• ☝️ Scientists have fully recreated one of the largest known bugs in history – an extinct nine-foot-long invertebrate known as the Arthropleura, which weighed 100+ pounds and lived ~300 million years ago.

BUSINESS & MARKETS

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• 💰 US markets fell across the board (S&P: -0.2%; Dow: -0.1%; Nasdaq: -0.1%)
• 🔋 Mining giant Rio Tinto is acquiring lithium miner Arcadium Lithium for $6.7 billion.
• 💸 TD Bank will pay a $3+ billion fine and accept US growth caps to settle charges it failed to properly monitor money laundering by drug cartels and other criminal groups.

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SPORTS, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

• 🏈 Thursday Night Football: The San Francisco 49ers defeated the Seattle Seahawks 36-24 behind three passing TDs from QB Brock Purdy. | ⚾ MLB Playoffs: The Mets beat the Phillies in four games to advance to the NLCS, while the Yankees beat the Royals in four to move on to the ALCS; see the full playoff picture.
• 🤝 Apple and Amazon reached an agreement to bring Apple TV+ to Prime Video as a subscription add-on.
• 📺 DirecTV is launching a free, ad-supported streaming TV (FAST) service next month called MyFree DirecTV.

SCIENCE, SPACE & EMERGING TECH

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• 🏆📖 The 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to South Korean author Han Kang “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life”; she’s the first South Korean winner of the prize.
• 🌐 The Internet Archive and Wayback Machine went down this week following a sustained cyberattack; the attack also compromised the site’s user data.
• 🧠 People tend to think they have all the information they need to form an opinion, even when they don’t, per a new study from psychology researchers. | 🤖 AMD launched a new AI chip that’ll directly compete with Nvidia’s upcoming Blackwell chips.

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MISCELLANEOUS

• 🧓 Social Security recipients will get a 2.5% cost-of-living increase to their monthly checks for 2025, down from 3.2% in 2024 and a historically large 8.7% increase in 2023.
• 🇰🇵🇰🇷 North Korea announced plans to cut off all roads and rail lines to South Korea in a bid to “permanently shut off and block the southern border.”
• 🙏 Ethel Kennedy, the matriarch of the Kennedy family who lost her husband (Robert F. Kennedy) and brother-in-law (President John F. Kennedy) to assassinations, passed away at 96.

CLICKBAIT

• 🍿😱 The 100 Best Horror Movies of All Time.