add news event 2024-12-28 to the news

Announce the result of the **Great Fork Merge** and the IOCCC28 dates!

status.html

@@ -433,7 +433,7 @@
         "no_comment" : "mandatory comment: because comments were removed from the original JSON spec",
         "IOCCC_status_version" : "1.0 2024-03-09",
         "contest_status" : "closed",
-        "news_update" : "2024-07-31T22:45:30+00:00",
+        "news_update" : "2024-12-29T07:03:37+00:00",
         "status_update" : "2024-12-24T01:52:32+00:00"
     }</code></pre>