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Nvidia cut off Maxwell and Pascal GPUs from getting regular Linux driver updates with the beta 590.44.01 release, meaning GTX 900 and GTX 10 series cards are stuck with quarterly security patches instead of game-ready optimizations. The company kept these decade-old cards on life support longer...

Capcom dropped some fresh Resident Evil Requiem combat clips showing Grace blasting zombies with a handgun in third-person sequences that feel straight out of RE4, but the footage still has zero confirmation about Leon Kennedy being in the game. The clip aired on Japanese TV in censored form, so...

Apple just got slapped with another court battle after the EU's top judges ruled that Dutch courts can actually prosecute the iPhone maker over App Store commission abuse, potentially costing the company around 743 million dollars. Two consumer advocacy groups claim Apple's 30 percent developer...

Intel's Core Ultra 7 366H just showed up on Geekbench with four Xe3 graphics cores that basically match the old GTX 1050 Ti mobile, beating AMD's Radeon 840M by about 26 percent but getting destroyed by the Radeon 860M. The chip runs 16 cores total with four performance units, eight efficient...

Apple plans to push out only 8 million iPhone 17e units with BOE handling most of the OLED screen orders, and the phone basically looks like a minor spec bump over the 16e rather than any kind of major redesign. Samsung and LG are chipping in some display panels for the budget model launching...

AMD has three fresh EPYC Embedded chip families coming down the pipeline, according to leaked info, with the Venice lineup packing up to 96 Zen 6 cores on TSMC's 2nm process and supporting PCIe Gen6 alongside DDR5 memory. The Fire Range series targets mid-tier applications with 16 Zen 5 cores...

Eidos Montréal just axed more people for the third round of cuts since early last year, and leaked resumes show they were cooking up a dark fantasy action RPG with melee combat and parkour that was pretty clearly a Legacy of Kain revival before it got canned. The studio already lost workers when...

Samsung just set up a Custom SoC Development Team because they're tired of getting dunked on by Apple and Qualcomm while relying on ARM's off-the-shelf CPU cores. Vice President Park Bong-il is heading up the effort to build chips completely from scratch instead of outsourcing designs, and the...

The First Descendant devs dropped their December patch details and pushed Season 4 all the way back to summer because they need to basically rebuild the entire endgame loop from scratch. Ultimate Yujin is getting added as a hybrid character who can either go full combat mode or play support...

Samsung just dropped a teaser for the Exynos 2600, which marks the first 2nm GAA chipset anyone's actually made, and the company seems desperate to prove they fixed all the overheating garbage that plagued earlier models. The trailer hints they've been grinding away on this chip for a while...

Mount and Blade II Bannerlord just dropped its War Sails expansion for about 25 bucks, and it finally brings naval combat after years of the community begging for it. TaleWorlds Entertainment is wiping old saves to give everyone a clean slate with the new maritime warfare system, which adds the...

Kids in Mbeere, Embu county used to ditch class constantly to work the muguka farms with their parents, chasing quick cash instead of dealing with boring memorization-heavy lessons they couldn't connect to real life. The old 8-4-4 system had them cramming facts for exams without understanding...

Rigathi Gachagua is out here trying to poach ODM politicians, straight-up telling Edwin Sifuna and Babu Owino they can bail on their party and join his DCP instead. The former deputy president made the pitch after bringing in two new MCAs, and he said Sifuna could even get DCP backing for his...

Tanzanian social media personality Jennifer Jovin, who goes by Niffer, got out of jail after being locked up since late October. She thanked the president for pardoning her and said the whole thing was just a misunderstanding since she doesn't mess with politics at all. Her time behind bars...

Trump just nuked Biden's fuel efficiency rules that were supposed to push new cars and trucks to hit around 50 miles per gallon by 2031, and he dropped it down to about 34 mpg instead. The president rolled this out with auto execs from Ford and Stellantis standing next to him, claiming the old...

The Trump admin just hit pause on immigration apps from 19 countries that were already under travel restrictions, and they threw in an indefinite hold on all asylum requests, regardless of where people are from. This kicked off after a shooting by an Afghan national who got asylum earlier this...

The former top diplomat for the EU, Federica Mogherini, got hit with corruption and fraud charges along with two other people. Prosecutors say they suspect shady stuff went down when a contract got awarded to the College of Europe in Bruges, where Mogherini works as rector, to run a training...

King Charles threw a state banquet for German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier at Windsor Castle, and both leaders talked about backing Ukraine against Russia while strengthening ties between their countries. The visit highlights the Kensington treaty from back in the summer, which is the first...

The Women's Institute in the UK is kicking out trans women starting in April after that Supreme Court thing said biological sex is what counts under equality laws. Melissa Green, who runs the group, says they have zero choice and are super bummed about it, but trans women are still women in...

A Los Angeles physician got two and a half years behind bars for illegally supplying ketamine to Matthew Perry before the actor died from an overdose. Dr Salvador Plasencia admitted he knew Perry was battling addiction when he sold him the drug, and he even texted another doctor, calling the...