These buyouts usually end up being done by dropping the buyout amount into the company as debt. So EA now has $55B in debt to pay off. Time for more layoffs!

This is exactly why Microsoft has been laying people off left and right. They went on a spending spree to buy studios, including $75B for Activision Blizzard, and within like two years started closing studios because they had a giant debt on paper

The DMCA claim was evidently related to the Minecraft IP. It’s not suggesting that Minecraft is unrelated to Microsoft.

Default judgement. They sued the guy and he didn’t bother showing up to fight it.

Don’t a lot of CPUs like Snapdragons already have “performance cores” and “efficiency cores” that the kernel has to be able to recognize in order to switch between them? This sounds neat but I’m just curious what’s different between these situations.