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In the summer of 2020, two videogame companies canceled sponsorship deals with Saudi Arabia’s planned city-state of Neom following fan complaints about the country’s human-rights record. Neom Chief Executive Nadhmi al-Nasr called an emergency meeting on a weekend and asked his communications team why it hadn’t warned him this might happen.“If you don’t tell me who is responsible,” Mr. Nasr said, according to people with direct knowledge of the meeting, “I’m going to take a gun from under my desk and shoot you.”…

There’s a lot of activity happening in the chip industry and the US government has been throwing its weight around it. It views influence over the global chip supply chain as a key interest. What bigger proof can there be besides the fact that on his recent summit with South Korea, US President Joe Biden headed straight to Samsung’s largest chipmaking facility after landing in the country. Samsung is playing a key role in this industry. It recently announced the construction of a $17 billion chipmaking plant in Taylor,…

A new Elden Ring mod allows you to turn your favourite NPCs and bosses into summonable companions. The mod, called NPCs and Bosses Spirit Summons, also lets you tweak the range of areas where you can summon a spirit so that they become Skyrim-style companions rather than occasional allies (via PC Gamer). Other tweaks have also been made so companions appear more normal, such as rebalancing their powers and behaviours, and disabling the ‘summon glow’. While you might obviously expect characters like Melina, Sellen,…

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