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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

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…

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/

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.

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…

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.

Paris-based Waiv, which uses AI to enable more precise testing of cancer, raised $33M after spinning out of AI diagnostics and drug discovery platform Owkin (Martin Coulter/Sifted)
https://sifted.eu/articles/owkin-spinout-waiv-raises-33m-to-scale…

Owkin spinout Waiv raises $33m to scale AI-powered medical testing
French healthtech spinout Waiv is aiming to revolutionise cancer screening through its AI-powered testing platform.

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

Rulezet (The detection rule management) v1.4.0 released — Taxonomy, Precision, and Advanced Discovery
Version 1.4.0 is a milestone update that transforms how intelligence is categorized and retrieved within Rulezet. By placing Tags and Taxonomies at the heart of the ecosystem, this release empowers users with granular control over their data. From private custom tagging to a revolutionary filtering engine, v1.4.0 ensures that finding the right rule is no longer a search—it’s a precisio…

lol WHAT THE FUCK
The fact that these dipshits aren't in prison, my god..
https://www.404media.co/government-loses-hard-drives-it-was-supposed-to-put-ice-detention-center-footage-on/

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…

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.’

My Storm's My Ghosts Go Ghost album was this months discovery. I'd say it's in the same vein of experimental hip hop as clipping. and Deathgrips, but chill.
#MorningMusic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8McQBweTA…

Disney is rolling out Verts, its new short-form video feed, to US users on its mobile app, featuring clips from movies and TV shows on Disney (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/12/disney-is-rolling-out-its-tiktok-lik…

Disney+ is rolling out its TikTok-like 'Verts' short-form video feed | TechCrunch
Following the success of TikTok and Instagram Reels, Verts is designed to boost daily engagement and reach mobile-first viewers, all while increasing discovery across Disney+'s catalog.

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.

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.

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.

LLMs hallucinate? Groundbreaking discovery: a statistical model works statistically. 😉 It’s the ultimate tech irony. We abandoned GOFAI because manual rules couldn't handle the messiness of reality. We moved to the 'bottom-up' statistical approach, only to find ourselves frantically retrofitting those same rules onto a black box to stop it from hallucinating.

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."

Trump's lawsuit against the BBC is set for trial in Feb. 2027; discovery must proceed though the judge has not ruled whether the Florida court has jurisdiction (Michael Savage/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/12…

Trump’s multibillion lawsuit against BBC over Panorama edit set for Florida trial in 2027
Corporation denies defamation but must hand over revealing documents after judge dismisses jurisdiction argument

What technique / tools are you using in CI to make sure that tests actually ran?
Misconfigurations can often result in huge swaths of test discovery failing silently, leaving a test run in CI including zero (or a very small number of) tests.
Are you relying on code coverage stats collected during test runs, and comparing that to some static fail_under percentage? If source discovery breaks, can 1 passing test be 100% coverage? Do you trust it?
#askfedi #sdlc #cicd #continuousintegration

Depaywalled link: http://archive.today/2026.02.05-185005/https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/x-ray-dot-discovery-fuels-jwst-black-hole-star-debate/

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,...

Canal says it will "roll out a major evolution of the Canal App" using OpenAI's tech to "power content search and discovery", and signs a Google Cloud AI deal (Georg Szalai/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywood…

Canal+ Unveils Sky English-Language Drama Partnership, OpenAI and Google Cloud AI Deals
"We begin 2026 from a position of strength, clarity and confidence," says Canal+ CEO Maxime Saada. "We now move into the execution phase of our strategy."

Delving into the vast realm of scientific advancements is a continual source of wonder and insight. Each new discovery heightens my insatiable curiosity, invigorating my understanding of our complex world. 🌍📚 #ScienceIsFascinating #NeverStopLearning

🔱 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…

"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.

'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/

Y'all better watch CNN's "Have I Got News For You" before GOP billionaire David Ellison cancels it once he takes over Warner Bros/Discovery & CNN. No joke.
▶️ When Is A War Not A War? & Americans Stranded in The Middle East! | HIGNFYUS
https://youtube.com/watch?v=pgXQkZcV1o…

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

The Guardian names Netflix's former director of product Allan Donald as its first VP of product; Donald oversaw the content discovery operation at Netflix (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/me

Guardian poaches from Netflix for first vice president of product
Netflix director of product Allan Donald has been named as The Guardian's first vice president of product.

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.

Gilbert's Discovery:
Any attempt to use the new super glues results in the two pieces
sticking to your thumb and index finger rather than to each other.

#resist #protest #broligarchy #oligarchy

Building skills for eduGAIN Federation Operators
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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."

Asta : https://asta.allen.ai/
A scholarly research assistant that combines literature understanding and data-driven discovery. Asta uses 108M abstracts and 12M full-text papers to find, summarize, and analyze scientific evidence. A project from Ai2.

"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…

Boltz, which is developing open frontier AI models for biomolecular research, raised a $28M seed led by Zetta, Amplify, and a16z at a valuation of $125M (Andrew Dunn/Endpoints News)
https://endpoints.news/exclusive-boltz-raises-28m-seed-to-build-ope…

Boltz raises $28M seed to build open AI models in biology
Boltz raises $28M seed round to develop open-source AI models for drug discovery, partners with Pfizer. Founded by MIT researchers after AlphaFold 3's closed release.

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

Since returning to the White House,
Donald Trump has accelerated his use of the presidency to enrich himself in unprecedented new ways compared to his first term.
A new analysis from The Nation argues it all comes down to his discovery that "nobody cared."
In a piece from Monday, The Nation's Jeet Heer compared the scale of Trump's kickbacks and corruptionduring his two terms in office and found stark differences.
This is not because the president…

Trump is ramping up corruption because he thinks nobody cares: report
Since returning to the White House, President Donald Trump has accelerated his use of the presidency to enrich himself in unprecedented new ways compared to his first term. A new analysis from The Nation argues it all comes down to his discovery that "nobody cared."In a piece from Monday, The Nation...

Here’s a Feed Generator Skill I knocked up that generates feeds for pages that lack this important content syndication and discovery feature.
How do you use it?
From any AI or AI agent environment that supports skills packaged using SKILLS.md docs.
Read on..

#unix #unixHistory https://www.bgr.com/2077916/university-of-utah-historic-os-ta…

This Once Lost Computer Artifact Was Found In A Storage Closet - BGR
A recently found UNIX tape in a University of Utah storage closet dates back some 50 years to the foundations of our modern computing technology.

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

🦀 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.

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.

Stratigraphy 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/

In the dynamic realm of scientific discovery, a single revolutionary idea can reshape science and business. Curiosity fuels progress and unveils new opportunities — ALWAYS! Let’s persist in pushing the boundaries of knowledge with an unquenchable thirst for learning. 🧠✨

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

The 6th #AAS247 press conference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nss3zNi5SYA about Cosmology and Galaxy Clusters discussed the lensed supernova Ares from the Vast Exploration for Nascent, Unexplored Sources (VENUS) program (https://www.stsci.edu/jwst-program-info/download/jwst/pdf/9478/), the paper PASSAGES: The Discovery of a Strongly Lensed Protocluster Core Candidate at Cosmic Noon (https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/adf4d5 with https://public.nrao.edu/news/cosmic-lens-reveals-hyperactive-cradle-of-future-galaxy-cluster/), new results from the One-hundred-deg^2 DECam Imaging in Narrowbands (ODIN) survey (https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad165e) and the paper Sunyaev–Zeldovich detection of hot intracluster gas at redshift 4.3
(https://scicomm.xyz/@cosmos4u/115849463900911844 with https://public.nrao.edu/news/alma-galaxy-clusters/).

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

The 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 …

Pulitzer Prize Board members seek discovery of Trump finances, psych records, prescription meds
Pulitzer Prize Board members filed a litany of broad discovery demands in an attempt to beat back Trump's defamation suit over Russia probe reporting awards.

Netflix said on Thursday that it had backed away from its deal to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery,
-- a stunning development that paves the way for the storied Hollywood media giant to end up under the control of rival bidder, the MAGA friendly technology heir David Ellison.
Netflix said that it would not raise its offer to counter a higher bid made earlier this week by Mr. Ellison’s company, Paramount Skydance,
adding in a statement that “the deal is no longer financially a…

Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for Paramount Takeover
The move was a stunning development in the long-running corporate battle for the storied media giant.

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

The 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.

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.

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.

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

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

🐚 Scientists raise 300,000 surfclams offshore, proving open-ocean aquaculture can work
https://phys.org/news/2026-02-scientists-surfclams-offshore-ocean-aquaculture.html

Scientists raise 300,000 surfclams offshore, proving open-ocean aquaculture can work
Rutgers researchers have made a discovery that could change the future of seafood farming in New Jersey. A study led by marine scientist Daphne Munroe has shown that Atlantic surfclams can be successfully farmed in the open ocean. Her research, published in the North American Journal of Aquaculture, proves that offshore aquaculture is not only possible but promising. This method could help meet the increasing demand for seafood while protecting wild clam populations.

A 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/

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.

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.

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.

OpenAI rolls out Codex Security, an AI agent that evolved from its research project Aardvark to automate vulnerability discovery, validation, and remediation (Sam Sabin/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/06/openai-codex-security-ai-cyber

OpenAI unveils Codex Security to automate code security reviews
Frontier AI labs are increasingly rolling out new ways to help defenders beef up their own security.

The third #AAS247 presser https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfDmYXvBbV4 about News from the High-Redshift Universe and Local Analogs dealt with the papers The ALPINE-CRISTAL-JWST Survey: JWST/IFU Optical Observations for 18 Main-sequence Galaxies at z = 4–6 (https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4365/ae0928 with https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/young-galaxies-grow-up-fast and https://public.nrao.edu/news/young-galaxies-grow-up-fast/), A New Population of Point-like, Narrow-line Objects Revealed by the James Webb Space Telescope (https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12177 with https://showme.missouri.edu/2026/scientists-discover-platypus-galaxies-in-the-early-universe/ and https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/scientists-identify-astronomys-platypus-with-nasas-webb-telescope/; slide), Supermassive Stars Match the Spectral Signatures of JWST's Little Red Dots (https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12618 with https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/scientists-use-jwst-examine-ancient-monster-stars-may-reveal-birth-black-holes) and Discovery of SiC and Iron Dust around AGB Stars in the Very Metal-poor Sextans a Dwarf Galaxy with JWST: Implications for Dust Production at High Redshift & JWST Captures Growth of Aromatic Hydrocarbon Dust Particles in the Extremely Metal-poor Galaxy Sextans A (https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/adf06a / https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.04060 with https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/nasa-webb-finds-early-universe-analogs-unexpected-talent-for-making-dust/).

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.

Warner 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-<…

A 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 …

Scientists found a way to restore brain blood flow in dementia
A 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 dementia.

Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/business/warner-bros-discovery-paramount-deal-netflix.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260227/p7#a260227p7

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.

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.

In an interview, David Ellison says CNN would retain editorial independence if the WBD deal closes: "it's maintained at CBS and it will be maintained at CNN" (Corbin Bolies/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/jo

David Ellison Promises ‘Editorial Independence’ at CNN in Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery Merger
Paramount CEO David Ellison told CNBC on Thursday that CNN would maintain “editorial independence” if the company’s bid to buy Warner Bros. Discovery closes, an attempt to assuage fears the network would radically change to appease the Trump administration.

So the new #Kreutz #comet #MAPS is *still* following the constant rapid rise in brightness it has shown since discovery: a dumb extrapolation - https://cobs.si/analysis/?comet=2688&from_date=2026-01-15 00:00&to_date=2026-04-30 00:00&observation_type=V&observation_type=C&plot_x_value=1&plot_y_value=1&fit_option=1&exclude_faint=on&exclude_issue=on&observer=&association=&country=&compare_values=compare - has it get 10,000-times brighter than the Sun at its extremely close perihelion which makes so sense at all, of course, physically.
"It must therefore be assumed that this increase in activity will level off significantly in the near future," writes https://fg-kometen.vdsastro.de/koj_2026/c2026a1/26a1eaus.htm: "More likely are parameters m m0=12.0 mag / n=4 (or even lower), which would still result in a (very short-term) maximum brightness of about –9 mag (but this would probably still be significantly too bright) – always assuming that the comet survives its perihelion passage unscathed."
For other views see http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/iau/cbet/005600/CBET005663.txt and https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.17626 and https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10236580364221799 and https://cometografia.es/cometa-kreutz-2026-a1-maps-analisis/ - and the actual brightness is tracked at https://cobs.si/obs_list?id=2688 where it has reached ~11.5 mag. now.

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.

Epstein 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

Discovery of the most compact 3 1-type quadruple star system TIC 120362137: #StarSystem Yet: https://gizmodo.com/4-body-problem-astronomers-spot-the-most-tightly-packed-quadruple-star-system-yet-2000728811

Paramount reaffirms its commitment to its $30-per-share offer to acquire WBD and says that its analysis values Discovery Global at $0 per share (Paramount)
https://ir.paramount.com/news-releases/news-release-details…

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 […]

AI 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

MeerKAT discovery of a high-redshift strongly-lensed hydroxyl #gigamaser: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.13396 -> MeerKAT discovers record-breaking cosmic laser halfway across the universe: https://www.sarao.ac.za/news/meerkat-discovers-record-breaking-cosmic-laser-halfway-across-the-universe/

A 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/…

What’s a “Subscription?” Warner Bros. Discovery and ESPN Find Out the Hard Way
Dish Network leveraged ambiguity around the term in licensing deals with Warner Bros. Discovery and Disney to offer short-term Sling TV subscription passes.

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.

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.

Chinese 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/
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Beijing enlists AI to bring traditional Chinese medicine into the future
With backing from the Chinese government, TCM practitioners are integrating AI tools to reach new consumers at home and abroad.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The NYT's lawsuit against the DOD over its new journalism rules is on a fast track, heading to oral arguments on March 6, as both sides filed to skip discovery (Erik Wemple/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/business/media/new-york-t…

New York Times Case Against Pentagon Will Move Quickly
The lawsuit, over the Defense Department’s new rules for journalists, is headed for oral arguments in March.

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.

Source: 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…

Exclusive | Why Warner Bros. Discovery shareholders shouldn't count on a holiday bidding war
Bidding war talk heated up Tuesday now that WBD is on the verge of formally calling on investors to reject Paramount Skydance’s hostile bid for the entire company.

WBD'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…

Warner Bros. Discovery Says It Will “Carefully Review and Consider” Paramount’s Revised Offer
David Ellison submitted his revised tender offering, backed by his father Larry Ellison, Monday morning.

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…

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.