A missing gun and a collapsed accused couldn't stop South Africa's attempted murder case against Chatunga Mugabe from gaining more legal weight.
The case against Chatunga Mugabe
Robert Mugabe's son Chatunga Bellarmine Mugabe, 28, and co-accused Tobias Matonhodze, 33, are both locked up in South Africa.
Their bail hearing is scheduled for March 3, 2026, at the Alexandra Magistrate's Court.
A 23-year-old employee is still in critical condition after getting shot at the Mugabe family's Hyde Park property in Johannesburg.
Private investigator Mike Bolhuis publicly shut down speculation that the missing firearm would tank the prosecution.
Charges keep piling up
What started as a single attempted murder charge ballooned into a three-count...
A 49-man Springbok alignment camp in Cape Town just gave Rassie Erasmus his first real look at the next generation of South African rugby talent.
Springbok alignment camp basics
Rassie Erasmus called up a 49-man squad for a Cape Town gathering running from March 3 to 6.
Eleven uncapped players earned spots, and five of them still compete at the Junior Bok level.
Fourteen Rugby World Cup winners are also part of the assembled group.
A separate virtual camp gets scheduled for 21 overseas-based players after the main event.
Fresh faces and first-time call-ups
Riley Norton, Cheswill Jooste, Siphosethu Mnebelele, Kai Pratt, and Markus Muller all got the nod.
Emmanuel Tshituka, Jaco Williams, Paul de Villiers, and Zachary Porthen are also...
Zimbabwe turning down $367 million in US health funding just left 1.2 million HIV patients staring down a very uncertain future.
Zimbabwe rejects the US health funding MoU
President Emmerson Mnangagwa killed the deal via a directive dated December 23, 2025.
Government spokesman Nick Mangwana dropped a formal explanation on February 25, 2026.
Three ministries got direct instructions to shut down the MoU negotiations immediately.
Harare's core objection was an asymmetrical data-for-funding swap with no guaranteed payoff.
What the fine print actually demanded
Washington wanted comprehensive access to Zimbabwe's pathogen samples and epidemiological data.
Zimbabwean biological resources would fuel research with zero guaranteed access to...
Netflix getting outbid on Warner Bros. Discovery hands Paramount Skydance a $111 billion victory and reshapes the entire entertainment landscape.
Netflix walks away from the WBD deal
Netflix co-CEOs Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters jointly confirmed the exit from negotiations.
Matching Paramount Skydance's latest price made the acquisition financially unattractive for Netflix.
Warner Bros. Discovery's board gave Netflix four days to match the superior bid or walk.
Netflix's offer stood at $27.75 per share, covering only studio and streaming assets.
How the WBD bidding war played out
Warner Bros. Discovery hit the market in the latter half of 2025, formed from a 2022 AT&T and Discovery merger.
Netflix locked in a $72 billion deal for...
Benchmark numbers from Geekbench 6 just handed Qualcomm a CPU win, but Samsung's Exynos 2600 clawed back ground on the GPU side.
Exynos 2600 vs. Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 CPU results
Leaker GadgetsBoy posted the official Geekbench 6 compute results for both chips.
Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 for Galaxy pulled an 18.2% lead in single-core performance.
Qualcomm's chip also edged ahead in multi-core, beating the Exynos 2600 by 5.14%.
Samsung's chip logged a single-core score of 3,105 against Qualcomm's 3,670.
Exynos 2600 GPU advantage in OpenCL
Xclipse 960 runs on a customized AMD RDNA4 architecture inside the Exynos 2600.
OpenCL scores flipped the script, with Samsung's chip hitting 24,240 vs. 24,152.
Vulkan testing got skipped entirely...
New York's gambling laws just became Valve's newest headache, and loot boxes in Counter-Strike are squarely in the crosshairs.
New York AG Letitia James vs. Valve
New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a suit against Valve over loot boxes.
James tagged Valve's loot boxes as straight-up illegal gambling activity.
The DOTA 2 developer got accused of hooking kids on gambling-style spending loops.
A win for New York could permanently pull the plug on Valve's loot box setup.
What the lawsuit is actually pushing for
Disgorgement of profits and fines are both on the table if New York wins.
James argues Valve raked in billions from adults and minors gambling for virtual prizes.
Secure Boot logs. The complaint calls loot boxes...
A busted BIOS update locked countless ASUS users out of their own drives, and a fresh patch is finally here to clean up the mess.
ASUS AM5 motherboard BitLocker drama
ASUS released Beta BIOS Version 2102 for 600 and 800-series AM5 motherboards.
Beta BIOS 2101 was the culprit, triggering BitLocker on every single boot.
Corruption of Secure Boot logs is what kept the problem alive after downgrading.
Even wiping the TPM didn't get rid of the recovery screen for many users.
What the new BIOS update actually fixes
Version 2102 ships with an AGESA microcode bump to 1.3.0.0a.
BitLocker got stuck demanding a 48-digit key just to access the drive.
ASUS officially acknowledged the bug before dropping this targeted fix.
Disabling BitLocker...
A free plugin just dropped that weaponizes analog chaos into a hybrid saturation and BBD delay beast for Windows producers.
Electronik Sound Lab's Voltus FX debut
Electronik Sound Lab just dropped Voltus FX as a completely free VST3 plugin.
Windows 64-bit is the only supported platform right now, with macOS coming later.
It's been tested in FL Studio, Ableton Live, Reaper, Studio One, Bitwig, and Cubase.
Grab it straight from the Electronik Sound Lab website at no cost.
What's powering the Voltus FX engine
A custom-modeled BBD delay engine with Hermite interpolation keeps time glides clean.
Voltus FX skips digital oversampling entirely, letting drive circuits fold back naturally.
Dual-stage saturation splits into a Tube module and a...
Fracture Sounds has released Lighthouse Piano, a new addition to their Signature Collection, created in collaboration with composer and producer Marcus Warner.
Key Features of Lighthouse Piano
Captures the character of Marcus Warner’s 1907 Blüthner Style VII grand piano.
Lower dynamics recorded using the una corda pedal for a muted, intimate tone.
Upper dynamics were recorded normally for a bright, resonant concert tone.
Seamless tonal transition across the entire range, impossible to achieve on a physical piano.
Performance tools like adjustable velocity and timbre shaping for a natural feel.
Atmosphere Layers, including cinematic pads and textures, for film scoring.
Bonus harmonium instrument with sustained drones to complement the...
