Google's long-rumored plan to merge ChromeOS and Android into a single desktop operating system now has a name: Aluminium OS, AndroidAuthority reports, citing a job listing.

The job listing explicitly tasks applicants with "working on a new Aluminium, Android-based, operating system." The job listing confirms Google intends to eventually replace ChromeOS entirely, though the two platforms will coexist during a transition period. Aluminium OS won't be limited to budget hardware -- the listing references "AL Entry," "AL Mass Premium," and "AL Premium" tiers across laptops, detachables, tablets, and mini-PCs.

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Drug maker Novo Nordisk says semaglutide, the active ingredient for the weight loss jab Wegovy, does not slow Alzheimer's -- despite initial hopes that it might help against dementia. From a report: Researchers began two large trials involving more than 3,800 people after reports the medicine was having an impact in the real world. But the studies showed the GLP-1 drug, which is already used to manage type 2 diabetes and obesity, made no difference compared to a dummy drug. The disappointing results are due to be presented at an Alzheimer's disease conference next month and are yet to be published in a peer-reviewed journal.

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Curiosity Stream, the decade-old science documentary streaming service founded by Discovery Channel's John Hendricks, expects its AI licensing business to generate more revenue than its 23 million subscribers by 2027 -- possibly earlier. The company's Q3 2025 earnings revealed a 41% year-over-year revenue increase, driven largely by deals licensing its content to train large language models. Year-to-date AI licensing brought in $23.4 million through September, already exceeding half of what the subscription business generated for all of 2024.

The streaming service's library contains 2 million hours of content, but the "overwhelming majority" is earmarked for AI licensing rather than subscriber viewing, CEO Clint Stinchcomb said during the earnings call. Curiosity Stream is licensing 300,000 hours of its own programming and 1.7 million hours of third-party content to hyperscalers and AI developers. The company has completed 18 AI-related deals across video, audio, and code assets.

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NATO has hired Google to provide "air-gapped" sovereign cloud services and AI in "completely disconnected, highly secure environments." From a report: The Chocolate Factory will support the military alliance's Joint Analysis, Training, and Education Centre (JATEC) in a move designed to improve its digital infrastructure and strengthen its data governance. NATO was formed in 1949 after Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and the United States signed the North Atlantic Treaty. Since then, 20 more European countries have joined, most recently Finland and Sweden. US President Donald Trump has criticized fellow members' financial contribution to the alliance and at times cast doubt over how likely the US is to defend its NATO allies.

In an announcement this week, Google Cloud said the "significant, multimillion-dollar contract" with the NATO Communication and Information Agency (NCIA) would offer highly secure, sovereign cloud capabilities. The agreement promises NATO "uncompromised data residency and operational controls, providing the highest degree of security and autonomy, regardless of scale or complexity," the statement said.

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An anonymous reader shares a report: Google is pushing back on viral social media posts and articles like this one by Malwarebytes, claiming Google has changed its policy to use your Gmail messages and attachments to train AI models, and the only way to opt out is by disabling "smart features" like spell checking.

But Google spokesperson Jenny Thomson tells The Verge that "these reports are misleading -- we have not changed anyone's settings, Gmail Smart Features have existed for many years, and we do not use your Gmail content for training our Gemini AI model."

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Het is dinsdag precies 50 jaar geleden dat in Suriname de onafhankelijkheid werd uitgeroepen. Naast de vreugde over de geboorte van het onafhankelijke Suriname waren er ook zorgen over wat de toekomst zou brengen. Drie Rotterdammers met een Surinaamse afkomst blikken terug op de onafhankelijkheid en de jaren erna.

Twee verdachten in de strafzaak tegen Damen hebben een strafbeschikking geaccepteerd. Dat meldt NRC na de eerste procesdag tegen de grote scheepsbouwer. Een van hen is de huidige marketingdirecteur Sander van O. De ander is de voormalige directeur van het Havenbedrijf op Curaçao.

De Zweedse klimaatactiviste Greta Thunberg is samen met andere leden van Extinction Rebellion uit Venetië gezet, nadat zij het Canal Grande felgroen kleurden om aandacht te vragen voor het klimaat. De actie wordt door het stadsbestuur omschreven als respectloos tegenover de stad en haar geschiedenis. Thunberg kreeg een boete van 150 euro en een verbod om Venetië gedurende 48 uur te betreden.

KHARTOUM (ANP/AFP) - De Soedanese paramilitaire Rapid Support Forces (RSF) roept eenzijdig een staakt-het-vuren voor drie maanden uit in Soedan. RSF-leider Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo kondigde in een videotoespraak het bestand aan "als reactie op de internationale inspanningen, met name het initiatief van de Amerikaanse president Donald Trump en de bemiddelaars".

Begin november zei de RSF al te hebben ingestemd met een bestand dat humanitaire hulp mogelijk moest maken. Sindsdien zijn de gevechten niet gestopt. De groep is al tweeënhalf jaar in een bloedige oorlog verwikkeld met het regeringsleger. Legerleider Fattah al-Burhan wees zondag een Amerikaans voorstel voor een bestand juist af. Hij noemde het voorstel "het slechtste tot nu toe".

Door de oorlog zijn tienduizenden mensen omgekomen en miljoenen sloegen op de vlucht. De situatie in Soedan geldt momenteel als de grootste humanitaire crisis ter wereld. In oktober nam de RSF de stad el-Fasher in Darfur in. Daarbij zouden op grote schaal mensen zijn gedood.

How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails. They reveal “a power elite practiced at disregarding pain” who have “learned to look away from so much other abuse and suffering” to protect their network of power.