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UK politicians are sounding alarms over deals made with the Trump administration, calling them unstable. The recent pharmaceutical agreement, touted as a milestone, currently lacks any detailed legal text. It exists only as press releases, with the UK emphasizing zero tariffs and the US focusing...

Amazon might drop a massive ten billion dollars into OpenAI. These early talks could push OpenAI's valuation past the five-hundred-billion mark. The deal would tie the AI firm closer to Amazon's cloud division, likely requiring increased use of Amazon's own AI chips over competitors like Nvidia...

Major auction houses are seeing signs of a market rebound. Sotheby's predicts a seventeen percent sales jump this year, reaching around seven billion dollars. Rival Christie's forecasts a more modest six percent rise. This follows a rough period for high-end art, with shifting collector habits...

UK inflation dropped harder than anyone predicted last month, hitting its lowest point in almost a year. The consumer price index rose just three percent annually in November, falling below official forecasts. Core inflation, which ignores food and energy swings, also cooled. Cheaper groceries...

Former Chancellor Rishi Sunak told the official inquiry that the rush to save businesses during the pandemic justified the Bounce Back Loan scheme's known fraud risks. He argued that implementing stricter checks would have delayed critical aid, causing widespread collapses. The program provided...

EU officials just backed off their hardline electric vehicle mandate. The original plan required every new car sold from 2035 to be zero-emission, but the revised proposal only demands ninety percent. The other ten percent can be conventional engines or hybrids, with other offsets supposedly...

A major UK chemical plant got a lifeline. Ineos secured over a hundred and twenty million pounds in government support to keep its Grangemouth facility running, protecting around five hundred jobs. The deal involves a combined investment of about one hundred and fifty million pounds into the...

OpenAI is hiring a former UK finance minister for a top policy job. George Osborne, who was chancellor under David Cameron, will lead the new OpenAI for Countries initiative starting in January. His role is based in London and focuses on getting governments worldwide to adopt their AI...

The Lost Colony expansion for ARK: Survival Ascended is now live on all platforms. This new chapter bridges the story between the older Extinction DLC and the distant future release of ARK 2, which was just delayed until 2028. Players explore a ruined human outpost called Arat Prime, set in a...

A new Mini-ITX motherboard from Maxsun is breaking the usual rules for small form factor builds. Their upcoming MS-PC Farm B860I model appears to be the first consumer ITX board ever to feature four DDR5 memory slots, doubling the standard two slots. This allows for up to two hundred and...

The studio behind the struggling racer Wreckreation has turned to Patreon in a last-ditch effort to survive. Three Fields Entertainment, founded by ex-Burnout devs, needs roughly sixty-five thousand dollars a month to keep its ten-person team together after the game's poor launch and lack of...

The DRAM shortage is getting so bad that Samsung is now investigating its own staff in Taiwan. The company is looking into allegations that local distributors paid bribes, or kickbacks, to employees to secure memory shipments. This comes as every company, from big tech to smaller players, fights...

Five more games just got Nvidia's latest upscaling tech, DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation. The list includes Yakuza Kiwami 2, the newly launched free shooter Splitgate: Arena Reloaded, and ARK: Lost Colony. The early access MMO Ashes of Creation launched with it, and AION2 will add support...

The latest gossip around the mythical Half-Life 3 involves some fresh code, but still no actual game. A recent Dota 2 update added new strings tied to the long-rumored HLX project, which the community believes is the next Half-Life title. This code relates to an updated animation system...

NVIDIA's new RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell GPU is now out, featuring a hefty 72GB of GDDR7 memory. This model sits just below the flagship 96GB PRO 6000, offering a fifty percent increase over the standard 48GB version of the same card. It uses the same GB202 core with over fourteen thousand CUDA cores...

Funcom just announced Chapter 3 for Dune Awakening, their survival game that sold fast but fizzled when players ran out of things to do. The update is a massive overhaul aimed squarely at fixing that content drought. The main focus is a complete rework of the endgame. They're redesigning the...

Pixel 10 owners dealing with janky gaming performance might finally catch a break. Google is pushing a major GPU driver update for the Tensor G5 chip, moving from a notoriously old version to a much newer one. This fixes the core issue, where even big game studios like the ones behind Genshin...

Big news in the silicon gossip mill. Intel's upcoming 14A manufacturing node is apparently getting serious looks from major players like Nvidia and AMD, especially for their future server CPUs. This is a huge deal for Intel Foundry, which has been desperate to prove it can compete with TSMC for...

So HRW dropped its yearly rundown on kids' rights. They're giving some props, saying a few countries actually did decent stuff lately. Japan and Malawi scrapped public high school fees, and Vietnam made all public school tuition free. The U.S. and Kosovo also signed onto that Safe School...

A new UN report details atrocities committed by the Rapid Support Forces during an attack on a displacement camp in Sudan. The three-day assault on the Zamzam camp in April killed over a thousand civilians and included dozens of sexual violence incidents. UN High Commissioner Volker Turk stated...