Appeals court majority appears skeptical of Oregon judge's order blocking Trump's deployment of troops in Portland

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“I’m troubled by the direct contravention of my (prior) order.” -- U.S. District Court Judge Karin J. Immergut

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National Guard troops temporarily blocked from deploying to Portland, judge rules

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The insiders who bought a Morrow County fiber-optic provider acknowledged Wednesday that they didn't tell state authorities that Amazon's local data centers were their biggest customer when they sought state permission to buy the telecom business from a nonprofit on whose board they had served.

The state says local officials maneuvered to buy Windwave, a Morrow County telecom provider that serves Amazon's local data centers, for far less than it was worth.

The buyers say the state signed off on the deal initially and it's too late to object now.

Intel rose 6.4% yesterday on Bloomberg's report that the chipmaker was seeking investment from Apple.

It's up another 9.3% today to $34.10, the stock's highest point since July 2024.

Having secured billions from Nvidia, SoftBank and the Trump administration, Intel also wants an investment from Apple, Bloomberg reports.

Intel shares up 6.5% today.

What Intel really needs, of course, is a deal to manufacture Apple chips. Selling a stake to Apple might be a step that way...maybe.

In Camas for the 25th anniversary of laser manufacturer nLight. Here’s CEO Scott Keeney, who cofounded the company in 2000.

At that time nLight was targeting fiber-optic networks. Today, its lasers should down drones.

Huang says TSMC and Intel have been working on joint architectures for nearly a year (which means, of course, that it dates back to when Pat Gelsinger was Intel's CEO.)

Huang: “The Trump administration had no involvement in this partnership at all.”

Pressed on whether Nvidia will shift some production from TSMC to Intel, Huang again deflects: “You just can’t overstate the magic that is TSMC.”

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan are holding a press conference on their deal.

Asked directly if Nvidia will use Intel's factories, Huang would only say that he will "continue" to evaluate Intel's factories.

Thursday’s agreement ties Intel’s future to Nvidia, the chip industry’s most successful and most valuable business, and its founder, Jensen Huang.

(Huang grew up in Oregon and graduated from Oregon State.)

Another one of Intel's top Oregon chip architects is leaving the company:

Congratulations! They chose wisely. Eager to read what you write.

Here is the provision under which MJH submitted her resignation (from her February employment agreement.)

Make of that what you will.

Michelle Johnston Holthaus is out at Intel, just nine months after her promotion to CEO of Intel Products.

It's not a surprise -- she'd been nearly invisible publicly since Intel hired CEO Lip-Bu Tan in March.

But Holthaus was one of Intel's few female execs and its top leader in Oregon.

Congratulations! It *is* the book I was expecting I never expected this team of filmmakers.

Very promising. Enjoy the ride!

Amazon is celebrating the 10-year anniversary of its purchase of Portland's Elemental Technologies.

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Inclusion and diversity were among Intel's "core values" for a quarter century. This year marked a dramatic change in how it talks about those topics.

And now that the government is Intel's largest shareholder, observers expect Intel will ratchet back further.

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Hard to tell. But the ref was about 7 inches from the play. So I’m not gonna second guess

A poor kickoff and then a holding penalty. Special teams feels just the same

A UofO student discovered the university had inadvertently exposed thousands of employees' Social Security numbers and other private data online. He alerted the university of its gaffe.

And then UofO sought to discipline him.

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I've never received as many thank you notes as I did for this Q&A on addiction with Dr. Amanda Risser of Central City Concern. I think it speaks to how much people worry about issues and people in their communities and then really want to know the answers. www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

An ugly injury ended his career but Marcus Lattimore could always fall back on being a South Carolina football icon.

But after a few years, he started to ask: "Is this all it's gonna be for me?"

He moved to Oregon, found a home and found his voice — remarkably, as a poet.

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