@Techmeme@techhub.socialDisney ends its partnership with OpenAI, signed in December 2025, in which it pledged to invest $1B and agreed to license some characters to Sora (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/openai-shutting-down-sora-video-platform-…
@cdarwin@c.imJudge Aileen Cannon permanently bared DoJ from releasing Jack Smith's report on Trump documents
Advocacy groups will likely try to consolidate all the issues into one appellate case.
So far, they’ve collectively raised 1st Amendment and common law right of access claims, as well as Freedom of Information Act-related claims.
@weareoversight.bsky.social
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialDisney ends its partnership with OpenAI, signed in December 2025, in which it pledged to invest $1B and agreed to license some characters to Sora (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/openai-shutting-down-sora-video-platform-…
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialOn December 1976, the original movie trailer for Star Wars was screened right before the showing of 'King Kong'.
And without John Williams' music, the completed special effects or the classic title logo, the movie feels very... ominous.
#StarWars
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: China deepens its probe into Meta's Manus acquisition in December to investigate cross-border currency flows, tax accounting, and overseas investments (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-23…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.desp_high_school: High school temporal contacts (2013)
These data sets correspond to the contacts and friendship relations between students in a high school in Marseilles, France, in December 2013, as measured through several techniques.
This network has 329 nodes and 1437 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata
@memeorandum@universeodon.comU.S. Trade Deficit Surged in December (Matt Grossman/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/economy/trade/u-s-trade-deficit-grew-in-december-da4afda5?st=F13HWx&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.memeorandum.com/260219/p27#a260219p27
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
ACME, a brief history of a protocol which has changed Internet security.
https://blog.brocas.org/2025/12/01/ACME-a-brief-history-of-one-of-the-protocols-which-has-changed-the-Internet-Security/
@cdarwin@c.imThe EU could “respond swiftly and decisively” against th
“unjustified” US visa bans on five Europeans involved in combating online hate and disinformation,
a European Commission spokesperson has said.
European leaders including Emmanuel Macron accused Washington of
“coercion and intimidation”,
after the visa ban on the figures who have been at the heart of campaigns to introduce laws regulating American tech companies.
Justifying the visa bans, the US secr…
@raiders@darktundra.xyz
@johnleonard@mastodon.socialAmazon Web Services suffered two outages in December related to errors involved with its own AI tools – but has put the blame on employees, not technology.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/ai/aws-blames-user-error-not-ai
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAnalysis: overseas investors bought a net $2.77B of Taiwan equities on February 24, the most since December 2005, signaling confidence in an AI driven chip boom (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-25/ai-s…
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe@… this was published with a different title, and URL, in December 2025.
The republication is not a bad thing.
When I first read the article by Jack Wallen, I took the time to also read about him, as a person. One of his personal blog posts inspired me to send an email that was entirely unrelated to technology.
When you introduced you…
@gscherer2@social.linux.pizzaBacklit Cactus in the Desert Garden. Huntington Library, San Marino, California, USA. December, 2025. OM System OM-1 M.Zuiko 90mm F3.5. #huntingtonlibrary #desertgarden #cactus
@Dragofix@veganism.socialIndonesia backs away from coal exit test case amid financial and political pushback https://news.mongabay.com/2026/01/indonesia-backs-away-from-coal-exit-test-case-amid-financial-and-political-pushback/
@edintone@mastodon.greenThe National Archives Welcomes New Directors https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/the-national-archives-welcomes-new-directors/
@benb@osintua.euRussia’s December toll in Ukraine was about twice Soviet Afghan war losses, former MI6 chief says: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/11/russias-december-toll-in-ukraine.html
@NFL@darktundra.xyzBrock Purdy, Jeffery Simmons secure December Player of the Month in Madden NFL 26 https://www.espn.com/gaming/story/_/id/47609979/ea-madden-nfl-26-december-player-month-potm-team-week-totw
@cdarwin@c.im“The government’s understaffing and high case load is a problem of its own making,”
a federal judge observed.
On Feb. 18, 2026, after a 90-minute hearing,
U.S. District Judge Laura Provinzino of the District of Minnesota imposed a conditional civil contempt fine upon a government attorney handling one of the hundreds of immigration related habeas corpus cases
that have overwhelmed the courts of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minn., since December.
She ordered Specia…
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot @Techmeme@techhub.socialA look at Kalshi and Polymarket's rise; reports say Polymarket had 491K monthly active traders in December 2025, and <0.04% of addresses took 70% of profits (Benjamin Wallace/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.co…
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeMassive cyberattack on Polish power system in December failed, minister says
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/massive-cyberattack-polish-power-system-december-failed-minister-says-2026…
@relcfp@mastodon.socialH-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-Asia: 21 December - 28 December https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20136486/h-net-job-guide-weekly-report-h-asia-21-december-28-december
@Techmeme@techhub.socialCircana: the Switch 2 ended December and 2025 as the US' best-selling video game hardware, offsetting declines among rivals to lift overall hardware spend by 9% (Vlad Savov/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@larsfosdal@mastodon.socialDecember 1983
HashtagGames
#RejectedBooktitles
@thomastraynor@social.linux.pizzaNever did code while on my commute. If you want me to work then pay for it, no freebies!
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/12/spotify-says-its-best-developers-havent-written-a-line-of-code-since-december-thanks-to-a…
@cdarwin@c.imRepresentative Robert Garcia accused the administration of shielding powerful figures who abused women and girls.
"The White House is openly engaged in a cover-up protecting Epstein's co-conspirators and the powerful men who abused women and girls", he said,
noting it was "outrageous that the DOJ has illegally withheld over 1 million documents from the public".
Notably, under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, there was a December 19 deadline for …
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSource: Databricks obtained $1.8B in fresh debt and now has over $7B in debt ahead of a potential IPO; it raised $4B in December at a $134B valuation (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/23/databricks-obtains-1point8-billio…
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energyOur #grid #LoadProfile by quarter for last year (one representative month shown for each):
@ckent@urbanists.social#Antipodean discrimination.
Northern hemispheric #chauvinists.
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialAmazingly high quality analysis by ISW about Iran, too bad they don’t have a mastodon account we can follow.
https://understandingwar.org/research/middle-east/iran-update-december-31-2025/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialCourt docs: the IRS seeks $16B in back taxes and penalties from Meta, arguing it failed to report ~$54B in overseas profits; in December 2025, Meta sued the IRS (Jesse Drucker/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/business/irs-meta-corporate-taxes.html
@geant@mstdn.socialWhat if our networks could do more than just carry data?
In December, the Fibre Sensing Task of the GÉANT (GN5-2) Project, together with SURF @… turned 57 km of live optical fibre into a sensor.
The result? Detecting everything from trams to a plane landing at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol.
🎥 Watch Chris Atherton walk us through the experiment.
@soundclamp@mastodon.xyzMy internet friend @… has been diagnosed with cancer and could use your help. https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-jennifer-kellys-battle-against…
@emilis@social.linux.pizzaI'm trying to understand why these graphs do not match:
#fediverse #mastodon
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialCBS News says it will air the 60 Minutes CECOT segment tonight, after it was pulled by Bari Weiss in December (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/01/60-minutes-segment-trump-venezuela-migrants-1236689342/
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.desp_hospital: Hospital ward dynamic contacts (2010)
This dataset contains the temporal network of contacts between patients, patients and health-care workers (HCWs) and among HCWs in a hospital ward in Lyon, France, from Monday, December 6, 2010 at 1:00 pm to Friday, December 10, 2010 at 2:00 pm. The study included 46 HCWs and 29 patients.
This network has 75 nodes and 32424 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Temporal, Metadata
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energyFinally, a more modest increase in atmospheric CO2 at Mauna Loa: based on daily values, the December average was 427.5 ppm, that's 2.1 ppm more than last year
#emissions #co2 #climatechange…
@rafa_font@mastodon.onlineOld fishing nets converted into energy via "Green Plasma"
Last December, Italian scientists converted 200 kg of ghost nets recovered from the seabed into #syngas – a hydrogen-rich combustible gas that can generate electricity
Since spring 2025, Marche Polytechnic Univ. in Ancona has operated Green Plasma as Italy's first system for treating marine waste
Unsorted wa…
@Erikmitk@mastodon.gamedev.place„It’s a path puzzle. You draw a path that enters the grid at the top and exits at the bottom. Along the way, there are 50 sections, each following a different ruleset. Consecutive sections overlap by a few rows, creating short hybrid sections in between.”
This is amazing! The printable PDF-version is 17 pages! 🤯
https://
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: AI chipmaker Cerebras confidentially files for a US IPO after withdrawing a previous IPO last year, and a listing could take place as soon as April (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/exclusive-cerebras-files-confidenti…
@metacurity@infosec.exchange"The agentic tool, which is capable of taking autonomous actions for users, decided to 'delete and recreate the environment.'"
Amazon's cloud was hit by two outages involving AI tools in December, FT says
https://www.
@memeorandum@universeodon.comAnnual inflation hit 2.7 percent in December as food costs rose (Sylvan Lane/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/business/5685932-consumer-price-index-december/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260113/p49#a260113p49
@benb@osintua.eu33,000 LOSSES IN DECEMBER! Russia pays a terrible price for the war #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/05/losses-in-december-russia-pays.html
@NFL@darktundra.xyzJaguars QB Trevor Lawrence, Rams QB Matthew Stafford highlight December/January Players of the Month https://www.nfl.com/news/players-of-the-month-december-2025-trevor-lawrence-matthew-stafford
@cdarwin@c.imAbby Tighe thought she had landed her forever job.
She joined the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in December 2023,
managing a national youth substance abuse prevention program.
The project focused on rural communities, and Tighe, whose family is from Appalachia, was proud to be using her public health training to support often-overlooked parts of the country.
“The CDC was different than anywhere else I’ve worked,” says Tighe.
“People didn’t …
@relcfp@mastodon.socialH-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-AmIndian: 21 December - 28 December https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20136483/h-net-job-guide-weekly-report-h-amindian-21-december-28-december
@gscherer2@social.linux.pizzaPartially open pink Rose. Descanso Gardens, La Canada Flintridge, California, USA. December 2025. OM System OM-1 M.Zuiko 300mm F4 PRO. #rose #rosebud #descansogardens
@Dragofix@veganism.socialKshamenk, Argentina’s Last Captive Orca, Dies After Decades in Tiny Tank https://veganfta.com/articles/2025/12/18/kshamenk-argentinas-last-captive-orca-dies-after-decades-in-tiny-tank/?utm_source=Mastodon
@cdarwin@c.imThe state of New Mexico is accusing three Texas oil executives of
orchestrating “a fraudulent scheme” to pocket revenue from hundreds of oil and gas wells in New Mexico
and offload the cost of plugging and cleaning up the wells onto the state’s taxpayers.
The suit, filed in late December by the New Mexico attorney general’s office, is the latest salvo in the state’s fight against oil and gas executives accused of 💥foisting old wells onto the public.
The 72-page compla…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comUS posts record $145 billion December deficit as outlays outpace receipts (David Lawder/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/us-posts-record-145-billion-december-deficit-outlays-outpace-receipts-2026-01-13/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260113/p176#a260113p176
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.desp_hospital: Hospital ward dynamic contacts (2010)
This dataset contains the temporal network of contacts between patients, patients and health-care workers (HCWs) and among HCWs in a hospital ward in Lyon, France, from Monday, December 6, 2010 at 1:00 pm to Friday, December 10, 2010 at 2:00 pm. The study included 46 HCWs and 29 patients.
This network has 75 nodes and 32424 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Temporal, Metadata
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialNielsen: Christmas Day 2025 set a record for US streaming usage with 55.1B minutes, or 54% of all TV viewing for the day, up by 3.9B minutes on Christmas 2024 (Rick Porter/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business
@Techmeme@techhub.socialNYT and CCDH analysis: Grok created and shared 1.8M sexualized images of women between December 31 and January 8, after Elon Musk promoted the feature on X (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/technology/grok-x-ai-elon-musk-deepfakes.html
@relcfp@mastodon.socialH-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-HOAC: 7 December - 14 December https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20135414/h-net-job-guide-weekly-report-h-hoac-7-december-14-december
@memeorandum@universeodon.comExpensive food, rents lift US consumer prices in December (Lucia Mutikani/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/us-consumer-prices-increase-expected-december-2026-01-13/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260113/p84#a260113p84
@Dragofix@veganism.socialUK Government Plans to Ban Small Hen Cages and All Pig Crates in England by 2030 https://veganfta.com/articles/2025/12/26/uk-government-plans-to-ban-small-hen-cages-and-all-pig-crates-in-england-by-2030/…
@relcfp@mastodon.socialH-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-HOAC: 14 December - 21 December https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20136130/h-net-job-guide-weekly-report-h-hoac-14-december-21-december
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.dehyves: Hyves friendship network (2010)
A network of friendships among users of Hyves, an online social networking site in the Netherlands (comparable to Facebook at the time). Nodes represent users and an edge exists if two users are friends. These data were crawled in December 2010.
This network has 1402673 nodes and 2777419 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
@gscherer2@social.linux.pizzaYellow Rosebud. Descanso Gardens, La Canada Flintridge, California, USA. December, 2025. OM System OM-1 M.Zuiko 90mm F3.5. #rose #rosebud #descansogardens
@NFL@darktundra.xyzWill Colts, Daniel Jones run it back in 2026? https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47624055/indianapolis-colts-daniel-jones-2026-outlook
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSimilarweb: Claude's web audience more than doubled in December 2025 compared with December 2024, as many coders spent their holiday breaks on a "Claude bender" (Bradley Olson/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-claude-code-ai-7a46…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialUS BLS data: video and videogame subscriptions and rentals saw inflation of 19.5% in December; cable, satellite, and livestreaming rose 1.1%, same as music subs (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business
@relcfp@mastodon.socialH-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-HOAC: 21 December - 28 December https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20136498/h-net-job-guide-weekly-report-h-hoac-21-december-28-december
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSpotify says AI is helping it speed up coding and product velocity and its best developers "have not written a single line of code since December" (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/12/spot
@memeorandum@universeodon.comU.S. payrolls rose 50,000 in December, less than expected; unemployment rate falls to 4.4% (Jeff Cox/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/09/jobs-report-december-2025.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260109/p25#a260109p25
@Dragofix@veganism.socialFloods linked to climate change hit nearly 1 million in Southern Africa https://news.mongabay.com/2026/02/floods-linked-to-climate-change-hit-nearly-1-million-in-southern-africa/
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social60 Minutes' CECOT segment, which Bari Weiss shelved in December as it lacked an on-camera interview with a Trump administration official, airs without one (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/01/18/cbs-60-minutes-cecot/
<…
@relcfp@mastodon.socialH-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-Adjunct: 21 December - 28 December https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20136477/h-net-job-guide-weekly-report-h-adjunct-21-december-28-december
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.desp_hospital: Hospital ward dynamic contacts (2010)
This dataset contains the temporal network of contacts between patients, patients and health-care workers (HCWs) and among HCWs in a hospital ward in Lyon, France, from Monday, December 6, 2010 at 1:00 pm to Friday, December 10, 2010 at 2:00 pm. The study included 46 HCWs and 29 patients.
This network has 75 nodes and 32424 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Temporal, Metadata
@memeorandum@universeodon.comUS economy added 50,000 jobs in December, capping off one of the weakest years of job gains in decades (Alicia Wallace/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2026/01/09/economy/us-jobs-report-final-december
http://www.memeorandum.com/260109/p41#a260109p41
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSources: the 60 Minutes CECOT segment pulled by Bari Weiss in December is slated to air this Sunday; CBS News PR has not sent out any listings for the broadcast (CNN)
https://view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/1768757518698a8b58c1db4a3/raw
@relcfp@mastodon.socialH-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-HOAC: 28 December - 4 January https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20136841/h-net-job-guide-weekly-report-h-hoac-28-december-4-january
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.dehyves: Hyves friendship network (2010)
A network of friendships among users of Hyves, an online social networking site in the Netherlands (comparable to Facebook at the time). Nodes represent users and an edge exists if two users are friends. These data were crawled in December 2010.
This network has 1402673 nodes and 2777419 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAppfigures: Sora 2 had ~6M iOS downloads as of December 2025; the Android version, available since early November 2025, had ~3.1M, as growth begins to slow (Sherwood News)
https://sherwood.news/tech/openais-sora-2-started-off-scorching-hot-t…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialFilings: Michael Saylor's Strategy has bought more than $3B in Bitcoin since January 5, marking its biggest two-week purchase since December 2024 (Melos Ambaye/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-0…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialNielsen: Christmas Day 2025 set a record for US streaming usage with 55.1B minutes, or 54% of all TV viewing for the day, up by 3.9B minutes on Christmas 2024 (Rick Porter/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business
@cdarwin@c.imOn Jan. 18, 2026, Chilean President Gabriel Boric declared a state of catastrophe for the Nuble and Biobio regions
as wildfires killed at least 16 people and forced more than 50,000 to evacuate.
A severe summer heat wave and prolonged drought since December created conditions highly favorable to wildfire ignition,
with dry foehn-type winds and 38 C daytime temperatures.
Fire agencies said nearly 4,000 firefighters are battling about 24 active wildfires as blazes have …
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialFiling: Berkshire Hathaway reports that it purchased 5.1M shares of The New York Times during the December quarter; NYT rises 3% after hours (Krystal Hur/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/stock…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.dehyves: Hyves friendship network (2010)
A network of friendships among users of Hyves, an online social networking site in the Netherlands (comparable to Facebook at the time). Nodes represent users and an edge exists if two users are friends. These data were crawled in December 2010.
This network has 1402673 nodes and 2777419 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
@relcfp@mastodon.socialH-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-Asia: 21 December - 28 December
https://ift.tt/4fT2CgL
ResearchGate: Publishers Take Formal Steps to Force Copyright Compliance A summary of…
via Input 4 RELCFP
@Techmeme@techhub.socialNike quietly sold its digital products subsidiary RTFKT on December 16 for an undisclosed sum, roughly one year after Nike shuttered the NFT unit (Matthew Kish/Oregonian)
https://www.oregonlive.com/business/2026/01/n…
@relcfp@mastodon.socialH-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-Diplo: 28 December - 4 January https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20136837/h-net-job-guide-weekly-report-h-diplo-28-december-4-january
@Techmeme@techhub.socialWaymo says its fleet hit 170M miles as of December 2025, and its Waymo Driver system was involved in 92% fewer serious-injury crashes than human drivers (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/transportation/896837/waymo-170-mill…
@cdarwin@c.imThe ICE Agent Who Reportedly Shot Renee Good Was a Firearms Trainer, Per Testimony
Jonathan Ross told a federal court in December about his professional background, including
“hundreds” of encounters with drivers during enforcement actions, according to testimony obtained by WIRED.
#JONATHAN #ROSS, the I…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Amazon's AI tools caused at least two AWS outages, including a 13-hour disruption in December after its Kiro AI deleted and recreated an environment (Rafe Rosner-Uddin/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/00c282de-ed14-4acd-a948-bc8d6bdb339d
@relcfp@mastodon.socialH-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-Asia: 21 December - 28 December
https://ift.tt/BVEyQ8p
CfP: International Conference "Violent Turns: Sources, Interpretations, Responses" …
via Input 4 RELCFP
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Kalshi is raising ~$1B led by Coatue at a $22B valuation, up from the $11B valuation announced in December, and has a revenue run rate of ~$1.5B (Yuliya Chernova/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/kalshi-cinc…
@cdarwin@c.imJames Rouly was discovered Jan. 27 near a dumpster, wearing a hospital gown and no shoes as temperatures dipped into the low 20s.
A local resident, Daniel December, found Rouly and called police.
"I don't know why anyone wouldn't make a call," said December to KFDM.
"They would let a disabled man in a wheelchair underdress like that just sit out there like that. That's pretty cruel."
@relcfp@mastodon.socialH-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-Asia: 28 December - 4 January https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20136834/h-net-job-guide-weekly-report-h-asia-28-december-4-january
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Uber is moving to bar drivers with convictions for violent felonies, sexual offenses, and child or elder abuse, after an NYT report in December 2025 (Emily Steel/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/business/u…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA US DOJ operation disrupted four botnets that infected 3M devices and includes the Aisuru and Kimwolf botnets used in a 31.4 Tbps DDoS attack in December 2025 (Andy Greenberg/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/us-takes-down-botnets-used-in-record-bre…
@relcfp@mastodon.socialH-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-AmIndian: 28 December - 4 January https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20136831/h-net-job-guide-weekly-report-h-amindian-28-december-4-january
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSony reports Q3 revenue up 1% YoY to ~$23.68B, vs. ~$23.53B est., operating profit up 22% to ~$3.28B, vs. ~$2.99B est., raises FY operating profit outlook 8% (Dylan Butts/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/05/sony-profi
@relcfp@mastodon.socialH-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-NC: 28 December - 4 January https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20136846/h-net-job-guide-weekly-report-h-nc-28-december-4-january
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAnthropic releases a survey of 80,508 Claude users' views, hopes, and fears about AI, calling it "the largest and most multilingual qualitative study" (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/features/81k-interviews
@Techmeme@techhub.socialFilings: Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway cut its Amazon stake by 75% to ~2.3M shares in Q4 2025; Berkshire bought 5.1M NYT shares, worth ~$352M in December (Alexandre Rajbhandari/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@Techmeme@techhub.socialIBM closes its $11B deal for data streaming company Confluent, unveiled last December; CEO Arvind Krishna expects IBM to maintain its head count over five years (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/cio-journal/ibm-closes
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAustralia's eSafety Commissioner reports social media platforms "removed access" to ~4.7M accounts under its ban for under-16s, which took effect in December (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/world/australia/social-media-ban-…
