INET over in Sweden hit pause on shipping the ASUS ROG Matrix RTX 5090 cards after spotting something weird in the first production batches. The retailer says it is waiting for ASUS to figure out what is up before sending more units out, and early word suggests the problem might be related to how the cooler got assembled rather than anything electronic. No recall went out for people who already grabbed one, but anyone still waiting on an order is stuck until ASUS finishes checking the manufacturing line.
The ROG Matrix is one of those ultra-complex flagship designs where even tiny assembly mistakes can wreck thermals or acoustics, so ASUS probably wants to make sure nothing slipped through before more units hit shelves. The whole...
Nvidia axed support for Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta cards in its new 590 driver branch for Linux, which means the GTX 900 and 1000 series are basically cooked. The 970, 980 Ti, 1060, 1080, and even the ancient 750 Ti got dropped from active development, and anybody trying to run the fresh drivers will just see their GPU vanish from the system. The company says it will keep pushing security patches for the legacy 580 branch until 2028, but there will be zero performance tweaks, stability fixes, or feature updates.
The reality is that Linux keeps moving forward with Wayland, Mesa changes, and kernel upgrades, and the frozen 580 driver branch is not going to keep up. Nouveau exists as a fallback option, but it runs like garbage for...
Pulsar Gaming just put out a Bruce Lee-themed peripheral bundle with an 80-percent TKL keyboard, a super-light wireless mouse, and matching mouse pads done up in navy and white. The PCMK 3 HE board runs Gateron magnetic switches that let you dial in actuation from 0.01 mm to 4 mm, and it hits 8,000 Hz polling with a 35,000 Hz scan rate for basically zero input delay. The X2 Crazylight mouse comes in 35-gram or 39-gram versions with a 32,000-dpi sensor and the same 8k polling, plus optical switches rated for 100 million clicks.
The whole aesthetic leans hard into the martial arts legend's signature look with his silhouette and accent keycaps for fighting games. The keyboard alone runs around 200 euros, and a full set with the glass pad...
ASUS dropped the ExpertCenter P600 AiO with a Ryzen AI 7 350 chip, 32 gigs of DDR5 RAM, and a terabyte SSD crammed into a 23.8-inch touchscreen setup. The thing runs integrated AMD graphics, and it supports VESA mounting if you want to stick it on an arm or slap it against a wall. Gigabit LAN, Wi-Fi 7, and Bluetooth 5.4 handle connectivity.
Two versions hit the ASUS Store in Japan, with the base model going for 999 bucks and an Office-loaded variant bumping up to around 1,110. Both come with Windows 11 Home out of the box. The all-in-one format ditches the tower entirely, which works for people who hate cable mess or need to save desk space.
President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa told Zanu PF members at the 389th Politburo session to stop chasing personal wins and stick to what the party Constitution says. He gave props to provincial leadership for keeping grassroots structures tight at the cell and village level, and he said everyone did solid work feeding back decisions from the 22nd National People's Conference through inter-district meetings.
The president pushed for unity during these local outreach sessions, warning people not to act like they matter more than the party itself. He wants political and economic stuff in communities to line up with Zanu PF goals, and he emphasized the party should stay open to anyone who wants to join across Zimbabwe.
General Emmanuel Matatu got bumped up to lead the Zimbabwe Defence Forces after General Philip Valerio Sibanda retired, and President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa made it official at State House in Harare. The move is causing some grumbling because both Matatu and Sibanda came out of Zipra during the liberation war, and some ex-Zanla commanders think the top job should rotate between the two groups. Matatu is from the Midlands like Mnangagwa, and sources say the president picked him for loyalty reasons rather than trying to balance the old factional stuff.
The whole thing ties back to how Zimbabwe's military got stitched together after independence, when Zanla and Zipra fighters merged with the old Rhodesian Army. Mnangagwa apparently...
DJ Masomere, a ZANU-PF hype man, and his partner Kennedy Sithole are getting hammered over sketchy mining deals tied to a Chinese-registered outfit called Wan Wenjin Jewellers. The government yanked their licenses in Mutasa District after the Mines Minister found registration problems, and Chief Mutasa got control of the land through a special grant. Meanwhile, another company claims the pair took 200k out of a 500k claim sale but kept mining anyway instead of stopping operations as the contract said.
Rock Investments dragged them to the High Court to stop further extraction before the deposit gets cleaned out. Wan Wenjin then put out a notice basically throwing Sithole under the bus and warning people he might have forged company...
Delani Moyo dropped a thousand bucks on Siyazama Primary School in Ward 14 and promised another eight grand to get roofs on two classroom blocks that have been sitting exposed since he donated cement during campaign season. The ZANU PF rep for Insiza North also handed out cash prizes to 62 students and gave every teacher at the ceremony twenty dollars each, plus he said he would cover tuition for next year's seventh graders and fully fund two top students through secondary school.
Moyo has been pushing infrastructure projects around the constituency since he took over after the previous legislator died, and locals seem pretty happy with how he operates. The school opened back in the sixties, but the buildings are falling apart, so the...
ASUS just dropped the ROG Azoth 96 HE keyboard with magnetic hall-effect switches that let you tweak actuation distance down to 0.01 mm intervals. The thing pulls 8000 Hz polling whether you plug it in or go wireless, and it connects up to five devices at once through USB-C, Bluetooth, or their SpeedNova dongle. The 96% layout keeps the numpad while saving desk space, and there's a tiny OLED screen with a knob for adjusting settings without opening software.
Build-wise, they stacked six layers of foam and silicone inside to kill vibration and keep typing quiet. The switches are hot-swappable if you want to experiment later. Basically targets competitive gamers and people who type a ton but want that analog precision without going...
