Netflix to buy WB, W11 bugs vs. SteamOS, Meta AI news deals + more!

Duration: 08:17

Timestamps:

0:00 no shortage of sass

0:07 Netflix agrees to buy Warner Bros for $82B

1:39 W11 bugs vs. SteamOS performance

2:58 Meta news deals, AI support fix

4:24 QUICK BITS INTRO

4:34 Google Antigravity wipes entire drive

5:13 Cloudflare, and downdetector, was down

5:51 YouTube AI slop tutorials

6:25 3D-printed cornea implanted in human

7:56 Kohler flushes privacy down the drain

NEWS SOURCES:

MAINS

NETFLIX PLEASE CHILL

Netflix agrees $83bn takeover of Warner Bros Discovery

https://www.ft.com/content/6532be94-c0bf-4101-8126-f249aa6be3c5

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce91x2jm5pjo

Netflix statement

https://about.netflix.com/en/news/netflix-to-acquire-warner-bros

Netflix’s $59 Billion Loan for Warner Bros. Among Biggest Ever

https://financialpost.com/news/netflixs-loan-warner-bros-biggest-ever

Netflix “Expects” to Keep Releasing Warner Bros. Films Theatrically

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/will-netflix-release-warner-bros-movies-in-theaters-1236443116/

Backlash

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/dec/05/netflix-warner-bros-deal-backlash

“Anti-monopoly nightmare”

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/dec/05/netflix-warner-bros-deal-backlash#:~:text=Elizabeth%20Warren%2C%20a%20Democratic%20senator%2C%20called%20it%20%E2%80%9Can%20anti%2Dmonopoly%20nightmare%E2%80%9D%20in%20a%20statement%20released%20soon%20after%20the%20announcement.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/05/netflix-warner-bros-deal-theater-industry-upheaval.html

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/unic-oppose-netflix-warners-acquisition-1236443173/

Am I out of touch Simpsons meme

https://i.imgur.com/CIr7TvC.jpeg

Linus home cinema (lugging it in @ 00:42)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEOXrmsa7Y0

MICROSOFT STARTS TROUBLE

Microsoft warns Start menu, Explorer, and other XAML apps can crash or vanish on managed devices with latest update

https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/04/windows_11_start_explorer/

Microsoft support: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/kb5072911-explorer-the-start-menu-and-other-xaml-dependent-apps-might-not-start-or-close-unexpectedly-on-some-enterprise-devices-d2d30684-4e2b-47f5-9899-a00a8e0acb09#cw

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/microsoft-says-latest-windows-11-updates-might-break-the-start-menu-taskbar-and-other-integral-ui-bits-heres-what-you-need-to-know

A similar issue affected non-enterprise users, but that’s been patched

https://www.windowslatest.com/2025/12/03/microsoft-confirms-windows-11s-taskbar-explorer-crashes-and-stuttering-in-games-during-launch-rolls-out-fixes/

Microsoft 365 license check bug blocks desktop app downloads

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-bug-in-microsoft-365-license-checks-blocks-desktop-app-downloads/

https://www.howtogeek.com/microsoft-is-accidentally-blocking-m365-app-downloads/

But for all the bugs, Windows still has the edge on SteamOS for gaming performance: Ars Technica finds that when it comes to SteamOS vs. Windows on dedicated GPUs: It’s complicated, but Windows has an edge

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/12/steamos-vs-windows-on-dedicated-gpus-its-complicated-but-

windows-has-an-edge/

Just a bit better with RT off https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/steamOS-vs-windows.004.png

MUCH worse with RT on https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/steamOS-vs-windows.005.png

Also, you can’t just ignore Microsoft’s ugly sweaters return with Clippy, Xbox, and Zune brown options/All three holiday sweaters can be purchased at Microsoft’s company store.

https://www.theverge.com/news/835130/microsoft-ugly-sweater-clippy-zune-brown-xbox

Image https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/uglysweaters.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0,0,100,100

THE NEWS META-STISIS

Meta signs commercial AI data agreements with publishers to offer real-time news on Meta AI

https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/05/meta-signs-commercial-ai-data-agreements-with-publishers-to-offer-real-time-news-on-meta-ai/

https://www.axios.com/2025/12/05/meta-ai-deals-news-publishers

https://about.fb.com/news/2025/12/bringing-more-real-time-news-and-content-to-meta-ai/

Meta says it's fixing its broken support system, with the help of AI

https://www.engadget.com/social-media/meta-says-its-fixing-its-broken-support-system-with-the-help-of-ai-185348328.html

https://about.fb.com/news/2025/12/making-it-easier-to-access-account-support-on-facebook-and-instagram/

https://www.pcmag.com/news/meta-reworks-support-for-facebook-and-instagram-tests-ai-help-assistant

EU launches antitrust probe into Meta over use of AI in WhatsApp

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/eu-launch-antitrust-probe-into-meta-over-use-ai-whatsapp-ft-reports-2025-12-04/

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/04/meta-faces-europe-antitrust-investigation-over-whatsapp-ai-rollout.html

(JOKEY LAST QB STYLE THING) Musk, Bezos, and Zuckerberg Are Full of Shit (Literally) in New Art Exhibit

https://gizmodo.com/musk-bezos-and-zuckerberg-are-full-of-shit-literally-in-new-art-exhibit-2000695745

https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/04/style/robot-dogs-beeple-art-basel

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/tebZ-RLl76A

QUICKBITS

AI CHIHUAHUA!

Google’s Antigravity AI-powered IDE wipes a user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure — cache wipe turns into mass deletion event as agent apologizes: “I am absolutely devastated to hear this. I cannot express how sorry I am"

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/googles-agentic-ai-wipes-users-entire-hard-drive-without-permission-after-misinterpreting-instructions-to-clear-a-cache-i-am-deeply-deeply-sorry-this-is-a-critical-failure-on-my-part

https://www.windowscentral.com/artificial-intelligence/google-antigravity-ai-delete-drive

https://www.reddit.com/r/google_antigravity/comments/1p82or6/google_antigravity_just_deleted_the_contents_of/

Deeply sorry quote

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/googles-agentic-ai-wipes-users-entire-hard-drive-without-permission-after-misinterpreting-instructions-to-clear-a-cache-i-am-deeply-deeply-sorry-this-is-a-critical-failure-on-my-part#:~:text=I%20am%20deeply%2C%20deeply%20sorry.%20This%20is%20a%20critical%20failure%20on%20my%20part

WHO DOWNDETECTS THE DOWNDETECTOR?

Cloudflare goes down, and so does downdetector

https://blog.cloudflare.com/5-december-2025-outage/

https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/lfrm31y6sw9q

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1peqcno/cloudflare_down_again/

Downdetector’s downdetector

https://downdetectorsdowndetector.com/

Deeper!

https://www.downdetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetector.com/

BABY SLOP, DO DO DO DO DO DO

YouTube Creators Find a New Consumer for AI Slop: Babies (a lady posted a tutorial on it)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-03/ai-slop-youtube-videos-for-kids-pretend-to-be-educational

https://gizmodo.com/youtubers-are-making-ai-slop-for-babies-2000695171

Hinton YouTube video

Editor: weird AI song stuff starts at 7:20

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUmB9z5HABc

3(R)D EYE BLIND

3D-printed cornea restores sight in a legally blind patient for the first time (worked on a real human test)

https://newatlas.com/medical/3d-printed-cornea-restores-sight-first-time/

Older story

https://www.fiercebiotech.com/medtech/precise-bio-completes-first-human-cornea-transplant-using-3d-printed-lab-grown-tissue

WELL, $H!T.

Kohler Can Access Data and Pictures from Toilet Camera It Describes as “End-to-End Encrypted”

https://varlogsimon.leaflet.pub/3m6zrw6k2bs2p

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