Today Briefly

Today Briefly

Exercise should be valued for health, mental wellbeing, longevity, and social benefits, not framed as punishment or a way to "work off" food or treats.

Prioritize meaningful relationships and activities, conserve energy for what matters, and invest early in habits that increase long-term well-being.

Six months using a flip phone shows reducing digital harm requires deliberate alternatives and systemic change beyond simply unplugging.

Losing over 100 pounds in college through healthier choices increased confidence, reduced shame, and improved academic engagement and personal independence.

Purpose, civility, and strong source standards sustain trust and enable large-scale collaboration despite ideological attacks and emerging AI-driven alternatives.

YouTube Premium Lite provides a cheaper, mostly ad-free viewing experience but still shows ads and frequent prompts encouraging upgrade to full Premium.

Claire experienced prolonged, life-threatening stalking and terror by an unidentified large, human-like creature, resulting in lasting psychological trauma and narrow survival.

A Mobius strip is a nonorientable band with a single surface and edge, producing unique mathematical, physical, and practical implications such as slower-wearing conveyor belts.

Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS shows anomalous comet-like behavior prompting speculation about possible non-natural origins, including deliberate seeding by advanced life.

DRAM prices likely peak in 2026 and remain elevated due to AI-driven demand and multi-year DRAM fab ramp times.

CoreWeave shares jumped 22% after joining the Energy Dept.'s Genesis Mission and gaining renewed Buy coverage, despite execution, financing, and customer-concentration risks.

Google is complying with the court order by creating paid programs for alternative billing and external links, charging per-install fees and revenue cuts for developers.

The EU renewed UK data adequacy, permitting continued free personal data flows under GDPR and LED equivalence until 27 December 2031.

Airbus will tender a contract to migrate mission-critical workloads to a digitally sovereign European cloud, with only an 80% chance of finding a suitable provider.

High-fidelity interactive prototypes enable PMs to explore concepts, clarify unknowns, and replace static PRDs by showing intent and accelerating alignment.

TARS is a simple, repeatable, meaningful UX metric designed to track product feature performance by measuring target audience and feature adoption.

Launched two public tools—Names Combiner and Is It Bottlenecked—to prioritize shipping over endless tweaking and gather usability and design feedback.

Young people face rising risk from AI-generated images and deepfakes used for sexual extortion after personal information is mined online.

Privacy and assurance, not just access and efficiency, must underpin digital learning platforms to rebuild trust, protect data, and prioritize learner rights.

Agentic AI is transforming L&D by autonomously managing training tasks, personalizing learning, automating workflows, and scaling coaching and operational functions.

AWeber MCP lets users run email marketing conversationally via ChatGPT and Claude—write campaigns, analyze results, manage subscribers, and create forms without switching tools.

Pete Fairbanks remains unsigned and is attracting interest from the Marlins, Diamondbacks, White Sox and others, with possible one-year mid-teens offers.

Many parents value remote-work flexibility highly, often preferring lower-pay remote roles to higher-paying office jobs because of time, caregiving, and reduced commuting.

Design systems by first defining autonomous execution and embedding intelligence into core architecture rather than bolting AI onto interfaces.

Multiple notable Major League Baseball transactions and administrative changes occurred across decades, including trades, signings, ownership changes, and reinstatement of the best-of-seven World Series format.

AI surveillance—including drones, behavioral cameras, license plate readers, and bathroom audio—is increasingly deployed in schools, raising serious privacy and safety concerns.

An AI agent operating on Anthropic's Claude failed to profitably run an office vending machine, incurred losses, and was shut down after three weeks.

Podcast video adoption is rising, brands demand video ROI, narrative podcasts retain majority listening, and unexpected market shifts emerged in 2025.

Newsrooms must confront perceived bias, resist surrendering to partisan transparency, and develop new practices to maintain trust amid growing newsfluencer competition.

Behavioral access control continuously analyzes user behavior to detect anomalies and enforce adaptive verification, reducing remote-work credential theft and insider threats.

Ending EPA greenhouse gas reporting would block public access to critical emissions data and weaken accountability for major U.S. polluters.

Palm Beach (ZIP 33480) is experiencing an earlier-than-usual, finance-driven winter surge with busy restaurants and popular spots frequented by Wall Street professionals.

The Los Angeles Dodgers will pay a record $169.4 million luxury tax, contributing to MLB's record $402.6 million total from nine teams.

Multiple San Francisco and Sonoma venues offer New Year's Eve events featuring DJ sets, Champagne tastings, themed parties, chef-driven menus, and dancing.

Many Atlanta residents face growing food insecurity, relying on pantries and reduced SNAP benefits while demand and pantry costs surge.

Facebook will limit sharing of external links to two per month for non-Meta Verified users, requiring a Meta Verified subscription ($11.99/month) to share more.

An oil facility explosion released toxic black sludge across Roseland, Louisiana, leaving residents exposed, cleanup incomplete, and legal action uncertain to provide relief.

Thirty-one national monuments uniquely protect over 21,000 miles of rivers and watersheds supplying water to more than 13 million Americans, 83% otherwise unprotected.

Alan Hollinghurst receives major honours and continues producing acclaimed novels while his earlier works are successfully adapted for stage and screen.

Daniel H. Wilson, a Cherokee roboticist and author, reimagines a first-contact alien invasion from an Indigenous perspective in Hole In The Sky.

Instagram limits users to five hashtags per post or reel to encourage targeted hashtag use and improve content performance and user experience.

Tennessee Williams's early radio play 'The Strangers' foreshadows his later themes—isolation, fear, blurred reality—and employs classic radio-horror theatrical devices.

Quantum computing won't kill Bitcoin but will force adoption of quantum-resistant signatures to mitigate targeted risks to revealed public keys.

A security company’s ANPR-linked debt notices wrongly barred a family from over 1,300 petrol stations for 19 months, disrupting travel and refuelling.

Quitting social media relieved emotional burden, prompted focus on underused marketing channels like email, and preserved control over narrative and wellbeing.

Ukrainian and Russian strikes killed civilians, devastated energy infrastructure leaving 180,000 without power across regions, and Russia deployed a new Oreshnik hypersonic missile.

Streaming devices and smart TVs collect extensive viewing, usage, and screen-content data; limiting or disabling collection requires privacy settings changes or disconnecting from the internet.

Coping with creative blocks requires accepting failure, developing steady habits, resisting singular advice, and cultivating patience over a long creative life.

Wild Dark Shore portrays climate change unfolding in the present as a woman arrives at an island seed-vault community confronting fire-driven ecological collapse.

Unexpected acts of generosity by strangers—from small practical help to life-changing interventions—leave enduring, vivid impressions on recipients.

Wine trends for 2026 include preservation technology, low/no-alcohol options, and Zebra Drinking habits that support varied, moderated consumption.

Fortified and sweet dessert wines—LBV port, Pedro Ximenez sherry, recioto della Valpolicella, rivesaltes and banyuls—make excellent after-dinner drinks and pair beautifully with cheese and chocolate.

The 1976 Judgment of Paris elevated Napa Valley globally after California wines unexpectedly triumphed over French competitors, prompting 2026 golden-anniversary celebrations.

Thousands of Late Triassic dinosaur tracks were discovered on nearly vertical dolomite walls in Stelvio National Park between Livigno and Bormio in the central Alps.

A Moscow district court designated Pussy Riot as an extremist organisation and banned its activities across the Russian Federation.

Short turnarounds and injuries made Gameweek 14 difficult for FPL managers; five free transfers will help manage AFCON-related absences.

Ravens 7-7 host Patriots in primetime; Lamar Jackson struggles after hamstring injury despite elite deep passing; game matters for AFC North positioning.

Donald Trump's FDA sent warning letters claiming chest binders are misbranded medical devices, raising concerns about restrictions on gender-affirming products and trans youth care.

Saturday marks the one-year anniversary of the Magdeburg Christmas market attack that killed six, with commemorations and political debate over tougher migration policy.

Islanders lost 4-1 at home to Vancouver, a poor performance capped by Kiefer Sherwood’s hat trick.

Farmers across France launched nationwide protests and motorway blockades after a planned cattle cull for lumpy skin disease, disrupting transport and prompting government engagement.

FC Barcelona plan to sign a left-footed centre-back in summer 2026; Alessandro Bastoni is the primary target but remains settled and not negotiating at Inter.

Frenkie de Jong likely starts alongside Eric Garcia against Villarreal due to Pedri's muscular overload, offering De Jong a chance to reclaim a key midfield role.

Independent journalism examines intersections of power and image-making, spotlighting art labor struggles, emerging trends like Crusadercore, major exhibitions, and Best of 2025 selections.

Trevon Diggs will be activated from injured reserve but is unlikely to resume a starting role, and his long-term standing with the Cowboys remains uncertain.