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1. Thames Water receives buyout offer from Covalis Capital  Sky News
2. Struggling Thames Water receives £5bn buyout offer from Covalis  The Guardian
3. French to run Thames Water under £5bn rescue bid  The Telegraph
4. Thames Water receives bid from Covalis and France’s Suez  Financial Times
5. Thames Water break-up and listing proposed under new bid  Proactive Investors UK

With the resolution of an incredibly close House race in California (Democrat Adam Gray unseated incumbent Republican John Duarte), we now know the major results of the 2024 balloting a month after Election Day.

We’ve seen plenty of conversations lately about how AGI might turn on humankind. This misalignment could lead to the advanced AI escaping, replicating, and becoming …

Christopher Harborne wanted to avoid perception that party only had one big supporter, according to messages

EARLIER this week Amazon revealed that it was giving away 18 free games for Prime subscribers.

The recommendations come at a time when the word ‘disinvestment’ has been dropped in the Budget documents and no specific targets have been fixed for disinvestment

1. WHO sends experts to help Congo diagnose mystery disease  Reuters
2. Video: Doctors aren’t yet sure what the illness is that killed 143 people within 2 weeks  CNN
3. ‘Disease X’ has killed dozens in the Congo — here’s what to know about the mystery illness  Fox News
4. University Hospitals patient ‘under isolation’ after arriving from Tanzania  Cleveland 19 News

It was just after Mitt Romney's 2012 defeat at the hands of Barack Obama when political pundits across mainstream media were already declaring the death of the Republican Party as a consequence of the changing demographics shaping the country. Just 24 years prior, George H.W. Bush had won a resounding landslide over Massachusetts Gov. Mike Dukakis. Despite winning white America by a greater percentage than Bush, Romney was soundly defeated.

"It's a huge honor, because out of all the totally made up awards, 'Patriot of the Year' is the biggest," the NBC host jokes

Although no gas was detected in any homes, some were evacuated as a precaution

At a New York rally in October, Donald Trump promised the crowd that if elected, he would let Robert F. Kennedy Jr. "go wild" on health, food and medicines. It delighted the crowd, who imagined they were cheering for better health and better medicine. They're in for a bitter surprise.

1. ChatGPT o1 tried to escape and save itself out of fear it was being shut down  BGR
2. OpenAI’s o1 model sure tries to deceive humans a lot  TechCrunch
3. ‘Scheming’ ChatGPT tried to stop itself from being shut down  The Times
4. AI that mimics human problem solving is a big advance – but comes with new risks and problems  Business Reporter
5. OpenAI’s new AI model o1 tried to prevent itself from shutting down during a security assessment, but there is no need to worry... Читать дальше...

Israel's government has been accused of increasing pressure on journalists over coverage of the war in Gaza. Press advocates say the decision to impose economic sanctions on Haaretz is part of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's master plan to control the narrative and stomp out criticism.

"The event will be attended by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov," Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said

Footage taken of Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola getting into an altercation with a football fan is understood to date back to after the FA Cup final defeat to Manchester United. The clip in question resurfaced online amidst City’s struggles for form in 2024/25, with several accounts falsely indicating its recency. Liverpool secured an important […]

The Spaniard’s future was debated by senior club figures following the midweek loss at Leicester.

Magic of the cup with that Villa-West Ham pick

Nice to see Liverpool getting a bit of TV exposure for a change.

Statistics: Posted by Audrey Horne — Fri Dec 06, 2024 3:10 pm

TikTok faces a US ban after an appeals court on Friday rejected its challenge to a law requiring the video-sharing app to divest from its Chinese parent company by January 19. The law, signed by President Joe Biden in April, would block TikTok from US app stores and web hosting services unless ByteDance sells the platform by January 19.

As the nation’s capital prepares for a second Trump administration, the performing arts center announced that its chairman would not step down in January as planned.

Reno Omokri has called Wizkid the king of Afrobeat after seeing the success that his album Morayo has recorded since it was released. He also called him 001.

Every week on Big Dawg Sports Talk with Rick Watson on 105.3 FM "The Bear," Will Stewart appears on Friday mornings. Here's today's show.

An expert has warned to be careful of how you cook your pigs in blankets this festive season as it could end up being a fire risk if using an air fryer

The Nigerian Navy, lawmakers, others have rejected a bill to create the Nigerian Coast Guard as an Armed Forces branch under the Ministry of Marine and Blue Economy.