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California reaches a $50M settlement with Meta to resolve claims that Facebook users were misled about their ability to limit who could see personal details (The San Francisco Standard)
https://sfstandard.com/2025/12/19/facebook-users-dec…

Meta, California agree to settle Facebook privacy case
Third parties harvested personal data even though the company claimed to offer privacy, a lawsuit says.

Amazon stellt Packroboter Blue Jay nach wenigen Monaten außer Dienst
Amazon hat einen Roboter für den Einsatz im Warenlager nach wenigen Monaten wieder abgebaut. Die Technologie soll aber weiterentwickelt werden.

Crazy that the same people answer these 2 questions like this.
https://mstdn.ca/@CanadianPolling/115742985914702440
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Wie öffnet man festsitzende #Schraubgläser, wenn einem fast die Hand abfällt? 🚴‍♂️🥫
Ich habe vor einiger Zeit mal einen #Hebelöffner zum Klemmen ausprobiert. Nach 2 Sekunden war er kaputt. Es gibt eine einfachere Lösung, die oft funktioniert. Neugierig auf weitere Details?<…

Upcycling: Schraubgläser öffnen mit einem Fahrradschlauch
Hat Euch schonmal ein fest sitzender Twist-off-Deckel in den Wahnsinn getrieben? Gerade bei eigenen Konserven sitzen die Deckel oft sehr fest. Wer die Konservengläser wieder zum Einwecken benötigt , möchte den Deckel...

Sony Pictures Entertainment and Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) agree to buy WildBrain's 41% stake in Peanuts Holdings for ~$457M, raising Sony's slice to 80% (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/sony-acquire-peanuts-457-mil…

Sony to Own Control of Peanuts in $457 Million Deal With WildBrain
Sony will own 80% of Peanuts Holdings after acquiring the 41% stake in the entity from WildBrain.

EU leaders agree on $105 billion loan to secure Ukraine’s financing through 2027: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/19/eu-leaders-agree-on-billion.html

We desperately need to figure out how to flip this: how to lift up the creators of wonderful things, instead of rewarding whoever can acquire power over their creations.
I don’t think we know how to do this. There’s a vast spectrum of schemes for fixing this, ranging from capitalist versions of “intellectual property” to Marxist “just end capitalism” notions to various versions of “easy, society should just be different.” I find them all lacking, both in theory and in practice. This is a problem that’s existed for millennia, not decades, and I’m not convinced we have a clear solution.
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eBay agrees to acquire secondhand clothing app Depop from Etsy for ~$1.2B in cash; Etsy bought Depop in 2021 for $1.6B; ETSY jumps 17% after hours (Niko Gallogly/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/business/etsy-depop-ebay.html

Filings: Tether-owned Northern Data sold its bitcoin mining unit, Peak Mining, for up to $200M to a group including companies controlled by Tether executives (Nikou Asgari/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/352fc0e3-0f0d-4e72-abe6-dd992b040caa