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A surprise raid at a Free State prison uncovered a stash of illegal contraband. Correctional Services officials, alongside police, conducted an unannounced search at the Grootvlei Correctional Centre in Bloemfontein. The operation resulted in the seizure of drugs, including crystal meth and...

Police in KwaDulu-Natal have captured three men suspected of operating as hired gunmen. The suspects, aged between twenty five and twenty six years old, were arrested in the KwaDabeka area for holding illegal firearms and ammunition. Authorities believe they may be connected to a recent series...

Several celebrity relationships ended this year with notable civility, offering a public model for respectful separations and occasional reconciliations. High-profile splits in 2025 often featured joint announcements emphasizing gratitude and shared commitments to co-parenting, avoiding the...

Provincial officials in Limpopo have launched a combined road safety and health campaign for the holiday travel period. Transport MEC Violet Mathye and Health MEC Dieketseng Mashego introduced the Arrive Alive EMS and Health Services initiative at the busy Kranskop Toll Gate on the N1 highway...

A Mexican Navy medical plane crashed into Galveston Bay in Texas, killing five people, including a two-year-old burn victim. The aircraft, a Beechcraft Super King Air, was transporting the child for specialized treatment at Shriners Children's Hospital in Galveston through a partnership with the...

The group pushing for more sustainable arbitration practices has new leaders. Laura Halonen from Wagner Arbitration and Andrew Mackenzie of the Scottish Arbitration Centre are now co-chairs of the Campaign for Greener Arbitration. They replace outgoing leaders Christine Falcicchio and Cherine...

A planned leadership transition at Singapore's legal bar association has been altered following member pushback over an appointment process. Dinesh Dhillon, a partner at Allen & Gledhill, has stepped aside from his designated role as the next Law Society president. He will instead assume the...

Clifford Chance partners have voted to keep their current global leader for another four years. Charles Adams will begin his second term as the Magic Circle firm's global managing partner next spring. Since initially taking over the role in 2022, the firm has seen steady financial growth, with...

Major legal groups in the UK are pushing back hard against a government plan to change how lawyers are monitored for financial crime. The Law Society and the Bar Council, representing solicitors and barristers in England and Wales, have objected to proposals that would hand anti-money laundering...

A major international law firm is going all in on a specific legal AI platform. White & Case, a top ten firm in the U.S., plans to deploy Legora's artificial intelligence software across all forty-three of its global offices. The partnership between the firm and the legaltech startup also...

Amazon is reportedly developing a second Fallout television series, this one based on the mobile management game Fallout Shelter. According to industry reporting, the project will be structured as a reality competition show instead of a narrative drama. Contestants would allegedly manage a...

A handy tool for PC gamers just got more powerful. The DLSS Swapper application, known for letting users easily swap different upscaling files like DLSS and FSR, has dropped a new update. Version 1.2.2.0 now adds support for NVIDIA's Ray Reconstruction presets, allowing finer control over those...

Samsung is reportedly setting up shop to make camera sensors for Apple's next iPhone in Texas. The plan involves installing production gear at their existing Austin facility, a move aligning with broader pushes to relocate tech manufacturing to the United States. This operation is expected to...

The Blade game from Arkane Lyon is still deep in the shadows. Studio director Dinga Bakaba recently told an eager fan on social media that they have absolutely nothing to show right now. This third-person action adventure, set in a vampiric version of Paris, entered its main production phase...

Looks like the phone pricepocalypse is officially here. Xiaomi is leading the charge, with their new Xiaomi 17 Ultra flagship set to cost about ten percent more than the last model. The word is that it will launch for 6,999 yuan. Samsung is apparently locked into a similar jump, planning to bump...

A modder digging through The Last of Us Part II's code found a scrapped feature where Ellie could make enemies surrender. Named Speclizer, they discovered scripts and animations for Ellie to sneak up, force someone to put their hands up, and then direct their movement. That enemy would...

A leaker on Weibo is stirring the pot on the iPhone Air 2 release date, claiming it is definitely coming in a fall event, not the spring. They did not specify if that means 2026 or 2027. This contradicts several other reports pointing to a spring 2027 launch alongside the regular iPhone 18...

NVIDIA apparently took a look at Intel's 18A manufacturing process, sampling the tech after that big five billion dollar deal was announced. It did not lead to a foundry partnership, though, with reports saying Nvidia stopped moving forward. That testing phase is pretty standard for any fabless...

The whole AI boom is causing a massive memory shortage, and it's changing plans for older tech. Samsung is reportedly delaying the end of life for DDR4 production because server customers are desperate for it, and contract prices have shot up. They are not doing this for PC gamers, though; all...

Samsung's new Galaxy Z TriFold is basically a limited edition experiment you can buy. They are making it in crazy small batches, reportedly just three to four thousand units so far, because building a triple-folding phone without it breaking is a manufacturing nightmare. Ramping up production...