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The appointment has already brought complaints of conflicts of interest, as Musk’s many businesses — including car-maker Tesla, tunnel-drilling Boring Co., rocket-launcher SpaceX and its sister satellite company Starlink — are regulated by the federal government and receive federal contracts. Musk also was an early and vocal opponent of a budget compromise in Congress last week, amplifying criticism of the bill — much of it misleading — on X. The bill failed and was replaced by a slimmed-down version that prevented a government shutdown. Trump has marveled at the South Africa-born billionaire’s technological acumen, and credited Musk with helping to win Pennsylvania. Musk contributed a total of $238.5 million to a pro-Trump political action committee, making him the largest single donor in the US election. “Isn’t it nice to have smart people we can rely on? 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By ERIC TUCKER WASHINGTON (AP) — A ninth U.S. telecoms firm has been confirmed to have been hacked as part of a sprawling Chinese espionage campaign that gave officials in Beijing access to private texts and phone conversations of an unknown number of Americans, a top White House official said Friday. Biden administration officials said this month that at least eight telecommunications companies , as well as dozens of nations, had been affected by the Chinese hacking blitz known as Salt Typhoon. But Anne Neuberger, the deputy national security adviser for cyber and emerging technologies, told reporters Friday that a ninth victim had been identified after the administration released guidance to companies about how to hunt for Chinese culprits in their networks. The update from Neuberger is the latest development in a massive hacking operation that has alarmed national security officials, exposed cybersecurity vulnerabilities in the private sector and laid bare China’s hacking sophistication. The hackers compromised the networks of telecommunications companies to obtain customer call records and gain access to the private communications of “a limited number of individuals.” Though the FBI has not publicly identified any of the victims, officials believe senior U.S. government officials and prominent political figures are among those whose whose communications were accessed. Related Articles National News | Court rules Georgia lawmakers can subpoena Fani Willis for information related to her Trump case National News | US homelessness up 18% as affordable housing remains out of reach for many people National News | Most Americans blame insurance profits and denials alongside the killer in UHC CEO death, poll finds National News | Another jackpot surpasses $1 billion. Is this the new normal? National News | Man indicted in burning death of woman inside a New York City subway train, prosecutors say Neuberger said officials did not yet have a precise sense how many Americans overall were affected by Salt Typhoon, in part because the Chinese were careful about their techniques, but a “large number” were in the Washington-Virginia area. Officials believe the goal of the hackers was to identify who owned the phones and, if they were “government targets of interest,” spy on their texts and phone calls, she said. The FBI said most of the people targeted by the hackers are “primarily involved in government or political activity.” Neuberger said the episode highlighted the need for required cybersecurity practices in the telecommunications industry, something the Federal Communications Commission is to take up at a meeting next month. “We know that voluntary cyber security practices are inadequate to protect against China, Russia and Iran hacking of our critical infrastructure,” she said. The Chinese government has denied responsibility for the hacking.

In today’s newsletter, we choose the twenty-four best books of the year. But, first, a report on the new business of breakups. Plus: E. Tammy Kim on an almost-coup in South Korea How the Syrian opposition shocked the Assad regime Lucy Grealy’s memoir of being seen Jennifer Wilson Staff writer Earlier this summer, I had to report to my friends that the new guy I’d just been telling them about over dinner, so starry-eyed I barely touched my food, had texted me to say he just wanted to be friends. I had anticipated that the usual platitudes would roll in: “you’re too good for him,” “his loss,” “does he have a car we can key?” But one friend surprised me by asking whether I had a “breakup plan.” You mean, other than to wallow and eat carbs? No, I did not. I searched the phrase online, and found something on Etsy that looked like it was modelled on a birthing plan—except, instead of “I may want a walking epidural,” among the options to numb the pain was “start a side hustle.” The breakup plan also advised against “stalking” your ex’s “socials,” so I stopped doing that, and I started to look deeper into this new-to-me world of breaking up better. It was populated by coaches and doulas for the recently dumped, and its landscape was dotted with heartbreak-themed spa vacations (one offered an exfoliating treatment meant to symbolize the “scrubbing away of the past”). I had fallen down a rabbit hole, or should I say a k-hole: I discovered a clinic with locations in the Midwest advertising ketamine-assisted breakup therapy and some other unnerving—literally—interventions to curtail the hurt. I was a bit freaked out. When you’re heartbroken, it feels like you’ll do anything, pay anything, to make it go away or, however improbably, to bring the person back. And now here was this burgeoning industry of pricey get-over-him getaways and move-on medicines. I wanted to find out whether there were any actual remedies in this heartbreak boomtown or if it was all just fool’s gold. For a piece in this week’s issue , I attended a three-day “Healing from Heartbreak” workshop at Kripalu, in the Berkshires. I spent time in London with a psychologist who runs retreats at a “Heartbreak Hotel,” staffed by experts in treating P.T.S.D. I even flew to Berlin for a one-on-one session with the owner of Die Liebeskümmerer, the Heartbreak Agency, an institution that inspired a recent film of the same name featuring a freshly dumped journalist who skeptically attends a heartbreak retreat and comes out a romantic. Would life imitate art? Read or listen to the story » In the News The Supreme Court is hearing arguments today in a trans-rights case challenging a Tennessee law that bans gender-affirming care for minors. Chase Strangio, an attorney at the A.C.L.U., is the case’s lead lawyer and will be the first openly trans person to argue in front of the Supreme Court. “As a trans lawyer, Strangio works as a representative in every sense of the word,” M. Gessen wrote in a 2020 piece about the attorney, “in court, in the media, and sometimes in state legislatures, for his clients, for the trans community, and for himself.” The Best Books of 2024 A Coup, Almost, in South Korea How the Syrian Opposition Shocked the Assad Regime Lucy Grealy Understood What It Meant to Be Seen Speaking Irish with Kneecap Daily Cartoon Link copied Play today’s beginner-friendly puzzle. A clue: Chess pieces that start in the four corners of the board. Five letters. P.S. The Forbes 30 Under 30 lists came out yesterday, filled with accomplished young people. But what about those less aspirational among us? Bess Kalb offers a humorous list of the 30 Most Disappointing Under 30—including Joanna Feldman, twenty-two, who “misquoted E. E. Cummings in her rib-cage tattoo,” and Victor Chen, twenty-eight, who “used an app to hire a person to pick up and deliver a Chipotle burrito to him every night for twenty-two consecutive nights.” 🌯 Erin Neil contributed to this edition.Liz Repking joins us in the studio to talk about cell-phone bans in schools. Districts and schools across the country have been trying to implement this very slowly on their own with little precedent to help smooth the resistance to such a policy. Gain a better understanding of the impact of phones in schools have and support your school by communicating the positives of phone restriction to your student. For more information, visit Internet Safety Speakers, Presentations, Curriculum-Cyber Safety Experts

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese (Image: AAP/Lukas Coch) When the federal government tries to pass a law like the teen social media ban, it has to publish some analysis that explains why it’s a good idea. The Office of Impact Analysis does what it says on the box: publish documents prepared by public servants that examine what the evidence says about the proposed policy. Politicians initiate this process, but it’s public servants who are tossed an idea and told to go find proof about how it will play out. Knowing this, it’s no surprise a reader of the teen social media ban bill’s impact analysis equivalent supplementary analysis can detect a palpable sense of exertion in the document, as if written by a student trying to squeeze out an extra few hundred words for an essay argument they don’t really believe in (or a professional public servant straining to justify a proposal that many experts consider unsupported by compelling evidence ). ‘Being rushed through’: Human rights commissioner sounds alarm on teen social media ban Read More The analysis starts by acknowledging, as critics of the bill do, that there is a lack of “correlative evidence of the harms of social media on young people”. Nevertheless, it covers a handful of other surveys and studies that illustrate the harms young Australians can experience on social media, while also paying lip service to its potential benefits. The analysis includes sweeping claims that are at the very least contested. For example: “introducing a minimum age for access to social media is likely to have a positive impact on all young people under the minimum age, but particularly for girls and transgender youth”. The document goes on to evaluate three policies: the status quo, banning children younger than 14 and then allowing them online with parental consent, or banning them until 16. This frames the discussion as a dichotomy: ban or no ban. (These limits are no fault of the author, as you don’t really get room to vamp in parliamentary impact policy analysis). But in the real world, we might ask: ban? No ban? No ban with a statutory duty of care? Or with just parental consent? The options are endless and the surface is barely scratched here. When it comes to the proof supporting the idea of banning children under 16, the report becomes particularly thin. It mentions children’s fears of “FOMO” and parents feeling “unsupported to make evidence-based choices about when their children should be on social media”. (Perhaps policymakers’ anxiety over evidence-based decision-making should be included too?) The research cited as part of this option comprises two documents: A study whose co-author told Crikey that its findings do not support the case for a teen social media ban. A section from the US surgeon general’s advisory on social media and youth mental health, which is based on the above study. In short, the government has provided what boils down to a single piece of research in support of the benefits of a teen social media ban. And it’s not a very good one, either. Emails reveal how Labor engineered event to support its own teen social media ban Read More There’s plenty more in the report, too, such as a “multi-criteria analysis” matrix that scores the policy on a numeral rating. The report scores the teen social media ban as having a net benefit of 0, calculated by balancing young people and parents’ +2 score by a score of -2 for all Australians and social media company. On the other hand, the status quo was given a -5 score. (How it was decided that the status quo for young Australians was rated a -3, the worst possible score, despite acknowledging its various benefits, is a question only the author and God can answer.) There’s also the estimate of how much it will cost to carry out the policy. The government’s back-of-the-napkin calculation is that it will take only 80 hours at each of the 100 different social media services, costing approximately $54 million across the economy. Particularly bizarre is the assumption that after the first year — presumably once the policy is in effect — “22,500 Australians, including people under the age of 16, will (attempt) to sign up for four social media accounts each year”, which is either a typo or a severe underestimation of many Australians are on the dang computer these days. But despite all this detail, the analysis is doomed to fail because the teen social media ban is a policy based on values, not on value. Despite all the qualifications and concerns, many parents are simply worried about their children and don’t like seeing them on their phone too much, lack of solid evidence be damned. It’s severely hamstrung by the fact that much of the ban’s execution will be left to the communications minister and eSafety commissioner, leaving no room for any meaningful analysis of how its implementation will work in practice. That’s an okay basis for a policy if you’re a politician who is accountable to the voters. But it sure does make life hard for the public servant who has to justify why. Have something to say about this article? Write to us at letters@crikey.com.au . Please include your full name to be considered for publication in Crikey’s Your Say . We reserve the right to edit for length and clarity.Rickey Henderson’s numbers are astounding. The Hall of Fame outfielder stole more bases than anyone in major-league history. He also scored the most runs and hit the most leadoff home runs while collecting more than 3,000 hits on the way to enshrinement in Cooperstown, N.Y. Hall of Fame manager Tony La Russa will remember Henderson for more than the stats. “Rickey Henderson, as great a player, just as great of a teammate,” La Russa said during a conference call with Chicago reporters Sunday afternoon. “He was always in the midst of everything happening in the clubhouse, dugout and on the plane. “Great sense of humor. Personally, my interchanges with him was just honored to have him on the team.” Henderson died Friday at age 65 . He and La Russa were together for parts of seven seasons (1989-93 and 1994-95) with the Oakland Athletics. It was a very successful period. The A’s won the 1989 World Series, with Henderson earning MVP honors in the American League Championship Series. Henderson was named AL MVP in 1990 as the A’s captured their third consecutive pennant. “The thing about Rickey was the old saying, ‘When your best player or one of your best players sets the best example on and off the field, it’s a huge plus for your team,'” La Russa said. “He made other teammates want to be part of a team that was like glue. “Rickey was the ideal great player, great teammate and made everybody better.” Blue Jays first baseman John Olerud looks for the ball over the A’s Rickey Henderson after a wild pickoff throw in the American League Championship Series on Oct. 13, 1992, at Oakland Coliseum. Henderson made it to third base on the error. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg) La Russa recalled having to prepare to face Henderson while he was managing the Chicago White Sox from 1979-86. And also what it was like getting to write Henderson’s name at the top of his lineup with the A’s. “One of the things, one of the realities of Rickey’s career — and we knew it (going) against him — was that he was so dangerous that teams focused on stopping him,” La Russa said. “And look at the career he had. He was a marked man whether he was hitting or baserunning. People went through all the extremes to stop him and you couldn’t stop him. “I was just in awe. Our teammates were in awe of how hard he played. There were a lot of attempts to intimidate him, which never made us happy. You couldn’t scare him and you couldn’t stop him.” Henderson was born in Chicago and grew up in Oakland, where he later would become a superstar. His 1,406 stolen bases, 2,295 runs and 81 leadoff homers are the most in MLB history. He also holds the modern-era record for stolen bases in a season, swiping 130 in 1982. He finished his 25-year career with a .279/.401/.419 slash line, 3,055 hits, 510 doubles, 66 triples, 297 home runs and 1,115 RBIs while playing for nine teams, including four stints with the A’s. He won a second World Series ring with the 1993 Toronto Blue Jays. “I don’t think anybody would disagree, in our generation, he was the most dangerous player on the other side in a tie game or you are one run ahead,” La Russa said. “The all-timers, he’s on the team.” La Russa also praised the 10-time All-Star’s baseball IQ. A’s legends Dave Stewart and Rickey Henderson share a moment in the dugout before the team’s last game at the Oakland Coliseum on Sept. 26, 2024. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group) “As smart as any position player I’ve ever been around,” La Russa said. “(He had) that stance with the small strike zone, but he was ready to strike if you threw a strike. All the leadoff homers. He was smart. And he learned to be a great base stealer, learned to be a better hitter. “He told me a couple years ago, there was one statistic in his career that he never expected — he didn’t say he ‘appreciates more than the others’ because he had to work hard to hit those home runs and steal all those bases — but it was that he never had a thought that he could be a 3,000-hit guy. “He explained because he drew so many walks, (he) never thought he’d have enough at-bats. When you think about all the at-bats that didn’t count, the fact that he got 3,000 hits — remarkable, makes him even greater. One of a kind. As good as any player who has ever played the game.” La Russa and Henderson remained in contact through the years. La Russa estimated he saw Henderson about “three or four times” in the last three months. “If you looked at him like we looked at him, we commented, ‘Look how great he looks,'” La Russa said. “He could still play. Very, very difficult to accept. “Great person, great player, great teammate. ... Great friend.”

South Arlington restaurant savors Michelin recognition, stokes Ethiopian-barbecue fusion(CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump’s hunt for a new FBI director is being complicated by the need to find someone who has a clear path to confirmation — and who will appeal to the MAGA base. After reports that former Michigan Rep. Mike Rogers, who once served as an FBI special agent, was a top contender for the job, Trump’s inner circle and transition team were inundated – publicly and privately – with pushback. By Friday morning, Dan Scavino – Trump’s incoming deputy chief of staff – appeared to seal his fate: “Just spoke to President Trump regarding Mike Rogers going to the FBI. It’s not happening — In his own words, ‘I have never even given it a thought.’ Not happening.” The dustup surrounding a potential Rogers pick highlights the conundrum Trump faces as he searches for a suitable replacement for FBI Director Christopher Wray, who still has three years left in his term but whom Trump has previously vowed to fire. The president-elect needs someone palatable enough to Republicans in the Senate, who have signaled they won’t forfeit their duty to vet, advise and consent on Trump’s picks. But he also wants an FBI director who will both insulate him from investigation and appease calls from the base to revamp the bureau. Trump’s right-wing allies were already smarting from former Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz’s decision to drop out of the fight to become the next attorney general as it became clear he would not have the GOP support necessary for confirmation. Trump’s replacement pick, former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, wasn’t a non-starter for those on Trump’s right flank. But some Trump allies lamented that she doesn’t have the brash political instinct or zeal for overhauling the Justice Department that they saw in Gaetz. Sources told CNN there are several names still under consideration for FBI director, including Kash Patel, a right-wing firebrand who served as an adviser on the National Security Council and chief of staff to the acting secretary of defense in the first Trump administration. Some of Trump’s most loyal and vocal allies — including Steve Bannon and Charlie Kirk — have voiced support for Patel. Also in the mix: former St. Louis US Attorney Jeff Jensen and former Rep. Jason Chaffetz of Utah. Trump’s team is also open to considering new candidates, a source familiar with the situation said. One possible option remains picking someone easier to confirm for the top job, and then Trump can install his loyalist Patel as deputy director, a job that for years has been filled by a career FBI agent and not a political appointee. The very talk of removing Wray, whom Trump appointed in 2017 after firing the previous director, shows how much Trump is dispensing with norms. In the wake of Watergate and excesses under J. Edgar Hoover, the first FBI director, Congress made the FBI director job a 10-year appointment as a way to insulate the post from politics. Chaffetz declined to comment. Jensen didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. Patel did not respond to request for comment. As for Rogers, who lost a bid for US Senate in Michigan earlier this month, he was spotted at Mar-a-Lago last week, and some GOP senators were pushing for him to be the pick, arguing he would be easy to confirm and has the experience to do to the job. But an anti-Rogers campaign had also been ramping up for the past week, and it boiled over after CNN and others reported on him as a contender for the job. On Thursday evening, former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe – reviled by Trump and many of his allies – endorsed the potential pick on air. “I think Mike Rogers is a totally reasonable, logical selection for FBI director,” McCabe said on CNN, where he is a contributor. Trump’s right-wing supporters didn’t hold back. “You’re going to sit there and endorse Mike Rogers and say, ‘Oh this guy is great’? That’s the kiss of death, dude. That’s the kiss of death,” Jack Posobiec, a far-right political activist, said on Steve Bannon’s podcast Friday, before lavishing praise on Patel. Allies collected old clips of Rogers, a former House Intelligence chairman, on television and archived tweets from him disparaging Trump and sent them to the transition team and aides to Trump. On Friday, Scavino brought the backlash to Trump’s attention. The president-elect gave him permission to fire off the damning tweet, two sources familiar with the situation told CNN. Rogers did not respond to request for comment. “I know it’s Trumpworld and anything can change on a dime,” said one source who had expressed his frustration to transition members. “But if Dan put out that tweet, I feel good knowing that it came from the president.” CNN’s Manu Raju, Kaitlan Collins and Zachary Cohen contributed to this report. The-CNN-Wire TM & © 2024 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All rights reserved.

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