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Human Rights Watch called on International Criminal Court member countries to protect the institution from attacks as they gather at The Hague for their annual meeting. The group pointed out how various governments have been trying to kneecap the court through sanctions and threats, with the US...

Hogan Lovells poached Walid Salib from Eversheds Sutherland, where he ran their Saudi M&A practice for a couple of years after doing similar work at Freshfields. The guy has spent over 14 years in the Middle East helping sovereign wealth funds, private equity shops, and multinational corps close...

ClearBank brought Angela Roberts on board as group general counsel after she wrapped up her stint leading EMEA legal at Allspring Global Investments. Roberts is taking over from Philip House, who held the chief governance and legal officer spot before shifting to a senior advisory gig. The...

King's College London is rolling out a 12-week online AI course for law students and staff at the Dickson Poon School of Law, partnering with Harvey, Legora, Luminance, and Lucio to teach prompt engineering and responsible AI use. Executive Dean Dan Hunter says the tech has become fundamental...

The London Solicitors Litigation Association kicked off two programs to boost diversity and help younger lawyers level up. LSLA president Nikki Edwards from Howard Kennedy announced the Judicial Shadow Scheme and a new mentoring program at their annual dinner. The shadow scheme lets four members...

Ghost Story Games dropped another developer blog about Judas three months after the last one, with Ken Levine and his team confirming the game is still in the works but offering zero info on when it might actually drop. The studio shared fresh concept art of the main character and let lead...

Samsung exec Kang Min-seok tried defending why the Galaxy Z TriFold uses last year's processor instead of the newest flagship chip from Qualcomm. The VP claims the company wanted a polished product and picked the older silicon for that reason, but the math tells a different story. With just...

Apple just hit a massive sales peak with the latest batch of phones, but analysts from IDC say the company is about to kneecap itself by shuffling launch dates around. The firm expects iPhone shipments to drop over four percent when the base model gets pushed from fall into spring, which breaks...

Epic pulled the horror game Horses from its store literally one day before launch after previously approving it multiple times. The company claimed the indie title from Santa Ragione violated policies around inappropriate content and animal abuse, slapping it with an Adults Only rating that...

Bungie dropped the Renegades expansion for Destiny 2, and Steam numbers are sitting at around 66,000 concurrent players. That beats the depressing October lows and the sub-2,000 counts from right before launch, but it still falls short of what Edge of Fate pulled on its first day when 108,000...

Someone dug up a hidden Apple Health icon buried inside the latest ChatGPT app update for iPhones, and the file name suggests OpenAI might be cooking up an integration between the two services. The feature would apparently let ChatGPT tap into your health data to spit out personalized wellness...

PC makers are eating losses right now because they kept laptop prices steady while memory costs exploded. Anonymous supply chain folks told a Korean outlet that vendors have been burning through old inventory to avoid passing the pain to customers, but that stockpile is running dry...

GALAX put out a promo video for their HOF Gaming lineup, showing off years of overclocking records and teasing what the RTX 50 cards can do. The company makes some of the only high-end cards left with dual 16-pin connectors, like the RTX 5090D HOF OC, and they packed the new series with fancy...

The Polish studio 11 bit is throwing together its first-ever digital event next week to show off what's coming for Frostpunk 2 expansions, fresh stuff for The Alters, and a few other projects like Moonlighter 2 and Death Howl. They're streaming it through their YouTube page and teaming up with...

FromSoftware is dropping The Forsaken Hollows expansion for Elden Ring Nightreign, adding two fresh characters and a couple of bosses to fight. The Undertaker swings around heavy weapons and has this wild aerial charge move that can stun even the toughest enemies. The Scholar joins as the second...

Lenovo crushed it in mainland China with 14 percent more computers sold compared to last year, pushing out nearly 4.4 million units during the third quarter. The company grabbed 39 percent of the entire market while everyone else took losses. Huawei dropped seven percent to roughly one million...

Amazon dropped details on their Trainium3 UltraServers and teased the next Trainium4 chips at their annual conference. The UltraServer racks cram 144 Trainium3 processors into one system, delivering over four times the performance and efficiency compared to the older version. They built custom...

Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii got asked about a potential Chrono Trigger remake during a YouTube discussion program, and he refused to shut it down. He said he can't talk about it and people should stop asking, which is basically the most non-denial denial you can give without getting fired...

Sony and Tencent are pumping the brakes on their lawsuit over Light of Motiram after everyone called it a Horizon knockoff. Both companies asked a California court to push back hearings and extend their briefing deadlines while they hash things out behind closed doors. Tencent promised not to...

Apple just tanked its macOS security bounty payouts right when Mac malware is getting worse. Csaba Fitzl from Iru called them out on LinkedIn for cutting rewards by half to 83 percent across different categories. Full TCC bypasses that let sketchy apps grab your personal data without permission...