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• Trump has tapped Pete Hegseth, an Army veteran and Fox News host, to be secretary of defense.
• BI reviewed Hegseth's past statements for clues on how he might lead the Defense Department.
• Hegseth has been skeptical of US support for the NATO alliance and an

Bluesky may still be the underdog in the race for alternatives to X, but the once Twitter-affiliated service is gaining momentum. The app just passed the 15 million user mark after adding more than a million new users over the last week, the company said in an update.

While Bluesky is still considerably smaller than Threads, which with 275 million users is its biggest rival, there are signs that

NHL 25 is slated to get a sizable content update at the end of the year. EA announced that the six teams of the Professional Women's Hockey League will be added to the game in an update this December. The Boston Fleet, Minnesota Frost, Montréal Victoire, New York Sirens, Ottawa Charge and Toronto Sceptres will be available to choose in the game's Play Now, Online Versus, Shootout and Season modes

"I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it any more."

That's the apparently immortal line from Network, Paddy Chayefsky's acerbic Oscar-winning masterpiece from 1976. Deranged newsreader Howard Beale (played by Peter Finch in the movie, and Bryan Cranston in a theater version) urges his audience to scream it out of their windows, and his TV network capitalizes on the resulting outrage

• Spotify is going after YouTube's video podcast dominance with a new revenue program for creators.
• It will soon share revenue with creators based on how much their videos are viewed.
• The company will also no longer insert ads into video podcasts shown to paid subscribers.

Spotify seems to be tired of playing second fiddle to YouTube when it

Spotify is aiming to give YouTube some competition with its new partner program for video creators and content that goes viral. The music and podcast app announced a new “Partner Program” that monetizes audio and video beyond income from advertising starting on January 2, 2025.

The new monetization program pays Spotify creators in two ways. Creators can earn a share of ad revenue from their

• The last time a person visited the moon was in December 1972, during NASA's Apollo 17 mission.
• Astronauts say the reasons are budgetary and political, not scientific or technical.
• A US lander recently landed on the moon, and NASA could take people there by 2026 at the earliest.

Landing 12 people on the moon remains one of NASA's

• Elon Musk says a leaderboard of "dumb" government spending will expose waste — and he wants your two cents.
• Experts say the board "gamifies" the conversation — and it's likely going to get a lot of attention.
• Still, some also warned that it could oversimplify something that can be complicated.

Elon Musk wants to gamify the act of