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Bending Spoons acquires Eventbrite for ~$500M in an all-cash deal, following its $1.38B purchase of Vimeo and a pending acquisition of AOL (Cate Lawrence/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/12/02/bending-spoons-to-acquire-eventbrite-in-500m-all-cash-deal/

Bending Spoons to acquire Eventbrite in $500M all-cash deal
Bending Spoons is acquiring the global event management platform Eventbrite in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $500 million. Eventbrite would become the latest major global brand to join the Bending Spoons portfolio. Last month, the company announced a definitive agreement to acquire AOL, pending customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals. Bending Spoons also recently completed its $1.38 billion acquisition of Vimeo. “For two decades, Eventbrite has stood at the…

As the nation staggers toward the 2026 round of midterm elections,
the threats to the integrity of U.S. democracy
— already a veritable hailstorm of partisan contention
— have escalated dramatically under the second Trump administration,
attaining something like hurricane force.
Owing to the fevered narratives proliferating across right-wing media,
many have come to believe that the nation faces a scourge of “illegal” voting and wide-scale fraud.
Bu…

Trump DOJ Sues to Force States to Share Confidential Voter Data
Trump’s Department of Justice is suing over 20 states in a bid to open voter rolls to purges via federal challenges.

A survey by the News Literacy Project of US 13- to 18-year-olds shows 84% use negative words including "boring", "fake", or "biased" to describe news media (David Bauder/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/news-media-

Survey shows how much teenagers dislike the news media
You don't have to tell Cat Murphy or Lily Ogburn about the attitudes of young people toward journalists. The profession hasn't been popular among adults for many years, but a new survey shows the extent to which teens aged 13 to 18 feel the same way; Murphy and Ogburn have seen it for years among their friends who wonder why they want to go into the field. Experts say it's a combination of their surroundings, including the most prominent politician they have known — Donald Trump — who frequ…

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

Source: SpaceX acquired xAI for $250B; the announcement about the acquisition focuses on SpaceX's plans to launch data centers into space (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/elon-musk-says-spacex-acquired-xai

SpaceX Acquires xAI for $250 Billion
Elon Musk’s SpaceX acquired xAI for $250 billion, said a person familiar with the situation. The news, without the price, was confirmed by Musk in a press release posted to SpaceX’s website Monday. Musk did not provide details of the purchase price or how the deal could affect SpaceX’s potential IPO this year. “SpaceX has acquired xAI to form the most ambitious, vertically-integrated

When people talk about the Enlightenment as if it were an intellectual garden party where everyone sipped wine and agreed about reason, they're missing the part where producing and distributing ideas was (in fact) dangerous and thankless work.
Today we have more information than any civilization in history.
But aside from Wikipedia, we've organized the sum total of our collective knowledge into formats optimized for making people angry at strangers in pursuit of private …

The Case for Blogging in the Ruins
In 1751, Denis Diderot began publishing his Encyclopédie, a project that would eventually span 28 volumes and take more than two decades to complete. The French government banned it twice. The Catholic Church condemned it, Diderot's collaborators abandoned him, his publisher secretly censored entries behind his back, and he worked

The Economist reports revenue up 4% YoY to £170.3M in the six months to September 2025 and pre-tax profit up 28% YoY to £19.7M; a 27% stake is up for sale (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_business/the-economist-rothsch…

The Economist reveals revenue growth as Rothschild stake up for sale
The Economist revealed revenue and profit growth for the past six months as potential buyers expressed interest in a 27% stake in the business

"By the end of 2026, Trump will have begun to distance himself from the aggressively pro-AI industry policies that characterized his AI strategy in 2025,"
wrote retired New York University professor and AI entrepreneur Gary Marcus.
"The giant AI infrastructure plays (like Project Stargate) that he championed after his inauguration will look like an unprofitable and underused mistake.
So will his utter failure to meaningfully regulate AI,
against the w…

This 'utter failure' from Trump could 'stun the world' in 2026: researcher
President Donald Trump has bet big on an agenda to expand artificial intelligence investment in the United States — but this year, some analysts think it could come back to haunt him, as a long-suspected AI investment bubble bursts and the public turns against the technology for its increasingly app...

The Trump administration is purchasing warehouses across the U.S. with the intention of converting them into immigration jails
as the White House expands its brutal immigration crackdown.
At least seven sites being looked at by the administration could be used to imprison 7,500 people or more,
with some sites coming close to a 10,000-person figure.
All told, the 23 warehouse sites being considered by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) would imprison as many as 8…

DHS Seeks to Convert Giant Warehouses Across US Into Immigration Jails
A total of 23 converted warehouses could imprison up to 80,000 people, estimates suggest.