Matthew Ball's State of Video Gaming 2026 report: global video game content sales grew 5.3% YoY to $195.6B in 2025; job losses fell 40% YoY to 9,200 people (Sophie McEvoy/GamesIndustry.biz)
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/global-game-content-sales-rose-53-…
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Matthew Sage:
🎵 Wading the Plain
#MatthewSage
Cloudflare says the November 18 outage was caused by a change to one of its "database systems' permissions", not by "malicious activity of any kind" (Matthew Prince/Cloudflare)
https://blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-2025-outage/
" 'In Israel's eyes, we are terrorists' | In search of Palestine: episode 1
More than two years after Israel’s devastating war in Gaza began, the West Bank has become an increasingly volatile front in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. ..."
https://…
Microscopic Rydberg electron orbit manipulation with optical tweezers
Homar Rivera-Rodr\'iguez, Matthew T. Eiles, Tilman Pfau, Florian Meinert
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.15723
media conglomerates are leading the way against open internet law by fining cloudflare:
Italy's "shadowy cabal of European media elites" ... "scheme to censor the Internet. The scheme, which even the EU has called concerning, required us within a mere 30 minutes of notification to fully censor from the Internet any sites a shadowy cabal of European media elites deemed against their interests. No judicial oversight. No due process. No appeal. No transparency. "
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Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah:
🎵 Say It (feat. Matthew Stevens, Lawrence Fields, Kris Funn & Jamire Williams)
#ChiefXianaTundeAdjuah
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TIL Matthew Broderick, actor from "Glory" discovered to his surprise, his great grandfather fought at Gettysburg in the Civil War.
▶️ Matthew Broderick, Spike Lee and Susan Sarandon's ancestry! | S1 | Who Do You Think You Are
https://youtube.com/watch?v=V7G-mQ_SO4
Matthew McConaughey has secured eight trademarks of himself from the USPTO in the past several months to protect his likeness and voice from unauthorized AI use (Ben Fritz/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/matthew…
CEO Matthew Prince says Cloudflare has blocked 416B AI bot requests for its customers since July 1, and that Google can see 3.2x more internet pages than OpenAI (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/big-interview-event-matthew-prince-cloudflare/
Sensor Tower: TikTok's US DAUs are at ~95% of the week of Jan. 19, with engagement metrics showing little sign of a mass exodus since its Jan. 23 US takeover (Matthew Chin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/16/tiktok-us-
California regulators unanimously voted in favor of Verizon's $10B Frontier acquisition; deliberations included Verizon committing to CA's DEI requirements (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2026/01/california-approves-verizon-frontier-merger/
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George Frideric Handel, Matthew White, Arte dei Suonatori & Eduardo López Banzo:
🎵 "Where'er you walk" Jupiter's air from Act II, Scene 3 of the opera "Semele"
https://open.spotify.com/track/1gHLTTCyREBP73aybDQucQ
Self-help gurus like Tony Robbins, Gabby Bernstein, and Matthew Hussey are charging up to $99 per month to access AI chatbots that promise personalized advice (Sara Ashley O'Brien/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/style/ai-se…
Caterpillar hits a $300B market cap for the first time, driven by demand for its data center power generation equipment; CAT is up 12% in 2026 to a record ~$640 (Matthew Griffin/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
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Henry Purcell, Alex Potter, Samuel Boden, Matthew Brook, Collegium Vocale Gent & Philippe Herreweghe:
🎵 Rejoice in the Lord alway, Z.49 (Bell Anthem)
#HenryPurcell
https://open.spotify.com/track/6jCk5irNEic5ldyO6mmS1u
2026 NFL Honors: Matthew Stafford named MVP over Drake Maye, becomes oldest QB to win award for first time
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/rams-matthew-stafford-nfl-mvp-over-drake-m…
NFL Week 13 overreactions: Matthew Stafford's MVP bid over? Texans new team to beat in the AFC South?
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-wee