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Apple (MacRumors): Apple today announced that Jennifer Newstead will become Apple’s general counsel on March 1, 2026, following a transition of duties from Kate Adams, who has served as Apple’s general counsel since 2017. She was previously chief legal officer at Meta and helped write the Patriot Act. Lisa Jackson, vice president for Environment, Policy, […]

Dominic Preston (Hacker News, MacRumors, Slashdot): Netflix has announced that it’s struck a deal to acquire Warner Bros. for $82.7 billion. The purchase will go through after Warner Bros.’ planned split from Discovery, now expected to take place in Q3 2026.[…]Netflix suggests it has no immediate plans for drastic change at Warner Bros., describing HBO […]

Mothers Ruin Software (Mastodon): Restored the ability to decode recently-created URL Bookmarks. Apple changed this binary format in macOS 26.1, macOS 15.7.2 and macOS 14.8.2, and that would cause the decode to fail. Archaeology can now decode the new bookmarks, and will show the new (usually empty) Team ID therein.[…]Updated the app icon to be […]

Ashley Belanger (Hacker News): The European Commission announced that X would be fined nearly $140 million, with the potential to face “periodic penalty payments” if the platform fails to make corrections. A third of the fine came from one of the first moves Musk made when taking over Twitter. In November 2022, he changed the […]