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[Angrboda]

In a move that feels less like a corporate transaction and more like the final punchline to a 40-year industry rivalry, AMD announced Wednesday that it has agreed to acquire Intel, the company it has spent decades chasing, imitating, undercutting, suing, licensing from, and lately outperforming.

The all-stock transaction, which AMD described as a "once-in-a-generation opportunity to unify x86 innovation," would combine the two companies under a single umbrella just a few years after such an outcome would have sounded ridiculous.

For most of modern computing history, Intel was the empire and AMD the scrappy survivor, the perpetual second source that somehow kept finding ways to stay alive. Now, after a bruising run of manufacturing delays, product stumbles, strategic resets, and a historic reversal in investor confidence, Intel is poised to be absorbed by the smaller company it long treated as a footnote.

AMD says it will buy Intel, completing the strangest reversal in chip history

[AFTT47]

Look at the date.

[Angrboda]

Senate and House Republicans revived a deal that Trump and the House G.O.P. rejected last week.

Senate and House Republicans announced an agreement on Wednesday to move ahead as early as Thursday morning with legislation to reopen the Department of Homeland Security, resurrecting a bipartisan deal that President Trump and the House G.O.P. angrily rejected last week.

The plan would fund the department through Sept. 30 but omit money for the agencies carrying out Mr. Trump’s immigration crackdown. Republicans said Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol would continue to be paid for out of funds they pushed through Congress last year over Democratic objections. This year, Democrats have refused to approve spending for those agencies without new restrictions on federal immigration agents’ conduct.

The spending bill does not include any such restrictions, which Democrats had demanded after immigration officers killed two U.S. citizens in Minneapolis.

Senator John Thune of South Dakota, the majority leader, and Speaker Mike Johnson announced their agreement to end the partial shutdown in a statement on Wednesday afternoon.

“In the coming days, Republicans in the Senate and House will be following through on the president’s directive by fully funding the entire Department of Homeland Security on two parallel tracks: through the appropriations process and through the reconciliation process,” the statement said.

A senior White House official said Mr. Trump, who blasted the funding deal as “inappropriate” last week, would sign it should it reach his desk.

The agreement represents a sharp turnaround by him and House Republicans, who condemned the funding compromise forged in the Senate last week, which senators approved early Friday morning by unanimous agreement with no recorded vote. They had portrayed it as a surrender to Democratic obstruction.

But on Wednesday afternoon, Mr. Trump signaled an agreement was coming when he posted a demand on social media that Republicans deliver to his desk by June 1 a proposal to fund his immigration crackdown through a special budget process that could skirt a Democratic filibuster.

Both the House and Senate have special pro forma sessions scheduled for early Thursday morning, when the stalled legislation could be taken up, approved and sent to the president as long as no lawmaker objects.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Trump has fired Attorney General Pam Bondi. Now she can lie as a hobby, not a job.

Boru

[awty]

Trump has fired Attorney General Pam Bondi. Now she can lie as a hobby, not a job.

Boru

She can hang out with Kristi Noem and her hubby.  They can all share makeup and wardrobe tips.

[The Grand Nudger]

Tulsi is next. Guy hates women.

[Thumpalumpacus]

Tulsi is next.  Guy hates women.

Meanwhile, the Heg gets to masturbate daily over strike sorties, Army helo pilots saluting some washed-up Vanilla Ice clone, and managing ever-falling recruitment numbers. Dude couldn't lead a platoon to a bar.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Tulsi is next.  Guy hates women.

Meanwhile, the Heg gets to masturbate daily over strike sorties, Army helo pilots saluting some washed-up Vanilla Ice clone, and managing ever-falling recruitment numbers. Dude couldn't lead a platoon to a bar.

I'm unconvinced that it's a good idea to sack generals for political reasons in the middle of a war.

Hegseth Fires Army Chief Of Staff

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has asked Army Chief of Staff Randy George to step down from his post, according to CBS News, the BBC's US partner.

Boru

[Deesse23]

Moscow:

Jaques Tilly, german sculptor of floats for carnival, was sentenced to 8 1/2 years prison "in absentia". He was convicted of "hurting religious feelings and spreading false information about the russian military forces."

Tilly commented:

They are scared of pappmache. They are making fools of themselves and dont see how embarrassing that is, how scared they are of satirical critique

[Angrboda]

With the United States at war with Iran and embroiled in conflicts around the world, the White House asked Congress on Friday to approve about $1.5 trillion for defense in the 2027 fiscal year. If enacted, that amount would set military spending at its highest level in modern history.

The request, which arrived as part of President Trump’s new budget, would amount to a roughly 40 percent increase from what the United States spent on the Pentagon this fiscal year. The administration coupled the proposal with a call for $73 billion in cuts spread across many domestic agencies, including the elimination of key federal health, housing and education programs, some of which serve minority groups and the poor.

White House Seeks 40 Percent Increase in Military Budget