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Two neighboring countries finally stopped shooting at each other. Thailand and Cambodia signed a new ceasefire deal, ending recent fighting over their disputed border area. The Thai Defense Minister, General Natthaphon Narkphanit, and Cambodia's Deputy Prime Minister, Tea Seiha, inked the...

A bad storm knocked out power for thousands in Limpopo. Severe thunderstorms damaged the Nkowankowa and Lenyenye substations in Greater Tzaneen, leaving communities like Dan village and Muhlava in the dark after strong winds and heavy rain. Eskom repair crews faced delays when a truck got stuck...

The Ekurhuleni metro is auctioning off a bunch of impounded cars if nobody claims them. About one hundred seventy-three vehicles will go under the hammer by the end of January, a move to clear city pounds and recoup storage costs from unclaimed property. Owners have a final chance to reclaim...

A nasty storm wrecked homes in KwaZulu-Natal, leaving a trail of damage. The thunderstorm hit the Midlands with heavy rain, strong winds, and large hail, destroying around fifty houses and affecting over one hundred fifty households across the Amajuba and Umzinyathi districts. Five people were...

Joburg's plan for hijacked buildings sparked a fight between the ANC and Herman Mashaba. The political clash centers on the city's strategy to negotiate with tenants before eviction, which ActionSA's leader called a dangerous deal with criminals. The ANC fired back, defending the approach as a...

Cable thieves ruined Christmas for a whole lot of people in Pretoria. A power outage lasting three days hit areas like Olievenhoutbosch, Thatchfield, and Highveld after a fire at the Olivenhoutbosch Substation caused by cable theft on Christmas Eve. Residents spent the holiday without...

A former health official's family says he wanted to clear his name before he died. The relatives of Brian Hlongwa, the late Gauteng Health MEC, are pushing back against a corruption report from the Special Investigating Unit, stating he always intended to prove his innocence in court. Hlongwa...

A woman got stabbed, and her dog was killed during a hike on Signal Hill. The violent robbery happened on the lower slopes above Cape Town's Noon Gun area, leaving the victim with a non-life-threatening arm wound and overwhelming grief after the attacker also murdered her pet. Police are hunting...

NVIDIA's next Feynman chips might stack LPU units using advanced bonding tech. An expert theory suggests the company could use TSMC's hybrid bonding, similar to AMD's 3D V-Cache, to attach separate LPU dies packed with SRAM onto a main A16 process compute die. This move follows NVIDIA's IP deal...

Samsung might be testing a monster battery while its phones keep using small ones. Leaks suggest Samsung SDI is working on a dual-cell silicon-carbon battery with a total capacity of twenty thousand milliamp hours, a huge jump aimed at catching Chinese rivals using similar tech. This...

ASUS is dropping a new line of NEO motherboards at CES. The teaser shows refreshed AM5 platform boards across their ROG, TUF Gaming, and ProArt series, with model names likely just adding "NEO" at the end, like a board labeled with WIFI7 NEO. This appears to be a minor update, not a full...

A huge earthquake hit Taiwan, but TSMC's chip fabs are already back online. The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company confirmed its facilities, including those at Hsinchu Science Park, are operating normally after a major seismic event, citing strict safety protocols and quick recovery...

Windows 11's search is getting less of a RAM hog. Microsoft is tweaking the File Explorer in a new test build to stop it from indexing the same files twice, which should speed up finding stuff and use less system memory. This update is rolling out to Windows Insiders in the Dev and Beta channels...

Samsung's new chip is a big bet to finally beat Qualcomm. The recently revealed Exynos 2600, made on Samsung's own 2-nanometer process, shows the company is trying hard to make its own processors matter again and rely less on paying for expensive Snapdragon chips in future Galaxy phones. An...

Apple's rumored foldable phone might ditch Face ID, which is pretty wild for a device costing over two grand. According to online tipsters, the so-called iPhone Fold could use a side-mounted Touch ID sensor instead when it launches, a move blamed on the clamshell design's complexities and to...

Politician Aisha Jumwa's mom passed away. The former Cabinet Secretary announced her mother, Sidi, died following a short illness, calling her the family's foundation and a person of kindness. The funeral will be held at their home in Takaungu, within Kilifi County's Mnarani Ward. Kilifi...

Kids are getting rejected from high school because everyone wants the same twenty spots. The Ministry of Education in Kenya is opening a second round for tenth-grade placement changes after a ton of requests got denied, mainly because over fifty thousand students all tried to get into just...

Murkomen just told local chiefs to crack down on illegal booze or get busted themselves. Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen ordered chiefs and their assistants to intensify the fight against bootleg alcohol and drug abuse. He spoke at a church in Trans Nzoia County, labeling the...

Ruto showed up at a huge local sports finals to push unity. President William Ruto attended the final match of the GENOWA Governor's Cup at Raila Odinga Stadium in Homa Bay County. The annual tournament, featuring football, netball, and volleyball, aims to find and develop local talent under...

A new poll shows Ruto is leading, but a huge chunk of people just do not know. An Infotrak survey says twenty-eight percent of Kenyans would vote for current President William Ruto if an election were held now. Former Interior Minister Fred Matiang'i got thirteen percent, while politician...