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 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…
Would be nice if someone familiar with @… apps sets up a tar pit solution to protect hosted applications like mastodon
https://tldr.nettime.org/@asrg/1138674
Fachkräftemangel: Warum in der KI-Branche gerade Elektriker und Klempner fehlen
In den USA ist der Bau zahlreicher Rechenzentren geplant. Ausgerechnet der Mangel an gut ausgebildeten Handwerkern könnte allerdings zu Verzögerungen führen.
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
Russian attacks kill 5, injure 30 across Ukraine as Moscow again targets energy infrastructure: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/18/russian-attacks-kill-injure-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…
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
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/