Western Digital is splitting into two companies: one for its flash business and another for its hard drive storage products. The company announced the change alongside its earnings results on Monday, noting that spinning off its flash business will allow Western Digital to “realize its full value.”

Get a festive new look at Terrifier 3. Godzilla celebrated 50 years of Jet Jaguar with a new live-action short film. Plus, get a look at the final, final episode of Attack on Titan’s very final season, finally. To me, my spoilers!
The second season of Amazon’s Invincible series feels plugged right into Hollywood’s current obsession with multiverses, but it’s taking notes directly from its classic comic’s source material.

German startup Rocket Factory Augsburg has secured £3.5mn (€4mn) in funding from the UK Space Agency as it prepares for its maiden flight next year. The funding was awarded under the European Space Agency’s Boost! Programme, which aims to help companies develop new launch technologies and bring them to the market. Rocket Factory UK, a subsidiary of the German company, will use the funding to
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- Peter Lynch and Seth Klarman have strikingly different views on the stock market today.
- The Fidelity legend welcomed the bargains popping up, saying he loves when stocks get cheaper.
- The Baupost chief warned geopolitical risks and policy failures have darkened the market outlook.
Legendary investor Peter Lynch is positively thrilled about the bargains available in the
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- OpenAI cofounder Ilya Sutskever said that humans could merge with AI in the future.
- But he told MIT Technology Review that he wasn't sure whether he would choose to become "part AI."
- Elon Musk has said Neuralink will help people merge with AI — but it is unclear if it's possible.
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In July, Meta’s Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) center released its large language model Llama 2 relatively openly and for free, a stark contrast to its biggest competitors. But in the world of open-source software, some still see the company’s openness with an asterisk.
While Meta’s license makes Llama 2 free for many, it’s still a