Five workers at the Harare municipality used fake super-user credentials to steal over ZiG500,000 from city accounts across just a few days, and they hit around 40 different client accounts during the digital heist. Mayor Jacob Mafume called out the IT manager at a council meeting and demanded a full investigation while pointing out that the city keeps bleeding cash because it still doesn't have proper financial software in place.
Finance director Godfrey Kusangaya admitted the enterprise resource planning system, which would actually prevent this kind of mess, will not go live until January 2026, even though paperwork got signed already. Harare has been running on outdated systems that make it super easy for people to manipulate...
American televangelist Benny Hinn rolled through Harare for his prosperity gospel healing crusade thing and even got a meeting with the president, which pretty much sums up how Pentecostal churches are dominating Zimbabwe right now. Mugove Chikomba from the Hyatt Regency hotel thinks younger people are chasing wealth promises instead of actual salvation, and he stuck with the United Methodist Church because it focuses on group decisions rather than prophet worship.
The Methodist crew just survived a massive split over LGBTQ stuff that sent conservative churches fleeing to a breakaway denomination, and they passed some restructuring that gives African branches more independence. Bishop Eben Nhiwatiwa caught heat from both sides since he...
Some analyst from Kiwoon Securities thinks Samsung could pull in somewhere between $62 billion and $69 billion in operating profit next year, and the company has a bunch of different revenue streams that could make it happen. The Korean giant needs to get its foundry operation turning a profit by 2027, which means cranking up yields on those 2-nanometer GAA wafers that will power the Exynos 2600 chip going into the Galaxy S26 lineup.
Park Yoo-ak from the same firm went full optimist mode and said Samsung might actually hit the high end of that range, thanks to grabbing more HBM4 market share and watching general DRAM prices shoot up by 56 percent. Rising NAND flash costs should help the bottom line, and landing customers like Tesla...
Some absolute madlad leaked a 2,002-watt extreme overclocking BIOS that was supposed to stay locked down for the Chinese ASUS GeForce Astral RTX 5090 D variant, and people are already flashing it onto their regular cards for benchmark bragging rights. One guy slapped it onto his GIGABYTE RTX 5090 and managed to hit over 18,000 points in Steel Nomad, which puts him near the top 25 worldwide, even though his card was only sucking down around 900 watts instead of the full two kilowatts.
The whole thing is pretty stupid when you think about it, since regular 600-watt RTX 5090 cards already have melting connector problems, and pushing an extra 400 watts through your system for maybe 10 to 20 extra frames makes zero sense. Water cooling your...
RAM prices going absolutely crazy has tanked motherboard sales by like 40 to 50 percent compared to last year, and the big vendors like ASUS and MSI are getting wrecked during what should be their best season. DDR5 kits are selling for two to four times what they used to cost, which means people who were planning builds or upgrades are just sitting on their hands instead of buying anything.
The whole industry shifted to DDR5-only platforms with the latest AMD and Intel chips, and that worked fine when memory was cheap earlier in the year. But anyone trying to grab more RAM or build a fresh rig is either waiting it out or settling for old hardware that sucks by comparison. CPU sales are probably tanking alongside motherboards since...
Apple apparently cracked the code on making a foldable phone without that annoying crease everyone hates, and the thing just needs some final tweaks before factories start pumping them out. The company spent five years working on this design, and they're looking at shipping somewhere between 7 million and 9 million units once it drops.
The supply chain is already locked in with Samsung, TSMC, Foxconn, and a bunch of other manufacturers ready to go, and this will be the first iPhone to get a vapor chamber for cooling. Apple plans to slap their upcoming 2-nanometer A20 Pro chip inside alongside a $2,399 price tag, which is absolutely bonkers, but people will probably still buy it anyway because of the whole ecosystem lock-in thing. The...
Epic dropped the new Fortnite chapter after over 10 million people showed up for the last season's finale event, and players get to storm surf onto a totally different map instead of using the battle bus. The Golden Coast island has six named spots to hit up, like Wonkeeland and Sandy Strip, plus you can zip around in hot air balloons or regular cars while checking out everything from amusement parks to secret military facilities.
The update brings some wild gameplay tweaks where downed players can actually roll away from gunfire or even hop into vehicles as passengers, and beating bosses gives you their abilities, along with revealing your location to everyone nearby. Epic also killed the gold bar carryover between matches, added a...
A Chinese company called Xiang Dixian dropped its Fuxi A0 graphics card at some tech expo in Chengdu, and the thing runs on Imagination Technologies' DXD architecture built on 5-nanometer chips. The card hits ray tracing and upscaling tech while supposedly matching performance from Western GPUs, and they even demoed Black Myth: Wukong getting around 35 frames per second with ray tracing turned on.
The A0 version focuses on gaming and rendering with 12 gigabytes of memory and 160 teraflops of power, while a B0 variant will pack an NPU for AI workloads. Xiang Dixian has been churning out graphics cards based on older Imagination IP for years, but this new model represents their first mass-production attempt with the latest architecture...
AMD just leaked its own upcoming chip after the Ryzen 7 9850X3D showed up on its official support page. The processor packs eight cores with 96 megabytes of cache and hits 5.6 gigahertz, which beats the 9800X3D by 400 megahertz. Gamers who grabbed the current model might feel some regret since this thing should smoke it in performance.
The company keeps pushing its second-gen V-Cache tech across the whole Zen 5 lineup, and it apparently runs cooler while staying overclockable. Word is they might finally drop a proper dual-CCD X3D chip alongside this faster eight-core variant. Intel has some competing tech planned for Nova Lake with their big LLC stuff, but that launch is ages away compared to what AMD has cooking right here.
