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DAC Beachcroft tapped Ben Daniels as their next senior partner, and he takes over from Virginia Clegg when her second five-year stint wraps up. The commercial litigation guy has been grinding at the firm since 2008 and runs their Bristol office while leading the dispute resolution crew there...

German law firm Gleiss Lutz bumped nine people up to partner, which is way more than the two they promoted last year. The new partners are scattered across Frankfurt, Düsseldorf, and Stuttgart offices, and three of them are women. That brings the female partner percentage from 14 to 16 percent...

Linklaters put together a squad of attorneys who got trained up on AI stuff, and they're gonna help other lawyers at the firm figure out how to use the tech for better workflows and client work. The team is pairing up with data science people to find spots where AI makes sense and figure out...

Zanu PF Central Committee member Kudakwashe Tagwirei told party supporters at a provincial conference that President Mnangagwa should stay in power through 2030 to finish his economic transformation plans. Tagwirei pointed to infrastructure upgrades and foreign currency earnings jumping from...

Apple just swapped out its AI chief, John Giannandrea, for Amar Subramanya, who was doing AI research over at Microsoft. Subramanya will report to Craig Federighi as a VP and take over the company's entire AI operation. Tim Cook mentioned that Federighi has been pushing the AI stuff forward...

Amazon locked down two seasons of the God of War show, and Frederick E.O. Toye from Shogun and The Boys is directing the first couple of episodes to set the vibe. Ronald D. Moore is still running the whole thing as showrunner and executive producer, and pre-production already kicked off in...

The Game Awards dropped the first round of voting for Players' Voice, which lets people pick their favorite 10 games out of 30 nominees. Voting closes early next week, and all six Game of the Year contenders made the list alongside a bunch of other stuff nominated elsewhere. A few games like...

NVIDIA still controls most of the discrete GPU market, but both AMD and Intel managed to claw back some ground during the third quarter. AMD's share jumped to 7% while Intel hit 1%, and NVIDIA dropped from 94% to 92% despite being the only company that grew overall GPU market share in the prior...

Arc Games and Cryptic Studios managed to bail out of Embracer Group before getting axed like Volition and Free Radical Design. XD Inc. helped bankroll the buyout, and Arc is back to being an independent double-A publisher without any layoffs or restructuring drama. CEO Yoon Im said the company...

Apple just threw the original iPhone SE onto its obsolete products list along with seven other devices that hit the seven-year mark after getting discontinued. The SE stopped selling back in 2018, and the cutoff clock starts ticking from when Apple pulls something from stores instead of when it...

Samsung and SK Hynix are telling everyone they are not going to ramp up DRAM production like crazy because they got burned during the COVID era when demand tanked. Both companies slashed output back then to deal with oversupply, and right at this moment, their production lines are super...

Dan Houser went off about generative AI again while doing press rounds for his new book, and this time, he is going after the people hyping it up instead of the tech itself. He told Virgin Radio UK that the executives pushing AI as some kind of creativity replacement are not exactly the most...

MediaTek helped Google build the I/O modules for the Ironwood TPU v7, which is apparently the first custom chip that can actually compete with NVIDIA's Blackwell GPUs for inference workloads. Google switched things up by bringing MediaTek into the design process instead of just working with...

Cyanide Studio pushed back the Styx sequel from its original 2025 window, and the goblin stealth game is landing next year in mid-February instead. The delay announcement came with a cheeky trailer where Styx says he is not late and just enjoys making people wait. The developer framed it as...

Someone slapped an RTX Remix path-tracing mod onto the unofficial Vice City Nextgen Edition remaster that runs on RAGE Engine, and MxBenchmarkPC posted a video showing how brutal the performance hit is. The mod apparently murders CPUs harder than any other RTX Remix project out there, and even a...

Where Winds Meet just hit 9 million downloads across PC and PS5 since launch, and the mobile version drops next week for iOS and Android. Lead producer Beralt Lyu said the team is hyped about the response, and the mobile port will have cross-platform play with a UI built specifically for phones...

Foxconn just landed orders to build compute trays for Google's TPU racks, and apparently, they are shipping them out at a 1:1 ratio with the TPU racks themselves. Google's 7th-gen TPUs come in these massive Superpod setups that pack over 9,000 chips per pod, and Foxconn is handling the computing...

Black Ops 7 dropped out of the top spot after just one week, getting beaten by EA Sports FC 26 on both revenue and units sold. The CoD game already had a rough launch since it sold 63% worse than Battlefield 6, and Battlefield is still hanging around at number three right behind it. Football...

A Rockstar animator named Benjamin Chue posted a demo reel with what looks like two early GTA VI clips mixed in with older stuff from Red Dead 2 and Max Payne 3. One shows a dude using a bike rental system, and the other has a woman jumping off a truck roof who might be Lucia. The clips are...

Leaker Tom Henderson is saying the Sands of Time remake might drop around mid-January 2026, and apparently, Ubisoft only wants to market it for about a month before launch. That means we could see something at The Game Awards next week, or they might just dump a trailer on YouTube and call it a...