TikTok’s US arm has been sold, in a deal that one Senate Democrat says won’t do ‘a thing to protect the privacy of American users’

The ongoing saga over TikTok’s US status seems to finally be drawing to a close, with a consortium of US investors alongside the Abu Dhabi state investment firm MGX set to take control. The new owners will take over US operations of the video platform next month on Jan. 22, 2026, with the company running…

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3 months before launch, Marathon art director Joseph Cross departs from Bungie: ‘I’m incredibly proud of the visual world we built’

This week, Bungie revealed a sweep of major changes for Marathon, the striking expansion shooter reboot of its pre-Halo sci-fi series, in reponse to the mixed reception to its closed alpha earlier this year. But while Bungie’s been hard at work overhauling Marathon’s gameplay, it’s also undergone a change in leadership: Just three months before…

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Sam Altman says Google is ‘still a huge threat’ and ChatGPT will be declaring code red ‘maybe twice a year for a long time’

Despite billions of dollars in investment and backing from tech titans like Nvidia and even the likes of the UK government, the mighty force of Google still seemingly scares OpenAI, or at least that’s according to CEO Sam Altman. Recently, Altman took to Alex Kantrowitz’s podcast, Big Technology, to talk about the AI company. The…

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Ark 2 is now set to come out in 2028, and it may not have as much Vin Diesel as we were expecting: After years of delays, his involvement is ‘an open question’

Ark 2 was revealed almost exactly five years ago—on December 10, 2020—with a lengthy cinematic trailer starring, for reasons I still don’t entirely understand, Vin Diesel. It was initially expected to come out in 2023, and then at the end of 2024, but by 2025—the year that’s about to end—we were reduced to promises that,…

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Ark 2 is now set to come out in 2028, and it may not have as much Vin Diesel as we were expecting: After years of delays, his involvement is ‘an open question’

Ark 2 was revealed almost exactly five years ago—on December 10, 2020—with a lengthy cinematic trailer starring, for reasons I still don’t entirely understand, Vin Diesel. It was initially expected to come out in 2023, and then at the end of 2024, but by 2025—the year that’s about to end—we were reduced to promises that,…

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It’s an older node, sir, but it checks out: Samsung appears to have scooped a deal with Intel to make its next generation of motherboard chipsets in its 8 nm fabs

When it comes to the latest CPUs and GPUs, we all know that they need to be made on the most complex and expensive process nodes, in order to pack in billions of transistors into the die. However, not all chips need to be fabricated this way, which is why Intel is only just making…

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It’s an older node, sir, but it checks out: Samsung appears to have scooped a deal with Intel to make its next generation of motherboard chipsets in its 8 nm fabs

When it comes to the latest CPUs and GPUs, we all know that they need to be made on the most complex and expensive process nodes, in order to pack in billions of transistors into the die. However, not all chips need to be fabricated this way, which is why Intel is only just making…

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