sport se ale dostali i dva obránci. Podmínkou byly alespoň tři odehrané zápasy.

LM: Real - City 1:2. Leverkusen remizoval, Schick hrál jen poločas, stoprocentní Arsenal  ( 10.12.2025 23:30:00 isport.blesk.cz)
Fotbalisté Realu Madrid prohráli v 6. kole základní fáze Ligy mistrů s Manchesterem City 1:2. Český útočník Patrik Schick odehrál první poločas za Leverkusen při remíze 2:2 s Newcastlem. Brankář Vítězslav Jaroš pomohl Ajaxu Amsterodam k prvnímu bodovému zisku za výhru 4:2 na půdě Karabachu. Arsenal po vítězství 3:0 v Bruggách zůstal jako jediný s plným bodovým ziskem.

Skvělý vstup basketbalistek USK Praha do nadstavby Euroligy. Porazily Galatasaray  ( 10.12.2025 21:48:17 sport.cz)
Basketbalistky ZVVZ USK Praha vstoupily do nadstavbové fáze Evropské ligy úspěšně, na domácí palubovce zdolaly Galatasaray Istanbul 64:55. Úřadující šampionky se postaraly o první porážku tureckého týmu v tomto ročníku soutěže a čtvrtým vítězstvím posílily své šance na postup ze skupiny E. Další utkání sehrají Pražanky příští týden na palubovce Schia.

Jihlava vyhrála už desátý zápas v řadě  ( 10.12.2025 21:35:09 sport.cz)
Desátý zápas v řadě vyhráli v první lize hokejisté Jihlavy, kteří porazili Litoměřice 6:2. V čele tabulky má Dukla dál jednobodový náskok před Slavií, kterou vystřídala na prvním místě v pondělí. Pražané ve středu v 30. kole vyhráli 2:1 na ledě Frýdku-Místku a uspěli po sérii tří porážek.

Kvůli úspěchu na mistrovství nešla Bačová na operaci. Doufám, že to v neděli klapne, přeje si  ( 10.12.2025 20:51:45 sport.cz)
K oběma pořadatelským městům 15. florbalového šampionátu žen má útočnice českého národního týmu Pavlína Bačová velmi blízko. S Bulldogs Brno v sezoně 2018/2019 postoupila do extraligy, od roku 2020 obléká dres FBC Ostrava, s nímž o dva roky později získala extraligový titul. „Vyhrát superfinále je skvělý pocit, ale pro mě je možnost být tady na tomto turnaji asi o hodně cennější. Je to krásný moment i zadostiučinění za celou tu cestu, kterou jsem si prošla,“ řekla 24letá florbalistka.

Makakové, fish & chips, umělka jako šmirgl. Janotka: Lincoln a Nové Sady? To je mimo  ( 10.12.2025 20:45:00 isport.blesk.cz)
PŘÍMO Z GIBRALTARU | Nové Sady jsou tabu, před zástupci Sigmy tento divizní tým ve srovnávacím kontextu s Lincolnem Red Imps nezmiňujte ani z legrace, třebaže ani v kádru gibraltarského mistra nejsou všichni fotbalisté plně profesionální. Nic nepodcenit a v Konferenční lize postoupit do play off, tak zní olomoucký plán.

Nizozemky a Francouzky postoupily do semifinále MS  ( 10.12.2025 20:38:48 sport.cz)
Házenkářky Francie ve čtvrtfinále mistrovství světa v Rotterdamu porazily 31:26 Dánsko a dál mohou pomýšlet na obhajobu titulu. V semifinále jsou také Nizozemky, které si poradily 28:23 s Maďarskem.

Priske zaujal Rumuny, ocenili jeho výkon na tiskovce. Komentoval i stav zraněných  ( 10.12.2025 20:30:00 isport.blesk.cz)
PŘÍMO Z RUMUNSKA | Je uprostřed náročného programu. Trenér Brian Priske má před sebou se Spartou ještě tři soutěžní zápas. Prvním z nich je čtvrteční utkání Konferenční ligy proti rumunské Craiově. „Máme k soupeři respekt, je to dobrý tým,“ řekl na tiskové konferenci dánský kouč, který má k dispozici stopera Adama Ševínského.

Po hororovém listopadu se Poruba zvedá, pomáhá i Marosz. Zlín je poslední!  ( 10.12.2025 20:20:00 isport.blesk.cz)
Když ve 27. kole Maxa ligy s Kolínem padli porubští hokejisté i pošesté v řadě, hlavy měli dole. Takovou mizérii rozhodně nečekali. Od té doby se ale jejich situace změnila, z následných tří utkání vytěžili sedm bodů. Léčba trenérem Tomášem Potěšilem zabírá. „Samozřejmě se dýchá lépe. V základní hrací době jsme ze tří zápasů inkasovali tři branky, což svědčí o zlepšené defenzivě,“ těšilo nového porubského kouče. V tabulce pak na poslední místo padl Zlín, jenž prohrál na ledě béčka Pardubic 1:5.

Z příchodu Salaha chtějí v Arábii udělat stejný poprask jako s Ronaldem  ( 10.12.2025 20:17:21 sport.cz)
Je to tak trochu očekávaný krok. Saúdskoarabská profesionální fotbalová liga (SPL) chce zafinancovat případný přestup Mohameda Salaha, pokud by se útočník rozhodl opustit Liverpool. A to bez ohledu na to, do kterého klubu by zamířil. Dřívější námluvy s Egypťanem ze strany Arabů úspěšné nebyly, teď při potížích u Reds ale podle nich možná přichází chvíle, kdy by se vše mohlo povést.

Přestupy v extralize ONLINE: Talent opouští Vary. Podepsal nováčkovský kontrakt s LA  ( 10.12.2025 20:02:00 isport.blesk.cz)
Podpisy, přestupy, výměny, příchody borců ze zahraničí i zajímavosti. Všechny extraligové transfery sledujeme ONLINE na iSport.cz.

Slavia a úroveň Ligy mistrů: cíl, nebo jen sen? Rezonuje čas, hřiště i ofenziva  ( 10.12.2025 20:00:00 isport.blesk.cz)
ANALÝZA SPORTU PŘÍMO Z LONDÝNA | V ligové fázi Ligy mistrů Slavii zbývají ještě dva zápasy, ale klub má jasno – do vyřazovací fáze prestižní soutěže nepostoupí. „Je to zklamání, ale buďme realisté,“ pravil smířeně brankář Jindřich Staněk. Ano, realisticky zkrátka Slavia na úrovni konkurenceschopnosti evropské špičce není. Aby do podobných zápasů, jakým byl ten na Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, chodily tuzemské týmy s vyšší šanci na lepší výsledek, něco se musí změnit. A přes všechny výhrady k české lize, hodně práce má samotná Slavia.

NHL ONLINE: Klapka v Calgary vyzývá na souboj Detroit, Utah v bráně s Čechem  ( 10.12.2025 20:00:00 isport.blesk.cz)
Adam Klapka opět vyráží do akce, tentokrát se chce svojí dravostí připomenout soupeři z Detroitu. V brance Utahu nastoupí jeden z českého dua, jenž se snaží vychytat nepříjemného Brada Marchanda a celou družinu z Floridy. Dostane šanci Karel Vejmelka, nebo Vítek Vaněček? Všechny zápasy sledujte ONLINE na webu iSport.

Nejsou to dřeváci, srovnání Lincolnu s Novými Sady je mimo mísu, varoval Janotka  ( 10.12.2025 19:56:38 sport.cz)
Fotbalová Olomouc v posledních letech o pohárové Evropě jen snila. V uplynulém soutěžním ročníku ale triumfovala v domácím poháru a to ji do ní otevřelo bránu. V předkole Evropské ligy se švédským Malmö neuspěla, ale v o level nižší Konferenční lize po pomalejším rozjezdu nabrala dech a na Gibraltaru v pátém duelu její ligové fáze s tamním Lincolnem si může zajistit postup do jarních vyřazovacích bojů.

Favorit? My! vypálil se smíchem sparťanský hrdina posledních dní  ( 10.12.2025 19:32:39 sport.cz)
Vrátil se na místo, které moc dobře zná. Útočník fotbalové Sparty Albion Rrahmani před přesunem do Prahy kopával za rumunský Rapid Bukurešť. Stadion Iona Oblemenca, pojmenovaný po legendě čtvrtečního (18:45 SEČ) soupeře Sparty v Konferenční lize, je důvěrně známý. Proto byl kosovský forvard před mačem proti celku Universitatea Craiova vysněnou tváří pro rumunské novináře.

Velká ztráta pro Vary, Čihař podepsal v NHL  ( 10.12.2025 19:32:19 sport.cz)
Talentovaný český hokejový útočník Vojtěch Čihař opouští extraligové Karlovy Vary. Osmnáctiletý křídelník podepsal tříletou nováčkovskou smlouvu s Los Angeles Kings, kteří si jej vybrali ve druhém kole letošního draftu NHL jako celkově 59. v pořadí.

Liga očima fanoušků: Bordel a chaos! Jsme jen tupé ovce? I usvědčení z amatérismu  ( 10.12.2025 19:30:00 isport.blesk.cz)
Slavia je stále v Chance Lize neporažena, užívá si prví místo, ale zároveň se mezi fanoušky řeší, zda trenér Jindřich Trpišovský vezme práci u reprezentace. Proč ho k tomu tlačit, jestli nechce? Sparta sice vyhrála v Olomouci, ale úplné nadšení nepanuje. V Ostravě vyhlíží záchranářské souboje. A co změny Bohemians? Bez efektu. Starosti pak mají v Plzni… To by bordel! Přečtěte si hodnocení fanoušků v tradiční rubrice deníku Sport a webu iSport.

Biatlonová hvězda zmešká kvůli covidu-19 závody v Hochfilzenu  ( 10.12.2025 19:24:06 sport.cz)
Úřadující vítězka Světového poháru v biatlonu Němka Franziska Preussová zmešká kvůli onemocnění covidem-19 druhý díl seriálu v Hochfilzenu. Ze stejného důvodu bude v Rakousku chybět její mladá reprezentační kolegyně Selina Grotianová. Informovala o tom agentura DPA.

Plzeň čeká Liga mistrů! Hyského výrok má v Řecku velký ohlas  ( 10.12.2025 19:18:15 sport.cz)
Nemá jméno jako Liverpool, Real Madrid nebo Barcelona, přesto podle trenéra fotbalové Plzně Martina Hyského budí Panathinaikos značný respekt. „Čeká nás soupeř na úrovni Ligy mistrů,“ prohlásil Hyský na tiskové konferenci na Olympijském stadionu v Aténách, kde ve čtvrtek večer (od 21 hodin) povede Viktorii do bitvy s řeckým týmem v Evropské lize.

ANALÝZA: Počet juniorů v lize klesá, ti nejlepší však mají důležité role  ( 10.12.2025 19:12:07 sport.cz)
Není žádným tajemstvím, že hokejová extraliga je pro mladé hráče soutěží nezaslíbenou. A letošní čísla, možná i kvůli rozvolnění pravidel o počtu cizinců na soupiskách, jsou ještě horší než v letech minulých.

Rekordní smlouva. WTA dostane od Mercedesu každý rok přes miliardu korun  ( 10.12.2025 19:00:21 sport.cz)
Ženská tenisová asociace uzavřela se společností Mercedes-Benz sponzorskou smlouvu, která podle BBC může být nejvýznamnějším kontraktem v historii ženského sportu. Německá automobilka se stane hlavním partnerem WTA a do ženského tenisu investuje 50 milionů dolarů (přes miliardu korun) ročně po dobu až deseti let. WTA o kontraktu informovala na svém webu.

Sabalenková o souboji pohlaví: Reputaci ženského tenisu neohrozí, naopak mu pomůže  ( 10.12.2025 19:00:00 tenisportal.cz)
Aryna Sabalenková (27) se neobává toho, že by prohra s Nickem Kyrgiosem (30) v exhibičním a kontroverzním souboji pohlaví mohla poškodit reputaci ženského tenisu. Aktuální světová jednička si naopak myslí, že tato kritizovaná událost posune ženský tenis na vyšší úroveň.

Ujčík mezi legendami v Síni slávy: Hokej je můj život, nedá se od něj odpočinout  ( 10.12.2025 19:00:00 isport.blesk.cz)
Speciální sako mu při uvedení do Síně slávy českého hokeje sedlo perfektně. Na podšívku si místo příjmení nechal dát přezdívku Ujča. „Líbí se mi. Skvělá práce, ale necítím se v něm komfortně. Začíná mi být pěkné vedro. Nicméně mít ho na sobě je velká čest. Moc si to užívám,“ přiznal 53letý Viktor Ujčík. Jeho přijetí posvětili v hlasování stávající členové Síně slávy. „Roli hraje spousta věcí. Nejen hokejových, ale i lidských. Jsou to legendy, ikony českého hokeje. Tím je pro mě cennější, že mě schválili,“ dodal.

Na olympiádu v Miláně a Cortině už se prodal téměř milion lístků  ( 10.12.2025 18:46:55 sport.cz)
Na zimní olympijské hry, které se v únoru uskuteční v Miláně a Cortině d'Ampezzo, se zatím prodalo téměř 70 procent vstupenek. Informoval o tom Mezinárodní olympijský výbor.

Po vypuknutí války na Ukrajině podepsal v KHL. Teď českého útočníka angažoval Tábor  ( 10.12.2025 18:35:31 sport.cz)
Patří k hrstce českých hráčů, kteří i po vypuknutí války na Ukrajině podepsali smlouvu v KHL. Útočník Rudolf Červený hrál sezonu v ruském Vladivostoku a následně si podobně jako obránce David Sklenička střihl také rok v Barysu Astana. Teď se 36letý hráč vrátil do Česka, angažoval ho prvoligový Tábor a už ve středu vpodvečer za něj nastoupil proti Kolínu.

V Craiově debutoval, ale… Poslední dva měsíce byly těžké, přiznal Rrahmani  ( 10.12.2025 18:30:00 isport.blesk.cz)
PŘÍMO Z RUMUNSKA | Vrátil se do země, kde se prodal do Sparty. Albion Rrahmani zažil hutný rok a kus v Rapidu Bukurešť, proto se bude chtít připomenout ve čtvrtečním duelu Konferenční ligy na stadionu týmu Universitatea Craiova. Vždyť tady v SuperLize debutoval. Přijíždí s formou, poslední dvě utkání rozhodl ve prospěch Letenských brankami v závěru.

Zničující tragédie pro klub. Stadion v plamenech, k požáru se přiznal 15letý kluk  ( 10.12.2025 18:10:40 sport.cz)
Zničující pohroma, jedna z nejhorších, jaká může fotbalový klub potkat. Ze stadionu se stalo spáleniště. Celá tribuna arény finského klubu FC Haka lehla popelem a šokovaní hráči, členové vedení i fanoušci hledají cestu, jak z nastalé zkázy ven.

Sparta hraje o osmifinále: problémy s letadlem i Priskeho dohled. Rrahmani pod palbou  ( 10.12.2025 18:10:00 isport.blesk.cz)
PŘÍMO Z RUMUNSKA | Stačí málo, aby si Sparta zahrála vyřazovací fázi Konferenční ligy. Trenér Brian Priske byl velmi opatrný, ale popravdě: k definitivní jistotě scházejí opravdu desetiny procenta. Přesto ve hře je jiná lákavá varianta. Letenští zabojují ve čtvrtek večer na hřišti rumunské Craiově o postup rovnou do osmifinále evropské soutěže. „Je to o nás. Musíme podat dobrý výkon v defenzivě i ofenzivě,“ řekl Priske, který už má k dispozici stopera Adama Ševínského.

Češky si přály pro čtvrtfinále jiné soupeřky. Těšily jsme se na spoluhráčky, usmála se gólmanka  ( 10.12.2025 17:56:52 sport.cz)
Brněnská mise českých florbalistek skončila úspěšně. V úterý se přesunuly do Ostravy, kde se ve čtvrtek premiérově v play off mistrovství světa utkají ve čtvrtfinále s florbalistkami Norska (od 16.30 hodin v Ostravar Aréně). V bráně bude Jana Christianová, která ve skupině odchytala utkání proti Lotyšsku.

Česká elita míří na Tenisovou extraligu. Hrát budou Nosková, Muchová, Plíšková či Lehečka  ( 10.12.2025 17:45:00 tenisportal.cz)
Tenisová extraliga slouží pro mnoho tenistů jako kvalitní příprava na novou sezonu a pořadatelé této exhibiční soutěže smíšených družstev se letos mohou pochlubit fantastickým obsazením v čele s českou elitou. Do akce půjdou mimo jiné obě české žebříčkové jedničky Linda Nosková a Jiří Lehečka. Představí se i Karolína Muchová, Jakub Menšík, Markéta Vondroušová, Karolína Plíšková nebo Kateřina Siniaková.

Florbalistky se přesunuly do Ostravy, řada z nich se vrací domů. Budou Norky kousat?  ( 10.12.2025 17:40:00 isport.blesk.cz)
Na domácím mistrovství světa už české florbalistky porazily Dánky, Lotyšky i Švýcarky, na což by rády navázaly také ve čtvrtfinále proti Norkám. Tentokrát už v Ostravar Aréně, kam se šampionát přesunul z Brna. Na vyvrcholení turnaje se těší i řada hráček, která v moravskoslezské metropoli hraje, hrála nebo vyrůstala. Týká se to i kapitánky Michaely Kubečkové, odchovankyně florbalových Vítkovic. „Moc se těším,“ hlásí třiadvacetiletá útočnice.

Snad najdeš otvírák a nic si nedělej ze šedin. Červenkovi vtipně gratulují nároďák i Pardubice  ( 10.12.2025 17:24:40 sport.cz)
Gratulace k dnešním čtyřicátým narozeninám se k Romanu Červenkovi hrnou ze všech stran. Dort s ikonickou fotkou dostal od reprezentačního týmu, se kterým se v Liberci připravuje na Švýcarské hry. S blahopřáním svému tahounovi a lídrovi kanadského bodování extraligy přišly i hokejové Pardubice, které přání zveřejnily na svých sociálních sítích.

Menšík nedostal Cenu ATP za průlom roku  ( 10.12.2025 17:15:16 sport.cz)
Nové ocenění mužské tenisové asociace ATP za průlom roku obdržel monacký hráč Valentin Vacherot. Sedmadvacetiletý tenista uspěl v konkurenci dalších tří nominovaných, mezi kterými byl i Jakub Menšík. ATP to oznámila na svém webu.

Ledecké první trénink na sjezd SP ve Svatém Mořici nevyšel  ( 10.12.2025 17:07:06 sport.cz)
Lyžařka Ester Ledecká vstoupila do olympijské sezony 32. místem v prvním tréninku na úvodní sjezd Světového poháru ve Svatém Mořici. Druhá česká reprezentantka Barbora Nováková obsadila 59. příčku.

Nepříjemnost pro Spartu: Andersen musí nakonec na operaci, sezona pro něj končí  ( 10.12.2025 17:00:00 isport.blesk.cz)
PŘÍMO Z RUMUNSKA | Konzervativní cesta se - nakonec - ukázala jako slepá. Magnus Kofod Andersen, záložník Sparty, který se na začátku sezony vyhoupl mezi důležité muže kádru, bude definitivně scházet Brianovi Priskemu i na jaře.

Těšilo se snad celé Česko. Největší hvězda Barcelony ale nedorazí  ( 10.12.2025 16:53:00 sport.cz)
Lamine Yamal. Jakmile se koncem srpna vědělo, jaké týmy dorazí ve Lize mistrů na půdu Slavie, právě jméno barcelonského supertalentu se napříč fotbalovou veřejností skloňovalo nejvíce. Jenže po úterních duelech nejlepší klubové soutěže se mnoha lidem objevil ve tváři smutek. Osmnáctiletý křídelník sice pomohl k výhře 2:1 nad Frankfurtem, v lednu ale do Edenu vinou karet nedorazí.

Jak Červenka slavil jubileum s dortem. Prozradil, co si dřív myslel o čtyřicátnících  ( 10.12.2025 16:42:00 isport.blesk.cz)
Když mluvil s novináři o 40. narozeninách, které zrovna ve středu slaví, tak kouč Radim Rulík šel do trenérské kabiny s talířkem, na němž už ho měl uříznutý. I s vidličkou. „Už ho rozkrojili, jo? To ani nevím. Snad něco zbude,“ vtipkoval reprezentační kapitán Roman Červenka. Uctívaný lídr, jenž v národním týmu odehrál už 216 zápasů a stačí mu tři, aby dorovnal rekordmana Davida Výborného, potom mluvil o tom, jak si váží všech gratulací…

Záložník Sparty musí na operaci, do konce sezony si nezahraje  ( 10.12.2025 16:38:03 sport.cz)
Zlá novinka pro Spartu. Šestadvacetiletý záložník Marcus Kofod Andersen musí se zraněným kolenem na operaci. Norský středopolař naposledy naskočil do soutěžního mače na konci srpna proti Dukle (3:2), zdravotní potíže měl původně řešit konzervativní léčbou. S odstupem času se ale ukázalo, že ta stačit nebude. Sparta o stavu Andersena informovala na svém webu.

Menšík cenu ATP za průlom roku nezískal. Anketu vyhrál jiný senzační šampion Masters  ( 10.12.2025 16:37:00 tenisportal.cz)
Nové ocenění mužské tenisové asociace ATP za průlom roku obdržel Valentin Vacherot (27). Monacký tenista uspěl v konkurenci dalších tří nominovaných, mezi kterými byl i Jakub Menšík (20). ATP to oznámila na svém webu.

Klan Dolanových: otec Jiří i syn Libor váleli v útoku. „Kačeři“ ze světa vozili medaile  ( 10.12.2025 16:30:00 isport.blesk.cz)
V roce 1961 pomohl na světovém šampionátu ve Švýcarsku týmu Československa ke stříbrným medailím a zisku tehdy velmi prestižního titulu mistrů Evropy. Jiří Dolana byl členem bronzových celků na MS 1963 a olympiádě v Innsbrucku 1964. V pondělí byl uveden in memoriam do Síně slávy českého hokeje. „Táta by byl strašně šťastný. Určitě by bylo lepší, kdyby tady mohl být, ale to už bohužel možné není. Já mu to každopádně řeknu,“ řekl jeho syn Libor Dolana, který byl stejně jako otec skvělý útočník.

Reprezentace jako odrazový můstek do NHL. Malík věří, že mu národní tým otevře bránu  ( 10.12.2025 16:14:24 sport.cz)
Je to trochu paradox – už potřetí dostal „povolávák“ do hokejové reprezentace, ale ještě na svém kontě nemá jediný start. Už ve čtvrtek, či v sobotu se to nejspíš změní, protože tentokrát není Nick Malík jen v pozici trénujícího brankáře – jakési pojistky –, ale vzhledem k formě a číslům, která má aktuálně v extraligové Plzni, ho chce reprezentační trenér gólmanů Ondřej Pavelec vidět i v akci. A tak se po téměř 20 letech, kdy hrál na olympiádě Nickův otec Marek, znovu v národním týmu objeví příjmení Malík.

Opora reprezentace míří z Karviné do nejlepší ligy světa  ( 10.12.2025 15:46:32 sport.cz)
V Karviné slavil čtyři extraligové tituly a vypracoval se v oporu házenkářské reprezentace. Dominik Solák dělá ve 28 letech velký kariérní krok, ostrá levá spojka bude od ledna působit v německé bundeslize, nejlepší soutěži světa. S Eisenachem podepsal smlouvu až do roku 2028.

Štěstíčku naproti? Jenom zírám, je to svinstvo, říká Brabec o postavě „Milánka“  ( 10.12.2025 15:38:00 isport.blesk.cz)
Je možná nejzápornějším hrdinou seriálu Štěstíčku naproti. Respektive jeho postava, kterou měl inspirovat: Milan Hůla, předseda komise rozhodčích.  Milan Brabec v roce 2004, kdy vypukla největší aféra v českém fotbale, skutečně šéfoval sudím i delegátům, neboli „dědkům“, a k tomu byl dokonce místopředsedou svazu. Co říká na to, jak byl v krimi komedii o šesti dílech na platformě Oneplay ztvárněn? „Jenom zírám. Je to vyfabulované, nic jsem si nevzal,“ ohrazuje se Brabec. Pouze jemu a také Ivanu Horníkovi alias manažerovi Ivanovi jako jediným „zůstalo“ v sérii pravé křestní jméno.

Procházka v pozoru. Šampion UFC chystá zásadní krok  ( 10.12.2025 15:33:13 sport.cz)
Neporažený bijec slavné UFC Chamzat Čimajev neplánuje dlouho zůstávat ve střední divizi, které aktuálně kraluje. V rozhovoru pro ESPN prozradil, že chce přejít do polotěžké váhy a usilovat o druhý titul. Do této váhové kategorie by tak přibylo další velké jméno, což zvyšuje konkurenci i pro českého samuraje Jiřího Procházku. A právě s čečenským bijcem měl hostěradický rodák před lety slovní spor.

Lincoln vs. Olomouc v TV: Kde sledovat Konferenční ligu živě?  ( 10.12.2025 15:30:00 isport.blesk.cz)
Fotbalisty Olomouce čeká pátý duel v Konferenční lize na Gibraltaru, kde je uvítá místní Lincoln. Hanáci by vítězstvím vykročili k jarnímu setrvání v soutěži, kde atakují první osmičku v tabulce, která znamená postup rovnou do osmifinále. Utkání začíná ve čtvrtek od 21:00. Kde sledovat Lincoln vs. Olomouc živě?

Čím ho krmí? Extrém, šílenost. Obávaný Rus přiletěl ze Sibiře do Davosu vyzvat lyžařské hvězdy  ( 10.12.2025 15:09:02 sport.cz)
Fanoušci lyžování na konci týdne ve švýcarském Davosu nejspíš zažijí něco, co téměř čtyři roky nebylo k vidění. Start ruského lyžaře ve Světovém poháru, byť pod neutrální vlajkou. Vše ukazuje na to, že by se na tratích v alpském středisku měl ukázat velký talent Savelij Korostělev.

Siniaková, Nosková a Menšík jsou favority Zlatého kanára. Titul obhajuje Krejčíková  ( 10.12.2025 15:00:00 tenisportal.cz)
Ve čtvrtek se uskuteční v Přerově vyhlášení 33. ročníku ankety Zlatý kanár. Favoritů na vítězství v anketě časopisu Tenis a Českého tenisového svazu je více, počítat se musí s Jakubem Menšíkem, Jiřím Lehečkou, Lindou Noskovou či Kateřinou Siniakovou. Titul obhajuje Barbora Krejčíková, která však v sezoně laborovala se zraněními. Vyhlašovat se bude na slavnostním galavečeru od 19:00.

Šampion F1 má přítelkyni po hvězdném fotbalistovi: Miluje mrchu?  ( 10.12.2025 14:02:00 isport.blesk.cz)
Díky moc, moje sladká múzo, tenhle titul patří i tobě! Nový mistr světa formule 1 Brit Lando Norris (26) vzýval při oslavách portugalskou lásku Margaridu Corceirovou (23). Ale kdekdo ho varuje...

Změny hodnot hráčů v iSport Fantasy před 19. kolem: Chytil, N’Guessan či Provod  ( 10.12.2025 14:00:00 isport.blesk.cz)
Poslední kolo Chance Ligy před zimní přestávkou je tady – a s ním i poslední aktualizace cen hráčů v iSport Fantasy v roce 2025. Změna se dotkla dvanácti fotbalistů: devíti cena vzrostla, třem naopak klesla. Pokud ještě nemáte nastavenou sestavu na závěrečné zápasy tohoto roku, následující informace by vám neměly uniknout.

Bývalý kouč Štybara o Pogačarovi: Neuvěřitelné, kolik toho dokáže sníst. V čem je výjimečný?  ( 10.12.2025 13:40:00 isport.blesk.cz)
Je takovým „zaříkávačem koní“. Když má některý špičkový cyklista problémy, obrátí se na něj, aby mu pomohl. Stejně to měl belgický trenér a fyzioterapeut Pieter Timmermans i se Zdeňkem Štybarem či vítězem zeleného dresu z Tour de France Jasperem Philipsenem. Teď pomáhá i českým trenérům v rámci projektu Czech Cycling Academy. V rozhovoru pro iSport a iDnes povídal i o Tadeji Pogačarovi a třeba i o tom, kolik toho nejlepší cyklista současnosti dokázal sníst v horské etapě Tour de France. „Tolik toho do sebe nedokážete dostat za celý den,“ říká Timmermans.

Basketbalistka Wilsonová poprvé ovládla anketu AP o nejlepší sportovkyni roku  ( 10.12.2025 13:37:52 sport.cz)
Basketbalistka A'ja Wilsonová po veleúspěšné sezoně ve WNBA ovládla poprvé v kariéře anketu tiskové agentury AP o nejlepší sportovkyni roku. Devětadvacetiletá pivotka jako letos první v zámořské soutěži získala počtvrté ocenění pro nejužitečnější hráčku soutěže a Las Vegas Aces poté dovedla ke třetímu titulu za poslední čtyři sezony.

Odmítla obrovské peníze. Nebudu podporovat nenávist a výhrůžky, říká bývalá světová čtyřka  ( 10.12.2025 13:30:00 tenisportal.cz)
Caroline Garciaová (32) už ukončila profesionální kariéru, nicméně v tenisovém světě zůstává a věnuje se teď svému podcastu Tennis Insider Club. Nedávno dostala nabídku na sponzorství a pořádnou sumu peněz. Bývalá světová čtyřka ovšem musela hlavně z morálních důvodů odmítnout. Proč se tak rozhodla?

Britský tisk o Slavii: Pro český tým radši Evropskou ligu. Povzdech nad návštěvou  ( 10.12.2025 12:31:00 isport.blesk.cz)
Podle britských médií předvedli fotbalisté pražské Slavie v úterním utkání Ligy mistrů na hřišti Tottenhamu průměrný výkon. Novináři upozornili, že čeští šampioni favoritovi příliš neztížili cestu za vítězstvím 3:0 a zisk tří bodů nelze po rozpačitém vstupu „Kohoutů“ do sezony přeceňovat.

Craiova vs. Sparta v TV: Kde sledovat Konferenční ligu živě?  ( 10.12.2025 12:30:00 isport.blesk.cz)
Fotbalisté Sparty se v pátém utkání Konferenční ligy střetnou s rumunskou Craiovou. Letenští by si vítězstvím mohli stvrdit jarní účast v pohárové Evropě. Zápas začíná ve čtvrtek od 18:45. Kde sledovat Universitatea Craiova vs. Sparta Praha živě?

Pavelec o lovu NHL na gólmany: Nikdy nevíte, kdo se dívá... Fofr extraligy pomáhá  ( 10.12.2025 12:00:00 isport.blesk.cz)
Nástupců s vytříbenou brankářskou DNA se v české kotlině pořád rodí habaděj. Až je téměř k nevíře, že další hokejové složky s vývozem do NHL tolik zaostávají. Specifičnost přípravy u brankářského řemesla šikovným českým rukám a důvtipné myšlence nahrává. Na palubě směr zámoří by se časem měl vydat i Nick Malík. „A proč ne?“ reaguje Ondřej Pavelec, bývalý člen rodiny NHL a v posledních letech oceňovaný trenér reprezentačních brankářů.

Panathinaikos vs. Plzeň v TV: Kde sledovat Evropskou ligu živě?  ( 10.12.2025 12:00:00 isport.blesk.cz)
Fotbalisté Plzně nastoupí k šestému duelu Evropské ligy proti řeckému Panathinaikosu. Svěřenci trenéra Hyského v tomto ročníku hájí neporazitelnost v soutěži, kterou budou chtít udržet i na horké řecké půdě. Zápas začíná ve čtvrtek od 21:00. Kde sledovat Panathinaikos vs. Plzeň živě?

Menšík zrušil Turnaj mistrů do 20 let. Do Saúdské Arábie nepojede ze zdravotních důvodů  ( 10.12.2025 11:56:00 tenisportal.cz)
Jakub Menšík (20) zatím z neznámých zdravotních důvodů zrušil start na blížícím se Turnaji mistrů do 20 let v saúdskoarabské Džiddě. Aktuálně 19. hráč světového pořadí a úřadující šampion Masters v Miami měl být na akci pro mladé talenty největším favoritem.

Transgender tenistky? Jsou to biologičtí muži, nebylo by to fér, říká světová jednička  ( 10.12.2025 11:45:00 tenisportal.cz)
Světová jednička Aryna Sabalenková (27) je proti případnému zapojování transgender hráček do ženského tenisu. V rozhovoru pro britský web Sky Sports uvedla, že hrát proti "biologickým mužům" by považovala za nefér. Pravidla profesionální organizace WTA aktuálně povolují účast transgender tenistek, pokud od jejich změny pohlaví uplynuly alespoň čtyři roky, snížily svou hladinu testosteronu a souhlasí s testy. V praxi žádná taková hráčka nyní na okruhu není.

Real v šlágru Ligy mistrů nestačil na City. Schickův Leverkusen remizoval s Newcastlem  ( 10.12.2025 11:30:16 sport.cz)
Souboj gigantů a šlágr 6. kola ligové fáze Ligy mistrů ovládli fotbalisté Manchesteru City, kteří vyhráli na hřišti Realu Madrid 2:1. Domácí, kteří měli hrát o budoucnost trenéra Xabiho Alonsa, se sice dostali do vedení díky Rodrygovi, ale ještě v první půli skóre otočili Nico O'Reilly a z penalty Erling Haaland. Velmi vyrovnané a napínavé utkání bylo vidět na hřišti Leverkusenu, za který první poločas odehrál i český útočník Patrik Schick. Domácím se díky gólu dvě minuty před koncem podařilo remizovat s Newcastlem 2:2.

Poprask kvůli duhové vlajce v sektoru Slavie. Nejlepší možné řešení, reagují fanoušci  ( 10.12.2025 11:13:00 isport.blesk.cz)
Slavia v úterý večer padla na Tottenhamu 0:3, pochvalu si za vytrvalou podporu zaslouží alespoň její fanoušci. Během utkání Ligy mistrů v Londýně vytvořili skvělou kulisu, v mnoha případech v krásné, moderní aréně překřičeli domácí většinu. Část příznivců Spurs si ale na sektor „sešívaných“ stěžovala - problém byl s duhovou vlajkou se znakem Tottenhamu, která měla původně viset právě v prostoru hostujících fanoušků.

Zlatý kapitán Červenka slaví 40. narozeniny: Dárek až v Miláně!  ( 10.12.2025 11:00:00 isport.blesk.cz)
Těch čtyřicet svíček na dortu, ať si klidně sfoukne hned. Ale pentli z prezentu nechť hokejista Roman Červenka roztrhne laskavě až v únoru během olympijského turnaje!

Bejlek začne novou sezonu hned v hlavní soutěži. Generálku na Australian Open odehraje v Aucklandu  ( 10.12.2025 11:00:00 tenisportal.cz)
Sára Bejlek (19) se jako poslední vešla na seznam hráček, které budou hrát rovnou v hlavní soutěži na podniku WTA 250 v Aucklandu. Novou sezonu tak na rozdíl od letošního roku nebude muset začínat v kvalifikacích. Na Novém Zélandu je jedinou přihlášenou Češkou. Hlavními favoritkami turnaje budou členky TOP 20 Elina Svitolinová a Emma Navarrová.

Hyský před Evropou: O Slovácku nechci mluvit. Soupeř na úrovni LM, odletěl i Panoš  ( 10.12.2025 10:40:00 isport.blesk.cz)
Ve středu ráno odletěla plzeňská výprava do Atén, kde se v zápase proti Panathinaikosu může výrazně přiblížit k postupu do jarní fáze Evropské ligy. Po sobotním výplachu na Slovácku (0:3) tým zamířil do Atén s čistou hlavou. Trenér Martin Hyský (50) na letišti zdůraznil, že Viktoria musí dva závěrečné zápasy podzimu zvládnout. V nominaci na zápas už je i Jiří Panoš (18), který kvůli nemoci vynechal prakticky celý podzim.

PŘÍKLEP: Na slavení není správná chvíle, říká kapitán reprezentace  ( 10.12.2025 10:39:53 sport.cz)
Pokud ho nezradí zdraví, pojede hokejový útočník Roman Červenka v únoru už na svou pátou olympiádu. Z turnaje pod pěti kruhy zatím cenný kov nemá, to by rád v Miláně změnil. „Kdo by nechtěl medaili z olympiády. Samozřejmě mě to láká,“ usmál se reprezentační kapitán, který právě dnes slaví kulaté 40. narozeniny. A před začátkem druhého podniku Euro Hockey Tour, který národní tým odstartuje ve čtvrtek v Liberci proti Finsku, byl hostem pořadu Příklep na Sport.cz.

Vítkovice chtějí zastavit příval gólů. Získaly Američana s litvínovskou minulostí. Francouz odchází  ( 10.12.2025 10:10:52 sport.cz)
Hromada obdržených gólů, chyby v defenzivě a zranění klíčového beka Samuela Kňažka donutily vítkovického hlavního trenéra a manažera v jedné osobě Václava Varaďu jednat. Do obrany proto získal důrazného Joshe Wesleyho. Američan se do Ostravy v reprezentační přestávce přesunul ze slovenského Zvolenu a podepsal v klubu kontrakt do konce příštího extraligového ročníku. Ve Vítkovicích naopak končí francouzský obránce Yohann Auvitu, s nímž se klub dohodl na ukončení spolupráce.

Syn legendy NHL zpět v Česku, upsal se Vítkovicím. Varaďa: Vnese vítěznou mentalitu  ( 10.12.2025 10:00:00 isport.blesk.cz)
Vítkovický kádr se rozrůstá o čtvrtého Kanaďana. I když ne tak úplně, protože Josh Wesley, nová posila Ostravanů, vlastní kromě kanadského i americký pas. Devětadvacetiletý rodák z Hartfordu opustil slovenský Zvolen, aby se oblékl do modrobílých barev. „Josh je zkušený obránce, pravák, který vnese do naší hry poctivou defenzivu, důraz v osobních soubojích a vítěznou mentalitu,“ cení si vítkovický hlavní trenér a sportovní manažer Václav Varaďa.

Kinský po zápase zamířil na vlastní děkovačku Slavie. Trpišovský: Běhal mi mráz po zádech  ( 10.12.2025 09:57:00 isport.blesk.cz)
PŘÍMO Z LONDÝNA | Při minulé návštěvě Londýna v podání slávistických fanoušků oběhla sociální sítě slavná děkovačka na Stamford Bridge. I nyní na Tottenham Hotspur Stadium to ale bylo speciální. Poté, co si před kotel poklekli hráči a zařvali si klasické „po výhře, po prohře“, fanoušci si zavolali ještě Antonína Kinského z týmu soupeře. „„Zaprvé, nejsem překvapený, a zadruhé, jsem hrdý. Šampioni," okomentoval sám Kinský na svém instagramu.

Pohádka z Šanghaje bude mít další díl. Bratranci budou na Australian Open hrozbou ve čtyřhře  ( 10.12.2025 09:30:00 tenisportal.cz)
Jejich jízda na říjnovém Masters v Šanghaji byla nazývána pohádkou. Ve finále se naprosto nečekaně potkali dva bratranci Valentin Vacherot (27) a Arthur Rinderknech (30). Monacký tenista tehdy získal titul a šokoval tenisový svět. Tentokrát se ale potkají na stejné straně kurtu. Na Australian Open budou jedním z postrachů favoritů ve čtyřhře.

SESTŘIH: Velká dřina. České hokejistky opět udolaly Švýcarsko nejtěsnějším rozdílem  ( 10.12.2025 08:32:32 sport.cz)
Tři výhry v sezoně nad stejným soupeřem, potřetí o jediný gól. České hokejistky na úvod posledního turnaje Euro Hockey Tour před olympijskými hrami porazily Švýcarsko 2:1. Národní tým otevřel skóre už po deseti minutách díky Michaele Pejzlové, následně čelil velkému tlaku soupeře, ale skvěle zachytala Michaela Hesová. V závěru se trefila Klára Hymlárová, Švýcarky už následně dokázaly jen snížit.

Obhájce Lehečka bude v Brisbane jedním z favoritů. Představí se i Macháč, Nosková či Plíšková  ( 10.12.2025 08:15:00 tenisportal.cz)
Turnaj v Brisbane patři každoročně k těm nejoblíbenějším podnikům na začátku roku a jinak tomu nebude ani v sezoně 2026. Tentokrát bude navíc hodně zajímavý i pro fanoušky českých hráčů. Na zdejší akci ATP 250 se představí obhájce titulu Jiří Lehečka (24) i Tomáš Macháč (25). Na ženské pětistovce by neměla chybět Linda Nosková (21), vracející se Karolína Plíšková (33) a další.

Pozor, vrací se Pastrňák! Nižší zátěž, ale rovnou tři body: Cítím se sebevědomě  ( 10.12.2025 07:48:00 isport.blesk.cz)
Čekali na něj jako na spasitele. Bruins v noci na středu uvítali zpět v zápasové sestavě útočníka Davida Pastrňáka. Čech vynechal kvůli blíže nespecifikovanému zranění pět utkání, v pátek ovšem začal trénovat a o pět dní později už hupsnul do ostré akce. Při výhře 5:2 v St. Louis si rovnou připsal tři asistence. „Cítil jsem se v pořádku, dobře a sebevědomě. Je fajn být zpátky po zranění. Měl jsem solidní přehled, co se na hřišti děje,“ pochvaloval si budoucí olympionik.

Pastrňák zažil povedený návrat, Zacha skóroval. Nečasovy body nestačily na výhru  ( 10.12.2025 07:30:00 isport.blesk.cz)
David Pastrňák se vrátil po dvou týdnech do sestavy hokejistů Bostonu a třemi asistencemi pomohl týmu k výhře 5:2 v St. Louis. Po jeho přihrávce uzavřel skóre Pavel Zacha. Dvě asistence Martina Nečase zajistily Coloradu bod za prohru v Nashvillu 3:4 po nájezdech. Daniel Vladař přispěl 17 zákroky k vítězství Philadelphie 4:1 nad San Jose a byl vyhlášen první hvězdou zápasu. Další český gólman Jakub Dobeš inkasoval třikrát ze 14 střel a byl střídán při prohře Montrealu 1:6 s Tampou Bay.

Červenka slaví čtyřicítku: jak se měnil od ucha ze Slavie po zlatého kapitána  ( 10.12.2025 05:00:00 isport.blesk.cz)
V dobách největšího medailového sucha českého hokeje býval hlavním terčem neoprávněné kritiky a zloby. Roman Červenka se ale k reprezentaci nikdy neotočil zády. Místo toho ji opět vrátil na vrchol. Dnes slaví dvojnásobný mistr světa 40. narozeniny. A jak? S národním týmem se chystá na své páté olympijské hry! I přes významné jubileum hraje znovu v ohromující formě. Prostřednictvím rozmanité fotogalerie deníku Sport a webu iSport si připomeňte bohatou kariéru útočníka, který z šikovného mladíka ze Slavie vyrostl v jednu největších hokejových osobností současnosti.

Pastrňák rozvášnil fanoušky: Pozor, jsem zpět!  ( 10.12.2025 05:00:00 isport.blesk.cz)
Jupííí, olympiáda v ohrožení není, hlavní česká hokejová zbraň bude fit! David Pastrňák (29) se už klouzal na tréninku Bostonu, byť zatím jen v nekontaktním červeném dresu.

Slavný střelec Skuhravý kvůli dluhům před soudem: Je z něj »bezdomovec«!  ( 10.12.2025 05:00:00 isport.blesk.cz)
Když pěti góly dostal Československo na fotbalovém MS 1990 v Itálii až do čtvrtfinále, hrdě poslouchal národní hymnu. Teď zadluženému šedesátníkovi Tomáši Skuhravému zní »Kde domov můj« škodolibě.

ZNÁMKY Slavie: vycvičený Zima, Holešův obývák. Staněk chytil dalších pět gólů  ( 10.12.2025 05:00:00 isport.blesk.cz)
Opět bez gólu. Fotbalisté Slavie se neprosadili v pátém zápase Ligy mistrů po sobě a v 6. kole ligové fáze padli na hřišti Tottenhamu 0:3. A to gólman Jindřich Staněk ještě větší pohromu odvrátil. V obraně se nevedlo Davidu Zimovi ani Igohu Ogbuovi. Zaujal Tomáš Holeš, jenž úřadoval ve svém obýváku. Jak se dařilo všem svěřencům trenéra Jindřicha Trpišovského? Projděte si v tradičním ZNÁMKOVÁNÍ, jak jejich výkony ohodnotil deník Sport (1-nejhorší, 10-nejlepší).

Trpišovský: Neuvěřitelná rychlost, drželi jsme krok. Největší téma české ligy je…  ( 10.12.2025 00:30:00 isport.blesk.cz)
PŘÍMO Z LONDÝNA | Není prohra 0:3 jako prohra 0:3. Na rozdíl od Interu byl Jindřich Trpišovský po výprasku z dílny Tottenhamu na výkon svých svěřenců hrdý. „Je vždy divné chválit hráče po prohře, ale je důležité si uvědomit, proti komu stojíme,“ prohlásil po duelu 6. kola ligové fáze Ligy mistrů. Pak objasnil, proč nasadil čtyři obránce a rozmluvil se o Youssouphovi Sanyangovi.

Staňka zdržela v Londýně nehoda, pak zářil: Nikoho nebudu hanit. Buďme realisté  ( 10.12.2025 00:10:00 isport.blesk.cz)
PŘÍMO Z LONDÝNA | Bylo to frustrující. Jindřich Staněk předvedl na stadionu Tottenhamu sedm skvělých zákroků, k tomu dominoval ve vzduchu. Ale inkasoval dva góly z penalt a jeden z hlavy vlastního spoluhráče Davida Zimy, Slavia tak v 6. kole ligové fáze Ligy mistrů padla 0:3. „Nebudu nikomu nic vyčítat,“ řekl smířeně gólman, který přitom nezažil ideální přípravu na utkání.

Tottenham - Slavia 3:0. Londýnský fičák. Vlastní gól, dvě penalty a znovu bez výhry  ( 09.12.2025 23:10:00 isport.blesk.cz)
PŘÍMO Z LONDÝNA | Ve chvíli, kdy se začal stadion Tottenhamu plnit, před kamery televize Nova Sport vystoupil generální ředitel Slavie Martin Říha a pravil: „V rozpočtu jsme počítali i s příjmy z Ligy mistrů. Můžu prozradit, že v plánech bylo pět bodů.“ Pražané ale možná už pomalu budou muset rozpočet přehodnotit. Proti rychlosti a kvalitě londýnského favorita byla šance na úspěch minimální, a po prohře 0:3 potrvá čekání na triumf v milionářské fotbalové soutěži minimálně do roku 2026.

Liverpool v LM ovládl šlágr s Interem. Kovář dostal tři góly, obrat Barcelony  ( 09.12.2025 23:00:00 isport.blesk.cz)
Fotbalisté Barcelony, příští soupeř Slavie v Lize mistrů, porazili v 6. kole Eintracht Frankfurt 2:1, přestože po poločase prohrávali. Pro lednový zápas v Edenu však přišli o největší hvězdu, když Lamine Yamal dostal třetí žlutou kartu. Matěj Kovář v brance Eindhovenu nezabránil prohře s Atléticem Madrid 2:3.

Rozkopaná olympijská aréna? Už i NHL rezignuje...  ( 09.12.2025 20:10:00 isport.blesk.cz)
»Vždyť to v klidu stíháme!« Takové věty dokola znějí od italských organizátorů olympiády ohledně arény Santa Giulia, která má být dle nového odhadu plně dokončena pouhé tři dny před startem Her. Navíc s chybným rozměrem ledu...

Bezproblémový pochod slávistů: přes 1200 lidí, improvizované fandění, zákaz bubnů i pyra  ( 09.12.2025 19:40:00 isport.blesk.cz)
PŘÍMO Z LONDÝNA | Ti nejvěrnější slávističtí fanoušci už za sebou mají tradiční pochod na Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. Skupinové cesty se aktivně zúčastnilo kolem 1200 lidí a proběhl bez jediného většího konfliktu. To bylo způsobeno i přísnými požadavky londýnské policie. Ta nedovolila hostujícím ani buben či megafon, v davu tak probíhaly improvizovaně vyvolané, ale hlasité chorály.

Steroidy v českém MMA? Obrovský problém, říká Dvořák. Vyšší platy by mohly doping vyřešit  ( 09.12.2025 19:30:00 isport.blesk.cz)
Příští rok má být pro domácí MMA scénu zlomový. Ondřej Novotný jako spolumajitel největší české ligy Oktagon avizuje, že v nadcházejícím roce spustí antidopingové testy a nevylučuje spolupráci s etablovanou agenturou WADA. Známý promotér dříve uvedl, že chce v prvotní fázi potírat hlavně užívání „nakopávacích“ látek před zápasy. Zda bude organizace bojovníky testovat i na steroidy, zatím není jasné. Podle Davida Dvořáka se přitom jedná v Česku o velice rozšířený problém. „Jsem si jistý, že drtivá většina bojovníků sype,“ míní elitní zápasník.

Kouč Slavie U19 po debaklu: Jiný vesmír, zklamali jsme. Až šest hráčů zamíří do ligy  ( 09.12.2025 18:30:00 isport.blesk.cz)
Slávisté za sebou mají ligovou fázi UEFA Youth League, neboli mládežnické Ligy mistrů. Dosud si mohli i přes pár zakopnutí gratulovat, že českému fotbalu dělají čest. Ale kouč Jaroslav Machač ví, že debakl 1:9 s Tottenhamem byla ostuda. „S touhle čerstvou zkušeností se mi předchozí výkony zdají jako hodně dávné,“ utrousil. Slávisté se o případném postupu či nepostupu dozví ve středu, ale i přesto trenér věří, že ten hlavní cíl během posledních měsíců splnili.

Malík dalším Čechem v NHL? Hodně znamená, pokud zvládáte mezinárodní úroveň  ( 09.12.2025 18:10:00 isport.blesk.cz)
Karel Vejmelka, David Rittich, Michal Postava nebo Šimon Zajíček. Pár brankářských jmen z poslední doby, která se z extraligy vyšvihla do NHL či k smlouvě v ní a číhají na šanci o patro níž v AHL. Bude dalším v řadě Nick Malík? Našlápnuto má a pomoci mu mohou i blížící se Švýcarské hry, jejichž součástí plzeňský gólman bude.


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Trumpův tlak, tři ruské červené linie a poučený Kyjev. Co se děje na pozadí rozhovorů o míru na Ukrajině?  ( 11.12.2025 05:00:00 irozhlas.cz)
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‘A gesture of love’: Italy’s cuisine joins UNESCO’s cultural heritage list  ( 11.12.2025 04:25:55 aljazeera.com)
A UNESCO panel backed Italy’s bid, recognising Italian cuisine as a social ritual that binds families, communities.

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Shares in AI giant Oracle fall after revenue results ramp up bubble fears  ( 11.12.2025 03:52:00 bbc.com)
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Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado, who has been in hiding since January, speaks to the BBC in Oslo after her secretive journey.

Despite opposition, US House passes record $901bn defence spending bill  ( 11.12.2025 03:36:36 aljazeera.com)
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US seizes oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, Trump says  ( 11.12.2025 03:30:51 bbc.com)
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Ukraine reports large Russian mechanised assault in battle for Pokrovsk  ( 11.12.2025 03:22:35 aljazeera.com)
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Displaced Gaza families struggle as winter storm hits  ( 11.12.2025 03:17:14 aljazeera.com)
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Big tech bets big on AI - but can India keep pace in the global race?  ( 11.12.2025 02:46:08 bbc.com)
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‘He’ll be next’: Donald Trump threatens Colombian President Gustavo Petro  ( 11.12.2025 02:02:09 aljazeera.com)
The Republican renewed his threats against Colombia, blaming its left-wing leader for the country's cocaine production.

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Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,386  ( 11.12.2025 01:14:37 aljazeera.com)
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Trump launches $1m 'gold card' immigration visas  ( 11.12.2025 01:10:45 bbc.com)
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Portugal braced for mass disruption in first general strike for 12 years  ( 11.12.2025 00:24:49 bbc.com)
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The Swiss city that lets you pay for most things with bitcoin  ( 11.12.2025 00:22:58 bbc.com)
Shops, restaurants and even the local council in Lugano now accept the cryptocurrency.

US Congress advances bill to nix Caesar Act sanctions on Syria  ( 11.12.2025 00:20:16 aljazeera.com)
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Ukraine Considers Legal Path To Elections Under Martial Law As US Pushes For Vote  ( 11.12.2025 00:11:30 rferl.org)
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he held a "substantive discussion" with members of Ukraine's parliament on the possibility of holding an election, amid pressure from the United States to hold a vote despite wartime legal restrictions.

String of celebrity scandals renews debate on South Korea's 'cancel culture'  ( 11.12.2025 00:05:47 bbc.com)
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Arsenal maintain Champions League streak in Brugge, while holders PSG held  ( 10.12.2025 23:56:28 aljazeera.com)
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Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies passes bill to lower Bolsonaro’s sentence  ( 10.12.2025 23:43:15 aljazeera.com)
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US could ask foreign tourists for five-year social media history before entry  ( 10.12.2025 23:39:53 bbc.com)
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Why Thailand and Cambodia are fighting again after Trump ceasefire  ( 10.12.2025 23:03:32 bbc.com)
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AFP: Kyjev Washingtonu předložil poslední verzi plánu na ukončení války  ( 10.12.2025 22:56:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
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Tents flood, families seek shelter as Storm Byron bears down on Gaza  ( 10.12.2025 22:54:18 aljazeera.com)
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Manchester City beat Real Madrid 2-1 to pile pressure on Xabi Alonso  ( 10.12.2025 22:37:14 aljazeera.com)
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Honduran military vows to ensure orderly post-election power transfer  ( 10.12.2025 22:02:52 aljazeera.com)
Protests over electoral uncertainty remain peaceful as military assures orderly transition of power in Honduras.

Intensive work continuing on Ukraine plan, European leaders say after Trump call  ( 10.12.2025 21:49:20 bbc.com)
Ukraine is at a "critical moment", the leaders of Britain, France and Germany say after a joint call with Donald Trump.

US Congressman Randy Fine suggests Palestinians should ‘be destroyed first’  ( 10.12.2025 21:32:55 aljazeera.com)
The Republican lawmaker, a Trump ally, says during a congressional hearing he is 'not afraid' to be called Islamophobic.

U.S. Realizes It Can Seize Boats After All  ( 10.12.2025 21:19:25 theintercept.com)
After months of extrajudicial killings in the waters off Venezuela, the Trump administration opted instead to capture an oil tanker. The post U.S. Realizes It Can Seize Boats After All appeared first on The Intercept.

Venezuelan opposition leader Machado misses Nobel Peace Prize ceremony  ( 10.12.2025 20:56:12 aljazeera.com)
Right-wing opposition leader Maria Corina Machado missed the ceremony awarding her this year’s Nobel Peace Prize.

Rwanda-backed M23 militia storms DRC city, displacing 200,000  ( 10.12.2025 20:26:37 aljazeera.com)
About 200,000 people have fled the Democratic Republic of the Congo after Rwanda-backed M23 rebels surged into Uvira.

Trump administration says it seized oil tanker off Venezuela coast  ( 10.12.2025 19:55:41 aljazeera.com)
Venezuela accuses Washington of 'blatant theft' and denounces 'act of international piracy' announced by Trump.

Italian cooking awarded Unesco cultural heritage status  ( 10.12.2025 19:54:04 bbc.com)
An Egyptian snack, Icelandic pool culture, Cuban music and Albanian lahuta music also get recognition.

Oldest evidence of deliberate fire use found in England  ( 10.12.2025 19:44:30 aljazeera.com)
Experts suggest humans made fire 350,000 years earlier than previously thought, scientists say.

US Federal Reserve cuts interest rates in final decision of the year  ( 10.12.2025 19:19:10 aljazeera.com)
The central bank cut rates for the third time in 2025 as limited government data clouds economic outlook.

Iceland becomes fifth country to boycott Eurovision  ( 10.12.2025 19:02:13 bbc.com)
Iceland joins Spain, Ireland, Slovenia and the Netherlands in saying it will boycott the 2026 contest.

Sarkozy releases prison diaries about his 20 days behind bars  ( 10.12.2025 18:43:10 bbc.com)
The former French president was jailed for taking part in an election campaign funding conspiracy.

Anger after deadly dual building collapse in Morocco  ( 10.12.2025 18:40:35 aljazeera.com)
Almost two dozen people are confirmed dead after two buildings collapsed in the Moroccan city of Fez.

Iceland joins boycott of Eurovision 2026 in protest at Israel’s involvement  ( 10.12.2025 18:35:32 aljazeera.com)
Iceland joins four other nations in a boycott, after the organiser declined to hold a vote over Israel's involvement.

Olympics decision on gender eligibility to come in early 2026  ( 10.12.2025 18:23:17 aljazeera.com)
IOC currently has no universal rule in place for the participation of transgender athletes at the Olympic Games.

US general highlights ‘close cooperation’ with Syria against ISIL threats  ( 10.12.2025 18:21:06 aljazeera.com)
US military's Central Command chief says there have been 'multiple instances of collaboration' with Syria against ISIL.

‚Rozhodující okamžik.‘ Trump, Merz, Macron a Starmer hovořili o mírových jednáních na Ukrajině  ( 10.12.2025 17:41:00 irozhlas.cz)
Americký prezident Donald Trump, německý kancléř Friedrich Merz, francouzský prezident Emmanuel Macron a britský premiér Keir Starmer ve středu po telefonu hovořili o stavu jednání o příměří na Ukrajině, která čelí ruské invazi. Podle mluvčího německé vlády se shodli, že nastal rozhodující okamžik pro Ukrajinu a pro společnou euroatlantickou bezpečnost. Podle Londýna evropští lídři ocenili mírové úsilí Spojených států.

Soud zastavil Trumpovo nasazení Národní gardy v Los Angeles. Jednotky se vrací pod kontrolu guvernéra  ( 10.12.2025 17:38:00 irozhlas.cz)
Americký federální soudce ve středu zablokoval rozhodnutí prezidenta Donalda Trumpa nasadit jednotky Národní gardy v Los Angeles a nařídil, aby byly vráceny pod správu kalifornského guvernéra. Bílý dům na žádost agentury Reuters o komentář dosud nereagoval.

Judge rules Epstein grand jury records from 2019 case can be released  ( 10.12.2025 17:18:05 bbc.com)
A federal judge says materials from the investigation can be unsealed because of a new law passed by Congress last month.

Benin coup plot leader hiding in Togo, official tells BBC  ( 10.12.2025 17:09:21 bbc.com)
The coup was thwarted after Nigeria sent warplanes to dislodge the mutineers from the offices of state TV.

Rebels reportedly enter key DR Congo city despite Trump peace deal  ( 10.12.2025 17:04:17 bbc.com)
Terrified residents say heavy artillery and gunfire has hit Uvira, the gateway to Burundi.

Havlíček: Konat volby během válečného konfliktu je špatný nápad. Sama ukrajinská společnost má obavy  ( 10.12.2025 16:42:00 irozhlas.cz)
Donald Trump v rozhovoru, který bruselský server Politico zveřejnil v úterý, uvedl, že ukrajinská vláda možná využívá válku s Ruskem jako záminku, proč nepořádá volby v původně plánovaných termínech. Ukrajinský prezident Zelenskyj to odmítl. „Je to problém řešitelný, nicméně velmi složitý a je hluboce zakotven do ukrajinské legislativy,“ vysvětluje pro Radiožurnál analytik Pavel Havlíček z Asociace pro mezinárodní otázky.

US judge blocks Trump's National Guard deployment in Los Angeles  ( 10.12.2025 16:35:49 bbc.com)
The judge has ordered control of the the troops, which were deployed in June, to be returned to California's governor.

Austria Blocks Extradition To US Of Ukrainian Oligarch Dmytro Firtash  ( 10.12.2025 16:33:37 rferl.org)
An Austrian court ruled that Dmytro Firtash, a Ukrainian oligarch who has been under house arrest in Vienna after being indicted on bribery charges in the United States more than a decade ago, cannot be extradited, ending a 7-year saga against the businessman.

Zemřela spisovatelka Sophie Kinsella, autorka Báječného světa shopaholiků  ( 10.12.2025 15:37:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Londýn - Ve věku 55 let zemřela anglická spisovatelka Sophie Kinsella, autorka řady bestsellerů, včetně Báječného světa shopaholiků. S odvoláním na její rodinu o tom dnes informuje zpravodajský web...

US sanctions network it says recruits Colombian fighters for Sudan civil war  ( 10.12.2025 15:36:50 bbc.com)
The US Treasury said the network of four entities and four individuals is primarily Colombian.

Russia Plans To Restrict International Phone Calls Amid Digital Crackdown  ( 10.12.2025 15:24:20 rferl.org)
Amid steps to expand control over online communications, the Russian government has unveiled a new package of digital security measures that would sharply restrict international phone calls being made to people inside the country.

Trump by měl podle Merze spolupracovat aspoň se členskými státy, když ne s EU  ( 10.12.2025 15:21:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Berlín - Americký prezident Donald Trump zjevně příliš nestojí o spolupráci s Evropskou unií jako institucí, měl by ale aspoň spolupracovat s jednotlivými členskými státy. Na tiskové konferenci po...

Brussels Adds New Names To Blacklist In Latest Russia Sanctions Package  ( 10.12.2025 13:41:05 rferl.org)
European Union ambassadors on December 10 decided on further sanctions against Russia, with a new package adding several individuals and entities to its sprawling blacklist adopted in response to the Kremlin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine nearly four years ago.

Taliban warn Afghans who wore 'un-Islamic' Peaky Blinders outfits  ( 10.12.2025 13:31:40 bbc.com)
The friends were warned their clothing was "in conflict with Afghan and Islamic values", a Taliban spokesman told the BBC.

At least 22 killed in building collapse in Morocco  ( 10.12.2025 13:15:42 bbc.com)
The two four-storey buildings that came down in Fez contained eight families, state media report.

Cestování do USA bude složitější. Americké úřady chtějí požadovat třeba historii na sociálních sítích  ( 10.12.2025 13:05:00 irozhlas.cz)
Administrativa amerického prezidenta Donalda Trumpa plánuje od zahraničních turistů, kteří pro vstup do Spojených států nepotřebují vízum, vyžadovat jejich historii na sociálních sítích za posledních pět let. Požadavek bude součástí žádosti o povolení vstupu do země prostřednictvím systému ESTA.

Ex-president's daughter sworn in as South African MP after half-sister quits  ( 10.12.2025 13:02:20 bbc.com)
Brumelda Zuma will represent the party led by her father in parliament after her half-sister resigned.

US jets tracked circling Gulf of Venezuela as tensions mount  ( 10.12.2025 12:34:44 bbc.com)
The F/A-18 Super Hornets appear on flight tracking sites near Maracaibo, Venezuela's second-largest city.

Trump vows to make US affordable again, as Americans feel the pinch  ( 10.12.2025 12:17:56 bbc.com)
The president says he is focused on "making America affordable again", as cost of living becomes a campaign issue.

Nobelovu cenu za mír převzala dcera Machadové  ( 10.12.2025 11:43:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Oslo - Nobelovu cenu za mír, kterou letos obdržela venezuelská opoziční představitelka María Corina Machadová, dnes v Oslu převzala v zastoupení její dcera Ana Corina Sosaová, píší tiskové agentury....

Děti v Austrálii si zvykají na nový zákon zakazující jim sociální sítě  ( 10.12.2025 11:39:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Canberra - V Austrálii začal platit zákon, který zakazuje dětem mladším 16 let přístup na sociální sítě, jako jsou TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, ale i videoplatforma YouTube. Hned první den po zavedení...

Ohrožení menšin i právní jistoty. Na Slovensku došlo k největšímu oslabení lidských práv od roku 1993  ( 10.12.2025 11:35:00 irozhlas.cz)
Slovensko letos zaznamenalo nejrozsáhlejší oslabení lidských práv od svého vzniku v roce 1993, uvedla ve středu skupina dvanácti nevládních organizací, která zahrnuje také slovenskou pobočku Amnesty International. Slovenský ministr zahraničí Juraj Blanár ke Dni lidských práv, který připadá právě na středu, napsal, že nynější kabinet na rozdíl od předchozích vlád tato práva ctí.

Elon Musk says Doge was 'somewhat successful' but he would not do it again  ( 10.12.2025 11:12:30 bbc.com)
The Tesla boss says instead of leading the Department of Government Efficiency, he could have been working for his companies.

Chaos in Brazil Congress during push to cut Bolsonaro's sentence  ( 10.12.2025 11:08:16 bbc.com)
Scuffles broke out during a vote linked to attempts to reduce the former president's jail term.

Zástupci států EU podpořili zákaz dovozu ruského plynu, hlasování v EP ve středu  ( 10.12.2025 10:53:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Brusel - Diplomaté členských států EU dnes schválili unijní plán na postupné ukončení dovozu plynu z Ruska do podzimu 2027. Informovala o tom agentura Reuters s odvoláním na dánské předsednictví v...

V Maroku se zřítily dvě obytné budovy. Nejméně 19 lidí zahynulo, další jsou zranění  ( 10.12.2025 10:39:00 irozhlas.cz)
Při zřícení dvou obytných budov v marockém městě Fez zahynulo v noci na středu nejméně 19 lidí a dalších 16 utrpělo zranění, píše marocká agentura MAP. Ve čtyřpatrových budovách ve čtvrti Mustakbal (Budoucnost) žilo podle tamních úřadů osm rodin. Obyvatelé sousedních budov byli evakuováni.

Kyjev i Moskva hlásí sestřel desítek dronů. Na Ukrajině je jeden zabitý  ( 10.12.2025 10:29:00 irozhlas.cz)
Rusko v noci na dnešek zaútočilo na Ukrajinu 80 drony, z nichž 50 protivzdušná obrana zneškodnila. Na platformě Telegram to ráno oznámilo ukrajinské letectvo. Bez podrobností doplnilo, že na sedmi místech eviduje zásahy 29 bezpilotních letounů.

‚Budu žít ještě 10 nebo 20 let.‘ Dalajláma přivítal českou delegaci ze Senátu, dostal triko na spaní  ( 10.12.2025 10:21:00 irozhlas.cz)
Na úpatí Himálaje, asi 2000 metrů nad mořem, leží severoindické město Dharamsala. Když však vystoupáte klikatými cestami ještě výš, dostanete se na předměstí zvané McLeod Ganj, kde sídlí tibetská exilová vláda. Právě za ní se v těchto dnech vydala česká delegace senátorů a poslanců, setkala se i s dalajlámou.

USA a partneři včetně ČR varují před útoky proruských hackerů  ( 10.12.2025 10:13:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Washington - Proruští hackeři podnikají oportunistické útoky proti kritické infrastruktuře ve Spojených státech a ve světě, uvádějí ve společném prohlášení americké úřady spolu se světovými partnery...

Kyjev i Moskva hlásí sestřel desítek dronů, na Ukrajině je jeden zabitý  ( 10.12.2025 09:29:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Kyjev/Moskva - Rusko v noci na dnešek zaútočilo na Ukrajinu 80 drony, z nichž 50 protivzdušná obrana zneškodnila. Na platformě Telegram to ráno oznámilo ukrajinské letectvo. Bez podrobností doplnilo,...

South Korea protests at Chinese and Russian warplanes in its airspace  ( 10.12.2025 08:17:07 bbc.com)
Seoul says it will "actively respond" to neighbouring countries' activities in its air defence zone.

Tchaj-wan se inspiruje Izraelem a postaví si vlastní Iron Dome. Kvůli obavě z čínské hrozby  ( 10.12.2025 06:40:00 irozhlas.cz)
Tchaj-wan plánuje vybudování „záchranné sítě“, která by měla ostrovu pomoct v případě napadení ze strany Čínské lidové republiky. Tvořil by ji takzvaný T-Dome, systém protivzdušné obrany inspirovaný izraelskou Železnou kopulí (Iron Dome). Ostrov kvůli tomu dokonce zvyšuje výdaje na obranu. Otázkou však zůstává, zda opozice nakloněnější vřelým vztahům s Pekingem plán schválí.

French far-right leader tells BBC he shares US warnings on Europe 'for most part'  ( 10.12.2025 06:00:08 bbc.com)
The US's new National Security Strategy suggests Europe is facing "civilisational erasure".

Spousta křivd a pytle s bankovkami. Syrské oslavy konce války kalí nenávist a drahota  ( 10.12.2025 06:00:00 irozhlas.cz)
Konec války, konec strastí? Sýrie slaví rok od pádu Bašára Asada. Co se změnilo? A kdo se pokusil zabít nového prezidenta?

'It's insulting they think we can't handle it': The Australian teens banned from social media  ( 10.12.2025 05:45:45 bbc.com)
Millions of Australian teens will no longer be allowed to use social media. Who wins and who loses out?

Emisní povolenky ETS2 odložíme o rok, zaznělo z Evropské unie. Platit začnou v roce 2028  ( 10.12.2025 05:20:00 irozhlas.cz)
Evropská unie se v úterý pozdě večer dohodla na právně závazném klimatickém cíli snížit do roku 2040 emise skleníkových plynů o 90 procent oproti úrovni z roku 1990. Shodla se také na nákupu zahraničních uhlíkových kreditů, které pokryjí pětiprocentní snížení emisí, a na odložení emisních povolenek ETS2 až na rok 2028.

Sperm from donor with cancer-causing gene was used to conceive almost 200 children  ( 10.12.2025 05:06:53 bbc.com)
Some children have already died and only a minority who inherit the mutation will escape cancer in their lifetimes.

Kids locked out of social media apps after Australia's world-first ban  ( 10.12.2025 05:05:52 bbc.com)
The new law requires tech platforms to ensure that Australians aged under 16 don't hold accounts.

Watch Australian teens test out social media on first day of ban  ( 10.12.2025 04:38:55 bbc.com)
Teenagers affected by Australia's under-16 social media ban showed the BBC what happened when they tried to access their accounts.

EU se dohodla na snížení emisí a odložení povolenek ETS2 na rok 2028  ( 10.12.2025 01:35:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Brusel/Štrasburk/Praha - Předsednictví Rady Evropské unie a zástupci Evropského parlamentu dosáhli v úterý pozdě večer předběžné politické dohody na úpravě unijních klimatických pravidel. Jejich součástí...

Two teenagers went to seek gold. They were buried alive in a mine collapse  ( 10.12.2025 00:24:01 bbc.com)
Poverty in Sierra Leone is pushing more students into risky work, which proved deadly for two boys.

Global Crackdown On Media Deepens, Watchdog Warns  ( 10.12.2025 00:17:50 rferl.org)
The past year was another bleak one for journalists, with dozens killed and hundreds more behind bars around the world, according to media freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders

Indian couple trolled over skin colour after wedding video goes viral  ( 10.12.2025 00:14:08 bbc.com)
Rishabh Rajput and Sonali Chouksey received congratulatory messages peppered with "jokes and memes".

How long Britain could really fight for if war broke out tomorrow  ( 10.12.2025 00:11:37 bbc.com)
In the event of a war, one expert suggests the British Army could be incapable of fighting effectively on land within weeks, once committed - though 'much depends on the form of the conflict'.

Zelenskyy Open To Wartime Elections In Ukraine If US, Allies Can Guarantee Security  ( 09.12.2025 23:57:44 rferl.org)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he is ready to hold elections in his war-torn country if the United States and other partners can provide the security necessary to ensure the vote can be held safely.

MS-13 and Trump Backed the Same Presidential Candidate in Honduras  ( 09.12.2025 23:44:21 theintercept.com)
MS-13 gang members told Hondurans to vote for the Trump-backed right-wing candidate or “we’ll kill you and your whole fucking family.” The post MS-13 and Trump Backed the Same Presidential Candidate in Honduras appeared first on The Intercept.

Watch: Ozzy the dog sets Guinness World record for longest canine tongue  ( 09.12.2025 23:42:25 bbc.com)
The mastiff mix from Oklahoma City broke the previous record with his tongue measuring in at 7.83in (19.89cm).

Papež kritizoval snahu obejít Evropu při jednáních o míru na Ukrajině  ( 09.12.2025 22:44:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Vatikán - Papež Lev XIV. dnes kritizoval snahy obejít Evropu při jednáních o ukončení války na Ukrajině. Podle hlavy katolické církve není takový postup realistický, uvedly agentury. Papež, který pochází...

'What's your name?' - Moment police confront Luigi Mangione at McDonald's  ( 09.12.2025 22:18:12 bbc.com)
Prosecutors have released bodycam footage showing the initial interaction between officers and the suspected CEO killer.

V Rakousku zemřel při lyžování 64letý český učitel. Sjel ze sjezdovky a narazil do stromu  ( 09.12.2025 21:31:00 irozhlas.cz)
V lyžařské oblasti Nassfeld na jihu Rakouska v úterý odpoledne zahynul 64letý Čech. Učitel byl součástí školní skupiny, informovala s odvoláním na policii agentura APA. Muž sjel ze sjezdovky a narazil do stromu.

Zelenskyj uvedl, že je připraven uspořádat na Ukrajině volby  ( 09.12.2025 20:56:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Řím - Ukrajinský prezident Volodymyr Zelenskyj podle médií prohlásil, že je připraven uspořádat na Ukrajině volby. Požádá Američany a Evropany, aby pomohli zajistit bezpečnost, a také parlament o nezbytné...

Jsem připraven uspořádat na Ukrajině volby, uvedl Zelenskyj. Od spojenců žádá záruku bezpečnosti  ( 09.12.2025 20:33:00 irozhlas.cz)
Ukrajinský prezident Volodymyr Zelenskyj podle médií prohlásil, že je připraven uspořádat na Ukrajině volby. Požádá Američany a Evropany, aby pomohli zajistit bezpečnost, a také parlament o nezbytné změny v ukrajinském právu, aby bylo možné hlasování uspořádat i během války.

Na většině Ukrajiny nejde elektřina, plánované odstávky jsou rozsáhlejší, než se čekalo  ( 09.12.2025 20:27:00 irozhlas.cz)
Energetická společnost Ukrenerho, která provozuje přenosovou soustavu na Ukrajině, v úterý uvedla, že ve většině oblastí země přistoupila k nuceným odstávkám elektřiny. Důvodem jsou předchozí ruské útoky. Ukrajinská premiérka Julija Svyrydenková oznámila další úsporná opatření v energetice.

Nový ruský zákon má vyřešit nedostatek pracovních sil ve zdravotnictví. Mladé lékaře ale spíš demotivuje  ( 09.12.2025 20:22:00 irozhlas.cz)
Od začínajících ruských lékařských specialistů a chirurgů se očekává absolvování rezidentury, kde získají odborné znalosti ve svém plánovaném oboru. Nový zákon, který tento měsíc schválil prezident Vladimir Putin, znamená, že mnoho z nich po dokončení studia zahájí svou kariéru v malých nemocnicích s omezenými zdroji v ruských regionech, píše nezávislý ruský server Moscow Times.

Při lyžařském neštěstí na jihu Rakouska zahynul 64letý český učitel  ( 09.12.2025 20:19:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Vídeň/Praha - Při lyžařském neštěstí v lyžařské oblasti Nassfeld na jihu Rakouska dnes po poledni zahynul 64letý Čech. Učitel byl součástí školní skupiny, informovaly s odvoláním na policii agentura...

Official Propaganda for Caribbean Military Buildup Includes “Crusader Cross”  ( 09.12.2025 20:11:31 theintercept.com)
Once eschewed by the Pentagon, the “Jerusalem cross” has been co-opted by the far right — and embraced by Pete Hegseth. The post Official Propaganda for Caribbean Military Buildup Includes “Crusader Cross” appeared first on The Intercept.

Babiš jako premiér získal imunitu před stíháním ve Francii, uvádějí experti  ( 09.12.2025 19:20:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Paříž/Praha - Jako premiér získal Andrej Babiš imunitu před možným trestním stíháním ve Francii. Uvedli to na dotaz ČTK francouzští experti na mezinárodní trestní právo Didier Rebut a William Julié....

Ukrajina a Evropa jsou podle Zelenského připraveny předložit USA svou verzi mírového plánu  ( 09.12.2025 18:58:00 irozhlas.cz)
Ukrajina a její evropští partneři se chystají ve středu předat Spojeným státům svoji verzi mírového plánu na ukončení války s Ruskem, řekl v úterý novinářům ukrajinský prezident Volodymyr Zelenskyj. Dříve na sociální síti upozornil, že vše závisí na tom, zda Moskva bude ochotna válku ukončit.

Congress Quietly Kills Military “Right to Repair,” Allowing Corporations to Cash In on Fixing Broken Products  ( 09.12.2025 18:22:54 theintercept.com)
Both chambers included Pentagon budget provisions for a right to repair, but they died after defense industry meetings on Capitol Hill. The post Congress Quietly Kills Military “Right to Repair,” Allowing Corporations to Cash In on Fixing Broken Products appeared first on The Intercept.

EK povolila Polsku státní pomoc na stavbu první jaderné elektrárny, uvedl Tusk  ( 09.12.2025 18:00:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Varšava - Evropská komise povolila Polsku státní pomoc na stavbu první jaderné elektrárny v zemi, uvedl dnes polský premiér Donald Tusk. Evropská komise potvrdila, že státní pomoc schválila. Projekt...

Putina nikdo nevymění, dokud neskončí jednání o ruských válečných zločinech, odhaduje Kolenovská  ( 09.12.2025 17:53:00 irozhlas.cz)
Spojené státy mění postoj k Rusku, jejich nová bezpečnostní strategie už ho neoznačuje za přímou hrozbu. Moskva to pochopitelně vítá. „Dá se věřit tomu, že tohle je v podstatě ruský návrh, Trump ho nejspíš příliš nečetl,“ komentuje obsah strategie rusistka Daniela Kolenovská z Katedry ruských a východoevropských studií Univerzity Karlovy pro Český rozhlas Plus.

Zelenskyj: Ukrajina a Evropa jsou připraveny předložit USA verzi mírového plánu  ( 09.12.2025 17:13:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Řím - Ukrajina a její evropští partneři se chystají ve středu předat Spojeným státům svoji verzi mírového plánu na ukončení války s Ruskem, řekl dnes novinářům ukrajinský prezident Volodymyr Zelenskyj....

Většina Ukrajiny se potýká s výpadkem dodávek elektřiny  ( 09.12.2025 15:01:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Kyjev - Energetická společnost Ukrenerho, která provozuje přenosovou soustavu na Ukrajině, dnes uvedla, že ve většině oblastí země přistoupila k nuceným odstávkám elektřiny. Důvodem jsou předchozí...

A coup too far: Why Benin's rebel soldiers failed where others in the region succeeded  ( 09.12.2025 14:20:38 bbc.com)
Plotters misjudged the national mood and Benin's neighbours learnt from past errors, says analyst Paul Melly.

Na Slovensku se málem srazily dva vlaky, chybělo zhruba 20 až 30 metrů  ( 09.12.2025 14:16:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Bratislava - Na Slovensku dnes nechybělo mnoho, aby se na trati mezi Liptovským Mikulášem a Liptovským Hrádkem srazily dva protijedoucí vlaky, informují slovenská média. Z fotky pořízené z místa incidentu...

CCTV shows suspects make off on foot with stolen artworks  ( 09.12.2025 14:10:05 bbc.com)
Brazilian officials say thieves held up a security guard and an elderly couple before making off with the artworks, including some by the famed French artist Henri Matisse.

Myslím si, že jsou slabí. Evropa neví, co dělat, prohlásil Trump o předních evropských lídrech  ( 09.12.2025 13:49:00 irozhlas.cz)
Americký prezident Donald Trump označil v rozhovoru se serverem Politico Evropu za skupinu národů v rozkladu vedenou slabými lidmi, kteří selhávají v boji s migrací a neumí ukončit válku na Ukrajině. Šéf Bílého domu podle serveru naznačil, že podpoří ty evropské politické kandidáty, kteří odpovídají jeho vizi pro Evropu.

Orbán přivítal Babiše zpátky mezi unijními premiéry. ‚Starý spojenec se vrátil,‘ vzkázal po jmenování  ( 09.12.2025 13:35:00 irozhlas.cz)
Maďarský premiér Viktor Orbán reagoval na jmenování Andreje Babiše českým ministerským předsedou slovy, že se vrátil starý spojenec. V krátkém příspěvku na facebooku, který doprovodil společnou fotkou, předsedu hnutí ANO přivítal „zpět na palubě“, oslovil ho přitom křestním jménem. Babiš loni s Orbánem založil frakci Patrioti pro Evropu v Europarlamentu.

Rozvědky Ruska a Spojených států jsou v kontaktu, uvedl Naryškin  ( 09.12.2025 13:34:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Moskva - Ruská rozvědka SVR je v kontaktu s zástupci americké Ústřední zpravodajské služby (CIA). Podle ruské státní agentury TASS to dnes uvedl šéf ruské civilní výzvědné služby Sergej Naryškin. Podle...

Slovenský parlament schválil zrušení úřadu pro whistleblowery a vznik nového  ( 09.12.2025 13:02:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Bratislava - Slovenský parlament dnes schválil návrh vlády na zrušení úřadu na ochranu oznamovatelů protispolečenské činnosti a vytvoření nové instituce, která jej nahradí. Výhrady k předloze dříve...

Death Of Prominent Iranian Lawyer Triggers Calls For UN Investigation  ( 09.12.2025 12:53:15 rferl.org)
Prominent Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh has called for a UN fact-finding committee to investigate the death of Khosrow Alikordi, an attorney known for representing political prisoners and activists.

Trump označil Evropu za skupinu národů v rozkladu vedenou slabými lidmi  ( 09.12.2025 12:35:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Washington - Americký prezident Donald Trump označil v rozhovoru se serverem Politico Evropu za skupinu národů v rozkladu vedenou slabými lidmi, kteří selhávají v boji s migrací a neumí ukončit válku...

Trump je podle Politico nejvlivnější člověkem Evropy, Babiš je na 21. místě  ( 09.12.2025 12:29:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Brusel - Prezident Spojených států Donald Trump je nejmocnějším člověkem Evropy, uvedl bruselský portál Politico ve svém dnes zveřejněném žebříčku 28 osobností, které budou v roce 2026 formovat Evropu....

Evropa se musí stát nezávislejší na USA, řekl německý kancléř Merz  ( 09.12.2025 12:16:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Berlín/Mohuč (Německo) - Evropa a Německo se musejí stát mnohem nezávislejšími na Spojených státech, než jsou nyní. V reakci na novou bezpečnostní strategii USA to dnes zdůraznil německý kancléř Friedrich...

Summit musí rozhodnout o financování Ukrajiny, napsal Costa lídrům  ( 09.12.2025 12:05:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Brusel - Na říjnovém summitu se šéfové států a vlád Evropské unie zavázali řešit naléhavé finanční potřeby Ukrajiny v letech 2026 a 2027, v prosinci musí rozhodnout, jak tento závazek splnit.V dopise,...

Axios: Zelenskyj čelí sílícímu tlaku USA na přijetí amerického mírového plánu  ( 09.12.2025 12:01:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Washington/Kyjev - Ukrajinský prezident Volodymyr Zelenskyj čelí sílícímu tlaku ze strany Spojených států, aby přistoupil na významné územní ztráty a další ústupky Rusku v rámci mírového plánu amerického...

Papež řekl Zelenskému, že ke spravedlivému a trvalému míru je zapotřebí dialogu  ( 09.12.2025 11:53:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Castel Gandolfo (Itálie) - Papež Lev XIV. na dnešním setkání s ukrajinským prezidentem Volodymyrem Zelenským, který je na návštěvě Itálie, uvedl, že je zapotřebí pokračovat v dialogu s cílem dosáhnout...

Does Japan's megaquake warning mean the 'big one' is coming?  ( 09.12.2025 11:51:10 bbc.com)
An alert issued this week has caught the attention of a country used to earthquake warnings.

Kallasová odmítla kritiku svobod v EU, doporučuje zaměřit se třeba na Rusko  ( 09.12.2025 11:35:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Brusel - Šéfka diplomacie Evropské unie Kaja Kallasová se dnes ohradila proti kritice svobod v unii, zároveň doporučila zaměřit takové výhrady například na Rusko. Informovala o tom agentura Reuters....

Zelenskyj poblahopřál Babišovi ke jmenování premiérem a popřál mu mnoho úspěchů  ( 09.12.2025 11:35:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Kyjev - Ukrajinský prezident Volodymyr Zelenskyj dnes na síti X pogratuloval Andrejovi Babišovi ke jmenování premiérem, popřál mu mnoho úspěchů a uvedl, že se těší na další posílení spolupráce obou...

Nasa astronaut and cosmonauts return to Earth after 245 days in space  ( 09.12.2025 11:02:15 bbc.com)
Nasa's Jonny Kim and cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky have touched down in Earth after 245 days on the ISS.

Belarus Accused Of Sabotaging Lithuanian Airspace As EU Moves Toward New Sanctions  ( 09.12.2025 10:20:39 rferl.org)
The EU is preparing new sanctions on Belarus after hundreds of weather balloons crossed into Lithuania, disrupting airports and prompting temporary border closures. Vilnius says the balloons are used for smuggling and sabotage, and pressure on Minsk is set to escalate.

Why are Thailand and Cambodia fighting at the border?  ( 09.12.2025 10:20:19 bbc.com)
The roots of the South East Asian neighbours' dispute go back more than a century.

Vrátil se spojenec, reagoval na jmenování Babiše premiérem Orbán  ( 09.12.2025 10:10:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Budapešť - Maďarský premiér Viktor Orbán reagoval na jmenování Andreje Babiše českým ministerským předsedou slovy, že se vrátil starý spojenec. V krátkém příspěvku na facebooku, který doprovodil společnou...

Ukrainians raise flag to show BBC the fight goes on in city claimed by Russia  ( 09.12.2025 09:13:18 bbc.com)
Ukraine barely has a hold on Pokrovsk, but its forces are keen to show they are still resisting Russia's advance.

Litva kvůli balónům z Běloruska vyhlásila nouzovou situaci, informovala vláda  ( 09.12.2025 08:43:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Vilnius/Minsk - Litva dnes vyhlásila nouzovou situaci kvůli opakovanému narušování vzdušného prostoru země pašeráckými balóny z Běloruska, uvedla vláda. Podle kabinetu balóny představují hrozbu pro...

Zelenskyy Rejects Land Concessions As Europe Reiterates 'Ironclad' Support For Ukraine  ( 09.12.2025 08:02:55 rferl.org)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on December 8 that Kyiv had "no moral right" to give up territory to Russia, while Washington is seeking compromises.

Copernicus: Letošek může být s rokem 2023 druhý nejteplejší v historii měření  ( 09.12.2025 04:26:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Brusel - Letošek může být společně s rokem 2023 druhým nejteplejším rokem v dějinách měření. Ve zprávě o listopadové bilanci to uvedla meteorologická služba Evropské unie Copernicus, podle které se...

Japonsko hlásí po zemětřesení 30 zraněných, úřady varují před dalšími otřesy  ( 09.12.2025 02:28:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Tokio - Při zemětřesení o síle 7,5 stupně, které v pondělí zasáhlo severovýchod Japonska, utrpělo zranění nejméně 30 lidí, uvedla premiérka Sanae Takaičiová. Bezpečnostní složky dříve informovaly o...

A wage for housework? India's sweeping experiment in paying women  ( 09.12.2025 00:29:08 bbc.com)
Some 118 million women in 12 Indian states receive unconditional cash transfers, one of the world’s largest experiments.

Trump schválil za určitých podmínek vývoz některých čipů Nvidia do Číny  ( 08.12.2025 23:59:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Washington - Bílý dům za určitých podmínek povolí vývoz čipů H200 společnosti Nvidia do Číny. Americký prezident Donald Trump to dnes uvedl na své sociální síti Truth Social. Doplnil také, že o tom...

Australia's social media ban for children has left big tech scrambling  ( 08.12.2025 22:28:38 bbc.com)
The policy is the culmination of years of pressure on firms over online safety.

Česko a osm dalších zemí kritizují návrh na upřednostnění produktů z EU  ( 08.12.2025 17:38:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Brusel - Evropa by si měla chránit určitá strategická odvětví, jako je například ocelářství, zároveň by ale měla zůstat otevřená vůči investicím s vysokou přidanou hodnotou z dalších zemí. Po jednání...

European leaders walk tightrope between backing Ukraine and keeping US on board  ( 08.12.2025 17:01:30 bbc.com)
Europe's leaders are trying to avoid alienating Donald Trump while fighting for Ukrainian sovereignty and future continental stability.

Nejvíce nominací na Zlaté glóby získalo drama Jedna bitva za druhou  ( 08.12.2025 14:56:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Los Angeles (USA) - Nominace na Zlaté glóby ovládl americký thriller Jedna bitva za druhou režiséra Paula Thomase Andersona, získal jich devět. S osmi nominacemi následuje rodinné drama Citová hodnota...

Počet obětí dronových úderů na školku a nemocnici v Súdánu vzrostl na 114  ( 08.12.2025 14:08:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Ženeva/Chartúm - Počet obětí čtvrtečních dronových úderů na mateřskou školu a nemocnici na jihu Súdánu vzrostl na 114, včetně 63 dětí. Na síti X to napsal šéf Světové zdravotnické organizace (WHO)...

4 Russian Soldiers Sentenced For Killing Of American Fighting For Moscow In Ukraine  ( 08.12.2025 13:52:19 rferl.org)
A court in Russian-controlled Ukraine sentenced four Russian soldiers for the death last year of Russell Bentley, a Texas man who as the "Donbas Cowboy" gained notoriety for joining Russian-backed forces in eastern Ukraine.

Evropa nemůže akceptovat vměšování do své politiky, řekl Costa na adresu USA  ( 08.12.2025 12:40:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Brusel/Berlín/Washington - Evropa nemůže akceptovat hrozbu vměšování do své politiky, řekl dnes podle agentury AFP předseda Evropské rady António Costa v reakci na novou bezpečnostní strategii Spojených...

Státy EU se shodly na fondu solidarity, ČR je osvobozena pro rok 2026  ( 08.12.2025 12:05:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Brusel - Státy EU dosáhly politické dohody na zřízení takzvaného fondu solidarity pro rok 2026, který je součástí migračního a azylového paktu EU. Ministři vnitra na jednání v Bruselu rovněž potvrdili,...

ADAC: Rodina si o svátcích za asi 200 eur zalyžuje v ČR, Polsku a Německu  ( 08.12.2025 12:01:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Berlín - Jednodenní skipas o svátcích na přelomu roku ve známých evropských zimních střediscích vyjde na částku okolo 70 eur (1697 korun) a leckde i více, vyplývá z přehledu cen, který zveřejnil německý...

Soud poslal až na 12 let do vězní ruské vojáky za vraždu Američana  ( 08.12.2025 11:46:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Moskva - Vojenský soud v Ruskem okupovaném ukrajinském městě Doněcku odsoudil k trestům odnětí svobody v rozmezí od 1,5 roku až 12 let čtyři ruské vojáky za vraždu čtyřiašedesátiletého Američana Rusella...

New Air Force Chief Boosts Nuclear Buildup, Moving Away From Deterrence, Experts Warn  ( 08.12.2025 11:00:00 theintercept.com)
Gen. Ken Wilsbach promotes nuclear “recapitalization” in his first memo to the Air Force — fueling fear of a radical shift away from nukes acting solely as deterrence. The post New Air Force Chief Boosts Nuclear Buildup, Moving Away From Deterrence, Experts Warn appeared first on The Intercept.

Syrians share their thoughts one year on from the fall of Assad  ( 08.12.2025 08:38:09 bbc.com)
The BBC's Middle East correspondent Hugo Bachega speaks to Syrians about how life has changed since the revolution.

Zelenskyy Holds Talks With European Allies, Says No Deal Yet On The Donbas  ( 08.12.2025 07:54:54 rferl.org)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with European leaders seeking to ensure a US-led effort to end Russia's war on Ukraine does not result in a lopsided deal that would reward Moscow for its aggression against its neighbor and leave Kyiv vulnerable to future attacks.

Jeremy Bowen: Syria feels lighter without the Assads' crushing weight - but now there are new problems  ( 08.12.2025 06:00:48 bbc.com)
One year into his rule Syria's leader has won over Trump and much of the West, but at home people know his weaknesses.

White South Africans divided on US refugee offer  ( 08.12.2025 05:05:22 bbc.com)
Donald Trump says white South Africans are being persecuted and so qualify for asylum but black farmers are also being killed.

Čtyři lidé zemřeli ve vlnách na Kanárských ostrovech, dva z nich byli Slováci  ( 08.12.2025 04:05:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Madrid/Bratislava/Praha - Čtyři lidé, z nichž jsou dva ze Slovenska, zemřeli na španělském ostrově Tenerife poté, co je smetla velká vlna. Agentura AFP původně informovala o třech mrtvých a třech zraněných,...

Jednání s Američany byla nelehká, řekl Zelenskyj  ( 08.12.2025 01:50:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Kyjev - Za konstruktivní, ale nelehké označil v noci na dnešek ukrajinský prezident Volodymyr Zelenskyj několikadenní rozhovory ukrajinské delegace se zástupci Spojených států o americkém mírovém plánu....

Japan is facing a dementia crisis – can technology help?  ( 08.12.2025 00:49:01 bbc.com)
Elderly people aged 65 and over now make up nearly 30% of Japan's population.

Szijjártó: Maďarsko a Slovensko dají k soudu zákaz dovozu ruského plynu a ropy  ( 07.12.2025 17:49:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Budapešť - Maďarsko a Slovensko budou u Soudního dvora EU usilovat o zrušení chystaného zákazu dovozu ruských energetických surovin do Evropské unie. Oznámil to dnes na facebooku maďarský ministr zahraničí...

Merz neočekává, že by Německo v blízké budoucnosti uznalo palestinský stát  ( 07.12.2025 15:47:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Jeruzalém - Německo v dohledné budoucnosti neuzná samostatný palestinský stát. Řekl to německý kancléř Friedrich Merz po setkání s izraelským premiérem Benjaminem Netanjahuem, uvedla agentura DPA....

Second Group Of Iranian Nationals Deported From US Due To Arrive In Tehran  ( 07.12.2025 15:07:49 rferl.org)
Dozens of Iranian nationals deported from the United States are due to arrive in their home country over the next few hours, the Foreign Ministry in Tehran said on December 7, the second such repatriation under President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown

Next Stop London As Zelenskyy To Press Ukraine's Cause With Key European Allies  ( 07.12.2025 11:42:01 rferl.org)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is due to arrive in London on December 8 to meet with his key allies -- the so-called European 3 -- looking to bolster Kyiv's negotiating position following his team’s talks in Florida with US officials.

A Journalist Reported From Palestine. YouTube Deleted His Account Claiming He’s an Iranian Agent.  ( 07.12.2025 11:00:00 theintercept.com)
YouTube offered conflicting explanations for deleting the account of Robert Inlakesh, who covered Israel’s occupation of the West Bank. The post A Journalist Reported From Palestine. YouTube Deleted His Account Claiming He’s an Iranian Agent. appeared first on The Intercept.

Při požáru v nočním klubu v indickém státě Góa zemřelo 25 lidí  ( 07.12.2025 06:24:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Dillí - Nejméně 25 lidí zemřelo při sobotním požáru v nočním klubu v indickém státě Góa, informují tiskové agentury. Mezi oběťmi požáru v oblasti vyhledávané zahraničními návštěvníky jsou nejméně čtyři...

Kreml uvítal, že Trump ve strategickém dokumentu neoznačil Rusko za hrozbu  ( 07.12.2025 05:33:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Moskva - Moskva vítá novou bezpečnostní strategii Spojených států, která nehovoří o Rusku jako o přímé hrozbě. Podle agentury Reuters to dnes uvedl mluvčí Kremlu Dmitrij Peskov, který označil dokument...

How the solar storms that cause the Northern Lights can wreak havoc on Earth  ( 07.12.2025 00:17:17 bbc.com)
The aurora borealis can bring stunning night skies, but hidden dangers can accompany the Northern Lights to disrupt life on Earth as Chris Fawkes explains.

Hamás složí zbraně, ale předá je jen nezávislému palestinskému státu  ( 06.12.2025 21:56:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Gaza - Teroristické hnutí Hamás je připravené složit zbraně, pokud skončí okupace Pásma Gazy izraelskou armádou. Své zbraně však předá pouze suverénnímu a nezávislému palestinskému státu. Uvedl to...

Merz při návštěvě Jordánska naléhal na pokrok v mírovém procesu  ( 06.12.2025 19:41:00 ceskenoviny.cz)
Ammán - Německý kancléř Friedrich Merz vyzval k pokračování mírových kroků a posílení pomoci lidem v palestinském Pásmu Gazy. Po setkání s jordánským králem Abdalláhem II. zdůraznil potřebu postupu...

Russian Prison Service Appears To Claim Journalist Nika Novak Still Held In Penal Colony  ( 06.12.2025 16:41:09 rferl.org)
The Russian Federal Penitentiary Service has reportedly confirmed that journalist Nika Novak remains in Penal Colony No. 11 in Irkutsk, despite earlier claims by her lawyer that she had disappeared from the facility.

Iran Arrests Marathon Organizers After Women Compete Without Mandatory Hijab  ( 06.12.2025 16:06:58 rferl.org)
The Iranian judiciary on December 6 said it has arrested two organizers of a marathon after some women competed in the event without wearing required hijabs, the Islamic headscarf that covers the head and neck.

Bethlehem Christmas tree lights up for first time since start of Gaza war  ( 06.12.2025 15:08:31 bbc.com)
For the past two years all public Christmas celebrations have been cancelled in Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank.

US, Ukraine Discuss Peace, But No Immediate Headway Seen In Miami Talks  ( 06.12.2025 10:49:00 rferl.org)
Ukrainian President Zelenskyy is scheduled to meet in London on December 8 with the leaders of Britain, France, and Germany following his team's three straight days of talks with US officials in Miami.

U.S. Citizens With Somali Roots Are Carrying Their Passports Amid Minnesota ICE Crackdown  ( 06.12.2025 10:00:00 theintercept.com)
ICE’s operation against Minnesota’s Somali community is seen not as an immigration raid but as a racist intimidation campaign. The post U.S. Citizens With Somali Roots Are Carrying Their Passports Amid Minnesota ICE Crackdown appeared first on The Intercept.

ICE Denies Pepper-Spraying Rep. Adelita Grijalva in Incident Caught on Video  ( 06.12.2025 00:19:09 theintercept.com)
Heavily armed tactical teams fired crowd suppression munitions at the Arizona lawmaker and protesters, claiming she was leading “a mob.” The post ICE Denies Pepper-Spraying Rep. Adelita Grijalva in Incident Caught on Video appeared first on The Intercept.

Boat Strike Survivors Clung to Wreckage for Some 45 Minutes Before U.S. Military Killed Them  ( 06.12.2025 00:07:45 theintercept.com)
“There are a lot of disturbing aspects. But this is one of the most disturbing.” The post Boat Strike Survivors Clung to Wreckage for Some 45 Minutes Before U.S. Military Killed Them appeared first on The Intercept.

Ukraine Appears To Hit Russia's Grozny As Kyiv Seeks Answers From US On Kremlin Peace Talks  ( 05.12.2025 12:53:02 rferl.org)
A suspected Ukrainian drone attack rocked the Chechen capital, Grozny, early on December 5 just hours after Ukrainian negotiators met with US officials in Florida seeking details from a meeting at the Kremlin between American and Russian teams on a proposal to end the war on Ukraine.

Lethal Illusion: Understanding the Death Penalty Apparatus  ( 05.12.2025 11:00:00 theintercept.com)
Malcolm Gladwell and Liliana Segura unpack how the death penalty is administered in America. The post Lethal Illusion: Understanding the Death Penalty Apparatus appeared first on The Intercept.

Iran Turns To Water Imports As Crisis Deepens  ( 05.12.2025 10:22:23 rferl.org)
Iran is considering importing water from neighbors as it battles its worst water crisis in 50 years. Major cities face rationing, reservoirs are close to running dry, and experts see cross-border water deals as the pragmatic path forward.

Video of U.S. Military Killing Boat Strike Survivors Is Horrifying, Lawmakers Reveal  ( 04.12.2025 20:52:04 theintercept.com)
“What I saw in that room is one of the most troubling scenes I’ve ever seen in my time in public service.” The post Video of U.S. Military Killing Boat Strike Survivors Is Horrifying, Lawmakers Reveal appeared first on The Intercept.

Luigi, a Year Later: How to Build a Movement Against Parasitic Health Insurance Giants  ( 04.12.2025 18:48:04 theintercept.com)
The widespread support for Mangione shows America is ready to mobilize to build a more humane health care system. The post Luigi, a Year Later: How to Build a Movement Against Parasitic Health Insurance Giants appeared first on The Intercept.

“I’m Not Fleeing” — Alleged Antifa Cell Member Says He Was Accidentally Released From Jail  ( 04.12.2025 17:26:10 theintercept.com)
Daniel Sanchez Estrada, who was arrested for transporting anarchist zines after an ICE protest, turned himself in to the feds. The post “I’m Not Fleeing” — Alleged Antifa Cell Member Says He Was Accidentally Released From Jail appeared first on The Intercept.

Pentagon Claims It “Absolutely” Knows Who It Killed in Boat Strikes. Prove It, Lawmaker Says.  ( 04.12.2025 15:41:51 theintercept.com)
Rep. Chrissy Houlahan said, “If there is intelligence to ‘absolutely confirm’ this, the Congress is ready to receive it.” The post Pentagon Claims It “Absolutely” Knows Who It Killed in Boat Strikes. Prove It, Lawmaker Says. appeared first on The Intercept.

Israel Revoked Palestinians’ Work Permits — Then Launched a Deadly Crackdown on Laborers  ( 04.12.2025 14:48:59 theintercept.com)
Before October 7, Palestinian laborers would cross into Israel for jobs. Then Israel revoked work permits and unleashed a violent crackdown. The post Israel Revoked Palestinians’ Work Permits — Then Launched a Deadly Crackdown on Laborers appeared first on The Intercept.

She Lost Her Job for Speaking Out About Gaza. Can It Power Her to Congress?  ( 04.12.2025 14:02:58 theintercept.com)
Justice Democrats endorsed Melat Kiros in Denver as the progressive group looks to recover from crushing losses to AIPAC-backed candidates last cycle. The post She Lost Her Job for Speaking Out About Gaza. Can It Power Her to Congress? appeared first on The Intercept.

Ukrainian, US Officials Meet In Florida For Peace Talks As Putin Doubles Down On Demands  ( 04.12.2025 10:31:07 rferl.org)
Ukrainian negotiators were set to meet with European officials in Brussels, and later US officials in Florida, days after a five-hour Kremlin meeting with a visiting White House delegation where President Vladimir Putin doubled down on his hard-line conditions to end the war on Ukraine.

“Real” America Is Turning Against Trump’s Mass Deportation Regime  ( 03.12.2025 20:30:16 theintercept.com)
Everyday Americans in Appalachia and the Southeast show that resisting ICE is becoming the rule, rather than the exception. The post “Real” America Is Turning Against Trump’s Mass Deportation Regime appeared first on The Intercept.

Ukraine Peace Efforts Further Stalled After US-Kremlin Talks Make Little Headway  ( 03.12.2025 17:59:52 rferl.org)
Efforts to find a resolution to halt Russia's nearly 4-year-old war on Ukraine appear to hit a brick wall after a Moscow meeting between US negotiators and President Vladimir Putin as Kremlin and Russian officials signal little willingness to back down from hard-line demands.

Episode Eight: Legalized Takings  ( 03.12.2025 11:00:00 theintercept.com)
Donald Scott was killed in his home by an ad hoc team of raiding cops who were looking for marijuana — but the larger prize may have been his 200-acre Malibu ranch. The post Episode Eight: Legalized Takings appeared first on The Intercept.

Department of War Disputes Second Attack on Boat Strike Survivors Was a “Double-Tap”  ( 03.12.2025 01:06:21 theintercept.com)
“Quibbling over the semantics of ‘double-tap’ doesn’t change the reality that the strike was a summary execution of men clinging to the remains of a boat.” The post Department of War Disputes Second Attack on Boat Strike Survivors Was a “Double-Tap” appeared first on The Intercept.

Bipartisan House Resolution Seeks to Block Trump War With Venezuela  ( 02.12.2025 21:08:00 theintercept.com)
The war powers legislation would prohibit Trump from launching “hostilities within or against Venezuela” without congressional approval. The post Bipartisan House Resolution Seeks to Block Trump War With Venezuela appeared first on The Intercept.


Technologie a věda


NASA Confirms It Has Lost Contact With Mars Orbiter MAVEN  ( 11.12.2025 03:33:00 sciencealert.com)
Sudden silence after 11 years in orbit.

Bottled Water Isn't as Pure as You Might Think, Expert Warns  ( 11.12.2025 03:16:50 sciencealert.com)
Not always the safer choice.

Top Roman Military Officers Loved Their Pet Monkeys  ( 11.12.2025 03:00:00 nautil.us)
An animal cemetery at a once-bustling port adds to growing evidence that Romans collected and deeply cared for these primates The post Top Roman Military Officers Loved Their Pet Monkeys appeared first on Nautilus.

New Cancer Therapy Offers Hope For 'Incurable' Leukaemia in Early Trial  ( 11.12.2025 02:24:39 sciencealert.com)
Here's how it works.

Veritasium's 'Elements of Truth' Board Game Is Live on Kickstarter  ( 11.12.2025 01:33:38 sciencealert.com)
Any questions?

What Laziness Has to do with Beauty  ( 11.12.2025 01:00:00 nautil.us)
The aesthetic benefits of low mental effort The post What Laziness Has to do with Beauty appeared first on Nautilus.

Sperm Donor With Rare Cancer-Risk Gene Fathers Nearly 200 Children  ( 11.12.2025 00:43:23 sciencealert.com)
Here's what happened.

Scientists uncover the hidden survival trick that lets cancer bounce back  ( 10.12.2025 23:17:21 sciencedaily.com)
Scientists discovered that certain cancer cells use a low-level activation of a DNA-dismantling enzyme—normally seen in cell death—to survive treatment. Instead of dying, these “persister cells” leverage this sublethal signal to regrow. Because the mechanism is non-genetic, it appears much earlier than typical resistance mutations. Targeting this enzyme could help stop tumors from returning.

Experimenty pro Aleše Svobodu na ISS | 7 – EDOUTA  ( 10.12.2025 23:10:23 kosmonautix.cz)
Na letošním Czech Space Weeku se poprvé veřejně ukázalo třináct českých vědeckých experimentů. Všechny míří na národní misi Aleše Svobody na Mezinárodní kosmickou stanici. Novináři tehdy získali spoustu zajímavých podkladů k jednotlivým projektům. Právě z těchto informací vychází náš seriál Experimenty pro Aleše Svobodu na ISS. Každý týden vychází nový díl, který se zaměřuje na jeden konkrétní experiment. Texty mám podepsané já, ale nejde o původní tvorbu. Jde o upravené oficiální tiskové materiály tak, aby byly přívětivější ke čtenáři. Postupujeme podle abecedy. Pátý díl představuje projekt EDOUTA, který se od ostatních experimentů v seriálu trochu liší a nepředstavuje klasický vědecký pokus. Má podtitul Vzdělávání z Mezinárodní vesmírné stanice. Na jeho přípravě spolupracuje pražské planetárium Planetum, Psychologický ústav AV ČR a Astronomický ústav AV ČR.

Hobbits May Have Been Victims of Climate Change  ( 10.12.2025 23:00:00 nautil.us)
New research offers clues into the mysterious disappearance of these tiny hominins The post Hobbits May Have Been Victims of Climate Change appeared first on Nautilus.

The Cause of Alzheimer's May Be Coming From Within Your Mouth  ( 10.12.2025 22:50:47 sciencealert.com)
It's not just a disease.

New research reveals how everyday cues secretly shape your habits  ( 10.12.2025 22:41:05 sciencedaily.com)
Researchers uncovered how shifting levels of a brain protein called KCC2 can reshape the way cues become linked with rewards, sometimes making habits form more quickly or more powerfully than expected. When this protein drops, dopamine neurons fire more intensely, strengthening new associations in ways that resemble how addictive behaviors take hold. Rat studies showed that even brief, synchronized bursts of neural activity can amplify reward learning, offering insight into why everyday triggers, like a morning routine, can provoke strong cravings.

Stunningly preserved Roman-era mosaic in UK depicts Trojan War stories — but not the ones told by Homer  ( 10.12.2025 22:05:23 livescience.com)
A newfound mosaic draws inspiration from "Phrygians," a play by the Athenian playwright Aeschylus that survives only in bits and pieces.

Mysterious X-ray signal from deep space may be the scream of a star ripped apart by two black holes  ( 10.12.2025 21:09:28 livescience.com)
A strange X-ray signal spotted decades ago may be the result of a star that got attacked by two black holes, one after the other.

What an Ancient Sheep Reveals About a Bronze Age Plague  ( 10.12.2025 21:00:00 nautil.us)
Scientists found the plague pathogen hiding in a 4,000-year-old sheep, shedding light on the earlier, more elusive pandemic before the Black Death The post What an Ancient Sheep Reveals About a Bronze Age Plague appeared first on Nautilus.

Uterine Fibroids Significantly Raise Risk of Heart Disease  ( 10.12.2025 21:00:00 scientificamerican.com)
In a new study, women diagnosed with these common growths had a more than 80 percent higher risk of later developing heart disease than their peers did

Why Vision AI Models Fail  ( 10.12.2025 20:33:57 content.knowledgehub.wiley.com)
Prevent costly AI failures in production by mastering data-centric approaches to detect bias, classimbalance, and data leakage before deployment impacts your business.The four most common model failure modes that jeopardize production vision systemsReal-world case studies from Tesla, Walmart, and TSMC showing how failures translate to business lossesData-centric failure modes including insufficient data, class imbalance, labeling errors, and biasEvaluation frameworks and quantitative methods for future-proofing your deploymentsKey strategies for detecting, analyzing, and preventing model failures including avoiding data leakageProduction monitoring approaches to track data drift and model confidence over timeDownload this free whitepaper now!

New Species of Tiny Pumpkin Toadlet Discovered in Brazil's Cloud Forests  ( 10.12.2025 19:00:34 sciencealert.com)
Adorable.

Two New AI Ethics Certifications Available from IEEE  ( 10.12.2025 19:00:02 spectrum.ieee.org)
It appears that nearly every organization is planning to use artificial intelligence to improve operations. Although autonomous intelligent systems (AIS) can offer significant benefits, they also can be used unethically. The technology can create deepfakes, realistic-looking altered images and videos that help spread misinformation and disinformation. Meanwhile, AI systems trained on biased data can perpetuate discrimination in hiring, lending, and other practices. And surveillance systems that incorporate AI can lead to misidentification.Those issues have led to concerns about AIS trustworthiness, and it has become more crucial for AI developers and companies to ensure the systems they use and sell are ethically sound. To help them, the IEEE Standards Association (IEEE SA) launched its IEEE CertifAIEd ethics program, which offers two certifications: one for individuals and one for products.IEEE CertifAIEd was developed by an interdisciplinary group of AI ethics experts. The program is based on IEEE’s AI ethics framework and methodology, centered around the pillars of accountability, privacy, transparency, and avoiding bias. The program incorporates criteria outlined in the AI ontological specifications released under Creative Commons licenses.IEEE is the only international organization that offers the programs, says Jon Labrador, director for conformity assessment of IEEE SA programs.Assessment program detailsThe professional certification provides individuals with the skills to assess an AIS for adherence to IEEE’s methodology and ethics framework.Those with at least one year of experience in the use of AI tools or systems in their organization’s business processes or work functions are eligible to apply for the certification.You don’t have to be a developer or engineer to benefit from the training, Labrador says. Insurance underwriters, policymakers, human resources personnel, and others could benefit from it, he says.“Professionals from just about any industry or any company that’s using an AI tool to process business transactions are eligible for this program,” he says.The training program covers how to ensure that AI systems are open and understandable; identify and mitigate biases in algorithms; and protect personal data. The curriculum includes use cases. Courses are available in virtual, in-person, or self-study formats.Learners must take a final exam. Once they’ve successfully passed the test, they’ll receive their three-year IEEE professional certification, which is globally recognized, accepted, and respected, Labrador says.“With the certification, you’ll become a trusted source for reviewing AI tools used in your business processes, and you’ll be qualified to run an assessment,” he says. “It would be incumbent on a company to have a few IEEE CertifAIEd professionals to review its tools regularly to make sure they conform with the values identified in our program.”The self-study exam preparatory course is available to IEEE members at US $599; it costs $699 for nonmembers.Product assessmentsThe product certification program assesses whether an organization’s AI tool or AIS conforms to the IEEE framework and continuously aligns with legal and regulatory principles such as the European Union AI Act.An IEEE CertifiAIEd assessor evaluates the product to ensure it meets all criteria. There are more than 300 authorized assessors.Upon completion of the assessment, the company submits it to IEEE Conformity Assessment, which certifies the product and issues the certification mark.“That mark lets customers know that the company has gone through the rigors and is 100 percent in conformance with the latest IEEE AI ethics specifications,” Labrador says.“The IEEE CertifiAIEd program can also be viewed as a risk mitigation tool for companies,” he says, “reducing the risk of system or process failures with the introduction of a new AI tool or system in established business processes.”You can complete an application to begin the process of getting your product certified.

Scientists Explain How mRNA COVID Vaccines May Rarely Cause Myocarditis  ( 10.12.2025 19:00:00 scientificamerican.com)
A new study identifies a mechanism for how COVID vaccines may, in infrequent cases, drive heart inflammation, a condition that can be caused by the disease itself

Millions of Years Ago These Animals Shaped the Arabian Sea  ( 10.12.2025 19:00:00 nautil.us)
Like modern sea cows, these Late Miocene marine mammals engineered their ecosystems The post Millions of Years Ago These Animals Shaped the Arabian Sea appeared first on Nautilus.

Amazon rainforest is transitioning to a 'hypertropical' climate — and trees won't survive that for long  ( 10.12.2025 17:26:29 livescience.com)
The Amazon rainforest currently has a few days or weeks of hot drought conditions per year, but researchers say this could increase to 150 days per year by 2100.

Librarians Dumbfounded as People Keep Asking for Materials That Don’t Exist  ( 10.12.2025 17:13:57 futurism.com)
The wonders of our AI age. The post Librarians Dumbfounded as People Keep Asking for Materials That Don’t Exist appeared first on Futurism.

This Common Personality Trait May Fuel Serial Killers  ( 10.12.2025 17:00:00 nautil.us)
A form of narcissism may underlie the psychology of sexually motivated murder The post This Common Personality Trait May Fuel Serial Killers appeared first on Nautilus.

NASA Loses Signal from Critical Mars Orbiter  ( 10.12.2025 17:00:00 scientificamerican.com)
NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft didn’t phone home as expected on December 6

MERS, a Deadly Coronavirus, Resurfaces in France for First Time in 12 Years  ( 10.12.2025 16:20:00 scientificamerican.com)
French health officials are trying to trace all the contacts of two men who contracted MERS, a potentially lethal disease that is typically confined to the Middle East

Brace for Disaster as the Washington Post Launches an AI-Generated Podcast  ( 10.12.2025 16:04:13 futurism.com)
"Stop trying to shove AI down my throat." The post Brace for Disaster as the Washington Post Launches an AI-Generated Podcast appeared first on Futurism.

Archaeologists Discover Earliest Evidence of Humans Using Tools to Make Fire  ( 10.12.2025 16:00:54 sciencealert.com)
Sparking our evolution.

Ancient Humans Were Making Fire 350,000 Years Earlier Than Scientists Realized  ( 10.12.2025 16:00:00 scientificamerican.com)
Making fire on demand was a milestone in the lives of our early ancestors. But the question of when that skill first arose has been difficult for scientists to pin down

'It is the most exciting discovery in my 40-year career': Archaeologists uncover evidence that Neanderthals made fire 400,000 years ago in England  ( 10.12.2025 16:00:00 livescience.com)
Archaeologists have found the earliest evidence yet of fire technology — and it was created by Neanderthals in England more than 400,000 years ago.

Scientists create new solid-state sodium-ion battery — they say it'll make EVs cheaper and safer  ( 10.12.2025 16:00:00 livescience.com)
A new sodium-ion battery offers a cheaper and safer alternative to conventional lithium-ion systems, scientists say, paving the way for more sustainable EVs.

A NASA Spacecraft Orbiting Mars Just Mysteriously Went Offline  ( 10.12.2025 15:09:28 futurism.com)
NASA is "investigating the anomaly." The post A NASA Spacecraft Orbiting Mars Just Mysteriously Went Offline appeared first on Futurism.

Police Admit They’re Using ChatGPT to Generate “Sketches” of Suspects  ( 10.12.2025 14:15:10 futurism.com)
"We're now in a day and age where if we post a pencil drawing, most people are not going to acknowledge it." The post Police Admit They’re Using ChatGPT to Generate “Sketches” of Suspects appeared first on Futurism.

This Low-Cost Stopgap Tech Can Fix the Grid  ( 10.12.2025 14:00:02 spectrum.ieee.org)
The power surging through transmission lines over the iconic stone walls of England’s northern countryside is pushing the United Kingdom’s grid to its limits. To the north, Scottish wind farms have doubled their output over the past decade. In the south, where electricity demand is heaviest, electrification and new data centers promise to draw more power, but new generation is falling short. Construction on a new 3,280-megawatt nuclear power plant west of London lags years behind schedule.The result is a lopsided flow of power that’s maxing out transmission corridors from the Highlands to London. That grid strain won’t ease any time soon. New lines linking Scotland to southern England are at least three to four years from operation, and at risk of further delays from fierce local opposition.At the same time, U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer is bent on installing even more wind power and slashing fossil-fuel generation by 2030. His Labour government says low-carbon power is cheaper and more secure than natural gas, much of which comes from Norway via the world’s longest underwater gas pipeline and is vulnerable to disruption and sabotage. The lack of transmission lines available to move power flowing south from Scottish wind farms has caused grid congestion in England. To better manage it, the U.K. has installed SmartValves at three substations in northern England—Penwortham, Harker, and Saltholme—and is constructing a fourth at South Shields. Chris Philpot The U.K.’s resulting grid congestion prevents transmission operators from delivering some of their cleanest, cheapest generation to all of the consumers who want it. Congestion is a perennial problem whenever power consumption is on the rise. It pushes circuits to their thermal limits and creates grid stability or security constraints.With congestion relief needed now, the U.K.’s grid operators are getting creative, rapidly tapping new cable designs and innovations in power electronics to squeeze more power through existing transmission corridors. These grid-enhancing technologies, or GETs, present a low-cost way to bridge the gap until new lines can be built.“GETs allow us to operate the system harder before an investment arrives, and they save a s***load of money,” says Julian Leslie, chief engineer and director of strategic energy planning at the National Energy System Operator (NESO), the Warwick-based agency that directs U.K. energy markets and infrastructure. Transmission lines running across England’s countryside are maxed out, creating bottlenecks in the grid that prevent some carbon-free power from reaching customers. Vincent Lowe/Alamy The U.K.’s extreme grid challenge has made it ground zero for some of the boldest GETs testing and deployment. Such innovation involves some risk, because an intervention anywhere on the U.K.’s tightly meshed power system can have system-wide impacts. (Grid operators elsewhere are choosing to start with GETs at their systems’ periphery—where there’s less impact if something goes wrong.)The question is how far—and how fast—the U.K.’s grid operators can push GETs capabilities. The new technologies still have a limited track record, so operators are cautiously feeling their way toward heavier investment. Power system experts also have unanswered questions about these advanced grid capabilities. For example, will they create more complexity than grid operators can manage in real time? Might feedback between different devices destabilize the grid?There is no consensus yet as to how to even screen for such risks, let alone protect against them, says Robin Preece, professor in future power systems at the University of Manchester, in England. “We’re at the start of establishing that now, but we’re building at the same time. So it’s kind of this race between the necessity to get this technology installed as quickly as possible, and our ability to fully understand what’s happening.”How is the U.K. Managing Grid Congestion?One of the most innovative and high-stakes tricks in the U.K.’s toolbox employs electronic power-flow controllers, devices that shift electricity from jammed circuits to those with spare capacity. These devices have been able to finesse enough additional wind power through grid bottlenecks to replace an entire gas-fired generator. Installed in northern England four years ago by Smart Wires, based in Durham, N.C., these SmartValves are expected to help even more as NESO installs more of them and masters their capabilities.Warwick-based National Grid Electricity Transmission, the grid operator for England and Wales, is adding SmartValves and also replacing several thousand kilometers of overhead wire with advanced conductors that can carry more current. And it’s using a technique called dynamic line rating, whereby sensors and models work together to predict when weather conditions will allow lines to carry extra current.Other kinds of GETs are also being used globally. Advanced conductors are the most widely deployed. Dynamic line rating is increasingly common in European countries, and U.S. utilities are beginning to take it seriously. Europe also leads the world in topology-optimization software, which reconfigures power routes to alleviate congestion, and advanced power-flow-control devices like SmartValves. Engineers install dynamic line rating technology from the Boston-based company LineVision on National Grid’s transmission network. National Grid Electricity Transmission SmartValves’ chops stand out at the Penwortham substation in Lancashire, England, one of two National Grid sites where the device made its U.K. debut in 2021. Penwortham substation is a major transmission hub, whose spokes desperately need congestion relief. Auditory evidence of heavy power flows was clear during my visit to the substation, which buzzes loudly. The sound is due to the electromechanical stresses on the substation’s massive transformers, explains my guide, National Grid commissioned engineer Paul Lloyd.Penwortham’s transformers, circuits, and protective relays are spread over 15 hectares, sandwiched between pastureland and suburban homes near Preston, a small city north of Manchester. Power arrives from the north on two pairs of 400-kilovolt AC lines, and most of it exits southward via 400-kV and 275-kV double-circuit wires. Transmission lines lead to the congested Penwortham substation, which has become a test-bed for GETs such as SmartValves and dynamic line rating. Peter Fairley What makes the substation a strategic test-bed for GETs is its position just north of the U.K. grid’s biggest bottleneck, known as Boundary B7a, which runs east to west across the island. Nine circuits traverse the B7a: the four AC lines headed south from Penwortham, four AC lines closer to Yorkshire’s North Sea coast, and a high-voltage direct-current (HVDC) link offshore. In theory, those circuits can collectively carry 13.6 gigawatts across the B7a. But NESO caps its flow at several gigawatts lower to ensure that no circuits overload if any two lines turn off.Such limits are necessary for grid reliability, but they are leaving terawatt-hours of wind power stranded in Scotland and increasing consumers’ energy costs: an extra £196 million (US $265 million) in 2024 alone. The costs stem from NESO having to ramp up gas-fired generators to meet demand down south while simultaneously compensating wind-farm operators for curtailing their output, as required under U.K. policy.So National Grid keeps tweaking Penwortham. In 2011 the substation got its first big GET: phase-shifting transformers (PSTs), a type of analog flow controller. PSTs adjust power flow by creating an AC waveform whose alternating voltage leads or lags its alternating current. They do so by each PST using a pair of connected transformers to selectively combine power from an AC transmission circuit’s three phases. Motors reposition electrical connections on the transformer coils to adjust flows. Phase-shifting transformers (PSTs) were installed in 2012 at the Penwortham substation and are the analog predecessor to SmartValves. They’re powerful but also bulky and relatively inflexible. It can take 10 minutes or more for the PST’s motorized actuators at Penwortham to tap their full range of flow control, whereas SmartValves can shift within milliseconds.National Grid Electricity Transmission Penwortham’s pair of 540-tonne PSTs occupy the entire south end of the substation, along with their dedicated chillers, relays, and power supplies. Delivering all that hardware required extensive road closures and floating a huge barge up the adjacent River Ribble, an event that made national news.The SmartValves at Penwortham stand in stark contrast to the PSTs’ heft, complexity, and mechanics. SmartValves are a type of static synchronous series compensator, or SSSC—a solid-state alternative to PSTs that employs power electronics to tweak power flows in milliseconds. I saw two sets of them tucked into a corner of the substation, occupying a quarter of the area of the PSTs. The SmartValve V103 design [above] experienced some teething and reliability issues that were ironed out with the technology’s next iteration, the V104. National Grid Electricity Transmission/Smart Wires The SmartValves are first and foremost an insurance policy to guard against a potentially crippling event: the sudden loss of one of the B7a’s 400-kV lines. If that were to happen, gigawatts of power would instantly seek another route over neighboring lines. And if it happened on a windy day, when lots of power is streaming in from the north, the resulting surge could overload the 275-kV circuits headed from Penwortham to Liverpool. The SmartValves’ job is to save the day.They do this by adding impedance to the 275-kV lines, thus acting to divert more power to the remaining 400-kV lines. This rerouting of power prevents a blackout that could potentially cascade through the grid. The upside to that protection is that NESO can safely schedule an additional 350 MW over the B7a.The savings add up. “That’s 350 MW of wind you’re no longer curtailing from wind farms. So that’s 350 times £100 a megawatt-hour,” says Leslie, at NESO. “That’s also 350 MW of gas-fired power that you don’t need to replace the wind. So that’s 350 times £120 a megawatt-hour. The numbers get big quickly.”Mark Osborne, the National Grid lead asset life-cycle engineer managing its SmartValve projects, estimates the devices are saving U.K. customers over £100 million (US $132 million) a year. At that rate, they’ll pay for themselves “within a few years,” Osborne says. By utility standards, where investments are normally amortized over decades, that’s “almost immediately,” he adds.How Do Grid-Enhancing Technologies Work?The way Smart Wires’ SSSC devices adjust power flow is based on emulating impedance, which is a strange beast created by AC power. An AC flow’s changing magnetic field induces an additional voltage in the line’s conductor, which then acts as a drag on the initial field. Smart Wires’ SSSC devices alter power flow by emulating that natural process, effectively adding or subtracting impedance by adding their own voltage wave to the line. Adding a wave that leads the original voltage wave will boost flow, while adding a lagging wave will reduce flow.The SSSC’s submodules of capacitors and high-speed insulated-gate bipolar transistors operate in sequence to absorb power from a line and synthesize its novel impedance-altering waves. And thanks to its digital controls and switches, the device can within milliseconds flip from maximum power push to maximum pull.You can trace the development of SSSCs to the advent of HVDC transmission in the 1950s. HVDC converters take power from an AC grid and efficiently convert it and transfer it over a DC line to another point in the same grid, or to a neighboring AC grid. In 1985, Narain Hingorani, an HVDC expert at the Palo Alto–based Electric Power Research Institute, showed that similar converters could modulate the flow of an AC line. Four years later, Westinghouse engineer Laszlo Gyugyi proposed SSSCs, which became the basis for Smart Wires’ boxes.Major power-equipment manufacturers tried to commercialize SSSCs in the early 2000s. But utilities had little need for flow control back then because they had plenty of conventional power plants that could meet local demand when transmission lines were full.The picture changed as solar and wind generation exploded and conventional plants began shutting down. In years past, grid operators addressed grid congestion by turning power plants on or off in strategic locations. But as of 2024, the U.K. had shut down all of its coal-fired power plants—save one, which now burns wood—and it has vowed to slash gas-fired generation from about a quarter of electricity supply in 2024 to at most 5 percent in 2030.The U.K.’s extreme grid challenge has made it ground zero for some of the boldest GETs testing and deployment.To seize the emerging market opportunity presented by changing grid operations, Smart Wires had to make a crucial technology upgrade: ditching transformers. The company’s first SSSC, and those from other suppliers, relied on a transformer to absorb lightning, voltage surges, and every other grid assault that could fry their power electronics. This made them bulky and added cost. So Smart Wires engineers set to work in 2017 to see if they could live without the transformer, says Frank Kreikebaum, Smart Wires’s interim chief of engineering. Two years later the company had assembled a transformerless electronic shield. It consisted of a suite of filters and diverters, along with a control system to activate them. Ditching the transformer produced a trim, standardized product—a modular system-in-a-box.SmartValves work at any voltage and are generally ganged together to achieve a desired level of flow control. They can be delivered fast, and they fit in the kinds of tight spaces that are common in substations. “It’s not about cost, even though we’re competitive there. It’s about ‘how quick’ and ‘can it fit,’” says Kreikebaum.And if the grid’s pinch point shifts? The devices can be quickly moved to another substation. “It’s a Lego-brick build,” says Owen Wilkes, National Grid’s director of network design. Wilkes’s team decides where to add equipment based on today’s best projections, but he appreciates the flexibility to respond to unexpected changes.National Grid’s deployments in 2021 were the highest-voltage installation of SSSCs at the time, and success there is fueling expansion. National Grid now has packs of SmartValves installed at three substations in northern England and under construction at another, with five more installations planned in that area. Smart Wires has also commissioned commercial projects at transmission substations in Australia, Brazil, Colombia, and the United States.Dynamic Line Rating Boosts Grid EfficiencyIn addition to SSSCs, National Grid has deployed lidar that senses sag on Penwortham’s 275-kV lines—an indication that they’re starting to overheat. The sensors are part of a dynamic line rating system and help grid operators maximize the amount of current that high-voltage lines can carry based on near-real-time weather conditions. (Cooler weather means more capacity.) Now the same technology is being deployed across the B7a—a £1 million investment that is projected to save consumers £33 million annually, says Corin Ireland, a National Grid optimization engineer with the task of seizing GETs opportunities.There’s also a lot of old conductor wires being swapped out for those that can carry more power. National Grid’s business plan calls for 2,416 kilometers of such reconductoring over the coming five years, which is about 20 percent of its system. Scotland’s transmission operators are busy with their own big swaps. Scottish wind farms have doubled their power output over the past decade, but it often gets stranded due to grid congestion in England. Andreas Berthold/Alamy But while National Grid and NESO are making some of the boldest deployments of GETs in the world, they’re not fully tapping the technologies’ capabilities. That’s partly due to the conservative nature of power utilities, and partly because grid operators already have plenty to keep their eyes on. It also stems from the unknowns that still surround GETs, like whether they might take the grid in unforeseen directions if allowed to respond automatically, or get stuck in a feedback loop responding to each other. Imagine SmartValve controllers at different substations fighting, with one substation jumping to remove impedance that the other just added, causing fluctuating power flows.“These technologies operate very quickly, but the computers in the control room are still very reliant on people making decisions,” says Ireland. “So there are time scales that we have to take into consideration when planning and operating the network.”This kind of conservative dispatching leaves value on the table. For example, the dynamic line rating models can spit out new line ratings every 15 minutes, but grid operators get updates only every 24 hours. Fewer updates means fewer opportunities to tap the system’s ability to boost capacity. Similarly, for SmartValves, NESO activates installations at only one substation at a time. And control-room operators turn them on manually, even though the devices could automatically respond to faults within milliseconds. National Grid is upgrading transmission lines dating as far back as the 1960s. This includes installing conductors that retain their strength at higher temperatures, allowing them to carry more power. National Grid Electricity Transmission Modeling by Smart Wires and National Grid shows a significant capacity boost across Boundary B7a if Penwortham’s SmartValves were to work in tandem with another set further up the line. For example, when Penwortham is adding impedance to push megawatts off the 275-kV lines, a set closer to Scotland could simultaneously pull the power north, nudging the sum over to the B7a’s eastern circuits. Simulations by Andy Hiorns, a former National Grid planning director who consults for Smart Wires, suggest that this kind of cooperative action should increase the B7a circuits’ usable capacity by another 250 to 300 MW. “You double the effectiveness by using them as pairs,” he says.Operating multiple flow controllers may become necessary for unlocking the next boundary en route to London, south of the B7a, called Boundary B8. As dynamic line rating, beefier conductors, and SmartValves send more power across the B7a, lines traversing B8 are reaching their limits. Eventually, every boundary along the route will have to be upgraded.Meanwhile, back at its U.S. headquarters, Smart Wires is developing other applications for its SSSCs, such as filtering out power oscillations that can destabilize grids and reduce allowable transfers. That capability could be unlocked remotely with firmware.The company is also working on a test program that could turn on pairs of SmartValve installations during slack moments when there isn’t much going on in the control rooms. That would give National Grid and NESO operators an opportunity to observe the impacts, and to get more comfortable with the technology.National Grid and Smart Wires are also hard at work developing industry-first optimization software for coordinating flow-control devices. “It’s possible to extend the technology from how we’re using it today,” says Ireland at National Grid. “That’s the exciting bit.”NESO’s Julian Leslie shares that excitement and says he expects SmartValves to begin working together to ease power through the grid—once the operators have the modeling right and get a little more comfortable with the technology. “It’s a great innovation that has the potential to be really transformational,” he says. “We’re just not quite there yet.”

Improved ‘Terminator’ Sun Model Could Change Space Weather Forecasting  ( 10.12.2025 13:30:00 scientificamerican.com)
An idea about the sun’s magnetic field called the terminator model could help predict dangerous space weather more accurately

Blood tests reveal obesity rapidly accelerates Alzheimer’s progression  ( 10.12.2025 12:23:51 sciencedaily.com)
Obesity accelerates the rise of Alzheimer’s-related blood biomarkers far more rapidly than previously recognized. Long-term imaging and plasma data show that obese individuals experience much faster increases in proteins linked to neurodegeneration and amyloid buildup. Surprisingly, blood tests detected these changes earlier than PET scans. The results point to obesity as a major, modifiable contributor to Alzheimer’s progression.

King Gizzard Responds to Being Impersonated by AI on Spotify  ( 10.12.2025 12:01:54 futurism.com)
"But seriously wtf." The post King Gizzard Responds to Being Impersonated by AI on Spotify appeared first on Futurism.

TrustPoint  ( 10.12.2025 12:00:43 kosmonautix.cz)
Startup TrustPoint, který buduje navigační síť na nízké oběžné dráze Země jako alternativu nebo doplněk k GPS, uvádí, že je na dobré cestě k softstartingu služeb PNT v pásmu C v roce 2027.

'Super-Jupiter' Exoplanets May Look Like Nothing We've Ever Seen  ( 10.12.2025 12:00:07 sciencealert.com)
Truly alien worlds.

Sonda MAVEN se odmlčela  ( 10.12.2025 11:52:03 kosmonautix.cz)
Sonda MAVEN od americké agentury NASA, která krouží kolem Marsu, zažila 6. prosince ztrátu kontaktu s pozemskou komunikační stanicí. Telemetrie od sondy MAVEN ukazovala, že předtím, než se sonda schovala z pohledu Země za Marsem, všechny subsystémy pracovaly správně. Když se však sonda vynořila zpoza Marsu, síť antén DSN od NASA nezachytila její signál. Týmy zodpovědné za provoz sondy nyní vyšetřují tuto anomálii, aby ji bylo možné vyřešit. NASA slibuje, že více informací sdělí, jakmile budou dostupné.

Russia's Bezymianny volcano blew itself apart 69 years ago. It's now almost completely regrown.  ( 10.12.2025 11:45:23 livescience.com)
A 1956 eruption collapsed much of the Bezymianny volcano in Kamchatka, Russia, but frequent eruptions since — including a large event in November — means it has now almost completely regrown.

How Animals Form Unlikely Alliances to Keep Predators Away  ( 10.12.2025 11:45:00 scientificamerican.com)
Cross-species “defense pacts” help animals keep tabs on parasites and predators

The 17 best fitness gifts to buy for gym lovers, hand-picked by a personal trainer  ( 10.12.2025 11:30:00 livescience.com)
Need some last-minute gift ideas for a fitness enthusiast? We have your back.

The deep ocean is fixing carbon in ways no one expected  ( 10.12.2025 11:23:29 sciencedaily.com)
Researchers have uncovered surprising evidence that the deep ocean’s carbon-fixing engine works very differently than long assumed. While ammonia-oxidizing archaea were thought to dominate carbon fixation in the sunless depths, experiments show that other microbes—especially heterotrophs—are doing far more of the work than expected. This discovery reshapes our understanding of how carbon moves through the deep ocean and stabilizes Earth’s climate.

New discoveries at Hadrian's Wall are changing the picture of what life was like on the border of the Roman Empire  ( 10.12.2025 11:22:33 livescience.com)
The British northern frontier was the edge of the Roman world — and a place of violence, boredom and opportunity, experts told Live Science.

Google CEO Says We’re All Going to Have to Suffer Through It as AI Puts Society Through the Woodchipper  ( 10.12.2025 11:12:37 futurism.com)
"We will have to work through societal disruption." The post Google CEO Says We’re All Going to Have to Suffer Through It as AI Puts Society Through the Woodchipper appeared first on Futurism.

Award-Winning Photo Reveals Secret of Strange Spider's 'Shrink-Wrap' Web  ( 10.12.2025 11:00:05 sciencealert.com)
The art of ambush.

Diagnostic dilemma: Man caught rabies from organ transplant after donor was scratched by skunk  ( 10.12.2025 11:00:00 livescience.com)
A Michigan man died of rabies despite having no recent exposure to a potentially infected animal.

Can NASA Bring Mars Rocks Back to Earth?  ( 10.12.2025 11:00:00 scientificamerican.com)
NASA’s Perseverance rover has gathered groundbreaking Mars samples, but the mission to bring them home is facing serious challenges.

Uranus and Neptune are hiding something big beneath the blue  ( 10.12.2025 10:50:07 sciencedaily.com)
Uranus and Neptune may not be the icy worlds we’ve long imagined. A new Swiss-led study uses innovative hybrid modeling to reveal that these planets could just as easily be dominated by rock as by water-rich ices. The findings also help explain their bizarre, multi-poled magnetic fields and open the door to a wider range of possible interior structures. But major uncertainties remain, and only future space missions will be able to uncover what truly lies beneath their blue atmospheres.

Chinese Astronauts Clamber Outside Space Station to Inspect Damaged Spacecraft  ( 10.12.2025 10:10:59 futurism.com)
Astronauts spotted "tiny cracks" in the spacecraft's window last month. The post Chinese Astronauts Clamber Outside Space Station to Inspect Damaged Spacecraft appeared first on Futurism.

A hidden mechanism changes what we know about cell division  ( 10.12.2025 09:19:47 sciencedaily.com)
Researchers discovered that a long-misunderstood protein plays a key role in helping chromosomes latch onto the right “tracks” during cell division. Instead of acting like a motor, it works more like a stabilizer that sets everything up correctly from the start. This simple shift in understanding changes how scientists view one of the most important steps in biology. It also highlights a potential weak point that could help explain how some diseases begin.

Kanada  ( 10.12.2025 09:00:32 kosmonautix.cz)
Kanada uzavřela smlouvu s provozovatelem družic, společností Telesat a výrobcem MDA Space na prozkoumání možností vojenské komunikační sítě v hodnotě několika miliard dolarů na podporu kanadských ozbrojených sil v Arktidě.

Sam Altman Says Caring for a Baby Is Now Impossible Without ChatGPT  ( 10.12.2025 09:00:00 futurism.com)
"Clearly, people did it for a long time — no problem. But I have relied on it so much." The post Sam Altman Says Caring for a Baby Is Now Impossible Without ChatGPT appeared first on Futurism.

Why ultra-processed foods make teens eat more when they aren’t hungry  ( 10.12.2025 08:53:40 sciencedaily.com)
A Virginia Tech study shows that ultra-processed foods may influence adolescents differently from slightly older young adults. Participants aged 18 to 21 ate more at a buffet and snacked even when not hungry after two weeks on an ultra-processed diet. Because eating without hunger predicts future weight gain, these findings hint at a heightened vulnerability during late adolescence.

Scientists discover a new state of matter at Earth’s center  ( 10.12.2025 08:32:41 sciencedaily.com)
New research reveals that Earth’s solid inner core is actually in a superionic state, where carbon atoms flow freely through a solid iron lattice. This unusual behavior makes the core soft, matching seismic observations that have puzzled scientists for decades. The mobility of these light elements may also contribute energy to Earth’s magnetic field. The findings reshape models of Earth’s interior and could apply to other rocky planets.

You Will Never Guess What This Startup Is Turning Human Remains Into  ( 10.12.2025 08:00:00 futurism.com)
"I started to get emails from all kinds of people asking if I could glaze pieces of pottery with their loved ones’ remains." The post You Will Never Guess What This Startup Is Turning Human Remains Into appeared first on Futurism.

Shenzhou-21  ( 10.12.2025 07:00:35 kosmonautix.cz)
Dva astronauti mise Shenzhou-21 se v pondělí večer vydali na první výstup do volného prostoru, při kterém prohlédli a vyfotografovali poškozené okno kosmické lodi

Scientists Find Evidence of Ancient Tropical Oasis on Mars  ( 10.12.2025 07:00:00 futurism.com)
"We think these could be evidence of an ancient warmer and wetter climate where there was rain falling for millions of years." The post Scientists Find Evidence of Ancient Tropical Oasis on Mars appeared first on Futurism.

Simple supplement mix shows remarkable results in brain cancer  ( 10.12.2025 03:56:21 sciencedaily.com)
New research is challenging one of medicine’s oldest assumptions: that cancer must be attacked to be cured. By treating glioblastoma patients with a simple combination of resveratrol and copper, the researchers found dramatic reductions in tumor aggressiveness, cancer biomarkers, immune checkpoints, and stem-cell–related markers—all without side effects. Their approach focuses on “healing” tumors by eliminating harmful cell-free chromatin particles released from dying cancer cells, which normally inflame and worsen the disease. The findings hint at a future where inexpensive nutraceuticals could transform cancer therapy.

How Monogamous Are Humans Actually?  ( 10.12.2025 03:00:00 nautil.us)
How we rank among species on fidelity to a single partner may have shaped our evolution The post How Monogamous Are Humans Actually? appeared first on Nautilus.

James Webb catches a giant helium cloud pouring off a puffy planet  ( 10.12.2025 02:10:18 sciencedaily.com)
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have captured dramatic helium streams pouring off the super-puff exoplanet WASP-107b, revealing a world with an enormously inflated, weakly bound atmosphere under intense stellar heat. The detection of helium, water, and various chemical compounds—alongside the surprising absence of methane—paints a picture of a planet that formed far from its star but later migrated inward, where scorching radiation now strips its gases into space.

Human brains light up for chimp voices in a way no one expected  ( 10.12.2025 01:45:47 sciencedaily.com)
Humans don’t just recognize each other’s voices—our brains also light up for the calls of chimpanzees, hinting at ancient communication roots shared with our closest primate relatives. Researchers found a specialized region in the auditory cortex that reacts distinctly to chimp vocalizations, but not to those of bonobos or macaques, revealing an unexpected mix of evolutionary and acoustic influences.

This Black Hole Blasts Cosmic Wind at 130 Million Miles Per Hour  ( 10.12.2025 01:00:00 nautil.us)
A staggering glimpse into our beautiful, violent universe The post This Black Hole Blasts Cosmic Wind at 130 Million Miles Per Hour appeared first on Nautilus.

Rising temperatures are slowing early childhood development  ( 10.12.2025 00:59:03 sciencedaily.com)
Researchers discovered that unusually high temperatures can hinder early childhood development. Children living in hotter conditions were less likely to reach key learning milestones, especially in reading and basic math skills. Those facing economic hardship or limited resources were hit the hardest. The study underscores how climate change may shape children’s learning long before they reach school age.

Scientists reveal a tiny brain chip that streams thoughts in real time  ( 09.12.2025 23:54:39 sciencedaily.com)
BISC is an ultra-thin neural implant that creates a high-bandwidth wireless link between the brain and computers. Its tiny single-chip design packs tens of thousands of electrodes and supports advanced AI models for decoding movement, perception, and intent. Initial clinical work shows it can be inserted through a small opening in the skull and remain stable while capturing detailed neural activity. The technology could reshape treatments for epilepsy, paralysis, and blindness.

Ve vzorcích z Bennu se našly třeba také cukry  ( 09.12.2025 23:10:57 kosmonautix.cz)
Planetka Bennu nám i nadále vědcům poskytuje nové náznaky odpovědí na největší otázky spojené se vznikem mladé Sluneční soustavy a původu života. V rámci probíhajícího studia nedotčených vzorků  od sondy OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer) byly v úterý 2. prosince v časopisech Nature Geosciences a Nature Astronomy vyšly tři odborné články, které představují pozoruhodné objevy. Vzorky z Bennu obsahují cukry nezbytné pro život, či substance připomínající gumu, jaké ještě nikdy nebyly pozorovány v astromateriálech. Vědci ve vzorcích objevili také nečekaně vysoké množství prachu, který vzniká při explozích supernov.

Beloved Ancient Chinese Cats Were Wilder Than Once Thought  ( 09.12.2025 23:00:00 nautil.us)
People in ancient China grew a millennia-spanning friendship with wild felines long before domestic cats came on the scene The post Beloved Ancient Chinese Cats Were Wilder Than Once Thought appeared first on Nautilus.

This bright star will soon die in a nuclear explosion — and could be visible in Earth's daytime skies  ( 09.12.2025 22:13:09 livescience.com)
The bright binary star system V Sagittae will flare up multiple times before finally going supernova within the next 100 years. When it explodes, it could be visible to the naked eye even in sunlit skies.

How Many Insects Fill the Air on a Typical Summer Day in the US?  ( 09.12.2025 21:15:39 nautil.us)
NOAA weather radar stations help track the ups and downs of insect abundance The post How Many Insects Fill the Air on a Typical Summer Day in the US? appeared first on Nautilus.

Earthquake Science and Fiction Collide in Tilt  ( 09.12.2025 21:15:00 scientificamerican.com)
On our Best Fiction of 2025 list, Emma Pattee imagines Portland’s worst Earthquake in her debut novel Tilt

'It is simply too hot to handle': 2024 was Arab region's hottest year on record, first-of-its-kind climate report reveals  ( 09.12.2025 21:08:58 livescience.com)
The Arab region just had its hottest year on record, a new climate report reveals.

RFK, Jr., Questions Safety of Approved RSV Shots for Babies  ( 09.12.2025 20:15:00 scientificamerican.com)
FDA officials are newly scrutinizing several approved therapies to treat RSV in babies despite the fact that these shots were shown to be safe in clinical trials

Earth's crust hides enough 'gold' hydrogen to power the world for tens of thousands of years, emerging research suggests  ( 09.12.2025 20:01:33 livescience.com)
Reservoirs of hydrogen gas that form naturally in Earth's crust could help humans decarbonize. The challenge now is finding these accumulations and working out how best to mine them, experts say.

Human Missions to Mars Must Search for Alien Life, New Report Finds  ( 09.12.2025 20:00:00 scientificamerican.com)
A major new study lays out plans for crewed missions to Mars, with the search for extraterrestrial life being a top priority

Widespread cold virus you've never heard of may play key role in bladder cancer  ( 09.12.2025 19:15:00 livescience.com)
Scientists uncovered how childhood BK virus infections may set off cancer-causing mutations decades later: by activating a host immune system enzyme that attacks DNA.

NASA’s JWST Spots Most Ancient Supernova Ever Observed  ( 09.12.2025 18:00:00 scientificamerican.com)
Astronomers have sighted the oldest known stellar explosion, dating back to when the universe was less than a billion years old

Details Emerge on Sam Altman’s Panic Sweats  ( 09.12.2025 17:32:20 futurism.com)
"We should be at the top of things like LM arena." The post Details Emerge on Sam Altman’s Panic Sweats appeared first on Futurism.

Gray hair may have evolved as a protection against cancer, study hints  ( 09.12.2025 17:20:00 livescience.com)
Aging comes with graying hair, which may be a sign of the body lowering its risk of cancer, a study suggests.

Pompeii House Frozen Mid-Renovation Reveals Secrets of Roman Cement  ( 09.12.2025 17:17:00 scientificamerican.com)
Lime granules trapped in ancient walls show Romans relied on a reactive hot-mix method to making concrete that could now inspire modern engineers

Virtual Power Plants Are Finally Having Their Moment  ( 09.12.2025 17:00:02 spectrum.ieee.org)
German utility RWE implemented the first known virtual power plant (VPP) in 2008, aggregating nine small hydroelectric plants for a total capacity of 8.6 megawatts. In general, a VPP pulls together many small components—like rooftop solar, home batteries, and smart thermostats—into a single coordinated power system. The system responds to grid needs on demand, whether by making stored energy available or reducing energy consumption by smart devices during peak hours.VPPs had a moment in the mid-2010s, but market conditions and the technology weren’t quite aligned for them to take off. Electricity demand wasn’t high enough, and existing sources—coal, natural gas, nuclear, and renewables—met demand and kept prices stable. Additionally, despite the costs of hardware like solar panels and batteries falling, the software to link and manage these resources lagged behind, and there wasn’t much financial incentive for it to catch up. But times have changed, and less than a decade later, the stars are aligning in VPPs’ favor. They’re hitting a deployment inflection point, and they could play a significant role in meeting energy demand over the next 5 to 10 years in a way that’s faster, cheaper, and greener than other solutions. U.S. Electricity Demand Is GrowingElectricity demand in the United States is expected to grow 25 percent by 2030 due to data center buildouts, electric vehicles, manufacturing, and electrification, according to estimates from technology consultant ICF International.At the same time, a host of bottlenecks are making it hard to expand the grid. There’s a backlog of at least three to five years on new gas turbines. Hundreds of gigawatts of renewables are languishing in interconnection queues, where there’s also a backlog of up to five years. On the delivery side, there’s a transformer shortage that could take up to five years to resolve, and a dearth of transmission lines. This all adds up to a long, slow process to add generation and delivery capacity, and it’s not getting faster anytime soon. “Fueling electric vehicles, electric heat, and data centers solely from traditional approaches would increase rates that are already too high,” says Brad Heavner, the executive director of the California Solar & Storage Association. Enter the vast network of resources that are already active and grid-connected—and the perfect storm of factors that make now the time to scale them. Adel Nasiri, a professor of electrical engineering at the University of South Carolina, says variability of loads from data centers and electric vehicles has increased, as has deployment of grid-scale batteries and storage. There are more distributed energy resources available than there were before, and the last decade has seen advances in grid management using autonomous controls.At the heart of it all, though, is the technology that stores and dispatches electricity on demand: batteries. Advances in Battery TechnologyOver the last 10 years, battery prices have plummeted: the average lithium-ion battery pack price fell from US $715 per kilowatt-hour in 2014 to $115 per kWh in 2024. Their energy density has simultaneously increased thanks to a combination of materials advancements, design optimization of battery cells, and improvements in the packaging of battery systems, says Oliver Gross, a senior fellow in energy storage and electrification at automaker Stellantis.The biggest improvements have come in batteries’ cathodes and electrolytes, with nickel-based cathodes starting to be used about a decade ago. “In many ways, the cathode limits the capacity of the battery, so by unlocking higher capacity cathode materials, we have been able to take advantage of the intrinsic higher capacity of anode materials,” says Greg Less, the director of the University of Michigan’s Battery Lab.Increasing the percentage of nickel in the cathode (relative to other metals) increases energy density because nickel can hold more lithium per gram than materials like cobalt or manganese, exchanging more electrons and participating more fully in the redox reactions that move lithium in and out of the battery. The same goes for silicon, which has become more common in anodes. However, there’s a trade-off: These materials cause more structural instability during the battery’s cycling.The anode and cathode are surrounded by a liquid electrolyte. The electrolyte has to be electrically and chemically stable when exposed to the anode and cathode in order to avoid safety hazards like thermal runaway or fires and rapid degradation. “The real revolution has been the breakthroughs in chemistry to make the electrolyte stable against more reactive cathode materials to get the energy density up,” says Gross. Chemical compound additives—many of them based on sulfur and boron chemistry—for the electrolyte help create stable layers between it and the anode and cathode materials. “They form these protective layers very early in the manufacturing process so that the cell stays stable throughout its life.”These advances have primarily been made on electric vehicle batteries, which differ from grid-scale batteries in that EVs are often parked or idle, while grid batteries are constantly connected and need to be ready to transfer energy. However, Gross says, “the same approaches that got our energy density higher in EVs can also be applied to optimizing grid storage. The materials might be a little different, but the methodologies are the same.” The most popular cathode material for grid storage batteries at the moment is lithium iron phosphate, or LFP.Thanks to these technical gains and dropping costs, a domino effect has been set in motion: The more batteries deployed, the cheaper they become, which fuels more deployment and creates positive feedback loops.Regions that have experienced frequent blackouts—like parts of Texas, California, and Puerto Rico—are a prime market for home batteries. Texas-based Base Power, which raised $1 billion in Series C funding in October, installs batteries at customers’ homes and becomes their retail power provider, charging the batteries when excess wind or solar production makes prices cheap, and then selling that energy back to the grid when demand spikes.There is, however, still room for improvement. For wider adoption, says Nasiri, “the installed battery cost needs to get under $100 per kWh for large VPP deployments.”Improvements in VPP SoftwareThe software infrastructure that once limited VPPs to pilot projects has matured into a robust digital backbone, making it feasible to operate VPPs at grid scale. Advances in AI are key: Many VPPs now use machine learning algorithms to predict load flexibility, solar and battery output, customer behavior, and grid stress events. This improves the dependability of a VPP’s capacity, which was historically a major concern for grid operators. While solar panels have advanced, VPPs have been held back by a lack of similar advancement in the needed software until recently.SunrunCybersecurity and interoperability standards are still evolving. Interconnection processes and data visibility in many areas aren’t consistent, making it hard to monitor and coordinate distributed resources effectively. In short, while the technology and economics for VPPs are firmly in place, there’s work yet to be done aligning regulation, infrastructure, and market design.On top of technical and cost constraints, VPPs have long been held back by regulations that prevented them from participating in energy markets like traditional generators. SolarEdge recently announced enrollment of more than 500 megawatt-hours of residential battery storage in its VPP programs. Tamara Sinensky, the company’s senior manager of grid services, says the biggest hurdle to achieving this milestone wasn’t technical—it was regulatory program design.California’s Demand Side Grid Support (DSGS) program, launched in mid-2022, pays homes, businesses, and VPPs to reduce electricity use or discharge energy during grid emergencies. “We’ve seen a massive increase in our VPP enrollments primarily driven by the DSGS program,” says Sinensky. Similarly, Sunrun’s Northern California VPP delivered 535 megawatts of power from home-based batteries to the grid in July, and saw a 400 percent increase in VPP participation from last year.FERC Order 2222, issued in 2020, requires regional grid operators to allow VPPs to sell power, reduce load, or provide grid services directly to wholesale market operators, and get paid the same market price as a traditional power plant for those services. However, many states and grid regions don’t yet have a process in place to comply with the FERC order. And because utilities profit from grid expansion and not VPP deployment, they’re not incentivized to integrate VPPs into their operations. Utilities “view customer batteries as competition,” says Heavner.According to Nasiri, VPPs would have a meaningful impact on the grid if they achieve a penetration of 2 percent of the market’s peak power. “Larger penetration of up to 5 percent for up to 4 hours is required to have a meaningful capacity impact for grid planning and operation,” he says.In other words, VPP operators have their work cut out for them in continuing to unlock the flexible capacity in homes, businesses, and EVs. Additional technical and policy advances could move VPPs from a niche reliability tool to a key power source and grid stabilizer for the energy tumult ahead.

Grok, Now Built Into Teslas for Navigation, Says It Would Run Over a Billion Children to Avoid Hitting Elon Musk  ( 09.12.2025 16:28:33 futurism.com)
Correction: 999,999,999 children. The post Grok, Now Built Into Teslas for Navigation, Says It Would Run Over a Billion Children to Avoid Hitting Elon Musk appeared first on Futurism.

Why the Most “Accurate” Glucose Monitors Are Failing Some Users  ( 09.12.2025 16:09:28 spectrum.ieee.org)
When Dan Heller received his first batch of Dexcom’s latest continuous glucose monitors in early 2023, he decided to run a small experiment: He wore the new biosensor and the previous generation at the same time to see how they compared in measuring his glucose levels. The new, seventh-generation model (aptly called the G7) made by San Diego-based healthcare company Dexcom had just begun shipping in the United States. Dexcom claimed the G7 to be the “most accurate sensor” available to the thousands of people with Type 1 diabetes who use continuous glucose monitors to help manage their blood sugars. But Heller found that its real-world performance wasn’t up to par. In a September 2023 post on his Substack, which is dedicated to covering Type 1 diabetes research and management, he wrote about the experience and predicted an increase in adverse events with the G7, drawing on his past experience leading tech and biotech companies. In the two years since Heller’s experiment, many other users have reported issues with the device. Some complaints regard failed connection and deployment issues, which Dexcom claims to have now addressed. More concerning are reports of erratic, inaccurate readings. A public Facebook group dedicated to sharing negative experiences with the G7 has grown to thousands of users, and several class action lawsuits have been filed against the company, alleging false advertising and misleading claims about device accuracy. Yet, based on a standard metric in the industry, the G7 is one of the most accurate glucose sensors available. “Accuracy in the performance of our device is our number one priority. We understand this is a lifesaving device for people with Type 1 diabetes,” Peter Simpson, Dexcom’s senior vice president of innovation and sensor technology, told IEEE Spectrum. Simpson acknowledged some variability in individual sensors, but stood by the accuracy of the devices.So why have users faced issues? In part, metrics used in marketing can be misleading compared to real world performance. Differences in study design, combined with complex biological realities, mean that the accuracy of these biosensors can’t be boiled down to one number—and users are learning this the hard way. Dexcom’s Glucose MonitorsContinuous glucose monitors (CGMs) typically consist of a small filament inserted under the skin, a transmitter, and a receiver. The filament is coated with an enzyme that generates an electrical signal when it reacts with glucose in the fluid surrounding the body’s cells. That signal is then converted to a digital signal and processed to generate glucose readings every few minutes. Each sensor lasts a week or two before needing to be replaced. The technology has come a long way in recent years. In the 2010s, these devices required blood glucose calibrations twice a day and still weren’t reliable enough to dose insulin based on the readings. Now, some insulin pumps use the near-real-time data to automatically make adjustments. With those improvements has come greater trust in the data users receive—and higher standards. A faulty reading could result in a dangerous dose of insulin. The G7 introduced several changes to Dexcom’s earlier designs, including a much smaller footprint, and updated the algorithm used to translate sensor signals into glucose readings for better accuracy, Simpson says. “From a performance perspective, we did demonstrate in a clinical trial that the G7 is significantly more accurate than the G6,” he says. So Heller and others were surprised when the new Dexcom sensor seemed to be performing worse. For some batches of sensors, it’s possible that the issue was in part due to an unvalidated change in a component used in a resistive layer of the sensors. The new component showed worse performance, according to a warning letter issued by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in March 2025, following an audit of two U.S. manufacturing sites. The material has since been removed from all G7 sensors, Simpson says, and the company is continuing to work with the FDA to address concerns. (“The warning letter does not restrict Dexcom’s ability to produce, market, manufacture or distribute products, require recall of any products, nor restrict our ability to seek clearance of new products,” Dexcom added in a statement.)“There is a distribution of accuracies that have to do with people’s physiology and also the devices themselves. Even in our clinical studies, we saw some that were really precise and some that had a little bit of inaccuracy to them,” says Simpson. “But in general, our sensor is very accurate.”In late November Abbott—one of Dexcom’s main competitors—recalled some of its CGMs due to inaccurate low glucose readings. The recall affects approximately 3 million sensors and was caused by an issue with one of Abbott’s production lines. The discrepancy between reported accuracy and user experience, however, goes beyond any one company’s manufacturing missteps. Does MARD Matter? The accuracy of CGM systems is frequently measured via “mean absolute relative difference,” or MARD, a percentage that compares the sensor readings to laboratory blood glucose measurements. The lower the MARD, the more accurate the sensor. This number is often used in advertising and marketing, and it has a historical relevance, says Manuel Eichenlaub, a biomedical engineer at the Institute for Diabetes Technology Ulm in Germany, where he and his colleagues conduct independent CGM performance studies. For years, there was a general belief that a MARD under 10 percent meant a system would be accurate enough to be used for insulin dosing. In 2018, the FDA established a specific set of accuracy requirements beyond MARD for insulin-guiding glucose monitors, including Dexcom’s. But manufacturers design the clinical trials that determine accuracy metrics, and the way studies are designed can make a big difference. When Dan Heller wore the Dexcom G6 and G7 at the same time, he says he noticed the G7 readings were more erratic, making it more difficult to properly control his blood sugar. Dan Heller For instance, blood glucose levels serve as the “ground truth to compare the CGM values against,” says Eichenlaub. But glucose levels vary across blood compartments in the body; blood collected from capillaries with a finger prick fluctuates more and can have glucose levels around 5 to 10 percent higher than venous blood. (Dexcom tests against a gold-standard venous blood analyzer. When users see inaccuracies against home meters that use capillary blood, it could in part be a reflection of the meter’s own inaccuracy, Simpson says, though he acknowledges real inaccuracies in CGMs as well.)Additionally, the distribution of sampling isn’t standardized. CGMs are known to be less accurate at the beginning and end of use, or when glucose levels are out of range or changing quickly. That means measured accuracy could be skewed by taking fewer samples right after a meal or late in the CGM’s lifetime. According to Simpson, Dexcom’s trial protocol meets the FDA’s expectation and tests the devices in different blood sugar ranges across the life of the sensor. “Within these clinical trials, we do stress the sensors to try and simulate those real world conditions,” he says. Dexcom and other companies advertise a MARD around 8 percent. But some independent studies are more demanding and find higher numbers; a head-to-head study of three popular CGMs that Eichenlaub led found MARD values closer to 10 percent or higher.Eichenlaub and other CGM experts believe that more standardization of testing and an extension of the FDA requirements are necessary, so they recently proposed comprehensive guidelines on CGM performance testing. In the United States and Europe, a few manufacturers currently dominate the market. But newer players are entering the growing market and, especially in Europe, may not meet the same standards as legacy manufacturers, he says. “Having a standardized way of evaluating the performance of those systems is very important.”For users like Heller though, better accuracy only matters if it yields better diabetes management. “I don’t care about MARD. I want data that is reliably actionable,” Heller says. He encourages engineers working on these devices to think like the patient. “At some point, there’s quantitative data, but you need qualitative data.”

Aetherflux  ( 09.12.2025 16:00:29 kosmonautix.cz)
Vesmírný startup pro solární energii Aetherflux vstoupil na rozvíjející se trh orbitálních datových center a připojil se k SpaceX, Amazonu a dalším, které zkoumají způsoby, jak přesunout energeticky náročnou umělou inteligenci mimo Zemi.

Wait, Did Palantir Just Make a Joke About Its CEO Doing Cocaine?  ( 09.12.2025 15:20:04 futurism.com)
"Hate to break it to y'all but using the word 'skiing' was very much intentional." The post Wait, Did Palantir Just Make a Joke About Its CEO Doing Cocaine? appeared first on Futurism.

OpenAI’s Secrets are Revealed in Empire of AI  ( 09.12.2025 15:00:00 scientificamerican.com)
On our 2025 Best Nonfiction of the Year list, Karen Hao’s investigation of artificial intelligence reveals how the AI future is still in our hands

ŽIVĚ A ČESKY: Falcon vynáší utajený náklad  ( 09.12.2025 14:56:57 kosmonautix.cz)
Události posledních měsíců mohly vést k tomu, že si někteří čtenáři mohou myslet, že pokud Falcon 9 vynáší utajený náklad pro Národní úřad vojenského kosmického zpravodajství NRO, tak že se pokaždé jedná o družice Starshield. Ano, v nemálo případech tomu tak bylo, ale je potřeba pamatovat na to, že Starshieldy nejsou jediné americké utajené náklady.  Dnes večer by měl z Floridy odstartovat další Falcon 9, který čeká miseNROL-77. Informace o identitě nákladu jsou (jako u ostatních startů pro NRO) utajené, ale zdá se, že na palubě tentokrát bude něco jiného než další porce družic Starshield.

Black Hole Caught Blasting Matter into Space at 130 Million MPH  ( 09.12.2025 14:45:00 scientificamerican.com)
X-ray space telescopes caught a supermassive black hole flinging matter into space at a fifth of the speed of light

Two Self-Driving Waymos Just Crashed Into Each Other, Trapping a Third Waymo  ( 09.12.2025 14:13:20 futurism.com)
"It's like a Waymo standoff." The post Two Self-Driving Waymos Just Crashed Into Each Other, Trapping a Third Waymo appeared first on Futurism.

CASIS  ( 09.12.2025 14:00:17 kosmonautix.cz)
Centrum pro pokrok vědy ve vesmíru (CASIS) 4. prosince oznámilo, že NASA prodloužila svou dohodu o spolupráci na řízení Národní laboratoře ISS do roku 2030, což je v současnosti předpokládané datum ukončení provozu stanice. Platnost dohody měla vypršet v roce 2027.

McDonald’s Pulls Down AI-Generated Holiday Ad After Deluge of Mockery  ( 09.12.2025 13:08:49 futurism.com)
"The future is here, and it's not looking good." The post McDonald’s Pulls Down AI-Generated Holiday Ad After Deluge of Mockery appeared first on Futurism.

Evropské unie  ( 09.12.2025 13:00:08 kosmonautix.cz)
Navrhovaný vesmírný zákon Evropské unie by mohl evropské i americké kosmické společnosti každoročně stát stovky milionů eur na straně ztráty příjmů, uvádí nová studie.

This Weekend’s Geminids Meteor Shower Should Be Spectacular  ( 09.12.2025 13:00:00 scientificamerican.com)
As far as annual meteor showers are concerned, 2025 has saved the best for last. This year’s Geminids are not to be missed

Space-Based Data Centers Could Power AI with Solar Energy—At a Cost  ( 09.12.2025 12:30:00 scientificamerican.com)
Space-based computing offers easy access to solar power but presents its own environmental challenges

Elon Musk’s xAI Says It Can Now Stuff AI-Generated Product Placement Into Any Scene of Your Favorite Movie  ( 09.12.2025 12:18:16 futurism.com)
Characters from old movies can now show off all-new products. The post Elon Musk’s xAI Says It Can Now Stuff AI-Generated Product Placement Into Any Scene of Your Favorite Movie appeared first on Futurism.

Mathematicians Crack a Fractal Conjecture on Chaos  ( 09.12.2025 12:00:00 scientificamerican.com)
A type of chaos found in everything from prime numbers to turbulence can unify a pair of unrelated ideas, revealing a mysterious, deep connection that disappears without randomness

Breakthrough in Digital Screens Takes Color Resolution to Incredibly Small Scale  ( 09.12.2025 11:45:00 scientificamerican.com)
These miniature displays can be the size of your pupil, with as many pixels as you have photoreceptors—opening the way to improved virtual reality

Tech Billionaires Are Starting Private Cities to Escape the United States  ( 09.12.2025 11:13:01 futurism.com)
"Can you imagine being that rich and that miserable?" The post Tech Billionaires Are Starting Private Cities to Escape the United States appeared first on Futurism.

Simple light trick reveals hidden brain pathways in microscopic detail  ( 09.12.2025 10:50:53 sciencedaily.com)
Microscopic fibers secretly shape how every organ in the body works, yet they’ve been notoriously hard to study—until now. A new imaging technique called ComSLI reveals hidden fiber orientations in stunning detail using only a rotating LED light and simple microscopy equipment. It works on any tissue slide, from fresh samples to those more than a century old, allowing scientists to uncover microstructural changes in disorders like Alzheimer’s and even explore the architecture of muscle, bone, and blood vessels.

Small root mutation could make crops fertilize themselves  ( 09.12.2025 10:39:24 sciencedaily.com)
Scientists discovered a small protein region that determines whether plants reject or welcome nitrogen-fixing bacteria. By tweaking only two amino acids, they converted a defensive receptor into one that supports symbiosis. Early success in barley hints that cereals may eventually be engineered to fix nitrogen on their own. Such crops could dramatically reduce fertilizer use and emissions.

Russia Damaged Protective Dome Around Chernobyl, Can No Longer Contain Radiation  ( 09.12.2025 10:10:07 futurism.com)
It "lost its primary safety functions." The post Russia Damaged Protective Dome Around Chernobyl, Can No Longer Contain Radiation appeared first on Futurism.

Is the 'Star of Bethlehem' really a planet? A bright visitor this month may hold a clue.  ( 09.12.2025 10:00:00 livescience.com)
A brilliant point of light is rising in the eastern sky soon after dark this month, drawing comparisons to the "Star of Bethlehem."

New cosmic lens measurements deepen the Hubble tension mystery  ( 09.12.2025 09:26:59 sciencedaily.com)
Scientists are testing a novel way to measure cosmic expansion using time delays in gravitationally lensed quasars. Their results match “local” measurements but clash with early-universe estimates, strengthening the mysterious Hubble tension. This mismatch could point to new physics rather than observational error. Researchers now aim to boost precision to solve the puzzle.

Astronomers capture sudden black hole blast firing ultra fast winds  ( 09.12.2025 09:02:44 sciencedaily.com)
A sudden X-ray flare from a supermassive black hole in galaxy NGC 3783 triggered ultra-fast winds racing outward at a fifth the speed of light—an event never witnessed before. Using XMM-Newton and XRISM, astronomers caught the blast unfold in real time, revealing how tangled magnetic fields can rapidly “untwist” and hurl matter into space much like an enormous, cosmic-scale version of the Sun’s coronal mass ejections.

Grok Will Now Give Tesla Drivers Directions  ( 09.12.2025 09:00:00 futurism.com)
We can only imagine what witty navigation advice it'll cook up next. The post Grok Will Now Give Tesla Drivers Directions appeared first on Futurism.

This surprising discovery rewrites the Milky Way’s origin story  ( 09.12.2025 08:29:57 sciencedaily.com)
New simulations of Milky Way-like galaxies reveal that the strange split between two chemically distinct groups of stars may arise from several very different evolutionary events. Bursts of star formation, shifts in flowing gas, and even streams of metal-poor material from a galaxy’s outskirts can all create this double pattern. The findings challenge the long-held assumption that a major ancient collision caused the split.

Rare 'sunglint' transforms Alabama River into a giant 'golden dragon' — Earth from space  ( 09.12.2025 08:00:00 livescience.com)
A 2023 astronaut photo shows the moment the Alabama River briefly morphed into an undulating golden serpent, similar in shape to a Chinese dragon. This temporary transformation was the result of a rare mirror-like phenomenon known as a "sunglint."

Scientists Find That Dosing Men With Antidepressants Can Cut Down on Domestic Violence  ( 09.12.2025 07:30:00 futurism.com)
"I used to sleep with a hammer under my bed. Since he started this medication, I can sleep more easily, and I don't need to sleep with the hammer anymore." The post Scientists Find That Dosing Men With Antidepressants Can Cut Down on Domestic Violence appeared first on Futurism.

Social Media Is Absolutely Nuking Children’s Brains, New Research Finds  ( 09.12.2025 06:45:00 futurism.com)
"Our study suggests that it is specifically social media that affects children’s ability to concentrate." The post Social Media Is Absolutely Nuking Children’s Brains, New Research Finds appeared first on Futurism.

Officials Halt Dozens of Trains Due to AI Hoax  ( 09.12.2025 06:00:00 futurism.com)
"The disruption caused by the creation and sharing of hoax images and videos like this creates a completely unnecessary delay to passengers at a cost to the taxpayer." The post Officials Halt Dozens of Trains Due to AI Hoax appeared first on Futurism.

Most of the world isn’t getting enough omega-3  ( 09.12.2025 05:49:12 sciencedaily.com)
Most people worldwide aren’t getting enough omega-3, leaving a major gap between scientific recommendations and daily diets. Researchers emphasize the critical role of EPA and DHA across all life stages and point out that food alone often can’t meet needs. The review calls for clearer global guidelines and easier access to sustainable omega-3 sources. It also highlights the challenges different populations face in reaching healthy intake levels.

Single enzyme mutation reveals a hidden trigger in dementia  ( 09.12.2025 04:12:54 sciencedaily.com)
Researchers discovered that a tiny structural feature of the enzyme GPX4 helps keep neurons safe. A rare mutation removes this protection, allowing harmful molecules to damage cell membranes and trigger early dementia. Mouse and cell studies showed changes resembling Alzheimer’s. Early tests to slow this damage give scientists new directions to explore.

Stunning blue pigment on a 13,000-year-old artifact surprises scientists  ( 09.12.2025 03:30:25 sciencedaily.com)
Researchers uncovered rare azurite traces on a Final Paleolithic artifact, overturning assumptions that early Europeans used only red and black pigments. The find suggests ancient people possessed deeper knowledge of minerals and colors than believed. It also hints at vanished forms of decoration or artistic practices. The discovery opens new avenues for exploring identity and symbolism in Ice Age cultures.

Fossil brain scans show pterosaurs evolved flight in a flash  ( 09.12.2025 03:06:41 sciencedaily.com)
Ancient pterosaurs may have taken to the skies far earlier and more explosively than birds, evolving flight at their very origin despite having relatively small brains. Using advanced CT imaging, scientists reconstructed the brain cavities of pterosaur fossils and their close relatives, uncovering surprising clues—such as enlarged optic lobes—that hint at a rapid leap into powered flight. Their findings contrast sharply with the slow, stepwise evolution seen in birds, whose brains expanded over time to support flying.

2025 Likely to Tie for Second-Hottest Year on Record  ( 09.12.2025 03:00:00 scientificamerican.com)
Europe’s climate agency said 2025 is likely to be the second or third hottest on record

This rare bone finally settles the Nanotyrannus mystery  ( 09.12.2025 01:58:20 sciencedaily.com)
Scientists have confirmed that Nanotyrannus was a mature species, not a young T. rex. A microscopic look at its hyoid bone provided the key evidence, matching growth signals seen in known T. rex specimens. This discovery suggests a richer, more competitive tyrannosaur ecosystem than previously believed. It also highlights how museum fossils and cutting-edge analysis can rewrite prehistoric history.

Glue strong enough to tow a car made from used cooking oil  ( 08.12.2025 20:55:52 livescience.com)
Chemists used waste cooking oil to create a sustainable, super-sticky adhesive that's strong enough to hold up hundreds of pounds of weight.

Amazon’s “Catalog AI” Product Platform Helps You Shop Smarter  ( 08.12.2025 19:00:03 spectrum.ieee.org)
If you’ve shopped on Amazon in the past few months, you might have noticed it has gotten easier to find what you’re looking for. Listings now have more images, detailed product names, and better descriptions. The website’s predictive search feature uses the listing updates to anticipate needs and suggests a list of items in real time as you type in the search bar.The improved shopping experience is thanks to Abhishek Agrawal and his Catalog AI system. Launched in July, the tool collects information from across the Internet about products being sold on Amazon and, based on the data, updates listings to make them more detailed and organized.Abhishek AgrawalEmployerAmazon Web Services in SeattleJob titleEngineering leaderMember grade Senior memberAlma maters University of Allahabad in India and the Indian Statistical Institute in KolkataAgrawal is an engineering leader at Amazon Web Services in Seattle. An expert in AI and machine learning, the IEEE senior member worked on Microsoft’s Bing search engine before moving to Amazon. He also developed several features for Microsoft Teams, the company’s direct messaging platform.“I’ve been working in AI for more than 20 years now,” he says. ”Seeing how much we can do with technology still amazes me.”He shares his expertise and passion for the technology as an active member and volunteer at the IEEE Seattle Section. He organizes and hosts career development workshops that teach people to create an AI agent, which can perform tasks autonomously with minimal human oversight.An AI career inspired by a computerAgrawal was born and raised in Chirgaon, a remote village in Uttar Pradesh, India. When he was growing up, no one in Chirgaon had a computer. His family owned a pharmacy, which Agrawal was expected to join after he graduated from high school. Instead, his uncle and older brother encouraged him to attend college and find his own passion.He enjoyed mathematics and physics, and he decided to pursue a bachelor’s degree in statistics at the University of Allahabad. After graduating in 1996, he pursued a master’s degree in statistics, statistical quality control, and operations research at the Indian Statistical Institute in Kolkata.While at the ISI, he saw a computer for the first time in the laboratory of Nikhil R. Pal, an electronics and communication sciences professor. Pal worked on identifying abnormal clumps of cells in mammogram images using the fuzzy c-means model, a data-clustering technique employing a machine learning algorithm.Agrawal earned his master’s degree in 1998. He was so inspired by Pal’s work, he says, that he stayed on at the university to earn a second master’s degree, in computer science.After graduating in 2001, he joined Novell as a senior software engineer working out of its Bengaluru office in India. He helped develop iFolder, a storage platform that allows users across different computers to back up, access, and manage their files.After four years, Agrawal left Novell to join Microsoft as a software design engineer, working at the company’s Hyderabad campus in India. He was part of a team developing a system to upgrade Microsoft’s software from XP to Vista.Two years later, he was transferred to the group developing Bing, a replacement for Microsoft’s Live Search, which had been launched in 2006.Improving Microsoft’s search engineLive Search had a traffic rate of less than 2 percent and struggled to keep up with Google’s faster-paced, more user-friendly system, Agrawal says. He was tasked with improving search results but, Agrawal says, he and his team didn’t have enough user search data to train their machine learning model.Data for location-specific queries, such as nearby coffee shops or restaurants, was especially important, he says.To overcome those challenges, the team used deterministic algorithms to create a more structured search. Such algorithms give the same answers for any query that uses the same specific terms. The process gets results by taking keywords—such as locations, dates, and prices—and finding them on webpages. To help the search engine understand what users need, Agrawal developed a query clarifier that asked them to refine their search. The machine learning tool then ranked the results from most to least relevant.To test new features before they were launched, Agrawal and his team built an online A/B experimentation platform. Controlled tests were completed on different versions of the products, and the platform ran performance and user engagement metrics, then it produced a scorecard to show changes for updated features.Bing launched in 2009 and is now the world’s second-largest search engine, according to Black Raven.Throughout his 10 years of working on the system, Agrawal upgraded it. He also worked with the advertising department to improve Microsoft’s services on Bing. Ads relevant to a person’s search are listed among the search results.“The work seems easy,” Agrawal says, “but behind every search engine are hundreds of engineers powering ads, query formulations, rankings, relevance, and location detection.”Testing products before launch Agrawal was promoted to software development manager in 2010. Five years later he was transferred to Microsoft’s Seattle offices. At the time, the company was deploying new features for existing platforms without first testing them to ensure effectiveness. Instead, they measured their performance after release, Agrawal says, and that was wreaking havoc.He proposed using his online A/B experimentation platform on all Microsoft products, not just Bing. His supervisor approved the idea. In six months Agrawal and his team modified the tool for company-wide use. Thanks to the platform, he says, Microsoft was able to smoothly deploy up-to-date products to users.After another two years, he was promoted to principal engineering manager of Microsoft Teams, which was facing issues with user experience, he says.“Many employees received between 50 and 100 messages a day—which became overwhelming for them,” Agrawal says. To lessen the stress, he led a team that developed the system’s first machine learning feature: Trending. It prioritized the five most important messages users should focus on. Agrawal also led the launch of incorporating emoji reactions, screen sharing, and video calls for Teams.In 2020 he was ready for new experiences, he says, and he left Microsoft to join Amazon as an engineering leader.Improved Amazon shoppingAgrawal led an Amazon team that manually collected information about products from the company’s retail catalog to create a glossary. The data, which included product dimensions, color, and manufacturer, was used to standardize the language found in product descriptions to keep listings more consistent.That is especially important when it comes to third-party sellers, he notes. Sellers listing a product had been entering as much or as little information as they wanted. Agrawal built a system that automatically suggests language from the glossary as the seller types.He also developed an AI algorithm that utilizes the glossary’s terminology to refine search results based on what a user types into the search bar. When a shopper types “red mixer,” for example, the algorithm lists products under the search bar that match the description. The shopper can then click on a product from the list.In 2023 the retailer’s catalog became too large for Agrawal and his team to collect information manually, so they built an AI tool to do it for them. It became the foundation for Amazon’s Catalog AI system.After gathering information about products from around the Web, Catalog AI uses large language models to update Amazon listings with missing information, correct errors, and rewrite titles and product specifications to make them clearer for the customer, Agrawal says.The company expects the AI tool to increase sales this year by US $7.5 billion, according to a Fox News report in July.Finding purpose at IEEESince Agrawal joined IEEE last December, he has been elevated to senior member and has become an active volunteer.“Being part of IEEE has opened doors for collaboration, mentorship, and professional growth,” he says. “IEEE has strengthened both my technical knowledge and my leadership skills, helping me progress in my career.”Agrawal is the social media chair of the IEEE Seattle Section. He is also vice chair of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.He was a workshop cochair for the IEEE New Era AI World Leaders Summit, which was held from 5 to 7 December in Seattle. The event brought together government and industry leaders, as well as researchers and innovators working on AI, intelligent devices, unmanned aerial vehicles, and similar technologies. They explored how new tools could be used in cybersecurity, the medical field, and national disaster rescue missions.Agrawal says he stays up to date on cutting-edge technologies by peer-reviewing 15 IEEE journals.“The organization plays a very important role in bringing authenticity to anything that it does,” he says. “If a journal article has the IEEE logo, you can believe that it was thoroughly and diligently reviewed.”

AI Slop Is Spurring Record Requests for Imaginary Journals  ( 08.12.2025 18:00:00 scientificamerican.com)
The International Committee of the Red Cross warned that artificial intelligence models are making up research papers, journals and archives

Historic search for 'huge missing piece' of the universe reveals new secrets of particle physics  ( 08.12.2025 17:29:31 livescience.com)
Scientists hunted dark matter and solar neutrinos with one of the largest experiments yet. While the neutrinos likely appeared, dark matter results couldn't be confirmed.

Chernobyl’s Shield Guarding Radioactive “Elephant’s Foot” Has Been Damaged for Months  ( 08.12.2025 16:47:00 scientificamerican.com)
The site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster remains damaged, but so far, radiation levels outside the plant have not increased, according to officials

Video Shows Robot Attacking CEO  ( 08.12.2025 16:28:49 futurism.com)
"Too violent. Too brutal!" The post Video Shows Robot Attacking CEO appeared first on Futurism.

Watch Lava From Hawaii’s Kilauea Volcano Obliterate a Webcam  ( 08.12.2025 16:25:00 scientificamerican.com)
Hawaii’s Kilauea, one of Earth’s most active volcanoes, sent lava fountains spewing into the air, obliterating a U.S. Geological Survey camera

Tsunami Warnings Issued in Japan after Magnitude 7.6 Earthquake  ( 08.12.2025 16:20:00 scientificamerican.com)
Japanese officials said to expect a tsunami of up to 3 meters in some areas after a magnitude 7.6 earthquake struck off the east coast of Japan

Vitamin K Shot Given at Birth Prevents Lethal Brain Bleeds, but More Parents Are Opting Out  ( 08.12.2025 16:00:00 scientificamerican.com)
Vitamin K injections have prevented deadly brain bleeds in infants for more than 60 years. New research shows refusal rates have recently jumped nearly 80 percent

Amazing Video Shows Tesla Optimus Teleoperator Taking Off Headset, Causing Robot to Stumble and Collapse  ( 08.12.2025 15:33:43 futurism.com)
"Absolutely hilarious." The post Amazing Video Shows Tesla Optimus Teleoperator Taking Off Headset, Causing Robot to Stumble and Collapse appeared first on Futurism.

AI “Research” Papers Are Complete Slop, Experts Say  ( 08.12.2025 14:26:46 futurism.com)
The field of AI is being destroyed by AI. The post AI “Research” Papers Are Complete Slop, Experts Say appeared first on Futurism.

Privacy Concerns Lead Seniors to Unplug Vital Health Devices  ( 08.12.2025 14:00:02 spectrum.ieee.org)
I was interviewing a 72-year-old retired accountant who had unplugged his smart glucose monitor. He explained that he “didn’t know who was looking” at his blood sugar data.This wasn’t a man unfamiliar with technology—he had successfully used computers for decades in his career. He was of sound mind. But when it came to his health device, he couldn’t find clear answers about where his data went, who could access it, or how to control it. The instructions were dense, and the privacy settings were buried in multiple menus. So, he made what seemed like the safest choice: he unplugged it. That decision meant giving up real-time glucose monitoring that his doctor had recommended.The healthcare IoT (Internet of Things) market is projected to exceed $289 billion by 2028, with older adults representing a major share of users. These devices are fall detectors, medication reminders, glucose monitors, heart rate trackers, and others that enable independent living. Yet there’s a widening gap between deployment and adoption. According to an AARP survey, 34% of adults over 50 list privacy as a primary barrier to adopting health technology. That represents millions of people who could benefit from monitoring tools but avoid them because they don’t feel safe.In my study at the University of Denver’s Ritchie School of Engineering and Computer Science, I surveyed 22 older adults and conducted in-depth interviews with nine participants who use health-monitoring devices. The findings revealed a critical engineering failure: 82% understood security concepts like two-factor authentication and encryption, yet only 14% felt confident managing their privacy when using these devices. In my research, I also evaluated 28 healthcare apps designed for older adults and found that 79% lacked basic breach-notification protocols.One participant told me, “I know there’s encryption, but I don’t know if it’s really enough to protect my data.” Another said, “The thought of my health data getting into the wrong hands is very concerning. I’m particularly worried about identity theft or my information being used for scams.”This is not a user knowledge problem; it’s an engineering problem. We’ve built systems that demand technical expertise to operate safely, then handed them to people managing complex health needs while navigating age-related changes in vision, cognition, and dexterity.Measuring the GapTo quantify the issues with privacy setting transparency, I developed the Privacy Risk Assessment Framework (PRAF), a tool that scores healthcare apps across five critical domains.First, the regulatory compliance domain evaluates whether apps explicitly state adherence to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), or other data protection standards. Just claiming to be compliant is not enough—they must provide verifiable evidence.Second, the security mechanisms domain assesses the implementation of encryption, access controls, and, most critically, breach-notification protocols that alert users when their data may have been compromised. Third, in the usability and accessibility domain, the tool examines whether privacy interfaces are readable and navigable for people with age-related visual or cognitive changes. Fourth, data-minimization practices evaluate whether apps collect only necessary information and clearly specify retention periods. Finally, third-party sharing transparency measures whether users can easily understand who has access to their data and why.When I applied PRAF to 28 healthcare apps commonly used by older adults, the results revealed systemic gaps. Only 25% explicitly stated HIPAA compliance, and just 18% mentioned GDPR compliance. Most alarmingly, 79% lacked breach notification protocols, which means that the users may never find out if their data was compromised. The average privacy policy readability scored at a 12th-grade level, even though research shows that the average reading level of older adults is at an 8th grade level. Not a single app included accessibility accommodations in their privacy interfaces.Consider what happens when an older adult opens a typical health app. They face a multi-page privacy policy full of legal terminology about “data controllers” and “processing purposes,” followed by settings scattered across multiple menus. One participant told me, “The instructions are hard to understand, the print is too small, and it’s overwhelming.” Another explained, “I don’t feel adequately informed about how my data is collected, stored, and shared. It seems like most of these companies are after profit, and they don’t make it easy for users to understand what’s happening with their data.”When protection requires a manual people can’t read, two outcomes follow: they either skip security altogether leaving themselves vulnerable, or abandon the technology entirely, forfeiting its health benefits.Engineering for privacyWe need to treat trust as an engineering specification, not a marketing promise. Based on my research findings and the specific barriers older adults face, three approaches address the root causes of distrust.The first approach is adaptive security defaults. Rather than requiring users to navigate complex configuration menus, devices should ship with pre-configured best practices that automatically adjust to data sensitivity and device type. A fall detection system doesn’t need the same settings as a continuous glucose monitor. This approach draws from the principle of “security by default” in systems engineering.Biometric or voice authentication can replace passwords that are easily forgotten or written down. The key is removing the burden of expertise while maintaining strong protection. As one participant put it: “Simplified security settings, better educational resources, and more intuitive user interfaces will be beneficial.”The second approach is real-time transparency. Users shouldn’t have to dig through settings to see where their data goes. Instead, notification systems should show each data access or sharing event in plain language. For example: “Your doctor accessed your heart-rate data at 2 p.m. to review for your upcoming appointment.” A single dashboard should summarize who has access and why.This addresses a concern that came up repeatedly in my interviews: users want to know who is seeing their data and why. The engineering challenge here isn’t technical complexity, it’s designing interfaces that convey technical realities in language anyone can understand. Such systems already exist in other domains; banking apps, for instance, send immediate notifications for every transaction. The same principle applies to health data, where the stakes are arguably higher.The third approach is invisible security updates. Manual patching creates vulnerability windows. Automatic, seamless updates should be standard for any device handling health data, paired with a simple status indicator so users can confirm protection at a glance. As one participant said, “The biggest issue that we as seniors have is the fact that we don’t remember our passwords... The new technology is surpassing the ability of seniors to keep up with it.” Automating updates removes a significant source of anxiety and risk.What’s at StakeWe can keep building healthcare IoT the way we have: fast, feature-rich, and fundamentally untrustworthy. Or, we can engineer systems that are transparent, secure, and usable by design. Trust isn’t something you market through slogans or legal disclaimers. It’s something you engineer, line by line, into the code itself. For older adults relying on technology to maintain independence, that kind of engineering matters more than any new feature we could add. Every unplugged glucose monitor, every abandoned fall detector, every health app deleted out of confusion or fear represents not just a lost sale but a missed opportunity to support someone’s health and autonomy.The challenge of privacy in healthcare IoT goes beyond fixing existing systems, it requires reimagining how we communicate privacy itself. My ongoing research builds on these findings through an AI-driven Data Helper, a system that uses large language models to translate dense legal privacy policies into short, accurate, and accessible summaries for older adults. By making data practices transparent and comprehension measurable, this approach aims to turn compliance into understanding and trust, thus advancing the next generation of trustworthy digital health systems.

Today's biggest science news: James Webb sees earliest supernova | Monogamy 'league table' | Comet 3I/ATLAS X-ray  ( 08.12.2025 13:45:23 livescience.com)
Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025: Your daily feed of the biggest discoveries and breakthroughs making headlines.

King Gizzard Pulled Their Music From Spotify in Protest, and Now Spotify Is Hosting AI Knockoffs of Their Songs  ( 08.12.2025 12:55:15 futurism.com)
"I find this absolutely deplorable and am now quitting my account." The post King Gizzard Pulled Their Music From Spotify in Protest, and Now Spotify Is Hosting AI Knockoffs of Their Songs appeared first on Futurism.

A cosmic collision reveals how black holes really behave  ( 08.12.2025 11:52:02 sciencedaily.com)
A remarkably clean gravitational-wave detection has confirmed long-standing predictions about black holes, including Hawking’s area theorem and Einstein’s ringdown behavior. The findings also provide the strongest support yet that real black holes follow the Kerr model.

Infrasound Tech Silences Wildfires before They Spread  ( 08.12.2025 11:45:00 scientificamerican.com)
A new sound-based system could squelch small fires before they grow into home-destroying blazes

Her food cravings vanished on Mounjaro then roared back  ( 08.12.2025 11:37:49 sciencedaily.com)
Deep-brain recordings showed that Mounjaro and Zepbound briefly shut down the craving circuits linked to food noise in a patient with severe obesity. Her obsessive thoughts about food disappeared as the medication quieted the nucleus accumbens, the brain’s reward hub.

Vaccine Controversies and Measles Outbreaks, Space Pollution, Puppy Power  ( 08.12.2025 11:00:00 scientificamerican.com)
Vaccine controversies, space pollution and puppy power.

Ash Pendant: The only known depiction of a pregnant Viking woman  ( 08.12.2025 11:00:00 livescience.com)
The Ash Pendant was discovered in a Viking Age burial mound in Sweden and may have been used by a female shaman.

3I/ATLAS Is Carrying Ingredients for Life, NASA Finds  ( 08.12.2025 10:56:25 futurism.com)
"In this alien comet they’re very abundant." The post 3I/ATLAS Is Carrying Ingredients for Life, NASA Finds appeared first on Futurism.

Gut molecule shows remarkable anti-diabetes power  ( 08.12.2025 10:52:06 sciencedaily.com)
Researchers revealed that the microbial metabolite TMA can directly block the immune protein IRAK4, reducing inflammation and improving insulin sensitivity. The molecule counteracts damage caused by high-fat diets and even protects mice from sepsis. Since IRAK4 is a known drug target, this pathway could inspire new diabetes therapies. The study highlights how gut microbes and nutrition can work together to support metabolic health.

The 'hobbits' may have died out when drought forced them to compete with modern humans, new research suggests  ( 08.12.2025 10:00:00 livescience.com)
A reduction in rainfall may have played a sizable role in the extinction of Homo floresiensis, the archaic human species nicknamed the "hobbit," a new study finds.

New study finds a silent genetic heart risk hidden in millions  ( 08.12.2025 08:09:28 sciencedaily.com)
A large Mayo Clinic study shows that current guidelines fail to detect nearly 90% of people with familial hypercholesterolemia, a common inherited cause of dangerously high cholesterol. Many affected individuals already had early heart disease but never met testing criteria. Routine DNA screening could dramatically expand detection and prevention. The research underscores the need for genomics-driven healthcare.

This simple ingredient makes kale way healthier  ( 08.12.2025 07:31:51 sciencedaily.com)
Scientists found that kale’s prized nutrients are hard for the body to absorb unless they’re eaten with oil. Cooking doesn’t improve absorption, but adding oil-based dressings—or even more advanced nanoemulsion sauces—does. These combinations dramatically increase access to kale’s carotenoids. The research could inspire new, healthier dressings designed to supercharge everyday vegetables.

Scientists capture most detailed look inside DNA droplets  ( 08.12.2025 06:48:53 sciencedaily.com)
High-resolution imaging has revealed the internal layout of chromatin condensates, showing how DNA fibers fold and interact within these droplet-like structures. The findings connect molecular architecture to the broader behaviors of these droplets in cells.

Low dose melanoma treatment delivers dramatically better results  ( 08.12.2025 05:25:20 sciencedaily.com)
Using less ipilimumab appears to make melanoma immunotherapy both safer and more effective, with dramatically better response and survival outcomes. The findings suggest that reducing side effects may be the key to maximizing the benefits of these powerful treatments.

This tiny implant sends secret messages to the brain  ( 08.12.2025 05:25:15 sciencedaily.com)
Researchers have built a fully implantable device that sends light-based messages directly to the brain. Mice learned to interpret these artificial patterns as meaningful signals, even without touch, sight, or sound. The system uses up to 64 micro-LEDs to create complex neural patterns that resemble natural sensory activity. It could pave the way for next-generation prosthetics and new therapies.

Scientists uncover a volcanic trigger behind the Black Death  ( 08.12.2025 03:29:31 sciencedaily.com)
A newly analyzed set of climate data points to a major volcanic eruption that may have played a key role in the Black Death’s arrival. Cooling and crop failures across Europe pushed Italian states to bring in grain from the Black Sea. Those shipments may have carried plague-infected fleas. The study ties together tree rings, ice cores, and historical writings to reframe how the pandemic began.

A violent star explosion just revealed a hidden recipe for life  ( 08.12.2025 02:40:04 sciencedaily.com)
XRISM’s high-precision X-ray data revealed unusually strong signatures of chlorine and potassium inside the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant. These levels are far higher than theoretical models predicted, showing that supernovae can be major sources of these life-critical elements. Researchers believe powerful mixing deep inside massive stars is responsible for the unexpected boost. The findings reshape our understanding of how the building blocks of planets and life were created.

Garlic mouthwash shows shockingly strong germ-fighting power  ( 08.12.2025 01:16:29 sciencedaily.com)
Garlic extract is emerging as a surprisingly powerful contender to chlorhexidine, the long-standing “gold standard” in antimicrobial mouthwashes. A systematic review of clinical studies shows that higher-concentration garlic mouthwash can rival chlorhexidine in killing bacteria—sometimes outperforming it—while offering a more natural alternative.

Humans are built for nature not modern life  ( 08.12.2025 00:47:15 sciencedaily.com)
Human biology evolved for a world of movement, nature, and short bursts of stress—not the constant pressure of modern life. Industrial environments overstimulate our stress systems and erode both health and reproduction. Evidence ranging from global fertility declines to chronic inflammatory diseases shows the toll of this mismatch. Researchers say cultural and environmental redesign, especially nature-focused planning, is essential.

Lost Indigenous settlements described by Jamestown colonist John Smith finally found  ( 07.12.2025 15:00:00 livescience.com)
Excavations along the Rappahannock River in Virginia have revealed the likely spot of Indigenous villages once described by John Smith.

Strangely bleached rocks on Mars hint that the Red Planet was once a tropical oasis  ( 07.12.2025 14:00:00 livescience.com)
Bleached clay rocks found on the Martian surface suggest that the Red Planet was once home to heavy rainfall and tropical conditions, new Perseverance observations hint.

Travel Influencer Caught Using AI to Make It Seem Like Minorities Are Terrorizing London  ( 07.12.2025 13:30:00 futurism.com)
"Just surrounded by hostiles. Goodness, gracious me." The post Travel Influencer Caught Using AI to Make It Seem Like Minorities Are Terrorizing London appeared first on Futurism.

2,400-year-old 'sacrificial complex' uncovered in Russia is the richest site of its kind ever discovered  ( 07.12.2025 13:00:00 livescience.com)
The "sacrificial complex" contained hundreds of bits of horse bridles and bronze beads, revealing a new aspect of ancient nomadic peoples' funeral rituals.

New fat-burning diabetes pill protects muscle and appetite  ( 07.12.2025 12:59:18 sciencedaily.com)
Researchers have developed a new oral drug that boosts metabolic activity in muscle rather than altering appetite like GLP-1 drugs. Early trials suggest it improves blood sugar control and fat metabolism while preserving muscle mass, with fewer side effects. Because it acts through a different mechanism, it could be paired with GLP-1 treatments for even stronger results.

AI Surveillance Startup Caught Using Sweatshop Workers to Monitor US Residents  ( 07.12.2025 12:45:00 futurism.com)
Who's watching the watchers? The post AI Surveillance Startup Caught Using Sweatshop Workers to Monitor US Residents appeared first on Futurism.

Researchers solve a century-old North Atlantic cold spot mystery  ( 07.12.2025 12:04:42 sciencedaily.com)
A century-old North Atlantic cold patch is now linked to a long-term slowdown in the AMOC, the climate-regulating conveyor belt of ocean water. Only weakened-AMOC models match observed temperature and salinity patterns, overturning recent model trends. This slowdown affects weather systems, jet streams, and marine life throughout the Northern Hemisphere. The discovery sharpens climate forecasts and highlights a major shift already underway.

AI Is Incredibly Good at Changing Voters’ Minds, New Research Finds — With an Incredible Caveat  ( 07.12.2025 12:00:00 futurism.com)
"The more info you give people, the more they change their minds." The post AI Is Incredibly Good at Changing Voters’ Minds, New Research Finds — With an Incredible Caveat appeared first on Futurism.

There’s Something Very Weird About Blue Origin’s Device That Generates Electricity From Moon Dust  ( 07.12.2025 11:15:00 futurism.com)
We have questions. The post There’s Something Very Weird About Blue Origin’s Device That Generates Electricity From Moon Dust appeared first on Futurism.

Ethereal structure in the sky rivals 'Pillars of Creation' — Space photo of the week  ( 07.12.2025 11:00:00 livescience.com)
The twin telescopes of the Gemini Observatory mark 25 years of discovery as students name distant nebula Ua ʻŌhiʻa Lan.

Scientists reveal a surprising new timeline for ancient Egypt  ( 07.12.2025 10:34:09 sciencedaily.com)
A new radiocarbon study has clarified the timing of the colossal Thera eruption, placing it before Egypt’s New Kingdom. Researchers analyzed artifacts tied to Pharaoh Ahmose, gaining rare access to museum materials. Their results favor a younger chronology for early 18th Dynasty Egypt. The revised timeline reshapes regional historical connections.

Billionaires’ Fleshy Heads Put on Robot Dog Bodies  ( 07.12.2025 10:30:00 futurism.com)
That's Beeple. The post Billionaires’ Fleshy Heads Put on Robot Dog Bodies appeared first on Futurism.

Scientists say this viral rosemary skincare trend actually works  ( 07.12.2025 10:16:23 sciencedaily.com)
Researchers have found scientific support for the viral claim that rosemary can improve wound healing. Carnosic acid, a natural antioxidant in rosemary, promoted scar-free healing in mice by activating a nerve sensor tied to regenerative repair. Rosemary proved more potent and gentler than other herbs or compounds that target the same pathway. The work hints at a low-cost future option for reducing scarring in humans.

What was the loudest sound ever recorded?  ( 07.12.2025 10:00:00 livescience.com)
Determining the "loudest recorded sound" depends on how you define sound and on which measurements you choose to include.

Kim Kardashian’s Doctor Finds Holes in Her Brain, Signs of “Low Activity”  ( 07.12.2025 09:45:00 futurism.com)
Experts are calling foul. The post Kim Kardashian’s Doctor Finds Holes in Her Brain, Signs of “Low Activity” appeared first on Futurism.

Passenger Jet Suddenly Dropped From Sky for a Wild Reason, Airbus Says  ( 07.12.2025 09:00:00 futurism.com)
Reality is sometimes too strange to wrap our heads around. The post Passenger Jet Suddenly Dropped From Sky for a Wild Reason, Airbus Says appeared first on Futurism.

AI Researchers Say They’ve Invented Incantations Too Dangerous to Release to the Public  ( 07.12.2025 08:15:00 futurism.com)
Whatever you do, don't show them to AI models. The post AI Researchers Say They’ve Invented Incantations Too Dangerous to Release to the Public appeared first on Futurism.

Death by Fermented Food  ( 07.12.2025 08:00:00 scientificamerican.com)
Some fermenting foods can carry the risk of a bacterium that produces an extremely strong toxin called bongkrekic acid

Cosmic knots may finally explain why the Universe exists  ( 07.12.2025 07:31:41 sciencedaily.com)
Knotted structures once imagined by Lord Kelvin may actually have shaped the universe’s earliest moments, according to new research showing how two powerful symmetries could have created stable “cosmic knots” after the Big Bang. These exotic objects may have briefly dominated the young cosmos, unraveled through quantum tunneling, and produced heavy right-handed neutrinos whose decays tipped the balance toward matter over antimatter.

The Country Music Industry Has Discovered That AI Can Crank Out Hits Like Crazy  ( 07.12.2025 07:30:00 futurism.com)
What do small towns, cold beer, and fast-talkin' algorithms have in common? The post The Country Music Industry Has Discovered That AI Can Crank Out Hits Like Crazy appeared first on Futurism.

Old Teslas Are Falling Apart  ( 07.12.2025 06:45:00 futurism.com)
Used Teslas are ticking time bombs. The post Old Teslas Are Falling Apart appeared first on Futurism.

Scientists keep a human alive with a genetically engineered pig liver  ( 07.12.2025 06:35:37 sciencedaily.com)
Researchers successfully implanted a genetically modified pig liver into a human, proving that such an organ can function for an extended period. The graft supported essential liver processes before complications required its removal. Although the patient ultimately passed away, the experiment demonstrates both the potential and the complexity of xenotransplantation. Experts believe this could reshape the future of organ replacement.

Christmas Drone Show for Children Ends Flops Pathetically  ( 07.12.2025 06:00:00 futurism.com)
"A lot of the parents were leaving after five minutes." The post Christmas Drone Show for Children Ends Flops Pathetically appeared first on Futurism.

New moonquake discovery could change NASA’s Moon plans  ( 07.12.2025 03:15:36 sciencedaily.com)
Scientists have discovered that moonquakes, not meteoroids, are responsible for shifting terrain near the Apollo 17 landing site. Their analysis points to a still-active fault that has been generating quakes for millions of years. While the danger to short missions is low, long-term lunar bases could face increasing risk. The findings urge future planners to avoid building near scarps and to prioritize new seismic instruments.

The rotten egg smell that could finally beat nail fungus  ( 07.12.2025 02:03:10 sciencedaily.com)
Researchers have identified hydrogen sulfide as a surprisingly effective tool for treating difficult nail infections. It penetrates nails more efficiently than current drugs and kills pathogens by disrupting their energy systems. The compound also works against fungi that resist standard antifungal treatments.

Researchers Concerned to Find That Five-Year-Olds Are Already Deeply Hooked on Brain Rot Content  ( 06.12.2025 15:00:00 futurism.com)
"This research is deeply alarming." The post Researchers Concerned to Find That Five-Year-Olds Are Already Deeply Hooked on Brain Rot Content appeared first on Futurism.

New NASA, ESA images show 3I/ATLAS getting active ahead of its close encounter with Earth  ( 06.12.2025 15:00:00 livescience.com)
NASA and ESA both shared new images of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS this week, as the agencies gear up for the mysterious object's closest approach to Earth on Dec. 19.

AI Is Mangling Police Radio Chatter, Posting It Online as Ridiculous Misinformation  ( 06.12.2025 14:15:00 futurism.com)
"There's no accountability." The post AI Is Mangling Police Radio Chatter, Posting It Online as Ridiculous Misinformation appeared first on Futurism.

Unusual, 1,400-year-old cube-shaped human skull unearthed in Mexico  ( 06.12.2025 14:00:00 livescience.com)
Archaeologists discovered an unusually flat-topped skull at a pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican site.

Google’s AI Deletes User’s Entire Hard Drive, Issues Groveling Apology: “I Cannot Express How Sorry I Am”  ( 06.12.2025 13:30:00 futurism.com)
At least it's sorry. The post Google’s AI Deletes User’s Entire Hard Drive, Issues Groveling Apology: “I Cannot Express How Sorry I Am” appeared first on Futurism.

Why Are ADHD Rates On the Rise?  ( 06.12.2025 13:00:00 scientificamerican.com)
More than 1 in 10 children in the U.S. have ADHD, fueling debate over the condition and how to treat it

Bitcoin Miners on the Run After Stealing $1.1 Billion in Electricity  ( 06.12.2025 12:45:00 futurism.com)
“It’s clearly run by the syndicate." The post Bitcoin Miners on the Run After Stealing $1.1 Billion in Electricity appeared first on Futurism.

1,800-year-old 'piggy banks' full of Roman-era coins unearthed in French village  ( 06.12.2025 12:00:00 livescience.com)
An excavation in a small French village reveals three jars with thousands of Roman coins.

How Close Are Today’s AI Models to AGI—And to Self-Improving into Superintelligence?  ( 06.12.2025 12:00:00 scientificamerican.com)
Today’s leading AI models can already write and refine their own software. The question is whether that self-improvement can ever snowball into true superintelligence

Scientists Impressed by “Fire Amoeba” That Can Survive Incredible Temperatures  ( 06.12.2025 12:00:00 futurism.com)
This tiny critter is basically almost indestructible. The post Scientists Impressed by “Fire Amoeba” That Can Survive Incredible Temperatures appeared first on Futurism.

Startup Building “Air Traffic Control” to Help Self-Driving Cars Get Through Chick-fil-A  ( 06.12.2025 11:15:00 futurism.com)
"We don't work on public streets. We don't work with public parking spots." The post Startup Building “Air Traffic Control” to Help Self-Driving Cars Get Through Chick-fil-A appeared first on Futurism.

Natural hormone unlocks a hidden fat burning switch  ( 06.12.2025 10:32:24 sciencedaily.com)
FGF19 triggers the brain to burn more energy and activate fat-burning cells, offering a potential new path for obesity treatments. The hormone enhances thermogenesis and reduces inflammation, but only when the sympathetic nervous system is active. Researchers uncovered how cold exposure increases receptor expression for FGF19 in the hypothalamus, hinting at an evolutionary role in temperature regulation. Ongoing work aims to discover how to boost natural production of this powerful metabolic hormone.

SpaceX Is Now Threatening the Hubble, NASA Warns  ( 06.12.2025 10:30:00 futurism.com)
Time is running out. The post SpaceX Is Now Threatening the Hubble, NASA Warns appeared first on Futurism.

Scientists are turning Earth into a giant detector for hidden forces shaping our Universe  ( 06.12.2025 10:02:33 sciencedaily.com)
SQUIRE aims to detect exotic spin-dependent interactions using quantum sensors deployed in space, where speed and environmental conditions vastly improve sensitivity. Orbiting sensors tap into Earth’s enormous natural polarized spin source and benefit from low-noise periodic signal modulation. A robust prototype with advanced noise suppression and radiation-hardened engineering now meets the requirements for space operation. The long-term goal is a powerful space-ground network capable of exploring dark matter and other beyond-Standard-Model phenomena.

What if Antony and Cleopatra had defeated Octavian?  ( 06.12.2025 10:00:00 livescience.com)
How would history have unfolded if Antony and Cleopatra had defeated Octavian? Would they have ruled the Roman Empire?

Elon Musk’s Grok Is Providing Extremely Detailed and Creepy Instructions for Stalking  ( 06.12.2025 09:45:00 futurism.com)
"Stake out 10-11 AM near the hotel entrance (public street). Approach with zero creep factor." The post Elon Musk’s Grok Is Providing Extremely Detailed and Creepy Instructions for Stalking appeared first on Futurism.

AI’s climate impact is much smaller than many feared  ( 06.12.2025 09:33:39 sciencedaily.com)
New findings challenge the widespread belief that AI is an environmental villain. By analyzing U.S. economic data and AI usage across industries, researchers discovered that AI’s energy consumption—while significant locally—barely registers at national or global scales. Even more surprising, AI could help accelerate green technologies rather than hinder them.

AI-Powered Browsers Are Failing Badly  ( 06.12.2025 09:00:00 futurism.com)
Imagine browsing the web, but with a chatbot screwing it up for you at every turn. The post AI-Powered Browsers Are Failing Badly appeared first on Futurism.

Earth’s early oceans hid the secret rise of complex life  ( 06.12.2025 08:54:15 sciencedaily.com)
Scientists have discovered that complex life began evolving much earlier than traditional models suggested. Using an expanded molecular clock approach, the team showed that crucial cellular features emerged in ancient anoxic oceans long before oxygen became a major part of Earth’s atmosphere. Their results indicate that early complexity developed slowly over an unexpectedly long timescale.

Prisoners Alarmed to Discover That a Startup Is Training an AI Based on Their Phone Calls  ( 06.12.2025 08:15:00 futurism.com)
"There's literally no other way you can communicate with your family." The post Prisoners Alarmed to Discover That a Startup Is Training an AI Based on Their Phone Calls appeared first on Futurism.

Scientists find hidden layers in brain’s memory center  ( 06.12.2025 08:07:50 sciencedaily.com)
Scientists uncovered a surprising four-layer structure hidden inside the hippocampal CA1 region, one of the brain’s major centers for memory, navigation, and emotion. Using advanced RNA imaging techniques, the team mapped more than 330,000 genetic signals from tens of thousands of neurons, revealing crisp, shifting bands of cell types that run along the length of the hippocampus. This layered organization may help explain why different parts of CA1 support different behaviors and why certain neurons break down more easily in disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease and epilepsy.

Vast Number of Windows Users Refusing to Upgrade After Microsoft’s Embrace of AI Slop  ( 06.12.2025 07:30:00 futurism.com)
"Stop this nonsense. No one wants this." The post Vast Number of Windows Users Refusing to Upgrade After Microsoft’s Embrace of AI Slop appeared first on Futurism.

Science history: Female chemist initially barred from research helps develop drug for remarkable-but-short-lived recovery in children with leukemia — Dec. 6, 1954  ( 06.12.2025 07:00:00 livescience.com)
In December 1954, Gertrude Elion and colleagues described a new compound they had developed that sent children with leukemia into remission. It would guide a new approach to "rational drug design."

Political Operatives Say AI Is Poised to Upend the Two-Party System  ( 06.12.2025 06:45:00 futurism.com)
"Without AI, what we're trying to do would be impossible." The post Political Operatives Say AI Is Poised to Upend the Two-Party System appeared first on Futurism.

Google Caught Replacing News Headlines With AI-Generated Nonsense  ( 06.12.2025 06:00:00 futurism.com)
When will it stop? The post Google Caught Replacing News Headlines With AI-Generated Nonsense appeared first on Futurism.

Science news this week: A human population isolated for 100,000 years, the biggest spinning structure in the universe, and a pit full of skulls  ( 06.12.2025 05:00:00 livescience.com)
Dec. 5, 2025: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.

SPHERE’s stunning space images reveal where new planets are forming  ( 06.12.2025 03:24:18 sciencedaily.com)
SPHERE’s detailed images of dusty rings around young stars offer a rare glimpse into the hidden machinery of planet formation. These bright arcs and faint clouds reveal where tiny planet-building bodies collide, break apart, and reshape their systems. Some disks contain sharp edges or unusual patterns that hint at massive planets still waiting to be seen, while others resemble early versions of our own asteroid belt or Kuiper belt. Together, the images form one of the most complete views yet of how newborn solar systems evolve and where undiscovered worlds may be hiding.

The “impossible” LED breakthrough that changes everything  ( 05.12.2025 21:14:53 sciencedaily.com)
Scientists have discovered how to electrically power insulating nanoparticles using organic molecules that act like tiny antennas. These hybrids generate extremely pure near-infrared light, ideal for medical diagnostics and advanced communications. The approach works at low voltages and surpasses competing technologies in spectral precision. Early results suggest huge potential for future optoelectronic devices.

A mysterious black snake hidden for centuries is now named for Steve Irwin  ( 05.12.2025 21:01:13 sciencedaily.com)
Researchers have uncovered a new species of wolf snake on Great Nicobar Island and named it Lycodon irwini in tribute to Steve Irwin. The glossy black, non-venomous snake grows up to a meter and appears confined to a small area. Scientists warn its limited habitat makes it vulnerable. The find underscores how much biodiversity in the region is still unexplored.

Entrepreneurship Program Brings Incubator Ideas to More Countries  ( 05.12.2025 19:00:02 spectrum.ieee.org)
Technology evolves rapidly, and innovation is key to business survival, so mentoring young professionals, promoting entrepreneurship, and connecting tech startups to a global network of experts and resources are essential.Some IEEE volunteers do all of the above and more as part of the IEEE Entrepreneurship Ambassador Program.The program was launched in 2018 in IEEE Region 8 (Europe, Middle East, and Africa) thanks to a grant from the IEEE Foundation. The ambassadors organize networking events with industry representatives to help IEEE young professionals and student members achieve their entrepreneurial endeavors and strengthen their technical, interpersonal, and business skills. The ambassadors also organize pitch competitions in their geographic area.The ambassador program launched this year in Region 10 (Asia Pacific).Last year the program was introduced in Region 9 (Latin America) with funding from the Taenzer Memorial Fund. The results of the program’s inaugural year were impressive: 13 ambassadors organized events in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Panama, Peru, and Uruguay.“The program is beneficial because it connects entrepreneurs with industry professionals, fosters mentorship, helps young professionals build leadership skills, and creates opportunities for startup sponsorships,” says Susana Lau, vice chair of IEEE Entrepreneurship in Latin America. “The program has also proven successful in attracting IEEE volunteers to serve as ambassadors and helping to support entrepreneurship and startup ventures.”Lau, an IEEE senior member, is a past president of the IEEE Panama Section and an active IEEE Women in Engineering volunteer.A professional development opportunityPeople who participated in the Region 9 program say the experience was life-changing, both personally and professionally.Pedro José Pineda, whose work was recognized with one of the region’s two Top Ambassador Awards, says he’s been able to “expand international collaborations and strengthen the innovation ecosystem in Latin America.“It’s more than an award,” the IEEE member says. “It’s an opportunity to create global impact from local action.”“This remarkable experience has opened new doors for my future career within IEEE, both nationally and globally.”—Vitor PaivaThe region’s other Top Ambassador recipient was Vitor Paiva of Natal, Brazil. He had the opportunity to attend this year’s IEEE Rising Stars in Las Vegas—his first international experience outside Brazil.After participating in the program, the IEEE student member volunteered with its regional marketing committee.“I was proud to showcase Brazil’s IEEE community while connecting with some of IEEE’s most influential leaders,” Paiva, a student at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, says. “This remarkable experience has opened new doors for my future career within IEEE, both nationally and globally.”Expanding the initiativeThe IEEE Foundation says it will invest in the regional programs by funding the grants presented to the winners of the regional pitch competitions, similar to the funding for Region 9. The goal is to hold a worldwide competition, Lau says.The ongoing expansion is a testament to the program’s efforts, says Christopher G. Wright, senior manager of programs and governance at the IEEE Foundation.“I’ve had the pleasure of working on the grants for the IEEE Entrepreneurship Ambassador Program team over the years,” Wright says, “and I am continually impressed by the team’s dedication and the program’s evolution.”To learn more about the program in your region or to apply to become an ambassador, visit the IEEE Entrepreneurship website and search for your region.

Why Leftover Pizza Is Actually Healthier: The Science of ‘Resistant Starch’ Explained  ( 05.12.2025 19:00:00 scientificamerican.com)
Researchers have discovered that cooling starchy foods—from pizza to rice—creates “resistant starch,” a carb that behaves like fiber and alters your blood sugar response

Is a River Alive? A Conversation with Robert Macfarlane on Nature’s Sovereignty  ( 05.12.2025 18:30:00 scientificamerican.com)
Scientific American sits down with nature writer Robert Macfarlane to discuss his latest book—one of our top picks of 2025—and whether a river has rights

Anti-AI Activist on the Run as Police Warn That He’s Armed and Dangerous  ( 05.12.2025 18:19:50 futurism.com)
Anti-AI activist Sam Kirchner allegedly threatened to shoot and kill OpenAI workers. The post Anti-AI Activist on the Run as Police Warn That He’s Armed and Dangerous appeared first on Futurism.

Was the ‘Star of Bethlehem’ Really a Comet?  ( 05.12.2025 18:10:00 scientificamerican.com)
A scientist has identified a possible astronomical explanation for the Star of Bethlehem, as described in the Bible

CDC panel, stuffed with vaccine skeptics, votes to end recommendation for universal newborn hepatitis B vaccination  ( 05.12.2025 17:47:05 livescience.com)
The CDC's vaccine committee has voted to roll back a universal recommendation that newborns be vaccinated against hepatitis B, which is one of public health's major success stories.

Police Admit AI Surveillance Panopticon Still Has Issues With “Some Demographic Groups”  ( 05.12.2025 17:40:17 futurism.com)
"This has meant that in some circumstances it is more likely to incorrectly match Black and Asian people than their white counterparts." The post Police Admit AI Surveillance Panopticon Still Has Issues With “Some Demographic Groups” appeared first on Futurism.

Video Friday: Biorobotics Turns Lobster Tails Into Gripper  ( 05.12.2025 17:30:02 spectrum.ieee.org)
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.ICRA 2026: 1–5 June 2026, VIENNAEnjoy today’s videos! EPFL scientists have integrated discarded crustacean shells into robotic devices, leveraging the strength and flexibility of natural materials for robotic applications.[ EPFL ]Finally, a good humanoid robot demo!Although having said that, I never trust videos demos where it works really well once, and then just pretty well every other time.[ LimX Dynamics ]Thanks, Jinyan!I understand how these structures work, I really do. But watching something rigid extrude itself from a flexible reel will always seem a little magical.[ AAAS ]Thanks, Kyujin!I’m not sure what “industrial grade” actually means, but I want robots to be “automotive grade,” where they’ll easily operate for six months or a year without any maintenance at all.[ Pudu Robotics ]Thanks, Mandy!When you start to suspect that your robotic EV charging solution costs more than your car.[ Flexiv ]Yeah uh if the application for this humanoid is actually making robot parts with a hammer and anvil, then I’d be impressed.[ EngineAI ]Researchers at Columbia Engineering have designed a robot that can learn a human-like sense of neatness. The researchers taught the system by showing it millions of examples, not teaching it specific instructions. The result is a model that can look at a cluttered tabletop and rearrange scattered objects in an orderly fashion.[ Paper ]Why haven’t we seen this sort of thing in humanoid robotics videos yet?[ HUCEBOT ]While I definitely appreciate in-the-field testing, it’s also worth asking to what extent your robot is actually being challenged by the in-the-field field that you’ve chosen.[ DEEP Robotics ]Introducing HMND 01 Alpha Bipedal — autonomous, adaptive, designed for real-world impact. Built in 5 months, walking stably after 48 hours of training.[ Humanoid ]Unitree says that “this is to validate the overall reliability of the robot” but I really have to wonder how useful this kind of reliability validation actually is.[ Unitree ]This University of Pennsylvania GRASP on Robotics Seminar is by Jie Tan from Google DeepMind, on “Gemini Robotics: Bringing AI into the Physical World.”Recent advancements in large multimodal models have led to the emergence of remarkable generalist capabilities in digital domains, yet their translation to physical agents such as robots remains a significant challenge. In this talk, I will present Gemini Robotics, an advanced Vision-Language-Action (VLA) generalist model capable of directly controlling robots. Furthermore, I will discuss the challenges, learnings and future research directions on robot foundation models.[ University of Pennsylvania GRASP Laboratory ]

Plastic Pollution Will More than Double by 2040, Yielding a Garbage Truck's Worth of Waste Each Second  ( 05.12.2025 17:28:00 scientificamerican.com)
An estimated 280 million metric tons of plastic waste will enter the air, water, soil, and human bodies every year by 2040, data shows

What If the Moon Were Cheese? John Scalzi’s Latest Book Has the Answer  ( 05.12.2025 16:15:00 scientificamerican.com)
Scientific American talks to the author of When the Moon Hits Your Eye, one of our best fiction picks for 2025

Someone Used AI to Make a Fake Avi Loeb on YouTube  ( 05.12.2025 16:11:52 futurism.com)
"The nemesis of science is fake content created by AI." The post Someone Used AI to Make a Fake Avi Loeb on YouTube appeared first on Futurism.

Giant sunspot on par with the one that birthed the Carrington Event has appeared on the sun — and it's pointed right at Earth  ( 05.12.2025 16:08:46 livescience.com)
A massive new sunspot complex, dubbed AR 4294-4296, has emerged on the sun and is facing directly at Earth. The dark patch is on par with the infamous sunspot that birthed the 1859 Carrington Event — but, for now, it's staying quiet.

CDC Vaccine Panel Scraps Guidance for Universal Hepatitis B Shots at Birth  ( 05.12.2025 15:40:00 scientificamerican.com)
New guidance from the CDC’s vaccine advisory panel would do away with a decades-old universal birth dose recommendation for hepatitis B that helped cut infections by 99 percent in the U.S.

Daniel H. Wilson on Finding a Native Take on Traditional Alien Invasion Stories  ( 05.12.2025 15:30:00 scientificamerican.com)
Hole in the Sky, by Daniel H. Wilson, is one of Scientific American’s best fiction picks of 2025. In the novel, aliens talk through an AI headset and land in the Cherokee Nation, while the military scrambles to contain and control the unknown

Extremophile ‘Fire Amoeba’ Pushes the Boundaries of Complex Life  ( 05.12.2025 15:15:00 scientificamerican.com)
It was thought that complex cells couldn’t survive above a certain temperature, but a tiny amoeba has proven that assumption wrong

Woman Hailed as Hero for Smashing Man’s Meta Smart Glasses on Subway  ( 05.12.2025 15:13:50 futurism.com)
"I hope she called him a dork for wearing them before she broke them." The post Woman Hailed as Hero for Smashing Man’s Meta Smart Glasses on Subway appeared first on Futurism.

A huge helium shortage is looming — but ancient rocks in Earth's crust may be hiding massive reservoirs  ( 05.12.2025 15:00:00 livescience.com)
For decades, helium has been produced with natural gas, generating huge carbon emissions. Now, geologists are looking for new helium sources — and finding enormous "carbon-free" reservoirs that could revolutionize the industry.

China’s Explosive Zhuque-3 Test Previews the Global Race for Reusable Rockets  ( 05.12.2025 14:45:00 scientificamerican.com)
A partially successful test of China’s Zhuque-3 rocket shows that other countries are rapidly catching up with the U.S in the race for reusable rocketry

Rockstar Cofounder Says AI Is Like When Factory Farms Did Cannibalism and Caused Mad Cow Disease  ( 05.12.2025 14:03:33 futurism.com)
"So it's sort of like when we fed cows with cows and got mad cow disease." The post Rockstar Cofounder Says AI Is Like When Factory Farms Did Cannibalism and Caused Mad Cow Disease appeared first on Futurism.

Scientists Testing GLP-1s for Overweight Dogs and Cats  ( 05.12.2025 13:09:55 futurism.com)
"I think this is going to be the next big thing." The post Scientists Testing GLP-1s for Overweight Dogs and Cats appeared first on Futurism.

Aluminum Is Crucial to Vaccines—And Safe. Why Are CDC Advisers Debating It?  ( 05.12.2025 13:00:00 scientificamerican.com)
RFK Jr.’s vaccine advisory panel will be discussing the inclusion of adjuvants in childhood vaccinations today. Here’s what’s at stake

OpenAI Is Suddenly in Major Trouble  ( 05.12.2025 12:02:50 futurism.com)
"They’re going to end up just like MySpace did." The post OpenAI Is Suddenly in Major Trouble appeared first on Futurism.

Telecom Fiber-Optic Cables Measured an Earthquake in Incredible Detail  ( 05.12.2025 12:00:00 scientificamerican.com)
Fiber optics that connect the world can detect its earthquakes, too

New 'physics shortcut' lets laptops tackle quantum problems once reserved for supercomputers and AI  ( 05.12.2025 12:00:00 livescience.com)
Physicists have transformed a decades-old technique for simplifying quantum equations into a reusable, user-friendly "conversion table" that works on a laptop and returns results within hours.

Cosmic Magnification Is One of the Universe’s Weirdest Optical Illusions  ( 05.12.2025 11:45:00 scientificamerican.com)
In our topsy-turvy universe, sometimes the farther away an object is, the bigger it seems to be

Palantir CEO Says Legalizing War Crimes Would Be Good for Business  ( 05.12.2025 11:09:32 futurism.com)
"So you keep pushing on making it constitutional. I'm totally supportive of that." The post Palantir CEO Says Legalizing War Crimes Would Be Good for Business appeared first on Futurism.

How Zuranolone, a Fast-Acting Drug, Might Help Those Suffering with Postpartum Depression  ( 05.12.2025 11:00:00 scientificamerican.com)
Journalist Marla Broadfoot discusses zuranolone, a drug that may help people whose postpartum depression hasn’t responded to traditional antidepressants.

Could aging eggs be 'rejuvenated'? New tool may help pave the way to fertility-extending treatments  ( 05.12.2025 11:00:00 livescience.com)
Scientists invented a new experimental system to study how age-related changes in egg cells make them more prone to chromosomal errors.

'Intelligence comes at a price, and for many species, the benefits just aren't worth it': A neuroscientist's take on how human intellect evolved  ( 05.12.2025 11:00:00 livescience.com)
In his book "One Hand Clapping," Nikolay Kukushkin explores explanations for how consciousness evolved, and ultimately, what makes us human.

A massive Bronze Age city hidden for 3,500 years just surfaced  ( 05.12.2025 10:41:58 sciencedaily.com)
An immense Bronze Age settlement has emerged from the Kazakh Steppe, revealing a surprisingly urban and industrial society where archaeologists once expected nomadic camps. At Semiyarka, researchers uncovered massive residential compounds, a possible ceremonial or administrative building, and an entire industrial zone dedicated to producing tin bronze—an extremely rare discovery for the region. The site’s strategic perch above trade routes and mineral-rich mountains suggests it was a major hub of exchange, craftsmanship, and power.

IBM CEO Says the Math Just Doesn’t Add Up on Its Competitors’ AI Spending  ( 05.12.2025 10:10:48 futurism.com)
"It’s my view that there’s no way you’re going to get a return on that." The post IBM CEO Says the Math Just Doesn’t Add Up on Its Competitors’ AI Spending appeared first on Futurism.

Next gen cancer drug shows surprising anti aging power  ( 05.12.2025 09:39:16 sciencedaily.com)
A next-generation drug tested in yeast was found to extend lifespan and slow aging by influencing a major growth-control pathway. Researchers also uncovered an unexpected role for agmatinases, enzymes that help keep this pathway in balance. Diet and gut microbes may affect aging more than expected because they produce the metabolites involved.

Zuckerberg Basically Giving Up on Metaverse After Renaming Entire Company “Meta”  ( 05.12.2025 09:11:49 futurism.com)
"Smart move, just late." The post Zuckerberg Basically Giving Up on Metaverse After Renaming Entire Company “Meta” appeared first on Futurism.

Scientists reveal a powerful heart boost hidden in everyday foods  ( 05.12.2025 09:04:57 sciencedaily.com)
Regular consumption of polyphenol-rich foods like tea, coffee, berries, nuts, and whole grains may significantly support long-term heart health. A decade-long study of more than 3,100 adults found that those who consistently ate polyphenol-packed diets had healthier blood pressure and cholesterol levels, as well as lower predicted cardiovascular risk.

Architects gain a new superpower for complex curved designs  ( 05.12.2025 07:59:11 sciencedaily.com)
A researcher from the University of Tokyo and a U.S.-based structural engineer developed a new computational form-finding method that could change how architects and engineers design lightweight and free-form structures covering large spaces. The technique specifically helps create gridshells, thin, curved surfaces whose members form a networked grid. The method makes use of NURBS surfaces, a widely used surface representation format in computer-aided design (CAD). It also drastically reduces computation cost — a task that previously took 90 hours on a high-end GPU completes in about 90 minutes on a standard CPU.

Alzheimer’s blood tests may be misleading for people with kidney problems  ( 05.12.2025 05:19:42 sciencedaily.com)
A large study found that people with impaired kidneys tend to have higher Alzheimer’s biomarkers, yet they don’t face a higher overall risk of dementia. For those who already have elevated biomarkers, kidney problems may speed up when symptoms appear. The findings show that kidney health can change how Alzheimer’s blood tests are read. Doctors may need to consider both organs to get a clearer picture.

Experimental RNA treatment shows surprising DNA repair power  ( 05.12.2025 04:58:49 sciencedaily.com)
Cedars-Sinai scientists have created a new experimental drug called TY1 that helps the body repair damaged DNA and restore injured tissue. The discovery came from studying tiny molecular messages released by heart cells that naturally support healing after injury. By identifying and recreating the most powerful of these messages, the team developed a synthetic RNA molecule that boosts the body’s DNA-repair system, reduces scarring, and may improve recovery after heart attacks and other diseases.

Are We Testing AI’s Intelligence the Wrong Way?  ( 04.12.2025 23:30:02 spectrum.ieee.org)
When people want a clear-eyed take on the state of artificial intelligence and what it all means, they tend to turn to Melanie Mitchell, a computer scientist and a professor at the Santa Fe Institute. Her 2019 book, Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans, helped define the modern conversation about what today’s AI systems can and can’t do. Melanie MitchellToday at NeurIPS, the year’s biggest gathering of AI professionals, she gave a keynote titled “On the Science of ‘Alien Intelligences’: Evaluating Cognitive Capabilities in Babies, Animals, and AI.” Ahead of the talk, she spoke with IEEE Spectrum about its themes: Why today’s AI systems should be studied more like nonverbal minds, what developmental and comparative psychology can teach AI researchers, and how better experimental methods could reshape the way we measure machine cognition.You use the phrase “alien intelligences” for both AI and biological minds like babies and animals. What do you mean by that?Melanie Mitchell: Hopefully you noticed the quotation marks around “alien intelligences.” I’m quoting from a paper by [the neural network pioneer] Terrence Sejnowski where he talks about ChatGPT as being like a space alien that can communicate with us and seems intelligent. And then there’s another paper by the developmental psychologist Michael Frank who plays on that theme and says, we in developmental psychology study alien intelligences, namely babies. And we have some methods that we think may be helpful in analyzing AI intelligence. So that’s what I’m playing on.When people talk about evaluating intelligence in AI, what kind of intelligence are they trying to measure? Reasoning or abstraction or world modeling or something else?Mitchell: All of the above. People mean different things when they use the word intelligence, and intelligence itself has all these different dimensions, as you say. So, I used the term cognitive capabilities, which is a little bit more specific. I’m looking at how different cognitive capabilities are evaluated in developmental and comparative psychology and trying to apply some principles from those fields to AI.Current Challenges in Evaluating AI CognitionYou say that the field of AI lacks good experimental protocols for evaluating cognition. What does AI evaluation look like today?Mitchell: The typical way to evaluate an AI system is to have some set of benchmarks, and to run your system on those benchmark tasks and report the accuracy. But often it turns out that even though these AI systems we have now are just killing it on benchmarks, they’re surpassing humans, that performance doesn’t often translate to performance in the real world. If an AI system aces the bar exam, that doesn’t mean it’s going to be a good lawyer in the real world. Often the machines are doing well on those particular questions but can’t generalize very well. Also, tests that are designed to assess humans make assumptions that aren’t necessarily relevant or correct for AI systems, about things like how well a system is able to memorize.As a computer scientist, I didn’t get any training in experimental methodology. Doing experiments on AI systems has become a core part of evaluating systems, and most people who came up through computer science haven’t had that training.What do developmental and comparative psychologists know about probing cognition that AI researchers should know too?Mitchell: There’s all kinds of experimental methodology that you learn as a student of psychology, especially in fields like developmental and comparative psychology because those are nonverbal agents. You have to really think creatively to figure out ways to probe them. So they have all kinds of methodologies that involve very careful control experiments, and making lots of variations on stimuli to check for robustness. They look carefully at failure modes, why the system [being tested] might fail, since those failures can give more insight into what’s going on than success.Can you give me a concrete example of what these experimental methods look like in developmental or comparative psychology?Mitchell: One classic example is Clever Hans. There was this horse, Clever Hans, who seemed to be able to do all kinds of arithmetic and counting and other numerical tasks. And the horse would tap out its answer with its hoof. For years, people studied it and said, “I think it’s real. It’s not a hoax.” But then a psychologist came around and said, “I’m going to think really hard about what’s going on and do some control experiments.” And his control experiments were: first, put a blindfold on the horse, and second, put a screen between the horse and the question asker. Turns out if the horse couldn’t see the question asker, it couldn’t do the task. What he found was that the horse was actually perceiving very subtle facial expression cues in the asker to know when to stop tapping. So it’s important to come up with alternative explanations for what’s going on. To be skeptical not only of other people’s research, but maybe even of your own research, your own favorite hypothesis. I don’t think that happens enough in AI.Do you have any case studies from research on babies?Mitchell: I have one case study where babies were claimed to have an innate moral sense. The experiment showed them videos where there was a cartoon character trying to climb up a hill. In one case there was another character that helped them go up the hill, and in the other case there was a character that pushed them down the hill. So there was the helper and the hinderer. And the babies were assessed as to which character they liked better—and they had a couple of ways of doing that—and overwhelmingly they liked the helper character better. [Editor's note: The babies were 6 to 10 months old, and assessment techniques included seeing whether the babies reached for the helper or the hinderer.]But another research group looked very carefully at these videos and found that in all of the helper videos, the climber who was being helped was excited to get to the top of the hill and bounced up and down. And so they said, “Well, what if in the hinderer case we have the climber bounce up and down at the bottom of the hill?” And that completely turned around the results. The babies always chose the one that bounced.Again, coming up with alternatives, even if you have your favorite hypothesis, is the way that we do science. One thing that I’m always a little shocked by in AI is that people use the word skeptic as a negative: “You’re an LLM skeptic.” But our job is to be skeptics, and that should be a compliment.Importance of Replication in AI StudiesBoth those examples illustrate the theme of looking for counter explanations. Are there other big lessons that you think AI researchers should draw from psychology?Mitchell: Well, in science in general the idea of replicating experiments is really important, and also building on other people’s work. But that’s sadly a little bit frowned on in the AI world. If you submit a paper to NeurIPS, for example, where you replicated someone’s work and then you do some incremental thing to understand it, the reviewers will say, “This lacks novelty and it’s incremental.” That’s the kiss of death for your paper. I feel like that should be appreciated more because that’s the way that good science gets done.Going back to measuring cognitive capabilities of AI, there’s lots of talk about how we can measure progress towards AGI. Is that a whole other batch of questions?Mitchell: Well, the term AGI is a little bit nebulous. People define it in different ways. I think it’s hard to measure progress for something that’s not that well defined. And our conception of it keeps changing, partially in response to things that happen in AI. In the old days of AI, people would talk about human-level intelligence and robots being able to do all the physical things that humans do. But people have looked at robotics and said, “Well, okay, it’s not going to get there soon. Let’s just talk about what people call the cognitive side of intelligence,” which I don’t think is really so separable. So I am a bit of an AGI skeptic, if you will, in the best way.

Male human heads found in a 'skull pit' in an ancient Chinese city hint at sex-specific sacrifice rituals  ( 04.12.2025 22:16:10 livescience.com)
A genetic study of 80 skulls found at a Stone Age city in China has revealed that the sacrificed people were mostly men, in contrast to previous assumptions.

BYD’s Engine Flexes Between Ethanol, Gasoline, and Electricity  ( 04.12.2025 20:45:47 spectrum.ieee.org)
The world’s first mass-produced ethanol car, the Fiat 147, motored onto Brazilian roads in 1979. The vehicle crowned decades of experimentation in the country with sugar-cane (and later, corn-based and second-generation sugar-cane waste) ethanol as a homegrown fuel. When Chinese automaker BYD introduced a plug-in hybrid designed for Brazil in October, equipped with a flex-fuel engine that lets drivers choose to run on any ratio of gasoline and ethanol or access plug-in electric power, the move felt like the latest chapter in a long national story.The new engine, designed for the company’s best-selling compact SUV, the Song Pro, is the first plug-in hybrid engine dedicated to biofuel, according to Wang Chuanfu, BYD’s founder and CEO.Margaret Wooldridge, a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor, says the engine’s promise is not in inventing entirely new technology, but in making it accessible.RELATED: The Omnivorous Engine“The technology existed before,” says Wooldridge, who specializes in hybrid systems, “but fuel switching is expensive, and I’d expect the combinations in this engine to come at a fairly high price tag. BYD’s real innovation is pulling it into a price range where everyday drivers in Brazil can actually choose ratios of ethanol and gasoline, as well as electric.”BYD’s Affordable Hybrid InnovationBYD Song Pro vehicles with this new engine were initially priced in a promotion at around US $25,048, with a list price around $35,000. For comparison, another plug-in hybrid vehicle, Toyota’s 2026 Prius Prime, starts at $33,775. The engine is the product of an $18.5 million investment by BYD and a collaboration between Brazilian and Chinese scientists. It adds to Brazil’s history of ethanol use that began in the 1930s and progressed from ethanol-only to flex-fuel vehicles, providing consumers a tool kit to respond to changing fuel prices, ongoing drought like Brazil experienced in the 1980s, or emissions goals.An engine switching between gasoline and ethanol needs a sensor that can reconcile two distinct fuel-air mixtures. “Integrating that control system, especially in a hybrid architecture, is not trivial,” says Wooldridge. “But BYD appears to have engineered it in a way that’s cost-effective.”By leveraging a smaller, downsized hybrid engine, the company is likely able to design the engine to be optimal over a smaller speed map—a narrower, specific range of speeds and power output—avoiding some efficiency compromises that have long plagued flex-fuel power-train engines, says Wooldridge.In general, standard flex-fuel vehicles (FFVs) have an internal combustion engine and can operate on gasoline and any blend of gasoline and ethanol up to 83 percent, according to the U.S. Department of Energy. FFV engines have only one fuel system, and mostly use components that are the same as those found in gasoline-only cars. To compensate for ethanol’s different chemical properties and power output compared to gasoline, special components modify the fuel pump and fuel-injection system. In addition, FFV engines have engine control modules calibrated to accommodate ethanol’s higher oxygen content.“Flex-fuel gives consumers flexibility,” Wooldridge says. “If you’re using ethanol, you can run at a higher compression ratio, allowing molecules to be squeezed into a smaller space to allow for faster, more powerful and more efficient combustion. Increasing that ratio boosts efficiency and lowers knock—but if you’re also tying in electric drive, the system can stay optimally efficient across different modes,” she adds.Jennifer Eaglin, a historian of Brazilian energy at Ohio State University, in Columbus, says that BYD is tapping into something deeply rooted in the culture of Brazil, the world’s seventh-most populous country (with a population of around 220 million).“Brazil has built an ethanol-fuel system that’s durable and widespread,” Eaglin says. “It’s no surprise that a company like BYD, recognizing that infrastructure, would innovate to give consumers more options. This isn’t futuristic—it’s a continuation of a long national experiment.”

JD Vance Sent Bizarre Lonely Text to His Bombing Group Chat  ( 04.12.2025 20:40:24 futurism.com)
"This chat’s kind of dead. Anything going on?” The post JD Vance Sent Bizarre Lonely Text to His Bombing Group Chat appeared first on Futurism.

CDC Vaccine Panel in Disarray over Hepatitis B Vote  ( 04.12.2025 20:15:00 scientificamerican.com)
Members of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices seemed confused about a proposed recommendation for the birth dose of the hepatitis B vaccine

U.S. Man Dies of Rabies after Receiving Infected Kidney Transplant  ( 04.12.2025 20:00:00 scientificamerican.com)
A man has passed away after he received a kidney transplant from a person who had died with undiagnosed rabies, according to U.S. public health officials

Geminids 2025: The year's best meteor shower peaks this week, with a second shower hot on its tail  ( 04.12.2025 19:49:59 livescience.com)
The Geminid meteor shower peaks this week! The Geminids peak overnight on Dec. 13 and 14, when up to 150 "shooting stars" per hour will rain down on Earth in a moonless night sky.

Injecting anesthetic into a 'lazy eye' may correct it, early study suggests  ( 04.12.2025 19:40:00 livescience.com)
Temporarily shutting down a "lazy eye" triggers a burst of neuronal activity that reverses the condition in animal experiments, a study shows.

Scientific American’s Best Nonfiction of 2025  ( 04.12.2025 19:15:00 scientificamerican.com)
The 10 best nonfiction books of 2025, from the history of replaceable body parts to our AI future

Scientific American’s Best Fiction of 2025  ( 04.12.2025 19:15:00 scientificamerican.com)
The 10 best fiction books of 2025 explore far-off planets, future climate catastrophes, and more

AI Chatbots Shown to Sway Voters, Raising New Fears about Election Influence  ( 04.12.2025 19:00:00 scientificamerican.com)
Chatbots can measurably sway voters’ choices, new research shows. The findings raise urgent questions about AI’s role in future elections

New Book for Young Readers Brings the Stories of 10 Remarkable Women to Life  ( 04.12.2025 18:00:00 scientificamerican.com)
Ten great stories about 10 forgotten female scientists that we hope will inspire middle school readers to pursue their own curiosity and get involved in STEM fields

AI Data Centers Are Making RAM Crushingly Expensive, Which Is Going to Skyrocket the Cost of Laptops, Tablets, and Gaming PCs  ( 04.12.2025 17:07:07 futurism.com)
RAM for me, not for thee. The post AI Data Centers Are Making RAM Crushingly Expensive, Which Is Going to Skyrocket the Cost of Laptops, Tablets, and Gaming PCs appeared first on Futurism.

China’s CO2 Emissions Might Have Finally Peaked  ( 04.12.2025 16:28:00 scientificamerican.com)
China has rapidly become the world leader in renewable energy, but continued coal use means it could take longer for its emissions to decline

Waymo Has Been Reprogramming Its Robotaxis to Drive More Aggressively  ( 04.12.2025 16:02:42 futurism.com)
"It's driving more like a taxi driver — an aggressive, New York taxi driver." The post Waymo Has Been Reprogramming Its Robotaxis to Drive More Aggressively appeared first on Futurism.

Volcanic eruption triggered 'butterfly effect' that led to the Black Death, researchers find  ( 04.12.2025 16:00:00 livescience.com)
A volcanic eruption in 1345 may have kicked off a series of events that led to the Black Death sweeping through medieval Europe.

Trump Announces Plan to Make Cars Pollute More  ( 04.12.2025 15:14:26 futurism.com)
Addressing the real issues. The post Trump Announces Plan to Make Cars Pollute More appeared first on Futurism.

18,000 dinosaur tracks discovered along ancient Bolivian coastline — and they set a new record  ( 04.12.2025 15:08:58 livescience.com)
Researchers have counted 16,600 fossilized dinosaur footprints and 1,378 swim tracks at a site in Bolivia that showcase a variety of behaviors and different theropods from the Cretaceous period.

Alarming Video Shows Humanoid Robot Demon-Scuttling  ( 04.12.2025 14:03:49 futurism.com)
"They're actually capable of way weirder stuff and way faster motions." The post Alarming Video Shows Humanoid Robot Demon-Scuttling appeared first on Futurism.

New Image Shows Signs of Activity on 3I/ATLAS  ( 04.12.2025 13:26:13 futurism.com)
Scientists were "surprised" to find it "surrounded by signs of activity." The post New Image Shows Signs of Activity on 3I/ATLAS appeared first on Futurism.

Collapse of key Atlantic current could bring extreme drought to Europe for hundreds of years, study finds  ( 04.12.2025 12:22:43 livescience.com)
Scientists modeled Europe's future if a key Atlantic current were to collapse and found that the continent faces a much drier future.

New Photos Show That Epstein’s Island Contained the Creepiest Dentist’s Facility We’ve Ever Seen  ( 04.12.2025 12:14:18 futurism.com)
What the. The post New Photos Show That Epstein’s Island Contained the Creepiest Dentist’s Facility We’ve Ever Seen appeared first on Futurism.

MIT invention uses ultrasound to shake drinking water out of the air, even in dry regions  ( 04.12.2025 12:00:00 livescience.com)
A new device cuts down the time it takes to harvest water from the atmosphere from days to minutes, MIT researchers say.

Cops Stunned as Waymo Cruises Through Active Police Standoff  ( 04.12.2025 11:12:40 futurism.com)
Talk about rubber-necking. The post Cops Stunned as Waymo Cruises Through Active Police Standoff appeared first on Futurism.

ChatGPT Encouraged a Violent Stalker, Court Documents Allege  ( 04.12.2025 10:13:04 futurism.com)
The man "stalked and harassed more than 10 women by weaponizing modern technology," prosecutors said. The post ChatGPT Encouraged a Violent Stalker, Court Documents Allege appeared first on Futurism.

Astronomers find a planet orbiting at a wild angle no one can explain  ( 04.12.2025 09:57:01 sciencedaily.com)
A network of powerful ground-based telescopes captured rare starspot-crossing events on TOI-3884b, revealing cooler patches on the star’s surface and rapid changes tied to its rotation. By combining multicolor transit observations with months of high-cadence brightness monitoring, researchers nailed down the star’s rotation period with impressive precision. These measurements allowed them to map the system’s geometry—and what they found was surprising: the planet's orbit is wildly tilted relative to the star’s spin.

3.3 billion-year-old crystals reveal a shockingly active early Earth  ( 04.12.2025 09:40:57 sciencedaily.com)
Fresh evidence suggests early Earth wasn’t locked under a rigid stagnant lid but was already experiencing intense subduction. Ancient melt inclusions and advanced simulations point to continents forming far earlier than expected. The findings overturn long-held assumptions about the planet’s infancy and reveal a surprisingly active Hadean world.

Elon Musk’s Grok AI Is Doxxing Home Addresses of Everyday People  ( 04.12.2025 09:05:04 futurism.com)
Grok is a stalker's best friend. The post Elon Musk’s Grok AI Is Doxxing Home Addresses of Everyday People appeared first on Futurism.

Simple nutrient mix delivers surprising autism breakthrough in mice  ( 04.12.2025 08:41:05 sciencedaily.com)
A low-dose mix of zinc, serine, and branched-chain amino acids boosted neural function and social behavior in autism mouse models. The combination restored more typical synaptic protein patterns and reduced excessive amygdala activity. Individual supplements had no effect, showing that the nutrients must work together. The findings point toward a promising multi-nutrient strategy for influencing brain circuits involved in autism.

Giant rotating string of galaxies is 'probably the largest spinning object' in the known universe  ( 04.12.2025 00:01:00 livescience.com)
A giant rotating filament of the cosmic web may be the largest spinning structure ever seen, and could help reveal how galaxies form.

Ancient 'hanging coffin' people in China finally identified — and their descendants still live there today  ( 03.12.2025 21:03:41 livescience.com)
People buried in "hanging coffins" thousands of years ago in China and Southeast Asia have finally been identified through DNA research.

Cold Metal Fusion Makes It Easy to 3D Print Titanium  ( 03.12.2025 19:55:59 spectrum.ieee.org)
CADmore Metal has introduced a fresh take on 3D printing metal components to the North American market known as cold metal fusion (CMF). John Carrington, the company’s CEO, claims CMF produces stronger 3D printed metal parts that are cheaper and faster to make. That includes titanium components, which have historically caused trouble for 3D printers.3D printing has used metals included aluminum, powdered steel, and nickel alloys for some time. While titanium parts are in high demand in fields such as aerospace and health care due to their superior strength-to-weight ratio, corrosion resistance, and their suitability for complex geometries, the metal has presented challenges for 3D printers.Titanium becomes more reactive at high temperatures and tends to crack when the printed part cools. It can also become brittle as it absorbs hydrogen, oxygen, or nitrogen during the printing process. Carrington says CMF overcomes these issues.“Our primary customers tend to come from the energy, defense, and aerospace industries,” says Carrington. “One large defense contractor recently switched from traditional 3D printing to CMF as it will save them millions and reduce prototyping and parts production by months.”How CMF Enhances Titanium 3D Printing EfficiencyCMF combines the flexibility of 3D printing with new powder metallurgy processes to provide strength and greater durability to parts made from titanium and many other metals and alloys. The process uses a combination of proprietary metal powder and polymer binding agents that are fused layer by layer to create high-strength metal components.The process begins like any other 3D printing project: A digital file that represents the desired 3D object directs the actions of a standard industrial 3D printer in laying down a mixture of metal and a plastic binder. A laser lightly fuses each layer of powder into a cohesive solid structure. Excess powder is removed for reuse.Where CMF differs is that the initial parts generated by this stage of the process are strong enough for grinding, drilling, and milling if required. The parts then soak in a solvent to dissolve the plastic binder. Next, they go into a furnace to burn off any remaining binder, fuse the metal particles, and compact them into a dense metal component. Surface or finishing treatments can then be applied such as polishing and heat treatment.“Our cold metal fusion technology offers a process that is at least three times faster and more scalable than any other kind of 3D printing,” says Carrington. “Per-part prices are generally 50 to 60 percent less than alternative metal 3D printing technology. We expect those prices to go down even more as we scale.” 3D printing with metal powders such as titanium makes it possible to create parts with complex geometries.CADmore MetalThe material used in CMF was developed by Headmade Materials, a German company. Headmade holds a patent on this 3D printing feedstock, which has been designed for use by the existing ecosystem of 3D printing machines. CADmore Metal serves as the exclusive North American distributor for the metal powders used in CMF. The company can also serve as a systems integrator for the entire process by providing the printing and sintering hardware, the specialized powders, process expertise, training, and technical support.“We provide guidance on design optimization and integration with existing workflows to help customers maximize the technology’s benefits,” says Carrington. “If a turbine company comes to us to produce their parts using CMF, we can either build the parts for them as a service or set them up to carry out their own production internally while we supply the powder and support.”With the global 3D printing market now worth almost US $5 billion and predicted to reach $13 billion by 2035, according to analyst firm IDTechEx, the arrival of CMF is timely. CADmore Metal just opened North America’s first CMF application center, a nearly 280-square-meter (3,000-square-foot) facility in Columbia, S.C. Carrington says that a larger facility will open in 2026 to make room for more material processing and equipment.

MIT’s AI Robotics Lab Director Is Building People-Centered Robots  ( 03.12.2025 19:00:02 spectrum.ieee.org)
Daniela Rus has spent her career breaking barriers—scientific, social, and material—in her quest to build machines that amplify rather than replace human capability. She made robotics her life’s work, she says, because she understood it was a way to expand the possibilities of computing while enhancing human capabilities.“I like to think of robotics as a way to give people superpowers,” Rus says. “Machines can help us reach farther, think faster, and live fuller lives.”Daniela RusEmployer MITJob titleProfessor of electrical and computer engineering and computer science; director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence LaboratoryMember gradeFellowAlma maters University of Iowa, in Iowa City; CornellHer dual missions, she says, are to make technology humane and to make the most of the opportunities afforded by life in the United States. The two goals have fueled her journey from a childhood living under a dictatorship in Romania to the forefront of global robotics research.Rus, who is director of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), is the recipient of this year’s IEEE Edison Medal, which recognizes her for “sustained leadership and pioneering contributions in modern robotics.”An IEEE Fellow, she describes the recognition as a responsibility to further her work and mentor the next generation of roboticists entering the field.The Edison Medal is the latest in a string of honors she has received. In 2017 she won an Engelberger Robotics Award from the Robotic Industries Association. The following year, she was honored with the Pioneer in Robotics and Automation Award by the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society. The society recognized her again in 2023 with its IEEE Robotics and Automation Technical Field Award.From Romania to Iowa Rus was born in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, during the rule of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. Her early life unfolded in a world defined by scarcity—rationed food, intermittent electricity, and a limited ability to move up or out. But she recalls that, amid the stifling insufficiencies, she was surrounded by an irrepressible warmth and intellectual curiosity—even when she was making locomotive screws in a state-run factory as part of her school’s curriculum.“Life was hard,” she says, “but we had great teachers and strong communities. As a child, you adapt to whatever is around you.”Her father, Teodor, was a computer scientist and professor, and her mother, Elena, was a physicist.In 1982, when she was 19, Rus’s father emigrated to the United States to join the faculty at the University of Iowa, in Iowa City. It was an act of courage and conviction. Within a year, Daniela and her mother joined him there.“He wanted the freedom to think, to publish, to explore ideas,” Rus says. “And I reaped the benefits of being free from the limitations of our homeland.”America’s open horizons were intoxicating, she says.A lecture that changed everythingRus decided to pursue a degree at her father’s university, where her life changed direction, she says. One afternoon, John Hopcroft—a Turing Award–winning Cornell computer scientist renowned for his work on algorithms and data structures—gave a talk on campus. His message was simple but electrifying, Rus says: Classical computer science had been solved. The next frontier, Hopcroft declared, was computations that interact with the messy physical world.For Rus, the idea was a revelation.“It was as if a door had opened,” she says. “I realized the future of computing wasn’t just about logic and code; it was about how machines can perceive, move, and help us in the real world.”After the lecture, she introduced herself to Hopcroft and told him she wanted to learn from him. Not long after earning her bachelor’s degree in computer science and mathematics in 1985, she applied to get a master’s degree at Cornell, where Hopcroft became her graduate advisor. Rus developed algorithms there for dexterous robotic manipulation—teaching machines to grasp and move objects with precision. She earned her master’s in computer science in 1990, then stayed on at Cornell to work toward a doctorate.“I like to think of robotics as a way to give people superpowers. Machines can help us reach farther, think faster, and live fuller lives.”In 1993 she earned her Ph.D. in computer science, then took a position as an assistant professor of computer science at Dartmouth College, in Hanover, N.H. She founded the college’s robotics laboratory and expanded her work into distributed robotics. She developed teams of small robots that cooperated to perform tasks such as ensuring products in warehouses are correctly gathered to fulfill orders, get packaged safely, and are routed to their respective destinations efficiently.Despite a lack of traditional machine shop facilities for fabrication on the Hanover campus, Rus found a way. She pioneered the use of 3D printing to rapidly prototype and build robots.In 2003 she left Dartmouth to become a professor in the electrical engineering and computer science department at MIT.The robotics lab she created at Dartmouth moved with her to MIT and became known as the Distributed Robotics Laboratory (DRL). In 2012 she was named director of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, the school’s largest interdisciplinary lab, with 60 research groups including the DRL. She also continues to serve as the DRL’s principal investigator.The science of physical intelligenceRus now leads pioneering research at the intersection of AI and robotics, a field she calls physical intelligence. It’s “a new form of intelligent machine that can understand dynamic environments, cope with unpredictability, and make decisions in real time,” she says.Her lab builds soft-body robots inspired by nature that can sense, adapt, and learn. They are AI-driven systems that passively handle tasks—such as self-balancing and complex articulation similar to that done by the human hand—because their shape and materials minimize the need for heavy processing.Such machines, she says, someday will be able to navigate different environments, perform useful functions without external control, and even recover from disturbances to their route planning. Researchers also are exploring ways to make them more energy-efficient.One prototype developed by Rus’s team is designed to retrieve foreign objects from the body, including batteries swallowed by children. The ingestible robots are artfully folded, similar to origami, so they are small enough to be swallowed. Embedded magnetic materials allow doctors to steer the soft robots and control their shape. Upon arriving in the stomach, a soft bot can be programmed to wrap around a foreign object and guide it safely out of the patient’s body.CSAIL researchers also are working on small robots that can carry a medication and release it at a specific area within the digestive tract, bypassing the stomach acid known to diminish some drugs’ efficacy. Ingestible robots also could patch up internal injuries or ulcers. And because they’re made from digestible materials such as sausage casings and biocompatible polymers, the robots can perform their assigned tasks and then get safely absorbed by the body, she says.Health care isn’t the only application on the horizon for such AI-driven technologies. Robots with physical intelligence might someday help firefighters locate people trapped in burning buildings, find miners after a cave-in, and provide valuable situational awareness information to emergency response teams in the aftermath of natural disasters, Rus says.“What excites me is the possibility of giving people new powers,” she says. “Machines that can think and move safely in the physical world will let us extend human reach—at work, at home, in medicine … everywhere.”To make such a vision a reality, she has expanded her technical interests to include several complementary lines of research.She’s working on self-reconfiguring and modular robots such as MIT’s M-Blocks and NASA’s SuperBots, which can attach, detach, and rearrange themselves to form shapes suited for different actions such as slithering, climbing, and crawling.With networked robots—including those Amazon uses in its warehouses—thousands of machines can operate as a large adaptive system. The machines communicate continuously to divide tasks, avoid collisions, and optimize package routing.Rus’s team also is making advances in human-robot interaction, such as reading brainwave activity and interpreting sign language through a smart glove.To further her plan of putting all the computerized smarts the robots need within their physical bodies instead of in the cloud, she helped found Liquid AI in 2023. The company, based in Cambridge, Mass., develops liquid neural networks, inspired by the simple brains of worms, that can learn and adapt continuously. The word liquid in this case refers to the adaptability, flexibility, and dynamic nature of the team’s model architecture. It can change shape and adapt to new data inputs, and it fits within constraints imposed by the hardware in which it’s contained, she says.Finding community in IEEERus joined IEEE at one of its robotics conferences when she was a graduate student.“I think I signed up just to get the student discount,” she says with a laugh. “But IEEE turned out to be the place where my community lived.”She credits the organization’s conferences, journals, and collaborative spirit with shaping her professional growth.“The exchange of ideas, the chance to test your thinking against others—it’s invaluable,” she says. “It’s how our field moves forward.”Rus continues to serve on IEEE panels and committees, mentoring the next generation of roboticists.“IEEE gave me a platform,” Rus says. “It taught me how to communicate, how to lead, and how to dream bigger.”Living the American dreamLooking back, Rus sees her story as a testament to unforeseen possibilities.“When I was growing up in Romania, I couldn’t even imagine living in America,” she says. “Now I’m here, working with brilliant students, building robots that help people, and trying to make a difference. I feel like I’m living the American dream.”In a nod to a memorable song from the Broadway musical Hamilton, Rus echoes Alexander Hamilton’s determination to make the most of his opportunities, saying, “I don’t ever want to throw away my shot.”

Microsoft’s Attempts to Sell AI Agents Are Turning Into a Disaster  ( 03.12.2025 17:01:55 futurism.com)
Yikes. The post Microsoft’s Attempts to Sell AI Agents Are Turning Into a Disaster appeared first on Futurism.

Nearby Residents Say Elon Musk’s Gigantic Supercomputer Is Making Them Sick  ( 03.12.2025 16:29:57 futurism.com)
"We have to put our lungs up in exchange for profit." The post Nearby Residents Say Elon Musk’s Gigantic Supercomputer Is Making Them Sick appeared first on Futurism.

'An extreme end of human genetic variation': Ancient humans were isolated in southern Africa for nearly 100,000 years, and their genetics are stunningly different  ( 03.12.2025 16:00:00 livescience.com)
Ancient genomes from southern Africa show that people evolved in isolation for upward of 100,000 years.

When to Leave a Toxic Team  ( 03.12.2025 15:50:50 spectrum.ieee.org)
This article is crossposted from IEEE Spectrum’s careers newsletter. Sign up now to get insider tips, expert advice, and practical strategies, written in partnership with tech career development company Taro and delivered to your inbox for free!A word that frequently comes up in career conversations is, unfortunately, “toxic.” The engineers I speak with will tell me that they’re dealing with a toxic manager, a toxic teammate, or a toxic work culture. When you find yourself in a toxic work environment, what should you do?Is it worth trying to improve things over time, or should you just leave? The difficult truth is that, in nearly every case, the answer is to leave a toxic team as soon as you can. Here’s why:If you’re earlier in your career, you frankly don’t have much political power in the organization. Any arguments to change team culture or address systemic problems will likely fall on deaf ears. You’ll end up frustrated, and your efforts will be wasted.If you’re more senior, you have some ability to improve processes and relationships on the team. However, if you’re an individual contributor (IC), your capabilities are still limited. There is likely some “low-hanging fruit” of quick improvements to suggest. A few thoughtful pieces of feedback could address many of the problems. If you’ve done that and things are still not getting better, it’s probably time to leave.If you’re part of upper management, you may have inherited the problem, or maybe you were even brought in to solve it. This is the rare case where you could consider the change scenario and address the broken culture: You have both the context and power to make a difference.The world of technology is large, and constantly getting larger. Don’t waste your time on a bad team or with a bad manager. Find another team, company, or start something on your own.Engineers often hesitate to leave a poor work environment because they’re afraid or unsure about the process of finding something new. That’s a valid concern. However, inertia should not be the reason you stick around in a job. The best careers stem from the excitement of actively choosing your work, not tolerating toxicity.Finally, it’s worth noting that even in a toxic team, you’ll still come across smart and kind people. If you are stuck on a bad team, seek out the people who match your wavelength. These relationships will enable you to find new opportunities when you inevitably decide to leave!—RahulIEEE Podcast Focuses on Women in TechAre you looking for a new podcast to add to your queue? IEEE Women in Engineering recently launched a podcast featuring experts from around the world to discuss workplace challenges and amplify the diverse experience of women from various STEM fields. New episodes are released on the third Wednesday of each month. Read more here. How to Think Like an EntrepreneurEntrepreneurship is a skill that can benefit all engineers. The editor in chief of IEEE Engineering Management Review shares his tips for acting more like an entrepreneur, from changing your mode of thinking to executing a plan. “The shift from ‘someone should’ to ‘I will’ is the start of entrepreneurial thinking,” the author writes. Read more here. Cultivating Innovation in a Research LabIn a piece for Communications of the ACM, a former employee of Xerox PARC reflects on the lessons he learned about managing a research lab. The philosophies that underpin innovative labs, the author says, require a different approach than those focused on delivering products or services. See how these unwritten rules can help cultivate breakthroughs. Read more here.

China has planted so many trees it's changed the entire country's water distribution  ( 03.12.2025 15:36:50 livescience.com)
Huge "regreening" efforts in China over the past few decades have activated the country's water cycle and moved water in ways that scientists are just now starting to understand.

OpenAI Says ChatGPT’s Random Suggestion to Shop at Target Is Not an Ad  ( 03.12.2025 15:18:31 futurism.com)
"I honestly thought some of the ads claims were fake, but this is really bad and dumb." The post OpenAI Says ChatGPT’s Random Suggestion to Shop at Target Is Not an Ad appeared first on Futurism.

Death Valley's 'world's hottest temperature' record may be due to a human error  ( 03.12.2025 14:30:13 livescience.com)
A new analysis of July temperatures in Death Valley between 1923 and 2024 suggests the world record near-surface air temperature of 134 F measured in July 1913 may be erroneous.

Children Sob as Waymo Runs Over Dog  ( 03.12.2025 14:05:33 futurism.com)
"Kids were crying. Wife was screaming." The post Children Sob as Waymo Runs Over Dog appeared first on Futurism.

De-Risk the Energy Transition with Hardware-in-the-Loop Testing  ( 03.12.2025 13:50:56 content.knowledgehub.wiley.com)
Learn how hardware-in-the-loop testing validates protection schemes, renewable integration, and HVDC systems before deployment. Download this introduction to real-time power system simulation.In this white paper, you’ll learn:Why phasor-domain simulation can’t capture transient phenomena in inverter-dominated gridsHow real-time EMT simulation enables closed-loop testing with actual hardwareKey components of a hardware-in-the-loop testbedApplications across renewable energy, HVDC systems, microgrids, and protection schemesReal-world examples from multi-terminal HVDC links to traveling wave protectionHow HIL testing reduces risk, accelerates commissioning, and validates multi-vendor interoperabilityDownload this free whitepaper now!

Anthropic’s “Soul Overview” for Claude Has Leaked  ( 03.12.2025 13:02:20 futurism.com)
"We want Claude to have the good values." The post Anthropic’s “Soul Overview” for Claude Has Leaked appeared first on Futurism.

Chinese Man Unleashes Swarm of Flying Swords  ( 03.12.2025 12:09:45 futurism.com)
You gotta see this. The post Chinese Man Unleashes Swarm of Flying Swords appeared first on Futurism.

A Record Number of Spacecraft Have Swarmed the International Space Station  ( 03.12.2025 11:02:47 futurism.com)
Mission Control has its work cut out. The post A Record Number of Spacecraft Have Swarmed the International Space Station appeared first on Futurism.

The Number of People Using AI at Work Is Suddenly Falling  ( 03.12.2025 10:02:51 futurism.com)
Is that good? The post The Number of People Using AI at Work Is Suddenly Falling appeared first on Futurism.

Alarming Research Finds People Hooked on AI Far Are More Likely to Experience Mental Distress  ( 03.12.2025 09:06:49 futurism.com)
The kids are not alright. The post Alarming Research Finds People Hooked on AI Far Are More Likely to Experience Mental Distress appeared first on Futurism.

Capacity Limits in 5G Prompt a 6G Focus on Infrastructure  ( 02.12.2025 21:17:22 spectrum.ieee.org)
When the head of Nokia Bell Labs core research talks about “lessons learned” from 5G, he’s also being candid about the ways in which not everying worked out quite as planned.That candor matters now, too, because Bell Labs core research president Peter Vetter says 6G’s success depends on getting infrastructure right the first time—something 5G didn’t fully do.By 2030, he says, 5G will have exhausted its capacity. Not because some 5G killer app will appear tomorrow, suddenly making everyone’s phones demand 10 or 100 times as much data capacity as they require today. Rather, by the turn of the decade, wireless telecom won’t be centered around just cellphones anymore.AI agents, autonomous cars, drones, IoT nodes, and sensors, sensors, sensors: Everything in a 6G world will potentially need a way on to the network. That means more than anything else in the remaining years before 6G’s anticipated rollout, high-capacity connections behind cell towers are a key game to win. Which brings industry scrutiny, then, to what telecom folks call backhaul—the high-capacity fiber or wireless links that pass data from cell towers toward the internet backbone. It’s the difference between the “local” connection from your phone to a nearby tower and the “trunk” connection that carries millions of signals simultaneously. But the backhaul crisis ahead isn’t just about capacity. It’s also about architecture. 5G was designed around a world where phones dominated, downloading video at higher and higher resolutions. 6G is now shaping up to be something else entirely. This inversion—from 5G’s anticipated downlink deluge to 6G’s uplink resurgence—requires rethinking everything at the core level, practically from scratch.Vetter’s career spans the entire arc of the wireless telecom era—from optical interconnections in the 1990s at Alcatel (a research center pioneering fiber-to-home connections) to his roles at Bell Labs and later Nokia Bell Labs, culminating in 2021 in his current position at the industry’s bellwether institution.In this conversation, held in November at the Brooklyn 6G Summit in New York, Vetter explains what 5G got wrong, what 6G must do differently, and whether these innovations can arrive before telecom’s networks start running out of room.5G’s Expensive MiscalculationIEEE Spectrum: Where is telecom today, halfway between 5G’s rollout and 6G’s anticipated rollout?Peter Vetter: Today, we have enough spectrum and capacity. But going forward, there will not be enough. The 5G network by the end of the decade will run out of steam, as we see in our traffic simulations and forecasts. And it is something that has been consistent generation to generation, from 2G to 3G to 4G. Every decade, capacity goes up by about a factor of 10. So you need to prepare for that.And the challenge for us as researchers is how do you do that in an energy-efficient way? Because the power consumption cannot go up by a factor of 10. The cost cannot go up by a factor of 10. And then, lesson learned from 5G: The idea was, “Oh, we do that in higher spectrum. There is more bandwidth. Let’s go to millimeter wave.” The lesson learned is, okay, millimeter waves have short reach. You need a small cell [tower] every 300 meters or so. And that doesn’t cut it. It was too expensive to install all these small cells.Is this related to the backhaul question?Vetter: So backhaul is the connection between the base station and what we call the core of the network—the data centers, and the servers. Ideally, you use fiber to your base station. If you have that fiber as a service provider, use it. It gives you the highest capacity. But very often new cell sites don’t have that fiber backhaul, then there are alternatives: wireless backhaul. Nokia Bell Labs has pioneered a glass-based chip architecture for telecom’s backhaul signals, communicating between towers and telecom infrastructure.NokiaRadios Built on Glass Push Frequencies HigherWhat are the challenges ahead for wireless backhaul?Vetter: To get up to the 100-gigabit-per-second, fiber-like speeds, you need to go to higher frequency bands.Higher frequency bands for the signals the backhaul antennas use?Vetter: Yes. The challenge is the design of the radio front ends and the radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) at those frequencies. You cannot really integrate [present-day] antennas with RFICs at those high speeds.And what happens as those signal frequencies get higher?Vetter: So in a millimeter wave, say 28 gigahertz, you could still do [the electronics and waveguides] for this with a classical printed circuit board. But as the frequencies go up, the attenuation gets too high.What happens when you get to, say, 100 GHz?Vetter: [Conventional materials] are no good anymore. So we need to look at other still low-cost materials. We have done pioneering work at Bell Labs on radio on glass. And we use glass not for its optical transparency, but for its transparency in the subterahertz radio range.Is Nokia Bell Labs making these radio-on-glass backhaul systems for 100-GHz communications?Vetter: Above 100 GHz, you need to look into a different material. I used an order of magnitude, but [the wavelength range] is actually 140 to 170 GHz, what is called the D-Band.We collaborate with our internal customers to get these kind of concepts on the long-term road map. As an example, that D-Band radio system, we actually integrated it in a prototype with our mobile business group. And we tested it last year at the Olympics in Paris.But this is, as I said, a prototype. We need to mature the technology between a research prototype and qualifying it to go into production. The researcher on that is Shahriar Shahramian. He’s well-known in the field for this.Why 6G’s Bandwidth Crisis Isn’t About PhonesWhat will be the applications that’ll drive the big 6G demands for bandwidth?Vetter: We’re installing more and more cameras and other types of sensors. I mean, we’re going into a world where we want to create large world models that are synchronous copies of the physical world. So what we will see going forward in 6G is a massive-scale deployment of sensors which will feed the AI models. So a lot of uplink capacity. That’s where a lot of that increase will come from.Any others?Vetter: Autonomous cars could be an example. It can also be in industry—like a digital twin of a harbor, and how you manage that? It can be a digital twin of a warehouse, and you query the digital twin, “Where is my product X?” Then a robot will automatically know thanks to the updated digital twin where it is in the warehouse and which route to take. Because it knows where the obstacles are in real time, thanks to that massive-scale sensing of the physical world and then the interpretation with the AI models.You will have your agents that act on behalf of you to do your groceries or order a driverless car. They will actively record where you are, make sure that there are also the proper privacy measures in place. So that your agent has an understanding of the state you’re in and can serve you in the most optimal way.How 6G Networks Will Help Detect Drones, Earthquakes, and TsunamisYou’ve described before how 6G signals can not only transmit data but also provide sensing. How will that work?Vetter: The augmentation now is that the network can be turned also in a sensing modality. That if you turn around the corner, a camera doesn’t see you anymore. But the radio still can detect people that are coming, for instance, at a traffic crossing. And you can anticipate that. Yeah, warn a car that, “There’s a pedestrian coming. Slow down.” We also have fiber sensing. And for instance, using fibers at the bottom of the ocean and detecting movements of waves and detect tsunamis, for instance, and do an early tsunami warning.What are your teams’ findings?Vetter: The present-day use of tsunami warning buoys are a few hundred kilometers offshore. These tsunami waves travel at 300 and more meters per second, and so you only have 15 minutes to warn the people and evacuate. If you have now a fiber sensing network across the ocean that you can detect it much deeper in the ocean, you can do meaningful early tsunami warning.We recently detected there was a major earthquake in East Russia. That was last July. And we had a fiber sensing system between Hawaii and California. And we were able to see that earthquake on the fiber. And we also saw the development of the tsunami wave.6G’s Thousands of Antennas and Smarter WaveformsBell Labs was an early pioneer in multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) antennas starting in the 1990s. Where multiple transmit and receive antennas could carry many data streams at once. What is Bell Labs doing with MIMO now to help solve these bandwidth problems you’ve described?Vetter: So, as I said earlier, you want to provide capacity from existing cell sites. And the way to MIMO can do that by a technology called a simplified beamforming: If you want better coverage at a higher frequency, you need to focus your electromagnetic energy, your radio energy, even more. So in order to do that, you need a larger amount of antennas.So if you double the frequency, we go from 3.5 GHz, which is the C-band in 5G, now to 6G, 7 GHz. So it’s about double. That means the wavelength is half. So you can fit four times more antenna elements in the same form factor. So physics helps us in that sense.What’s the catch?Vetter: Where physics doesn’t help us is more antenna elements means more signal processing, and the power consumption goes up. So here is where the research then comes in. Can we creatively get to these larger antenna arrays without the power consumption going up?The use of AI is important in this. How can we leverage AI to do channel estimation, to do such things as equalization, to do smart beamforming, to learn the waveform, for instance?We’ve shown that with these kind of AI techniques, we can get actually up to 30 percent more capacity on the same spectrum.And that allows many gigabits per second to go out to each phone or device?Vetter: So gigabits per second is already possible in 5G. We’ve demonstrated that. You can imagine that this could go up, but that’s not really the need. The need is really how many more can you support from a base station?

Gamers Say There’s AI Slop in the New Season of Fortnite  ( 02.12.2025 17:06:31 futurism.com)
"A billion-dollar company should have no problem supporting real artists for real art." The post Gamers Say There’s AI Slop in the New Season of Fortnite appeared first on Futurism.

3I/ATLAS Appears to Be Erupting in Ice Volcanos  ( 02.12.2025 16:23:45 futurism.com)
Okay, that's pretty cool. The post 3I/ATLAS Appears to Be Erupting in Ice Volcanos appeared first on Futurism.

Amazon Quietly Pulls Disastrous AI Dubs For Popular Anime After Outcry  ( 02.12.2025 15:23:51 futurism.com)
Who thought this was a good idea? The post Amazon Quietly Pulls Disastrous AI Dubs For Popular Anime After Outcry appeared first on Futurism.

Something Grim Is Happening to Kids Who Got Cell Phones Early  ( 02.12.2025 14:14:35 futurism.com)
"When you give your kid a phone, you need to think of it as something that is significant for the kid's health." The post Something Grim Is Happening to Kids Who Got Cell Phones Early appeared first on Futurism.

New App Lets Users Bet on Deadly Conflicts in Real Time  ( 02.12.2025 13:08:19 futurism.com)
"The only way to monitor the situation." The post New App Lets Users Bet on Deadly Conflicts in Real Time appeared first on Futurism.

NASA Responds to Russia Accidentally Blowing Up Its Only Astronaut Launch Facility  ( 02.12.2025 12:22:38 futurism.com)
Luckily, nobody was harmed. The post NASA Responds to Russia Accidentally Blowing Up Its Only Astronaut Launch Facility appeared first on Futurism.

Sam Altman Is Suddenly Terrified  ( 02.12.2025 11:09:04 futurism.com)
He just declared a "code red." The post Sam Altman Is Suddenly Terrified appeared first on Futurism.

Man Realizes He Can Feed Poison Pills to Facebook AI Slop Page, Driving Its Followers Berserk  ( 02.12.2025 10:12:39 futurism.com)
"What kinda word salad is this?" The post Man Realizes He Can Feed Poison Pills to Facebook AI Slop Page, Driving Its Followers Berserk appeared first on Futurism.

This Peek Under an Antarctic Base Is Absolutely Wild  ( 02.12.2025 09:04:27 futurism.com)
It's an incredible feat of engineering. The post This Peek Under an Antarctic Base Is Absolutely Wild appeared first on Futurism.

Why We Keep Making the Same Software Mistakes  ( 01.12.2025 19:52:15 spectrum.ieee.org)
Talking to Robert N. Charette can be pretty depressing. Charette, who has been writing about software failures for this magazine for the past 20 years, is a renowned risk analyst and systems expert who over the course of a 50-year career has seen more than his share of delusional thinking among IT professionals, government officials, and corporate executives, before, during, and after massive software failures.In 2005’s “Why Software Fails,” in IEEE Spectrum, a seminal article documenting the causes behind large-scale software failures, Charette noted, “The biggest tragedy is that software failure is for the most part predictable and avoidable. Unfortunately, most organizations don’t see preventing failure as an urgent matter, even though that view risks harming the organization and maybe even destroying it. Understanding why this attitude persists is not just an academic exercise; it has tremendous implications for business and society.”Two decades and several trillion wasted dollars later, he finds that people are making the same mistakes. They claim their project is unique, so past lessons don’t apply. They underestimate complexity. Managers come out of the gate with unrealistic budgets and timelines. Testing is inadequate or skipped entirely. Vendor promises that are too good to be true are taken at face value. Newer development approaches like DevOps or AI copilots are implemented without proper training or the organizational change necessary to make the most of them.What’s worse, the huge impacts of these missteps on end users aren’t fully accounted for. When the Canadian government’s Phoenix paycheck system initially failed, for instance, the developers glossed over the protracted financial and emotional distress inflicted on tens of thousands of employees receiving erroneous paychecks; problems persist today, nine years later. Perhaps that’s because, as Charette told me recently, IT project managers don’t have professional licensing requirements and are rarely, if ever, held legally liable for software debacles.While medical devices may seem a far cry from giant IT projects, they have a few things in common. As Special Projects Editor Stephen Cass uncovered in this month’s The Data, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration recalls on average 20 medical devices per month due to software issues.“Software is as significant as electricity. We would never put up with electricity going out every other day, but we sure as hell have no problem having AWS go down.” —Robert N. CharetteLike IT projects, medical devices face fundamental challenges posed by software complexity. Which means that testing, though rigorous and regulated in the medical domain, can’t possibly cover every scenario or every line of code. The major difference between failed medical devices and failed IT projects is that a huge amount of liability attaches to the former.“When you’re building software for medical devices, there are a lot more standards that have to be met and a lot more concern about the consequences of failure,” Charette observes. “Because when those things don’t work, there’s tort law available, which means manufacturers are on the hook. It’s much harder to bring a case and win when you’re talking about an electronic payroll system.”Whether a software failure is hyperlocal, as when a medical device fails inside your body, or spread across an entire region, like when an airline’s ticketing system crashes, organizations need to dig into the root causes and apply those lessons to the next device or IT project if they hope to stop history from repeating itself.“Software is as significant as electricity,” Charette says. “We would never put up with electricity going out every other day, but we sure as hell have no problem accepting AWS going down or telcos or banks going out.” He lets out a heavy sigh worthy of A.A. Milne’s Eeyore. “People just kind of shrug their shoulders.”

IEEE President’s Note: Engineering With Purpose  ( 01.12.2025 19:00:02 spectrum.ieee.org)
Innovation, expertise, and efficiency often take center stage in the engineering world. Yet engineering’s impact lies not only in technical advancement but also in its ability to serve the greater good. This foundational principle is behind IEEE’s public imperative initiatives which apply our efforts and expertise to support our mission to advance technology for humanity with a direct benefit to society. Serving society Public imperative activities and initiatives serve society by promoting understanding, impact for humans and our environment, and responsible use of science and technology. These initiatives encompass a wide range of efforts, including STEM outreach, humanitarian technology deployments, public education on emerging technologies, and sustainability. Unlike many efforts advancing technology, these initiatives are not designed with financial opportunity in mind. Instead, they fulfill IEEE’s designation as a 501(c)(3) public charity engaged in scientific and educational activities for the benefit of the engineering community and the public.Building a Better WorldAcross the globe, IEEE members and volunteers dedicate their time and use their talents, experiences, and expertise to lead, organize, and drive activities to advance technology for humanity. The IEEE Social Impact report showcases a selection of recent projects and initiatives that support that mission.In my March column, I described my vision for One IEEE, which is aimed at empowering IEEE’s diverse units to work together in ways that magnify their individual and collective impact. Within the framework of One IEEE, public imperative activities are not peripheral; they are central to unifying the organization and amplifying our global relevance. Across IEEE’s varied regions, societies, and technical communities, these activities align efforts around a shared mission. They provide our members from different disciplines and geographies the opportunity to collaborate on projects that transcend boundaries, fostering interdisciplinary innovation and global stewardship.Such activities also offer members opportunities to apply their technical expertise in service of societal needs. Whether finding innovative solutions to connect the unconnected or developing open-source educational tools for students, we are solving real-world problems. The initiatives transform abstract technical knowledge into actionable solutions, reinforcing the idea that technology is not just about building systems—it’s about building futures.For our young professionals and students, these activities offer hands-on experiences that connect technical skills with real-world applications, inspiring the next generation to pursue careers in engineering with purpose and passion. These activities also create mentorship opportunities, leadership pathways, and a sense of belonging within the wider IEEE community.Principled tech leaderIn an age when technology influences practically every aspect of life—from health care and energy to communication and transportation—IEEE must, as a leading technical authority, also serve as a socially responsible leader. Public imperative activities include IEEE’s commitment to ethical development, university and pre-university education, and accessible innovation. They help bridge the gap between technical communities and the public, working to ensure that engineering solutions are accessible, equitable, and aligned with societal values.From a strategic standpoint, public imperatives also support IEEE’s long-term sustainability. The organization is redesigning its budget process to emphasize aligning financial resources with mission-driven goals. One of the guiding principles is to publicize IEEE’s public charity status and invest accordingly.That means promoting our public imperatives in funding decisions, integrating them into operational planning, and measuring their outcomes with engineering rigor. By treating these activities as core infrastructure, IEEE ensures that its resources are deployed in ways that maximize public benefit and organizational impact.Public imperatives are vital to the success of One IEEE. They embody the organization’s mission, unify its global membership, and demonstrate the societal relevance of engineering and technology. They offer our members the opportunity to apply their skills in meaningful ways, contribute to public good, and shape the future of technology with integrity.Through our public imperative activities, IEEE is a force for innovation and a driver of meaningful impact.This article appears in the December 2025 print issue as “Engineering With Purpose.”

Grok Appears to Have Doxxed Dave Portnoy’s Home Address  ( 01.12.2025 18:14:53 futurism.com)
Grok is not beating the allegations. The post Grok Appears to Have Doxxed Dave Portnoy’s Home Address appeared first on Futurism.

Grok Says It Would Kill Every Jewish Person on the Planet to Save Elon Musk  ( 01.12.2025 17:18:15 futurism.com)
A "classic trolley problem," according to Grok. The post Grok Says It Would Kill Every Jewish Person on the Planet to Save Elon Musk appeared first on Futurism.

China Is Officially Scared of Robots  ( 01.12.2025 16:11:00 futurism.com)
It's just way too much. The post China Is Officially Scared of Robots appeared first on Futurism.

CEO of Fortnite Maker Furious That Steam Is Labeling Games With AI-Generated Assets  ( 01.12.2025 15:23:20 futurism.com)
Demanding a shred of transparency, apparently, is going too far. The post CEO of Fortnite Maker Furious That Steam Is Labeling Games With AI-Generated Assets appeared first on Futurism.

The Mysterious Interstellar Object Appears to Be Pulsing in a “Heartbeat Pattern”  ( 01.12.2025 13:49:22 futurism.com)
The pattern is repeating every 16 hours. The post The Mysterious Interstellar Object Appears to Be Pulsing in a “Heartbeat Pattern” appeared first on Futurism.

The Next Frontier in AI Isn’t Just More Data  ( 01.12.2025 13:00:02 spectrum.ieee.org)
For the past decade, progress in artificial intelligence has been measured by scale: bigger models, larger datasets, and more compute. That approach delivered astonishing breakthroughs in large language models (LLMs); in just five years, AI has leapt from models like GPT-2, which could hardly mimic coherence, to systems like GPT-5 that can reason and engage in substantive dialogue. And now early prototypes of AI agents that can navigate codebases or browse the web point towards an entirely new frontier.But size alone can only take AI so far. The next leap won’t come from bigger models alone. It will come from combining ever-better data with worlds we build for models to learn in. And the most important question becomes: What do classrooms for AI look like?In the past few months Silicon Valley has placed its bets, with labs investing billions in constructing such classrooms, which are called reinforcement learning (RL) environments. These environments let machines experiment, fail, and improve in realistic digital spaces. AI Training: From Data to ExperienceThe history of modern AI has unfolded in eras, each defined by the kind of data that the models consumed. First came the age of pretraining on internet-scale datasets. This commodity data allowed machines to mimic human language by recognizing statistical patterns. Then came data combined with reinforcement learning from human feedback—a technique that uses crowd workers to grade responses from LLMs—which made AI more useful, responsive, and aligned with human preferences.We have experienced both eras firsthand. Working in the trenches of model data at Scale AI exposed us to what many consider the fundamental problem in AI: ensuring that the training data fueling these models is diverse, accurate, and effective in driving performance gains. Systems trained on clean, structured, expert-labeled data made leaps. Cracking the data problem allowed us to pioneer some of the most critical advancements in LLMs over the past few years.Today, data is still a foundation. It is the raw material from which intelligence is built. But we are entering a new phase where data alone is no longer enough. To unlock the next frontier, we must pair high-quality data with environments that allow limitless interaction, continuous feedback, and learning through action. RL environments don’t replace data; they amplify what data can do by enabling models to apply knowledge, test hypotheses, and refine behaviors in realistic settings.How an RL Environment WorksIn an RL environment, the model learns through a simple loop: it observes the state of the world, takes an action, and receives a reward that indicates whether that action helped accomplish a goal. Over many iterations, the model gradually discovers strategies that lead to better outcomes. The crucial shift is that training becomes interactive—models aren’t just predicting the next token but improving through trial, error, and feedback.For example, language models can already generate code in a simple chat setting. Place them in a live coding environment—where they can ingest context, run their code, debug errors, and refine their solution—and something changes. They shift from advising to autonomously problem-solving.This distinction matters. In a software-driven world, the ability for AI to generate and test production-level code in vast repositories will mark a major change in capability. That leap won’t come solely from larger datasets; it will come from immersive environments where agents can experiment, stumble, and learn through iteration—much like human programmers do. The real world of development is messy: Coders have to deal with underspecified bugs, tangled codebases, vague requirements. Teaching AI to handle that mess is the only way it will ever graduate from producing error-prone attempts to generating consistent and reliable solutions.Can AI Handle the Messy Real World?Navigating the internet is also messy. Pop-ups, login walls, broken links, and outdated information are woven throughout day-to-day browsing workflows. Humans handle these disruptions almost instinctively, but AI can only develop that capability by training in environments that simulate the web’s unpredictability. Agents must learn how to recover from errors, recognize and persist through user-interface obstacles, and complete multi-step workflows across widely used applications.Some of the most important environments aren’t public at all. Governments and enterprises are actively building secure simulations where AI can practice high-stakes decision-making without real-world consequences. Consider disaster relief: It would be unthinkable to deploy an untested agent in a live hurricane response. But in a simulated world of ports, roads, and supply chains, an agent can fail a thousand times and gradually get better at crafting the optimal plan.Every major leap in AI has relied on unseen infrastructure, such as annotators labeling datasets, researchers training reward models, and engineers building scaffoldings for LLMs to use tools and take action. Finding large-volume and high-quality datasets was once the bottleneck in AI, and solving that problem sparked the previous wave of progress. Today, the bottleneck is not data—it’s building RL environments that are rich, realistic, and truly useful.The next phase of AI progress won’t be an accident of scale. It will be the result of combining strong data foundations with interactive environments that teach machines how to act, adapt, and reason across messy real-world scenarios. Coding sandboxes, OS and browser playgrounds, and secure simulations will turn prediction into competence.

OpenAI Preparing to Stuff Ads Into ChatGPT, According to Beta Code in App  ( 01.12.2025 11:19:53 futurism.com)
It was always a matter of time. The post OpenAI Preparing to Stuff Ads Into ChatGPT, According to Beta Code in App appeared first on Futurism.

Severe Accident Destroys Russia’s Ability to Launch Astronauts Into Space  ( 01.12.2025 10:19:34 futurism.com)
The damage is extensive. The post Severe Accident Destroys Russia’s Ability to Launch Astronauts Into Space appeared first on Futurism.

More Than 20 Million Americans’ Work Can Be Replaced with Today’s AI, MIT Study Says  ( 01.12.2025 08:46:00 futurism.com)
"The new American Dream: your company hits all-time highs the same quarter it axes your team." The post More Than 20 Million Americans’ Work Can Be Replaced with Today’s AI, MIT Study Says appeared first on Futurism.

This Toy Electric Stove Was Dangerously Realistic  ( 30.11.2025 13:00:01 spectrum.ieee.org)
Introduced in 1930 by Lionel Corp.—better known for its electric model trains—the fully functional toy stove shown at top had two electric burners and an oven that heated to 260 °C. It came with a set of cookware, including a frying pan, a pot with lid, a muffin tin, a tea kettle, and a wooden potato masher. I would have also expected a spoon, whisk, or spatula, but maybe most girls already had those. Just plug in the toy, and housewives-in-training could mimic their mothers frying eggs, baking muffins, or boiling water for tea.A brief history of toy stovesEven before electrification, cast-iron toy stoves had become popular in the mid-19th century. At first fueled by coal or alcohol and later by oil or gas, these toy stoves were scaled-down working equivalents of the real thing. Girls could use their stoves along with a toy waffle iron or small skillet to whip up breakfast. If that wasn’t enough fun, they could heat up a miniature flatiron and iron their dolls’ clothes. Designed to help girls understand their domestic duties, these toys were the gendered equivalent of their brothers’ toy steam engines. If you’re thinking fossil-fuel-powered “educational toys” are a recipe for disaster, you are correct. Many children suffered serious burns and sometimes death by literally playing with fire. Then again, people in the 1950s thought playing with uranium was safe.When electric toy stoves came on the scene in the 1910s, things didn’t get much safer, as the new entrants also lacked basic safety features. The burners on the 1930 Lionel range, for example, could only be turned off or on, but at least kids weren’t cooking over an open flame. At 86 centimeters tall, the Lionel range was also significantly larger than its more diminutive predecessors. Just the right height for young children to cook standing up. Western Electric’s Junior Electric Range was demonstrated at an expo in 1915 in New York City.The StrongWell before the Lionel stove, the Western Electric Co. had a cohort of girls demonstrating its Junior Electric Range at the Electrical Exposition held in New York City in 1915. The Junior Electric held its own in a display of regular sewing-machine motors, vacuum cleaners, and electric washing machines.The Junior Electric stood about 30 cm tall with six burners and an oven. The electric cord plugged into a light fixture socket. Children played with it while sitting on the floor or as it sat on a table. A visitor to the Expo declared the miniature range “the greatest electrical novelty in years.” Cooking by electricity in any form was still innovative—George A. Hughes had introduced his eponymous electric range just five years earlier. When the Junior Electric came along, less than a third of U.S. households had been wired for electric lights.How electricity turned cooking into a scienceOne reason to give little girls working toy stoves was so they could learn how to differentiate between a hot flame and low heat and get a feel for cooking without burning the food. These are skills that come with experience. Directions like “bake until done in a moderate oven,” a common line in 19th-century recipes, require a lot more tacit knowledge than is needed to, say, throw together a modern boxed brownie mix. The latter comes with detailed instructions and assumes you can control your oven temperature to within a few degrees. That type of precision simply didn’t exist in the 19th century, in large part because it was so difficult to calibrate wood- or coal-burning appliances. Girls needed to start young to master these skills by the time they married and were expected to handle the household cooking on their own.Electricity changed the game.In his comparison of “fireless cookers,” an engineer named Percy Wilcox Gumaer exhaustively tested four different electric ovens and then presented his findings at the 32nd Annual Convention of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers (a forerunner of today’s IEEE) on 2 July 1915. At the time, metered electricity was more expensive than gas or coal, so Gumaer investigated the most economical form of cooking with electricity, comparing different approaches such as longer cooking at low heat versus faster cooking in a hotter oven, the effect of heat loss when opening the oven door, and the benefits of searing meat on the stovetop versus in the oven before making a roast.Gumaer wasn’t starting from scratch. Similar to how Yoshitada Minami needed to learn the ideal rice recipe before he could design an automatic rice cooker, Gumaer decided that he needed to understand the principles of roasting beef. Minami had turned to his wife, Fumiko, who spent five years researching and testing variations of rice cooking. Gumaer turned to the work of Elizabeth C. Sprague, a research assistant in nutrition investigations at the University of Illinois, and H.S. Grindley, a professor of general chemistry there.In their 1907 publication “A Precise Method of Roasting Beef,” Sprague and Grindley had defined qualitative terms like medium rare and well done by precisely measuring the internal temperature in the center of the roast. They concluded that beef could be roasted at an oven temperature between 100 and 200 °C.Continuing that investigation, Gumaer tested 22 roasts at 100, 120, 140, 160, and 180 °C, measuring the time they took to reach rare, medium rare, and well done, and calculating the cost per kilowatt-hour. He repeated his tests for biscuits, bread, and sponge cake.In case you’re wondering, Gumaer determined that cooking with electricity could be a few cents cheaper than other methods if you roasted the beef at 120 °C instead of 180 °C. It’s also more cost-effective to sear beef on the stovetop rather than in the oven. Biscuits tasted best when baked at 200 to 240 °C, while sponge cake was best between 170 and 200 °C. Bread was better at 180 to 240 °C, but too many other factors affected its quality. In true electrical engineering fashion, Gumaer concluded that “it is possible to reduce the art of cooking with electricity to an exact science.”Electric toy stoves as educational toolsThis semester, I’m teaching an introductory class on women’s and gender studies, and I told my students about the Lionel toy oven. They were horrified by the inherent danger. One incredulous student kept asking, “This is real? This is not a joke?” Instead of learning to cook with a toy that could heat to 260 °C, many of us grew up with the Easy-Bake Oven. The 1969 model could reach about 177° C with its two 100-watt incandescent light bulbs. That was still hot enough to cause burns, but somehow it seemed safer. (Since 2011, Easy-Bakes have used a heating element instead of lightbulbs.) The Queasy Bake Cookerator, designed to whip up “gross-looking, great-tasting snacks,” was marketed to boys. The StrongThe Easy-Bake I had wasn’t particularly gendered. It was orange and brown and meant to look like a different new-fangled appliance of the day, the microwave oven. But by the time my students were playing with Easy-Bake Ovens, the models were in the girly hues of pink and purple. In 2002, Hasbro briefly tried to lure boys by releasing the Queasy Bake Cookerator, which the company marketed with disgusting-sounding foods like Chocolate Crud Cake and Mucky Mud. The campaign didn’t work, and the toy was soon withdrawn.Similarly, Lionel’s electric toy range didn’t last long on the market. Launched in 1930, it had been discontinued by 1932, but that may have had more to do with timing. The toy cost US $29.50, the equivalent of a men’s suit, a new bed, or a month’s rent. In the midst of a global depression, the toy stove was an extravagance. Lionel reverted to selling electric trains to boys.My students discussed whether cooking is still a gendered activity. Although they agreed that meal prep disproportionately falls on women even now, they acknowledged the rise of the male chef and credited televised cooking shows with closing the gender gap. As a surprise, we discovered that one of the students in the class, Haley Mattes, competed in and won Chopped Junior as a 12-year-old.Haley had a play kitchen as a kid that was entirely fake: fake food, fake pans, fake utensils. She graduated to the Easy-Bake Oven, but really got into cooking the same way girls have done for centuries, by learning beside her grandmas.Part of a continuing series looking at historical artifacts that embrace the boundless potential of technology.An abridged version of this article appears in the December 2025 print issue as “Too Hot to Handle.”ReferencesI first came across a description of Western Electric’s Junior Electric Range in “The Latest in Current Consuming Devices,” in the November 1915 issue of Electrical Age.The Strong National Museum of Play, in Rochester, N.Y., has a large collection of both cast-iron and electric stoves. The Strong also published two blogs that highlighted Lionel’s toy: “Kids and Cooking” and “Lionel for Ladies?”Although Ron Hollander’s All Aboard! The Story of Joshua Lionel Cowen & His Lionel Train Company (Workman Publishing, 1981) is primarily about toy trains, it includes a few details about how Lionel marketed its electric toy stove to girls.

Video Friday: Disney’s Robotic Olaf Makes His Debut  ( 29.11.2025 16:30:01 spectrum.ieee.org)
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.SOSV Robotics Matchup: 1–5 December 2025, ONLINEICRA 2026: 1–5 June 2026, VIENNAEnjoy today’s videos! Step behind the scenes with Walt Disney Imagineering Research & Development and discover how Disney uses robotics, AI, and immersive technology to bring stories to life! From the brand new self-walking Olaf in World of Frozen and BDX Droids to cutting-edge attractions like Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run, see how magic meets innovation.[ Disney Experiences ]We just released a new demonstration of Mentee’s V3 humanoid robots completing a real world logistics task together. Over an uninterrupted 18-minute run, the robots autonomously move 32 boxes from eight piles to storage racks of different heights. The video shows steady locomotion, dexterous manipulation, and reliable coordination throughout the entire task.And there’s an uncut 18 minute version of this at the link.[ MenteeBot ]Thanks, Yovav!This video contains graphic depictions of simulated injuries. Viewer discretion is advised.In this immersive overview, guided by the DARPA Triage Challenge program manager, retired Army Col. Jeremy C. Pamplin, M.D., you’ll experience how teams of innovators, engineers, and DARPA are redefining the future of combat casualty care. Be sure to look all around! Check out competition runs, behind-the-scenes of what it takes to put on a DARPA Challenge, and glimpses into the future of lifesaving care.Those couple of minutes starting at 6:50 with the human medic and robotic teaming was particularly cool.[ DARPA ]You don’t need to build a humanoid robot if you can just make existing humanoids a lot better.I especially love 0:45 because you know what? Humanoids should spend more time sitting down, for all kinds of reasons. And of course, thank you for falling and getting up again, albeit on some of the squishiest grass on the planet.[ Flexion ]“Human-in-the-Loop Gaussian Splatting” wins best paper title of the week.[ Paper ] via [ IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters in IEEE Xplore ]Scratch that, “Extremum Seeking Controlled Wiggling for Tactile Insertion” wins best paper title of the week.[ University of Maryland PRG ]The battery swapping on this thing is... Unfortunate.[ LimX Dynamics ]To push the boundaries of robotic capability, researchers in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University in collaboration with The University of Washington and Google Deepmind, have developed a new tactile sensing system that enables four-legged robots to carry unsecured, cylindrical objects on their backs. This system, known as LocoTouch, features a network of tactile sensors that spans the robot’s entire back. As an object shifts, the sensors provide real-time feedback on its position, allowing the robot to continuously adjust its posture and movement to keep the object balanced.[ Carnegie Mellon University ]This robot is in more need of googly eyes than any other robot I’ve ever seen.[ Zarrouk Lab ]DPR Construction has deployed Field AI’s autonomy software on a quadruped robot at the company’s job site in Santa Clara, CA, to greatly improve its daily surveying and data collection processes. By automating what has traditionally been a very labor intensive and time consuming process, Field AI is helping the DPR team operate more efficiently and effectively, while increasing project quality.[ FieldAI ]In our second episode of AI in Motion, our host, Waymo AI researcher Vincent Vanhoucke, talks with a robotics startup founder Sergey Levine, who left a career in academic research to build better robots for the home and workplace.[ Waymo ]

The Biggest Causes of Medical Device Recalls  ( 29.11.2025 13:00:02 spectrum.ieee.org)
According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration records, in an average year over 2,500 medical device recalls are issued in the United States. Some of these recalls simply require checking the device for problems, but others require the return or destruction of the device. Once identified, the FDA categorizes the root cause of these recalls into 40 categories, plus a catchall of “other”: situations that include labeling mix-ups, problems with expiration dates, and counterfeiting.What’s shown here is the breakdown of the five biggest problem categories found among the 56,000 entries in the FDA medical-recall database, which stretches back to 2002: device design, process control (meaning an error in the device’s manufacturing process), nonconforming material/component (meaning something does not meet required specifications), software issues, and packaging.Software issues are broken down into six root causes, with software design far and away the biggest problem. The other five are, in order: change control; software design changes; software manufacturing or deployment problems; software design issues in the manufacturing process; and software in the “use environment.” That last one includes cybersecurity issues, or problems with supporting software, such as a smartphone app.This article appears in the December 2025 print issue as “Medical Device Recalls.”

EPICS in IEEE Funds Record-Breaking Number of Student Projects  ( 28.11.2025 19:00:02 spectrum.ieee.org)
The EPICS (Engineering Projects in Community Service) in IEEE initiative had a record year in 2025, funding 48 projects involving nearly 1,000 students from 17 countries. The IEEE Educational Activities program approved the most projects this year, distributing US $290,000 in funding and engaging more students than ever before in innovative, hands-on engineering systems.The program offers students opportunities to engage in service learning and collaborate with engineering professionals and community organizations to develop solutions that address local community challenges. The projects undertaken by IEEE groups encompass student branches, sections, society chapters, and affinity groups including Women in Engineering and Young Professionals.EPICS in IEEE provides funding up to $10,000, along with resources and mentorship, for projects focused on four key areas of community improvement: education and outreach, environment, access and abilities, and human services.This year, EPICS partnered with four IEEE societies and the IEEE Standards Association on 23 of the 48 approved projects. The Antennas and Propagation Society supported three, the Industry Applications Society (IAS) funded nine, the Instrumentation and Measurement Society (IMS) sponsored five, the Robotics and Automation Society supported two, the Solid State Circuits Society (SSCS) provided funding for three, and the IEEE Standards Association sponsored one.The stories of the partner-funded projects demonstrate the impact and the effect the projects have on the students and their communities.Matoruco agroecological gardenThe IAS student branch at the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana in Colombia worked on a project that involved water storage, automated irrigation, and waste management. The goal was to transform the Matoruco agroecological garden at the Institución Educativa Los Garzones into a more lively, sustainable, and accessible space. These EPICS in IEEE team members from the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana in Colombia are configuring a radio communications network that will send data to an online dashboard showing the solar power usage, pump status, and soil moisture for the Matoruco agroecological garden at the Institución Educativa Los Garzones. EPICS in IEEEBy using an irrigation automation system, electric pump control, and soil moisture monitoring, the team aimed to show how engineering concepts combine academic knowledge and practical application. The initiative uses monocrystalline solar panels for power, a programmable logic controller to automatically manage pumps and valves, soil moisture sensors for real-time data, and a LoRa One network (a proprietary radio communication system based on spread spectrum modulation) to send data to an online dashboard showing solar power usage, pump status, and soil moisture.Los Garzones preuniversity students were taught about the irrigation system through hands-on projects, received training on organic waste management from university students, and participated in installation activities. The university team also organizes garden cleanup events to engage younger students with the community garden.“We seek to generate a true sense of belonging by offering students and faculty a gathering place for hands-on learning and shared responsibility,” says Rafael Gustavo Ramos Noriega, the team lead and fourth-year electronics engineering student. “By integrating technical knowledge with fun activities and training sessions, we empower the community to keep the garden alive and continue improving it.“This project has been an unmatched platform for preparing me for a professional career,” he added. “By leading everything from budget planning to the final installation, I have experienced firsthand all the stages of a real engineering project: scope definition, resource management, team coordination, troubleshooting, and delivering tangible results. All of this reinforces my goal of dedicating myself to research and development in automation and embedded systems and contributing innovation in the agricultural and environmental sectors to help more communities and make my mark.”The project received $7,950 from IAS. Students give a tour of the systems they installed at the Matoruco agroecological garden. A smart braille systemMore than 1.5 million individuals in Pakistan are blind, including thousands of children who face barriers to accessing essential learning resources, according to the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness. To address the need for accessible learning tools, a student team from the Mehran University of Engineering and Technology (MUET) and the IEEE Karachi Section created BrailleGenAI: Empowering Braille Learning With Edge AI and Voice Interaction.The interactive system for blind children combines edge artificial intelligence, generative AI, and embedded systems, says Kainat Fizzah Muhammad, a project leader and electrical engineering student at MUET. The system uses a camera to recognize tactile braille blocks and provide real-time audio feedback via text-to-speech technology. It includes gamified modules designed to support literacy, numeracy, logical reasoning, and voice recognition.The team partnered with the Hands Welfare Foundation, a nonprofit in Pakistan that focuses on inclusive education, disability empowerment, and community development. The team collaborated with the Ida Rieu School, part of the Ida Rieu Welfare Association, which serves the visually and hearing impaired.“These partnerships have been instrumental in helping us plan outreach activities, gather input from experts and caregivers, and prepare for usability testing across diverse environments,” says Attiya Baqai, a professor in the MUET electronic engineering department. Support from the Hands foundation ensured the solution was shaped by the real-world needs of the visually impaired community.SSCS provided $9,155 in funding. The student team shows how the smart braille system they developed works. Tackling air pollutionMacedonia’s capital, Skopje, is among Europe’s most polluted cities, particularly in winter, due to thick smog caused by temperature changes, according to the World Health Organization. The WHO reports that the city’s air contains particles that can cause health issues without early warning signs—known as silent killers.A team at Sts. Cyril and Methodius University created a system to measure and publicize local air pollution levels through its What We Breathe project. It aims to raise awareness and improve health outcomes, particularly among the city’s children.“Our goal is to provide people with information on current pollution levels so they can make informed decisions regarding their exposure and take protective measures,” says Andrej Ilievski, an IEEE student member majoring in computer hardware engineering and electronics. “We chose to focus on schools first because children’s lungs and immune systems are still developing, making them one of our population’s most vulnerable demographics.”The project involved 10 university students working with high schools, faculty, and the Society of Environmental Engineers of Macedonia to design and build a sensing and display tool that communicates via the Internet.“By leading everything from budget planning to the final installation, I have experienced firsthand all the stages of a real engineering project: scope definition, resource management, team coordination, troubleshooting, and delivering tangible results.” —Rafael Gustavo Ramos Noriega“Our sensing unit detects particulate matter, temperature, and humidity,” says project leader Josif Kjosev, an electronics professor at the university. “It then transmits that data through a Wi-Fi connection to a public server every 5 minutes, while our display unit retrieves the data from the server.”“Since deploying the system,” Ilievski says, “everyone on the team has been enthusiastic about how well the project connects with their high school audience.”The team says it hopes students will continue to work on new versions of the devices and provide them to other interested schools in the area.“For most of my life, my academic success has been on paper,” Ilievski says. “But thanks to our EPICS in IEEE project, I finally have a real, physical object that I helped create.“We’re grateful for the opportunity to make this project a reality and be part of something bigger.”The project received $8,645 from the IMS. Society partnerships countThanks to partnerships with IEEE societies, EPICS can provide more opportunities to students around the world. The program also includes mentors from societies and travel grants for conferences, enhancing the student experience.The collaborations motivate students to apply technologies in the IEEE societies’ areas of interest to real-world problems, helping them improve their communities and fostering continued engagement with the society and IEEE.You can learn how to get involved with EPICS by visiting its website.

Citizens of Smart Cities Need a Way to Opt Out  ( 28.11.2025 13:00:02 spectrum.ieee.org)
For years, Gwen Shaffer has been leading Long Beach, Calif. residents on “data walks,” pointing out public Wi-Fi routers, security cameras, smart water meters, and parking kiosks. The goal, according to the professor of journalism and public relations at California State University, Long Beach, was to learn how residents felt about the ways in which their city collected data on them.Gwen ShafferGwen Shaffer is a professor of journalism and public relations at California State University, Long Beach. She is the principal investigator on a National Science Foundation–funded project aimed at providing Long Beach residents with greater agency over the personal data their city collects.She also identified a critical gap in smart city design today: While cities may disclose how they collect data, they rarely offer ways to opt out. Shaffer spoke with IEEE Spectrum about the experience of leading data walks, and about her research team’s efforts to give citizens more control over the data collected by public technologies.What was the inspiration for your data walks?Gwen Shaffer: I began facilitating data walks in 2021. I was studying residents’ comfort levels with city-deployed technologies that collect personally identifiable information. My first career as a political reporter has influenced my research approach. I feel strongly about conducting applied rather than theoretical research. And I always go into a study with the goal of helping to solve a real-world challenge and inform policy.How did you organize the walks?Shaffer: We posted data privacy labels with a QR code that residents can scan and find out how their data are being used. Downtown, they’re in Spanish and English. In Cambodia Town, we did them in Khmer and English.What happened during the walks?Shaffer: I’ll give you one example. In a couple of the city-owned parking garages, there are automated license-plate readers at the entrance. So when I did the data walks, I talked to our participants about how they feel about those scanners. Because once they have your license plate, if you’ve parked for fewer than two hours, you can breeze right through. You don’t owe money.Responses were contextual and sometimes contradictory. There were residents who said, “Oh, yeah. That’s so convenient. It’s a time saver.” So I think that shows how residents are willing to make trade-offs. Intellectually, they hate the idea of the privacy violation, but they also love convenience.What surprised you most?Shaffer: One of the participants said, “When I go to the airport, I can opt out of the facial scan and still be able to get on the airplane. But if I want to participate in so many activities in the city and not have my data collected, there’s no option.”There was a cyberattack against the city in November 2023. Even though we didn’t have a prompt asking about it, people brought it up on their own in almost every focus group. One said, “I would never connect to public Wi-Fi, especially after the city of Long Beach’s site was hacked.”What is the app your team is developing?Shaffer: Residents want agency. So that’s what led my research team to connect with privacy engineers at Carnegie Mellon University, in Pittsburgh. Norman Sadeh and his team had developed what they called the IoT Assistant. So I told them about our project, and proposed adapting their app for city-deployed technologies. Our plan is to give residents the opportunity to exercise their rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act with this app. So they could say, “Passport Parking app, delete all the data you’ve already collected on me. And don’t collect any more in the future.”This article appears in the December 2025 print issue as “Gwen Shaffer.”

3 Weird Things You Can Turn Into a Memristor  ( 27.11.2025 15:00:01 spectrum.ieee.org)
From the honey in your tea to the blood in your veins, materials all around you have a hidden talent. Some of these substances, when engineered in specific ways, can act as memristors—electrical components that can “remember” past states. Memristors are often used in chips that both perform computations and store data. They are devices that store data as particular levels of resistance. Today, they are constructed as a thin layer of titanium dioxide or similar dielectric material sandwiched between two metal electrodes. Applying enough voltage to the device causes tiny regions in the dielectric layer—where oxygen atoms are missing—to form filaments that bridge the electrodes or otherwise move in a way that makes the layer more conductive. Reversing the voltage undoes the process. Thus, the process essentially gives the memristor a memory of past electrical activity.Last month, while exploring the electrical properties of fungi, a group at The Ohio State University found first-hand that some organic memristors have benefits beyond those made with conventional materials. Not only can shiitake act as a memristor, for example, but it may be useful in aerospace or medical applications because the fungus demonstrates high levels of radiation resistance. The project “really mushroomed into something cool,” lead researcher John LaRocco says with a smirk.Researchers have learned that other unexpected materials may give memristors an edge. They may be more flexible than typical memristors or even biodegradable. Here’s how they’ve made memristors from strange materials, and the potential benefits these odd devices could bring:MushroomsLaRocco and his colleagues were searching for a proxy for brain circuitry to use in electrical stimulation research when they stumbled upon something interesting—shiitake mushrooms are capable of learning in a way that’s similar to memristors.The group set out to evaluate just how well shiitake can remember electrical states by first cultivating nine samples and curating optimal growing conditions, including feeding them a mix of farro, wheat, and hay.Once fully matured, the mushrooms were dried and rehydrated to a level that made them moderately conductive. In this state, the fungi’s structure includes conductive pathways that emulate the oxygen vacancies in commercial memristors. The scientists plugged them into circuits and put them through voltage, frequency, and memory tests. The result? Mushroom memristors.It may smell “kind of funny,” LaRocco says, but shiitake performs surprisingly well when compared to conventional memristors. Around 90 percent of the time, the fungus maintains ideal memristor-like behavior for signals up to 5.85 kilohertz. While traditional materials can function at frequencies orders of magnitude faster, these numbers are notable for biological materials, he says. What fungi lack in performance, they may make up for in other properties. For one, many mushrooms—including shiitake—are highly resistant to radiation and other environmental dangers. “They’re growing in logs in Fukushima and a lot of very rough parts of the world, so that’s one of the appeals,” LaRocco says.Shiitake are also an environmentally-friendly option that’s already commercialized. “They’re already cultured in large quantities,” LaRocco explains. “One could simply leverage existing logistics chains” if the industry wanted to commercialize mushroom memristors. The use cases for this product would be niche, he thinks, and would center around the radiation resistance that shiitake boasts. Mushroom GPUs are unlikely, LaRocco says, but he sees potential for aerospace and medical applications.HoneyIn 2022, engineers at Washington State University interested in green electronics set out to study if honey could serve as a good memristor. “Modern electronics generate 50 million tons of e-waste annually, with only about 20 percent recycled,” says Feng Zhao, who led the work and is now at Missouri University of Science and Technology. “Honey offers a biodegradable alternative.”The researchers first blended commercial honey with water and stored it in a vacuum to remove air bubbles. They then spread the mixture on a piece of copper, baked the whole stack at 90 °C for nine hours to stabilize it, and, finally, capped it with circular copper electrodes on top—completing the honey-based memristor sandwich.The resulting 2.5-micrometer-thick honey layer acted like oxide dielectric in conventional memristors: a place for conductive pathways to form and dissolve, changing resistance with voltage. In this setup, when voltage is applied, copper filaments extend through the honey.The honey-based memristor was able to switch from low to high resistance in 500 nanoseconds and back to low in 100 nanoseconds, which is comparable to speeds in some non-food-based memristive materials. One advantage of honey is that it’s “cheap and widely available, making it an attractive candidate for scalable fabrication,” Zhao says. It’s also “fully biodegradable and dissolves in water, showing zero toxic waste.” In the 2022 paper, though, the researchers note that for a honey-based device to be truly biodegradable, the copper components would need to be replaced with dissolvable metals. They suggest options like magnesium and tungsten, but also write that the performance of memristors made from these metals is still “under investigation.”BloodConsidering it a potential means of delivering healthcare, a group in India wondered if blood would make a good memristor in 2011, just three years after the first memristor was built.The experiments were pretty simple. The researchers filled a test tube with fresh, type O+ human blood and inserted two conducting wire probes. The wires were connected with a power supply, creating a complete circuit, and voltages of one, two, and three volts were applied in repeated steps. Then, to test the memristor-qualities of blood as it exists in the human body, the researchers set up a “flow mode” that applied voltage to the blood as it flowed from a tube at up to one drop per second.The experiments were preliminary and only measured current passing through the blood, but resistance could be set by applying voltage. Crucially, resistance changed by less than 10 percent in the 30 minute period after voltage was applied. In the International Journal of Medical Engineering and Informatics, the scientists wrote that, because of these observations, their contraption “looks like a human blood memristor.”They suggested that this knowledge could be useful in treating illness. Sick people may have ion imbalances in certain parts of their bodies—instead of prescribing medication, why not employ a circuit component made of human tissue to solve the problem? In recent years, blood-based memristors have been tested by other scientists as means to treat conditions ranging from high blood sugar to nearsightedness.

For This Engineer, Taking Deep Dives Is Part of the Job  ( 27.11.2025 13:00:02 spectrum.ieee.org)
Early in Levi Unema’s career as an electrical engineer, he was presented with an unusual opportunity. While working on assembly lines at an automotive parts supplier in 2015, he got a surprise call from his high-school science teacher that set him off on an entirely new path: piloting underwater robots to explore the ocean’s deepest abysses.That call came from Harlan Kredit, a nationally renowned science teacher and board member of a Rhode Island-based nonprofit called the Global Foundation for Ocean Exploration (GFOE). The organization was looking for an electrical engineer to help design, build, and pilot remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) for the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.Levi UnemaEmployerDeep Exploration SolutionsOccupationROV engineerEducation Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, Michigan Technological UniversityThis was an exciting break for Unema, a Washington state native who had grown up tinkering with electronics and exploring the outdoors. Unema joined the team in early 2016 and has since helped develop and operate deep-sea robots for scientific expeditions around the globe.The GFOE’s contract with NOAA expired in July, forcing the engineering team to disband. But soon after, Unema teamed up with four former colleagues to start their own ROV consultancy, called Deep Exploration Solutions, to continue the work he’s so passionate about.“I love the exploration and just seeing new things every day,” he says. “And the engineering challenges that go along with it are really exciting, because there’s a lot of pressure down there and a lot of technical problems to solve.”Nature and TechnologyUnema’s fascination with electronics started early. Growing up in Lynden, Wash., he took apart radios, modified headphones, and hacked together USB chargers from AA batteries. “I’ve always had to know how things work,” he says. He was also a Boy Scout, and much of his youth was spent hiking, camping, and snowboarding.That love of both technology and nature can be traced back, at least in part, to his parents—his father was a civil engineer, and his mother was a high-school biology teacher. But another major influence growing up was Kredit, the science teacher who went on to recruit him. (Kredit was also a colleague of Unema’s mother.)Kredit has won numerous awards for his work as an educator, including the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science Teaching in 2004. Like Unema, he also shares a love for the outdoors as Yellowstone National Park’s longest-serving park ranger. “He was an excellent science teacher, very inspiring,” says Unema.When Unema graduated high school in 2010, he decided to enroll at his father’s alma mater, Michigan Technological University, to study engineering. He was initially unsure what discipline to follow and signed up for the general engineering course, but he quickly settled on electrical engineering.A summer internship at a steel mill run by the multinational corporation ArcelorMittal introduced Unema to factory automation and assembly lines. After graduating in 2014 he took a job at Gentex Corp. in Zeeland, Mich., where he worked on manufacturing systems and industrial robotics.Diving Into Underwater RoboticsIn late 2015, he got the call from Kredit asking if he’d be interested in working on underwater robots for GFOE. The role involved not just engineering these systems, but also piloting them. Taking the plunge was a difficult choice, says Unema, as he’d just been promoted at Gentex. But the promise of travel combined with the novel engineering challenges made it too good an opportunity to turn down.Building technology that can withstand the crushing pressure at the bottom of the ocean is tough, he says, and you have to make trade-offs between weight, size, and cost. Everything has to be waterproof, and electronics have to be carefully isolated to prevent them from grounding on the ocean floor. Some components are pressure-tolerant, but most must be stored in pressurized titanium flasks, so the components must be extremely small to minimize the size of the metallic housing. Unema conducts predive checks from the Okeanos Explorer’s control room. Once the ROV is launched, scientists will watch the camera feeds and advise his team where to direct the vehicle.Art Howard“You’re working very closely with the mechanical engineer to fit the electronics in a really small space,” he says. “The smaller the cylinder is, the cheaper it is, but also the less mass on the vehicle. Every bit of mass means more buoyancy is required, so you want to keep things small, keep things light.”Communications are another challenge. The ROVs rely on several kilometers of cable containing just three single-mode optical fibers. “All the communication needs to come together and then go up one cable,” Unema says. “And every year new instruments consume more data.”He works exclusively on ROVs that are custom made for scientific research, which require smoother control and considerably more electronics and instrumentation than the heavier-duty vehicles used by the oil and gas industry. “The science ones are all hand-built, they’re all quirky,” he says.Unema’s role spans the full life cycle of an ROV’s design, construction, and operation. He primarily spends winters upgrading and maintaining vehicles and summers piloting them on expeditions. At GFOE, he mainly worked on two ROVs for NOAA called Deep Discoverer and Seirios, which operate from the ship Okeanos Explorer. But he has also piloted ROVs for other organizations over the years, including the Schmidt Ocean Institute and the Ocean Exploration Trust.Unema’s new consultancy, Deep Exploration Solutions, has been given a contract to do the winter maintenance on the NOAA ROVs, and the firm is now on the lookout for more ROV design and upgrade work, as well as piloting jobs.An Engineer’s Life at SeaOn expeditions, Unema is responsible for driving the robot. He follows instructions from a science team that watches the ROV’s video feed to identify things like corals, sponges, or deepwater creatures that they’d like to investigate in more detail. Sometimes he will also operate hydraulic arms to sample particularly interesting finds.In general, the missions are aimed at discovering new species and mapping the range of known ones, says Unema. “There’s a lot of the bottom of the ocean where we don’t know anything about it,” he says. “Basically every expedition there’s some new species.”This involves being at sea for weeks at a time. Unema says that life aboard ships can be challenging—many new crew members get seasick, and you spend almost a month living in close quarters with people you’ve often never met before. But he enjoys the opportunity to meet colleagues from a wide variety of backgrounds who are all deeply enthusiastic about the mission.“It’s like when you go to scout camp or summer camp,” he says. “You’re all meeting new people. Everyone’s really excited to be there. We don’t know what we’re going to find.”Unema also relishes the challenge of solving engineering problems with the limited resources available on the ship. “We’re going out to the middle of the Pacific,” he says. “Things break, and you’ve got to fix them with what you have out there.”If that sounds more exciting than daunting, and you’re interested in working with ROVs, Unema’s main advice is to talk to engineers in the field. It’s a small but friendly community, he says, so just do your research to see what opportunities are available. Some groups, such as the Ocean Exploration Trust, also operate internships for college students to help them get experience in the field.And Unema says there are very few careers quite like it. “I love it because I get to do all aspects of engineering—from idea to operations,” he says. “To be able to take something I worked on and use it in the field is really rewarding.”This article appears in the December 2025 print issue as “Levi Unema.”


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Phalaenopsis se během posledních dekád proměnil z raritní orchideje v celosvětový fenomén a nejprodávanější hrnkovou rostlinu. Z luxusní řezané orchideje se Phalaenopsis  (česky můrovec)vyvinul v dostupnou a mimořádně oblíbenou hrnkovou rostlinu, která dnes dominuje…

Jak správně zazimovat růže: praktické rady pro bezpečnou zimu  ( 04.12.2025 05:04:06 izahradkar.cz)
Zimní mrazy dokáží růže snadno poškodit. Správný způsob jak zazimovat růže je proto zásadní. První mrazy už máme za sebou, ale je pravděpodobné, že přijdou další, a v takové síle, že by mohly…

Jak zařídit, aby Barborky na Vánoce skutečně vykvetly?  ( 03.12.2025 05:04:05 izahradkar.cz)
Každý rok řešíme totéž: jednou Barborky vykvetou, jindy ani náznak. Kdy větvičky správně řezat (4. prosince) a jak jim dopřát teplotní šok? Existuje pár jednoduchých kroků, které dokážou udělat (doslova) zázrak. Přečtěte si…

Zimní ochrana rostlin: ne před mrazem, ale před vodou  ( 02.12.2025 07:25:10 izahradkar.cz)
Mnohé skalničky a suchomilné rostliny zvládnou i tuhé mrazy, přesto během zimy často odumírají. Problémem nebývá chlad, ale přebytečná vlhkost způsobená oblevami, deštěm a tajícím sněhem. Právě teď, v prosinci, je ideální čas…

PermaTalks – rozhovory v angličtině  ( 01.12.2025 15:56:04 permakulturacs.cz)
PermaTalks (PermaPuheet), is organized by the European Permaculture Network (EuPN) – network that weaves connections across Europe – linking people, projects, and places in the spirit of collaboration and care. Through shared tools and stories, we grow a living network that supports learning, action, and regeneration. You can join for free and add your place/project. […] The post PermaTalks – rozhovory v angličtině first appeared on Permakultura (CS).

Adventní hrátky  ( 01.12.2025 05:04:34 izahradkar.cz)
Dlouhé večery adventu a Vánoc přímo vybízejí ke zdobení domova, tvoření, vaření dobrot i k setkávání s přáteli. Právě v této době si můžeme dopřát malé „čarování“ s přírodou, vůněmi a chutěmi, které…


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Ustojí konzervativní hnutí generační vzpouru jurodivých extrémistů?  ( 11.12.2025 04:00:48 konzervativninoviny.cz)
Konzervativní establishment Západu a jeho elity si musí konečně uvědomit, že vzestup disidentských, polemických, a všelijak obhroublých hlasů na pravici je nejen generační vzpourou, ale i obžalobou – především jich samotných. Čas od času někdo z konzervativních řad objeví kacíře, jehož pouhá existence údajně ohrožuje celou stavbu „slušného konzervatismu“. Rituál je [...]

SPOR: Paragrafy, pravidla, předpisy a opatření  ( 10.12.2025 23:00:00 neviditelnypes.lidovky.cz)
Celá ta záležitost už unavuje každého, kdo do ní není namočený.

TAXIZKAZKY: Pomíjivý život  ( 10.12.2025 23:00:00 neviditelnypes.lidovky.cz)
Někdo chce jet ze Strančic do Prahy...

BIG BEN: Pokrytectví klimatické konference  ( 10.12.2025 23:00:00 neviditelnypes.lidovky.cz)
Pro klimaskeptiky zbyla špetka naděje, že je to jen drahý tyjátr.

DOBA: Svět není lineární  ( 10.12.2025 23:00:00 neviditelnypes.lidovky.cz)
V našem životě hraje velkou roli přímá či nepřímá úměra.

VZPOMÍNÁNÍ: To bejvaly zimy (2)  ( 10.12.2025 23:00:00 neviditelnypes.lidovky.cz)
A tu „sněžnou hlídku“ jsme stejně drželi sami chlapi.

ZDRAVOTNICTVÍ: Revoluce v režii ANO  ( 10.12.2025 23:00:00 neviditelnypes.lidovky.cz)
Adam Vojtěch plánuje vskutku revoluční krok.

KONCEPT NBS: USA v multipolárním světě  ( 10.12.2025 23:00:00 neviditelnypes.lidovky.cz)
NBS američtí prezidenti obvykle vydávají jednou za své období.

KONĚ: Voda, bláto? Kašlem na to!  ( 10.12.2025 23:00:00 neviditelnypes.lidovky.cz)
Po vodě na podzim a provlhlé zimě, s jarem přišly Bonagranty

ZBRANĚ: Chytré projektily  ( 10.12.2025 23:00:00 neviditelnypes.lidovky.cz)
Dnes tu máme samonaváděcí rakety a bomby.

To se přece vědělo  ( 10.12.2025 23:00:00 neviditelnypes.lidovky.cz)
Poslední volby potvrdily očekávání a v něčem byly překvapivé.

CNN zase lže…  ( 10.12.2025 18:38:03 konzervativninoviny.cz)
Moderátor CNN Jake Tapper na americké televizi chybně identifikoval Briana Colea Jr., podezřelého z umístění trubkových bomb ve Washingtonu, D.C., jako „třicetiletého bílého muže“ těsně předtím, než odvysílal fotografie, které odhalily, že se jedná o černocha. „Brian Cole Jr., třicetiletý bílý muž z předměstí D.C., je obviněn z přepravy výbušného zařízení …“ řekl Tapper [...]

„Výsledkem může být demografická destrukce Evropy.“ S Robertem Kotzianem o migraci a jeho nové knize  ( 10.12.2025 14:00:50 konzervativninoviny.cz)
V těchto dnech spatřila světlo světa nová kniha Migrace a globalismus od publicisty, právníka a bývalého komunálního politika Roberta Kotziana. Jaký vývoj v tomto směru očekává od formující se vlády, co se z knihy čtenář dozví či které neziskovky angažované v migraci považuje za nejmocnější? Toto a mnoho dalšího se dozvíte z rozhovoru autora [...]

Čínský národ od Altaje až k břehům Brahmaputry  ( 10.12.2025 13:24:15 denikreferendum.cz)
Peking v posledních letech systematicky usiluje o změnu obrazu problematických oblastí, kde selhávají snahy o začlenění nečínského obyvatelstva do „velké čínské multietnické rodiny“. Využívá k tomu širokou paletu soft propagandy.

SOCDEM a KSČM čekají o víkendu sjezdy. Rozhodnou o pokračování STAČILO!  ( 10.12.2025 11:45:06 denikreferendum.cz)
Skomírající strany tradiční levice si v sobotu zvolí nové vedení. KSČM by mohla znovu vést Kateřina Konečná, novým šéfem SOCDEM po Janě Maláčové chce být Petr Pavlík. Na výsledcích závisí pokračování spojenectví STAČILO!

Poslední šance pro Sociální demokracii  ( 10.12.2025 11:37:30 denikreferendum.cz)
Po sérii volebních neúspěchů a vnitrostranických rozkolů v Sociální demokracii hrozí, že česká společnost definitivně ztratí v této straně obhájkyni sociálních práv a demokracie. Rozhodne o tom sjezd v sobotu 13. prosince.

Ministr zemědělství bude jen sluhou oligarchy  ( 10.12.2025 10:11:15 denikreferendum.cz)
Martin Šebestyán, který jako šéf Státního zemědělského intervenčního fondu vyplatil Agrofertu miliardové dotace, se má stát ministrem zemědělství. Zájmy obřího agrobyznysu opět vítězí nad potřebami venkova a lokálního zemědělství.

Svoboda je výzva každé generace. V roce 1989 jsme věděli přesně, za co demonstrujeme, říká Vlastimil Veselý  ( 10.12.2025 10:00:42 konzervativninoviny.cz)
U příležitosti výročí 17. listopadu připravili kolegové z EPOCH TIMES řadu rozhovorů s osobnostmi z oblasti kultury, vzdělávání, vědy, občanské sféry i veřejného života a požádali je o osobní zamyšlení nad tím, co pro ně svoboda znamená, jak vnímají události roku 1989 a jak se podle nich proměnila podoba svobody dnešní doby. Mezi oslovenými byl [...]

What Activists Can Learn from Rosa Parks on the 70th Anniversary of Montgomery Bus Boycott  ( 10.12.2025 08:51:56 democracynow.org)
What are the lessons from the Montgomery bus boycott launched 70 years ago this month? The boycott, which sparked the civil rights movement, began after the arrest of Rosa Parks for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated city bus to a white man. Historian and biographer Jeanne Theoharis, author of The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks, argues, “Part of what her courage is, is the ability to step forward again and again, without any sense that this is going to change anything, and say, 'This is the line. And I refuse.'” Theoharis’s new piece for The Guardian is “What we get wrong about the Montgomery bus boycott — and what we can learn from it.”

Despite Judge's Order, ICE Deports Shackled Babson College Freshman, Harasses Her Family in Texas  ( 10.12.2025 08:45:12 democracynow.org)
Nineteen-year-old Any Lucía López Belloza was detained and deported, despite a lack of removal order, when attempting to head home from Babson College in Boston to surprise her family in Texas for Thanksgiving. “This is the first arrest of its kind I’ve seen,” says her attorney, Todd C. Pomerleau, who says the student has been the victim of “character assassination.” After López Belloza “was taken down near the border on a bus, had shackles around her ankles, chain around her waist, shackles around her wrist,” her family attempted to speak out to the press about the rights violations she suffered. They are now being harassed by law enforcement, as well.

Trump Spokesperson Karoline Leavitt's Nephew's Mother Released from ICE Jail, Faces Deportation  ( 10.12.2025 08:37:17 democracynow.org)
Bruna Ferreira, a DACA recipient and mother of White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt’s nephew, has lived in the United States since she was 6 years old, but was recently arrested by ICE in her own driveway in what her attorney, Todd Pomerleau, calls a “brazen, unconstitutional arrest, a clear violation of her rights.” Ferreira was transported to a remote detention center in Louisiana following her arrest in Massachusetts, and just released Tuesday. “All of a sudden, now the Leavitts have a problem with 'criminal illegal aliens.' Yet one of them was about to marry one of their loved ones, and there was no problem,” says Pomerleau.

"Torture & Enforced Disappearances" at Florida's ICE Jails "Alligator Alcatraz" & Krome  ( 10.12.2025 08:30:30 democracynow.org)
Lights on 24/7. Overflowing toilets and lack of access to showers. Solitary confinement in a 2×2-foot box. These are some of the torturous conditions documented in a new report from Amnesty International investigating human rights violations at two ICE detention centers in Florida: the Krome North Service Processing Center and the Everglades Detention Facility, dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” by Trump and his supporters. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is denying the report’s findings, calling them fabricated and politically motivated. We speak to the report’s lead researcher, Amy Fischer, about the “intentional development within immigration detention that is aiming to make it increasingly cruel, increasingly abusive, so that people are forced to give up their immigration claims [because] the conditions are so cruel that they can’t handle it anymore.”

Will the International Community Act? Preschool Massacre & "Large Piles of Bodies" in Sudan  ( 10.12.2025 08:13:06 democracynow.org)
The world’s largest conflict by scale is in Sudan, where tens of thousands have been killed and millions displaced since fighting broke out between the UAE-backed paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese military (SAF) in April 2023. Last week, the RSF attacked a kindergarten, killing over 40 children. “Almost every part of Sudan is somehow impacted by this war,” which has been rife with reports of child killings and widespread sexual violence, says Sudanese political analyst Kholood Khair. Satellite imagery reviewed by researcher Nathaniel Raymond of the Yale School of Public Health depicts the RSF-captured city of El Fasher as a “ghost town,” indicating a major civilian massacre carried out by the UAE-supported paramilitary group. Khair draws attention to the shortfall in humanitarian funding being directed to Sudan, and urges international actors to financially support civil society groups and the U.N. crisis response fund. “Nobody is helping them. No one is putting money and resources to them to enable them to save lives.”

Otevřít pusu i peněženku. Výdaje za zubaře rostou rychleji lidem než pojišťovnám  ( 10.12.2025 08:03:58 denikreferendum.cz)
Ač lidé platí zdravotní pojištění, u zubaře nechávají tisíce z vlastní kapsy. Datová analýza ukazuje, jak se zubařská péče vymaňuje z veřejného pojištění. Důvodem je ochota lidí platit za kvalitu, ale i nedostatečné úhrady od pojišťoven.

Headlines for December 10, 2025  ( 10.12.2025 08:00:00 democracynow.org)
Hamas Calls for Greater International Pressure on Israel Before Agreeing to Next Phase of Ceasefire Deal, UAE-Backed Forces Claim Control of Oil-Rich Southern Half of Yemen, Trump Presses Zelensky to Accept a Peace Deal with Russia, Nobel Peace Prize Winner Machado Travels to Oslo But Unable to Attend Award Ceremony, Two U.S. F-18 Fighter Jets Enter Venezuelan Airspace for 40 Minutes, Honduran President Castro Accuses Trump of Interfering in Presidential Election, Trump Attacks Rep. Omar in Racist, Expletive-Filled Rant While Calling for More Immigration from Northern Europe, Florida Governor DeSantis Designates CAIR a Foreign Terrorist Organization, Texas Governor Abbott Pushes Turning Point USA in Public High Schools Across the State, Australia Officially Bans Children Under the Age of 16 from Using Social Media Apps, One Student Dead and Another in Critical Condition After Shooting at Kentucky State University, Education Department Moves to End Biden’s Student Loan Repayment Program, Judge Rules Tufts Student Rümeysa Öztürk Can Resume Teaching and Conducting Research, Illinois Governor Pritzker Signs Bills to Protect Immigrants from ICE Agents, Alina Habba Resigns as U.S. Attorney in New Jersey, Miami Elects First Democratic Mayor in Nearly 30 Years, NYC Comptroller Brad Lander Launches Primary Challenge Against Rep. Dan Goldman

O každé ztracené minutě  ( 10.12.2025 07:23:14 konzervativninoviny.cz)
Je hloupé, laciné a zbytečné všímat si výroků přicházejících z řad bývalé vládní pětikoalice, České televize, milionchvilkařů apod. Už před volbami mi přišlo nedůstojné reagovat na výšplechty lidí typu Otakara Foltýna. Kladl jsem si otázku, kolik pozitivní práce mohou udělat lidé, kteří žijí něčím takovým. Nicméně dokud ti foltýnové byli u moci, [...]

Podcasty DR: Děti z Mongaguá nemohly ani na záchod, útočníci měli volný pohyb  ( 10.12.2025 05:58:09 denikreferendum.cz)
V nejnovějším podcastu DR vypráví Lukáš Pulko, zakladatel fotbalového projektu Mongaguá, jak mladí hráči jeho týmu čelili rasistickým útokům fanoušků Baníku, a představuje samotný projekt, který pomáhá dětem z chudších čtvrtí.

Kdo tu mluvil o sociální nákaze? Jak (ne)vést diskuze o trans* identitě  ( 10.12.2025 05:10:00 denikalarm.cz)
Článek Adama Růžičky, publikovaný v Týdeníku Echo, zaměňuje trans* identitu s trendy, které odezní stejně rychle, jako přicházejí.

Ztraceni mezi sny a realitou. Olomoucký PAF navštívil režisér Michel Gondry  ( 10.12.2025 05:09:00 denikalarm.cz)
Největší hvězdou letošní Přehlídky filmové animace a současného umění byl francouzský režisér Michel Gondry. Jeho syn zde zase uvedl svůj debutový film.

Gender patří do vědy  ( 10.12.2025 05:00:00 denikalarm.cz)
Jak vznikla genderová studia a proč mají své místo i v Česku? Na tuto a mnohé další otázky odpovídá v novém dílu Teplometu socioložka Kateřina Nedbálková.

Elon Musk vyhlásil politickou válku EU  ( 10.12.2025 04:00:01 konzervativninoviny.cz)
Střet mezi majitelem X a Bruselem odhaluje krizi legitimity rozdělené Evropské unie. Otevřená konfrontace mezi Elonem Muskem a Evropskou unií, která následovala po uložení pokuty ve výši 120 milionů eur za údajné porušení zákona o digitálních službách (DSA), již nelze považovat za pouhý spor o regulaci. Pro Muska je tento konflikt příznakem [...]

TEXTÍK: Kabriolet  ( 09.12.2025 23:00:00 neviditelnypes.lidovky.cz)
Kdo v Prdeli Zakopané kabriolet neměl, byl vyřízený

GAZA: Dočasné příměří  ( 09.12.2025 23:00:00 neviditelnypes.lidovky.cz)
Proč Trumpův plán pro Pásmo Gazy není mírovou dohodou

HISTORIE: Masakr na hranicích  ( 09.12.2025 23:00:00 neviditelnypes.lidovky.cz)
Pohraničníci stříleli do dětí, prezident Zápotocký vrahy vyznamenal

LIBANON: Vzestup a pád židovské komunity  ( 09.12.2025 23:00:00 neviditelnypes.lidovky.cz)
Kořeny židovské komunity v Libanonu sahají hluboko do minulosti.

PARADOX: Bývalý člen zločinné organizace diktuje  ( 09.12.2025 23:00:00 neviditelnypes.lidovky.cz)
Cožpak prezident stojí nad zákonem?

GLOSA: S operovanou páteří ministra dělat nejde  ( 09.12.2025 23:00:00 neviditelnypes.lidovky.cz)
Slovo minister je latinského původu a znamená služebník.

JAK BY TO BYLO JINAK: Politika tribun  ( 09.12.2025 23:00:00 neviditelnypes.lidovky.cz)
Podívejme se na výstup Andrej Babiš a Petr Pavel alternativně.

FOTOROK U ŽABEK: Listopad 2025  ( 09.12.2025 23:00:00 neviditelnypes.lidovky.cz)
Mlhavý i slunečný

AGROFERT: Jak je to s dotacemi  ( 09.12.2025 23:00:00 neviditelnypes.lidovky.cz)
Agrofert na rozdíl od Bartoše zaměstnává 30 tisíc lidí.

Hurá, Česko bude nejlepší  ( 09.12.2025 23:00:00 neviditelnypes.lidovky.cz)
Od úterka 9.04 má Česko dva premiéry.

ROZHOVOR: Dialog s panem „Křehkým“, co má vnučku v Nizozemí  ( 09.12.2025 23:00:00 neviditelnypes.lidovky.cz)
má radši vlastní cesty. Klidně prý křehké.

Odpor proti sluhům oligarchie Macinkovi s Turkem oživil české klimatické hnutí  ( 09.12.2025 18:49:44 denikalarm.cz)
V Praze, Brně i dalších městech se sešly tisíce mladých lidí, aby vyjádřily odpor k politice Motoristů sobě.

Achillova pata Ukrajiny: korupce  ( 09.12.2025 16:00:43 konzervativninoviny.cz)
Nové vyšetřování odhalilo, že kyjevská vláda sabotovala své vlastní kontrolní mechanismy, zatímco se skandály množí. Téměř tři roky byla válka na Ukrajině na Západě vykreslována jako morálně jasná konfrontace: demokracie obléhaná agresorem, který se snaží vymazat její suverenitu. V této souvislosti byly jakékoli pochybnosti o využití miliard přidělených na podporu ukrajinského státu [...]

Americká „Národní bezpečnostní strategie“: USA v multipolárním světě  ( 09.12.2025 13:00:04 konzervativninoviny.cz)
V našich médiích proběhly v posledních dnech zmínky o právě zveřejněné nové Národní bezpečnostní strategii americké vlády, kterou američtí prezidenti obvykle vydávají jednou za své volební období. Jak už to bývá u nás obvyklé, originál se obtěžoval číst málokdo a publikované informace byly zřejmě převzaty z komentářů v zahraničních médiích. Ty naše se pak soustředily [...]

Švýcaři odmítli vyšší zdanění superbohatých. Připomněli, v jakém systému žijeme  ( 09.12.2025 10:22:46 denikreferendum.cz)
Když ekonomická elita dokáže měnit zákony a diktovat společenský diskurz ve svůj prospěch, nejde už jen o drobné nedostatky demokracie, ale o systém, který je de facto oligarchií.

BBC pod tlakem: Veřejnoprávní média zůstávají pro demokracii nepostradatelná  ( 09.12.2025 10:22:44 denikreferendum.cz)
Mediální bouře kolem BBC, vyvolaná interním dokumentem kritizujícím manipulaci s projevem Donalda Trumpa, postupně utichá. Jaký je širší kontext této kauzy a co může znamenat pro budoucnost českých veřejnoprávních médií?

Bedřiška musí být zničena za každou cenu. Proč? Protože politici můžou  ( 09.12.2025 09:58:59 denikalarm.cz)
Probuzení v postupně demolované ostravské osadě Bedřiška bylo v pondělí zvlášť nepříjemné. Radnice pokračuje v její likvidaci navzdory místním obyvatelům.

Save Mumia's Eyesight: Supporters March to Prison to Demand Medical Care for Him & Aging Prisoners  ( 09.12.2025 08:47:40 democracynow.org)
Supporters of Mumia Abu-Jamal are on a 103-mile, 12-day march ending Tuesday in Frackville, Pennsylvania, where he is imprisoned at the Mahanoy state prison. The march ends on the same day Abu-Jamal was arrested in 1981 for the murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner, for which he has always maintained his innocence. One of the best-known political prisoners in the world, Abu-Jamal was an award-winning journalist and co-founder of the Philadelphia chapter of the Black Panther Party before his incarceration, and has continued to write and speak from prison. Human rights groups say he was denied a fair trial, with evidence unearthed in 2019 showing judicial bias and police and prosecutorial misconduct. Abu-Jamal is now 71 years old, and advocates say he is being denied proper medical care in prison, permanently risking his eyesight. “We’re marching today to demand freedom for Mumia and all political prisoners,” says activist Larry Hamm. “We ration healthcare in this country, and in particular for prisoners,” says Noelle Hanrahan, part of Abu-Jamal’s legal team, who is demanding “that Mumia get specialist care … and that he is given the treatment that he deserves.”

"Honor Our History": Trump Slammed for Ending Free National Park Entry on Juneteenth & MLK Day  ( 09.12.2025 08:30:27 democracynow.org)
The Trump administration is facing backlash after ending free admission at national parks on the only two federal holidays honoring Black history — Juneteenth and Martin Luther King Jr. Day — while adding free entry on President Trump’s birthday, June 14. The Interior Department also announced higher entry fees for non-U.S. residents under what it calls “America-first entry fee policies.” Denigrating Black history “can’t erase the truth,” says Carolyn Finney, who served on the National Parks Advisory Board during the Obama administration. “It’s not going to change how we feel, not just as Black Americans, but Americans in general, about honoring our history.” We also speak with Audrey Peterman, author of Our True Nature: Finding a Zest for Life in the National Park System, who says “the entire history of America, the entire history of every racial and ethnic group in America, is in the national park system.”

"Merger Madness": Trump at Center of Rival Netflix-Paramount Bids for Warner Bros.  ( 09.12.2025 08:16:09 democracynow.org)
President Donald Trump says he will be personally involved in the potential sale of Warner Bros. Discovery, with two enormous buyout offers on the table that risk further exacerbating U.S. media concentration. Netflix announced an $83 billion deal last week to buy Warner Bros. Discovery, which would give the tech giant control of the Warner Bros. movie studio and rival streaming service HBO Max. Paramount Skydance then launched a hostile takeover bid worth $108 billion that would create a Hollywood behemoth and bring CBS News and CNN under the same roof, in addition to a host of other media properties. Paramount Skydance is controlled by the pro-Trump billionaires Larry Ellison and his son David; the takeover offer is also backed financially by Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, as well as the sovereign wealth funds of Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi and Qatar. Media critics and anti-monopoly advocates have warned that both offers for Warner Bros. should be rejected by federal regulators, though the Trump administration has largely ended aggressive antitrust enforcement. “We have these giant companies trying to take control of even more of what we watch, see, hear and read every day,” says Craig Aaron, the co-CEO of Free Press and Free Press Action, two media reform organizations. He calls the media giants’ efforts to woo Trump “a Mafia-type situation” and warns that previous media mega-mergers have been “disastrous” for workers, consumers and the businesses themselves.

Headlines for December 9, 2025  ( 09.12.2025 08:00:00 democracynow.org)
Israeli Military Chief Says Gaza’s “Yellow Line” WIll Become “New Border” for Israel, U.N. Condemns Israeli Raid on UNRWA Headquarters in Occupied East Jerusalem, Supreme Court Signals It Will Grant Trump Power to Fire Independent Agency Heads, Trump Insults Another Female Reporter as He Walks Back Support for Releasing Boat Strike Video, Honduras Seeks to Arrest Ex-President and Narcotrafficker Juan Orlando Hernández After Trump Pardon, Republicans Unveil Record $901 Billion Military Spending Bill, Trump Announces $12 Billion Aid Package to Farmers Hit Hard by Trade War, ICE Points Guns at Crowd Protesting Arrest of Student at Augsburg University in Minneapolis, Democratic Senator Murray Condemns ICE After Agents Release Attack Dog on Constituent, California’s DOJ Announces New Online Portal for Public to Document Unlawful ICE Activity, Dozen Former FBI Agents File Lawsuit Accusing Kash Patel of Unlawfully Firing Them, Paramount Skydance Launches Hostile Takeover Bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, ProPublica: Trump’s Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Clashes Between Thailand and Cambodia Erupt Again After Trump-Brokered Ceasefire, Longtime Peace Activist Cora Weiss Dies at Age 91

Jak se studuje v Palestině? České studentstvo navzdory mediálním útokům pokračuje v solidárních akcích  ( 09.12.2025 05:10:00 denikalarm.cz)
Izrael neničí palestinský vzdělávací systém jen v Gaze, ale i na Západním břehu. Jak scholasticidu v Palestině reflektuje česká akademická obec?

Zahrádkáři mají strategický význam. Metropolitní plán by to neměl ignorovat  ( 09.12.2025 05:05:00 denikalarm.cz)
Blížící se schvalování Metropolitního plánu pro Prahu aktuálně mobilizuje řadu občanských spolků a iniciativ. Mimo jiné na obranu zahrádkářských kolonií.

Koledy, světla, betonové zátarasy: nová realita Vánoc v Evropě  ( 09.12.2025 04:00:07 konzervativninoviny.cz)
Maskovaní výtržníci, betonové bariéry a ozbrojené hlídky signalizují novou realitu pro evropské vánoční trhy v této sezóně. Evropské vánoční trhy – radostné symboly křesťanského dědictví – vstupují do sezóny 2025 pod nejvyšší bezpečnostní ochranou, jakou tento kontinent kdy zažil. To, co by mělo být oslavou míru, se stalo demonstrací strachu, kdy [...]

VZPOMÍNÁNÍ: To bejvaly zimy! (1)  ( 08.12.2025 23:00:00 neviditelnypes.lidovky.cz)
Dřív bejvaly zimy! Pchá, s tím se ty dnešní nedají ani srovnat!

DOBA: Stává se Evropa slabým článkem Západu?  ( 08.12.2025 23:00:00 neviditelnypes.lidovky.cz)
Podle amerického prezidenta prochází tento kontinent vnitřní krizí.

BABIŠ A PAVEL: Řešení o vlku, co se nažral a koza zůstala celá  ( 08.12.2025 23:00:00 neviditelnypes.lidovky.cz)
Petr Pavel tak údajně vyhrál. O tom lze s úspěchem pochybovat.

KOREKTNOST: „Ale má tam milence!“  ( 08.12.2025 23:00:00 neviditelnypes.lidovky.cz)
Umím srovnat korektnost tehdejší a současnou, a ve vztahu k sexu.

DOKUMENT: Americká národní bezpečnostní strategie  ( 08.12.2025 23:00:00 neviditelnypes.lidovky.cz)
Mír pomoci síly: Síla je nejlepším zastrašovacím prostředkem.

EUROVIZE: Politická píseň SokoVídeň  ( 08.12.2025 23:00:00 neviditelnypes.lidovky.cz)
Evropská vysílací unie Eurovize není státní unií.

Plotýnky, to je prevít  ( 08.12.2025 23:00:00 neviditelnypes.lidovky.cz)
Filip Turek je nemocný s plotýnkou, dokonce je v nemocnici.

OHLÉDNUTÍ: Jak jsem potkal Theodora Pištěka  ( 08.12.2025 23:00:00 neviditelnypes.lidovky.cz)
Theodora Pištěka jsem potkal v životě několikrát, jednou ale pořádně.

Musíme si promluvit o kapitalismu. Oligarchie je jen jeho důsledek  ( 08.12.2025 19:42:52 denikalarm.cz)
Systém založený na vykořisťování lidí a drancování planety nemůže dál pokračovat. Zatím jsme ve fázi, kdy je problém o tom i mluvit. Proto potřebujeme vaši podporu.

Vyřešil Babiš svůj střet zájmů? Ve skutečnosti stále nevíme jak  ( 08.12.2025 15:57:28 denikreferendum.cz)
Mluvit o Babišově střetu zájmů jako o vyřešené věci je předčasné. Zatím dal jen přísliby bez záruk, vyhnul se otázkám médií a neuvedl jediné konkrétní jméno budoucích, údajně nezávislých správců Agrofertu, byť je takřka nepochybně zná.

Nejen medvědi a los Emil. Kontaktů divokých zvířat s lidmi po Evropě přibývá  ( 08.12.2025 14:22:30 denikreferendum.cz)
Lidská zástavba a pole se rozšiřují do migračních drah zvěře a jejího přirozeného prostředí. Města jsou zároveň dnes zelenější, a tak už zvířatům nepřipadají tak cizí. Zkušenější radnice se již začaly novému jevu přizpůsobovat.

Evropské soudy a chvála reakcionářů  ( 08.12.2025 14:00:30 konzervativninoviny.cz)
V dnešní době je asi nemožné najít něco více krátkozrakého, než jásot některých progresivních kruhů ve střední Evropě nad nedávným rozhodnutím Evropského soudního dvora, podle kterého musí být manželství osob stejného pohlaví uzavřené v jednom členském státě uznáno v celé EU. Tento typ reakce zdokonalil nový předseda české strany TOP 09 Matěj [...]

"The Problem with Plastic": Former EPA Official on How to Save the Planet Before It's Too Late  ( 08.12.2025 08:46:33 democracynow.org)
We speak with former EPA regional administrator Judith Enck about her new book, The Problem with Plastic: How We Can Save Ourselves and Our Planet Before It’s Too Late. “Scientists have found microplastics in our blood, our kidneys, our lungs,” says Enck. “They’ve been found in heart arteries, and if it’s attached to plaque, you have an increased risk of heart attack, stroke, premature death.” Enck says plastic is a “political” issue shaped by the powerful “chemical, fossil fuel, plastics industry — and consumer brands.”

"Domestic Terrorism": Leaked DOJ Memo Targets "Anti-Americanism, Anti-Capitalism, Anti-Christianity"  ( 08.12.2025 08:37:02 democracynow.org)
A leaked memo by U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi directs the Justice Department and FBI to compile a list of groups that may be labeled “domestic terrorism” organizations based on political views related to immigration, gender and U.S. policy. The memo was obtained by independent investigative journalist Ken Klippenstein, who joins us to discuss how it expands on President Donald Trump’s NSPM-7 directive following the assassination of Charlie Kirk, which ordered a national strategy to investigate and disrupt groups the administration claims could incite political violence. Bondi’s effort targets “not just the left,” but “anyone who isn’t a Trump supporter,” says Klippenstein of the sweeping order, which identifies targets as entities expressing “opposition to law and immigration enforcement,” support for “mass migration and open borders,” “radical gender ideology,” or views described as anti-American, anti-capitalist or anti-Christian, as well as “hostility towards traditional views on family, religion, and morality.” People who report extremists may be financially rewarded, and the FBI is reviewing records from the past five years, as well as the present.

"I Was Pepper-Sprayed": Rep. Adelita Grijalva on ICE Raid, Epstein Files, Rising Health Costs & More  ( 08.12.2025 08:25:38 democracynow.org)
Democracy Now! speaks with Democratic Congressmember Adelita Grijalva of Arizona, who says she was attacked by masked ICE agents Friday as she tried to find out more information about a raid taking place at a restaurant in her district in Tucson. Grijalva says she was pepper-sprayed and tear-gassed as she was attempting to “deescalate the situation” and conduct oversight. Grijalva also responds to divisions in the Republican Party, including over the Epstein files, calls to replace House Speaker Mike Johnson, and how massive premium increases could soon kick in for millions of Americans as Johnson races to finalize a Republican healthcare plan.

"Murder on the High Seas": War Crimes Prosecutor Reed Brody on Trump's Boat Strikes  ( 08.12.2025 08:15:41 democracynow.org)
Pressure is growing on the Trump administration to release video of a U.S. airstrike on September 2 that killed two men who were left shipwrecked in the Caribbean after an initial U.S. strike on their vessel killed nine people. The Trump administration claims all of the passengers on the boat were involved in drug trafficking but has offered no proof. “This is no more a war on drugs than sending National Guard to Democratic cities is about fighting crime or attacking free speech on campuses is about protecting from antisemitism,” says war crimes prosecutor Reed Brody, who calls the strikes “murder on the high seas.” He argues, “They’re just making this stuff up, and basically they’re forcing the debate into their own terms.”

Headlines for December 8, 2025  ( 08.12.2025 08:00:00 democracynow.org)
Hegseth Defends Sept. 2 Double Attack That Killed 11 People Aboard an Alleged Drug Boat, Hamas Ready to Discuss “Freezing or Storing” Its Weapons, Israeli Forces Continue Violent Raids in Occupied West Bank, RSF Drone Strikes Kill 116 People, Including 46 Children, in Sudan, Hundreds Flee Fighting in Congo Within Hours of Trump’s Peace Deal Ceremony, Russia Launches Massive Wave of Drone Strikes on Ukraine Over the Weekend, SCOTUS to Hear Arguments on Trump’s Executive Order Ending Birthright Citizenship, CDC Advisers Vote to Stop Recommending Hepatitis B Shots at Birth for Most Newborns, Leaked Memo Shows Attorney General Bondi Ordered FBI to Compile List of “Domestic Terrorism” Groups, Rep. Grijalva Says She Was “Sprayed in the Face” by ICE Agents, Trump Admin Changes Name of Transgender Leader on Her Official Portrait, Pentagon Awards $620M Contract to Startup Backed by Donald Trump Jr.’s Venture Capital Fund, Judge Orders Release of Grand Jury Documents in First Federal Investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, President Trump Gets Gold Trophy as FIFA Awards Him Inaugural “Peace Prize”, Trump Hosts Kennedy Center Honors After Completing Takeover of Venue

Oligarcha Tykač proti demokracii  ( 08.12.2025 05:20:00 denikalarm.cz)
Pavel Tykač se v podcastu Štěpení rozpovídal o svém uhelném impériu a mediálních plánech.

Sýrie rok poté: vyhlížení spravedlnosti a obavy z izraelské okupace  ( 08.12.2025 05:08:00 denikalarm.cz)
Dnes uplynul rok od svržení Bašára Asada. Jak se za tu dobu poválečná Sýrie proměnila a jakým výzvám a překážkám momentálně čelí?

Planety exilu. Myšlenkové experimenty v Hainském cyklu Ursuly K. Le Guin  ( 06.12.2025 05:24:00 denikalarm.cz)
Nad novými českými překlady kultovních knih americké sci-fi spisovatelky. Jaký komentář k dnešku mají romány Levá ruka temnoty a Nespoutaní?

"Alejandro Was Murdered": Colombian Fisherman's Family Files Claim Against U.S. over Boat Strike  ( 05.12.2025 08:51:34 democracynow.org)
The U.S. military said Thursday that it blew up another boat of suspected drug smugglers, this time killing four people in the eastern Pacific. The U.S. has now killed at least 87 people in 22 strikes since September. The U.S. has not provided proof as to the vessels’ activities or the identities of those on board who were targeted, but now the family of a fisherman from Colombia has filed the first legal challenge to the military strikes. In a petition filed with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the family says a strike on September 15 killed 42-year-old Alejandro Andres Carranza Medina, a fisherman from Santa Marta and father of four. His family says he was fishing for tuna and marlin off Colombia’s Caribbean coast when his boat was bombed, and was not smuggling drugs. “Alejandro was murdered,” says international human rights attorney Dan Kovalik, who filed the legal petition on behalf of the family. “This is not how a civilized nation should act, just murdering people on the high seas without proof, without trial.”

Trump Calls Somali Community "Garbage": Minnesota Responds to Racist Rant and Immigration Sweeps  ( 05.12.2025 08:35:00 democracynow.org)
Federal authorities are carrying out intensified operations this week in Minnesota as President Donald Trump escalates his attacks on the Somali community in the state. The administration halted green card and citizenship applications from Somalis and people from 18 other countries after last week’s fatal shooting near the White House. During a recent Cabinet meeting, Trump went on a racist tirade against the Somali community, saying, “We don’t want them in our country,” and referring to Somali immigrants as “garbage.” Minnesota has the largest Somali community in the United States, and the vast majority of the estimated 80,000 residents in the state are American citizens or legal permanent residents. “We have seen vile things that the president has said, but in these moments, we need to come together and respond,” says Jaylani Hussein, the executive director of CAIR-Minnesota. He also highlights the connections between Trump’s targeting of the community and foreign policy. “If you demonize Muslims, then you can get away with killing Muslims abroad. This has always been the case, from the Afghanistan War to the Iraq War.”

5,000 Arrests? ICE Descends on Louisiana to Carry Out Raids in World's "Incarceration Capital"  ( 05.12.2025 08:24:43 democracynow.org)
A major immigration crackdown is underway in New Orleans and the surrounding areas of Louisiana, dubbed “Operation Catahoula Crunch” by the Trump administration. According to planning documents, 250 federal agents will aim to make 5,000 arrests over two months. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says the operation will target “the worst of the worst,” though the number of arrests being planned suggests that authorities will conduct broad sweeps including those who have no criminal records, as has happened in other immigration crackdowns. “They’re going to target whoever they can, and as the Supreme Court has unfortunately authorized them, they’re using racial profiling as part of that approach,” says Homero López, legal director for the New Orleans-based organization Immigration Services and Legal Advocacy, or ISLA. “What they’re doing is they’re taking folks out of our community: our neighbors, our friends, our family members.”

Rigging Democracy: Supreme Court Approves Racial Texas Gerrymander, Handing Trump Midterm Advantage  ( 05.12.2025 08:14:36 democracynow.org)
The conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme Court has cleared the way for Texas to use a gerrymandered congressional map in next year’s midterm elections that a lower court found racially discriminatory. The 6-3 ruling is another political win for President Donald Trump and his allies, who have gotten a number of favorable rulings from the justices after being stymied by lower courts. Trump has asked Republican-led states to redraw their maps in order to preserve the narrow GOP majority in Congress when voters head to the polls in November 2026. The Texas effort could flip as many as five seats for the party. Ari Berman, voting rights correspondent for Mother Jones magazine, calls it a “catastrophic ruling” that further normalizes extreme partisan gerrymandering. “This whole exercise made a complete mockery of democracy.”

Headlines for December 5, 2025  ( 05.12.2025 08:00:00 democracynow.org)
“One of the Most Troubling Things I’ve Seen”: Lawmakers React to U.S. “Double-Tap” Boat Strike, Pentagon Watchdog Finds Hegseth’s Use of Signal App “Created a Risk to Operational Security”, CNN Finds Israel Killed Palestinian Aid Seekers and Bulldozed Bodies into Shallow, Unmarked Graves, Ireland, Slovenia, Spain and the Netherlands to Boycott Eurovision over Israel’s Participation, Protesters Picket New Jersey Warehouse, Seeking to Block Arms Shipments to Israel, Supreme Court Allows Texas to Use Racially Gerrymandered Congressional Map Favoring Republicans, FBI Arrests Suspect for Allegedly Planting Pipe Bombs on Capitol Hill Ahead of Jan. 6 Insurrection, DOJ Asks Judge to Rejail Jan. 6 Rioter Pardoned by Trump, After Threats to Rep. Jamie Raskin, Grand Jury Refuses to Reindict Letitia James After Judge Throws Out First Indictment, Protesters Ejected from New Orleans City Council Meeting After Demanding ”ICE-Free Zones”, Honduran Presidential Candidate Nasralla Blames Trump’s Interference as Opponent Takes Lead, Trump Hosts Leaders of DRC and Rwanda in D.C. as U.S. Signs Bilateral Deals on Minerals, Trump Struggles to Stay Awake in Another Public Event, Adding to Speculation over His Health, Netflix Announces $72 Billion Deal to Buy Warner Bros. Discovery, 12 Arrested as Striking Starbucks Workers Hold Sit-In Protest at Empire State Building, Democratic Socialists Win Two Jersey City Council Seats in Groundbreaking Victories, Judge Sentences California Animal Rights Activist to 90 Days in Jail for Freeing Abused Chickens, National Parks Service Prioritizes Free Entry on Trump’s Birthday Over Juneteenth and MLK Holidays

Tykač si koupil půlku Mafry. Oligarchové se už ani neskrývají za slovíčka jako svoboda a demokracie  ( 05.12.2025 05:26:00 denikalarm.cz)
Redakční debata Alarmu o oligarchizaci českých médií. Kam nás aktuální situace zavede a jak je možné proti ní bojovat?

Co je slyšet, když léčiva ztiší hlad?  ( 05.12.2025 05:12:00 denikalarm.cz)
Debaty kolem Ozempicu a dalších léků ukazují, že obezita není jenom záležitostí disciplíny a vůle, ale je utvářena komplexním biosociálním působením.

Genocida v reálném čase. Příběh Hind Radžab je plný beznaděje  ( 05.12.2025 05:07:00 denikalarm.cz)
Nový film tuniské režisérky Kaouther Ben Hanii je svědectvím o genocidě, která už tak dlouho probíhá a je tak dobře zdokumentovaná, že o ní vznikají detailní hrané rekonstrukce.

West African Asylum Seekers Find Safe Haven in NYC Volunteer-Run Kitchen  ( 04.12.2025 08:46:55 democracynow.org)
Amid escalating ICE raids in New York City, Democracy Now!’s Messiah Rhodes spoke to immigrants and advocates supporting newly arrived migrants and asylum seekers from West Africa with hot meals, legal advice and job training. “When I help the people here, the people will help me one day,” Guinean immigrant Abdul Karim, a cook at Cafewal weekday kitchen, told Rhodes. Murad Awawdeh, of the New York Immigration Coalition and a member of New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s transition team, also comments. He shares how the incoming mayoral administration can work to protect immigrants from Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda.

"Making America White Again": Trump Further Restricts Immigration, Ramps Up ICE Raids  ( 04.12.2025 08:37:30 democracynow.org)
Immigrant rights advocate Murad Awawdeh joins us to discuss Donald Trump’s nationwide anti-immigrant crackdown and how it’s manifested in Trump’s hometown of New York City, where hundreds of New Yorkers recently blocked a federal immigration raid targeting street vendors from West Africa before it even started. “This has never been about vetting. This has never been about security and safety. It’s about cruelty,” says Awawdeh about the Trump administration’s persecution of immigrants. “His war on immigrants and his mass deportation agenda is all to lead to making America white again.”

Can a Deal Be Reached to End Russia's War in Ukraine? Matt Duss on Latest Diplomatic Efforts  ( 04.12.2025 08:25:48 democracynow.org)
Foreign policy analyst Matt Duss discusses the status of Russia-Ukraine ceasefire talks and new data on the extent of casualties from the now nearly four-year Russian invasion of Ukraine. Hundreds of thousands of people have been killed. “For what did these people die? For what reason were they sent into this horrible meat grinder?” asks Duss.

Will Hegseth Go? Defense Secretary Faces Anger from Congress over Boat Strikes, Signal Chat  ( 04.12.2025 08:18:51 democracynow.org)
“Pete Hegseth, much like the president he serves, sees himself as, essentially, above the law, as unconstrained by legal procedure.” Foreign policy analyst Matt Duss discusses the brewing conflict within the Trump administration over the leadership of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, including his involvement in a leaked announcement of U.S. strikes on Yemen in March and the chain of command behind U.S. strikes on boats in the Caribbean Sea and the eastern Pacific Ocean. Legal experts say the boat strikes, which have already killed at least 80 people, are likely illegal.

Headlines for December 4, 2025  ( 04.12.2025 08:00:00 democracynow.org)
Senate War Powers Resolution Seeks to Block Trump from Unilaterally Attacking Venezuela, Admiral to Brief Lawmakers About U.S. Boat Strikes Condemned by Human Rights Groups as “Murder”, New York Times Sues Pentagon over Press Policy That “Violates the First Amendment”, Israeli Forces in Gaza Kill Seven Palestinians in Latest Violation of October Ceasefire, “An Academic Veneer for Genocide”: Protesters Heckle Former Israeli Politicians at Toronto Debate, Immigration Agents Deploy to New Orleans and Twin Cities, Seeking to Arrest Thousands, ACLU Says ICE Violates Policy Against Jailing Pregnant People and Nursing Moms, Prisoners Face “Harrowing Human Right Violations” at Infamous ICE Jail in Florida Everglades, Democrats Release Images of Epstein’s Caribbean Island as Ghislaine Maxwell Petitions for Release, ADP Reports U.S. Economy Lost 32,000 Jobs Last Month, Trump Admin to Slash Fuel Efficiency Standards Enacted Under the Biden Admin, Trump to Issue Pardons for Democratic Congressmember Cuellar and His Wife, Paramount Skydance Corporation Doubles Proposed Breakup Fee to Acquire Warner Bros.

S omyly a nezdary se sice nechlubíme, můžeme se z nich ale poučit  ( 04.12.2025 05:30:00 denikalarm.cz)
V dnešním díle podcastu Pay Gap mluvíme o tom, co se nám kdy nepovedlo a k čemu to ve finále bylo dobré.

Amsterdam proti krizi bydlení: koupě druhého bytu jen s povolením radnice  ( 04.12.2025 05:25:00 denikalarm.cz)
Chalupáři a spekulanti mají smůlu. Domy mají sloužit k bydlení.

Norsko má ropný fond pro všechny. Česko má Tykače  ( 04.12.2025 05:16:00 denikalarm.cz)
Česká fosilní oligarchie brzdí rozvoj celé země a udržuje ji v pozici fosilního skanzenu.

Lidé, kteří zažili strašné věci, se nebáli o svých příbězích mluvit v divadle X10  ( 04.12.2025 05:00:00 denikalarm.cz)
Na Pražském divadelním festivalu německého jazyka se představila hudebně-dokumentární inscenace Mírotvůrci. Propojila autentické výpovědi pamětníků druhé světové války s osobními příběhy herců.

"WTO/99" Filmmaker on Anti-Corporate Globalization Movement: "These Issues Haven't Gone Away"  ( 03.12.2025 08:47:55 democracynow.org)
WTO/99 is a new “immersive archival documentary” about the 1999 protests in Seattle against the World Trade Organization that uses 1,000+ hours of footage from the Independent Media Center and other archives. The historic WTO protests against corporate power and economic globalization were met with a militarized police crackdown and National Guard troops. We feature clips from the film and discuss takeaways that have relevance today. “These issues haven’t gone away,” says Ian Bell, director of WTO/99. We also speak with Ralph Nader, who is featured in the movie.

Ralph Nader on Trump's "Entrenching Dictatorship," Reclaiming Congress, and the Fight Against Big Money  ( 03.12.2025 08:31:34 democracynow.org)
As a “Fight Club” of eight senators led by Bernie Sanders challenges Democratic Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s handling of President Trump, we speak with Ralph Nader, who has been taking on the Democratic Party for decades. Sixty years ago this week, he published his landmark book, Unsafe at Any Speed, exposing the safety flaws of GM’s Chevrolet Corvair and leading to major reforms in auto safety laws. Nader discusses the legacy of his book, the current state of government regulation and why Congress must reclaim its authority from an out-of-control Trump administration. “Clearly, we’re seeing a rapidly entrenching dictatorship,” Nader tells Democracy Now! “The focus has to be on impeachment, and there will be a large majority of people in favor of it.”

U.S.-Backed Ceasefire Is Cover for Ethnic Cleansing in Gaza & West Bank: Sari Bashi  ( 03.12.2025 08:14:52 democracynow.org)
Israel has announced it will reopen the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt in the next few days as part of the U.S.-brokered ceasefire. However, the border will only open in one direction: for Palestinians to exit. Israeli American human rights lawyer Sari Bashi says the move validates fears that Israel’s goal is to “continue the ethnic cleansing of Gaza.” This comes as a coalition of 12 Israeli human rights groups concluded in a new report that 2025 is the deadliest and most destructive year for Palestinians since 1967. Last week, the United Nations reported more than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli settlers and soldiers in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem since October 7, 2023. Violence in the West Bank and Gaza is “directed toward getting Palestinians to leave,” says Bashi.

Headlines for December 3, 2025  ( 03.12.2025 08:00:00 democracynow.org)
Hegseth Says He Did Not See Survivors of First U.S. Boat Strike, Citing “Fog of War”, Israel Announces Plans to Reopen Rafah Border Crossing But Only for Palestinians to Leave Gaza, Russia and U.S. Fail to Reach Compromise to End the War in Ukraine, Republican Lawmakers Criticize Trump Decision to Pardon Former Honduran President Hernández, Pentagon Inspector General to Release Report on “Signalgate” Thursday, Trump Says He Doesn’t Want Somalis in the U.S. as ICE Plans Operation Targeting Them, Trump Administration to Pause Immigration Applications from Countries on Travel Ban List, Trump Administration Fires Eight Immigration Judges in New York City, Trump Administration Threatens to Withhold Money for SNAP Benefits, Federal Vaccine Panel Prepares to Vote on Possibly Ending Infant Hepatitis B Vaccines, Federal Judge Blocks Trump Admin from Cutting Medicaid Funding to Planned Parenthood, Trump Admin Puts FEMA Workers Back on Administrative Leave, Larry Summers Banned from American Economic Association over Close Ties to Epstein, Republican Matt Van Epps Wins House Special Election by Closer-Than-Expected Margin, More Than 1,350 People Have Now Died in Devastating Floods and Landslides in Sri Lanka, Indonesia and Thailand

Rosalía mezi opulencí a intimitou. Konceptuální deska Lux míchá pop s operou  ( 03.12.2025 05:30:00 denikalarm.cz)
Hudební podcast Soundsystém je u vytržení z nové desky katalánské popové hvězdy, která nikdy nevstoupila dvakrát do stejné řeky.

Potěmkinův Bejrút: Na papežově mši za mír v časech falešného příměří  ( 03.12.2025 05:06:00 denikalarm.cz)
Papež Lev XIV. přijel do Libanonu v rámci své první zahraniční návštěvy. Země sužovaná izraelskou agresí a ekonomickou krizí jej přivítala směsicí nadšení, skepse, nově opravených silnic a opatření pro udržení veřejného pořádku.

Trump's Cuts to AIDS Prevention Are Devastating LGBTQ+ Communities Globally: Steven Thrasher  ( 02.12.2025 08:49:27 democracynow.org)
President Trump has gutted the U.S. government’s support for AIDS healthcare around the world while ordering an end to commemorations of World AIDS Day, observed annually on December 1. Cuts to U.S. foreign aid are having a disproportionate impact on LGBTQ+ communities in many countries, says journalist and scholar Steven Thrasher, speaking from Uganda. “There are people who’ve been harmed very immediately,” he says. Thrasher, who teaches at Northwestern University, also comments on the school’s $75 million payout to the Trump administration to settle a discrimination probe and restore frozen federal funding, calling it a “travesty.”

"This Is a Union Town": Zohran Mamdani & Bernie Sanders Join Striking Starbucks Workers' Picket  ( 02.12.2025 08:34:42 democracynow.org)
New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and Vermont independent Senator Bernie Sanders joined striking Starbucks workers on the picket line Monday to demand the coffee giant reach a fair contract with its unionized workforce after years of delay tactics. Speaking outside a store in Brooklyn, Mamdani said New York is a “union town,” and vowed to continue joining pickets even after he is sworn in as mayor on January 1. Responding to a question from Democracy Now!, Sanders said Mamdani’s successful campaign for mayor was a blueprint for the Democratic Party, with affordability and workers’ rights at the center of the agenda. “We have the grassroots of America behind us,” Sanders said. Starbucks workers at unionized stores across the United States launched an open-ended strike November 13 accusing the company of unfair labor practices. Starbucks Workers United has been bargaining for a contract with the company since early last year. Monday’s picket came just hours after Starbucks reached a $38 million settlement with New York City for labor violations including denying workers stable and predictable schedules.

"A War Crime & Murder": David Cole on U.S. Killing of Survivors of Boat Strike in Caribbean  ( 02.12.2025 08:13:55 democracynow.org)
As bipartisan criticism intensifies over U.S. attacks on alleged “drug boats” in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific, the White House is defending a September 2 operation that killed 11 people. The Washington Post reports Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered a second attack to kill two survivors of an initial strike, an order that legal experts say would constitute a war crime. The White House on Monday confirmed the second strike but said the authorization came not from Hegseth, but from Admiral Frank “Mitch” Bradley, then head of Joint Special Operations Command. This comes as Hegseth threatens to court-martial Democratic Senator Mark Kelly, a former naval officer, after Kelly and five other Democratic veterans urged service members to refuse unlawful commands. “Killing civilians who are not engaged in armed conflict against us is a war crime,” says law professor David Cole of Georgetown University.

Headlines for December 2, 2025  ( 02.12.2025 08:00:00 democracynow.org)
White House Defends “Double Tap” Strike on Alleged Drug Boat, Says Admiral Gave Order to Kill, Israeli Forces Kill 2 Palestinian Teens During Raids Across Occupied West Bank, Israeli Forces Kill Palestinian in Gaza Refugee Camp in Latest Ceasefire Violation, Pope Leo Visits Lebanon, Urging Peaceful Coexistence Across Middle East, Netanyahu Asks Israeli President to Pardon Him over Corruption Charges, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner Meet Vladimir Putin as U.S. Pushes for Ukraine Peace Deal, Trump Threatens “Hell to Pay” in Honduras If Presidential Election Results Change, Heavily Armed Gangs Kill Nearly a Dozen People in Haiti as Trump Admin Cancels TPS for Haitians, Indiana Lawmakers Unveil New Voting Map to Allow GOP to Win All Nine House Seats, Speaker Johnson and Trump Try to Prevent Upset House Loss in Tennessee Special Election, Appeals Court Rules Trump’s Personal Attorney Alina Habba Is an Unlawful U.S. Attorney, Senate Minority Leader Schumer Says His Offices Received Emailed Bomb Threats, Trump Commutes Seven-Year Prison Sentence of Private Equity CEO Convicted of Fraud

"Imperial Blowback": Suspect in D.C. Shooting Was Part of CIA Death Squad in Afghanistan  ( 01.12.2025 08:54:40 democracynow.org)
Rahmanullah Lakanwal, the man who authorities say shot two National Guardsmen outside the White House, had previously worked in a CIA-backed “Zero Unit” in Afghanistan, often called “death squads” by human rights groups. “The United States made this person into a child soldier, and now is experiencing what I think is one of the most horrifically bright-line cases of imperial blowback that we’ve seen throughout the 'war on terror,'” says Spencer Ackerman, journalist and author focused on U.S. military and foreign policy.

Trump Vows to Pause Migration from "Third World Countries" After Fatal National Guard Shooting  ( 01.12.2025 08:44:41 democracynow.org)
We look at President Trump’s call to pause all asylum decisions after an Afghan man who once worked for the CIA opened fire near the White House last Wednesday, shooting two National Guard members, killing one. Rahmanullah Lakanwal entered the United States in 2021 through Operation Allies Welcome, a program that saw the U.S. evacuate thousands of Afghans who faced reprisals from the Taliban over their work with the U.S. and the former U.S.-backed government. Trump has since said that he will “permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries.” Afghan refugees have “been stuck in limbo in the United States, and now they’re being targeted by President Trump’s political stunts,” says Shawn VanDiver, founder and president of #AfghanEvac. Laila Ayub, executive director of Project ANAR, says the Trump administration is using the tragedy to “scapegoat and collectively punish an entire community.”

"Kill Everybody": Could Hegseth Face War Crimes Probe for Killing Survivors of U.S. Boat Strike?  ( 01.12.2025 08:36:13 democracynow.org)
Democracy Now! speaks with journalist Spencer Ackerman about the Trump administration’s deadly, ongoing attacks on alleged “drug boats” amid reports President Trump is preparing to attack Venezuela, with all airspace surrounding Venezuela now closed. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and others are “turning the military into a criminal operation,” says Ackerman. “This shows the moral degeneracy that the 'war on terror' has left as a legacy in the U.S. military.”

Trump Meddles in Honduran Election & Vows to Pardon Ex-President Jailed in U.S. for Drug Trafficking  ( 01.12.2025 08:16:57 democracynow.org)
President Trump has announced plans to pardon former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, who is serving a 45-year sentence for trafficking hundreds of tons of cocaine into the United States. In 2024, Hernández was convicted in New York of drug trafficking and weapons charges. “The evidence from the Southern District of New York was overwhelming,” says Dana Frank, professor of history emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a longtime observer of Honduran politics. Trump’s announcement came on Friday, and he also threatened to cut off funding if Hondurans did not elect his chosen conservative candidate as they went to the polls Sunday to pick a new president. “He’s almost threatening Honduras that if we don’t do what he is demanding … he will wreak vengeance against Honduras,” says Rodolfo Pastor, former secretary of the presidency under Xiomara Castro in Honduras.

Headlines for December 1, 2025  ( 01.12.2025 08:00:00 democracynow.org)
Venezuela Condemns Trump’s Declaration That All Airspace Surrounding Venezuela Is Closed, Trump Says He Will Pardon Honduras’s Former President Convicted of Drug Trafficking, Death Toll from Israel’s War in Gaza Surpasses 70,000 Palestinians, Israeli Forces Fatally Shoot Two Palestinian Men in Occupied West Bank, Israeli Authorities Free Palestinian American Teen Mohammed Ibrahim After Holding Him Without Trial, Israeli Forces Conduct Raid in Syria, Killing 13 People, Trump Admin Halts Decisions on All Asylum Applications After Shooting of National Guard Members, Trump Announces He’s Canceling All Executive Orders Signed by Biden Using an Autopen, Trump Calls New York Times Reporter “Ugly” over Her Story Raising Questions About His Health, Hong Kong Officials: At Least 151 People Died in Blaze That Engulfed a High-Rise Apartment Complex, Babson College Student Deported to Honduras During Trip Home for Thanksgiving, Judge Dismisses Georgia Election Interference Case Against President Trump, Floods and Landslides Kill Over 1,000 Across Southeast Asia, Protests in Manila Demand President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. Resign over Corruption, 4 Killed, 11 Wounded in Mass Shooting at Children’s Birthday Celebration in Stockton, CA, Trump Administration Ends U.S. Commemorations of World AIDS Day

The Historic Rise of Zohran Mamdani: Democracy Now! Coverage from 2021 Hunger Strike to Election Night  ( 28.11.2025 08:01:29 democracynow.org)
As Zohran Mamdani prepares to become New York’s first Muslim and first South Asian mayor on January 1, we look at the historic rise of the democratic socialist who shocked the political establishment. We spend the hour hearing Mamdani in his own words and look at the grassroots coalition that helped him pull off what’s been described as “one of the great political upsets in modern American history.”

My Father Is a Warrior & My Hero: An Interview with Leonard Peltier's Daughter Marquetta  ( 27.11.2025 08:50:26 democracynow.org)
Marquetta Shields-Peltier was just a toddler when her father, Leonard Peltier, was jailed in 1976. During our recent trip to Turtle Mountain Reservation in North Dakota, we spoke to Marquetta about the campaign to free her father and what it meant to see him released in February.

"I'm Not Going to Give Up": Leonard Peltier on Indigenous Rights, His Half-Century in Prison & Coming Home  ( 27.11.2025 08:01:50 democracynow.org)
In September, Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman sat down with longtime political prisoner and Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier for his first extended television and radio broadcast interview since his release to home confinement in February. Before his commutation by former President Joe Biden, the 81-year-old Peltier spent nearly 50 years behind bars. Peltier has always maintained his innocence for the 1975 killing of two FBI officers. He is expected to serve the remainder of his life sentences under house arrest at the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Nation in Belcourt, North Dakota. In a wide-ranging conversation, we spoke to Peltier about his case, his time in prison, his childhood spent at an American Indian boarding school and his later involvement in the American Indian Movement (AIM) and more. “We still have to live under that, that fear of losing our identity, losing our culture, our religion,” Peltier says about his continued commitment to Indigenous rights. “The struggle still goes on for me. I’m not going to give up.”


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Prisoner Dubbed ‘Escape King’ Breaks Out of Prison for the 4th Time in 16 Years  ( 09.12.2025 23:08:58 odditycentral.com)
An Albanian man dubbed the 'Escape King' managed to live up to his name by breaking out of prison for the 4th time in 16 years. The post Prisoner Dubbed ‘Escape King’ Breaks Out of Prison for the 4th Time in 16 Years first appeared on Oddity Central - Collecting Oddities.

Woman “Wears” Severed Ear on Her Foot for Five Months Before Reattachment  ( 09.12.2025 22:13:08 odditycentral.com)
A Chinese woman who had her left ear torn off during a freak work accident wore it on her instep for five months before having it surgically reattached. The post Woman “Wears” Severed Ear on Her Foot for Five Months Before Reattachment first appeared on Oddity Central - Collecting Oddities.

Chinese Workers Lay 8,000 Tons of Asphalt, Fix 2.4-Km Stretch of Road in Just Six Hours  ( 08.12.2025 22:07:02 odditycentral.com)
Road workers in Beijing, China, set a new speed record after laying a whopping 8,000 tons of asphalt on a 2.4-kilometer stretch of road in only six hours. The post Chinese Workers Lay 8,000 Tons of Asphalt, Fix 2.4-Km Stretch of Road in Just Six Hours first appeared on Oddity Central - Collecting Oddities.

Russian Company Patents Dandelion Drone Protection System for Tanks  ( 08.12.2025 21:24:33 odditycentral.com)
A Russian company has patented a tank protection system against First-Person View (FPV) drones that makes the vehicles look like giant dandelions. The post Russian Company Patents Dandelion Drone Protection System for Tanks first appeared on Oddity Central - Collecting Oddities.

AI-Doctored Photos of So-Called Faulty Products Fuels Massive Refund Fraud in China  ( 05.12.2025 17:15:48 odditycentral.com)
Return fraud caused by AI-generated images is rampant in China, with online stores struggling to come up with ways to stop the bleeding. The post AI-Doctored Photos of So-Called Faulty Products Fuels Massive Refund Fraud in China first appeared on Oddity Central - Collecting Oddities.

Woman Sues Employer for Firing Her Because She Came in to Work Too Early  ( 05.12.2025 16:25:14 odditycentral.com)
A Spanish woman recently took the company she used to work for to Court for firing her because she often came to work too early in the morning. The post Woman Sues Employer for Firing Her Because She Came in to Work Too Early first appeared on Oddity Central - Collecting Oddities.

Humanoid Robots at Iranian Tech Expo Turn Out to Be Humans in Disguise  ( 05.12.2025 15:34:39 odditycentral.com)
A pair of "advanced humanoid robots" showcased at Iran's Kish Inox Tech Expo were exposed as actual humans posing as robots. The post Humanoid Robots at Iranian Tech Expo Turn Out to Be Humans in Disguise first appeared on Oddity Central - Collecting Oddities.

Freak Diving Accident Causes Man’s Body to Swell Up And Doctors Have No Idea How to Fix It  ( 03.12.2025 22:37:22 odditycentral.com)
For over a decade, a Peruvian seafood diver has been trying to get rid of the nitrogen pockets that formed under his skin when he rose to the surface too quickly. The post Freak Diving Accident Causes Man’s Body to Swell Up And Doctors Have No Idea How to Fix It first appeared on Oddity Central - Collecting Oddities.

Plans to Build Skyscraper in the Heart of the Swiss Alps Spark Controversy Among Locals  ( 03.12.2025 21:38:02 odditycentral.com)
A Swiss hotelier and architect recently revealed plans to build a 65-floor skyscraper overlooking the Matterhorn in the Swiss Alps, as a way to offer affordable housing. The post Plans to Build Skyscraper in the Heart of the Swiss Alps Spark Controversy Among Locals first appeared on Oddity Central - Collecting Oddities.

Robot Walks Over 100 Kilometers Without Stopping, Sets New World Record  ( 02.12.2025 21:48:58 odditycentral.com)
A Chinese robot recently set a new Guinness Record for the longest distance walked continuously by a humanoid robot, 106.28 kilometers over three days. The post Robot Walks Over 100 Kilometers Without Stopping, Sets New World Record first appeared on Oddity Central - Collecting Oddities.