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| 2025 | Free Stars: Children of Infinity planned for release by Pistol Shrimp Games |
| 2025 | Slay the Spire 2 planned for release by Mega Crit |
| 2025 | Oracle plans to reduce its carbon emissions by 26% compared to the 2015 base year. |
| January 2025 | President Donald Trump announced Stargate, a joint venture by Oracle, OpenAI, SoftBank, and MGX to invest $500 billion over four years in artificial intelligence infrastructure in the US. |
| 2024 | KDE Slimbook V laptop released, continuing the evolution of KDE neon hardware. |
| 2024 | Valve began beta-testing Deadlock, a new multiplayer game combining hero shooter and MOBA genres. |
| 2024 | Forbes estimated that Gabe Newell owned 50.1% of Valve, with the remaining ownership distributed among employees. |
| 2024 | The lawsuit against Zaiger was dismissed without prejudice by the US District Court for the Western District of Washington due to personal jurisdiction issues. |
| 2024 | The Rise of the Golden Idol planned for release by Color Gray Games using Godot |
| 2024 | Backpack Battles planned for release by PlayWithFurcifer using Godot |
| 2024 | Arctic Eggs planned for release by The Water Museum using Godot |
| 2024 | Webfishing planned for release by lamedeveloper using Godot |
| 2024 | Until Then planned for release by Polychroma Games using Godot |
| 2024 | Continued growth with revenue increasing to $52,961 million and net income of $10,467 million, with workforce at 159,000 employees. |
| 2024 | Intel established sponsorship deals with Riot Games for US$5 million annually and with JD Gaming for US$3.3 million. |
| 2024 | Intel experiences a critical financial year with revenue declining to $53.1 billion and a substantial net loss of $19.2 billion, employee count reduced to 109,000. |
| December 1 2024 | CEO Pat Gelsinger was ousted following a board meeting, with David Zinsner and Michelle Johnston Holthaus appointed as interim co-CEOs while searching for a permanent successor. |
| November 2024 | The Wolfire Games lawsuit was affirmed as a class-action lawsuit, allowing any developer affected by Valve's revenue cut to potentially join the legal action. |
| November 1 2024 | Intel was announced to be dropping out of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, with Nvidia taking its place on November 8. |
| October 29 2024 | KDE Slimbook VI laptop launched, representing the latest iteration in the KDE neon pre-installed laptop lineup. |
| October 8 2024 | Base upgrade to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and desktop environment update to KDE Plasma 6.2. |
| September 2024 | Valve modified its Steam Subscriber Agreement to eliminate arbitration options, requiring all disputes to be resolved in court. |
| September 2024 | Godot 4.4 beta3 is released, introducing Metal rendering backend, 3D physics interpolation, lightmap bicubic sampling, Betsy texture compressor, interactive in-game editing, Ubershaders, pipeline pre-compilation, documentation tooltips, .NET 8 update, and a Jolt physics module. |
| September 2024 | Oracle announced significant investments in Cerner's core clinical operations, including tens of thousands of engineering hours and millions of dollars, and released the Oracle Clinical Digital Assistant, a generative AI system for creating consultation documentation and proposing medical orders. |
| September 2024 | Intel reportedly qualified for up to $3.5 billion in federal grants from the U.S. Department of Defense to manufacture semiconductors for defense purposes. |
| August 2024 | After posting $1.6 billion in losses for Q2, Intel announced plans to cut 15,000 jobs and save $10 billion in 2025, offering early retirement and voluntary departure options. |
| August 15 2024 | Godot 4.3 is released, adding GPU synchronization via acyclic graphs, render pipeline compositor effects, and improved 3D animation retargeting. |
| July 2024 | Oracle settled the class action lawsuit by paying $115 million to customers and agreeing to cease user tracking practices. |
| June 2024 | Vicki Shotbolt, a children's digital rights activist, filed a lawsuit with the UK's Competition Appeal Tribunal, accusing Valve of 'rigging the market' for PC games and seeking damages of up to £656 million for 14 million affected UK customers. |
| June 2024 | Announced a $1 billion investment in Spain to enhance artificial intelligence and cloud computing, creating a new cloud region in Madrid in partnership with Telefónica. |
| June 2024 | Intel announced the cancellation of development for a $25 billion factory in Kiryat Gat, Israel, which was originally set to receive $3.2 billion in government grants. |
| June 18 2024 | Desktop environment updated to KDE Plasma 6.1. |
| June 4 2024 | Intel announced AI chips for data centers, the Xeon 6 processor, aiming for better performance and power efficiency. |
| April 2024 | Announced plans to move world headquarters from Austin to a new complex in Nashville, Tennessee. |
| March 2024 | South Africa's Special Investigating Unit discovered conflicts of interest, irregular processes, and non-compliance in Oracle's contract, and announced plans to petition for blacklisting Oracle, cancelling the contract, and recovering paid funds. |
| March 8 2024 | Biden announced he would sign a bipartisan bill banning TikTok in the United States if ByteDance does not divest from the company. |
| February 28 2024 | Desktop environment upgraded to KDE Plasma 6. |
| 2023 | Sysdig establishes the Wireshark Foundation and places Wireshark under its management. |
| 2023 | Valve sued law firm Zaiger, LLC, alleging attempted extortion through mass arbitration threats against Steam customers, targeting the company's arbitration process and contract terms. |
| 2023 | Brotato released by Blobfish using Godot |
| 2023 | Luck Be a Landlord released by TrampolineTales using Godot |
| 2023 | Godot 4.0 with Vulkan support was fully released, and the engine became available on the Epic Games Store. |
| 2023 | Buckshot Roulette released by Mike Klubnika using Godot |
| 2023 | Cassette Beasts released by Bytten Studio using Godot |
| 2023 | Oracle was contracted by the Heritage Foundation to create a database of potential conservative employees for staffing a Republican administration through Project 2025, aimed at preparing for a potential Republican presidency in 2025. |
| 2023 | Oracle ranked 80th in the Forbes Global 2000 list of the world's largest companies. |
| 2023 | Significant growth with revenue reaching $49,954 million, employee count expanding to 164,000, and stock price rising to $104.69. |
| 2023 | Intel announced they will remove the 'i' from processor markings, changing names like Core i9 to Core 9, and introducing 'Ultra' for high-end processors such as Core Ultra 9. |
| 2023 | Dell accounted for approximately 19% of Intel's total revenues, highlighting a significant customer relationship. |
| 2023 | Godot 4.0 with Vulkan support was fully released, and the engine became available on the Epic Games Store. |
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