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A new Mini-ITX motherboard from Maxsun is breaking the usual rules for small form factor builds. Their upcoming MS-PC Farm B860I model appears to be the first consumer ITX board ever to feature four DDR5 memory slots, doubling the standard two slots. This allows for up to two hundred and...

The studio behind the struggling racer Wreckreation has turned to Patreon in a last-ditch effort to survive. Three Fields Entertainment, founded by ex-Burnout devs, needs roughly sixty-five thousand dollars a month to keep its ten-person team together after the game's poor launch and lack of...

The DRAM shortage is getting so bad that Samsung is now investigating its own staff in Taiwan. The company is looking into allegations that local distributors paid bribes, or kickbacks, to employees to secure memory shipments. This comes as every company, from big tech to smaller players, fights...

Five more games just got Nvidia's latest upscaling tech, DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation. The list includes Yakuza Kiwami 2, the newly launched free shooter Splitgate: Arena Reloaded, and ARK: Lost Colony. The early access MMO Ashes of Creation launched with it, and AION2 will add support...

The latest gossip around the mythical Half-Life 3 involves some fresh code, but still no actual game. A recent Dota 2 update added new strings tied to the long-rumored HLX project, which the community believes is the next Half-Life title. This code relates to an updated animation system...

NVIDIA's new RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell GPU is now out, featuring a hefty 72GB of GDDR7 memory. This model sits just below the flagship 96GB PRO 6000, offering a fifty percent increase over the standard 48GB version of the same card. It uses the same GB202 core with over fourteen thousand CUDA cores...

Funcom just announced Chapter 3 for Dune Awakening, their survival game that sold fast but fizzled when players ran out of things to do. The update is a massive overhaul aimed squarely at fixing that content drought. The main focus is a complete rework of the endgame. They're redesigning the...

Pixel 10 owners dealing with janky gaming performance might finally catch a break. Google is pushing a major GPU driver update for the Tensor G5 chip, moving from a notoriously old version to a much newer one. This fixes the core issue, where even big game studios like the ones behind Genshin...

Big news in the silicon gossip mill. Intel's upcoming 14A manufacturing node is apparently getting serious looks from major players like Nvidia and AMD, especially for their future server CPUs. This is a huge deal for Intel Foundry, which has been desperate to prove it can compete with TSMC for...

So HRW dropped its yearly rundown on kids' rights. They're giving some props, saying a few countries actually did decent stuff lately. Japan and Malawi scrapped public high school fees, and Vietnam made all public school tuition free. The U.S. and Kosovo also signed onto that Safe School...

A new UN report details atrocities committed by the Rapid Support Forces during an attack on a displacement camp in Sudan. The three-day assault on the Zamzam camp in April killed over a thousand civilians and included dozens of sexual violence incidents. UN High Commissioner Volker Turk stated...

Militia fighters killed at least twenty-two Teke villagers in the Democratic Republic of Congo last month. The attack in Nkana village was carried out by the Yaka-aligned Mobondo group, targeting ethnic Teke residents in their homes. Human Rights Watch reported the assault followed threats over...

Satellite evidence indicates the Rapid Support Forces carried out systematic mass killings in El Fasher, Sudan. A Yale University report documents at least one hundred fifty clusters consistent with human remains appearing after the paramilitary group captured the city. Researchers noted reddish...

Nine major human rights groups collectively criticized Kazakhstan's escalating pressure on independent media. They cited the recent raid on news outlet Orda.kz and the house arrest of its editor, Gulnara Bazhkenova. Authorities charged her with spreading false information, seizing equipment...

Human Rights Watch demanded Egypt overturn the prison sentence for economist Abd al-Khaliq Farouk. The group cited severe free speech and due process violations, noting his lawyers were blocked from reviewing his extensive case file. An Egyptian court convicted him earlier this month for...

Maryland's legislature has pushed through a bill to form a reparations commission, overriding the governor's veto. The new panel will study potential compensation for descendants of those enslaved in the state. Possible recommendations include financial payments, property tax breaks, housing...

A Zimbabwean high court will review a case against a traditional leader for endorsing a life presidency for Emmerson Mnangagwa. Citizen Tafadzwa Pritchard Paradzayi filed the challenge, arguing that acting chief Tendai Saurombe violated constitutional rules barring chiefs from partisan politics...

Attorney and activist Fadzayi Mahere was named Zimbabwean of the Year in a public radio poll. Local station ZiFM Stereo recognized her advocacy and push for government accountability. The station noted her work promoting transparency and engaging youth and women in civic life. Mahere expressed...

President Trump widened his travel restrictions to include twenty more nations. The new rules fully block entry for people from Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, South Sudan, Syria, and those with Palestinian documents. Another fifteen countries, including Senegal and Zimbabwe, face limits on specific...

The European Court of Human Rights ruled against Turkey for refusing a prisoner's transfer request. In the case of Emre v Türkiye, the court said Turkish authorities violated the right to family life by not individually assessing the inmate's situation. The prisoner had asked to move to a...