Techbranche und BDI fordern vor Gipfel mehr Reformtempo
Europas Techverbände dringen auf gleiche EU-Regeln und mehr Kapital, um mit den USA mithalten zu können. Auch die Industrie kritisiert ein Übermaß an Regeln.
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Trump's Son-In-Law Backs Out of Paramount's Takeover Bid (Vic Verbalaitis/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-son-in-law-jared-kushner-backs-out-of-paramounts-takeover-bid/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251216/p148#a251216p148
⚠️ $262 million stolen in account takeover fraud schemes this year, FBI says ahead of holiday season
https://therecord.media/millions-in-account-takeover-fbi-warns-ahead-of-holidays
Jared Kushner's Affinity Partners is exiting from Paramount's takeover bid for WBD, citing changed investment dynamics since it joined the bid in October (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-16/ku…
The IRS erroneously shared the taxpayer information of thousands of people with the Department of Homeland Security, as part of the agencies’ controversial agreement to share information on immigrants for the purpose of identifying and deporting people illegally in the US.
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The Cavernarios:
🎵 Twist Del Elefante
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UK software firm Pinewood's stock fell ~31% on Feb. 16 after Apax Partners withdrew its £575M takeover offer, citing "prevailing challenging market conditions" (Alexandra Heal/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/438b5e5e-7a4e-4add-b68b-927837bc2269
It looks like there's been a non-malicious takeover of the subdomain that previously hosted the Alexa Top 1M list https://alexa-static.s3.amazonaws.com/top-1m.csv.zip
If you download and unpack it, it contains a message:
"poc by @gopal_ethical"
Backgro…
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-