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SIA: chip sales hit $791.7B in 2025, up 25.6% YoY, with advanced Nvidia, AMD, and Intel chips accounting for $301.9B, up 40%; SIA expects $1T in 2026 chip sales  —  Global semiconductor sales are expected to hit $1 trillion this year, the Semiconductor Industry Association said on Friday.

There are bold-faced tech names all over the Epstein files. Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Sergey Brin, Eric Schmidt, Larry Page, Reid Hoffman, Steven Sinofsky, Peter Thiel, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, on and on and on. These men (and they're pretty much all men) had wildly varying degrees of interaction with Epstein, and the details matter […]

Mark Rosewater is launching his own card game under Wizards of the Coast's umbrella, and it will be presented at MagicCon Las Vegas.

Mewgenics is a tactical roguelite from the creator of Binding of Isaac centered around breeding an army of cats, and it's incredibly hard to put down.