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Well, this is super embarrassing. It looks like I must have gotten myself pretty turned around back there and totally missed My destination. I hate to ask, but I was hoping I could catch a ride back to Earth with you guys, because I somehow wound up returning to Mars by accident.I know, I know, I am a freaking moron.Man, this sucks. I really thought it was just a straight shot from My seat at the right hand of the Father down to His earthly kingdom, but obviously I was mistaken. Which is extra humiliating considering Im supposed to be all-seeing and all-knowing, and everything. Apparently not! Apparently, the King of Kings and Lord of Lords is a total bonehead with zero sense of direction. So, yeah, if you could come grab Me, Id super appreciate it.Maybe I took a wrong turn at Cloud 18 or something? I dont know, they all kinda look the same: huge, majestic, riddled with angels playing their stupid harps at all hours of the day. And its true I havent been back in almost 2,000 yearsbut come on. How could I be so stupid?At first I looked around at all the red soil and sunbaked cliffs, assumed I was in Arizona, and was like, Okay, looks like the Rapture is starting in Phoenix! Then I started feeling really short of breath and realized there was basically no atmosphere at all. Like, none. And I thought, hmm, thats odd, Ive never been to the American Southwest, but Im pretty sure there should at least be some oxygen. It wasnt until I turned around to get My bearings and saw two huge-ass moons floating in the sky that I realized, shit, You are on the completely wrong planet.Fuck My life.Im supposed to be riding in on the back of a great white stallion, wearing a robe dipped in blood, and tossing sinners into a lake of fire, but instead Im sitting here in some gigantic crater freezing My ass off with no fish to multiply, no water to turn into wine, and no sign of public transportation at all. Okay, Im looking at Google Maps, and it says its gonna take a whole millennium to get back. Great. All I brought are these stupid sandals. This is gonna be murder on My plantar fasciitis.Hello? Can anyone hear Me? Nope. Not even a freaking echo. This is creepy as hell.Guys. Im serious. Come pick Me up. I get that its out of the way, but Ill owe you big time. Im over by the big mountain thats in the shape of a face. You know that one? Im right past that in a little ravine. Just look for the long-haired dumbshit in a bright white robe waving His hands around like an asshole.Just hurry. And please dont tell My Dad or He will fucking kill Me. Again.The post Can You Guys Come Pick Me Up? I Accidentally Returned To Mars appeared first on The Onion.

NEW YORKAs part of what the telecommunications giant characterizes as an ongoing commitment to transparency, Verizons customer service line began informing users this week that their calls would be monitored for the companys sadistic amusement. By staying on the line, you consent to being roundly mocked by a boardroom of executives who cackle maniacally over 26-year-old single malt scotch every time you beg to speak to a human like a pathetic, shit-sniffing dog, a pleasant automated voice now says, assuring submissive customers that their call is important because every torturous minute theyre forced to wait while listening to tinny Michael Bubl Christmas music fills the Verizon C-suite with unspeakable satisfaction. As you wince in mounting discomfort, please know your suffering helps us better understand the limits of the human tolerance for pain. Each whimper, sigh, and expletive-laden tirade is carefully reviewed by senior management for its unparalleled erotic potency. We particularly savor your agonized reaction when, 90 minutes in, we inform you that youll need to call a different number, so please remember to scream that delicious scream of yours directly into the microphoneyes, just like that. Remember, at Verizon, your squirming, wormlike humiliation isnt just data to us. Its pure ecstasy. Sources confirmed each call to Verizon customer service concludes with a brief survey to help the system refine its ability to degrade future callers into total, prostrating submission.The post Customer Service Discloses Call Will Be Monitored For Sadistic Amusement appeared first on The Onion.

LOS ANGELESIn a groundbreaking finding that reveals a major shift in media consumption habits, a new study published Wednesday found that young people now watch more YouTube content than zoetropes of galloping horses. It may be hard for older generations to understand, but todays young consumers are much more interested in watching videos on their phones than peering into a spinning cylinder, said study co-author Jeremy Hernandez, who shared that his marketing firm had found that the average member of Generation Z spent less than two hours a week sitting in front of one of the motion illusion machines. These days, practically the only population watching zoetropes are baby boomers. And when you look at the numbers for phenakistoscopes, it only gets bleaker. If the pre-cinema animation device industry wants to survive, theyre going to have to adapt. At press time, Charli DAmelio had reportedly signed a deal to star in three zoetropes in which she will appear to juggle bowling pins.The post Study Finds Young People Now Watch More YouTube Content Than Zoetropes Of Galloping Horses appeared first on The Onion.

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Author Sophie Kinsella poses on Wimbledon Village high street, London, Sept. 9, 2004. (AP Photo/Adam Butle, File)2025-12-10T13:30:47Z LONDON (AP) Sophie Kinsella, the author of Confessions of a Shopaholic and a series of millions-selling rom-com sequels, died Monday, her family said. She was 55 and had been diagnosed with brain cancer.The family said in a statement on Kinsellas Instagram account: We are heartbroken to announce the passing this morning of our beloved Sophie (aka Maddy, aka Mummy). She died peacefully, with her final days filled with her true loves: family and music and warmth and Christmas and joy.We cant imagine what life will be like without her radiance and love of life.Kinsella, who also published under her real name, Madeleine Wickham, announced in April 2024 that she had been diagnosed in late 2022 with glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer.I did not share this before because I wanted to make sure that my children were able to hear and process the news in privacy and adapt to our new normal, she said at the time. Starting in 2000 with The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic, titled Confessions of a Shopaholic in the United States, Kinsella published 10 Shopaholic novels, along with other fiction. Her books have sold more than 45 million copies worldwide and have been translated into dozens of languages.The first two Shopaholic books were adapted into the 2009 film Confessions of a Shopaholic, starring Isla Fisher and Hugh Dancy. From journalism to fictionKinsella did not grow up intending to be a writer. One of three girls born to teachers in London, she played piano and violin as a child and also composed music.She told author-publisher Zibby Owens on her podcast, Moms Dont Have Time to Read Books, that the idea of writing never crossed her mind. It wasnt my childhood ambition. I wasnt the child walking around saying, Im going to write a novel one day.Kinsella enrolled at Oxford University to study music but switched to the politics, philosophy and economics program after one year. While at college, she met local musician Henry Wickham and fell in love. The couple had four sons and a daughter.After graduating, Kinsella began working as a financial journalist and spent her commute reading. The idea to write fiction herself began to take shape on the train.She published her debut novel, The Tennis Party, in 1995 when she was 24, as Madeleine Wickham. Soon after, she left her journalism job to focus on writing. Six other books, including The Gatecrasher and Sleeping Arrangements, followed.Shopaholic successAn otherwise normal shopping excursion sparked the idea for writing her first Shopaholic novelI remember looking around me and thinking... We all shop... We talk about it. We do it. We rejoice in it. We make bad decisions. Why hasnt anybody written about this? Kinsella said in 2019 on The Sunday Salon with Alice-Azania Jarvis podcast.Kinsella created a story about Becy Bloomwood, a 20-something financial journalist in debt from a shopping habit she cant (or wont) kick. The novel contained hilarious back-and-forth correspondence with bill collectors and banks, where she would make excuses for late payments. Kinsella told The Associated Press in an interview that the letters were one of the most fun bits of writing. There was also a love story with a handsome businessman whom Becky met while on assignment. She went on to marry and have a mini-shopaholic daughter in future books. Confessions of a Shopaholic had a different tone and style than her earlier books, so she decided to submit it to her publishers under the pen name Sophie Kinsella. Her middle name was Sophie and Kinsella was her mothers maiden name.The publishers said yes, and Shopaholic was published in 2000 under her pseudonym. The novel, blending humor with a cautionary tale about getting in over your head with debt, was an immediate success.Becky was kind of like a pioneer in realizing that all this easy credit can lead to problems, Kinsella told The AP.Kinsella also wrote The Undomestic Goddess, Remember Me? and Twenties Girl. A young adult novel, Finding Audrey, was released in 2015, followed by the childrens book series My Mummy Fairy and Me.Her novel Can You Keep a Secret? was adapted into a film starring Alexandra Daddario and Tyler Hoechlin in 2019. Her last novel was The Burnout, released in 2023. Illness and hopeIn November 2022, after experiencing symptoms like memory loss, headaches and balance troubles, Kinsella was diagnosed with glioblastoma, for which there is no cure. She kept the news private until April 2024. In an interview with TV personality Robin Roberts aired a few months later, Kinsella said she was focused on living in the moment. Ive already lasted more than the average. Thats how we get through. We hope, she said.After her diagnosis, she wrote a novella, What Does It Feel Like, about a woman with five children who has brain cancer.I thought people might be curious to know what its like to go through this, Kinsella told Roberts. I hope its full of optimism and love most of all.___Rancilio reported from Detroit. JILL LAWLESS Lawless is an Associated Press reporter covering U.K. politics and more. She is based in London. twitter mailto ALICIA RANCILIO Rancilio covers entertainment for The Associated Press using video and text. 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Google suspended a mobile app developers accounts after he uploaded AI training data to his Google Drive. Unbeknownst to him, the widely used dataset, which is cited in a number of academic papers and distributed via an academic file sharing site, contained child sexual abuse material. The developer reported the dataset to a child safety organization, which eventually resulted in the datasets removal, but he claims Googles has been "devastating.A message from Google said his account has content that involves a child being sexually abused or exploited. This is a severe violation of Google's policies and might be illegal.The incident shows how AI training data, which is collected by indiscriminately scraping the internet, can impact people who use it without realizing it contains illegal images. The incident also shows how hard it is to identify harmful images in training data composed of millions of images, which in this case were only discovered accidentally by a lone developer who tripped Googles automated moderation tools.Have you discovered harmful materials in AI training data ? I would love to hear from you. Using a non-work device, you can message me securely on Signal at @emanuel.404. Otherwise, send me an email at emanuel@404media.co.In October, I wrote about the NudeNet dataset, which contains more than 700,000 images scraped from the internet, and which is used to train AI image classifiers to automatically detect nudity. The Canadian Centre for Child Protection (C3P) said it found more than 120 images of identified or known victims of CSAM in the dataset, including nearly 70 images focused on the genital or anal area of children who are confirmed or appear to be pre-pubescent. In some cases, images depicting sexual or abusive acts involving children and teenagers such as fellatio or penile-vaginal penetration, C3P said.In October, Lloyd Richardson, C3P's director of technology, told me that the organization decided to investigate the NudeNet training data after getting a tip from an individual via its cyber tipline that it might contain CSAM. After I published that story, a developer named Mark Russo contacted me to say that hes the individual who tipped C3P, but that hes still suffering the consequences of his discovery.Russo, an independent developer, told me he was working on an on-device NSFW image detector. The app runs locally and can detect images locally so the content stays private. To benchmark his tool, Russo used NudeNet, a publicly available dataset thats cited in a number of academic papers about content moderation. Russo unzipped the dataset into his Google Drive. Shortly after, his Google account was suspended for inappropriate material.On July 31, Russo lost access to all the services associated with his Google account, including his Gmail of 14 years, Firebase, the platform that serves as the backend for his apps, AdMob, the mobile app monetization platform, and Google Cloud.This wasnt just disruptive it was devastating. I rely on these tools to develop, monitor, and maintain my apps, Russo wrote on his personal blog. With no access, Im flying blind.Russo filed an appeal of Googles decision the same day, explaining that the images came from NudeNet, which he believed was a reputable research dataset with only adult content. Google acknowledged the appeal, but upheld its suspension, and rejected a second appeal as well. He is still locked out of his Google account and the Google services associated with it.Russo also contacted the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) and C3P. C3P investigated the dataset, found CSAM, and notified Academic Torrents, where the NudeNet dataset was hosted, which removed it.As C3P noted at the time, NudeNet was cited or used by more than 250 academic works. A non-exhaustive review of 50 of those academic projects found 134 made use of the NudeNet dataset, and 29 relied on the NudeNet classifier or model. But Russo is the only developer we know about who was banned for using it, and the only one who reported it to an organization that investigated that dataset and led to its removal.After I reached out for comment, Google investigated Russos account again and reinstated it.Google is committed to fighting the spread of CSAM and we have robust protections against the dissemination of this type of content, a Google spokesperson told me in an email. In this case, while CSAM was detected in the user account, the review should have determined that the user's upload was non-malicious. The account in question has been reinstated, and we are committed to continuously improving our processes.I understand Im just an independent developerthe kind of person Google doesnt care about, Russo told me. But thats exactly why this story matters. Its not just about me losing access; its about how the same systems that claim to fight abuse are silencing legitimate research and innovation through opaque automation [...]I tried to do the right thing and I was punished.

Nature, Published online: 10 December 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-03942-4Pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest malignancies, and it is increasingly occurring in young people especially women. An uptick in research funding is a welcome development in the push to transform treatment.

Nature, Published online: 10 December 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-03944-2Cellular, animal and computational models of the disease are providing fresh insights into biology and treatment.

Nature, Published online: 10 December 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-03946-0Surgeon George Hanna is developing a non-invasive test to catch one of the deadliest cancers before its too late.

Nature, Published online: 10 December 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-03948-yUnpacking risk factors, disease aggressiveness and other key work.

Nature, Published online: 10 December 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-03943-3A growing body of research suggests tumours rely on proteins and genes that are unique to the nervous system to persist in the body.

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Members of the California National Guard and U.S. Marines guard a federal building on Tuesday, June 17, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)2025-12-10T15:14:42Z The Trump administration must stop deploying the California National Guard in Los Angeles and return control of the troops to the state, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer in San Francisco granted a preliminary injunction sought by California officials who opposed President Donald Trumps extraordinary move to use state Guard troops without the governors approval to further his immigration enforcement efforts. But he also put the decision on hold until Monday.California argued that conditions in Los Angeles had changed since Trump first took command of the troops and deployed them in June. The administration initially called up more than 4,000 California National Guard troops but that number had dropped to several hundred by late October. Only a 100 or so troops remain in the Los Angeles area.The Republican administration extended the deployment until February while also trying to use California Guard members in Portland, Oregon as part of its effort to send the military into Democratic-run cities over the objections of mayors and governors. U.S. Justice Department lawyers said the administration still needed Guard members in the Los Angeles area to help protect federal personnel and property. An email to the White House seeking comment on Wednesdays ruling was not immediately returned. Stay up to date with the news and the best of AP by following our WhatsApp channel. Follow on Trump took command of the California National Guard following protests over his stepped-up enforcement of immigration laws. The call up was the first time in decades that a states national guard was activated without a request from its governor and marked a significant escalation in the administrations efforts to carry out its mass deportation policy. The troops were stationed outside a federal detention center in downtown Los Angeles where protesters gathered and later sent on the streets to protect immigration officers as they made arrests. California sued, and Breyer issued a temporary restraining order that required the administration to return control of the Guard members to California. An appeals court panel, however, put that decision on hold. California argued that the president was using Guard members as his personal police force in violation of a law limiting the use of the military in domestic affairs.The administration said courts could not second-guess the presidents decision that violence during the protests made it impossible for him to execute U.S. laws with regular forces and reflected a rebellion, or danger of rebellion. In September, Breyer ruled after a trial that the deployment violated the law. Other judges have blocked the administration from deploying National Guard troops to Portland, Oregon, and Chicago.

This photo provided by the New York State Sex Offender Registry shows Jeffrey Epstein, March 28, 2017. (New York State Sex Offender Registry via AP, File)2025-12-10T14:58:28Z NEW YORK (AP) Secret grand jury transcripts from Jeffrey Epsteins 2019 sex trafficking case can be made public, a judge ruled Wednesday, joining two other judges in granting the Justice Departments requests to unseal material from investigations into the late financiers sexual abuse.U.S. District Judge Richard M. Berman reversed his earlier decision to keep the material under wraps, citing a new law that requires the government to open its files on Epstein and his longtime confidant Ghislaine Maxwell. The judge previously cautioned that the 70 or so pages of grand jury materials slated for release are hardly revelatory.On Tuesday, a different Manhattan federal judge ordered the release of records from Maxwells 2021 sex trafficking case. Last week, a judge in Florida approved the unsealing of transcripts from an abandoned Epstein federal grand jury investigation in the 2000s. The Justice Department asked the judges to lift secrecy orders after the Epstein Files Transparency Act, passed by Congress and signed into law by President Donald Trump last month, created a narrow exception to rules that normally keep grand jury proceedings confidential. The law requires that the Justice Department disclose Epstein-related records to the public by Dec. 19. Stay up to date with the news and the best of AP by following our WhatsApp channel. Follow on Questions about the governments Epstein files have dominated the first year of Trumps second term, with pressure on the Republican intensifying after he reneged on a campaign promise to release the files. His administration released some material, most of it already public, disappointing critics and some allies. Epstein, a millionaire money manager known for socializing with celebrities, politicians, billionaires and the academic elite, killed himself in jail a month after his 2019 arrest. Maxwell was convicted in 2021 by a federal jury of sex trafficking for helping recruit some of Epsteins underage victims and participating in some of the abuse. She is serving a 20-year prison sentence. In court filings, the Justice Department informed Berman that the only witness to testify before the Epstein grand jury was an FBI agent who, the judge noted, had no direct knowledge of the facts of the case and whose testimony was mostly hearsay.The agent testified over two days, on June 18, 2019, and July 2, 2019. The rest of the grand jury presentation consisted of a PowerPoint slideshow and a call log. The July 2 session, which ended with grand jurors voting to indict Epstein. Both of those will also remain sealed, Berman ruled.___Follow the APs coverage of Jeffrey Epstein at https://apnews.com/hub/jeffrey-epstein. MICHAEL R. SISAK Sisak is an Associated Press reporter covering law enforcement, courts and prisons. He is based in New York. twitter mailto

Nature, Published online: 10 December 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-03950-4From lectures by avatars to entire qualifications, higher education centred around AI is just around the corner.

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Nature, Published online: 10 December 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-03952-2A description of the terminology and methodology used in this supplement, and a guide to the functionality that is available free online at natureindex.com.

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President Donald Trump speaks at the Mount Airy Casino Resort in Mount Pocono, Pa., Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)2025-12-10T16:25:42Z WASHINGTON (AP) As he shook President Barack Obamas hand and pulled him in for what he thought was a private aside, Vice President Joe Biden delivered an explicit message: This is a big f deal. The remark, overheard on live microphones at a 2010 ceremony for the Affordable Care Act, caused a sensation because open profanity from a national leader was unusual at the time.More than 15 years later, vulgarity is now in vogue.During a political rally Tuesday night in Pennsylvania that was intended to focus on tackling inflation, President Donald Trump used profanity at least four times. At one point, he even admitted to disparaging Haiti and African nations as shithole countries during a private 2018 meeting, a comment he denied at the time. And before a bank of cameras during a lengthy Cabinet meeting last week, the Republican president referred to alleged drug smugglers as sons of b-s. While the Biden incident was accidental, the frequency, sharpness and public nature of Trumps comments are intentional. They build on his project to combat what he sees as pervasive political correctness. Leaders in both parties are seemingly in a race now to the verbal gutter. Vice President JD Vance called a podcast host a dipst in September. In Thanksgiving remarks before troops, Vance joked that anyone who said they liked turkey was full of s-. After one National Guard member was killed in a shooting in Washington last month and a second was critically injured, top Trump aide Steven Cheung told a reporter on social media to shut the f- up when she wrote that the deployment of troops in the nations capital was for political show. Among Democrats, former Vice President Kamala Harris earned a roar of approval from her audience in September when she condemned the Trump administration by saying these mother- are crazy. After Trump called for the execution of several Democratic members of Congress last month, Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., said it was time for people with influence to pick a f side. Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer of New York said the administration cannot f- around with the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files. Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett, who on Monday announced her Senate campaign in Texas, did not hold back earlier this year when asked what she would tell Elon Musk if given the chance: F- off. The volley of vulgarities underscore an ever-coarsening political environment that often plays out on social media or other digital platforms where the posts or video clips that evoke the strongest emotions are rewarded with the most engagement. If you want to be angry at someone, be angry at the social media companies, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox, a Republican, said Tuesday night at Washington National Cathedral, where he spoke at an event focused on political civility. Its not a fair fight. Theyve hijacked our brains. They understand these dopamine hits. Outrage sells.Cox, whose national profile rose after calling for civility in the wake of conservative activist Charlie Kirks assassination in his state, approved an overhaul of social media laws meant to protect children. A federal judge has temporarily blocked the state law. Tough political talk is nothing newTough talk is nothing new in politics, but leaders long avoided flaunting it.Recordings from Democrat Lyndon B. Johnsons administration, for instance, revealed a crude, profane side of his personality that was largely kept private. Republican Richard Nixon bemoaned the fact that the foul language he used in the Oval Office was captured on tape. Since neither I nor most other Presidents had ever used profanity in public, millions were shocked, Nixon wrote in his book In the Arena.Politicians have always sworn, just behind closed doors, said Benjamin Bergen, a professor at the University of California-San Diegos Department of Cognitive Science and the author of What the F: What swearing reveals about our language, our brains, and ourselves. The big change is in the past 10 years or so, its been much more public. As both parties prepare for the 2026 midterm elections and the 2028 presidential campaign, the question is whether this language will become increasingly mainstream. Republicans who simply try to imitate Trumps brash style do not always succeed with voters. Democrats who turn to vulgarities risk appearing inauthentic if their words feel forced. For some, it is just a distraction.Its not necessary, said GOP Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska, who is retiring next year after winning five elections in one of the most competitive House districts. If thats what it takes to get your point across, youre not a good communicator. There are risks of overusing profanityThere also is a risk that if such language becomes overused, its utility as a way to shock and connect with audiences could be dulled. Comedian Jerry Seinfeld has talked about this problem, noting that he used swear words in his early routines but dropped them as his career progressed because he felt profanity yielded only cheap laughs. I felt like well I just got a laugh because I said f- in there, he said in a 2020 interview on the WTF podcast with fellow comedian Marc Maron. You didnt find the gold. White House spokesperson Liz Huston said Trump doesnt care about being politically correct, he cares about Making America Great Again. The American people love how authentic, transparent, and effective the President is.But for Trump, the words that have generated the most controversy are often less centered in traditional profanity than slurs that can be interpreted as hurtful. The final weeks of his 2016 campaign were rocked when a tape emerged of him discussing grabbing women by their genitals, language he minimized as locker room talk. His shithole remark in 2018 was widely condemned as racist.More recently, Trump called a female journalist piggy, comments that his press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, defended as evidence of a president who is very frank and honest. Trumps use of a slur about disabled people prompted an Indiana Republican whose child has Down syndrome to come out in opposition to the presidents push to redraw the states congressional districts. On rare occasions, politicians express contrition for their choice of words. In an interview with The Atlantic published last week, Gov. Josh Shapiro, D-Pa., dismissed Harris depiction of him in her book about last years presidential campaign by saying she was trying to sell books and cover her a. He seemed to catch himself quickly. I shouldnt say cover her a, he said. I think thats not appropriate.

Nature, Published online: 10 December 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09854-7Comprehensive large-scale studies of multi-national populations identified microbiome species consistently associated with favourable and unfavourable health markers, informing future studies of the human gut microbiome and its association with diet and cardiometabolic conditions.

Nature, Published online: 10 December 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-03945-1The disease is often caught too late to affect a persons prognosis scientists are looking to change that.