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Zimbabwean authorities detained popular socialite Natalie Mhandu on August 6 following witchcraft allegations from two former associates. The women claimed Mhandu performed supernatural rituals against them after a romantic dispute involving a shared boyfriend. Police processed the complaint...

AMD captured approximately 21 percent of the graphics processing unit market during 2025, marking significant growth from the previous year's 15 percent share. NVIDIA maintains market leadership with 76 percent, while Intel holds the remaining 3 percent. South Korean consumers demonstrate a...

Code analysis from recent Starfield updates reveals potential development of interplanetary travel mechanics. Players may gain the ability to move between planets within individual star systems based on discovered programming evidence. Reddit users documented these findings after examining the...

Republican Senator Tom Cotton has expressed security concerns regarding Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan's previous business relationships with Chinese firms. The senator sent a formal letter to Intel's board of directors requesting clarification about potential national security implications. Cotton...

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company experienced a major security breach when nine engineers illegally accessed confidential 2nm manufacturing data. The employees operated remotely using company laptops and photographed sensitive information with personal mobile devices. Authorities...

AMD restricts its newest professional graphics card to system builders only. XFX announced that the Radeon AI PRO R9700 will ship exclusively through pre-built computers. The company launched this RDNA 4-based card last month alongside the Threadripper 9000 processors. System integrators can...

Senior Producer David Sirland explained that Battlefield 6 continues using the Frostbite Engine rather than switching to Unreal Engine 5. Generic engines cannot support the advanced destruction mechanics that define the franchise. The development team customized Frostbite specifically for this...

Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter sparked debate by predicting Grand Theft Auto VI could launch at $100. The unprecedented base game price would mark a first for the video game industry. Nintendo faced criticism for pricing Mario Kart World at $80. Rockstar Games has not confirmed any...

HoYoverse announced that Genshin Impact will terminate PlayStation 4 compatibility due to technical constraints and application size limitations. The developer confirmed this decision affects the popular action role-playing game's future availability on Sony's previous-generation console...

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company faces stock market declines after President Trump revealed plans for expanded American operations. The world's largest contract chipmaker will establish six fabrication facilities across Arizona through direct foreign investment totaling $165 billion...

Development Director Anna Narrevik discussed Battlefield 6 features during a recent Hong Kong gaming event interview. The upcoming shooter will deploy artificial intelligence bots when multiplayer servers lack sufficient human players. These automated characters maintain full match capacity...

Cloudflare accused artificial intelligence search company Perplexity of deliberately circumventing website access controls. The security firm discovered that Perplexity masked its web crawlers to bypass robots.txt files and other protective measures. Investigators created a hidden test page with...

Disney committed 1.5 billion dollars to Epic Games in February 2024 for developing a persistent digital world within Fortnite. The collaboration will feature characters and settings from Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, and Avatar franchises. Epic Games Executive Vice President Saxs Persson...

Mark achieved unprecedented technological control by directing an iPad through mental commands alone. The ALS patient utilized Synchron's Stentrode implant combined with Apple's brain-computer interface protocol within iOS 26. This breakthrough eliminated traditional input methods like touch...

Apple prepares the Apple Watch Ultra 3 with a larger display, according to hidden code found within the fifth developer beta of iOS 26. The software contains references to a 422 x 514 pixel resolution that exceeds the current Ultra 2 model specifications. Engineers plan to maintain the same...

Sonos is experiencing hardware failures with its first-generation Roam speakers, igniting unexpectedly. The audio company confronts fire hazards that extend beyond previous software problems. A Reddit user reported discovering their two-year-old Roam speaker had burned after sitting unused for...

Samsung prepares to release the Galaxy S25 Fan Edition in late August or early September. The affordable smartphone will arrive in four color variants. Consumers can choose from Jet Black, White, Light Blue, and Dark Blue options. The company adopts mature and minimalistic color schemes that...

OpenAI released its first open-weight artificial intelligence models since 2019. The company made available two systems called gpt-oss-20b and gpt-oss-120b through GitHub for developers to download without cost. These tools operate directly on local machines that possess adequate memory...

Federal authorities arrested two individuals who allegedly operated a graphics processor smuggling operation targeting China. The suspects ran ALX Solutions Inc from an El Monte strip mall office after Washington imposed stricter chip export regulations in late 2022. Investigators discovered the...

Clayton police investigate a suspected hate crime after discovering three burned vehicles and antisemitic messages on Tuesday morning. Officers arrived at the 7500 block of Westmoreland Avenue around 3 a.m. and found the cars heavily damaged by intentionally set fires. Investigators believe...