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Netflix CEOs say the WBD deal won't fail because "we understand these assets that we're buying" and they're not buying to compensate for business deterioration (Dade Hayes/Deadline)

Mediagazer , Friday, Dec 5, 2025 6:50:01 AM

I've come to think of WordPress as an API with a widely deployed and stable impl...

Scripting News , Friday, Dec 5, 2025 6:29:48 AM

Freedom of Information in the news – week ending 5/12/2025 – #FOIFriday

Blog - Words + Numbers , Friday, Dec 5, 2025 6:26:07 AM

We interviewed the viral rapping tech CEO. He wants to collab with Rebecca Black

The San Francisco Standard , Friday, Dec 5, 2025 6:07:26 AM

The (Flimsy) Legal Arguments Used to Justify Art Censorship

Just Security , Friday, Dec 5, 2025 6:05:54 AM

NASA has a free online repository of Science E-books

MetaFilter , Friday, Dec 5, 2025 6:05:14 AM

The New York Times sues Perplexity, claiming the AI startup violated its copyrights and kept using its content despite repeated demands over the past 18 months (New York Times)

Mediagazer , Friday, Dec 5, 2025 6:05:00 AM

Excerpts from The Believer: An Interview with Debbie Harry and Chris Stein

McSweeney’s , Friday, Dec 5, 2025 6:03:00 AM

Stop Asking Walton Goggins If He’ll Play the ‘Fallout’ Games

io9 | We Come From the Future , Friday, Dec 5, 2025 6:00:57 AM

With big holes to fill, Buster Posey and the Giants have a hefty shopping list

The San Francisco Standard , Friday, Dec 5, 2025 6:00:00 AM

The Silicon Valley Democrat disappointed about Marjorie Taylor Green’s abrupt ousting

The San Francisco Standard , Friday, Dec 5, 2025 6:00:00 AM

As the Warriors take a ‘gut punch,’ it’s time for the second wave to step up

The San Francisco Standard , Friday, Dec 5, 2025 6:00:00 AM

SCOTUStoday for Friday, December 5

SCOTUSblog , Friday, Dec 5, 2025 6:00:00 AM

A New ‘Mandalorian and Grogu’ Rumor Claims a Big Power Up for Grogu

io9 | We Come From the Future , Friday, Dec 5, 2025 5:58:35 AM

Cloudflare blames today's outage on emergency React2Shell patch

BleepingComputer , Friday, Dec 5, 2025 5:53:26 AM

Comrades in arms: Putin and Modi meet in Delhi

Coda Story , Friday, Dec 5, 2025 5:51:18 AM

The Just Security 2025 Year-End Book Recommendations

Just Security , Friday, Dec 5, 2025 5:51:14 AM

Good Tokens 2025-12-05

Atoms vs Bits , Friday, Dec 5, 2025 5:49:46 AM

The 2025 Whatever Holiday Gift Guide, Day Five: Charities

Whatever , Friday, Dec 5, 2025 5:46:52 AM

Lawyer Who Absconded From UK Prison Will Have Cypriot Legal License Suspended

OCCRP , Friday, Dec 5, 2025 5:39:00 AM

Meta says it has struck multiple multiyear commercial AI data agreements, including with USA Today, People, CNN, Fox News, The Daily Caller, and Le Monde (Sara Fischer/Axios)

Mediagazer , Friday, Dec 5, 2025 5:35:01 AM

Damascus Dossier: Syrian Telecoms Operator Helped Assad Regime Spy on Citizens

OCCRP , Friday, Dec 5, 2025 5:32:00 AM

John Oliver Auction Raises $1.5 Million For Public Broadcasting

Techdirt , Friday, Dec 5, 2025 5:24:09 AM

BREAKING: EGOS

Media War & Peace , Friday, Dec 5, 2025 5:23:33 AM

Self-Checkout

MetaFilter , Friday, Dec 5, 2025 5:12:50 AM

Early Edition: December 5, 2025

Just Security , Friday, Dec 5, 2025 5:06:43 AM

EU Hits Elon Musk’s X With $140 Million Fine

NYT > Kate Conger , Friday, Dec 5, 2025 5:05:57 AM

Pharma firm Inotiv discloses data breach after ransomware attack

BleepingComputer , Friday, Dec 5, 2025 5:05:52 AM

Netflix says it "expects to maintain Warner Bros.' current operations..., including theatrical releases for films" (Tony Maglio/The Hollywood Reporter)

Mediagazer , Friday, Dec 5, 2025 5:05:00 AM

Casting Notice for the Unaired CW Pilot Young Hamlet

McSweeney’s , Friday, Dec 5, 2025 5:00:00 AM

15 books that deeply influenced me

Field Notes by Blair Hickman , Friday, Dec 5, 2025 4:49:31 AM

Now is the Time to Take a Stand Against Trump

Continuations , Friday, Dec 5, 2025 4:38:21 AM

Netflix agrees to acquire WBD's studios and streaming business in an $82.7B cash-and-stock deal, set to close after WBD splits into two companies in Q3 2026 (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)

Mediagazer , Friday, Dec 5, 2025 4:24:35 AM

Welcome to the Crazy CAFE

Marginal REVOLUTION , Friday, Dec 5, 2025 4:17:25 AM

The EU fines X €120M for breaching online content rules, the first fine under the DSA, citing issues like its deceptive blue checkmarks, after a two-year probe (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)

Mediagazer , Friday, Dec 5, 2025 4:15:17 AM

Blanquitos

Typebar Magazine , Friday, Dec 5, 2025 4:12:52 AM

Yahoo launches Game Breakdowns in beta, offering AI-generated game summaries, stats, and play recaps, all updated live, to Yahoo Fantasy Plus subscribers (David Pierce/The Verge)

Mediagazer , Friday, Dec 5, 2025 4:10:03 AM

The Vin Diesel ‘Rock ‘Em, Sock ‘Em Robots’ Movie Has a New Writer: Vin Diesel

io9 | We Come From the Future , Friday, Dec 5, 2025 4:00:55 AM

Interesting Links for 05-12-2025

Very cool, if true , Friday, Dec 5, 2025 4:00:05 AM

Stephanie Stimac

Manuel Moreale — Everything Feed , Friday, Dec 5, 2025 4:00:00 AM

Reading risks deep cuts without tax hike, administration says

Spotlight PA , Friday, Dec 5, 2025 3:57:02 AM

Brussels Fines Musk’s X €120M, Firing Shot in Transatlantic Tech Showdown

Tech Policy Press , Friday, Dec 5, 2025 3:55:07 AM

The Index: Issue #148

Piccalilli - Everything , Friday, Dec 5, 2025 3:55:00 AM

Year of Trees, What in the Wild, Dinosaur Fish Doc

Mr Great Lakes , Friday, Dec 5, 2025 3:45:00 AM

Lit Hub Daily: December 5, 2025

Literary Hub , Friday, Dec 5, 2025 3:30:10 AM

This Robotic Surgery Legend Is Pouring $100 Million Into Next-Gen Medical Startups

Amy Feldman , Friday, Dec 5, 2025 3:30:00 AM

React2Shell critical flaw actively exploited in China-linked attacks

BleepingComputer , Friday, Dec 5, 2025 3:26:07 AM

(Slight Return) — This Week’s Links

The Comics Journal , Friday, Dec 5, 2025 3:00:08 AM

Netflix Is One Step Closer to Buying Warner Bros.

io9 | We Come From the Future , Friday, Dec 5, 2025 3:00:08 AM

In the Shadow of an Immigrant Detention Center, a Small House Offers Refuge

The Marshall Project , Friday, Dec 5, 2025 3:00:00 AM

Dozens Locked in Hinds County’s Jails Without an Indictment — Some for Over a Year

The Marshall Project , Friday, Dec 5, 2025 3:00:00 AM

Short Story Advent Calendars & Remembering Tom Stoppard on The Lit Hub Podcast

Literary Hub , Friday, Dec 5, 2025 2:55:26 AM

Could Chatbots Seduce Us into Extremism? Radicalisation Risks in an Age of AI Companions

GNET , Friday, Dec 5, 2025 2:47:21 AM

What a Recorded Interview Between Police and Preachers Reveals About How a Minnesota Church Handled Sexual Abuse

ProPublica , Friday, Dec 5, 2025 2:30:00 AM

Trump’s Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy Once Defended Congress’ Power of the Purse. Now He Defies It.

ProPublica , Friday, Dec 5, 2025 2:00:00 AM

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

Literary Hub , Friday, Dec 5, 2025 1:59:09 AM

The Literary Hub Gift Guide: 50 Gifts for Writers

Literary Hub , Friday, Dec 5, 2025 1:59:05 AM

What Writers in the Diaspora Miss About the Plurality of African Literature

Literary Hub , Friday, Dec 5, 2025 1:58:40 AM

How Indigenous West African Communities Resisted the European Slave Trade

Literary Hub , Friday, Dec 5, 2025 1:58:24 AM

Chilling Lit: Six Novels in Translation That Blend Folktales and Horror

Literary Hub , Friday, Dec 5, 2025 1:58:20 AM

Give Me Independence: On 1776, the Pivotal Year For What Would Become America

Literary Hub , Friday, Dec 5, 2025 1:58:14 AM

Sophie Newman on What You Can Learn About Writing by Watching Survivor

Literary Hub , Friday, Dec 5, 2025 1:58:14 AM

New records reveal details on the $1M in taxpayer-funded security upgrades at Gov. Josh Shapiro’s private residence

Spotlight PA , Friday, Dec 5, 2025 1:57:05 AM

Meet a Mayor: The secret gifts of Pa.’s ‘Christmas City’

Spotlight PA , Friday, Dec 5, 2025 1:57:03 AM

After COP30, Indigenous advocates celebrate gains while warning of unfinished work

Grist , Friday, Dec 5, 2025 1:45:00 AM

The Aquatics

Literary Hub , Friday, Dec 5, 2025 1:26:52 AM

Night Visions: Vincent Grashaw talks about his new thriller Keep Quiet

Region Free , Friday, Dec 5, 2025 1:24:16 AM

Cloudflare down, websites offline with 500 Internal Server Error

BleepingComputer , Friday, Dec 5, 2025 1:01:55 AM

In praise of stealing from thieves

MetaFilter , Friday, Dec 5, 2025 12:35:30 AM

New Anonymous Phone Service

Schneier on Security , Friday, Dec 5, 2025 12:08:21 AM

Anorak Corner (rail edition)

diamond geezer , Friday, Dec 5, 2025 12:06:35 AM

Some statements remain potent, no matter how many times we use them

MetaFilter , Friday, Dec 5, 2025 12:01:16 AM

Experimental musician Daemyan Tang (Industry Standard) on staying self-contained

The Creative Independent , Friday, Dec 5, 2025 12:00:00 AM

Review: Bloodtide by Sophie Burnham

nerds of a feather, flock together , Friday, Dec 5, 2025 12:00:00 AM

Marguerite Porete was a beguine.

MetaFilter , Thursday, Dec 4, 2025 11:56:19 PM

Keys to success

Self Distract , Thursday, Dec 4, 2025 11:55:00 PM