VW Exec Jailed For Seven Years For Emissions Scam – A senior Volkswagen executive was sentenced to seven years in prison by a US court on Wednesday after being found guilty of concealing software used to evade pollution limits on nearly 600,000 diesel vehicles. [guardian]

Bitcoin Surges Above $14,000 To New High – Bitcoin crossed $14,000 (£10,460; €11,870) on Thursday, surging $2,000 in less than 24 hours. [bbc]

Steinhoff’s Markus Jooste Admits He Made ‘Some Big Mistakes’ – Markus Jooste, who late on Tuesday resigned as CEO of Steinhoff International with immediate effect amid an investigation into accounting irregularities, has admitted in a letter to colleagues he made “some big mistakes”. [f24]

Christo Wiese Just Lost R32 Billion In A Day – If you’re a little down in the dumps today, and are just clinging on until the end of the week, then consider the shocker that Christo is having. [read]

U.S Olympic Skier Lindsey Vonn: I Won’t Go To White House If Invited – Lindsey Vonn hopes to be celebrating Olympic gold come February in South Korea. But if she does, the skier said that celebration won’t continue on to the White House. [espn]

Trump Recognizes Jerusalem As Israel’s Capital And Orders U.S. Embassy To Move – President Trump on Wednesday formally recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, reversing nearly seven decades of American foreign policy and setting in motion a plan to move the United States Embassy from Tel Aviv to the fiercely contested Holy City. [nyt]

Trump Impeachment Vote Fails Overwhelmingly – The motion to sideline the measure — killing the effort — was approved 364-58, with four Democrats voting present. [pol]

Australia Is Now Home To The World’s First Blockchain-Based Stock Exchange – The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) said today (Dec. 7) that it would use blockchain to clear and settle trades, becoming the world’s first mainstream equity market to employ the technology behind bitcoin for its core services. [qz]

Firefighters Race To Save Rupert Murdoch’s Vineyard Estate From Bel-Air Fire – The Bel-Air fire that has destroyed homes and forced major evacuations is burning near the vineyard estate of media mogul Rupert Murdoch. [lat]

Cops Target Investigative Journalists Pauw And Myburgh – Police are looking into investigative journalists Jacques Pauw and Pieter-Louis Myburgh, who have both written about alleged corrupt relationships involving President Jacob Zuma. [huff]

Chinese Laser Weapons Will Be Gunning For Our Drones – The Chinese military has tested a laser designed to shoot down small drones. And it’s not alone. All over the world, armies are developing defenses against small, cheap unmanned aerial vehicles. [db]

How Donatella Versace Made 2017 Her Year – After her brother was shot and killed outside his house in 1997, Donatella took over the Versace brand. 20 years later, she is looking stronger than ever. [here]

Entire Human Chess Knowledge Learned And Surpassed By DeepMind’s AlphaZero In Four Hours – Hundreds of years of chess knowledge was learned and then surpassed by Google DeepMind’s artificial intelligence algorithm in just four hours, it has emerged. [tele]

Lewis Hamilton’s Take On NASCAR, Underwear, And Fashion – While it’s quite apparent that Lewis Hamilton enjoys the finer things in life, he did surprise us with a few of his fashion choices. Oh, and he loves a name drop. [here]

Notorious Mobster’s Daughter Hawking Godfather Coffee Pods – The daughter of notorious Sicilian mob boss Totò Riina has begun selling coffee pods and olive oil in his memory, just weeks after his death. [tele]

Bryan Singer Fired From Freddie Mercury Biopic After On-Set Clashes – That escalated quickly. Just a few days after reports surfaced that Bryan Singer had not returned to the set of Freddie Mercury/Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody, there has been an update: Singer was fired from the film on Monday. [empire]

‘The Post’ Review: Meryl Streep And Tom Hanks Unite To Save America – Hollywood’s two most revered superstars come together in Steven Spielberg’s rousing—if slightly corny—celebration of the free press and warning about our country’s Trumpian future. [beast]

Meghan Markle Says No To Selfies – Prince Harry hates selfies, and Meghan Markle is now saying no to them, too. [nw]

The Jennifer Lawrence Interview, By Oprah Winfrey – The Oscar-winning actress talks to the legendary interviewer about everything from pay equity (“I had it up to my f—ing eyeballs”) to her dealings with Harvey (“He had only been nice to me — except for when he wasn’t”) to where she sees herself in 20 years: “I won’t have periods anymore, that’s a bonus.” [holrep]

John Travolta’s ‘Gotti’ Movie Pulled Just Days Before Its Release – The mob biopic has been sold back to the production company. [huff]

This Holiday Season, Give The Gift Of A Coal Subscription Box For Millennials – The fake company Coal parodies this coddling startup phenomenon with its own subscription-box service that “sends you a real piece of coal (in fancy, Warby Parker-esque packaging) right in time for the holidays.” [huff]

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