10 things you need to know this morning in Australia

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The Sydney COVID-19 outbreak looks like it's under control – but it's unclear whether the Northern Beaches lockdown will be lifted by Christmas NSW has recorded just eight new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 yesterday, down from fifteen the day before. NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian says she's pleased with the result but said there's been no decision made on what public health restrictions will be in place for the next few days.

Biden says the Pentagon isn't briefing his team on the suspected Russian cyberattack President-elect Joe Biden said the Pentagon is not briefing his team on pressing matters like the suspected Russian hack of federal government departments and agencies.

Elon Musk says that he wanted Apple to buy Tesla during the company's 'darkest days,' but Tim Cook wouldn't take the meeting Musk said that he reached out to the Apple CEO during the "darkest days" of Tesla's Model 3 program, hoping to sell Tesla for a tenth of the company's current value.

Previously untouched by the pandemic, Antarctica has reported its first cases of COVID-19 The remote continent was the last to remain untouched by the pandemic. The 36 cases broke out among people stationed at a Chilean research base.

3 COVID-19 breakthroughs Bill Gates says 'will make 2021 better than 2020' In his end-of-year blog post, Bill Gates says the challenges we've faced in 2020 have bred innovations and collaborations that will support a brighter global future.

'Cyberpunk 2077' sales have already topped 13 million despite the game being pulled from the PlayStation 4 And that number takes into account the people who returned the game.

The Trump administration inherited Obama's millions of Twitter followers in 2017 — but Twitter said Biden will 'start from zero' when he takes over @POTUS, according to his team Twitter told the transition team that the millions of followers on the official presidential accounts wouldn't transfer to Biden when he takes office.

Millennials are flocking to RVs like never before during the pandemic, new data shows While the general surge in RV popularity during the coronavirus pandemic isn't millennial-specific, the demographic's rising interest in RVing has now started positively impacting sale and rental numbers.

Why women's sex drive dips at Christmas then spikes at New Year, according researchers who studied half a million women Researchers at Stanford University looked at data from 500,000 women and found less sex is reported in the three days leading up to Christmas than average.

If you have the skills to keep up with a chef, you could win a gourmet BBQ lunch for you and 9 mates This year has been a weird one, to say the least. With the pandemic keeping us apart from almost everyone we care about, we've all definitely earned some fun.

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