Tootfinder

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

Wie ein französischer Richter von den USA digital abgeklemmt wurde
Nicolas Guillou wurde von den USA als Richter des Internationalen Strafgerichtshofs sanktioniert. Die Auswirkungen bemerkt er vor allem im Digitalen.

The Fight Over the Next Fed Chair Is Spilling Out Across D.C. and Wall Street (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/the-fight-over-the-next-fed-chair-is-spilling-out-across-d-c-and-wall-street-14761d86
http://www.memeorandum.com/251220/p37#a251220p37

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.

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

Insight Partners-owned Veeam agrees to acquire Securiti AI, which makes data security tools, for ~$1.73B in cash and stock, set to close first week of December (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-…

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

HBO Max raises prices across all plans: Basic With Ads increases by $1/month to $10.99, Standard by $1.50/month to $18.49, and Premium by $2/month to $22.99 (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/hbo-max-prices-increases-plans-2025-123655767…

HBO Max Raises Prices Across All Plans Effective Immediately
It's going to cost you more to watch HBO Max, after the streaming platform raised its prices just a year after its last hikes.