Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> "Rust" world premiere set for next month's Camerimage festival in Poland, three years after the on-set shooting death of the film's cinematographer Halyna Hutchins (More)
> Country music star Garth Brooks accused in lawsuit of 2019 sexual assault and battery by former employee (More)
> Indiana Fever star Caitlin Clark wins 2024 WNBA Rookie of the Year (More) | MLB Division Series begins tomorrow; see playoff bracket and schedule (More)
Science & Technology
> Harvard students hack Meta's new AI-powered smart glass to instantaneously reveal people's personal information just by looking at their face; pair connected the glasses to the facial search engine PimEyes (More) | What is PimEyes? (More)
> Engineers demonstrate microchip-sized tractor beam capable of picking up and moving tiny particles using only light (More)
> Bacteria implanted into fungus can recreate the basic features of cells, offering a potential source for the origin of complex life, study suggests (More)
Business & Markets
> US stock markets close lower (S&P 500 -0.2%, Dow -0.4%, Nasdaq -0.0%); investors await latest jobs report data today (More) | Dockworkers' union suspends strike until Jan. 15 to allow for negotiations (More)
> PayPal completes first business transaction using its PYUSD stablecoin, which the financial company launched last year (More) | OpenAI receives $4B revolving credit line, bringing total liquidity to more than $10B (More) | Tesla recalls 27,000 Cybertrucks over rearview camera delay in fifth recall since its launch (More)
> Elon Musk ($244B), Jeff Bezos ($197B), Mark Zuckerberg ($181B) top Forbes 400 list of America’s richest people; newcomers include Raising Cane's founder Todd Graves ($9.5B) and Jersey Mike’s Subs founder Peter Cancro ($5.6B) (More)
Politics & World Affairs
> Israel continues strikes in Beirut as its forces order evacuation of more than 20 villages and towns in southern Lebanon; nearly 2,000 people killed in Lebanon so far in almost a year of conflict, per Lebanese health ministry (More) | See war updates (More)
> US Justice Department, Microsoft seize over 100 online domains allegedly used by Russian intelligence agents to hack into government agencies, including the Pentagon and State Department (More)
> Biden administration's student loan forgiveness program to move forward after a Georgia judge lets temporary restraining order expire (More) | Three Memphis officers involved in 2023 death of Tyre Nichols convicted of witness tampering, one officer convicted of civil rights violations (More)
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