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- The top 25 stories curated by editors and fellow readers! From the Editor's Desk America Does Not Have One President at a Time - Foreign Policy (No paywall) Then came the phone calls. Some, such as the five-minute call with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, carried promises of follow-up meetings. Others lasted longer as foreign leaders sought assurances about the president-elect’s policy intentions. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky reportedly came away from his 25-minute call somewhat reassured, despite Trump’s prior pledge to end Kyiv’s war with Russia before he took office. Then came the phone calls. Some, such as the five-minute call with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, carried promises of follow-up meetings. Others lasted longer as foreign leaders sought assurances about the president-elect’s policy intentions. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky reportedly came away from his 25-minute call somewhat reassured, despite Trump’s prior pledge to end Kyiv’s war with Russia before he took office. Continued here TradeBriefs: Newsletters for Decision-Makers! Work Zelensky says war will 'end sooner' once Trump becomes president Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says he is certain the war with Russia will "end sooner" than it otherwise would have done once Donald Trump becomes US president. Work Ukraine war briefing: Zelenskyy says war will a??end soonera?? once Trump enters White House Russia's leading tanker group, Sovcomflot, said on Friday that western sanctions on Russian oil tankers were limiting its financial performance, as it reported falling revenues and core earnings. The US imposed sanctions on Sovcomflot in February, part of Washington's efforts to reduce Russia's revenues from oil sales that it can use to finance its war in Ukraine. 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Work Trumps Cabinet And Key Roles: Karoline Leavitt For Press Secretary, Steven Cheung For Communications Director Among Latest Picks - Forbes (No paywall) President-elect Donald Trump selected his campaigns lead press secretary Karoline Leavitt as White House press secretary Friday, not long after he selected campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung as White House communications directorthe latest choices for top-level administrative posts, as Trump has made a flurry of appointments since winning the election last week. Work Trumps top team sets stage for White House power grab - WSJ (No paywall) WASHINGTONIn naming a set of unconventional nominees to run federal departments, Donald Trump this week also took steps to push for a broader goal: realigning the balance of power among Washingtons major institutions so that more authority flows from the White House. Work How Big Toilet Paper dupes us all Our mission could not be more clear and more necessary: We have a duty to explain what just happened, and why, and what it means for you. We need clear-eyed journalism that helps you understand what really matters. Reporting that brings clarity in increasingly chaotic times. Reporting that is driven by truth, not by what people in power want you to believe. Work Hackers now use ZIP file concatenation to evade detection Hackers are targeting Windows machines using the ZIP file concatenation technique to deliver malicious payloads in compressed archives without security solutions detecting them. The technique exploits the different methods ZIP parsers and archive managers handle concatenated ZIP files. 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Work There's been 20 Netflix No. 1 shows so far in 2024 -- here's the 5 worth watching now We're heading into the last few months of 2024. In these 43 weeks, 20 Netflix shows have laid claim to the No. 1 spot, according to Netflix's global chart. Work Running out of Gmail storage? How to get another 15GB for free (and not lose anything) Anytime you create a new email account using Google, you get 15GB of storage, which is generous for coming with no price tag. But that 15GB can fill up quickly, especially because that chunk of data storage includes any videos and pictures you download to Google Drive and Google Photos. Work Google DeepMind is making its AI text watermark open source The tool, called SynthID, is part of a larger family of watermarking tools for generative AI outputs. The company unveiled a watermark for images last year, and it has since rolled out one for AI-generated video. Work Some patients are paying up to $50,000 per year in fees for concierge medicine. 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Work It's the Illness That Has No Cure. but This Doctor Believes He's Found the Answer to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Chronic fatigue and long Covid remain poorly understood, but Dr Perrin's unusual techniques are having surprisingly positive results. Work A Love Song to the Philippines: The Revolutionary Power of Jessica Hagedorn's 'Dogeaters' Dogeaters wasn't just the first Filipino American novel I ever read; it was the first work of literary fiction I picked up on my own outside of a classroom. I was in my mid-twenties. I had already ... Work My Colleague Repeats Herself Constantly And I'm losing my mind. I work with an older woman who repeats herself constantly. She has the same three jokes and says them daily, and expects us all to laugh and/or respond as if we haven't heard them before. I notice my younger colleagues nodding and smiling. I am less genteel. Work I built a 'tiny house' Airbnb hotel and sold it for $7 million. Here's why I decided to walk away when I did. 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Work These companies are creating food out of thin air Dried cells--it's what's for dinner. At least that's what a new crop of biotech startups, armed with carbon-guzzling bacteria and plenty of capital, are hoping to convince us. Their claims sound too good to be true: They say they can make food out of thin air. Work 6 Rules for Better, More Inclusive Economic Development in Cities Urban leaders need to kick the incentive habit and take a more inclusive approach to growing local economies. Work The Highs and Lows of Running Your First Marathon, By the Numbers How to run 26.2 miles the hard way. Work 10 Underrated Family Classics to Watch With Your Kids These movies are too good to be forgotten. Work Debating the 'Healthy Longevity Initiative' With non-communicable diseases in focus, a World Bank report proposes a healthy longevity initiative which takes a life course approach Work Whats Going On With Trumps Cabinet? Live Updates. - Intelligencer (No paywall) President-elect Donald Trump isnt wasting any time reminding everyone what its going to be like when Donald Trump is president. He continues to announce his various picks for his next Cabinet, rewarding his most loyal allies, setting the tenor for what his second administration will try to accomplish, and showing little apparent concern over what anybody else will think. His most contentious picks include (now former) congressman Matt Gaetz as attorney general, Fox News host Pete Hegseth as Defense secretary, and vaccine conspiracy proponent Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Health and Human Services secretary. Below are live updates on Trumps latest Cabinet picks, along with some of the reactions, concerns, and commentary that follows. 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Work Why Canada Dry's 'made from real ginger' claim isn't on U.S. cans Emily Scott grew up drinking ginger beer in the Caribbean, so when her son brought some Canada Dry Ginger Ale over, she thought she'd give it a go. But if she were sipping a Canada Dry in the U.S., she might have been less surprised. Work Quentin Tarantino's favorite thriller of 2020 is now on Netflix Despite being one of only two movies Quentin Tarantino said he would have paid to see in theaters during the pandemic, Unhinged feels like a movie that's perfectly concocted for a great night on Netflix. Work Highly Confident People Avoid These 14 Behaviors Those who are certain of themselves tend to avoid these actions. Work Japan's Unusual Way to View the World Wabi-sabi offers a refuge from the modern world's obsession with perfection, and accepts imperfections as all the more meaningful - and, in their own way, beautiful. Work Will New Battery-Powered Trains Replace Diesel, and Are They Safe? Manufacturers see lithium power as the future of rail travel in the UK - but the trains could pose unique challenges. Work How 3 Companies Are Using AI to Mimic Expert Judgement - Harvard Business Review (No paywall) Advanced AI is facilitating the transfer of expertise from humans to machines and back to humans like never before. This article examines three cases of where this has occurred and suggests how these advances in technology could boost the effectiveness of your decision making to improve competitiveness. The companies include a venture capital firm looking to improve initial vetting of investment opportunities, a satellite data analytics company looking to assess the credit risks of small-holder farmers, and the R&D unit of an Australian company looking to upskill its employees problem-solving skills. Work How Public Key Cryptography Really Works, Using Only Simple Math The security system that underlies the internet makes use of a curious fact: You can broadcast part of your encryption to make your information much more secure. Introduction For thousands of years, if you wanted to send a secret message, there was basically one way to do it. Work Distraught Amazon employees send AWS chief open letter against RTO policy, calling it an 'outright abdication' of its role as industry leader On Wednesday, 523 employees in the Amazon Web Services division sent its chief executive, Matt Garman, an open letter detailing their frustration with the new policy. Work The Painful Pleasures of a Tattoo Convention The art endures partly because it's rooted in the moment--the surrender of one person to another. 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