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Hurricane Helene, a powerful category four storm, struck the Southeastern United States in late September 2024. Making landfall in Florida on September 26th with peak winds of 140 mph, it caused approximately $80 billion in damage and became the deadliest hurricane since Katrina.

I was reading a blog post from Anna’s Archive – you know, the group that’s amazing at preserving books and research – and they made a pretty incredible claim! They said they’ve collected information on around 256 million songs and actually saved audio files for about 86 million of them. Apparently, that covers 99.6% of everything people listen to on Spotify – that’s huge!

Paramount, led by David Ellison, has secured a firm guarantee of $40.4 billion from his father, Larry Ellison, the founder of Oracle. They’ve also agreed to raise their breakup fee to match Netflix’s $5.8 billion payment to Warner Bros. Discovery if the deal falls through due to regulatory issues. Previously, Paramount’s breakup fee was $5 billion.

The streamer, who is 41 years old and has been broadcasting fighting games for a long time, has often been penalized by Twitch.

Okay, so this really popular FPS streamer got a ton of heat for complaining about Expedition 33 winning, even though he hadn’t actually played it. It was kinda weird, right? Then Asmongold chimed in and basically told him to pick up the game himself. He was like, “Seriously? You didn’t even try it? It’s a shooter – you can just aim and shoot! He’d probably be great at it!”

Netflix has acquired Ready Player Me, an Estonian company specializing in technology that lets players use the same avatars across multiple games. The financial details of the deal haven’t been disclosed.