Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️
I’m a bit late today. I had everything well in hand but something came up we needed to tend to. All is well. ❤️
HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Dec. 5, 2025 – Today, Netflix, Inc. (the Company) and Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. (WBD) announced they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Netflix will acquire Warner Bros., including its film and television studios, HBO Max and HBO.
I’m glad Netflix is going to land Warner Bros. instead of Paramount. It’s not a done deal and apparently Paramount may try a hostile takeover, not to mention David Ellison’s daddy loves to please Marmalade Messiah.
Here’s hoping if anyone is able to acquire it, it’s Netflix. 🤞🏼
Alan Dye may have left for a more lucrative offer from Meta, but this is absolutely a good thing for Apple, which also benefitted from “losing” Jony Ive.
There is certainly no love lost for Dye in the Apple Developer / Designer ecosystem. I plan on making another post on the subject but this was a major story so I had to share it.
TLDR: Bun has been acquired by Anthropic. Anthropic is betting on Bun as the infrastructure powering Claude Code, Claude Agent SDK, and future AI coding products & tools.
Bun is a standalone JavaScript runtime and from what I’ve read it’s really good.
Bun was built as a ready to roll replacement for node.js and other tooling for the React community.
It makes me wonder how well it would fit into existing browsers, or new browsers, as a JavaScript engine?
It’s written in Zig which I’m seeing used in more and more places. While it’s not a memory safe language it currently provides better memory safety than C and C++.
A masked bandit terrorized an Ashland ABC store over the weekend, smashing multiple bottles of bourbon before passing out drunk on the bathroom floor.
This is such a funny story. I’ve never heard of a Raccoon going on a bender, but here we are. 🦝
The marketing team at ABC is genius! They created a Raccoon Recommends board of all the booze it drank. 🤣
Sergiu Gatlan • Bleeping Computer
Microsoft has confirmed that the KB5070311 preview update is triggering bright white flashes when launching the File Explorer in dark mode on Windows 11 systems.
I know Windows always gets a really bad rap but I still believe it’s an industry strength operating system.
However, what are y’all doing? If something isn’t ready, please don’t ship it. I mean, there’s minor stuff we’ve all shipped, but this doesn’t seem very minor. Data destroying? No, but it definitely affects the usability of the OS.
But the spike in cancer-causing pollution wasn’t just the fault of local farms, as Doherty expected. It had its roots in a 10,000 square foot data center by the commerce giant Amazon, which first went online in Morrow County in 2011.
Data centers are the new chemical companies. Time for regulations around water use.
Sarah Barshop, Brady Henderson • ESPN
The parting of ways became official in March, when the Rams released Kupp, who had two seasons remaining on the contract extension he signed in 2022. A few days after he was released, he signed a three-year, $45 million deal with the Seattle Seahawks.
I never thought the Rams would jettison Kupp. The man is an incredible football player.
I am happy to hear he landed with the Seahawks. Great city!
His comments immediately drew backlash and sparked debate about the validity of Beckham’s point. While professional athletes have a history of going bankrupt, even after amassing millions in career earnings, $100 million should be enough for anyone to make last.
Uh, yeah. I’m pretty sure I could live like a king for the remainder of my life on 1/8th of that income.
I’m not sure what kind of home he bought for his Mom, but even if it was a $1mm dollar home that still leaves the man with plenty of dough.
This coming from a man who can’t retire because of poor financial choices. 🤪
The Indian government has ordered Apple and other smartphone manufacturers to pre-install a state-owned “security” app on all phones before they are sold to users.
Apple has had to do strange stuff in other countries before. Like giving the Chinese government the keys to iCloud in China.
They’re gonna fight the request.
Zenae Zukowski • Metal Insider
Severing ties with a close one, even family, is never easy, and Chevelle’s Pete and Sam Loeffler know that pain well. The brothers haven’t spoken to their sibling and former bandmate Joe Loeffler since parting ways with him in 2005.
I had no idea that things ended this badly between the Loeffler brothers. It’s a big loss. I hope Joe is happy and doing well.
Francis Bouvier • Lightpanda Blog
To be honest, when I began working on Lightpanda, I chose Zig because I’m not smart enough to build a big project in C++ or Rust.
I don’t really believe this fella is not smart enough to learn C++ or Rust but I find Zig to be very interesting. I’d love to know more about arenas used for memory management.
I’d also love to know how they handle ownership of memory. In any sufficiently large, threaded, application, memory ownership always becomes an issue. I wonder if arenas help with that? It seems like they would have the same problem as C or C++ memory allocations. Then again, I have no idea what modern C++ has done for memory management, if anything?
