Intel is selling its 51% stake in Altera, for presumably a few billion, to private firm with over $104 billion in investments

Intel has entered a deal to offload 51% of its stake in Altera, a specialised chipmaker focusing on programmable logic devices, to Silver Lake investment firm. Before it was owned by Intel, Altera and Intel worked together on several projects often using each other’s technologies. It wasn’t until 2015 when Intel acquired Altera for $16.7…

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Trump’s Secretary of Education—and former WWE CEO—may repeatedly refer to AI as ‘A1’ but when she calls A1 learning ‘a wonderful thing’ she could genuinely be onto something

I don’t know if there’s anything better than a person in power mispronouncing a word. Better yet if it’s an important word, and if their mispronunciation implies a lack of understanding around the basics of said word. It can get even juicier if you might have some reason to already disrespect this person, so this…

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Microsoft pulls out of two big data centre deals because it reportedly doesn’t want to support more OpenAI training workloads

Microsoft has pulled out of deals to lease its data centres for additional training of OpenAI’s language model ChatGPT. This news seems surprising given the perceived popularity of the model, but the field of AI technology is a contentious one, for a lot of good reasons. The combination of high running cost, relatively low returns,…

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How to tumble launch in REPO

When you can’t quite afford a weapon between levels in REPO, learning how to tumble launch is your next best bet. It’s your key to quickly avoiding monsters, and if timed right, you can also use this move to cause damage to your enemies. But one wrong move in REPO can result in instant death…

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Young men are ‘playing videogames all day’ instead of getting jobs because they can mooch off of free healthcare, claims congressman

Medicaid is a US health insurance program for people with low incomes. It’s funded by states and the federal government, and like most government programs that help people in some way, it’s one of the Trump administration’s targets for cuts. Why? It’s those dang videogames again, of course. Part of the plan is to implement…

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My biggest pleasant surprise of 2025 so far has been the free prequel to one of my favorite indie RPGs, made with FromSoft’s 25-year-old game making toolset

2023’s Lunacid is one of my favorite indies, dungeon crawlers, and just games, period of the last few years. It’s a first person RPG taking after FromSoftware’s King’s Field series, set in an unforgettable subterranean world festooned with secrets. Creator Kira LLC has just released their next project, a follow-up to Lunacid, but there are…

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