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New York City Mayor Eric Adams called 911 to report an assault he witnessed on his first day on the job.

Susan Decker / Bloomberg : Chief Justice Roberts says Judiciary Conference will review rules that led to a concentration of patent cases in a Texas court criticized by Apple and Google   —  Chief Justice John Roberts backed calls for the federal courts' policy making body to review rules that have led to a concentration …

David Shepardson / Reuters : US Transportation Secretary and head of FAA ask AT&T and Verizon to delay new 5G deployments, planned for January 5, over aviation safety concerns   —  U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and the head of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Friday asked AT&T (T.N) …

A look back at the timeless romance between "Golden GIrls" alum Betty White and "Password" host Allen Ludden.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams kicked off his administration with a focus on crime and the coronavirus, promising to bring accountability to the Big Apple.

Paul Tassi / Forbes : Square Enix President Yosuke Matsuda issues a New Year's Letter indicating the company will pursue blockchain games and NFTs in 2022   —  Well, we couldn't get more than a few hours without another major company tossing a lit match into the crypto/blockchain/NFT tinderbox, and this time it's (throws dart) Square Enix!

Betty White credited her long-lasting happiness to doing things she liked, like eating hot dogs and drinking vodka.

Republican House leadership took to Twitter on Saturday morning to wish their followers a happy new year and had a message for House Democrats ahead of the midterm elections in November.

Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer : A Y2K22 bug in Microsoft's FIP-FS anti-malware scanning engine appears to be stopping Exchange on-premise servers around the world from delivering email   —  Microsoft Exchange on-premise servers cannot deliver email starting on January 1st, 2022, due to a “Year 2022” bug in the FIP-FS anti-malware scanning engine.

Betty White led a storied television and movie career before passing away Friday at the age of 99.

The Moscow Times : Russia's media regulator adds Netflix to its “audio-visual services” register, requiring it to offer 20 major Russian federal TV channels starting in March 2022   —  Russia's state media watchdog will require Netflix to offer state television channels to its Russian customers …

Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge : CES will end a day earlier, on January 7, as an “additional” COVID-19 safety measure, after Google, Microsoft, and other big companies canceled in-person plans   —  The show now ends on January 7th  —  CES has dropped the last day of its 2022 tech conference in Las Vegas …

Betty White, star of "Golden Girls" and "The Proposal," has died at the age of 99.

The Round Rock Independent School District (ISD) school board will meet on Jan. 3, 2022, two days before children return to school next Wednesday, to discuss a state agency's report on the superintendent, Dr. Hafedh Azaiez, amid scandal. Parents have expressed skepticism about the meeting and are calling on the school board to publicly release the report.

Aoyon Ashraf / CoinDesk : Shiba Inu launches Doggy DAO in beta to let users decide on crypto projects and pairs on the ShibaSwap platform, and how $BONE rewards are distributed   —  The Dogecoin rival is aiming to provide its users with more control over crypto projects and pairs on the ShibaSwap platform.

"Better Call Saul" star Bob Odenkirk was spotted in Los Angeles for the first time since his heart attack in July.

Missouri Gov. Mike Parson is allowing the COVID-19 state of emergency that has been in place since March 2020 to expire, saying that "we all now know how to best fight and prevent serious illness from this virus."

Tom Parsons / What Hi-Fi? : Apple's VP of Acoustics Gary Geaves and head of AirPods marketing Eric Treski about designing AirPods 3, Spatial Audio, Bluetooth's limitations, and more   —  First, a qualification: Gary Geaves isn't quite “the man who made the AirPods”, and I'm sure he'd never describe himself as such.

Emma Watson admitted to “falling in love” with Tom Felton.

Hussain Altamimi joined Ocasio-Cortez’s office in November as a legislative assistant, posting shortly after a picture of him and the congresswoman on Instagram with the caption "New beginnings."

Adi Robertson / The Verge : OpenSea bans PHAYC and Phunky Ape Yacht Club, two NFT projects that are dueling over which is the authentic Bored Ape Yacht Club ripoff   —  And dodging NFT marketplace bans while doing it  —  A pair of non-fungible token projects are testing the boundary between plagiarism and parody.

Congressman Bill Pascrell Jr (D-NJ) announced on Twitter Thursday that he has tested positive for the coronavirus.

Eli Tan / CoinDesk : Justin Kan launches gaming-focused NFT marketplace Fractal, after someone hacked its Discord announcement bot and made off with about $150K last week   —  Since announcing plans to launch his gaming NFT marketplace Fractal earlier in December, Twitch co-founder Justin Kan has been one of the busiest men in crypto.

Katy Perry was apparently expecting to be thirsty during her debut performance of her Las Vegas residency Wednesday night.

Travis Barker's daughter is on the mend.

President Biden received mockery online Tuesday evening into Wednesday morning after a clip posted on Twitter showed him wearing a mask while walking outside on a Delaware beach with his wife, first lady Jill Biden, and their dog Commander.

Washington Post : As the US faces record COVID-19 infections, effective use of exposure notification apps is unlikely given slow adoption and lack of data on their efficacy   —  The United States is grappling with record-high infections, but adoption of the system is still far behind what its creators and proponents envisioned

Meghan King and Cuffe Biden Owens met on a dating app.

A federal judge refused to dismiss an indictment charging four alleged leaders of the far-right Proud Boys with conspiring to attack the U.S. Capitol to stop Congress from certifying President Joe Biden's electoral victory.

Youkyung Lee / Bloomberg : Six of the 10 best-performing South Korean stocks in 2021 are linked to the metaverse or NFTs, including Wemade Max, up 1,500%, and Giantstep, up 1,200%   —  For equity investors in South Korea, this was the year the metaverse arrived.  —  Six of the nation's 10 best-performing stocks in 2021 …

Two days before New Year's Eve, Dr. Anthony Fauci said people looking to spend a quiet holiday at home celebrating with family are encouraged to do so, while those with more ambitious plans may want to rethink things.

Monica Alleven / Fierce Wireless : US appeals court rules in favor of the FCC's decision to designate a large swath of the 6 GHz band to unlicensed users, after AT&T challenged the FCC   —  The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled in favor of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) …

An expectant mother in Boston is furious that the city has expanded its vaccination mandates.

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg : Sources: Apple issued rare bonuses of restricted stock worth $50K-$180K to select engineers, after Meta poached ~100 Apple engineers over the past few months   —  Apple Inc. has issued unusual and significant stock bonuses to some engineers in an effort to retain talent …

Chrishell Stause isn't letting her recent breakup get her down.

Officials from Washington and the Kremlin will sit down for "strategic security" talks next month as tension over Russia's military buildup on the Ukrainian border continues to mount.

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer : Some LastPass users say their master passwords were compromised and used in blocked login attempts from unknown IPs; LastPass blames “credential stuffing”   —  Many LastPass users report that their master passwords have been compromised after receiving email warnings that someone tried …

A tweet by a top Border Patrol official identifying a "potential terrorist" captured at the U.S.-Mexico border has now been deleted, with Customs and Border Protection (CBP) saying it was deleted because it contained "law enforcement sensitive information" and violated protocols.

Andy Blye / Phoenix Business Journal : Paradox, which makes Olivia, a conversational AI assistant for recruiting tasks like candidate screening, raises a $200M Series C at a $1.5B valuation   —  Paradox, a Scottsdale company that makes conversational recruiting software, announced Monday that it had raised $200 million …

President Biden took issue with ongoing restrictions on the president's ability to move detainees from Guantánamo Bay in the 2022 National Defense Authorization Act, arguing the restrictions could even threaten national security.

President Biden's administration has been much less aggressive with U.S. military air power in 2021 than former President Donald Trump was last year, with strikes falling 54% as of mid-December.

The "Pretty Woman" star was pretty in pink as she made heads turn during a beach outing with family in Sydney, Australia.

Joe Williams / Bloomberg : A look at increasing competition in the call center tools market between Genesys, AWS, Salesforce, Microsoft, and others, often focused on AI-driven automation   —  Customer support has become a crowded battlefield in enterprise technology as software vendors from Microsoft Corp …

Rick Astley, the English singer/songwriter known for "Never Gonna Give You Up" and "Together Forever," spoke about the first time he was 'Rickrolled.'

Bernie Sanders visited the Soviet Union in 1988 and praised it for its transportation systems and public programs three years before it fell.

Debbie Reynolds died just one day after her daughter Carrie Fisher at age 84.

Former President Trump starting making plenty of moves in 2021 regarding a potential 2024 White House run. But Trump's far from the only Republican with eyes on the next GOP nomination race

Yang Jie / Wall Street Journal : While unable to meet analog chip demand, Texas Instruments hesitates to expand production capacity because of the industry's history of boom and bust cycles   —  Even in digital age, analog chips such as those made in Texas are essential, and they are in short supply

Robert Stevens / Decrypt : OpenDAO airdrops SOS token for users of OpenSea's NFT marketplace; the token, unaffiliated with OpenSea, is up ~10x in two days as watchers debate its prospects   —  In brief  — SOS is an airdrop from OpenDAO, distributed to people who have spent money on OpenSea transactions.

Leah Nylen / Politico : An overview of the efforts by Google, Apple, and Amazon to offer their technology and services for connected cars   —  Leah Nylen is a technology reporter who covers antitrust and investigations for POLITICO.  —  When Ford announced that starting in 2023 its cars and trucks would come with Google Maps …

Kylie Jenner returned to posting on Instagram for the first time since the tragic incident that took place at the Astroworld Festival in November.

Vice President Kamala Harris said during a pre-recorded interview with "Face the Nation" host Margaret Brennan on Sunday that she doesn’t believe she’s being "set up to fail" by President Biden.

Former Hillary Clinton adviser Huma Abedin explained in a new interview why she stayed with ex-husband Anthony Weiner as long as she did, and what ultimately caused her to call it quits with the former congressman.

Cases of COVID-19 have risen throughout the country amid the spread of the omicron variant, but Brown University School of Public Health Dean Dr. Ashish Jha told "Fox News Sunday" this is no excuse for closing down schools and making children go through remote learning again.