@benb@osintua.eu2025-12-19 06:02:13
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
@profcarroll@federate.social2025-11-20 22:04:20
Mark Zuckerberg and other executives will pay $190M to the company in a settlement with shareholders who brought suit to recover damages from the Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal that reverberated out of Trump’s first term. Ensures that he, Sandberg, Andressen, Thiel, et al shielded from deposition, trial. https://<…
@hikingdude@mastodon.social2025-12-20 12:27:03
1/ Last year I had to spend time with someone who votes far-right.
I could have avoided all political discussions but I gave it a try - knowing about the risc!
At some topics I said: I don't want to discuss that, I have a strong opinion there but let's skip that please.
At other topics, the discussions got heated until I said: waait. We don't need to fight. We agree to disagree. But none of us can change it. Our duty is to vote, not to fight each other. And I d…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2025-11-19 05:18:00
Nach dem Cloudflare-Ausfall: Digital völlig unsouverän
Die Ausfälle von AWS, Azure und Cloudflare haben gezeigt: Das Netz steht auf tönernen Füßen. Der Countdown zum GAU läuft. Ein Kommentar.
https://www.<…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-12-19 00:56:00
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…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-20 06:42:56
Vladimir Putin has been attempting to influence Donald Trump to seize both Venezuela and Greenland since at least 2017. The effort, rooted in Putin's ambitions in Ukraine, hinged on American embrace of the Monroe Doctrine, the 1823 policy framework that focused American influence within the Western Hemisphere.
Putin's reasoning, according to witnesses familiar with the proposals, is simple: if Trump would agree to disengage in Ukraine, Putin would agree to give Trump control in …
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-11-19 00:20:57
Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4.5, Haiku 4.5, and Opus 4.1 are now available in public preview in Microsoft Foundry for Azure customers (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-in-microsoft-foundry
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-20 15:07:47
Billionaire Larry Ellison,
the largest shareholder of Paramount,
often speaks to connections at the White House but, in at least one of the calls,
engaged in a dialogue about possibly firing CNN hosts whom Donald Trump is said to loathe, including Erin Burnett and Brianna Keilar.
Senior White House officials have discussed internally their preference for Paramount Skydance to acquire Warner Bros Discovery in recent weeks,
and one official has discussed potentia…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-20 20:39:02
Lawmakers from both sides of the aisle have turned on Attorney General Pam Bondi
and have reportedly begun drafting articles of impeachment
following the heavily opaque release of the Epstein files
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-20 15:29:33
The White House points to a
seven-month snapshot
showing low inflation,
but economists say prices are closer to 3 percent.
The shutdown delays fresh data.
Most experts agree inflation has picked up in recent months,
in part because of Trump’s tariffs.
Economists expect more tariff-driven price increases in the months to come.
