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    Emmerson Mnangagwa rings in 2026 with unity, hard work, and rain plea

    Zimbabwe's president called for more hard work to meet national development goals. In a New Year's address, President Emmerson Mnangagwa rallied citizens and the diaspora to commit to the National Development Strategy 2, aiming for prosperity, inclusivity, and modernization under the Vision 2030...
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    GeForce NOW kicks off 2026 with Winter Car and Space Marine 2

    NVIDIA's cloud service just dropped a bunch of new games for January. The GeForce NOW update added the newly released indie title My Winter Car alongside expanded store support for titles like Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden and Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2, making them playable through Xbox...
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    TSMC's crunch pushes Meta, AMD, Qualcomm to Samsung

    TSMC's insane backlog is finally sending big clients to Samsung. With the Taiwanese chipmaker's advanced production lines completely swamped, companies like Meta, Qualcomm, and AMD are reportedly exploring Samsung Foundry as a viable alternative for future chips. This shift is driven less by...
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    Trump Mobile's $499 T1 still nowhere in sight

    That Trump-branded phone is just a marked-up Chinese handset facing more delays. Trump Mobile, a virtual network operator, has again postponed the launch of its T1 smartphone, missing its latest late 2025 deadline after initially planning an August release and still collecting hundred-dollar...
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    ASRock's $40 cable saves shunt-modded 5090 from meltdown

    A ridiculously overclocked RTX 5090 got saved by a smart cable. A user on an overclocking forum reported that his heavily modified MSI RTX 5090 Ventus, pushed to draw over 1300 watts with a shunt mod and liquid cooling, was shut down by an ASRock 12V-2x6 connector cable before the GPU connector...
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    TSMC's 2nm cash cow overtakes 3nm and 5nm by Q3

    TSMC's 2nm node has been sold out for over a year despite a price hike. The chipmaking giant, facing massive AI-driven demand, has its entire 2026 capacity for the two-nanometer process fully booked, pushing it to build three extra facilities in Taiwan at a projected cost of 28.6 billion...
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    Zhaoxin aims KX-8000 at Zen 4 with DDR5 and PCIe 5

    Chinese x86 chipmaker Zhaoxin wants its next CPU to punch at AMD's Zen 4 level. The company confirmed development of its KX-8000 series consumer processors, targeting high-performance desktops and embedded systems with clocks reaching 4 GHz, exclusive DDR5 memory support, and PCIe 5.0...
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    Ryzen AI 5 430 clocks slightly faster than 5 330

    AMD's new laptop chip is basically a light refresh with a slightly better score. Benchmarks for the upcoming Ryzen AI 5 430, part of the Gorgon Point refresh series, show single and multi-threaded performance gains of around eight to nine percent over its predecessor, the Ryzen AI 5 330. The...
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    MSI's $1300 GODLIKE mobo hits DDR5-9100 with Ryzen

    That ridiculous $1300 MSI motherboard actually hit DDR5-9100. The limited edition MEG X870E GODLIKE X, with only a thousand units made, paired with AMD's Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor to achieve a memory overclock of 8900 megatransfers per second, passing a stringent stability test. A user on a...
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    NVIDIA sneaks five new Blackwell GPUs into PCI logs

    NVIDIA just quietly listed five new Blackwell GPU models. The company added PCI IDs for one GB110, three GB112, and one GB120 chip, hinting at updates beyond the current consumer GeForce RTX 50 series based on the GB200 family. These newly spotted identifiers likely point to further data center...
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    Samsung ships world's first 360Hz V-Stripe OLEDs

    Samsung just cracked 360Hz on an ultrawide QD-OLED panel. The display giant announced mass production of a new 34-inch screen with a Vertical Stripe pixel layout, supplying it to partners like ASUS, MSI, and Gigabyte for monitors launching this year. This V Stripe structure arranges the red...
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    MSI slaps DarkArmor on new QD-OLED twins

    MSI's new monitors finally fix QD-OLED's annoying purple glow. The company just announced two 32-inch 4K gaming screens, the MPG 322UR QD-OLED X24 and the MAG 321UP QD-OLED X24, featuring a new panel with DarkArmor Film and Uniform Luminance tech to tackle common complaints. These updates use a...
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    GRM drops wild new sound lab, calls it Atelier

    Those audio nerds from INA GRM just dropped a wild new sound design toy. The French research group, originally started decades ago to mess with tape music, has used its decades of digital effects experience to launch GRM Tools Atelier, a software instrument for macOS that works like a modular...
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    DUCSU meets Tarique Rahman, vows to uphold July Revolution spirit

    Student union reps met with Tarique Rahman to talk about the July Revolution's future. Leaders from Dhaka University Central Students Union visited the BNP acting chairman's Gulshan office, first signing a condolence book for the late Khaleda Zia. After the meeting, DUCSU Vice President Abu...
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    Tarique thanks state, security, and media after Khaleda’s final rites

    Tarique Rahman thanked a bunch of groups for handling his mom's funeral. The BNP acting chairman posted online that he was grateful to the army, navy, and air force personnel for their dignified and kind conduct during the services for former prime minister Khaleda Zia. He also thanked various...
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    Khaleda Zia’s mausoleum opens as crowds pay respects

    Khaleda Zia's tomb is now open for public visits. The mausoleum for the former prime minister and BNP leader at Zia Udyan in Dhaka's Sher-e-Bangla Nagar area opened around noon, with crowds of party supporters and citizens gathering since morning to pay their respects. Many had waited behind...
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    NCP loses two more leaders over Jamaat alliance fallout

    The NCP keeps losing leaders over its Jamaat alliance. Two more central committee officials, Joint Chief Coordinator Khan Md Morsalin and Joint Member Secretary Musfiq Us Salehin, quit all their posts within the youth-led party. Morsalin stated the party failed to unite the various protest...
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    Bashundhara Paper skips dividend amid tough year

    Bashundhara Paper Mills just held its annual meeting online with no dividend for shareholders. The virtual AGM, chaired by adviser A R Rashidi and attended by directors like Captain Md Mahbubul Alam and CEO Md Mustafizur Rahman, approved the annual financial statements and appointed auditors for...
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    Hindu man set ablaze in Bangladesh amid rising minority attacks

    Another Hindu man in Bangladesh was set on fire by a mob. Khokon Chandra Das, a fifty-year-old shopkeeper, was attacked near Keurbhanga Bazar in Shariatpur district, hacked with sharp weapons, before assailants doused him in petrol and ignited him. He escaped by jumping into a pond and was later...
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    Pakistan’s border flare-up fuels militant mayhem at home

    Fighting with Afghanistan is making Pakistan's militant problem way worse. Border clashes have sparked a major spike in suicide bombings and attacks on security forces inside the country, with a report noting over three thousand deaths in recent months, a twenty-five percent jump from last year...
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