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Google has removed dozens of AI videos from YouTube that depicted Disney characters, after Disney sent a cease-and-desist letter flagging the links (Gene Maddaus/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/google-removes-ai-videos-disney…

Google Removes AI Videos of Disney Characters After Cease and Desist
Google has taken down dozens of AI-generated videos of Disney-owned characters after the studio sent a cease and desist letter on Wednesday.

Google has removed dozens of AI videos from YouTube that depicted Disney characters, after Disney sent a cease-and-desist letter flagging the links (Gene Maddaus/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/google-removes-ai-videos-disney…

Google Removes AI Videos of Disney Characters After Cease and Desist
Google has taken down dozens of AI-generated videos of Disney-owned characters after the studio sent a cease and desist letter on Wednesday.

U.S. Pours More Firepower Into the Caribbean as Trump Ramps Up Threats (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/world/americas/u-s-pours-more-firepower-into-the-caribbean-as-trump-ramps-up-threats-8e964845?st=ZJrgKR&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.memeorandum.com/251213/p11#a251213p11

49ers QB Purdy ramps up practice for return https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46945989/49ers-qb-brock-purdy-aggressive-potential-return

The next segment of the widening of Highway 101
—from Hermosillo to Salinas
—will start in the spring
and take at least three years.
An email from the Montecito Association says that both Hot Springs/Cabrillo exits, northbound and southbound,
will be closed from the spring of 2026 to summer of 2028
(“The Cabrillo Boulevard Interchange will be reconstructed with two new bridges and right-hand freeway ramps,
including a new southbound on-ramp [above].”…

We're all at home and doing fine, thanks for asking. (If you don't know what this is in reference to, don't worry.)
https://theonion.com/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-nation-where-this-regularly-happens/

‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens
WINDER, GA—In the hours following a violent rampage in Georgia in which a lone attacker killed at least four individuals and injured nine others, citizens living in the only country where this kind of mass killing routinely occurs reportedly concluded Wednesday that there was no way to prevent the massacre from taking place. “This was […]

Meta confirms it is laying off Reality Labs staff and will "reinvest the savings" in wearables; CTO Andrew Bosworth says 1,000 staff will be notified Tuesday (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Trump Ramps Up Pressure on G.O.P. to Thwart Epstein Vote (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/us/politics/trump-epstein-vote-boebert.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251112/p94#a251112p94

Apple removes two of the most popular gay dating apps, Blued and Finka, from its App Store in China, citing orders from the country's Cyberspace Administration (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/apple-removes-gay-dating-apps-china-app-store/

Apple Pulls China’s Top Gay Dating Apps After Government Order
The removal of Blued and Finka marks another setback for China’s marginalized LGBTQ+ community.

Investigation: Google removed AI Overviews for two liver health queries after expert inaccuracy warnings, but slight keyword tweaks still trigger AI responses (Andrew Gregory/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/11…