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Sonja threatens Wicknell, pay up or I'll spill your secrets
Wicknell Chivayo might face public exposure from his estranged wife unless he keeps his divorce promises. Sonja Madzikanda recently took to Instagram with strong warnings for the flashy businessman. She claims he failed to follow through on their settlement agreement. Her message made it clear she stands ready to reveal relationship details if he continues breaking his word. Sonja directly challenged Wicknell about blaming her friends for their marriage problems. She mentioned she could share screenshots, pictures, and information about his behavior during their marriage. Her statements suggested she had significant evidence that could damage his reputation. The heated social media post quickly spread across platforms where many...
AMD GAIA Makes Local LLM Magic on Ryzen PCs
AMD just released a new open-source project called GAIA that lets you run smart language models right on your computer. GAIA works on Windows PCs but runs best on computers with Ryzen AI 300 Series chips. Your data stays on your machine instead of going to the cloud. The system uses both the Neural Processing Unit and graphics chip to run these models faster with less power. You can start using GAIA in under ten minutes by picking one of two versions. The basic version works on any Windows PC but might run slower. The Hybrid version works much better on Ryzen AI PCs because it uses special AI hardware. Once you install it, you can talk with different AI helpers who do various tasks for you without sending your information anywhere...
Team Green spills on 5060 Ti and 5060 specs and dates
Leaks about NVIDIA's RTX 5060 Ti and RTX 5060 graphics cards flooded the internet during early March. Many tech fans expected NVIDIA to reveal these lower-end Blackwell gaming GPUs before their GTC 2025 event. Early spec sheets appeared earlier this month, but they missed several important technical details. Reports from yesterday suggest NVIDIA changed its original launch timeline for these cards. According to leaked roadmaps, the RTX 5060 Ti might hit stores by mid-April 2025, followed by the standard RTX 5060 around mid-May. Despite these apparent delays, tech site VideoCardz keeps digging for information. Their latest report claims NVIDIA already sent complete RTX 5060 Ti specifications to their manufacturing partners. The leaked...
Samsung Cooking Up Exynos Chips for New Phones
Korean tech insiders leaked information last week about Samsung making an "Exynos 2600" chip. This powerful processor might run the Galaxy S26 phones coming early 2026. Samsung's factory teams seem to be making good progress with their new 2 nanometer Gate-All-Around technology. Yet many critics believe Samsung will end up buying chips from Qualcomm again because it has to. The Bell news from South Korea reports Samsung's chip team is working hard. They really want the next high-end Galaxy phones next year to use their home-grown technology. Sources say Samsung needs to finish the Exynos 2600 chip "by the middle of the third quarter this year" if they want Galaxy S26 phones to use it. We don't know if this means finishing the design or...
Gigabyte Chipset Running Way Too Hot
Someone on the GIGABYTE gaming Reddit found a big problem. They shared a screenshot from HWiNFO with the message "X870E AORUS XTREME AI TOP Chipset with AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D—Chipset 2 (xHCI) 109.9 °C." These super high temperatures worried many users. Another Reddit member named RyanOCallaghan01 replied that their chipset almost hit 100 degrees Celsius without even having a powerful graphics card installed. The first person, Xabiro, took apart their motherboard to fix the heat issue. They discovered the top AMD chipset never touched the heat sink, no matter what they tried. Xabiro fixed it by applying thermal paste mixed with Thermal Grizzly KryoSheet because they didn't have TG Putty Pro handy. This brought temperatures down to 65°C...
ASRock Pro X3D boards pop up in Japan
ASRock quietly added two B650M Pro X3D motherboards to its website last month. Nobody heard about it through official channels—only sharp-eyed tech news sites caught the update. The company hinted these boards would appear only in select markets, but it didn't make any big announcements about the new products. A Japanese user named momomo_us recently found these motherboards for sale at local stores Yodobashi and Dospara. Depending on where you shop, you can buy the B650M Pro X3D WiFi model for 26,640 yen (about $179) or 23,980 yen (around $161). The prices include tax for Japanese customers. The strange part? These B650M Pro X3D boards look almost exactly like the earlier B850M Pro RS motherboard family. The older B850M Pro RS WiFi...
80s end times behind the scenes of horror dev diary
Bloober Team just released the first episode of their Cronos: The New Dawn dev diary. The video aired during the Future Game Show at the 2025 Game Developers Conference. Fans can watch how the team built their latest survival horror game. The video explores secrets hidden in their version of 1980s Poland after the world ended. Bloober Team showed off their brand new horror game Cronos: The New Dawn back in October 2024. These creators previously made Layers of Fear, The Medium, and Observer and remade SILENT HILL 2. Players must battle tough enemies that never stop coming. The story mixes time travel with survival as you try to stay alive and learn what happened. The dev diary answers many fan questions about the game world...
VG Jazz Alto Sax Plugin Now Available for Music Makers
VGTrumpet just launched its new Jazz Alto Saxophone plugin. You can use it by itself or add it to music programs on Windows and Mac computers. This digital saxophone comes with six different sound types: Subtone, Warm, Soul, Smooth, Bright, and Lead. The software runs with all major music production apps like Cubase, Logic Pro, Ableton Live, Reaper, and FL Studio. Musicians can play this virtual sax using breath controllers from AirMotion, TEControl, or MRTAudio. It also works great with wind controllers such as AKAI EWIs, Roland Aerophones, Yamaha devices, Berglund models, EMEO, Robkoo R1, and Clarii mini. Regular MIDI keyboards control it perfectly as well. The makers packed it with more than 460 separate audio samples recorded at...
NRSA slams billboard mess blocking road view
The head of Ghana's road safety group hates billboards placed on road dividers. Abraham Amaliba says these signs block people from seeing cars coming when they try to cross streets. He spoke up after Diana Abrafi posted a video online showing how these signs create danger near East Airport heading toward East Legon in Accra. Ms. Abrafi, who runs a shop nearby, made her video after she struggled to cross safely with a customer. Days later, her brother's dog was hit by a car because the driver couldn't see it crossing. The safety team checked out the spot Friday after her video caught their attention. They agreed that the signs make it hard to see around curves. Mr. Amaliba plans to call the companies whose ads appear on these boards...
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