Oracle will shop around for AI chips after adopting a policy of ‘chip neutrality’… but of course it’ll still buy the latest Nvidia GPUs

Oracle is looking beyond Nvidia for the chips it needs to power its AI datacenters. In what could be described as a warning shot to Jensen Huang’s business, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison said: “We are now committed to a policy of chip neutrality where we work closely with all our CPU and GPU suppliers.” In…

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These glorious little animations offer the best visual explanation of the benefits of SSDs over hard drives I’ve ever seen

I wish I had access to this explainer from Planetscale back when I was learning how different storage technologies work, rather than scratching my head at Wikipedia pages and Reddit ‘explain like I’m five’ threads that often seemed more like ‘explain like I’m an engineer’ ones. I think this is probably the best explanation of…

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These glorious little animations offer the best visual explanation of the benefits of SSDs over hard drives I’ve ever seen

I wish I had access to this explainer from Planetscale back when I was learning how different storage technologies work, rather than scratching my head at Wikipedia pages and Reddit ‘explain like I’m five’ threads that often seemed more like ‘explain like I’m an engineer’ ones. I think this is probably the best explanation of…

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McDonald’s achieves AI apotheosis with a generative AI Christmas ad so utterly miserable, the production company responsible took down a statement defending it: This was ‘an important learning,’ McDonald’s exec says, but what did we learn?

‘The holidays suck ass and we’ll be lucky to get out of them with our health and sanity intact, but at least we can shove some crappy fast food into our slack pieholes before the existential darkness claims us’: That’s the premise of a new McDonald’s holiday ad that, as reported by the BBC, was…

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Arrowhead founder casually mentions that a Helldivers 2 ‘roguelite mode’ is in the prototype phase: ‘It changes the game fundamentally!’

Helldivers 2 is a deep, engrossing co-op shooter with no shortage of things to do, but I wouldn’t say no to additional modes that shake up its mission-based structure. According to Arrowhead founder Johan Pilestedt, such a mode is actively in the works for Helldivers 2. “Hey! We have a prototype of a rogue-lite mode—it…

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