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    Mr Price’s German gamble draws fire from top shareholder

    A major Mr Price shareholder, 36One Asset Management, is publicly slamming the retailer's plan to buy German chain NKD for roughly R9.6 billion. In a sharply critical letter, 36One co-founder Cy Jacobs questioned the deal's high price and strategic logic, warning it mirrors past failed overseas...
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    Eskom bets on digital wheeling to juice up small biz green power

    Eskom has picked Johannesburg company Enerweb to build a digital platform for virtual wheeling, a new method for trading renewable power. This system aims to make clean energy more accessible for smaller commercial users, moving beyond the complex long-term contracts typically used by major...
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    Rupert's ride luxury wave to near $19B, eye top 100 club

    The Rupert family's wealth has jumped over five billion dollars this year, approaching a total of nineteen billion. That massive increase pushes South Africa's richest clan close to breaking into the global top one hundred. The gain is largely thanks to their luxury goods giant, Richemont...
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    MKP vows to haunt Ntuli with no-confidence votes, calls ANC racist

    MK Party parliament member Sibonelo Nomvalo is pushing his party to keep filing votes of no confidence against KwaZulu-Natal Premier Thami Ntuli. He says the goal is to constantly remind people that the ANC is governing alongside the IFP and DA, groups the MKP labels as racist and tied to the...
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    Big hitter, bigger dreams, SA's Potgieter bags Palmer award

    South African golfer Aldrich Potgieter just snagged the Arnold Palmer Award for PGA Tour Rookie of the Year. The 21-year-old becomes only the third guy from his country to win it, joining Ernie Els and Trevor Immelman. His big season was capped by a playoff victory at the Rocket Mortgage...
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    Women rule ballots but not the benches, Gambia's reps ask why

    A big conference about getting more Gambian women into politics just kicked off at the SDKJ Conference Centre. International IDEA and some other groups are running the thing. Their goal is to check how things are going for women in politics since 2016 and figure out what is still broken. The...
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    Colorful shrinks RTX 50 cards for tiny PC warriors

    Colorful has launched a new line of very small RTX 50 series graphics cards called the iGame Mini. These models, including the RTX 5070 and RTX 5060 Ti, are built for tiny PC cases with a single-fan cooler and a length of just 180 millimeters. They also maintain a two-slot thickness for easier...
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    Call of Duty ditches zombies, tries fresh start in 2027

    A reliable Call of Duty leaker says the 2027 title will be a completely new sub-series. According to the source, GhostOfHope on X, Sledgehammer Games is developing this entry. It would introduce new characters and a setting in the late 1990s or early 2000s, breaking from the Modern Warfare and...
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    NVIDIA and SK hynix cook up AI SSD, inference gets spicy

    SK Hynix and NVIDIA are reportedly co-developing a specialized AI SSD under a project named Storage Next. This inference-optimized storage solution, targeting a 2027 release, aims to address the high-throughput, low-latency demands of running AI models by functioning as a pseudo-memory layer for...
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    Ex-Hitman devs drop MOBA roguelite, loot chaos ensues

    A new co-op roguelite from industry veterans, Raiders of Blackveil, just hit early access on PC. The game comes from Wombo Games, a Copenhagen studio founded by Hitman co-creator Janos Flösser. Their team includes ex-IO Interactive and Square Enix devs with credits on major titles like Tomb...
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    Samsung's old camera trick returns to outshine Apple's iPhone 18

    Samsung might bring back variable aperture cameras because Apple is reportedly adding them to the iPhone 18 Pro models. A tipster on Weibo, Digital Chat Station, says Samsung is testing the tech again and also experimenting with a wider folding screen similar to rumored iPhone Fold designs...
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    ARC Raiders freezes players solid, adds frostbite chaos

    Embark Studios just dropped a major winter update for ARC Raiders called Cold Snap. The new survival element makes the Rust Belt a frozen death trap where players can freeze to death. A Flickering Flames event and a fresh Raider Deck are also part of the patch, which is the last big one planned...
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    Leaked iOS 26 build spills Apple's secret sauce, codenames galore

    A massive leak from an internal iOS 26 build has spilled the beans on a ton of future Apple gear. The info, compiled by a Chinese leaker known as Kang on Weibo, details upcoming chips and devices like the A20 and M6 processors, a Vision Air headset, and a foldable iPhone prototype. This data...
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    Divinity confirmed turn-based, Vincke promises RPG revolution

    Larian Studios confirmed their new game, Divinity, will be another turn-based RPG. CEO Swen Vincke stated that it aims to surpass Baldur's Gate 3 by refining its formula with new, unrevealed mechanics. The goal is a three to four-year development cycle, targeting an early access launch around...
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    Panther Lake sips power, but loses speed

    An early engineering sample for Intel's Panther Lake chip shows underwhelming results. The Core Ultra 7 365, a power-efficient model, posted Geekbench scores slightly below its Lunar Lake predecessor. The chip scored about six to seven percent slower in both single and multicore tests compared...
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    Wilds gets real, frame rates finally fly

    CAPCOM's latest patch for Monster Hunter Wilds delivers tangible performance gains. Title Update 4, available now, shows clear framerate improvements across two different PC configurations in official comparison videos. Using medium settings at 1080p, both an AMD RX 6600 and an NVIDIA RTX 2060...
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    FF7 Remake hits Switch 2, fans lose their minds

    Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade launches on Nintendo Switch 2 and Xbox Series consoles next month. A playable demo for both platforms is available now, featuring the opening bombing mission. Progress and some bonus items will carry over to the full game. The demo showcases a strong...
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    Dead Island 3 surfaces, zombie fans mark 2028 calendars

    A financial filing reveals Dambuster Studios is targeting early 2028 for Dead Island 3. The Nottingham-based developer has nearly two hundred staff fully assigned to the project following their work on Dead Island 2's ultimate edition. This planned release comes less than five years after the...
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    DRAM crunch hits phones, budgets bleed

    A global DRAM shortage is spiking memory prices, forcing phone makers to cut specs. Smartphone shipment numbers are projected to drop by 2.6 percent next year as component costs jump. Bill of Materials expenses could rise up to twenty-five percent for budget models. Apple and Samsung can absorb...
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    Lara rolls back in, boulders and all

    Crystal Dynamics and Flying Wild Hog are remaking the original Tomb Raider. Called Tomb Raider Legacy of Atlantis, the game arrives in 2026 for the series's thirtieth anniversary. It aims to modernize the classic while keeping its core spirit. Developers explained they rebuilt the combat and...
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