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The Delaware Supreme Court rules that Elon Musk's 2018 Tesla CEO pay package, worth around $56B when it vested, must be restored, ending a years-long fight (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/19/musk-tesla-pay-delaware-supreme-court.html…

Musk's $56 billion Tesla pay package must be restored as court rules cancellation was too extreme
Shareholder Richard J. Tornetta brought the suit, accusing Musk and the Tesla board of a breach of fiduciary duties.

Etwas mehr der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
BGH-Paukenschlag zum Cardsharing: Kein Computerbetrug bei Pay-TV-Piraterie

Stingy bastard.
Trump finalizes 1% federal pay raise for 2026
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/pay/2025/12/trump-finalizes-1-federal-pay-raise-for-2026/

Holla… this is huge https://www.heise.de/en/news/BGH-bombshell-on-card-sharing-no-computer-fraud-in-pay-TV-piracy-11144974.html
The sentence by the highest German court is interesting as it seems to end a common practice …

BGH bombshell on card sharing: no computer fraud in pay-TV piracy
The Federal Court of Justice corrects previous case law and denies direct financial damage to providers for illegal pay-TV access.

Seahawks OLB Hall suspended one game by NFL https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47360029/nfl-suspends-seahawks-olb-derick-hall-one-game-pay

Montag: EU gegen Huawei und ZTE bei KRITIS, Pay-TV-Piraten ohne Vermögensschaden
Cybersicherheit ohne China BGH-Urteil gegen Sender-Vermögensschaden Ablauf von Plastik-Führerscheinen Silicon Valley verliert Milliardäre Sky mit IPTV

BBC should not pay Trump any money,
says former director general Tony Hall
It is Not ‘appropriate’ to use licence fee payer’s money to pay US president after his threat to sue for up to $5bn, says peer
https://www.theguardi…

A Japanese court orders Cloudflare to pay a ~$3.2M fine to four major Japanese publishers for its role in hosting servers for manga piracy sites (The Japan Times)
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/20/japan/crime-legal/cloudflare-manga-piracy/

Japanese court orders Cloudflare to pay ¥500 million over manga piracy
Four major publishing firms accused Cloudflare of copyright infringement for its role in hosting sites that distribute pirated copies of manga titles.

Well...in theory: "It was not clear what funding ICE and CBP would use to provide pay to the workers. DHS did not answer a question about where the funding was coming from."
Exclusive: ICE, Border Patrol agents to receive pay during government shutdown | Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/some-federal-law-enforcement-receive-pay-during-government-shutdown-2025-10-16/

Good work if you can get it: Elon Musk is set to make more than every elementary school teacher COMBINED (Katie Hawkinson/The Independent)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/elon-musk-tesla-pay-package-earnings-b2867752.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251118/p163#a251118p163

Raiders, Cowboys pay tribute to Kneeland before ‘Monday Night Football’ https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/raiders-cowboys-pay-tribute-to-kneeland-before-monday-night-football-3582898/

Instacart will pay $60M to settle FTC allegations that it used deceptive tactics in its subscription signup and "satisfaction guarantee" advertising (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/18/instacart-ftc-settlement-deceptive-billing.html

Instacart to pay $60 million to settle FTC claims it deceived customers
The federal agency alleged that Instacart used a number of deceptive tactics in its subscription signup and "satisfaction guarantee" advertising.

The weirdest spam I get is for "academic conferences" (garbage conferences where you pay to get your paper published so you can pump your publication list). Sure, I totally see myself publishing at a materials science conference in Singapore. Totally. It's been my dream since I was a little monkey.

BGH-Paukenschlag zum Cardsharing: Kein Computerbetrug bei Pay-TV-Piraterie
Der Bundesgerichtshof korrigiert die bisherige Rechtsprechung und verneint bei illegalen Pay-TV-Zugängen einen unmittelbaren Vermögensschaden der Anbieter.

Images via https://walkman.land/, they have a lot of background information as well, so pay them a visit.

Kids back then had it easy. To hack a pay phone, you just had to whistle into the receiver. But today, only highly trained opera singers can hit the 13.56 MHz frequencies necessary to whistle an RFID signature.

When you claim the unilateral authority to pay troops out of money specifically allocated for other purposes,
surprising things happen in the law.
https://bsky.app/profile/ridleydm.bsky.social/post/3m3ljygk7qs24

D.M. Ridley (@ridleydm.bsky.social)
It follows, however, that every single thing that is closed, and every person who is not paid, is Trump's and only Trump's fault. By his own logic, he could pay them, and he has decided not to.

In one case, it turns out that an all-male client group was giving vicious beratings (undeserved!) to a female project manager when they had her cornered alone. I had no idea.
In the moment, I found those men kind of obnoxiously self-confident in their ignorance, but nothing worse. Later they want on a Trumpian scorched earth campaign trying not to pay everyone for work already done and threatening lawsuits willy nilly. They turned out to be horrible people. Missing that early red flag of misogyny cost us all — but especially that manager.
2/

Check out today's packed Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Venezuela's state-run oil company PDVSA was hit by a cyberattack,
--Coupang's founder failed to show at parliamentary hearing,
--Vast majority of parked domains foist scams and malware,
--FTC orders Nomad to pay victims after hackers stole cryptocurrency,
--noyb alleges data exposure by TikTok, Grindr and AppFlyer,
--Hackers exploit critica…

Venezuela's state-run oil company PDVSA was hit by a cyberattack
Coupang's founder didn't show at parliamentary hearing, Majority of parked domains foist scams and malware, FTC orders Nomad to pay victims after hackers stole cryptocurrency, noyb alleges data exposure by TikTok, Grindr and AppFlyer, Hackers exploit critical flaws in Fortinet products, much more

Meanwhile, because Mastodon server admins are all cheapskates and we're not going to pay the sort of prices for hosting that AWS charge, the Fediverse keeps on chugging away happily while the corporate internet falls apart.
#AWS #AWSdown #Fediverse

The SSDs in my storage cluster that I bought for a bit under $800 a while back are now over $1300, a >50% price increase.
I'm only at 60% ish usage so hopefully I can keep my rate of data growth in check until the bubble pops. Otherwise I'm either gonna have to pay scalper prices for more NVMe or add some spinning rust back in.
At the rate things are going I've probably got a year or two before things get tight.

Musk's 2018 Tesla pay package must be restored, Delaware court rules
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/19/musk-tesla-pay-delaware-supreme-court.html

A Spanish court orders Meta to pay €479M to 87 Spanish digital media outlets for unfair competition practices and infringement of EU data protection regulations (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa

New law by Wilhoit Pith:
U.S. Republicans are racketeers. Large corporations pay this protection racket to gather power, impoverish then enslave everybody else.
New Mark System:
War against opiates is religion for the masses.
#Economics #Politics

"AI boom has caused same CO2 emissions in 2025 as New York City, report claims"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology

I'll never pay for Disney again.🤮
First they f**d up Star Wars, then Dr. Who and now they want to allow "AI" slop on their platform.
FU Disney.🖕
"During an earnings call, Disney CEO Bob Iger said that Disney was about to expand, allowing subscribers to generate and share AI-generated content."

🤔 Do mega-sporting events like the World Series pay off? Here's the economic reality behind them
#sports

Do mega-sporting events like the World Series pay off? Here's the economic reality behind them
Whether it's the World Series, the FIFA World Cup or the Olympic Games, the hope for hosting mega sporting events is that the economy will emerge as the true winner.

Vile. A landlord so horrible even Trump is prosecuting. @… https://bird.makeup/users/macfarlanenews/statuses/2001360643161813234

A Spanish court orders Meta to pay €479M to 87 Spanish digital media outlets for unfair competition practices and infringement of EU data protection regulations (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa

Pardoned Capitol rioter tried to bribe child sex victim with promise of Jan. 6 payout, officials say (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/pardoned-capitol-rioter-tried-bribe-child-sex-victim-promise-jan-6-pay-rcna244627
http://www.memeorandum.com/251118/p155#a251118p155

QQ for all the "Restore the #RuleOfLaw" folks out there: When militarized police crushed Occupy for daring to challenge the logic of bailing out the bankers who crashed the economy rather than the people they fleeced, was that "Rule of Law"? When militarized police maimed and brutalized water protectors, was that "Rule of Law"? When oil companies and tech monopolies fund both parties and just happen to get legislation that keeps them in power, is that "Rule of Law"? When your tax dollars go to fund genocide, to pay to drop bombs on children, is that "Rule of Law"? When the NSA was spying on American citizens, was that "Rule of Law"? How about the drone strikes on Americans, was that "Rule of Law"? When cops murder people and then use "qualified immunity" to get away with it, is that "Rule of Law"?
Y'all keep talking about how #NoKings is about "restoring rule of law." It's got a bit of a "Make America Great Again" feel to it: you're invoking a return to a history that never actually existed.

@… @… I’ve only lived in the U.S. 7 years, became an authorized signer on my (American) wife’s credit card, then subsequently got my own.
We’ve never missed a single payment, always budget to pay in full like Jonathan is recommending, …

I am looking forward to my next hardware upgrades so I could contain Windows to a single PC that I'd absolutely need for Windows dependent stuff. I mean, now I am literally signed-in by default in Notepad?? And when I click my profile pic in its toolbar, it has one cheeky "Sign out" option??? I give up coping with this enshittified OS. Microsoft should pay me to use me as a research subject.

Agent's Take: How NFL playoff pay really works, from wild card games through the Super Bowl

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-playoff-pay-scale-player-payouts-by-round/…

How should #firefox pay developers?

Dora, the kitten, likes to nap in bowls. You might even say it's adorable...

Apple-Pay-Ersatz: Volksbanken starten NFC-Zahlungen auf dem iPhone
Die VR-Banking-App erlaubt nun kontaktloses Bezahlen mit der Girocard auf dem iPhone. Der Start erfolgt mit Verzögerung bei ersten Instituten.

"In truth, no Number fully insulates anyone from life’s vicissitudes. Markets crash, health fails, taxes rise, wars and pestilence break out...."
So, pay your taxes and invest in a welfare safety net, is the unspoken part.
The absurdity of bankers’ retirement fund targets - https://on.ft.com/4o2NNbV

Yeah, no, burn this system to the ground.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/11/elon-musk-wins-tesla-pay-vote-that-could-make-him-a-1-trillion-man

Elon Musk wins Tesla pay vote that could make him a $1 trillion man
Tesla investors back Musk pay despite his busy schedule running other companies.

Unix is like a toll road on which you have to stop every 50 feet to
pay another nickel. But hey! You only feel 5 cents poorer each time.
-- Larry Wall in <1992Aug13.192357.15731@netlabs.com>

John Healey: I pay tribute to the courage shown by Ukrainians, both military and civilian #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/10/john-healey-i-pay-tribute.html

"You weren't worried about your legacy": Shannon Sharpe calls out Dez Bryant's hypocrisy as Cowboys legend urges George Pickens to take pay cut https://www.sportskeeda.com/nfl/news-you-w

Contractor Paying Random People $300 to Physically Track Immigrants for ICE https://www.404media.co/contractor-paying-random-people-300-to-physically-track-immigrants-for-ice/

@governorwalz.mn.gov
Pay attention to which direction police are facing
If police are facing, for example, ICE, then they're deployed AGAINST ICE & protecting citizens
Facing the citizens? They're deployed AGAINST citizens & protecting ICE
This is what we see
Choose your citizens to protect

Governor Tim Walz (@governorwalz.mn.gov)
Stay safe and stay peaceful today. Our public safety team has the resources, coordination, and personnel on the ground to maintain public safety and respond if needed. Thanks to local law enforcement for keeping the peace. https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/live-updates/minnesota-protests-ice-shooting-law-enforcement/

Trump Wants Nations to Pay $1 Billion to Stay on His Peace Board (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-17/trump-wants-nations-to-pay-1-billion-to-stay-on-his-peace-board
http://www.memeorandum.com/260117/p58#a260117p58

People should have a damn place to live, food to eat, and clothes to wear without having to bleed for it.
But no, capitalism makes you pay just to exist, turning human needs into profit and calling it freedom.
#Socialism #Capitalism

Would you pay 20m for a top CB? We wouldn’t.
#LFC

FTSE 100 CEOs earn more than average worker’s yearly pay by noon on 6 January
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jan/06/ftse-100-ceos-earn-more-than-average-worker-yearly-pay-by…

FTSE 100 CEOs earn more than average worker’s yearly pay by noon on 6 January
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jan/06/ftse-100-ceos-earn-more-than-average-worker-yearly-pay-by…

Totally normal behaviour for Israel to pay for Canadian politicians to visit them and influence our local policies.
Same country involved in many war crimes and mass atrocities
https://www.torontotoday.ca/local/city-hall/toronto-councillo…

For Now.
There’s a glitch in the model here because Disney or whoever can easily mix original work with AI-created work in such a way that the amalgamated works are protected. AI isn’t copylefted: it doesn’t infect works that it is linked to. @…

It's time for my annual interaction with the Apple ecosystem, because they won't let me have a certificate for signing PKPASS files to put into Apple Wallets unless I pay them for membership of their developer club.

Trump Wants Nations to Pay $1 Billion to Stay on His Peace Board | Financial Post
https://financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/trump-wants-nations-to-pay-1-billion-to-stay-on-his-peace-board

This is a subtweet...
People who are not anti-capitalist sometimes wonder: "Why is there a monopoly on X life-critical thing?" (E.g., epipens, insulin, web search).
This one is really simple actually: because monopolies are more profitable than competition, and the foundation of capitalism is that capital = power.
Various societies have recognized the necropolitical outcomes of monopolies and have tried to erect barriers to monopoly; we all know that monopolies are bad, death-and-suffering-causing things. But since these societies mostly remain capitalist, they allow these barriers to be eroded by the power of capital (to do otherwise would be to repudiate capitalism because it puts a limit on the power of money). The barriers are ineffective, and the capital = power equation holds, and monopolies result and get to do their killing & maiming thing (remember: even things like social media monopolies that you wouldn't expect to pay for political assassinations like a mining company still profit from inciting genocides). *Sometimes* there are oligopolies instead of monopolies, but instances of really competitive markets are pretty rare for things that are widely sought-after.
The "government will manage the markets to prevent bad outcomes like monopolies" strategy has failed repeatedly, spectacularly, and almost universally. To actually prevent monopolies you need a population that no longer believes that money should equal power, it's that simple. Sadly, it's actually not that simple, since all of the alternatives which equate something else to power, like "the king" or "party loyalty as judged by the supreme leader" have the same problems or worse. The attitude you need to cultivate is "nobody should have power," which is hard because *all* of the power-systems we have constantly propagandize against this attitude in myriad ways. Still, in the future once we've broken free of this age where hierarchy is accepted, people will look back and wonder whether the historical records are even credible given how much needless death and suffering were endured with little resistance.
#anarchy #capitalism

Completely crazy, no sense of history, maybe also remove their gold teeth?
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/17/refugees-jewellery-asylum-home-office

Asylum seekers’ jewellery could be seized to pay for processing costs, says Home Office minister
Idea borrowed from Denmark is latest attempt to reduce number of people seeking asylum in UK

Sources: Netflix will pay Barstool a yearly fee "in the eight figures" for its video podcasts; Fanatics has pitched WWE podcasts to Netflix which airs WWE Raw (Ryan Glasspiegel/Front Office Sports)
https://frontofficesports.com/netflix-pa…

Netflix Paying Barstool 8 Figures Per Year Amid Podcast Push
Netflix’s deal with Barstool Sports, announced Wednesday, is a multiyear pact worth eight figures per year, Front Office Sports has learned.

Molly White:
I'm one person writing about an enormous amount of corruption and chaos in a sector that few publications cover well — or at all.
Please consider supporting my work with a pay-what-you-want subscription:
https://mastoreader.io/?url=https:%2

it is becoming very clear to me why people pay €7000/year for Autodesk Inventor

Another solid rap banger from this year - 'The Pryce You Pay' by Slik Jak & Vincent Pryce: https://slikjack.bandcamp.com/album/the-pryce-you-pay
This is gritty and grimy, super solid from front to back. Some excellent wordplay, beats and samples all over the plac…

The US DOE accelerates its approach to equipping national labs with AI supercomputers by working with Nvidia, AMD, and Oracle, which will pay some of the costs (Don Clark/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/technology/national-laborat…

To Meld A.I. With Supercomputers, National Labs Are Picking Up the Pace
A.I. has added urgency to the U.S. national laboratories that have been sites of cutting-edge scientific research, leading to deals with tech giants like Nvidia to speed up.

"Decades of protection pay off as endangered whales make a rare comeback in Canada"
#Canada #Whales #Animals

Decades of protection pay off as endangered whales make a rare comeback in Canada | The Optimist Daily
A population of endangered northern bottlenose whales in Canada is rebounding, offering rare hope for marine conservation success.

The UK and Denmark are so poor, so immoral, so without humanity, so uncivilised that they will steal the last belongings of refugees. What sad, pathetic countries. How embarrassed must their people be?
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/17/refu…

More than 50 Amazon employees seeking to unionize
walked off the job early Tuesday morning at a Riverside delivery facility, according to the Teamsters.
The overnight walkout marked what union leaders say is the beginning of a new organizing drive for Amazon workers in the Inland Empire,
under which workers are demanding better working conditions and pay for the value they bring to the e-commerce giant.
Workers at the Krameria Avenue facility in Riverside, dubbed DJT6 …

RivCo Amazon Warehouse Workers Have Walked Off The Job. Here's Why
Dozens of employees say they have been pushed to their limit and are demanding better working conditions and pay.

UK bank Lloyds agrees to acquire UK startup Curve, which offers digital wallets, in a deal set to close in H1 2026; Sky News reported Lloyds is set to pay £120M (Aisha S Gani/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

SEC filing: WBD says the Ellisons offered David Zaslav a compensation package of several hundred million dollars, which Zaslav said was inappropriate to discuss (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/ins

Inside the Fractious WBD-Paramount Deal Talks Between Ellison, Zaslav
WBD presented a chronology of events and meetings that occurred, leading to its deal to sell Warner Bros. studios and HBO Max to Netflix, following by David Ellison’s hostile takeover bid and the WBD board’s official rejection of the $30/share bid on Dec. 17.

Check out NFL contract incentives for more than 30 players, including two Week 16 best bets worth considering

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-contract-incentives-2025-week-16-picks…

A look at Meta's 2GW Hyperion data center in Louisiana, with the first phase opening in 2028; an analysis shows sales tax breaks on GPUs could total $3.3B (Jon Keegan/Sherwood News)
https://sherwood.news/tech/hyperion/

The power play behind Hyperion, Mark Zuckerberg’s colossal data center being built in rural Louisiana
$10 billion of investment. Code names to disguise projects and companies. Mixed opinions. Skyrocketing property values. And enough tax breaks to pay every state cop in Louisiana for seven years.

Hi, I'm Thomas. Back in 2005 or so I've practically invented in-browser animations with HTML elements.
PLEASE DO NOT ANIMATE USER INTERFACE ELEMENTS FOR NO REASON.
Do not animate icons, change positions of buttons, do "fun liquid glass animations"; definitely under no circumstances move in or fade in whole blocks of text (unless your design goal is that you want people looking at your website to become nauseous).
Only use animation when it's helpful to the user—for example, when they need to pay extra attention to something because there's a risk of data loss or to pass the time while showing that something is going on when there's a process which takes a bit longer.

Furloughed federal employee delivering food, packages in Massachusetts during shutdown to pay bills - CBS Boston
https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/furloughed-federal-employee-delivering-food-shutdown/

In UK parliamentary testimony, a Google executive says the company should not be required to license "freely available" open web content for AI training (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/google-ai-training-pay-opt-…

Google IP boss: We shouldn't pay for AI training on 'freely available' content
Google's global IP boss has said the tech giant does not believe it should have to pay to use "freely available content" for AI training.

Google to pay $8.25 million to settle lawsuit alleging children’s privacy violations https://therecord.media/google-youtube-lawsuit-settle

@… Even if employees did want to give, surely it would be more effecient to do a voluntary reduction in pay, than to pay the employee and then have them pay you back again.

Westerners will literally steal from refugees rather than go to therapy.
#UK

Q&A with Sam Altman on OpenAI's "code red" call, enterprise strategy, product ambitions, IPO plans, ChatGPT's personalization plans, and more (Alex Kantrowitz/Big Technology)
https://www.bigtechnology.com/p/sam-altman-on-openais-plan-to-win<…

Sam Altman on OpenAI’s Plan to Win, AI Personalization, Infrastructure Math, and The Inevitable IPO
OpenAI's CEO joins Big Technology for a candid discussion covering OpenAI's strategy, its product ambitions, its ability to pay for $1 trillion+ in infrastructure, going public, and much more.

How U.S. sports tickets got so expensive – and why it shocks the rest of the world https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6901912/2025/12/19/usa-ticket-prices-sporting-events-world-cup-2026/

With the tax-free money in a health savings account, a person can pay for eyeglasses or medical exams, as well as a $1,700 baby bassinet or a $300 online parenting workshop.
Those same dollars can’t be used, though, to pay for insurance premiums — or for most health related necessities such as baby formulas or toothbrushes
HSAs are tax shelters for the rich, masquerading as healthcare insurance.
Donald Trump and some Republicans are pitching the accounts as an alternative to …

Health Savings Accounts, Backed by GOP, Cover Fancy Saunas but Not Insurance Premiums - KFF Health News
Health savings accounts can be used to cover medical expenses, tax-free. But while wealthier Americans are using them to pay for gym equipment, cedar ice baths, and hemlock saunas, poorer Americans can’t use them to pay their skyrocketing health insurance premiums.

Australia begins consultations with publishers and platforms on its News Bargaining Incentive, requiring Big Tech to pay local publishers or face new taxes (April Ossington/Channel News)
https://www.channelnews.com.au/australia-m

channelnews : Australia Moves to Make Tech Giants Pay for News As Google Faces New Scrutiny In Europe
Global technology companies are facing mounting regulatory pressure, with the Albanese government moving ahead on new laws that would force platforms like Facebook, Google and TikTok to pay for Australian news content, just as Google faces a fresh competition probe in Europe. Under the federal government’s proposed News Bargaining Incentive, social media and search companies... Read More

Google agrees to pay $8.25M to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging its AdMob SDK illegally collected data from children under age 13 (Suzanne Smalley/The Record)
https://therecord.media/google-youtube-lawsuit-settle

Google to pay $8.25 million to settle lawsuit alleging children’s privacy violations
Google has agreed to pay $8.25 million to settle a class-action lawsuit centered on claims that it habitually and illegally collected data from devices belonging to children under age 13.

🎶 but I didn't pay the deputy 🎵

"Pay to protect: Brazil pitches new forest fund at COP30"
#Brazil #COP30 #Environment

Pay to protect: Brazil pitches new forest fund at COP30
Tropical countries from Cameroon to Colombia could earn tens of millions of dollars a year under a novel approach to protecting the world's rainforests being launched at the COP30 summit in Brazil.

Google agrees to pay $8.25M to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging its AdMob SDK illegally collected data from children under age 13 (Suzanne Smalley/The Record)
https://therecord.media/google-youtube-lawsuit-settle

Google to pay $8.25 million to settle lawsuit alleging children’s privacy violations
Google has agreed to pay $8.25 million to settle a class-action lawsuit centered on claims that it habitually and illegally collected data from devices belonging to children under age 13.

What’s disgusting is speaking to a Palestinian person in Gaza this way.
Maybe Mastodon server admins should check for basic humanity before allowing people on. Unless that’s not a necessary prerequisite for membership in your community, of course. https://lemmy.ca/comment/20336687

Switzerland launches a preliminary investigation into whether Apple's terms for granting third-party access to NFC tech on iPhones violate its antitrust laws (Tim Hardwick/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/12/12/apple-pay-swiss-antitrust-probe-nfc/

Apple Pay Faces Swiss Antitrust Investigation Over NFC Access
Switzerland's competition authority has launched a preliminary investigation into whether Apple's terms for granting third-party access to...

AOC says rising healthcare costs are funding ICE: "You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs" - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/01/quick-hit-aoc-says-rising-healthcare-costs-are-funding-ice-you-get-screwed-over-to-pay-a-bunch-of-thugs/

Trump says Microsoft will "ensure" Americans don't face higher bills due to data centers' power use and Big Tech must "pay their own way" for their data centers (Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-micr

Trump says that Microsoft will 'ensure' Americans don't 'pick up the tab' for its data center power consumption
President Donald Trump said that tech companies must pay for their own data centers without spiking utility bills for American households.

What would you do if the federal government wanted you in jail and Jamie Dimon was paying your legal bills?
Here’s what Charlie Javice did:
She spent money on luxury hotel upgrades, extravagant meals and cellulite butter, a personal care product that some people use to treat their skin, as a lawyer for the bank said in a hearing on Friday.
Then, she sent the receipts to the bank.
All told, Ms. Javice has spent more than $60 million — and counting — on her defense, acco…

JPMorgan Had to Pay for Charlie Javice’s Legal Fees — and Her Restaurant Bills
When prosecutors accused Charlie Javice of fraud, JPMorgan was forced to pay for her defense. The bank is not happy about her “shocking” spending.

MoffettNathanson: US pay-TV subscriptions grew by 303,000 in Q3 from Q2 2025, the first increase since 2017, and the overall rate of decline improved to 5.8% (Dade Hayes/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/12/pay-tv-subscriber-level-rises-for-…

Pay-TV Bundle Grows For First Time Since 2017
U.S. pay-TV subscriber levels posted their first increase since 2017 during the third quarter, according to Wall Street research firm Moffett Nathanson.

Trump administration lays out plan for federal workers’ back pay after government reopens | Semafor
https://www.semafor.com/article/11/12/2025/trump-administration-lays-out-plan-for-federal-workers-back-pay

Cloudflare acquires AI data marketplace Human Native for an undisclosed sum, aiming to create a new system where AI developers pay creators for training content (Davis Giangiulio/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/15/cloudflare-ai-human-native-acquisition.html

Cloudflare acquires AI data marketplace Human Native
The internet infrastructure company wants AI developers to pay creators for content they use in their models.

The case of this Maine woman’s tick bite shows how prior authorization rules can block coverage for even simple, medically necessary care.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/11/16/tick-bite-prior-authorization/

A doctor directed her to a clinic for a tick bite. Her insurer refused to pay.
The case of one Maine woman shows how prior authorization rules can block coverage for even simple, medically necessary care.

Fermi CEO Toby Neugebauer says Amazon canceled a $150M advance for a Texas AI data center campus; FRMI fell 34% on Dec. 12 after saying a tenant had canceled (Dakin Campbell/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/fermi-america-amazon-tenant-t…

Mystery solved: Amazon is the prospective tenant in talks with data center developer rocked by stock plunge
"The lead negotiator for Amazon called me on Thursday," Fermi CEO Toby Neugebauer told Business Insider. The deal would pay more than $20 billion over the next 20 years, he said.

Sam Altman's World updates its app to make it a "super app" with encrypted chat integration and a Venmo-like tool for sending and requesting crypto (Lucas Ropek/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/11/world-…

World launches its 'super app,' including crypto pay and encrypted chat features | TechCrunch
Tools for Humanity, the company behind the app, is seeking to expand its "real human network."

Goalhanger now has 250K paying subscribers across podcasts like The Rest Is History, who pay an average of £60/year, or an annual subscriber income of ~£15M (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/paywalls/goalhanger-subscribers/

Goalhanger exceeds 250,000 paying subscribers
Goalhanger subscribers total now exceeds 250,000 for shows including The Rest Is History and The Rest Is Politics.

A Berlin court rules that Google must pay €465M and €107M to German price comparison sites Idealo and Producto, in damages for market abuse; Google will appeal (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/g

A California federal jury says Apple must pay Masimo $634M for infringing a blood-oxygen patent used in Watch workout and heart-rate alerts; Apple will appeal (Blake Brittain/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/us-jury-s

A writer argues that since 2014, DEI practices led to discrimination against white male millennials for entry-level and mid-level roles in Hollywood and media (Jacob Savage/Compact)
https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-lost-generation/

The Lost Generation
For fifteen years I’ve scalped tickets to pay the bills. But in January 2016 I almost managed a real career.

Cloudflare acquires AI data marketplace Human Native for an undisclosed sum to help it develop a system where AI developers pay creators for training content (Davis Giangiulio/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/15/cloudflare-ai-human-native-acquisition.html…

Q&A with OpenAI CEO of Applications Fidji Simo on joining OpenAI, ChatGPT users' mental health, profitability, data center deals, her chronic illness, and more (Zoë Schiffer/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/fidji-simo-is-ope…

OpenAI's Fidji Simo Plans to Make ChatGPT Way More Useful—and Have You Pay For It
As OpenAI expands in every direction, the new CEO of Applications is on a mission to make ChatGPT indispensable and lucrative.

Scribe, which helps enterprises identify where AI and automation investments will yield genuine returns, raised a $75M Series C at a $1.3B post-money valuation (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/10/scribe…

Scribe hits $1.3B valuation as it moves to show where AI will actually pay off | TechCrunch
Scribe Optimize is the startup's next major offering to help organizations identify where AI will be most useful.

Nvidia denies that it asked Chinese customers to pay upfront for H200 chips, saying it "would never require customers to pay for products they do not receive" (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/nvidia-says-no-upfront-p…