Why Russia’s cyber-attacks have fallen flat — Ukraine benefited from good preparation and lots of help [The Economist] #Ukraine
“I thought I’d been hacked. It turned out I’d been fired”: tales of a Twitter engineer [1843 magazine] #ElonCausingMayhemAtTwitter
The ripple effects of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, US global monetary tightening and an economic slowdown in China will weigh on the global economy next year. Learn more here: [TheEIU]
When Someone Asks Your Opinion, Give It [Harvard Business Review]
The Growing Legalisation of Marijuana in the US [BBC News]
Biden not planning to speak to Putin for now, G7 agrees oil price cap [Reuters]
Nakba film streams on Netflix despite Israeli threats — Farha depicts the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in 1948, when at least 750,000 were forced from their homes. [AL-Jazeera News]
The Best Video Games of 2022 — More and more of the gaming experience has been monetized, but some titles continue to enchant. [New Yorker]
Valve will give away a free Steam Deck every minute during The Game Awards [The Verge]
The economy just doesn’t make sense anymore [Vox]
Daily Crunch: ChatGPT’s user experience and implementation ‘should have Google scared’ [TechCrunch]
What Shanghai protesters want and fear [MIT Technology Review]
House Democrats reviewing Trump's tax returns split into publish-everything and there-are-rules camps with GOP takeover looming [Insider]
Great visit with CSAF CQ Brown Jr highlighting how commercial #technology and #talent will be changing the game in tomorrow’s fight. United States Air Force #AccelerateChange [LinkedIn] #AFWERX
Russia’s vicious tactics in Ukraine serve only to further expose its weakness [The Guardian]
The U.S. Met Expectations in the Group Stage. Now, It Hopes to Exceed Them. [The New York Times]
James Cameron Weighs In On When To Pee During His Lengthy 'Avatar' Sequel [Huffington Post]
The Review: Top Gun — How does the classic work of propaganda hold up? And can its sequel, Top Gun: Maverick, deliver decades later? [The Atlantic]
What Democrats' New Primary Calendar Could Look Like [FiveThirtyEight]
The youngest captain at this World Cup, Tyler Adams keeps USMNT steady [The Washington Post] #FIFAWorldCupQatar2022
Guerre en Ukraine en direct : l’économie russe « sera détruite » par le plafonnement des prix de son pétrole, prédit Kiev [Le Monde] #Ukraine
Star Lord and co. face the music in 'Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3' trailer [Mashable]
How the Oath Keepers Seditious Conspiracy Verdict Could Lead to Trump [VICE News]
Netflix’s “Farha” and the Palestinian Right to Process Pain Through Art [The Intercept_]
4 easy ways to make your holidays more eco-friendly [National Geographic]
It's knockout time at the World Cup for the U.S. and Netherlands — only one moves on [NPR]
5 takeaways from discussion with state, federal health officials on pandemic response [CapRadioNews]
L’emprise de l’anglais [Le Monde diplomatique]
Mesut Ozil’s Ghost Still Haunts Germany [Foreign Policy] In all this, Ozil saw a double standard and famously concluded that “I am German when we win, but I am an immigrant when we lose.” Since then, Ozil—who is also vocal in his support for Palestinians and Uyghurs—has become somewhat of a heroic resistance figure in much of the Islamic world.
The Hard Truth About Long Wars [Foreign Affairs]
Pakistan Demands Taliban Prevent Attacks After Suicide Bomb — The latest claim by the Pakistani Taliban underlined the threat of Afghanistan turning into a haven for militants, Pakistan’s Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah Khan said. [The Diplomat]
The Math Behind Wordle Guesses [Quanta Magazine]
Interested in finding out how #quantum machine learning algorithms can be applied to support payment fraud detection? If so, check out this recent paper, co-authored by @GrosQmichi of #CERNqti: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=9915517 #quantumtechnologies [CERNquantum]
NASA Delivers First Flight Hardware to ESA for Lunar Pathfinder [NASA]

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