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Business majors at the University of Sunderland turned their starter cash of 25 quid per squad into over 12,700 pounds for The Children's Foundation charity. The winning crew, called North East Giving, pulled in more than 2,500 by themselves, and the whole class of first-year students beat every...

UK companies slashed jobs faster than at any point in the past nine months after Budget uncertainty and shaky customer confidence froze up business decisions, according to S&P Global data. The PMI reading dropped to 51.2 from 52.2, and workforce numbers fell for the thirteenth straight month...

Instagram chief Adam Mosseri told his US-based workers they have to show up at the office every weekday starting in February. The mandate goes harder than Meta's baseline three-day requirement for Facebook and WhatsApp teams, but the parent company said each department can do its own thing...

Electro-Harmonix put out a new solid-state amp called the ABRAMS100 that pushes 100 watts through Class D power while staying light at around 2.5 pounds. The thing costs 299 bucks and comes with a preamp section that handles three-band EQ plus a presence toggle, and they threw in digital spring...

Waves dropped another plugin for its Magma lineup called StressBox, and the whole deal runs on basically one knob that handles compression when you twist right and expansion when you go left. The company pitched it as a way simpler option than stacking multiple processors for EQ, saturation, and...

The Business Disability Forum rolled out its updated awards program for disability inclusion work, and they switched up the name to put more weight on actual results instead of just vibes. Diane Lightfoot runs the org, and she basically said companies need to show they're making real changes...

The International Federation of Journalists and France's journalist union dropped a complaint with terrorism prosecutors over blocked reporting access to Gaza and the West Bank. They collected anonymous accounts from French reporters about equipment getting snatched, physical attacks...

Amnesty International wants investigators to look into what the RSF paramilitary group did at a displacement camp called Zamzam in North Darfur. The fighters rolled up with heavy weapons and started blasting at people hiding in homes, a hospital, and even a mosque. They trashed markets, schools...

The ICC got custody of a Libyan guy named Khaled Mohamed Ali El Hishri after Germany handed him over from detention. German cops grabbed him at the Berlin airport back in the summer when he was flying through, and they held onto him until all the legal paperwork got sorted out. He ran Mitiga...

Eversheds Sutherland brought on two new senior-level lawyers for its Ireland operation, which became part of the main international business a few months back. Robert Dever left his role running tax at Pinsent Masons in Dublin to rejoin Eversheds as a partner, and Mary Gavin moved over from...

Paul Weiss snagged three finance partners from Sidley Austin for its New York office, with Nicholas Schwartz leading the pack after running leveraged finance at his old shop. Mark Adler and Julie Ann Lamm already made the jump, while Schwartz wraps things up before year-end. The crew handles...

VERAFIED dropped a new campaign called IsThisVERAfied to help people spot fake content before AI-generated nonsense wrecks everything. Founder Khumo Makiti teamed up with producer Nolo Phiri to build awareness around deepfakes, voice clones, and manipulated images that spread faster than anyone...

Memory prices went absolutely bonkers after AI companies bought up everything the factories could make through 2028. RAM that used to cost 140 bucks is hitting 470 in some spots, and storage drives doubled or tripled depending on what you need. Micron just killed off its Crucial brand to focus...

A small rural school in Manyene hosted Free Code Africa's first outreach event, bringing computers and basic robotics to around 200 kids from 11 different schools. Most of them had never touched a computer before the session. Software developer Taurai Munodawafa runs the organization after...

The National Council for Civic Education ran a town hall meeting in Farafenni with backing from UNDP and EU cash to explain two fresh laws to locals. Senior Programme Officer Mamadou A.H. Bah broke down the Anti-Corruption Act from 2023, which targets bribery and dodgy use of public money, plus...

Gambia's Health Minister Momodou Lamin Samarteh told lawmakers his team fixed most of the mess flagged in the 2020 audit reports for hospitals like Bansang General Hospital, Bundung Maternal and Child Hospital, Serrekunda General Hospital, and Farafenni General Hospital. He dropped receipts...

Jaliba Kuyateh from Gambia crushed his performance at the ECOWAS Culture Festival opening dinner after dropping a fresh track about regional unity. The kora player got massive applause from the crowd at the Museum of Black Civilization courtyard in Dakar, where Senegalese Prime Minister Ousman...

Cops grabbed some guys from the Senzo Meyiwa trial courtroom after getting intel about a hit planned against Judge Ratha Mokgoatlheng and other people connected to the case. National police spokesperson Athlenda Mathe said they opened a conspiracy to commit murder investigation and hauled the...

Katiso Molefe and three other guys showed up at the Alexandra Magistrates Court while prosecutors tried merging their case files for the murders of DJ Sumbody and DJ Vintos. The state wants to link multiple hits from 2022 through organized crime charges, and they plan on moving everything to the...

Julius Mkhwanazi from the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Police showed up at the Madlanga Commission to answer for some wild accusations about running a rogue unit and helping criminals. The suspended acting chief got hit with claims that he gave blue lights to Vusimuzi Matlala's cars, which is illegal...