Turkey's environment ministry ran a workshop for 47 Gambian officials to teach them how to deal with desertification, land degradation, and flooding problems that hit during the rainy season. The program went down at the Senegambia Hotel with reps from the Turkish cooperation agency explaining they focused on knowledge transfer that matches local conditions and helps Gambia meet Paris Agreement commitments.
Ambassador Turker Oba talked about building institutional capacity as essential for keeping development sustainable, while the ministry's Momodou Kanyi thanked everyone for showing up and grinding through the sessions. The Turkish coordination agency rep mentioned combining theory with hands-on stuff tailored specifically for...
Some community funds in Sanyang pulled nearly two million dalasi over the past year from diaspora members and local donors who chipped in through GoFundMe and other fundraising channels. The group dropped around 1.4 million on stuff like mortuary support, medical interventions, legal fees, and deep-sea port operations while keeping transparency locked down.
Treasurer Sedia Bojang told folks at the annual meeting that the fund closed out with about 515,000 dalasi sitting in accounts after covering all expenses. President Yankuba Ceesay said the leftover cash sets them up for future projects, and the whole operation stays focused on accountability while backing development programs that residents actually want.
Some peace-building workshop just wrapped up in Kerewan, where youth groups, women, and disabled people got trained on handling conflicts and leading communities better. The West Africa Network for Peace-building ran the whole thing with UNDP backing and UN money, bringing together folks to learn mediation tricks and how to spot trouble before it pops off.
Governor Lamin Saidykhan said the program helps prep people for the 2026 elections by getting everyone chill about political and religious differences. The sessions covered everything from analyzing local beef to running advocacy campaigns that actually work.
WANEP's coordinator mentioned they want participants to act like ambassadors who can facilitate dialogue when tensions rise...
The UK government wants Apple and Google to slap nudity-detection software on iPhones and Android devices to stop kids from shooting or sharing explicit pics of genitals. Officials are pushing for explicit imagery to get blocked by default across all gadgets, with adults needing to verify their identity through biometrics or official documents if they want access to that content.
HMD Global already runs something called HarmBlock on Nokia phones that automatically catches and blocks explicit stuff. The whole push comes from worries about minors getting exploited or groomed online by sketchy adults.
Australia already banned social media for anyone under 16, while the US House Energy and Commerce Committee is looking at bills that would...
Google doubled its chip orders at MediaTek for the upcoming TPU v7e after seeing wild demand from both internal teams and outside customers. The company split manufacturing between MediaTek and Broadcom to grab more CoWoS packaging capacity from TSMC, which speeds up how fast they can ship these things out.
Anthropic is already locked in TPU infrastructure worth potentially 10 billion bucks, and Meta is apparently kicking the tires on Google's custom silicon as a cheaper alternative to Nvidia gear. The whole ASIC market is heating up because inference workloads are exploding, and Google's Ironwood generation supposedly handles that stuff better than previous chips.
Nvidia rolled out its Nemotron 3 lineup with three model sizes called Nano at 30 billion parameters, Super hitting around 100 billion, and Ultra pushing 500 billion for heavy-duty AI tasks. The smallest version dropped already and supposedly runs four times faster than the previous generation while cutting down reasoning token costs by 60 percent through some mixture-of-experts architecture that activates only a fraction of its total parameters.
Companies like Accenture, Oracle, Palantir, and a bunch of others are testing the models for manufacturing workflows, cybersecurity tools, and software development projects. The bigger Super and Ultra versions land sometime in early 2026 and mid-2026, respectively, trained using 4-bit precision...
CI Games dropped the first actual gameplay footage for Lords of the Fallen II at The Game Awards, and the studio confirmed the sequel hits shelves sometime next year. The trailer showed off a dismemberment system that lets players hack enemies apart more efficiently, plus the developer promised tougher boss encounters and more enemy variety, whether someone runs solo or jumps into co-op.
CEO Marek Tyminski got on social media explaining he took a more hands-on role running the studio after complaints about body type labels in the original game. The executive mentioned reversing questionable choices from when the team operated more independently, and he confirmed female characters will look attractive with skimpier armor options...
Larian Studios basically told fans their next Divinity game will dwarf Baldur's Gate 3 in scope after dropping a cinematic teaser at The Game Awards. Publishing Director Michael Douse mentioned the team wanted to respect player intelligence instead of just throwing shock value at them, and the trailer leaned hard into mature content without holding back on dark subject matter.
The studio has a track record of letting players explore morally sketchy choices that feel just as fleshed out as heroic paths in games like Divinity: Original Sin 2. CEO Swen Vincke called the upcoming release the version of Divinity they have always wanted to build, promising more depth than anything the developer has shipped before.
Capcom dropped comparison footage showing Monster Hunter Wilds getting way smoother after Title Update 4 drops with over 100 performance tweaks. Tests on AMD Ryzen 5 5600X with RX 6600 and Intel Core i5-10400 with RTX 2060 Super both pulled around 10 extra frames per second during boss scraps against Arkveld, Xu Wu, and Lagiacrus at 1080p medium settings with upscaling turned on.
Frame stability got tightened up alongside the raw FPS bump, which should make the game feel less jank for PC players dealing with stutters. More optimization passes are coming through January and February before the final update lands around the one-year mark.
