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Broadband / Telco

House moves on broadband permit reform: What you need to know - The U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee approved Wednesday a batch of seven broadband permitting bills, which will advance to the full House for a vote. Most of the legislation is geared toward improving the permitting process on federal lands, but one bill – H.R.2289, the American Broadband Deployment Act of 2025 – aims to overhaul permitting across the federal, state and local levels.

My Take: The “shot clock” scheme is interesting. Say nothing, and it’s approved. The other item pointed out, “The House Committee also advanced the Broadband and Telecommunications RAIL Act, which seeks to make it easier for ISPs to deploy across railroad tracks – often regarded as one of the biggest permitting hurdles. Ray LaMura, president of Virginia’s Broadband Association, said at BBNE the railroad companies can charge ISPs as much as “hundreds of thousands of dollars” just to cross their right-of-way or run fiber alongside tracks.”

Regular network performance testing will be key to reinforce state broadband programs, says Ookla - Between 2011 and 2023, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) ran an in-home broadband measurement program called Measuring Broadband America (MBA). The campaign enlisted thousands of volunteers to take measurements of fixed broadband service performances using at-home test kits. The data collected fed into periodic reports that laid out the performance levels demonstrated by each provider under specified test conditions. 

My Take: If regulators don’t do regular, independent speed and latency testing after the BEAD money goes out, they’ll have no idea which networks actually work and no leverage when providers underdeliver.

WBA trials show Wi-Fi QoS can slash latency by 70% - A new report from the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) details key Wi-Fi QoS management trials conducted by Alliance members Airties, Charter Communications, Intel, Meta, and Zebra, which the group said demonstrate how standardized Wi-Fi QoS mechanisms can deliver “measurable, real-world performance gains across latency-sensitive applications such as video conferencing, cloud gaming, and live streaming.”

My Take: If we have enough bandwidth, why do we need QoS? So this isn’t a WiFI problem, it's a solution for lower-tier bandwidth provisions.

🇨🇦 Bell Expands Its Wi-Fi 7 Giga Hub 2.0 Modem to More Regions: Who Gets It Now - The hardware brings Wi-Fi 7 to Bell Pure Fibre customers and is meant to deliver faster speeds, lower latency, and better performance for homes with many connected devices.

My Take: Rogers and Telus both alraedy have WiFi7 offers in market.

🇨🇦 Bell Canada – Introduction of new 8 gigabit per second speed tier for wholesale service - By offering the 8 Gbps speed tier at the same rate as the 3 Gbps speed tier over aggregated FTTP access services and DBS FTTP, wholesale customers would benefit from faster connectivity options at the same access rate as lower speed tiers.

Cheaper 8Gbps internet plans could soon head your way

MyTake: First, is an 8Gbps really necessary for consumer use? Next, what will be the market pricing impact of an 8G service at the price of 3Gbps?

XGS-PON Interoperability Event Wraps Productive Year of Testing - This event continued our approach of pairing optical line terminals (OLTs) and optical network units (ONUs) from different suppliers to exercise real-world configurations, management and monitoring behaviors. Supplier engineering teams arrived with updated software, new device variants and a fresh set of test cases built from lessons learned through the year’s earlier interop events.

My Take: Maybe one day, multi-gig “plug and play” fiber will be the norm?

Providing Satellite Transmissions for Host Communities - Beyond providing clean and reliable power, our Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) bring a variety of other valuable benefits to their host communities. One that we are especially excited to offer is free bandwidth for satellite transmissions.

My Take: StarCore is basically saying: if you host one of our small nuclear reactors, you do not just get power, you also get free satellite bandwidth. Their SMRs are built for very remote places where fiber and cell towers are costly or fragile, so every plant will connect to both GEO and LEO satellites for remote monitoring and safety. The key point in the article is that the control data they send is tiny, which leaves almost all of that satellite capacity free for the local community to use for things like telehealth and remote education. Sounds like an interesting plan.

🇨🇦 ADYA Invests in National Sovereignty: Karrier One to Build Canada’s First SCION-Encrypted Decentralized Network Including Arctic Deployments - With geopolitical tensions and cybersecurity concerns on the rise, sovereign Internet infrastructure is no longer optional; it is imperative. This investment aligns with ADYA’s commitment to advancing Canadian sovereignty in the digital age by backing technologies that deliver secure, encrypted, carrier-grade communications across all three coasts.

My Take: If Karrier One can actually pull off a SCION-encrypted, DePIN-style network across the Arctic with Ericsson radios and Canadian spectrum, it gives Canada a real testbed for secure, non-US-routed traffic instead of just hoping the big clouds and telcos do the right thing.

SCION is a more secure, private internet path where your data is encrypted and you can control which countries and networks it travels through. DePIN-style just means the physical network (towers, radios, nodes) is shared and run by many owners, not just one big telco.

GFiber says its new ONT will be big for expanding 20-gig - The company announced last week it began rolling out a new-and-improved optical network terminal (ONT) device for its symmetrical 20-gig service. GFiber said about 90% of the homes and businesses in its footprint are already “20-gig capable,” it’s just a matter of getting that device to them.

My Take: No one needs it now, but it certainly puts pressure on the cablecos and others to provide high-capacity symmetrical data services. Seems like overkill either way.

FCC may bar Chinese telecom companies from connecting to US networks - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission said on Monday it may bar three major Chinese telecom companies from connecting to U.S. networks over efforts to prevent robocalls, the latest in a series of actions Washington has taken against Beijing.

My Take: “If the FCC removes them, it would require all intermediate providers and voice service providers handling calls in the U.S. to cease accepting all calls directly from the Chinese telecoms.”

Wi-Fi 7 is Cisco’s Fastest WLAN Technology Adoption Ever, According to Dell’Oro Group - According to a recently published report from Dell’Oro Group, the trusted source for market information about the telecommunications, security, networks, and data center industries, a sharp contraction in China spending kept worldwide WLAN growth from hitting double-digits in 3Q 2025.

My Take: The wildcard is Ubiquiti still leading on shipment volumes, which says the volume end of the market doesn’t care about Cisco’s logo as much as Cisco thinks.

🇨🇦 Taking the leap into 6G technology - The NRC's High-throughput and Secure Networks (HTSN) Challenge program is tackling this inequality head-on by developing innovative technologies to deliver affordable, secure broadband where traditional infrastructure is too costly or impractical. One promising solution is terahertz (THz) wireless communications.

My Take: Canada’s NRC always works on some interesting projects. Forget 6G in urban areas. Use it for reaching the unreachable.

Nokia Global network traffic report - Global network traffic is changing in character, not just in volume. It is no longer shaped only by people streaming video over home broadband. This report explores how these forces are redefining where traffic flows, how it behaves, and where networks will feel the greatest pressure first. Its goal is not only to describe growth but also to explain why the nature of that growth is changing—and why that difference matters for operators, cloud providers, and large enterprises as they plan capacity and architecture for the decade ahead.

A Look at Nokia’s 2025 Traffic Report and Forecast

My Take: See the report in the link. I’d encourage you to read Tom’s analysis as well.

Rogers Xfinity Introduces Amazon Luna - Cloud gaming right from your TV – no consoles or downloads required

My Take: Didn’t someone try this years ago, and it didn’t go very well? Google Stadia?

Data Centres

Data centres in space: orbital backbone of the second digital era? - Space-based data centres could fundamentally transform how we process data, manage energy, and maintain digital sovereignty. Europe has world-class space technology and strong institutions. The question is whether we’ll use them to lead this revolution or watch others define the future of computing.

My Take: ESPI is basically arguing that space-based data centres are moving from sci-fi to serious strategy, and that Europe should treat them as a new “orbital backbone” for the next digital era.

‘Greetings, earthlings’: Nvidia-backed Starcloud trains first AI model in space as orbital data center race heats up - Washington-based Starcloud launched a satellite with an Nvidia H100 graphics processing unit in early November, sending a chip into outer space that’s 100 times more powerful than any GPU compute that has been in space before. Now, the company’s Starcloud-1 satellite is running and querying responses from Gemma, an open large language model from Google, in orbit. “Anything you can do in a terrestrial data center, I’m expecting to be able to be done in space,” Starcloud CEO Philip Johnston told CNBC.

My Take: So many people crapping all over what Starcloud is tryng t do instead of congratulating them for their accomplshments and firsts.

🇨🇦 Microsoft to spend $7.5B on data centres in sovereignty-focused pitch to Canada - The $7.5 billion is to be spent expanding capacity at Microsoft’s two Canadian Azure “regions”—Canada Central in Toronto and Canada East in Quebec City—and adds to $11.5 billion in investments by the company since 2023. But there’s more to the promise than chips and cooling equipment.

My Take: Brad Smith is basically saying: “Trust us, we’ll stand up to governments, including our own, to protect Canadian data.” The US CLOUD Act is the problem. So “your data stays in Canada” does not automatically mean “your data is safe from US eyes.”

AWS is using hollow core fiber to go the distance - AWS has developed its own hollow core fiber to deliver high-bandwidth, low-latency connections across greater distances. That makes AWS the second hyperscaler - alongside Microsoft - to publicly discuss its use of the technology. Traditional telecom operators have also toyed with the tech, but supply seems to be an issue.

My Take: “Reps at the AWS booth couldn’t speak on the record and referred Fierce to a recently published company blog that mentioned AWS’ use of the technology to deliver a 30% improvement in latency compared to standard fiber. From there we fell down a truly fascinating rabbit hole.”

Nvidia CEO says data centers take about 3 years to construct in the U.S., while in China ‘they can build a hospital in a weekend’ - While the U.S. retains an edge on AI chips, he warned China can build large projects at staggering speeds.

My Take: We need say no more.

🇨🇦 Shark Tank's Kevin O'Leary: 50% of planned US data centers will not be built - “The market has changed so much,” O’Leary said. “I’m involved in investing in many different jurisdictions around building data centers, and I’ve had a chance to meet with many state governors in the US and Canada. “When you go and look at opportunities in the US, I would say 50 percent or more of the data centers that have been announced in the US won’t be built because there is no power on the grid.

My Take: Utilities and politicians are being asked to build power and hand out incentives for projects that may never happen. When half the promised capacity dies on the vine, the backlash on AI, and on the people who approved it, will be interesting.

Georgia Power says it needs a huge increase in power capacity to meet data center demand - With data centers flooding into Georgia, utility regulators face a big decision: Should they let Georgia Power Co. spend more than $15 billion to increase its electricity capacity by 50% over the next six years to serve computer complexes? Or could the utility overbuild and stick other ratepayers with the bill?

My Take: Or use the $15B for something else? Build 50% more power now and hope someone shows up to use it!

🇨🇦 InfraRed Capital Partners announces launch of Qu Data Centres, a Canadian digital infrastructure platform - Qu Data Centre facilities are located in Calgary, Edmonton, London, Ottawa, and Toronto, with an established national footprint and up to 49 MW of capacity that currently serves more than 750 customers. With Canadian data sovereignty and in-country infrastructure at its core, this data centre platform is well-positioned to meet the growing demands of enterprise, government, hyperscale and AI customers.

My Take: These are the ones they acquired from Rogers.

Environmental groups ask Congress for moratorium on new data centers - A group of 250 environmental organizations sent a letter to Congress asking it to stop companies from building new data centers, which create "one of the biggest environmental and social threats of our generation.

My Take: Public anger over power, water and land use slams the brakes on the whole buildout.

Suspicious Minds – Separating Hype from Reality on Data Center Power Demand - All the debate and speculation you hear about the future of the data center industry comes with the promise of massive electricity — and natural gas — usage down the line. But which data centers are using the most grid power right now — no hype, no future expansion plans, just actual performance? And how much electricity are they actually using? In today’s RBN blog, we’ll look at the largest U.S. data centers in operation today and the amount of grid power they’re consuming.

My Take: Some great information about some of the largest data centres in the US.

AI infrastructure bubble won’t burst until 2027, Northland predicts - Northland Capital Markets told investors in a note Tuesday that the AI infrastructure boom still has room to run, at least for the next 18 months. Analyst Gus Richard argues the investment cycle “is in its 7th inning and will slow mid CY27,” adding that despite concerns over data-center buildout constraints, demand remains strong through 2026.

My Take: Much will depend on the availability of power and capital, I think. Is this a bubble bursting or a clock ticking?

What’s Happening In Space?

🇨🇦 Rogers First to Launch Satellite-to-Mobile Service with Must-Have Apps - “We’re proud to be the first and only provider in the country to offer this ground-breaking technology so Canadians can stay connected. The launch of Rogers Satellite builds on our legacy of innovative firsts and bringing the best technology to Canadians,” said Tony Staffieri, President and CEO, Rogers. “No one covers Canada like Rogers, and with the launch we’re making the service even better, giving people access to the apps they need most including calling over WhatsApp in places they never thought possible.”

My Take: Odd that “X” is one of the supported applications. Do you really need “X” when you’re in the middle of nowhere, without any service? Maybe it’s to tell people you’re in the middle of nowhere, without any service.

The most exciting news in telecom: Musk vs. Bezos in the satellite race - Earlier this week, Light Reading reported that SpaceX recently filed for two trademarks: "Starlink Mobile" and "Powered by Starlink" with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The filings suggest that SpaceX might have bigger plans for wireless disruption than the industry would prefer.

SpaceX reportedly planning 2026 IPO with $1.5T valuation target

My Take: Trademarks that really mean “we’re coming for your customers?”

NASA Warns Starlink-Style Satellite Megaconstellations Could Contaminate Nearly All Future Space Telescope Images - This isn’t a far‑off, hypothetical problem. The Nature study builds on earlier work showing that between 2018 and 2021, 4.3% of all Hubble images already contained satellite trails, at a time when the satellite population was much smaller.

My Take: I can understand the concern, but I don’t think it’s going to prevent the continued buildout of large - and new - constellations.

🇨🇦 Accepting the challenge: NordSpace postponing inaugural NL rocket launch until March 2026 - The Ontario-based company will next concentrate on a federal launch competition with $105 million available in prize money

My Take: 👍 Maybe they’ll launch on my birthday.

China's Starlink Rival Could Offer In-Flight Wi-Fi To Airbus Jets - The rival Chinese satellite constellation, Qianfan, is becoming an option to power in-flight Wi-Fi over Airbus jets. On Thursday, Qianfan’s developer, Shanghai Yuanxin Satellite Technology, announced the strategic partnership with Europe’s Airbus. 

My Take: It’s about power, influence and control, not WiFi.

American in Talks With Amazon For Satellite Internet Service - In an interview with Bloomberg, American CEO Robert Isom confirmed the airline is considering partnering with Amazon Leo.

My Take: Seems to be a lot of early capacity being sucked up, but I guess airplanes would get priority service as they’re closer to the satellites 🙄 JetBlue has the only other agreement in place.

🇨🇦 Telesat enters strategic partnership with Government of Canada and MDA Space to deliver next-generation military satellite communications solution - Leveraging over 55 years of satellite engineering and operations excellence, Telesat will play a pivotal role in delivering a state-of-the-art MILSATCOM architecture for Canada’s Enhanced Satellite Communications Project – Polar (ESCP-P). The narrowband and wideband solution will strengthen and safeguard Canada’s Arctic sovereignty while bolstering Canada’s NORAD and NATO commitments.  

My Take: This is pretty important and strategic. A homegrown, Arctic-focused military satcom backbone. In a Starlink world, this is Canada saying “for defence, we’re going to own our own pipes in the North, not rent them from someone else.”

Architecting resilient global networks with Amazon Leo -

My Take:

Key Takeaways from Amazon’s LEO Architecture Revealed at AWS re:Invent 2025 - The recent presentation delivered by Nick Matthews and Jonathan Phillibert at AWS re:Invent 2025 is one of the most insightful public briefings to date on Amazon's low-Earth-orbit (LEO) strategy (Amazon LEO, formerly Amazon Project Kuiper)

My Take: Watch the video above and read Carlos’ analysis. Who knew that New Zealand and Tasmania had northern-hemisphere equivalents such as the U.S.–Canada border and Central Europe! Anyway, looks like Canada has some interesting coverage. Maybe some early commercial deployments, because that’s where they’re starting.

Why Amazon Leo and AST SpaceMobile matter in a Starlink world - Roger Entner explores 'the deliberate, expensive and strategic effort by the world's largest telecom companies to prevent a SpaceX monopoly.'

My Take: Is it sad that we need an “anythign but Elon” option, because that’s what it seems to be.

Will FCC Pull the Plug on Amazon Leo for Failing to Meet Launch Goals? - Analyst Roger Entner says Amazon Leo can’t possibly meet FCC's July 2026 milestone but won't face the guillotine under FCC Chairman Brendan Carr

My Take: Do you kill Leo and give Starlink a monopoly or will anti-Musk sentiment help Amazon’s cause?

Musk Says Starlink, Not NASA, Is SpaceX’s Cash Cow - Amid media reports of skyrocketing valuation and a potential IPO for SpaceX, the company could have a lot to lose next year.

My Take: Starlink, not NASA, is what really pays SpaceX’s bills now. That means every telco betting on satellite, and every regulator worrying about space and spectrum, has to treat Starlink like a communications giant.

Forget 'days of old.' Florida's Space Coast preps for 6 launches in a week - “The days of old, when we go back 10, 15 years with launch capability here off the Eastern Range — when we were putting up 10, 15, maybe 20 launches in a calendar year — are behind us,” Space Launch Delta 45 commander Col. Brian Chatman said last month during a media teleconference.

My Take: So it won’t be special anymore :(

Ligado seeks FCC approval for AST SpaceMobile deal - Ligado is seeking FCC approval of its L-band license modification so that it can pursue a partnership with AST SpaceMobile. One of the arguments in favor of the application is the need for competition beyond SpaceX’s rapidly expanding D2D satellite footprint. AT&T and Verizon are backing AST SpaceMobile as the telecom industry seeks to prevent an Elon Musk-dominated D2D market

My Take: AT&T and Verizon are basically feeding AST SpaceMobile and Ligado, so they don’t end up begging Starlink for space-based coverage later on.

AT&T CEO drops physics lesson on SpaceX’s Starlink mobile aspirations - AT&T CEO John Stankey explained to attendees at this week’s UBS Global Media & Communications Conference that while he continues to think there is a place for a space-based communication service, physics will prevent such a venture from being able to support a direct competitor.

My Take: Starlink will be awesome for coverage gaps and remote places, but it’s not about to replace your regular mobile network in cities. In the end, your phone will likely use both towers and satellites, and the real battle is which company gets to sit in the middle of that hybrid world.

🇨🇦 Canada Should Stay Out of the Space Arms Race - As geopolitical tensions rise, many countries are embarking on a space arms race to secure critical systems in orbit—the Carney government has indicated it will do the same. But more weapons aren’t going to make space safer; if Canada wants to protect itself up there, we need to invest in stability. 

My Take: The author says Canada should focus on stability and resilience with more robust satellites and ground stations, better backup systems, stronger cyber defence, clearer rules, and international cooperation.

Enabling AI

Introducing GPT-5.2 - Already, the average ChatGPT Enterprise user says⁠ AI saves them 40–60 minutes a day, and heavy users say it saves them more than 10 hours a week. We designed GPT‑5.2 to unlock even more economic value for people; it’s better at creating spreadsheets, building presentations, writing code, perceiving images, understanding long contexts, using tools, and handling complex, multi-step projects.

My Take: So why not just update 5.1 instead of releasing a new model all the time? Well, because no one will notice and fewer people would care. Anyway, I shall try it out, of course.

“Overall, GPT‑5.2 brings significant improvements in general intelligence, long-context understanding, agentic tool-calling, and vision—making it better at executing complex, real-world tasks end-to-end than any previous model.”

Oracle slumps as gloomy forecasts, soaring spending fan AI bubble worries - shares sank 13% on Thursday, sparking a tech selloff as the company's massive spending and weak forecasts fanned doubts over how quickly the big bets on AI will pay off.

My Take: That easrlier $300B is tied to OpenAI, and they’re not doing so well these days in the face of competition from Google. So much money at stake with AI.

The New York Times is suing Perplexity for copyright infringement - The lawsuit — filed even as several publishers, including The Times, negotiate deals with AI firms — is part of the same, ongoing years-long strategy. Recognizing the AI tide cannot be stopped, publishers use lawsuits as leverage in negotiations in the hopes of forcing AI companies to formally license content in ways that compensate creators and maintain the economic viability of original journalism.

My Take: Is it licensed infrastructure, or is it free? This lawsuit is really about whether AI search can keep freeloading on professional journalism, or if it finally has to start paying for what it uses.

Nobody is talking about a bubble at the world’s biggest AI research conference - Fears of a bubble are being driven by the see-sawing stock prices of chip and tech giants, huge valuations of some AI startups, hundreds of billions of dollars in data centre deals and mixed signals about how widely consumers and businesses are actually using AI. Frenzied conversations about when it might pop are all over the headlines, earnings calls, and tech podcasts.

My Take: NeurIPS shows that AI is not some fake bubble story. The tech is real and still moving fast. That’s all I got.

It’s about time: The CoPilot Usage Report, 2025 - We analyze 37.5 million deidentified conversations with Microsoft’s Copilot between January and September 2025. Unlike prior analyses of AI usage, we focus not just on what people do with AI, but on how and when they do it. We find that how people use AI depends fundamentally on context and device type. On mobile, health is the dominant topic, which is consistent across every hour and every month we observed—with users seeking not just information but also advice.

My Take: Is this important to anyone at all?

McDonald's Netherlands pulls AI Christmas ad after backlash - McDonald's Netherlands has taken down a Christmas advert made with Artificial Intelligence (AI) following online backlash. The 45-second advert was produced with generative AI clips and released publicly on McDonald's Netherlands YouTube channel on 6 December. Viewers on social media denounced the use of AI in the film, with one commenter calling it "the most god-awful ad I've seen this year".

My Take: Watch it here

The War Department Unleashes AI on New GenAI.mil Platform - The War Department today announced the launch of Google Cloud's Gemini for Government as the first of several frontier AI capabilities to be housed on GenAI.mil, the Department's new bespoke AI platform. This initiative cultivates an "AI-first" workforce, leveraging generative AI capabilities to create a more efficient and battle-ready enterprise. Additional world-class AI models will be available to all civilians, contractors, and military personnel, delivering on the White House's AI Action Plan announced earlier this year.

My Take: This is how War Games started, except this is real. If adversaries use AI, won’t they determine the same strategies?

Linux Foundation Announces the Formation of the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), Anchored by New Project Contributions Including Model Context Protocol (MCP), goose and AGENTS.md - The advent of agentic AI represents a new era of autonomous decision making and coordination across AI systems that will transform and revolutionize entire industries. The AAIF provides a neutral, open foundation to ensure this critical capability evolves transparently, collaboratively, and in ways that advance the adoption of leading open source AI projects. Its inaugural projects, AGENTS.md, goose and MCP, lay the groundwork for a shared ecosystem of tools, standards, and community-driven innovation. 

My Take: AAIF is basically the industry trying to decide the standard wiring for AI agents before things fragment. Is this the “HTTP” moment for AI agents?

This and That!

Creator IShowSpeed sued for allegedly punching, choking viral humanoid Rizzbot - “Speed absolutely knew that this was not an appropriate way to interact with a sophisticated robot and knew that such actions with inflict irreparable damage to Rizzbot,” the petition read. “These actions resulted in the total loss of the Rizzbot.”

My Take: Rizzbot. With that name, it probably deserved an attitude adjustment.

SpaceX reportedly in talks for secondary sale at $800B valuation, which would make it America’s most valuable private company - The eye-popping figure reflects how routine mega-valuations have become within private markets. OpenAI stands at $500 billion, while Anthropic reportedly surged last month to $350 billion following major investments from Microsoft and Nvidia, up from $183 billion just months earlier.

My Take: I thought I saw one article that pegged it over a trillion dollars. Oh, to be an early SpaceX employee with $1 options ;)

Musk says new Tesla software allows texting and driving, which is illegal in most states - Tesla CEO Elon Musk said in an X post Thursday that owners can text and drive with the latest version of his company’s Full Self-Driving (Supervised) driver-assistance software, despite the fact that it’s illegal to do so in most states.

My Take: I wonder if his software can help detect police scanning to see if people are texting and driving. If he enables the feature, should he pay everyone’s fines?

Earth's crust hides enough 'gold' hydrogen to power the world for tens of thousands of years, emerging research suggests - Reservoirs of hydrogen gas that form naturally in Earth's crust could help humans decarbonize. The challenge now is finding these accumulations and working out how best to mine them, experts say.

My Take: Hydrogen and nuclear are the answers. We’re going to use up all the LNG for Data Centres, so we’re going to need something else.

Gray hair may have evolved as a protection against cancer, study hints - The researchers behind the study tracked the fate of the stem cells responsible for producing the pigment that gives hair its color. In mouse experiments, they found that these cells responded to DNA damage either by ceasing to grow and divide — leading to gray hair — or by replicating uncontrollably to ultimately form a tumor.

My Take: How do researchers even come up with these hypotheses to investigate further? It’s like thinking about maple syrup. Who thought that boiling tree sap would be a good thing to do, and why did they think a pancake was a good vessel to consume it? 🤔

Infographic Of The Week

My Take: “U.S. investors allocate 78% of their equity portfolio to domestic assets, demonstrating a clear home bias. Investors in Norway and Canada hold a significant share of U.S. equities in their portfolios, at 48% and 45%, respectively”

Podcast Recommendation

The first week of December at The New York Times is known as “Cookie Week.” Every day, for seven days, our cooking team highlights a new holiday cookie recipe. This year’s batch features flavors that aren’t necessarily traditional holiday ones — or even, for that matter, flavors. Instead, they draw inspiration from family night at the movies, drinks like Vietnamese Coffee, and perhaps most surprisingly, an Italian deli meat.

In this edition of the Sunday Special, Gilbert Cruz talks with Melissa Clark and Vaughn Vreeland from New York Times Cooking about this year’s cookies, and they answer questions from readers about how to navigate cooking and baking during the holidays.

Listen Here!

Movie/Streaming Recommendation

IMDb: 7.6/10

JMDb: 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿/10

“We Will Dance Again” is a tightly assembled, emotionally punishing documentary that reconstructs the October 7 Nova music festival attack almost in real time through survivor interviews and on-the-ground footage. Directed by Yariv Mozer, it focuses on young festival‑goers’ experiences of terror, flight, and loss rather than on a broad historical overview. The editing is precise, turning chaotic cellphone and body‑camera clips into a coherent, escalating timeline that feels closer to a horror thriller than conventional reportage, while never losing sight of individual lives.​​

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