💻 Development : Git 2.50 Lands—Faster Sparse Clone, Generational Index v2, and More
The first major Git release of 2025 delivers a sleeker sparse-clone flow, a second-generation bitmap index for lightning-quick fetches, and a bag of cross-platform polish that Windows and macOS devs have begged for.
🛠️ Hardware : Micron Green-Lights Second Boise Fab in $200 B AI-Memory Expansion
Micron will double its Idaho footprint with a colossal DRAM mega-fab aimed at feeding the high-bandwidth hunger of next-gen AI accelerators—and at creating thousands of stateside tech jobs.
Adobe’s June update lets designers type a prompt and watch Illustrator auto-grow vectors to fill bleeds or enlarge artboards—plus real-time Pencil previews that finally feel lag-free.
🎮 Gaming : Borderlands 4 Drops to $69.99 After Community Price Pushback
Faced with a chorus of fans upset over an $80 tag, Gearbox and 2K chopped Borderlands 4’s standard edition to the industry-norm $69.99 just days before next week’s Fan Fest gameplay showcase.
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🎮 Gaming: Nintendo’s Switch 2 Pushes 3.5 Million Units in Four Days—A New Launch Record
Financial Times says Nintendo’s hybrid follow-up is flying off shelves, forcing analysts to crank FY revenue targets above ¥2 trillion.
🎨 Graphic Design: Old Brewers Glove Logo Goes Viral—Internet Spots Hidden “MB” After Decades
A TV trivia segment reignited fascination with the Brewers’ 1970s glove mark, revealing the sneaky “M” and “B” lurking inside to a whole new generation.
From hi-res USB audio amps to whisper-level GPU leaks (RTX 5090), here’s what hardware diehards were talking about this weekend.
🗄️ Server: HostColor Adds AMD EPYC Bare-Metal Nodes on Both US Coasts
Hosting outfit HostColor unveiled dedicated EPYC servers in Los Angeles and New York, wooing workloads that hate multi-tenant lag.
📱 App: WestJet’s Mobile App Goes Dark After Cyber Hit on June 14
A security breach knocked WestJet’s mobile services offline, freezing check-ins and booking changes during peak summer travel.
🤖 AI: Google Ditches Scale AI Deal, Rewrites the Playbook for Training-Data Sourcing
Google’s decision to let its labeling agreement with Scale AI lapse hints at a broader move toward in-house data pipelines and raises questions about where Big Tech will shop for human-tagged corpora next.