UK sports publisher GRV cut ~60 staff since September, reducing its workforce to 94, citing drops in Google traffic; other sports sites report similar declines (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/uk-based-sports-publish…
This is an important announcement. Google uses it's ecosystem to gain an advantage, "Announcing Model Context Protocol (MCP) support for Google services"
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/ann…
Meridian, which uses AI to make financial modeling and spreadsheets more "predictable and auditable", exits stealth and raised a $17M seed at a $100M valuation (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/11/meridian…
Europe's dilemma: Supporting Trump's Ukraine peace plan while hoping he walks away: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/11/europes-dilemma-supporting-trumps-ukraine.html
(paywalled) Supporting individuals with visual impairments 2: Walking and navigating support https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-95-5783-7_4 "emphasizing sensory substitution functionalities and emerging assistive technologies", "challenges in …
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Now the US has chosen an admirer of Putin as president, who subsequently halted aid to Ukraine, Europe stepped up, filling most of the gap.
https://www.kielinstitut.de/publications/news/ukraine-support-after-4-years-of-war-europe-steps-up/…
YouTube TV plans to launch over 10 genre-specific, cheaper YouTube TV Plans in early 2026, including a Sports Plan featuring ESPN Unlimited and Fox Sports 1 (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/youtube-tv-plans-ge…