Filing: Paramount extends the deadline for WBD shareholders to vote on its $30-per-share offer to February 20 (Dade Hayes/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/01/paramount-extends-deadline-warner-bros-discovery-netflix-1236692082/

Paramount Extends Deadline For Warner Bros. Discovery Shareholders To Back Hostile Bid
Paramount has extended the deadline for Warner Bros. Discovery shareholders to throw their support behind the company’s hostile takeover bid. The initial deadline of Wednesday has now been pushed to February 20. Paramount CEO David Ellison, along with his senior exec team and financial backers, have been meeting with WBD investors in recent weeks in […]

🦀 Discovery turns household plastic recycling into anti-cancer medication
#materials

Discovery turns household plastic recycling into anti-cancer medication
A discovery led by the University of St Andrews has found a way to turn ordinary household plastic waste into the building block for anti-cancer drugs.

As Paramount moved Monday to sweeten its bid for Warner Bros. Discovery,
a high-stakes political battle is playing out behind the scenes.
Paramount's latest offer enhanced its earlier $30-a-share bid, valued at $108 billion,
said a person familiar with the process who was not authorized to comment publicly.
Details of the revised proposal, first reported by Bloomberg, were not immediately available.
The firm is leveraging both the dynastic wealth of

Politics take center stage as Paramount submits new offer for Warner Bros. Discovery
Over the weekend, President Trump threatened Netflix, telling the streamer to fire Susan Rice from its board or "pay the consequences."

Netflix revises its WBD offer to an all-cash deal for $27.75 per share, with the same $82.7B enterprise value; its original bid had $59B in debt financing (Brian Stelter/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2026/01/20/media/netflix-all-cash-offer-warner-bros-discovery

Netflix revises its offer for Warner Bros. Discovery. Now, it’s all cash
In an ongoing struggle over the future of Warner Bros. Discovery, Netflix says it is now prepared to pay all cash for Warner Bros. and HBO, rather than a mix of cash and stock.

Source: Paramount is expected to come back with a WBD offer above its previous $30 per share bid, seeking to outflank Netflix; Paramount has a Monday deadline (Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/paramount-warner-bros-d…

Paramount Expected to Raise Price of Warner Bros. Bid, Will Netflix Walk Away?
David Ellison's Paramount Skydance has a Monday deadline to submit its best and final offer for Warner Bros. Discovery -- and Paramount is expected to come back with an offer over its previous $30/share bid for WBD, angling to outflank Netflix to win the deal.

twitter_higgs: Twitter, Higgs boson (2012)
Data on tweets related to the announcement of the discovery of a new fundamental particle with the features of the Higgs boson on 4th July 2012. Data covers 1-7 July 2012, and includes four types of networks: followers, retweets, replies, and mentions.
This network has 256491 nodes and 328132 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted, Multilayer

A man of genius makes no mistakes.
His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce, "Ulysses"

I don’t get completism for entertainment franchises.
(Says the guy who read the Silmarillion *cover to cover* the week it was released.) (I was young) @… https://tapbots.social/@paul/115940357

BODY WORLDS: The Original Exhibition, is the first exhibition of its kind to inform the visitor about anatomy, physiology and health by viewing real human bodies preserved through plastination. Each BODY WORLDS exhibition contains real human specimens, including whole-body plastinates as well as individual organs, organ configurations and translucent body slices. The spectacular plastinates in the exhibition take the visitor on an exciting journey of discovery under the skin.

Verschmähtes Paramount verklagt Warner Bros Discovery
Warner Bros Discovery will Warner Bros an Netflix verkaufen. Paramount will den gesamten WBD-Konzern haben. Nun geht es zu Gericht.
https://www.

Trump warns Netflix of ‘consequences’ unless it pulls top Democrat from board
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/22/trump-warns-netflix-of-consequences-unless-it-pulls-top-democrat-susan-rice-from-boa…

Trump warns Netflix of ‘consequences’ unless it pulls top Democrat from board
US president calls for removal of Susan Rice as streaming platform pursues takeover of Warner Bros Discovery

OK, why does MicroSucks wants to do 'discovery' when I tell it to to delete folders? Minutes wasted so it can delete files. Just walk through the damned FAT and mark them deleted.
Doing my monthly backup and purging old backups not needing to wait 15 minutes while it 'discovers' files/folders.

Classic contemporary detective show plot point right here.
> After the discovery of McNally’s body, police arrested McCullagh, but they released him after learning of the broadcast, which provided an alibi. [...] Police seized McCullagh’s computers and analysis established that the purported livestream had been prerecorded.

A live stream lie unravelled: how Stephen McCullagh tried to get away with pregnant girlfriend’s murder
YouTube gamer planned audacious alibi, appeared grief-stricken at wake and apparently spied on victim’s family

twitter_higgs: Twitter, Higgs boson (2012)
Data on tweets related to the announcement of the discovery of a new fundamental particle with the features of the Higgs boson on 4th July 2012. Data covers 1-7 July 2012, and includes four types of networks: followers, retweets, replies, and mentions.
This network has 304691 nodes and 563069 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted, Multilayer

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.DC. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.DC/new
[1/1]:
- Agent Identity URI Scheme: Topology-Independent Naming and Capability-Based Discovery for Multi-A...
Roland R. Rodriguez Jr

The new #Kreutz #comet discovered unusually early has been named C/2026 A1 (MAPS): #photosphere on 4 April and becoming a bright comet.

Filings: WBD projects CNN will generate $1.8B in revenue and $600M in adjusted EBITDA for FY 2026; docs show CNN had revenue of $2.2B in 2021 and $1.8B in 2023 (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

CNN’s Financial Projections Revealed: News Giant to Hit $1.8 Billion in 2026 Revenue
Warner Bros. Discovery is revealing financial details in connection with its planned spinout of Discovery Global.

🫥 Mexico’s missing people crisis casts a shadow over World Cup venue
https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-12-20/mexicos-missing-people-crisis-casts-a-shadow-over-world-cup-venue.html

Mexico’s missing people crisis casts a shadow over World Cup venue
The discovery of at least 500 bags containing human remains within a 10-mile radius of Guadalajara’s Akron Stadium tarnishes expectations for the FIFA tournament

twitter_higgs: Twitter, Higgs boson (2012)
Data on tweets related to the announcement of the discovery of a new fundamental particle with the features of the Higgs boson on 4th July 2012. Data covers 1-7 July 2012, and includes four types of networks: followers, retweets, replies, and mentions.
This network has 38918 nodes and 32523 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted, Multilayer

Trump Bought Netflix and Warner Bros. Discovery Bonds In Days After Megadeal Was Announced (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/trump-bought-netflix-warner-bros-discovery-bonds-after-deal-1236476189/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260116/p130#a260116p130

I just published The Open Contributions Descriptor format as an IETF Internet-Draft.
#opensource #opendata #openstandard

Hehehehe. I sense a story behind this accidental discovery. 😂
https://noc.social/@todayilearned/116259701700541563

Warner Bros Discovery rät weiter von Verkauf an Paramount ab
Netflix will Warner Bros übernehmen, Paramount zusätzlich Discovery. Doch das größere Angebot hat zu viele Schwächen, meint der Verwaltungsrat.
http…

I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things
which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally
omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.
-- René Descartes, La Geometrie.

ESO Live album recording tickets now online
#noMystry #makinHistry
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/eso-live-album-recording-tickets-1985681603128?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=wsa&aff=ebdsshwebmobile

“They arrived with a deed.” Hear how the Doctrine of Discovery, Jesuit history, and white Christian supremacy still shape law and land—and what true repair could look like. Listen now and tell us: What does real repair require where you live? https://podcast.doctrineofdiscovery.org/season6/episode-02/

I am familiar with Komoot but never used it, and I guess I never will.
“Komoot has launched a ChatGPT integration…”
#noAI

Komoot Adds ChatGPT-Powered Route Discovery
Find better trails quicker & easier, with better search parameters, using this ChatGPT integration, then navigate in the komoot app.

"Accidental discovery reveals new climate threat to emperor penguins"
#Climate #ClimateChange #Penguins #Animals

Accidental discovery reveals new climate threat to emperor penguins
The plight of the emperor penguin might be more dire than previously thought. For the first time, scientists have used satellite data to discover new locations in Antarctica where the birds go to shed and replace their feathers every year, an event known as molting. However, they also found that these molting sites might have […]

from my link log —
A history of copper mining and refinement.
https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-discovery-of-copper/
saved 2026-02-12 htt…

Copper - Works in Progress Magazine
Today’s world requires vastly more copper than you could imagine, and the world of electric vehicles will require even more. That means finding new ways to find and extract copper from the earth.

Discovery of the Day

Discovery of the Day : Angelique Arvanitaki (1901–1983), a Greek neurophysiologist born in Cairo, was a little-known pioneer in neurology.
Major Contribution:
Demonstrated ephaptic transmission, a mode of communication between neurons without synapses, still poorly understood today—and c…

Boston- and Tel Aviv-based Converge Bio, which uses AI trained on molecular data to help pharma and biotech companies develop drugs, raised a $25M Series A (Kate Park/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/13/ai-d

Converge Bio raises $25M, backed by Bessemer and execs from Meta, OpenAI, Wiz | TechCrunch
AI drug discovery startup Converge Bio raised $25 million in a Series A led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with additional backing from executives at Meta, OpenAI, and Wiz.

A Mystery Inside Earth’s Core Has Finally Been Solved With a Mind-Boggling Discovery https://www.404media.co/a-mystery-inside-earths-core-has-finally-been-solved-with-a-mind-boggling-discovery/

#DataCite Schema 4.7 is available ⤵️
Supporting DOIs for Presentations and Posters
As suggested by community members, we’ve added new types for Presentations and Posters to the resourceTypeGeneral controlled vocabulary. These additions will make it possible to consistently distinguish these important output types that are integral parts of the research life cycle, helping harvester…

This will be very interesting to a very small group of people: 'For cultural institutions that provide metadata to the data space for cultural heritage, the implementation of IIIF Change Discovery provides an alternative to implementing OAI-PMH.' https://pro.eu…

The LHCb experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has discovered a new particle consisting of two charm quarks and one down quark,
a similar structure to the familiar proton, but with two heavy charm quarks replacing the two up quarks of the proton -- thus quadrupling its mass.
The discovery, presented at the ongoing Moriond conference, will help physicists better understand how the strong force binds protons, neutrons and other composite particles together.
Quarks …

Did you know: 75yrs ago, blatant racists in the American govt & military illegally imprisoned US citizens based purely on their race... & Congress did nothing about it.
This has all happened before.
Listen to Maddow's FREE limited podcast, "Burn Order":
https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddo…

RACHEL MADDOW PRESENTS: BURN ORDER
Rachel Maddow tells the story of one of the most shocking decisions in American history in her new podcast, “Rachel Maddow Presents: Burn Order.” This six-part series reveals how an executive order authorizing the roundup of innocent Americans came to be – and a bombshell discovery in the unlikeliest of places that would ultimately expose […]

Worth noting - and a cautionary tale (for me, at least) about relying on press reports about complex problems.
‘A bombshell’: doubt cast on discovery of microplastics throughout human body
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/20

Worth noting - and a cautionary tale (for me, at least) about relying on press reports about complex problems.
‘A bombshell’: doubt cast on discovery of microplastics throughout human body
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/20

Paramount says it is "prepared to engage" with WBD on takeover talks during a seven-day negotiating window, but doesn't say whether it will raise its bid (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/param…

Paramount Skydance 'Prepared to Engage' With Warner Bros. Discovery on Takeover Talks
Will David Ellison move higher than Paramount Skydance's $30-per-share offer for Warner Bros. Discovery? The company didn't indicate that it is willing to up the price tag in its hostile takeover bid but said it was ready to start talks in a seven-day negotiating window opened by WBD.

Blindness may no longer be irreversible. A discovery in South Korea just changed the science https://www.futura-sciences.com/en/blindness-may-no-longer-be-inevitable-this-discovery-changes-the-game_25773/ 
Restoration…

Blindness may no longer be irreversible. A discovery in South Korea just changed the science - Futura-Sciences
More than 300 million people worldwide live with retinal diseases that medicine cannot yet reverse. Conditions like retinitis pigmentosa and macular degeneration destroy the photoreceptor cells that make sight possible, and once those cells die, they don’t come back, at least not in mammals. The reason puzzled researchers for decades,...

Warner Bros. Discovery stimmt Übernahme durch Paramount zu
Es ging hin und her und am Ende wollte Netflix sein Gebot für den Hollywood-Konzern Warner Bros. Discovery nicht erhöhen. Nun freut sich ein anderer Bieter.

WBD says Paramount informed WBD on February 11 that it would pay $31 per share, up from $30, if the sides engaged, and that $31 was not its best and final offer (Jill Goldsmith/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/02/warner-bros-discovery-s…

Warner Board Says Paramount Agreed To Raise Offer To $31 A Share Or More If Two Sides Engaged
Warner Bros. Discovery said Paramount agreed to raise its $30 a share cash offer if WBD agreed to talks, which it has.

Marsupials Previously Thought Extinct for 6,000 Years Discovered: ‘A once-in-a-lifetime discovery’ https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/marsupials-previously-thought-extinct-for-6000-years-discovered-a-once-in-a-lifetime-di…

Marsupials Previously Thought Extinct for 6,000 Years Discovered: ‘A once-in-a-lifetime discovery’
In paleontology, lineages that drop out of the fossil record and then re-emerge after long periods are termed ‘Lazarus taxa.’

Report: Warner Bros. Discovery Blocks Brody King From AEW Dynamite Following "F*ck ICE" Chants (Aidan Gibbons/Cultaholic Wrestling)
https://cultaholic.com/posts/report-warner-bros-discovery-blocks-brody-king-from-aew-dynamite-following-fck-ice-chants
http://www.memeorandum.com/260212/p49#a260212p49

UMG announces a partnership with Nvidia "to pioneer responsible AI for music discovery, creation, and engagement", centered on Nvidia's Music Flamingo model (Dan Rys/Billboard)
https://www.billboard.com/pro/universal-nvidia-ai-music-disco…

Universal Partners With NVIDIA AI on Music Discovery, Fan Engagement & Creation Tools
The Universal Music Group has inked a new partnership with AI giant NVIDIA “to pioneer responsible AI for music discovery, creation and engagement."

'Entirely inappropriate': Judge rejects Trump admin request to stay discovery in lawsuit over dismantling USAID | Law & Crime
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/entirely-inappropriate-judge-rejects-trump-admin-request-to-stay-discovery-in-lawsuit-over-dismantling-usaid/

Das US-Unternehmen #Zanskar hat mit „Big Blind“ in Nevada das erste kommerziell nutzbare, "blinde" #Geothermie-System seit über 30 Jahren entdeckt.
Die KI-gestützte Erkundung ermöglichte Bohrungen, die bereits in 2.700 Metern Tiefe ein heißes, durchlässiges Reservoir aufzeigten. D…

Zanskar Reveals ‘Big Blind’ - The Discovery of the First Blind Geothermal System in the U.S. by Industry in Over 30 Years
Located in the western Nevada desert, ‘Big Blind’ is Zanskar’s third geothermal discovery in the past year alone, demonstrating the speed and repeatability of its AI-native platform

On the Deepest Search for #GalacticCenter Pulsars and an Examination of an Intriguing #MillisecondPulsar Candidate: #Pulsar in the Milky Way’s Center: https://news.columbia.edu/news/researchers-announce-discovery-possible-pulsar-milky-ways-center - confirming a pulsar star would enable unprecedented tests of General Relativity. Such a discovery would revolutionize physics.

Der My Daily Discovery-Algo von Tidal war noch selten so gut. (Gut, das Concierto de Aranjuez ist nicht mein Fall, der Rest aber sehr oha.)
https://tidal.com/mix/016fbb786aa71d921ad3ff7818b1bc

TIDAL - High Fidelity Music Streaming
TIDAL is the first global music streaming service with high fidelity sound, hi-def video quality, along with expertly curated playlists and original content — making it a trusted source for music and culture.

Half of the world's coral reefs suffered major bleaching during the 2014–2017 global heat wave, estimates suggest https://phys.org/news/2026-02-world-coral-reefs-major-global.html

Half of the world's coral reefs suffered major bleaching during the 2014–2017 global heat wave, estimates suggest
Benefits to society from coral reefs, including fisheries, tourism, coastal protection, pharmaceutical discovery and more, are estimated at about $9.8 trillion per year. For the first time, an international team led by Smithsonian researchers estimated the extent of coral bleaching worldwide during a global marine heat wave, finding that half of the world's reefs experienced significant damage. Another heat wave began in 2023 and is ongoing.

📝 “They arrived with a deed.” Hear how the Doctrine of Discovery, Jesuit history, and white Christian supremacy still shape law and land—and what true repair could look like. Listen now and tell us: What does real repair require where you live? https://podcast.doctrineofdiscovery.org/season6/episode-02/

"Following the discovery, we immediately began work to secure our systems"
Does that imply that before the incident, there was no work done to secure the systems?
h/t @…
#Interrail

Replaced article(s) found for cond-mat.dis-nn. https://arxiv.org/list/cond-mat.dis-nn/new
[1/1]:
- Machine Learning Symmetry Discovery for Integrable Hamiltonian Dynamics
Wanda Hou, Molan Li, Yi-Zhuang You

twitter_higgs: Twitter, Higgs boson (2012)
Data on tweets related to the announcement of the discovery of a new fundamental particle with the features of the Higgs boson on 4th July 2012. Data covers 1-7 July 2012, and includes four types of networks: followers, retweets, replies, and mentions.
This network has 116408 nodes and 150818 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted, Multilayer

Q&A with LightShed Partners' Rich Greenfield on Paramount's WBD deal, the need to ramp up content production, media as a trophy asset, streaming tech, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/podcast/896694/pa

Paramount’s $110 billion Warner Bros. gamble
To take on Netflix and YouTube, Paramount has to break the Warner Bros. curse, explains LightShed’s Rich Greenfield.

ByteDance is currently hiring for nearly 100 US-based roles within its Seed AI team across San Jose, LA, and Seattle to develop LLMs, drug discovery, and more (Alexandra S. Levine/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Netflix backs out of bid for Warner Bros. Discovery,
-- giving studios,
HBO, and CNN
to Ellison-owned Paramount
Ellison, whose Paramount already owns major studios, entertainment, and news businesses, has warned of significant job cuts.
His ownership of news network CBS has also attracted controversy
and has largely been seen as a sympathetic turn toward the Trump administration,
with reporting critical of the administration shelved
or facing …

Netflix backs out of bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, giving studios, HBO, and CNN to Ellison-owned Paramount | TechCrunch
In a one-two punch of centibillion-dollar offers, the bidding war for Warner Bros. Discovery is over. David Ellison-owned Paramount will acquire Warner Bros. Discovery. Netflix has lost.

S06E08: Remembering The Teacher: Charles H. Long (Part 1) | Mapping the Doctrine of Discovery Podcast https://podcast.doctrineofdiscovery.org/season6/episode-08/

"Mediterranean Coral Reef Discovery Unveils Rare Deep-Sea Ecosystem Off Naples Coast"
#Mediterranean #CoralReef #Oceans

Mediterranean Coral Reef Discovery Unveils Rare Deep-Sea Ecosystem Off Naples Coast | Happy Eco News
A Mediterranean coral reef discovery off Naples reveals massive white coral formations at 500 meters depth, providing crucial insights into threatened deep-sea ecosystems and supporting conservation efforts.

The new #Kreutz #comet is now C/2026 A1 (MAPS): http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/iau/cbet/005600/CBET005658.txt and #perihelion is highly uncertain but there is hope as https://www.facebook.com/groups/227002358661288/posts/1670699484291561 and https://groups.io/g/comets-ml/topic/117373975#msg34667 explain. And if MAPS makes it to perihelion and is (very) bright then coronagraphs on the ground might be able to catch it against the inner corona as the following table - calculated with https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/horizons/app.html#/ - shows.

WBD sets March 20 as the date for a special shareholder meeting to vote on the proposed $83B Netflix deal, which its board "continues to unanimously recommend" (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/war

Warner Bros to Engage With Paramount but Recommends Netflix Deal at March 20 Shareholder Vote
Warner Bros. Discovery's board will engage in M&A talks with Paramount Skydance to 'seek clarity' on its 'best and final offer' while also recommending WBD shareholders vote for Netflix deal at March 20 meeting.

Via the AI4LAM Slack: An Extreme Multi-label Text Classification (XMTC) Library Dataset: What if we took "Use of Practical AI in Digital Libraries" seriously? https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.10876

An Extreme Multi-label Text Classification (XMTC) Library Dataset: What if we took "Use of Practical AI in Digital Libraries" seriously?
Subject indexing is vital for discovery but hard to sustain at scale and across languages. We release a large bilingual (English/German) corpus of catalog records annotated with the Integrated Authority File (GND), plus a machine-actionable GND taxonomy. The resource enables ontology-aware multi-label classification, mapping text to authority terms, and agent-assisted cataloging with reproducible, authority-grounded evaluation. We provide a brief statistical profile and qualitative error analys…

twitter_higgs: Twitter, Higgs boson (2012)
Data on tweets related to the announcement of the discovery of a new fundamental particle with the features of the Higgs boson on 4th July 2012. Data covers 1-7 July 2012, and includes four types of networks: followers, retweets, replies, and mentions.
This network has 456626 nodes and 14855842 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted, Multilayer

📝 S06E08: Remembering The Teacher: Charles H. Long (Part 1) | Mapping the Doctrine of Discovery Podcast https://podcast.doctrineofdiscovery.org/season6/episode-08/

🐞 New species of ladybird beetle discovered on university campus in Japan
#insects

New species of ladybird beetle discovered on university campus in Japan
University campuses are often places of learning and discovery, but rarely do researchers find a new species living right on their doorstep. However, that is exactly what happened when a research team from Kyushu University discovered a new species of ladybird beetle, Parastethorus pinicola, on a pine tree at Kyushu University's Hakozaki Satellite.

Filing: President Trump acquired corporate bonds issued by Netflix and WBD, valued as high as $1M each, in the days after Netflix announced its deal to buy WBD (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Trump Bought Netflix and Warner Bros. Discovery Bonds In Days After Megadeal Was Announced
A financial disclosure form released by the White House showed that he acquired at least $500,000 in debt securities from each of the companies.

Fei-Fei Li's World Labs raised $1B from a16z, Nvidia, AMD, and others to advance its world models focused on robotics and scientific discovery (Alicia Tang/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-18/ai-pion…

For centuries, people believed ice was slippery because pressure and friction melted a thin film of water.
But new research from Saarland University reveals that this
long-standing explanation is wrong.
Instead, the slipperiness comes from the subtle interaction of molecular dipoles between ice and surfaces like shoes or skis.
These microscopic electrical forces disorder the crystal structure of ice,
creating a thin liquid layer even at temperatures near abs…

The real reason ice is slippery, revealed after 200 years
For centuries, people believed ice was slippery because pressure and friction melted a thin film of water. But new research from Saarland University reveals that this long-standing explanation is wrong. Instead, the slipperiness comes from the subtle interaction of molecular dipoles between ice and surfaces like shoes or skis. These microscopic electrical forces disorder the crystal structure of ice, creating a thin liquid layer even at temperatures near absolute zero. The discovery overturns n…

Netflix is walking away from a deal to buy WBD's studio and streaming assets after the WBD board deemed a revised bid by Paramount Skydance to be superior (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/26/warner-bros-discovery-paramount-skydance-d…

Netflix ditches deal for Warner Bros. Discovery after Paramount’s offer is deemed superior
Netflix is ditching a deal to buy Warner Bros. Discovery's studio and streaming assets after the WBD board deemed a revised bid by Paramount to be superior.

On Monday the discovery of four new #moons of #Jupiter was announced - #Saturn: https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K26/K26F14.html (this brings the known total to 101 and 285, respectively).

"Hedgehogs can hear high‑frequency ultrasound – that knowledge could help save them"
#Hedgehogs #Animals

Hedgehogs can hear high-frequency ultrasound – that knowledge could help save them
Millions of hedgehogs die as they cross the roads, but a discovery is paving the way for a warning that might stop them crossing at dangerous times.

Democratic lawmakers push back on Paramount's potential takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery (Daniel Arkin/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/media/warner-bros-discovery-paramount-democratic-lawmakers-rcna260947
http://www.memeorandum.com/260227/p87#a260227p87

Konkurrenz für Netflix: Paramount und HBO Max könnten fusionieren
Nach der Übernahme von Warner Bros. Discovery plant Paramount eine große, gemeinsame Streaming-Plattform mit mehr als 200 Millionen Abonnenten.

Netflix revises its WBD offer to an all-cash deal for $27.75 per share, with the same $82.7B enterprise value; its original bid had $59B in debt financing (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/netflix-warner-bros-deal-all-cas…

Netflix Upgrades Warner Bros. $83 Billion Deal to All Cash
Netflix agreed to change its $83 billion deal to buy Warner Bros. Discovery's studios and HBO Max business to all-cash, aimed at thwarting Paramount Skydance's rival takeover bid.

WBD's board unanimously rejects Paramount's amended $108.4B acquisition offer, saying the bid still has "significant" risks compared to Netflix's $83B offer (Lucas Manfredi/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/industry-news/deal

Warner Bros. Discovery Rejects Paramount's Amended $30 Per Share Bid Over 'Insufficient Value' and 'Lack of Certainty'
The board says the revised $108.4 billion bid continues to offer "significant costs, risks and uncertainties" compared to its $83 billion deal with Netflix.

🔱 The Accidental Discovery of the Most Valuable Shipwreck in History
#ocean

The Accidental Discovery of the Most Valuable Shipwreck in History
Roger Dooley’s quest, the one that would come to consume him and indeed to define his life, began in Seville, on a typically torrid day in July 1984. The thirty-nine-year-old archaeologist left his…

Even when the war ends,
the world will have changed.
Iran’s new hardline supreme leader now knows that energy prices are America’s pressure point.
Disruption to energy markets will come and go with geopolitical tensions

UMG announces a partnership with Nvidia "to pioneer responsible AI for music discovery, creation, and engagement", centered on Nvidia's Music Flamingo model (Dan Rys/Billboard)
https://www.billboard.com/pro/universal-nvidia-ai-music-disco…

Universal Partners With NVIDIA AI on Music Discovery, Fan Engagement & Creation Tools
The Universal Music Group has inked a new partnership with AI giant NVIDIA “to pioneer responsible AI for music discovery, creation and engagement."

Netflix ditches deal for Warner Bros. Discovery after Paramount's offer is deemed superior (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/26/warner-bros-discovery-paramount-skydance-deal-superior-netflix.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260226/p133#a260226p133

twitter_higgs: Twitter, Higgs boson (2012)
Data on tweets related to the announcement of the discovery of a new fundamental particle with the features of the Higgs boson on 4th July 2012. Data covers 1-7 July 2012, and includes four types of networks: followers, retweets, replies, and mentions.
This network has 256491 nodes and 328132 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted, Multilayer

The Discovery of #LittleRedDots in the Local Universe - Signatures of Cool Gas Envelopes: https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10659 -> A Black Hole Egg That Forgot to Hatch: https://aasnova.org/2026/01/13/a-black-hole-egg-that-forgot-to-hatch/

Filing: David Zaslav is selling ~4M shares of Warner Bros. Discovery stock, with an aggregate market value of just over $114M (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/david-zaslav-selling-114-million-warner-bros-discov…

David Zaslav Files to Sell $114 Million Worth of Warner Bros. Discovery Stock
Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav filed to sell $114 million worth of stock, coming after WBD clinched a deal with Paramount Skydance.

Paramount Wins Bidding War for Warner Discovery After Netflix Drops Out (Joe Flint/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/warner-discovery-says-paramounts-latest-bid-is-superior-to-netflix-deal-e0ceea4c?st=ou8b8G&reflink=article_copyURL_share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260226/p125#a260226p125

Paramount agrees to acquire WBD, paying $31 per share in cash, giving WBD an enterprise value of $110B; Paramount paid a $2.8B breakup fee to Netflix (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

It’s a Deal: Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery Unveil $111 Billion Megamerger
In a major turn of events, Netflix backed away from its $87.2 billion deal on Thursday.

twitter_higgs: Twitter, Higgs boson (2012)
Data on tweets related to the announcement of the discovery of a new fundamental particle with the features of the Higgs boson on 4th July 2012. Data covers 1-7 July 2012, and includes four types of networks: followers, retweets, replies, and mentions.
This network has 256491 nodes and 328132 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted, Multilayer

With Netflix Retreat, Trump Ally Larry Ellison Will Soon Own Warner Brothers, HBO, CNN, CBS, Paramount, Discovery, And Part Of TikTok (Karl Bode/Techdirt)
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/27/with-netflix-retreat-trump-ally-larry-ellison-will-soon-own-warner-brothers-hbo-cnn-cbs-paramount-discovery-and-part-of-tiktok/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260227/p97#a260227p97

WBD partners with X and TikTok to share Eurosport and TNT Sports coverage of the Winter Games in markets across Europe (Max Goldbart/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/01/warner-bros-discovery-partners-x-tiktok-winter-olympics-1236699994/

Warner Bros. Discovery Partners With X On Winter Olympics
Warner Bros. Discovery has partnered with X & TikTok on the Winter Olympics for brands and advertisers.

WBD's board unanimously rejects Paramount's amended $108.4B acquisition bid, saying that it still has "significant" risks compared to Netflix's $83B offer (Lucas Manfredi/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/industry-news/deal

Warner Bros. Discovery Rejects Paramount's Amended $30 Per Share Bid Over 'Insufficient Value' and 'Lack of Certainty'
The board says the revised $108.4 billion bid continues to offer "significant costs, risks and uncertainties" compared to its $83 billion deal with Netflix.

How Larry Ellison is helping his son David build a media empire, including making the case to Trump for why Paramount, not Netflix, should acquire WBD (Theodore Schleifer/New York Times)
https://www.nytime…

A Father and Son’s $108 Billion Hostile Bid for Warner Bros. Discovery
Larry and David Ellison didn’t always have a close relationship. Now they’re one of the most intriguing partnerships in business.

A profile of David Ellison, who is trying to build a media empire that could dwarf even the Murdochs' with help from his father and Oracle founder Larry Ellison (Reeves Wiedeman/Vulture)
https://www.vulture.com/article/larry-david-e…

Can Larry and David Ellison’s Oracle Money Buy Hollywood?
With help from his father, Larry, and their billions in Oracle money, David Ellison is trying to become the biggest studio mogul in Hollywood history.

NYC-based Proxima, which uses AI to design drugs that control protein interactions, raised an $80M seed led by DCVC, with participation from Nvidia and others (Agnee Ghosh/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Paramount agrees to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery, paying $31 per share in cash, giving WBD an enterprise value of $110B (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/para…

It’s a Deal: Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery Unveil $111 Billion Megamerger
In a major turn of events, Netflix backed away from its $87.2 billion deal on Thursday.

In a letter to WBD shareholders, David Ellison says Paramount filed a lawsuit in the Delaware Chancery Court seeking information in its hostile takeover attempt (Lillian Rizzo/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/12/paramount-skydance-warner-bros-discovery-su…

WBD reports Q4 revenue down 6% YoY to $9.46B, net loss down 49% YoY to $252M, streaming revenue up 4% YoY to $2.8B, and 131.6M streaming subs, up 3.5M from Q3 (Jill Goldsmith/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/02/warner-bros-discovery-hbo-max-q4-deal-dra…

HBO Max Hit 131.6M Subs, NBA Exit Squeezed Advertising As WBD Deal Drama Dominates Q4
HBO Max ended the year with 131.6 million subscribers as deal drama dominated the fourth quarter of parent Warner Bros. Discovery.

WBD says Paramount's new $31-a-share offer could lead to a better deal than Netflix's, potentially triggering a four-day period for Netflix to revise its bid (Lauren Hirsch/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.…

Paramount Raises Its Bid for Warner Bros. Discovery
Warner Bros. Discovery said Paramount’s new offer of $31 a share could lead to a “superior proposal” to the deal it signed with Netflix.

Paramount President Jeff Shell was absent on Monday's WBD investor call, sources say amid an internal probe that he leaked details about a UFC deal in 2025 (Dade Hayes/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/03/paramount-president-jeff-she…

Paramount President Jeff Shell Absent From WBD Merger Call With Wall Street Analysts Amid Legal Probe
Paramount President Jeff Shell did not join Monday's conference call to discuss the company's merger with Warner Bros. Discovery.

Filing: David Zaslav is set to receive at least $550M in compensation related to the Paramount-WBD deal, including $517.2M in equity in the combined company (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/biz/news/david-zaslav-pay-warner-bros-para…

David Zaslav to Receive $887 Million in Compensation Related to Warner Bros.-Paramount Merger
David Zaslav is set to receive an estimated $887 million in compensation with the closing of Paramount Skydance's deal to buy Warner Bros. Discovery.

WBD board chair indicates WBD remains open to a Paramount acquisition, saying David Ellison "stepped up to the table" but "ultimately didn't raise the price" (Tony Maglio/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodre…

Warner Bros. Still Sounds Very Open to a Paramount Deal — at a Higher Price Tag
WBD board chair Samuel Di Piazza Jr. is doing his negotiating through the TV media.

A judge denies Paramount's request to force WBD to disclose more info about its Netflix deal; Paramount says it plans to extend its tender offer beyond Jan. 21 (Lauren Thomas/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.

WBD confirms that it received a revised bid from Paramount to acquire the company, but says it still recommends that shareholders vote for Netflix's deal (The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Warner Bros. Discovery Says It’s Reviewing Sweetened Paramount Bid
The global streaming giant revised its takeover offer after a recent amended bid by Paramount.