Netflix agrees to acquire WBD's studios and streaming business in an $82.7B cash-and-stock deal, including debt, to close after WBD splits in two in Q3 2026
Netflix announced this week that it had reached … Axios : Netflix to buy Warner Bros. for nearly $83 billion Alex Pigman / Taipei Times : Warner Bros acquisition by Netflix sparks backlash Victory Emm...
The US Secret Service says it has dismantled 300+ SIM card servers in the NYC area that could have disrupted communications ahead of the UN General Assembly
NYTimes https://www.nytimes.com/... Anthony Guglielmi / @ajguglielmi : While investigating threats against senior officials, the @SecretService uncovered & dismantled a telecom network capable of disr...
A US judge bars Google from paying to be the exclusive search engine on devices and browsers, but allows payments for product distribution, including to Apple
which hurts consumers and entrepreneurs, and stifles innovation. @signulll : jesus christ cupertino is probably celebrating harder than mountain view right now. if you're tim cook, you have to buy cha...
Bluesky blocks access to its service in Mississippi, saying it doesn't have the resources to comply with the state's broad new law requiring age verification
Bluesky's decision to drop out of the Mississippi market … Rob Pegoraro / PCMag : Bluesky Blocks Mississippi Users Instead of Making Them Prove They're Over 18 Ashton Pittman / Mississippi Free Press ...
Reddit says it will block the Internet Archive from indexing every page but its homepage, after catching AI companies scraping its data from the Wayback Machine
it was illegally collected by AI companies Andrew Nusca / Fortune : Ford's new EV strategy includes $2 billion U.S. investment Amanda Yeo / Mashable : Reddit is blocking Wayback Machine from archiving...
Google launches Web Guide, an AI-powered Search Labs experiment that organizes Google Search results by grouping pages related to specific aspects of the query
and Appease Critics Tsveta Ermenkova / PhoneArena : Google Search is learning how you think and results won't look the same anymore Andrew Hutchinson / Social Media Today : Google Expands AI Search So...
Apple sues YouTuber Jon Prosser and an Apple staffer's friend over iOS 26 leaks, for allegedly accessing the staffer's iPhone; Prosser denies the claim
here's what to expect from Apple's next big iPhone update The Economic Times : Apple sues YouTuber Jon Prosser over iOS 26 leaks Jose Enrico / Tech Times : Apple Sues YouTuber Jon Prosser Over Alleged...
Hugging Face users have uploaded 5,000 AI models, previously banned from Civitai for generating nonconsensual sexual content of real people, to the platform
I'm sick and tired of these corporations getting to decide what we can and cannot post, view, and buy on the internet [embedded post] Ali Alkhatib / @ali-alkhatib.com : we have got to more directly de...
Kuo: Apple plans to launch a cheaper, ~13" MacBook powered by iPhone 16 Pro's A18 Pro chip, expected to enter mass production in late Q4 2025 or early Q1 2026
9to5mac.com/2025/06/30/f... [embedded post] Ernie Smith / @ernie.tedium.co : Interesting. I sort of struggle to see why Apple would want to ruin the separation between the M series and the A series ...
Sources: the FTC is investigating whether roughly a dozen US advertising and advocacy groups violated antitrust law by coordinating boycotts among advertisers
Spending federal $$ to support antisemitism violates several Trump EOs. — www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/t... Karl Bode / @karlbode.com : When Matt Stoller claimed the Trump FTC would “continue the anti...