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Some dude on Reddit with an iPhone 16 Pro Max strapped a cooling setup to their phone and managed to beat the binned A19 Pro chip inside the iPhone Air in benchmark tests. The actively cooled A18 Pro pulled 3,630 single-core and 9,648 multi-core on Geekbench 6 while the iPhone Air with its A19...

A repair shop in Utah called DVD Game Exchange Repair Center got handed a busted PlayStation 5 that turned into an absolute nightmare when techs cracked it open. The console from Orem was completely infested with cockroaches that were actively crawling out while they were trying to diagnose...

Nintendo just scooped up Bandai Namco Studios Singapore after basically telegraphing the move in their latest financial report. The studio helped develop Splatoon 3 alongside other titles like Soul Calibur VI and Ace Combat 7, but their work on the squid shooter franchise is what sealed the...

Intel's apparently prepping at least four Nova Lake-S desktop chips with that new bLLC cache setup, according to leaks from Kopite7kimi. The unlocked models are split between dual compute tile configs that pack up to 48 cores plus 4 low-power efficiency cores with 288 MB of bLLC, and single tile...

SSSTC just dropped their ER4 enterprise SATA drives that max out at 16TB, which is pretty massive for SATA tech these days. The drives hit 98K read IOPS and between 30K to 55K write IOPS, depending on capacity, with sequential speeds capping at 550MB/s read and 530MB/s write. They use a standard...

discoDSP just rolled out Discovery Pro 8.10 with some pretty solid upgrades for synth nerds. The big one is 16x oversampling for bouncing tracks, which gives you that extra audio quality when rendering final mixes. They added mono mode priority that lets you pick which note plays when you hit...

AIR Music Tech just dropped Tape Double Track as a freebie, which is wild because they normally charge a hundred bucks for it. The plugin recreates that old school Automatic Double Tracking effect from the 60s that made Beatles recordings sound so thick and layered without having the artists...

Johnny Cash's estate is going after Coca-Cola for allegedly using a tribute singer to fake the country legend's voice in their college football ads without asking permission. The beverage company hired someone who markets himself as a Cash impersonator to record vocals that would sound as close...

Oasis is setting up temporary merch shops in London and Dublin that stay open until late December after wrapping their reunion tour. The London spot on Regent Street opens first with a room showing tour footage and fan content, while Dublin launches at Stephen's Green Shopping Centre the next...

Wasserman Music just loaded up their UK crew with four people to handle tours and artist stuff. Paul Ryan came over as a senior VP, bringing his metal and rock portfolio with bands like Sleep Token and Architects, while grabbing some new acts. Chris Lander jumped into work on the podcast side...

The EU dropped 20 million euros on Gambia to juice up secondary schools and get more teachers trained with extra focus on girls and disabled students. Higher Education Minister Pierre Gomez said the cash hits right when they're turning Gambia College into a proper university and upgrading all...

Gambia just rolled out a National Madrassah Board to get Islamic school grads into universities and technical programs after years of them getting locked out of higher education. Higher Education Minister Pierre Gomez said the board fixes problems with broken infrastructure and curricula that...

A Gambian guy, Momodou Wurry Jallow, and a Sierra Leonean dude, Kaaba Yankee, both got slapped with 100k dalasi bail after getting pinched for allegedly jacking solar panels from the NAWEC plant in Jambur. Each needs two Gambian co-signers and they both said they didn't do it when they rolled up...

A crew from 4H Norway just wrapped two weeks checking on their partner org 4H Gambia, and said the youth and women empowerment work is looking solid. The Norwegian visitors sat in on the annual meeting in Farafenni, where everyone went over reports and locked in plans for next year, while the...

Gambia just wrapped up reviewing its plan to wipe out Peste des Petits Ruminants by 2030 after the African Union helped fund a weekend workshop. The disease hammers sheep and goats hard and basically wrecks the income for smallholder farmers who depend on those animals for cash and food...

Varna Mayor Blagomir Kotsev is getting sprung on 200k leva bail after his lawyer, Ina Lulcheva, argued the prosecution had nothing new since August and keeping him locked up was basically just harassment. The court agreed he doesn't need to stay in custody anymore since it's not serving any real...

Vazrazhdane councilors are raising hell over a 60 million leva heating network project in Sofia's Druzhba neighborhood after their audit found around 40 million leva missing from the books. Party chairman Deyan Nikolov says Toplofikatsiya Sofia can't explain where the money went and their...

Police ran up on former Malawian president Lazarus Chakwera at his spot in Area 10, Lilongwe, yesterday, hunting for four German Shepherds that apparently got jacked from State House. The whole thing was about some dogs. People are saying this petty stuff is exactly why African leaders won't...

BSP leader Atanas Zafirov just dropped an ultimatum on his coalition buddies from GERB, and There Is Such A People. He said his party's gonna bounce from the government if they gut all the social stuff from the revised 2026 budget. That means no wage hikes, no pension bumps, and no maternity...

Environment Minister Manol Genov thinks they can still get Budget 2026 passed before the year ends, after Borisov told the PM and Finance Minister to pull it back. He says this is just continuing the same process rather than starting fresh, and MPs might need to work through Christmas to get it...