Bafoday Drammeh, who goes by Rebellion the Recaller, went off about Gaza during an interview with Gambian Talents TV and called out powerful people for staying quiet while civilians get hammered. The reggae artist moved to The Gambia when he was 11 after being born in Europe, and he thinks money has basically turned everyone into cowards who only care about profits.
He said anyone trying to speak up gets accused of pushing propaganda unless there's cash involved, which pretty much sums up how broken everything is. Rebellion has been doing reggae for over 30 years and refuses to chase trends like other artists do, sticking with his original sound because he values authenticity over whatever gets clicks.
Francis Lans is building a whole different vibe for gospel music in The Gambia by mixing faith with local rhythms and a style that actually connects with younger people. The guy started rapping in high school for fun with his crew, The Light, and then his track Blessings Rain blew up and turned him into one of the country's biggest gospel names on Spotify.
He refuses to fake anything in his music and only writes about stuff he's actually lived through since becoming a believer. Lans also pushes back against the stereotype that Christian artists need to look boring or dress a certain way, saying believers can be fashionable and still serve a different purpose.
The artist is gearing up for Big Motion 2.0 to celebrate ten years of...
The M5 iPad Pro can run Where Winds Meet at a locked 60 frames per second with every setting cranked to Ultra, which puts it a tier above what the A19 Pro and Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 can handle. The tablet never drops frames and pushes better 1% lows than the iPhone 17 Pro Max, mostly because it has more room for cooling and can let the chip actually do its thing without thermal throttling.
Apple's newest silicon has already been shown off in Cyberpunk 2077 with ray tracing enabled, pulling almost 200 percent higher framerates than the M4. The game should eventually hit macOS natively, but people are already running it through CrossOver if they can't wait.
SK Hynix dropped some internal numbers showing that regular consumer RAM is going to stay tight until at least the end of 2028, and the company is basically admitting they care more about AI server cash than selling cheap memory to PC builders. Server demand keeps eating up production capacity while inventories have crashed to historic lows, and manufacturers have already sold out their 2026 slots.
The server side is projected to jump from 38% of total production to over half by 2030, which means PC users are stuck fighting for scraps. AI data centers keep burning through supply faster than anyone expected, and memory makers would rather chase those fat margins than flood the market with affordable chips.
NAND storage is heading the...
NVIDIA's older Hopper H200 chips are apparently blowing up in China after the US lifted restrictions on last-gen AI hardware while keeping the ban on newer Blackwell stuff. The company might spin up extra production capacity to handle orders without messing up American supply chains, but there's a catch where NVIDIA has to kick 25% of each sale back to the government.
Chinese firms were supposed to skip these cards and stick with domestic alternatives, but demand turned out way stronger than expected. Authorities are meeting to decide whether they'll actually approve sales, even though everyone seems to want the chips.
The H200 is still competitive enough for smaller AI operations that can't get their hands on Blackwell, and it has...
The RAM crisis is about to absolutely tank smartphone specs, and entry-level phones might drop down to just 4GB of memory while mid-range devices get stuck at 6GB to 8GB instead of the usual 12GB. TrendForce says the shortage will drag on past late 2027, which means flagship models are also getting screwed out of 16GB chips. Samsung keeps cranking out DDR5 instead of focusing on phone memory because the margins are better, and that tells you everything about how bad things have gotten.
The bright side is that manufacturers might finally lean on Google to make Android work better with less RAM, but on-device AI really needs more memory to function properly. Apple is apparently trying to run language models off flash storage instead, and...
The Game Awards dropped a surprise Star Wars title called Fate of the Old Republic, and Casey Hudson from the original KOTOR is running the show at his new studio, Arcanaut. The developer just got set up this summer in Edmonton and Kelowna, which has people worried that this thing is never actually coming out.
Jason Schreier pointed out that the studio only started existing this year, which means a 2030 release would be optimistic. Hudson jumped in to say the game will drop before then, but that still leaves a pretty massive wait. The pitch is a narrative-driven action RPG rather than some giant open-world mess, which could speed things up if they keep it tight like the first KOTOR.
Meanwhile, the KOTOR remake is apparently still...
The Game Awards wrapped up without any sign of Half-Life 3, even though people were expecting an announcement. Journalist Mike Straw says Valve is holding back because RAM prices are completely messed up right now, which would make their Steam Machine way more expensive than planned. The game was supposed to launch alongside the hardware, but nobody wants to reveal anything until the pricing situation gets sorted out.
Straw mentioned that multiple sources told him about different announcement dates that have all come and gone. He says these are legit sources who have given him accurate info before about other games like Madden and an upcoming Lord of the Rings project. Everyone still insists the game is real and should drop around the...
Dell just leaked internal emails warning employees that massive price bumps are hitting their commercial laptop and desktop lines because DRAM got stupid expensive. The PC giant plans to slap an extra $130 to $230 on devices with 32GB of RAM, and systems packing 128GB could jump by up to $765 per unit.
Storage upgrades are getting wrecked as well, with 1TB SSDs adding another $55 to $135 to the final bill. Monitors are taking a hit at $150 more for the Pro 55 Plus 4K display, and AI laptops with the beefier 24GB RTX PRO 500 Blackwell card will cost $530 extra. One Dell worker thinks prices might spike 30 percent depending on supplier contracts.
The shortages probably last until 2027, which means other manufacturers like Lenovo and...
