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An Intel Xeon 696X engineering sample showed up in PassMark, showing 32 cores, but the benchmark software is definitely reading the chip wrong since early firmware and provisional microcode tend to confuse detection tools when new architectures land. The multi-threaded scores match what you...

Nampak Zimbabwe pulled profit after tax up 57 percent to hit 7.81 million dollars for the year, despite revenue dropping from 101 million to 93 million as volumes slumped across the board. The packaging company benefited from a 66 percent drop in tax expenses and avoided the big monetary loss...

Kavango Resources pushed back the deadline for buying the Nara Gold Project in Zimbabwe to late February while both sides wrap up paperwork. The site covers 45 claims across four old mines that pulled over 90,000 ounces out of the ground, but never got proper modern exploration work done. The...

UK miner Ariana Resources locked down a 5.31 million dollar investment from Hong Kong Xinhai Mining Services to fund metallurgical testing and wrap up a feasibility study for the Dokwe Gold Project in Zimbabwe. The site holds over a million ounces of gold worth nearly 4 billion dollars at...

Tanganda Tea Company is dumping non-core assets and locking down bridge financing to scrape together 7 million dollars for working capital after weather issues and commodity price drops tanked its tea, macadamia, and avocado operations. The firm expects to post a 4.2 million dollar loss for the...

The Zimbabwe National Chamber of Commerce is pushing back against the government's plan to bump VAT from 15 to 15.5 percent, saying companies will just pass costs straight to consumers and make inflation worse. The business group argues the tax hike lands at a terrible time since firms are...

Willdale Limited cleared illegal settlers off its 123.6-hectare Mt Hampden site and handed the property to contractors who are building an industrial commercial park. The brick company plans to sell residential and commercial stands from the development to fund a capital raise that will pay for...

Seed Co International pulled its half-year loss down to $200,000 from $2.8 million in the same period last year by tightening up spending and managing credit risk better. The foreign ops arm of the Seed Co Group pushed revenue up 15 percent to $46 million while cutting overhead by 9 percent...

The Comesa Yellow Card Council of Bureaux Secretariat rolled out a USSD verification app in Zimbabwe that lets border officers check if yellow cards are legit using just a regular phone. The system works without internet and aims to cut down on fake insurance cards while speeding up crossings...

TBProAudio dropped TBPAClip, which is a dynamics plugin that handles clipping and saturation for mixing and mastering work. The thing runs on individual tracks, busses, or the master channel, and it goes from light saturation all the way to hard brickwall limiting depending on what you need...

Fanan Team put out Playlisted 2, which turns a DAW channel into a media player that handles audio and video files without bouncing between programs during live sets. The plugin lets you run backing tracks through VST effects and route them wherever you want, and everything gets controlled...

MeldaProduction pushed version 17.07 of its plugin bundle with MMicSim, a new mic simulation tool, and the final release of MTrackAlign for phase correction. MMicSim converts your existing mic signal into profiles from over 100 vintage and modern models using tech from MMatcher instead of basic...

u-he dropped the official release of Zebralette 3 as freeware and opened up the first public beta for Zebra 3. The free synth pulls one oscillator from the bigger Zebra 3 setup and wraps it in a stripped-down environment with ADSR and MSEG envelopes, two LFOs, a six-slot mod matrix, and delay...

Sampleson just put out Funkastic, which is their first AI-powered generative plugin that spits out funk grooves. The thing is trained on funky patterns and mostly targets clavinet-style parts, but it also handles electric pianos, organs, and bass lines. The plugin acts like a session musician...

NextMIDI dropped Divisimate Core, which is a mid-tier orchestration plugin that lets you spread notes across virtual instruments in real time. The plugin gives you 16 parts per instance, and you can run as many instances as you want, which means you can set up separate groups for different...

Hit'n'Mix pushed out RipX DAW 8 with a quick 8.0.1 patch that fixes some broken stuff from the main drop. The AI-powered software lets users mess with individual notes and harmonics instead of just splitting stems, and version 8 added Track Starter for auto-generating loops that match your scale...

MuseScore 4.6 dropped with instant AI vocal playback that lets composers type lyrics and hear them sung in real time through a partnership with Cantai. The free notation software became the first desktop app to pull this off, and Muse Group stressed that the feature exists to help the...

Strymon dropped the Fairfax overdrive pedal as their first all-analog effect after spending years making DSP stuff, and it recreates a weird valve drive unit that Garnet Amplifiers built for Randy Bachman back in 1965. The company engineered a miniaturized preamp and Class-A power amp with...

Arturia's new MiniFuse 2 OTG is a dual-USB audio interface with On-The-Go connectivity that lets creators route computer audio straight to phones or tablets. Both inputs handle mics, line signals, or instruments with phantom power on each channel, and there's a headphone jack up front plus...

Modartt released Syngular for Pianoteq 9, which uses physical modeling to make synth pads and keys instead of copying real pianos like their other stuff. The pack twists familiar parameters from the acoustic engine to build experimental sounds that ignore real-world physics while keeping an...