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A look at WhatsApp's enormous global reach and influence, and how the messaging app became the dominant platform for everyday conversation worldwide (Sam Knight/New Yorker)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/01/19/how-what…

How WhatsApp Took Over the Global Conversation
The platform has become a core technology around the world, relied on by governments and extended families alike, Sam Knight writes. What are we all doing there?

Zum Jahresende schaltet #MTV seine internationalen #Musikkanäle ab, ein Schritt, der das Ende einer Ära markiert.
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Das Ende einer Ära: MTV schaltet zum Jahresende alle Musikkanäle ab
Fans sind bestürzt, denn zum Jahresende wird es MTV nicht mehr geben. Der Mutterkonzern stellt alle Musikkanäle ab. Nicht zu früh, meint eine Medienwissenschaftlerin aus Manchester.

Time Magazine: „KI-Architekten“ sind „Person des Jahres“
Jedes Jahr entscheidet die Redaktion des Time Magazines, wer das Jahr am stärksten geprägt hat. 2025 waren das Jensen Huang & Co, denn KI habe alles bestimmt.

Bitchat enables p2p mesh messaging over Bluetooth - working without Internet OR additional LoRa radio dongles (Android and iOS)
https://updates.techforpalestine.org/bitchat-for-gaza-messaging-without-internet/

A group of five journalists reboots Gourmet as a worker-owned newsletter, after discovering that Condé Nast had let its trademark on the name lapse in 2021 (Jessica Testa/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/business/media/gourmet-magazine-new…

Gourmet Magazine Is Back, as Unsanctioned New Media
The defunct food publication is re-emerging as a newsletter, with new leadership and zero approval from its original owner.

Battery costs keep going down, good news for energy transition and renewable energy.
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2025/12/12/batteries-now-cheap-enough-to-make-dispatchable-solar-economically-feasible/

Batteries now cheap enough to make dispatchable solar economically feasible
Energy think tank Ember says utility-scale battery costs have fallen to $65/MWh outside China and the United States, enabling solar power to be delivered when needed.

Batteries now cheap enough to make dispatchable solar economically feasible (Uma Gupta/pv magazine International)
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2025/12/12/batteries-now-cheap-enough-to-make-dispatchable-solar-economically-feasible/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251214/p35#a251214p35

Meta plans to launch WhatsApp third-party app integration in Europe "over the coming months" as required by the DMA, starting with BirdyChat and Haiket (Thomas Ricker/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/820858/whatsapp-third-party-messaging-dat…

WhatsApp is launching third-party chat integration in Europe
Meta is rolling out support for third-party messaging with end-to-end encryption preserved. BirdyChat and Haiket will be first.

Russia blasts 'freaks' at Time magazine over cover that Trump hated (Seb Starcevic/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/russia-slams-freaks-time-magazine-donald-trump-cover-photo/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251014/p163#a251014p163

A look at Confer, an open-source AI assistant project from Signal creator Moxie Marlinspike that is designed to provide end-to-end encryption for AI chats (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/0…

Signal creator Moxie Marlinspike wants to do for AI what he did for messaging
Introducing Confer, an end-to-end AI assistant that just works.