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Netflix acquires avatar creation platform Ready Player Me to let its subscribers carry their personas and fandoms across games; the startup raised $72M (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/19/netflix-acquires-gaming-avatar-maker-read…

Netflix acquires gaming avatar maker Ready Player Me | TechCrunch
The gaming startup will allow Netflix subscribers to create avatars that can extend across gaming titles.

Netflix acquires avatar creation platform Ready Player Me to let its subscribers carry their personas and fandoms across games; the startup raised $72M (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/19/netflix-acquires-gaming-avatar-maker-read…

Netflix acquires gaming avatar maker Ready Player Me | TechCrunch
The gaming startup will allow Netflix subscribers to create avatars that can extend across gaming titles.

Russia intensifies spy wars across Europe | Front Line with @StarskyUA: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/20/russia-intensifies-spy-wars-across.html

Quora's Poe launches group chats, letting users around the world engage in group chats with up to 200 people and collaborate across 200 AI models (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/18/poes-ai-app-now-supports-group-chats-acro…

Poe's AI app now supports group chats across AI models | TechCrunch
Quora's AI platform Poe now lets users engage in group chats with up to 200 people across AI models and bots.

EU agrees to €90 billion loan for Ukraine, without frozen Russian assets (France 24)
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20251219-eu-agrees-to-€90-billion-loan-for-ukraine-without-frozen-russian-assets
http://www.memeorandum.com/251219/p11#a251219p11

Aggression among 3 things Cowboys must improve before facing Chargers https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/12/18/aggression-among-3-things-cowboys-must-improve-before-f…

Immigrants with special deportation protections are facing detainment across the country,
as the Trump administration continues its aggressive mass deportation campaign. 
Home is Here -- a coalition of advocates for immigrants with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, status-- has documented a pattern of immigration agents targeting DACA recipients.
At least 18 DACA recipients are detained, according to a Home is Here tracker. 
So far, Home is Here has pi…

Ex-Van Drew staffer staged fake attack, writing 'Trump Whore' across her stomach and alleging men held her down and cut her body (David Wildstein/New Jersey Globe)
https://newjerseyglobe.com/congress/van-drew-staffer-staged-fake-attack-writing-trump-whore-across-her-stomach-and-alleging-men-held-her-down-and-cut-her-body/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251119/p168#a251119p168

Cursor-developer Anysphere acquires code review startup Graphite and says Graphite will continue operating as an independent product (Beatrice Nolan/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/12/19/cursor-ai-coding-startup-graphite-competition-heats-up/

Exclusive: Cursor acquires code review startup Graphite as AI coding competition heats up
By purchasing Graphite, Cursor, currently valued at $29 billion, gains more code review and debugging capabilities

Google DeepMind plans to open an AI research lab in Singapore, collaborating with institutions across the Asia-Pacific in education, public services, and more (Lila Ibrahim/Google DeepMind)
https://deepmind.google/blog/were-expa…

Google DeepMind opens Singapore research lab for Asia-Pacific AI.
Google DeepMind opens a new research lab in Singapore to accelerate the development of frontier AI across the Asia-Pacific region through research, talent, and strategic collaborations.