President Mnangagwa told the country that Supreme Court judge Felicia Chatukuta should be a role model after she passed away from cardiac arrest at 63. The president gave her a state-assisted funeral and said her four decades in law showed total commitment to justice and integrity that left a permanent mark on Zimbabwe.
Chatukuta started as a prosecutor after getting her law degree from the University of Zimbabwe back in the 80s and worked her way up through teaching and legal aid before becoming a High Court judge. She spent 16 years there before getting elevated to the Supreme Court bench because of her professional standards and legal knowledge. Mnangagwa said her humility and thorough work ethic should inspire everyone in the...
Trump just dropped a post on Truth Social saying South Africa is getting blocked from the Miami G20 summit and losing all US financial support after they refused to hand over the presidency to an American embassy rep at the close of their summit in Johannesburg. He went off about human rights violations against Afrikaners and white farmers getting killed and having their land seized.
President Cyril Ramaphosa's spokesperson, Vincent Magwenya, fired back late at night and said the country will keep participating as a full G20 member regardless of what Trump threatens. The US president also said payments and subsidies to South Africa are getting cut immediately because they are not worthy of membership anywhere.
Zimbabwe's central bank says it has cleared all outstanding foreign exchange debts and stacked up a billion bucks in reserves as the country prepares to ditch the US dollar by 2030. RBZ deputy governor Innocent Matshe told mining industry people that the transition plan is on track after settling around $60 million in backlogged auction system payments and handling invoices worth between $10 million and $60 million.
Matshe credited the mining sector for pumping forex into the economy and said businesses with proper funding will have no trouble accessing foreign currency. The shift to a single domestic currency started a couple of years back, but needs stable inflation and enough reserves to cover three to six months of imports before...
Ubisoft just confirmed that Assassin's Creed Shadows is dropping on Switch 2, and the devs basically had to gut the engine to make it work. Project Lead Programmer Bruno said they stripped out ray-traced global illumination in favor of baked lighting solutions and dialed back almost everything else, like LOD settings and draw distances, to hit a locked 30 fps target in both handheld and docked modes.
The portable version gets worse visuals but still supports HDR and has this custom VRR implementation that keeps things smooth even though the standard cutoff is usually 40 fps. DLSS upscaling helps reconstruct sharper images from lower base resolutions, and docked mode cranks up the image quality while handheld mode takes another hit...
Amazon dropped Black Friday deals on prebuilt gaming rigs that dodge the nightmare of buying RAM and SSDs separately at triple the normal cost. Budget hunters can grab an Acer Nitro 60 with a Core i5 14400F and RTX 5060 setup for just $799, which brings 16 gigs of DDR5 and a terabyte of storage without the usual markup. MSI and Skytech have similar configs starting around $850 if you want more RGB bling.
Mid-range builds step up to Core i7 14700F processors paired with RTX 5060 Ti or 5070 cards, running between $1,100 and $1,400 depending on how much VRAM you want. High-end options from Lenovo pack RTX 5070 Ti graphics with 32 gigs of memory for around $1,700, and Skytech is selling a Ryzen 9800X3D matched with an RX 9070 XT for under...
Epic CEO Tim Sweeney thinks Steam forcing devs to tag games that use generative AI is pointless because he believes pretty much every future title will rely on these tools anyway. The disclosure requirement came up after an Unreal Engine dev complained about the tags and Sweeney jumped in to agree, saying the labels only make sense for art galleries and licensing marketplaces where copyright matters.
His take is getting pushback, though, because multiple devs have already said they will never touch generative AI for their creative work, which kinda throws cold water on the whole idea that every studio will eventually adopt it. The debate keeps heating up between executives pushing AI hard and creators who want nothing to do with it...
Amazon just dropped prices on AMD's RDNA 4 lineup below retail, and people probably should not sleep on these deals before component costs mess everything up. The RX 9070 XT from PowerColor is sitting at $599 when it normally goes for around $650 to $700, and that card can basically max out settings in newer games while performing close to an RTX 4090 in some titles.
Budget hunters can grab the RX 9060 XT with 16 GB for just $339, which beats the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti on both price and performance because it has double the video memory. The ASUS Dual model is going for that price while PowerColor's version costs $349, and both options give way better value than the non-XT 9070 cards that are selling for $549 to $599 right around the same...
Intel's upcoming Xeon 696X workstation chip just got leaked with 64 cores and boost speeds hitting 4.6 GHz on the Granite Rapids platform. The processor showed up in SiSoftware benchmarks running on an AdLink rack system and posted a 46 percent performance jump over the current flagship Xeon W9-3495X in multimedia tests.
The unlocked chip packs 336 MB of L3 cache and 128 MB of L2 cache while running a 350W TDP, which is actually lower than the 385W rating on the existing top-end Sapphire Rapids workstation part. Against AMD's 64-core Threadripper Pro 7985WX, the Intel chip came out slightly behind in overall CPU scores, and the newer Zen 5-based Threadripper 9980X absolutely smoked both of them in early testing.
Techland dropped Update 1.4 for Dying Light: The Beast and finally added ray tracing to the PC version after cutting it from launch. The patch brings ray-traced lighting alongside shadows and reflections to make Castor Woods look way better, plus it fixes over 70 visual bugs that were messing with textures and random floating objects. More than 200 parkour problems that players kept complaining about got patched out.
New Game+ mode just went live and lets you replay Kyle Crane's story while keeping all your weapons and progression from the first run. Enemy difficulty ramps up, but you get access to higher-tier loot to compensate, and you can keep looping through it to unlock even stronger gear. Legend Levels are back from the original...
