Micron signs a deal to acquire a chip foundry in Taiwan for $1.8 billion, though it won't make a dent in the memory supply crisis until 2027 at the earliest

Micron signs a deal to acquire a chip foundry in Taiwan for $1.8 billion, though it won’t make a dent in the memory supply crisis until 2027 at the earliest

As the memory supply crisis rages on, manufacturers are continuing to scale up operations in a bid to meet the accelerated demand. The latest memory maker to expand its production line is Micron, which has just signed a letter of intent to acquire Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation’s (PSMC) Tongluo chip foundry in Taiwan. The company’s…

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Indie publisher alleges TikTok is AI-generating offensive ads using its characters and they can’t make it stop: ‘Does TikTok want me to be grateful for the mistreatment of my company?’

Night in the Woods and Tunic publisher Finji said TikTok is using its characters and art without its consent to run offensive ads “enhanced” with generative AI. As reported by IGN, Finji CEO Rebekah Saltsman called attention to the issue publicly in a February 5 Bluesky post. “If you happen to see any Finji ads…

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Gabe Newell says he founded Valve after Doom showed him Microsoft ‘was missing the opportunity’ offered by the internet: ‘I was willing to sort of put my money where my mouth was’

We all know the story of how Valve was founded. Gabe Newell, born beneath a rainbow on Mt Paektu, was visited by an archangel in his quarters and charged to build Half-Life. Then he was charged to build a Half-Life patch tool called Steam that remains inexplicably popular to this day. In return, he was…

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The co-creator of Dark Souls’ most ambitious mod resurfaces to inform me that Blighttown, source of my nightmares, was cobbled together with ’10 bits of wood’

If you’ve played Dark Souls, chances are you remember Blighttown—and none too fondly. Rickety, thin platforms occupied by scab-coated poison dart shooters. Precarious walks above a fatal drop into the accursed toxic swamp below. And, lest we forget, the deadliest enemy of all: The framerate absolutely tanking on the Xbox 360. You remake-players on those…

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