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Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan has put twelve million dollars of his own money into the company this week, as part of a nearly twenty billion dollar stock offering. Bank of America analysts are calling it a sign of increasing foundry conviction, suggesting Intel's manufacturing ambitions may finally be gaining real traction.
Shifting gears, the js13k Games competition for two thousand twenty six has officially kicked off, and it's exactly what it sounds like — developers have thirteen kilobytes to build a complete web game. That's smaller than most images on a webpage. The annual contest has quietly become one of the most creative proving grounds for lean, inventive browser-based game design.
And from the world of data, a Japanese website is surfacing something quietly fascinating — the country has tracked its ten most popular baby names every single year since nineteen twelve. The resulting archive is a living record of cultural shifts, wartime influence, and generational identity, all encoded in something as personal as what parents chose to call their children.
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