• A sad story with a happy ending.
  
  Riot games just acquired Hytale developer Hypixel Studios.  (April 2020)  (WCCFTech)
  
  Hytale is officially dead and its studio disbanded.  (June 2025)
  
  Hytale, the long-awaited Minecraft-like MMO, is resurrected and will launch in early access soon.  (November 2025)
  
  Hytale is saved says Hypixel founder as the studio's dev costs for the next two years have already been covered by pre-orders.  (January 2026)
  
  If you're interested in that kind of game - similar to Minecraft but with RPG elements and modding support built in - it's available in early access right now on the company's website.
  
  For $20.  (Engadget)
  
  Because, to quote the founder of Hypixel Sudios, "The game is unfinished and runs on a build from over four years ago. Charging more didn't feel right. I don't think the game is good yet."
  
  Honestly it seems to run pretty well, though I haven't spent much time in it.  And I was running on a laptop with integrated graphics, so far from high-end hardware.

• Cerebras has scored a $10 billion deal with OpenAI.  (CNBC)  (archive site)
  
  Cerebras is the company that makes the wafer-scale AI CPUs, the ones with 900,000 cores on a single chip the size of a dinner plate.
  
  
  
• SK Hynix is investing $13 billion on a new factory...  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  ... To assemble HBM chips for AI servers.  Not for you.
  
  
  
• Now that the memory drought has dried up supply of DDR5 and the older DDR4 modules alike, DDR3 is next to go.  (WCCFTech)
  
  I have 96GB of DDR3 - at least - sitting in older computers.  Much older.  Built between 2011 and 2015.
  
  
  
• AI is a 400-year confidence trick.  (Tom Renner)
  
  I don't think you could generate music videos on a 17th century mechanical calculator, though.
  
  
  
• The Minisforum MS-S1 Max is the best Ryzen AI Max mini PC yet.  (Serve the Home)
  
  It certainly has the best complement of I/O: Dual 40GBps USB4 ports, dual 80GBps USB4 ports, dual 10Gb Ethernet, one HDMI, five regular USB ports, and three M.2 slots, and a PCIe slot (though just half height, single slot).
  
  And it's 15% faster than the Framework Desktop apparently thanks to better cooling, because the two systems use the exact same CPU.
  
  
  
• Digg is back.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  Reddit ate Digg's lunch years ago after a the latter pushed out an extremely unpopular UI update.  Now the founder has bought back the company and is trying again,  It's a clean design and runs quickly, at least.  And Reddit is a toxic swamp these days.

Posted by: Rick C at Friday, January 16 2026 12:52 AM (Gpwen)

Posted by: PatBuckman at Friday, January 16 2026 01:29 AM (rcPLc)

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