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Thunderobot and Machenike are bringing a 1.6kg gaming laptop called ZERO Air to CES that apparently pairs Intel's fresh Panther Lake chips with RTX 5000-series mobile graphics. The 16-inch machine gets marketed as having dual full-power performance, though nobody really knows what that means...

India just rolled out DHRUV64, a homegrown chip from C-DAC that runs on RISC-V architecture and targets everything from 5G gear to IoT devices. The processor joins earlier domestic efforts like SHAKTI from IIT Madras and VIKRAM from ISRO, and it pushes the country closer to ditching foreign...

KIOXIA just announced the Exceria G3 lineup that pairs PCIe 5.0 bandwidth with QLC flash to undercut the expensive TLC drives everyone else is pushing. The M.2 sticks hit 10,000 MB/s reads and 9,600 MB/s writes on the 2TB model while using eighth-gen BiCS FLASH memory, and they launch later this...

GSC Game World dropped a free expansion for STALKER 2 that throws players into a weird mystery about a radio signal messing with stalkers near Malachite. Professor Medulin and some radio geek named Banzai got caught up investigating why people were getting headaches and hallucinations from the...

Marvell just flexed some seriously efficient SRAM tech at their analyst day, and the numbers make standard solutions look pretty rough. Their 2nm IP burns 80% less power than typical 256K implementations, takes up 37% less space, and cycles 22% quicker. The layout is more rectangular, which...

HDMI LA is bringing three cable types to CES to show off gaming performance, with the new Ultra96 from the 2.2 spec making its debut alongside Ultra High Speed and Premium High Speed variants. The booth will feature a 500Hz monitor hooked up to an Xbox Series X and a tricked-out gaming PC, plus...

HKC just dropped what they claim is the first RGB Mini-LED gaming monitor on the planet, and it sounds pretty sick on paper. The M10 Ultra rocks 4,788 dimming zones with separate red-green-blue channel control instead of the usual white backlight setup, which supposedly nukes the halo effect...

Samsung's foundry division is apparently trying to lock down AMD as a customer for its second-gen 2nm process called SF2P, and word is they might ink something by next month. The chipmaker would test AMD designs through a multi-project wafer run first to check yields before committing to full...

Some dude named Loïc Desjardins dropped a Mac app called Logic Articulation Set Editor that gives Logic Pro users way better control over their articulation sets than the stock DAW tools. The software lets people build new sets from nothing or tweak existing ones with features like batch...

NVIDIA just flexed on everyone by hitting 410 trillion traversed edges per second on the Graph500 benchmark using 8,192 H100 GPUs in a CoreWeave datacenter in Dallas. That crushed the competition by more than double and used way fewer nodes than other top entries, making it three times more...

Sapphire is basically begging AMD to loosen up and let AIB partners cook with their GPU designs, according to Ed Crisler from the company. The chipmaker apparently has strict rules that stop them from going wild with stuff like hardcore overclocking models or dead-silent cards that enthusiasts...

Samsung might axe its consumer SATA III SSD lines because NAND flash is getting scarce across the board, and most of it is going to datacenter giants and AI labs instead of regular folks buying drives for their gaming rigs. The company is also apparently switching some of its NAND facilities in...

ZANU-PF wrapped up the year feeling pretty good about itself, with President Mnangagwa and the party brass talking up what they called big wins on infrastructure, membership growth, and keeping everyone in line. The ruling party pushed hard on dams, power projects, and housing schemes while...

The UPDF bumped up over 30 senior officers to higher ranks like lieutenant general and major general in a ceremony where leaders stressed that the moves were about performance and responsibility. Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba told the promoted officers they needed to step up as mentors and...

Bobi Wine told Katikkiro Charles Peter Mayiga at Bulange Mengo that President Yoweri Museveni keeps trying to split Buganda residents apart so opposition movements stay weak and fragmented. The NUP candidate said rivals deliberately push internal beef to make it look like the region cannot get...

Security forces threw up a massive roadblock near Bulange Mengo that ended up messing with Kabaka Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II's motorcade when opposition guy Bobi Wine showed up for a sit-down with Katikkiro Charles Peter Mayiga. The UPDF and cops locked down streets around the area, and Bobi Wine...

A Trinity Bus carrying people from Kigali to Kampala went off the road and dropped into a water-filled ditch near Bukinda in Rukiga District, and three guys died while four others got hurt. Police say driver Habiyaremye Ananias was going way too fast down a slope when he lost control around 2:30...

Uganda's top military guy, Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba, told politicians to chill out ahead of the 2026 elections or security forces will crack down hard on anyone trying to stir up chaos. He made the threat while promoting a bunch of officers at the defense ministry headquarters in Mbuya, saying...

Ugandan leader Yoweri Museveni backed a pitch from UAE investors to build a cargo hub at Bukasa that would speed up shipments heading toward Sudan and Kenya. The Sharjah Chamber delegation explained their inland port concept during a meeting at State Lodge, and Museveni said he wants the thing...

Uganda Prisons bosses got schooled on National Resistance Movement ideology that supposedly turned the country around after 1986. Commissioner Moses Kamugisha told mid-central region officers and Mubende opinion leaders that the old days were a mess of political chaos and busted institutions...