The Rupert family's wealth has jumped over five billion dollars this year, approaching a total of nineteen billion. That massive increase pushes South Africa's richest clan close to breaking into the global top one hundred. The gain is largely thanks to their luxury goods giant, Richemont. Shares for that company, which owns brands like Cartier, have climbed nearly thirty percent on the Johannesburg exchange amid strong jewelry and watch sales.
Other key family investment vehicles, Remgro and Reinet, also posted solid growth. Remgro, with stakes across healthcare and consumer goods, saw its value rise sixteen percent. Reinet, which sold its entire stake in British American Tobacco earlier this year, gained twenty-five percent. That...
MK Party parliament member Sibonelo Nomvalo is pushing his party to keep filing votes of no confidence against KwaZulu-Natal Premier Thami Ntuli. He says the goal is to constantly remind people that the ANC is governing alongside the IFP and DA, groups the MKP labels as racist and tied to the apartheid era. This political fight is heating up before the local elections.
The MKP recently tabled such a motion against the IFP premier, who leads a provincial unity coalition with the ANC, DA, and NFP. That coalition holds a narrow majority of 41 seats. The MKP, which holds 37 seats and claims a public mandate, needs 41 votes to succeed. They have the EFF's two votes and are eyeing the NFP's single seat. EFF leader Julius Malema backs the...
South African golfer Aldrich Potgieter just snagged the Arnold Palmer Award for PGA Tour Rookie of the Year. The 21-year-old becomes only the third guy from his country to win it, joining Ernie Els and Trevor Immelman. His big season was capped by a playoff victory at the Rocket Mortgage Classic, making him one of the youngest winners ever on tour. He also led everyone in driving distance.
Potgieter came up from Mossel Bay, training at an academy linked to Louis Oosthuizen before moving to Australia as a kid. His amateur career blew up when he won the Amateur Championship at 17. After turning pro, he quickly set a record as the youngest winner on the Korn Ferry Tour. His 2025 rookie year was defined by his huge hits off the tee...
A big conference about getting more Gambian women into politics just kicked off at the SDKJ Conference Centre. International IDEA and some other groups are running the thing. Their goal is to check how things are going for women in politics since 2016 and figure out what is still broken.
The International IDEA head, Kevin Casas-Zamora, said The Gambia has done some good stuff for democracy lately. He also pointed out a huge problem, though. Even though women are most of the population, they hold less than nine percent of the seats in the National Assembly. A rep for the EU ambassador, Enya Braun, called this a major failure for a real democracy. She argued that having women in power is a basic right, not a favor.
A National Assembly...
Colorful has launched a new line of very small RTX 50 series graphics cards called the iGame Mini. These models, including the RTX 5070 and RTX 5060 Ti, are built for tiny PC cases with a single-fan cooler and a length of just 180 millimeters. They also maintain a two-slot thickness for easier installation in cramped mini-ITX chassis.
The all-black shroud and backplate represent a design shift from the previous generation's silver and white color scheme. The new cards are also physically smaller overall than their RTX 40 series predecessors. They feature a standard output selection of three DisplayPort ports and one HDMI port.
Pricing for the models starts at roughly 496 US dollars for the RTX 5060 Ti Mini with 8GB of memory. The 16GB...
A reliable Call of Duty leaker says the 2027 title will be a completely new sub-series. According to the source, GhostOfHope on X, Sledgehammer Games is developing this entry. It would introduce new characters and a setting in the late 1990s or early 2000s, breaking from the Modern Warfare and Black Ops cycles.
The leak claims major gameplay shifts, like omnimovement without tactical sprint. It also suggests the game might ship without a Zombies mode. This follows a notably disappointing launch for Black Ops 7, which prompted Activision to promise changes to its release strategy.
Whether Activision will truly deviate from its established formula remains doubtful. The company still has to release its already planned 2026 title first...
SK Hynix and NVIDIA are reportedly co-developing a specialized AI SSD under a project named Storage Next. This inference-optimized storage solution, targeting a 2027 release, aims to address the high-throughput, low-latency demands of running AI models by functioning as a pseudo-memory layer for massive parameters.
The planned AI SSD could reach a staggering 100 million IOPS, far exceeding current enterprise drives. This performance jump would come from new NAND and controller architectures designed for energy efficiency. A prototype from SK hynix is expected next year.
Such a product would intensify strain on NAND supply chains, already pressured by demand from cloud and AI firms. This could trigger a supply crunch similar to the...
A new co-op roguelite from industry veterans, Raiders of Blackveil, just hit early access on PC. The game comes from Wombo Games, a Copenhagen studio founded by Hitman co-creator Janos Flösser. Their team includes ex-IO Interactive and Square Enix devs with credits on major titles like Tomb Raider and Deus Ex.
This MOBA-inspired action RPG lets players choose a champion and build them out across eight classes. The progression system uses over three hundred perks and various loot drops. Executive producer Benjamin Flösser stated that their early access goal was to solidify the core gameplay with player feedback before expanding the project.
Wombo Games plans a full 1.0 launch sometime in 2026. They did not announce a specific timeline...
Samsung might bring back variable aperture cameras because Apple is reportedly adding them to the iPhone 18 Pro models. A tipster on Weibo, Digital Chat Station, says Samsung is testing the tech again and also experimenting with a wider folding screen similar to rumored iPhone Fold designs. Samsung first used variable apertures on the Galaxy S9 line before ditching the feature later.
Apple is historically slow to adopt camera tech already common with Android rivals, like periscope lenses. Their reported move to variable aperture for the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max seems to have prompted Samsung's renewed interest. The Korean company originally let users mechanically switch between f/1.5 and f/2.4 apertures for better low-light or...
