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Banning controversy reveals #Bluesky’s #decentralized aspiration isn’t reality
https://plus.flux.community/p…

Inside the Warner Bros. lobbying bonanza (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/08/inside-the-warner-bros-lobbying-bonanza-00682276
http://www.memeorandum.com/251208/p145#a251208p145

NO REALLY https://www.guru3d.com/story/synology-reverses-policy-banning-thirdparty-hdds-after-nas-sales-plummet/

Binance receives three licenses from Abu Dhabi's financial regulator, allowing comprehensive operations across its exchange, clearing, and brokerage arms (Alex Dooler/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-0…

SoftBank-owned PayPay takes a 40% stake in Binance Japan for an undisclosed sum, to capitalize on Japan's crypto boom; PayPay filed for a US IPO in August (Mayumi Negishi/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

The FTC denied a petition from Scott Zuckerman, the CEO of a company that marketed “stalkerware” apps, to vacate or modify the FTC’s 2021 order banning him from offering any monitoring products and services and requiring him to implement an information security program.

FTC Denies Petition from SpyFone App CEO to Vacate 2021 Order
The Federal Trade Commission has denied a petition from Scott Z

A coalition of more than 230 environmental groups
has demanded a national moratorium
on new datacenters in the US,
the latest salvo in a growing backlash to a booming artificial intelligence industry
that has been blamed for escalating electricity bills and worsening the climate crisis.
The green groups, including
Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, Food & Water Watch and dozens of local organizations,
have urged members of Congress to halt the pro…

@… wat maakt dat threads.net met een vertraging van zo'n 15 min binnenkomt?
Zelfde oorzaak als eerder?

YZi Labs, formerly Binance Labs, announces a $1B Builder Fund to support long-term founders developing on BNB Chain in areas like trading, AI, and DeFi (Logan Hitchcock/Decrypt)
https://decrypt.co/343392/cz-family-office-kickstarts-1-billion-fund-bnb
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CZ Family Office Kickstarts $1 Billion Builder Fund on BNB
Binance co-founder Changpeng Zhao's family office is setting aside $1 billion for long-term builders on BNB Chain.

Investment in subsea cable projects is expected to reach $13B between 2025 and 2027, almost 2x the amount invested between 2022 and 2024, driven by AI buildout (Magdalena Petrova/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/08/big-tech-ai-underwater-cables.html

Underwater cables are a vital piece of the AI buildout and internet — investment is booming
Over 95% of international data and voice traffic travels through subsea telecom cables. Tech giants Meta, Google, Amazon and Microsoft are investing for AI.