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Epic Games partners with Unity to bring games made with Unity Engine to Fortnite in 2026, part of Epic's longterm vision to make Fortnite into an open metaverse (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/report/823233/for

Fortnite is getting Unity games
Epic Games is teaming up with Unity to bring games made using Unity’s engine into Fortnite.

#sehenswert die Rede von Karl #Schlögel, der den #Friedenspreis des deutschen Buchhandels erhalten hat

Friedenspreis 2025 für den Osteuropa-Historiker Karl Schlögel
Erleben Sie die Festrede von Karl Schlögel in der Paulskirche – ein Appell für Erinnerung, Verantwortung und europäische Solidarität.

Friedenspreisträger Schlögel: Europa in "neuer Vorkriegszeit"
Der diesjährige Friedenspreisträger des Deutschen Buchhandels, Karl Schlögel, sieht Europa in einer "neuen Vorkriegszeit". Es falle einer friedensgewohnten Generation schwer, sich in einer solchen Situation zurechtzufinden, sagte der Osteuropa-Historiker bei der Preisverleihung in der Paulskirche in Frankfurt am Main. Schlögel rief dazu a…
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Putin-Kritiker Schlögel erhält Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels
Der Historiker und Publizist Karl Schlögel ist zum Abschluss der Buchmesse mit dem Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels ausgezeichnet worden. In seiner Dankesrede würdigte er die Widerstandskraft der Ukrainer.

Freedom can only be the whole of freedom; a piece of freedom is not freedom.
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AWS is currently experiencing a major outage that has taken down major services, including Amazon, Alexa, Snapchat, Fortnite, and Signal; AWS is investigating (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/802486/aws-outage-alexa-fortnite-snapchat-o…

Major AWS outage takes down Fortnite, Alexa, Snapchat, and more
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is currently experiencing a major outage that has taken down online services, including Amazon, Alexa, Snapchat, Fortnite, and more.

Doppel, which makes an AI social engineering detection service, raised a $70M Series C led by Bessemer at a $600M valuation, up from $205M in May (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/11/19/exclusi

Exclusive: Doppel raises $70 million Series C at more than $600 million valuation to fight AI-powered social engineering attacks
Bessemer-backed Doppel has raised its $70 million Series C, valuing the company at $600 million, Fortune has exclusively learned.

Cursor-developer Anysphere acquires code review startup Graphite and says Graphite will continue operating as an independent product (Beatrice Nolan/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/12/19/cursor-ai-coding-startup-graphite-competition-heats-up/

Exclusive: Cursor acquires code review startup Graphite as AI coding competition heats up
By purchasing Graphite, Cursor, currently valued at $29 billion, gains more code review and debugging capabilities

Endra, whose AI tools automate mechanical, electrical, and plumbing design for commercial buildings, raised a $20M seed led by Notion (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/12/18/endra-ai-startup-automating-mep-design…

Exclusive: Swedish startup automating mechanical, electrical, and plumbing design for commercial buildings raises $20 million in seed round
Notion Capital is leading the seed round for Endra, which says reduces the time to design buildings' electrical systems from months to hours.

Kraken raised $200M at a $20B valuation, after raising $600M at a $15B valuation in Sept.; prior to the two rounds, Kraken raised only $27M in venture capital (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/11/18/kraken-citadel-securities-ken-griffin-…

Exclusive: Crypto exchange Kraken raises $200 million from Ken Griffin’s Citadel to notch $20 billion valuation
Once skittish about digital assets, Citadel has warmed towards the crypto business in 2025.

Sources: Salient, which uses AI to automate loan servicing, raised $10M following a $60M Series A in June, pushing its valuation to ~$500M; its ARR hit $25M (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/12/18/salient

Salient’s quiet AI boom: How this two-year old startup is building a company to survive the bubble burst
Salient cofounder Ari Malik built AI to automate loan servicing, turning collections calls into a high-growth business now valued around $500 million.