A Kenyan parliamentary committee dropped a massive report accusing British troops of sexual violence, environmental damage, and general misconduct spanning multiple decades near their training bases. The two-year investigation heard testimony from communities around Laikipia and Samburu counties, where locals basically said the British Army Training Unit feels more like an occupation force than any kind of partner at this point.
The worst case involves Agnes Wanjiru, who got murdered back in 2012 and whose body turned up in a septic tank. A British soldier named Robert Purkiss just got arrested in the UK after years of pressure from her family and rights groups, though he says he had nothing to do with it and is fighting extradition...
Apple just hired Jennifer Newstead away from Meta to replace Kate Adams as general counsel, and she's starting the transition process before officially taking over the legal team. Newstead spent over six years running legal stuff at Meta and previously worked at the State Department, plus Davis Polk, and she's gonna handle both the legal function and government affairs once Adams fully retires later on.
The timing is kinda wild since Apple is dealing with massive antitrust heat in the UK and US over App Store monopoly allegations that could cost them billions. Newstead has serious government experience from her time in the Bush administration and clerking for Supreme Court justices, so she's probably walking into one of the messier GC...
Netflix pulled off the Warner Bros. Discovery buyout with help from Skadden, while Wachtell and Debevoise repped WBD on the other side of the table. The deal values each WBD share at $27.75 through a mix of cash and Netflix stock, and the whole thing clocks in around $82.7 billion total enterprise value with $72 billion in equity. Skadden partners Kenton King, Sonia Nijjar, and Lauren Kramer handled the Netflix side after working together on the Microsoft-Activision deal, and Wachtell's Andrew Nussbaum, plus Karessa Cain, led for Warner.
The merger is getting absolutely roasted by politicians and industry groups who think it's gonna destroy competition and wreck movie theaters. Senator Elizabeth Warren already called it an...
Netflix just dropped $82.7 billion to buy Warner Bros. and HBO, which is the biggest deal they've ever done and basically turns them into a media monster overnight. The streaming giant went from mailing DVDs in red envelopes back in the late 90s to owning a century's worth of Hollywood history, and they got there by slowly grabbing up Millarworld, Roald Dahl's entire catalog, animation studios, and random movie theaters along the way.
Subscribers will get access to stuff from both libraries, like Stranger Things mixed with Harry Potter and The Sopranos, but you'll probably still need separate subscriptions to actually watch everything. Discovery content is getting spun off into its totally separate thing next year, and Disney+ and...
Senegal's culture minister showed up at the Place du Souvenir Africain and opened some fancy digital creation pavilions for ECOFEST 2025, and Amadou Ba spent the whole speech pushing how tech can basically save West African culture from irrelevance. The setup has wild gear like 360-degree rooms, motion capture studios, and post-production labs that artists across the region can actually use to sell their work globally without needing to physically leave the continent.
Ba went hard on framing culture as a political tool that can hold societies together when everything else is falling apart, and he pointed out that museums and galleries worldwide are finally paying attention to African creators. The minister admitted the sector still has...
Economist Felwine Sarr showed up at the Museum of Black Civilisations in Dakar and basically told everyone that shipping African art back from Europe is way more complicated than just moving stuff around. He argued that museums need to completely rethink how they display returned pieces because the colonial model stripped these objects of their actual cultural meaning and turned them into random ethnographic exhibits.
Sarr pointed out that Western museums claimed to represent universal culture while hoarding looted artifacts, and African institutions should build their systems based on precolonial traditions instead of copying European frameworks. He praised the Dakar museum for being dynamic and creative rather than just another...
Two guys got busted trying to jack cattle in Bakau Newtown and ended up locked at Mile II after their court appearance. Kabir Babu and Babucarr Mangan both admitted they planned the heist and attempted to pull it off using a vehicle, and prosecutors say they were gonna sell the animals afterward.
The magistrate put them on ice until the next hearing since the prosecution asked for extra time to grab the car they supposedly used and bring it as evidence. Both suspects are sitting in remand while waiting for the case to pick back up, and the whole thing got pushed out a few days so the state can present their full argument.
Phone makers might actually bring back microSD card slots because DRAM prices are getting absolutely destroyed right now, and some Chinese suppliers are apparently talking about it. Memory costs have doubled since the start of the year, with 12GB of LPDDR5X hitting around $70 per unit, which means companies either eat the loss or pass it on to customers who are already getting gouged.
The theory is that letting people buy cheaper base storage models and then slap in their own microSD cards could keep phones competitive while manufacturers deal with the markup on internal memory. Samsung charges like $200 to jump from 256GB to 512GB on flagship devices, but you can grab a 512GB microSD Express card for under 75 bucks that hits 800MB/s...
NVIDIA just dropped the dates for GTC 2026, and Jensen Huang is doing his keynote on March 16 in San Jose. The company posted details on its site saying the event kicks off on March 15 with workshops covering CUDA libraries and robotics stuff, but the real action will be around AI infrastructure announcements.
Vera Rubin is gonna dominate the conversation since mass production should be ramping up around that timeframe. The new architecture is supposedly getting HBM4 memory, TSMC's 3nm process node, and major networking upgrades that should blow past Blackwell's performance by a lot.
Jensen will probably tease the next-gen Feynman GPUs because he loves hyping up future hardware, but consumer graphics card news will stay at CES since...
