@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSources: Comcast, Netflix, and Paramount submitted second-round WBD bids on December 1; Paramount's includes financing from Apollo and Middle East wealth funds (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/biz/news/paramount…
@cdarwin@c.imThe tug-of-war over space shuttle Discovery is becoming more volatile.
Discovery — the crown jewel of the Smithsonian Institution's Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia
— is the subject of a political battle over whether the shuttle should remain part of the National Air and Space Museum's collection
or be relocated to Houston, home to NASA's Johnson Space Center.
New correspondence between the space agency, Ted Cruz and the Smithsonian shows both the p…
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Discovery:
🎵 Can You Discover?
#Discovery
https://discoveryband.bandcamp.com/track/can-you-discover
https://open.spotify.com/track/54eCIEHwHP9EvK3sIqnmqv
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSources: White House officials discussed antitrust concerns over Netflix's interest in WBD, questioning if a deal would give Netflix too much power in Hollywood (Charles Gasparino/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/11/…
@servelan@newsie.social'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/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialChinese government funding is backing traditional Chinese medicine providers to adopt AI for drug discovery, clinical diagnostics, acupuncture robots, and more (Nicole Fan/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2026/traditional-chinese-medicine-ai-china/
<…
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzStratigraphy of Carbonate-Bearing Rocks at the Margin of Jezero Crater, #Mars: Evidence for Shoreline Processes? https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025JE009111 -> New clues to Mars’s habitability in discovery of ancient beach: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/articles/engineering/earth-science/2026/new-clues-to-marss-habitability-in-discovery-of-ancient-beach/
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialJust finished "Juliet Takes a Breath" by Gabby Rivera. A truly amazing novel about queer Latina feminist self-discovery which shows off a vibrant range of feminisms and their contradictions. Reminded me of "Does my Body Offend You?" in terms of how it uses fictional but realistic situations to really grapple deeply with feminist and queer theory while making everything very accessible and direct.
The plotting, pacing, and characters are great, and Juliet serves as a vibrant and active main character rather than just a lens through which to explore theory.
#AmReading #ReadingNow
@paul@social.van.buu.reWaarderings en glimlacherijen om de last.fm jaarsamenvatting.
@tinoeberl@mastodon.onlineDas 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…
@callunavulgaris@mastodon.scot📣 My favourite app of 2025 was BorrowBox and I'd like to encourage you all to use it. Sign up with your library card and you can get access FOR FREE to a mind-boggling array of magazines inc New Scientist, History Extra, The Rugby Paper and loads loads more across every area of interest, plus ebooks and my new discovery, audiobooks. I love audiobooks when I'm at work and am currently majoring on #TheRiversOfLondon
@UP8@mastodon.social🧬 Golden Gate method enables fully-synthetic engineering of therapeutically relevant bacteriophages
#molbio
@gideonstar@mastodon.gideonstar.deMein Vorsatz fürs neue Jahr: Star Trek Discovery gucken, ohne abfällige Kommentare auf Mastodon zu schreiben.
#startrek
@primonatura@mstdn.social"Mediterranean Coral Reef Discovery Unveils Rare Deep-Sea Ecosystem Off Naples Coast"
#Mediterranean #CoralReef #Oceans
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialWBD 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/
@axbom@axbom.me
@heiseonline@social.heise.deVerschmähtes 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.
@mlawton@mstdn.socialShocking discovery on the state of the Christmas lights. The prognosis is dim.
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialHear about the bombshell discovery of a report that U.S. govt officials had ordered burned that has the potential to expose the truth about one of the most radical policy decisions in all of American history.
Listen to:
✅ Burn Order | Rachel Maddow
https://www.rachelmaddow.com/burn-order/<…
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzA Cool Earth-sized #Planet Candidate Transiting a Tenth Magnitude K-dwarf From K2: https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.19870 -> Discovery Alert: An Ice-Cold Earth? https://science.nasa.gov/universe/exoplanets/discovery-alert-an-ice-cold-earth/
@doktrock@toad.socialDiscusses the significant helium discovery in the 1.1 Ga Midcontinent Rift, in northern #Minnesota ⚒️🧪 #geology (h/t Chris Rowan)
https://
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
Discovering the discovery of designated resolvers (DNS DDR).
https://labs.ripe.net/author/yevheniya-nosyk/discovering-the-discovery-of-designated-resolvers/
saved 2025-11-09
@cdarwin@c.imWhat the White House is calling the
"Genesis Mission" is to speed research and scientific discovery
by analyzing massive science, engineering, energy and health care data sets in the federal government, university and private sector
with supercomputing technology.
It's an AI initiative the White House hopes will result in quicker breakthroughs in areas of research including disease therapies.
Michael Krastios, science adviser to the president, t…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialNetflix 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
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social
@YaleDivinitySchool@mstdn.social"Instead of belittling those who question climate change or policy solutions, I want to offer an intellectual hospitality that invites others on a journey of mutual discovery."
—Walter Kim in his piece for Reflections, titled "Creation Care: A Journey of Discovery" http…
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzThe First Triple Radio Active Galactic Nucleus in an Ongoing Galaxy Merger: #AGN / Radio Black Hole Trio Lights Up in Rare Galaxy Merger: https://www.dvidshub.net/news/555300/unique-discovery-astronomers-identify-first-triple-radio-agn / https://public.nrao.edu/news/radio-black-hole-trio-lights-up-in-rare-galaxy-merger/ - first confirmed system of three radio-bright active galactic nuclei reveals how supermassive black holes grow as galaxies collide.
@memeorandum@universeodon.comEpstein files explode open as DOJ details discovery of powerful figures and more than 1,200 victims (Brooke Singman/Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/epstein-files-explode-open-doj-details-discovery-powerful-figures-more-than-1200-victims
http://www.memeorandum.com/251219/p95#a251219p95
@UP8@mastodon.social🦀 Discovery turns household plastic recycling into anti-cancer medication
#materials
@heiseonline@social.heise.deWarner 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…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.detwitter_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
@Techmeme@techhub.socialHow 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…
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeBefore you leave for the weekend (or maybe even a long holiday break), make sure you check out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--The UK Foreign Office was hacked in October
--Delay in keystroke led Amazon to imposter discovery,
--A second suspect was arrested in an attempted Italian ferry malware attack,
--Denmark blames Russia for destructive cyberattacks,
--LongNosedGoblin is targeting SE Asian and Ja…
@tomkalei@machteburch.socialNext Monday I will give a talk at the Nerd Nite (It’s like the Discovery Channel… with beer!). Here's the program:
Time: Feb 9, 2026, at 7:00 p.m.
Place: Moonlight Bar, Ernst-Lehmann-Str. 16.
This edition features the following talks:
- The Wizard Elite: What It Takes to Be Top 20 in Germany, by Jan Küchler
- Mechanics of Ballroom Dance, by Joris Edelmann & Susanne Schmidt
- Indie Podcasting, by Thomas Kahle
@bici@mastodon.social @cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzDiscovery and Multiwavelength Analysis of a New Dissociative #GalaxyCluster Merger - The Champagne Cluster: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ade67c -> NASA's Chandra Rings in New Year With Champagne Cluster: https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2025/champagne/
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngThe new Zygote issue 39 is featuring stunning art by Kate MccGwire[1] and articles about:
Forward Motion: Robert J. Full’s Career of Discovery
Science of Seeing: Plant It and They Will Come
Cutting Without Cutting: Lessons from the Sawfly
Interview with Arindam Phani and Seonghwan (Sam) Kim
Building with Biology
Turning Bio-Inspired Ideas Into Patents
Biomimicry in Architecture
@poppastring@dotnet.socialI learned freedom riding the Midlands cuts by bike. I still explore cities by bike, on foot, and by car, always chasing that same feeling of discovery just around the corner.
#midlands #blackcountry #england
@edintone@mastodon.greenPupils in North East England get hands-on with history https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/pupils-in-north-east-england-get-hands-on-with-history/
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSources: Netflix ramps up a charm offensive in its pitch to WBD and is sowing doubts about the inevitability of Paramount's bid from an antitrust standpoint (Charles Gasparino/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/11/2…
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot#WritersCoffeeClub 24 Nov
How do you make sure a reader has room to process and absorb ideas?
I think it's perfectly OK to include things in stories that 90% of readers won't pick up on -- because the delight of discovery for the 10% of readers who do is worth it, I think.
In some of my writing I use a lot of subtle intertextual references -- which readers who kn…
@nerb@techhub.socialPT Barnum was right!
Was at someones house last night and noticed what looked like twisted copper wire around their meter while I pushed their soffit back into place.
Had to asked what it was figuring it was some scam that would supposedly lower their electric bill.
I was partially right . It's a Smart meter Tensor ring. It "resonates at 144 MHZ for EMF filtering/protection throughout the home. As well as lowing power bills. Made to the Sacred/Royal Egyptian Cu…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialShares of Insilico rose 45% in their Hong Kong trading debut after the AI drug discovery startup raised $293M in an IPO; Insilico reported $85M in 2024 revenue (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-30/a…
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialThe Pulitzer Board is demanding Trump's taxes, financials & medical history if he’s claiming damages in his #defamation #lawsuit.
✅ #Pulitzer Prize Board members dump broad discovery …
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net💡 Solves the context window bloat problem - dynamic discovery means you only pay tokens for tools you actually use instead of loading all definitions upfront
https://www.philschmid.de/mcp-cli
@mlawton@mstdn.socialFinished “Starman’s Saga” by Colin Alexander.
Leif Grettison, former combat veteran and current paramedic, is “chosen” by a rigged lottery to accompany a team of scientists on an interstellar mission of discovery. His cool head and decisiveness will be needed throughout varied mission crises.
Entertaining plot but flat characters and more than a bit cliché. I enjoyed it, even so.
3.5/5 stars, rounded up ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
@cdarwin@c.imBillionaire 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…
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.socialThis is pretty cool. Not often somebody gets to announce the discovery of a whole new branch of life. The cells contain mitochondria unlike any known before. Features support the #endosymbiont theory of #mitochondria origins, that they were originally separate animals but one got swallowed by so…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialFiling: 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/
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.detwitter_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
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump 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
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
The Penicillin myth.
https://www.asimov.press/p/penicillin-myth
saved 2025-11-25 https://dotat.at/:/SIP0B.html
@UP8@mastodon.social🪼 How the Discovery of Single-Celled Marine Organisms Resulted in One of the Most Influential Illustrated Books Ever Published
https://lithub.com/how-the-discovery-of-single-celled-marine-organis…
@callunavulgaris@mastodon.scotShock discovery here tonight: it's been revealed that @… doesn't know where I keep my socks. It's made me wonder how common this is - this is entirely trivial and superficial, not grounds for divorce.
So, if you live with a partner do you know where they keep their socks?
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA US judge denies WBD's bid to block Sling TV from selling short-term offerings that let users sign up for access to its bundles for as little as one day (Winston Cho/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/…
@cdarwin@c.imA new study suggests that #dementia may be driven in part by faulty blood flow in the brain.
Researchers found that losing a key lipid causes blood vessels to become overactive,
disrupting circulation and starving brain tissue.
When the missing molecule was restored, normal blood flow returned.
This discovery opens the door to new treatments aimed at fixing vascular problems in …
@heiseonline@social.heise.deWarner schießt gegen Paramount
Der Vorstand von Warner Bros. Discovery empfiehlt einstimmig eine Übernahme durch Netflix. Gegen Paramount schießt Warner hart.
https://www.heise.de/news/Warner-schiesst-<…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comPulitzer Prize Board members dump broad discovery demands on Trump for tax returns, psych records, and 'any' prescription meds history (Matt Naham/Law & Crime)
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/pulitzer-prize-board-members-fight-back-with-wide-ranging-discovery-demands-including-about-trump-finances/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251215/p116#a251215p116
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialHow 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…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialUMG 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…
@UP8@mastodon.social🪵 Maritime archaeologists from the Viking Ship Museum in Denmark have announced the discovery of what they describe as the world’s largest cog
https://www.medievalists.net/2025/12/medieval-ship-discovered-copenhagen/
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.detwitter_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
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialAmong media stocks in 2025, WBD surged 172%, Fox jumped 47.3%, Paramount Skydance rose 29%, Netflix was up just 5.7%, and Disney was up 2.25%; Comcast fell ~20% (The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business
@memeorandum@universeodon.comLarry Ellison Provides Personal Guarantee for Paramount's Bid for Warner (Lauren Thomas/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/paramount-amends-bid-for-warner-discovery-with-new-ellison-guarantee-035b0ce8?st=YnNnDJ&reflink=article_copyURL_share
http://www.memeorandum.com/251222/p57#a251222p57
@cdarwin@c.imIn 1967, physicist Andrei Sakharov proposed a set of conditions that must be satisfied to explain the origin of the matter-antimatter asymmetry in the universe,
including violation of the combined charge conjugation and parity (CP) symmetry.
CP symmetry was once thought to be universally conserved,
until this view was overturned in 1964 with the discovery of CP violation in the decay of neutral kaons.
This landmark result later earned the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAI drug discovery startup Chai Discovery raised a $130M Series B led by Oak HC/FT and General Catalyst at a $1.3B valuation, taking its total funding to $225M (Caroline Hyde/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@UP8@mastodon.social🐮 A once-in-a-generation discovery is transforming a Michigan dairy farm
#michigan
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialWBD's board says it will "carefully review and consider" Paramount's revised offer, which includes a full backstop personally guaranteed by Larry Ellison (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/bus…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialFilings: 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
@cdarwin@c.imBy plugging tens of billions of phone numbers into WhatsApp’s contact discovery tool, researchers found
“the most extensive exposure of phone numbers” ever—along with profile photos and more
A Simple WhatsApp Security Flaw Exposed 3.5 Billion Phone Numbers
https://www.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialBoston- 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
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.detwitter_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
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSources: Netflix, Comcast, and Paramount are preparing bids to buy all or part of WBD; any deal would require President Trump's and US regulators' approval (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/business/media/warner-disc…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump says he wants a new owner for CNN as part of any sale of Warner Bros. Discovery: 'A very dishonest group of people' (Charles Gasparino/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/12/10/media/trump-says-he-wants-a-new-owner-for-cnn-as-part-of-any-sale-of-warner-bros-discovery/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p1#a251211p1
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzSCExAO/CHARIS and Gaia Direct Imaging and Astrometric Discovery of a Superjovian Planet 3–4 λ/D from the Accelerating Star HIP 54515 / #OASIS Survey Direct Imaging and Astrometric Discovery of HIP 71618 B - A Substellar Companion Suitable for the Roman Coronagraph Technology Demonstration: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ae1a82 / https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae195f -> Discoveries From Maunakea Reveal Hidden Worlds Around Accelerating Stars: https://keckobservatory.org/accelerating-stars/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialPresident Trump signs an EO establishing the "Genesis Mission" to boost AI research and shorten discovery timelines "from years to days or even hours" (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/24/trump-ai-genesis-mission-doe-chris-wright<…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSources: Paramount Skydance, Comcast, and Netflix bid in the first round for WBD; Comcast and Netflix are seeking just the studio and streaming parts of WBD (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/business/media/warner-discov…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSources: a White House official discussed cutting CNN hosts that President Trump loathes, with Larry Ellison and running CBS assets like 60 Minutes on CNN (Hugo Lowell/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/2…
@cdarwin@c.imA team of scientists discovered a hidden antibiotic 100 times stronger than existing drugs against deadly superbugs like MRSA.
The molecule had been overlooked for decades in a familiar bacterium.
It shows no signs of resistance so far, offering hope in the fight against drug-resistant infections and paving the way for new approaches to antibiotic discovery.
@memeorandum@universeodon.comJared Kushner, the President's Son-in-Law, Is Part of Paramount's Bid for Warner Bros. Discovery (Lauren Hirsch/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/business/media/jared-kushner-paramount-bid-warner-bros-discovery.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251208/p117#a251208p117
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzFermi-GBM Observations of GRB 230307A - An Exceptionally Bright Long-duration #GammaRayBurst with an Associated Kilonova: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae0a1d -> UAH student researcher leads discovery of fastest gamma-ray burst ever recorded: https://www.uah.edu/news/items/uah-student-researcher-leads-discovery-fastest-gamma-ray-burst-ever-recorded
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialDavid Ellison's disrupt-and-delay strategy on the Netflix-WBD deal hinges on US and EU regulators or Trump killing it outright or attaching onerous conditions (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/biz/news/david-ellison-w…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialWBD'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
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSource: Paramount has no immediate plans to sweeten its $30/share, all-cash bid for WBD (Charles Gasparino/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/12/16/media/why-warner-bros-discovery-shareholders-shouldnt-count-on-a-holiday…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comPARAMOUNT LAUNCHES All-CASH TENDER OFFER TO ACQUIRE WARNER BROS. DISCOVERY FOR $30 PER SHARE (Paramount Skydance Corporation)
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/paramount-launches-all-cash-tender-offer-to-acquire-warner-bros-discovery-for-30-per-share-302635412.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251208/p56#a251208p56
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSources: Barry Diller expressed interest in buying CNN in H1 2025, before WBD said it would spin off cable networks; a WBD spokesman says CNN is not for sale (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/barry-d…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialBeijing-based DP Technology, which develops AI tools used by researchers for tasks like computer-aided drug design and battery design, raised a ~$114M Series C (Eunice Xu/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/business/companies/ar
@cdarwin@c.imThe offices at John Quackenbush’s lab at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
were once full of postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, and interns.
Young scientists here worked on some of the most cutting-edge computational biology research in the world,
driving new discoveries and the creation of widely used big data tools, including one the National Cancer Institute named among the most important advances of 2024.
Today, the offices are rows of empty comp…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSources: Paramount Skydance formed an investment consortium with the sovereign wealth funds of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Abu Dhabi to submit a $71B bid for WBD (Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/paramount-warner-bros-discove…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialUMG 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…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialProfluent, which wants to use AI for protein design in drug discovery, raised $106M led by Bezos Expeditions and Altimeter, bringing its total funding to $150M (Amy Feldman/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/amyfeldman/20
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialParamount reaffirms its $30/share all-cash bid after WBD's board officially rejected it, saying its bid offers "superior value and certainty" for shareholders (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/par
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialTwo representatives on the US House Financial Services Committee warn WBD CEO David Zaslav of national security concerns about the financiers of Paramount's bid (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/12/democrats-warner-bros-discovery-sa…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialFiling: 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
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA group of 18 influential cross-party UK lawmakers write to the CMA demanding a "full review" of Netflix's $83B bid for Warner Bros. Discovery (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/4e4b2e9e-afed-43ad-9320-351b97df2254
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialDemocrats warn that their party, when it returns to power, may attempt to block or unravel any Paramount acquisition of WBD due to national security concerns (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/12/10/2025
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSources: Paramount's Gulf sovereign funding, accounting for ~30% of the deal's value, and potential political scrutiny led WBD to reject Paramount's initial bid (Rohan Goswami/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/12/08/2025
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialTed Sarandos says Paramount's "move was entirely expected", but Netflix is "super confident" that it will get the WBD deal "across the line and finish" (Cynthia Littleton/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/biz/news/ted-
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialWBD'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
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe Netflix-WBD deal should quiet concerns, for now, from CNN employees worried about the prospect of Paramount combining CBS News and CNN in a WBD acquisition (John Koblin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/business/media/cnn-net…
