Highlanders confirmed their head coach is bouncing when his contract runs out at the end of the year, and both sides say the split is amicable after talks. Pieter De Jongh took over mid-season when the previous guy got canned, and he managed to keep the team from getting relegated by just two points above the drop zone.
The Dutchman had mentioned wanting to stick around for another season, but the club says they both agreed it was time to move on. Highlanders will announce their new technical setup soon, and they join a bunch of other top-flight clubs like Scottland FC, Ngezi Platinum, CAPS United, and FC Platinum that are also getting new coaches for next season.
Businessman Wicknell Chivayo dropped $600,000 on President Emmerson Mnangagwa's scarf at a charity auction for the Angel of Hope Foundation, which absolutely smoked every other bid at the event. The president made a whole show of taking off the scarf and handing it over while cracking jokes about transferring power, and then he immediately grabbed another one from an aide.
Chivayo sat back and let other bidders duke it out until FS Mining hit $250,000, and then he jumped in with $450,000. The president's son, Collins, tried bumping it to $500,000 to squeeze more cash for his mom's charity, but Chivayo ended the whole thing by throwing down another hundred grand on top. The guy had already given a million bucks to his old primary school...
The UN dropped a warning that Myanmar's upcoming vote is basically a theater designed to keep the generals in charge rather than bring back actual democracy. The military is squeezing people to participate while resistance groups threaten anyone who shows up at polling stations, and the whole setup runs on electronic voting with AI surveillance that nobody trusts.
Tom Andrews from the UN called the whole thing a joke since authorities locked up over 30,000 opponents, and they banned at least 40 parties after the coup. Voting won't even happen in 56 townships under martial law, and another 31 areas have zero candidates on the ballot. Three kids got hit with 49-year sentences just for putting up posters with a bullet-pierced ballot box.
Houthi forces grabbed at least 70 Islah party members from Dhamar back in October, and Human Rights Watch is calling out the whole operation as blatantly illegal under Yemeni law. The group says 21 people got dragged into trials where 17 ended up facing firing squads, and two more caught decade-long prison sentences without proper warrants or charges.
The crackdown expanded beyond political opponents when authorities snatched 19 UN workers, which prompted the Yemen envoy to blast them for violating basic protections. Niku Jafarnia from HRW wants everyone released immediately, and she pointed out that journalists, lawyers, and civil society staff are also sitting in detention. The Houthis have been locking up opponents since they seized...
A Tokyo appellate court just ruled that Japan's marriage laws don't need to cover same-sex couples, and the decision creates a massive split with other regional courts that went the opposite way. Presiding Judge Yumi Toa said legislators should hash this out instead of courts forcing the issue, and she rejected claims that blocking gay marriage violates constitutional equality protections.
Five other high courts already found parts of the marriage framework unconstitutional between 2021 and 2024, saying Article 14 bans discrimination based on sexual orientation. Partnership certificates exist in some cities, but they don't grant real marriage benefits like inheritance rights or parental recognition. The Supreme Court will probably take...
The International Court of Justice dropped an advisory opinion that basically told wealthy countries they can't hide behind climate treaties anymore. Former UN Special Rapporteur David Boyd says the ruling smashed the argument that obligations only exist within the Paris Agreement, and it confirmed that customary international law applies even to countries that never signed up.
Boyd thinks the ICJ could have gone harder on defining whether the right to a clean environment counts as customary law or jus cogens, but 165 countries already recognize it domestically through constitutions or legislation. The court unanimously agreed the right exists under international law, which is wild since powerhouses like the US, Russia, and Germany...
Some Redditor wants everyone to stop buying RAM to tank prices, but that strategy is basically pointless right now. PC memory got expensive because manufacturers slashed production during COVID when nobody wanted to upgrade, and then AI companies swooped in and bought up everything once demand came roaring back. Samsung, SK hynix, and Micron are pumping out HBM and other specialty memory for data centers instead of consumer stuff, since those contracts print way more money than selling to gamers.
A consumer boycott would accomplish nothing because the AI supply chain already snatched up most of the DRAM capacity. Even if every gamer stopped buying modules tomorrow, manufacturers wouldn't care since NVIDIA, AMD, and cloud providers are...
Jensen Huang made another trek to Taiwan, and this marks his fifth trip there this year. The visit centered on checking up on the AI supply chain, since Taiwanese companies like Foxconn, Quanta, and Wistron handle a massive chunk of the production work for Team Green's GPUs and server infrastructure.
Huang mentioned that memory shortages are just the tip of the iceberg because advanced packaging, wiring, and power supplies are all getting stretched thin across the AI industry. He also swung by to see how TSMC founder Morris Chang was doing health-wise, which shows how tight the relationship runs between these companies.
The bigger worry for NVIDIA is whether custom chips from Big Tech will eat into their market share, but Huang...
Hello Games dropped a bombshell trailer for Light No Fire at The Game Awards nearly two years back, and the hype train hasn't slowed down since. The studio wants to cram an entire Earth-sized planet into one seamless multiplayer world where everyone shares the same space without loading screens or instances, which sounds absolutely unhinged on paper.
Sean Murray recently mentioned that a skeleton crew is grinding away on the project while most of the fifty-person team keeps pumping out No Man's Sky updates. The fantasy setting throws dragons and skeleton mobs into the mix, and players will supposedly build persistent settlements that other randoms can stumble across organically. Mountains, oceans, and varied biomes are getting the...
