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    Netflix bags Warner Bros., Hollywood’s throne gets a new king

    Netflix just dropped $82.7 billion to buy Warner Bros. and HBO, which is the biggest deal they've ever done and basically turns them into a media monster overnight. The streaming giant went from mailing DVDs in red envelopes back in the late 90s to owning a century's worth of Hollywood history...
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    ECOFEST unveils digital pavilions, West Africa’s art goes global

    Senegal's culture minister showed up at the Place du Souvenir Africain and opened some fancy digital creation pavilions for ECOFEST 2025, and Amadou Ba spent the whole speech pushing how tech can basically save West African culture from irrelevance. The setup has wild gear like 360-degree rooms...
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    Felwine Sarr stirs Dakar, calls for Africa’s own museum story

    Economist Felwine Sarr showed up at the Museum of Black Civilisations in Dakar and basically told everyone that shipping African art back from Europe is way more complicated than just moving stuff around. He argued that museums need to completely rethink how they display returned pieces because...
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    Bakau cattle theft suspects jailed, courtroom drama unfolds

    Two guys got busted trying to jack cattle in Bakau Newtown and ended up locked at Mile II after their court appearance. Kabir Babu and Babucarr Mangan both admitted they planned the heist and attempted to pull it off using a vehicle, and prosecutors say they were gonna sell the animals...
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    MicroSD card slot comeback teased, phone makers chase savings

    Phone makers might actually bring back microSD card slots because DRAM prices are getting absolutely destroyed right now, and some Chinese suppliers are apparently talking about it. Memory costs have doubled since the start of the year, with 12GB of LPDDR5X hitting around $70 per unit, which...
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    Nvidia GTC returns to San Jose, AI upgrades take center stage

    NVIDIA just dropped the dates for GTC 2026, and Jensen Huang is doing his keynote on March 16 in San Jose. The company posted details on its site saying the event kicks off on March 15 with workshops covering CUDA libraries and robotics stuff, but the real action will be around AI infrastructure...
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    Metroid Prime 4 hits Switch, PC fans score 3D upgrade

    Metroid Prime 4: Beyond just dropped for both Switch consoles after getting rebooted partway through development when Bandai Namco's version wasn't cutting it, and Retro Studios had to start over from scratch. The game was announced back at E3 2017 for the original Switch, but it took forever to...
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    OneXPlayer X1 goes Panther Lake, handheld scene gets spicy

    OneXPlayer is prepping a gaming handheld called the X1 that runs Intel's Core Ultra 5 338H chip, and it just showed up on Geekbench with 32 gigs of RAM. The processor packs 12 cores split between performance, efficiency, and low-power variants, plus an Arc B370 integrated GPU with 10 Xe3 cores...
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    Apple’s chip chief eyes exit, tech world starts circling

    Apple might lose Johny Srouji, the guy who basically runs their entire chip operation, and the company is scrambling to keep him around. Srouji apparently told Tim Cook he's thinking about bouncing to another firm, and he's already let his coworkers know he's serious about it. Meta or OpenAI...
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    Samsung HBM4 rebounds hard, rivals brace for price war

    Samsung might actually pull off a comeback with its HBM memory after getting absolutely bodied by yield problems for months. The company finished internal testing for HBM4 and sent samples to big clients like NVIDIA, and analysts think approval could happen before the year wraps up. Samsung is...
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    iPhone 18 shake-up looms, Apple tests secret glass

    Apple might drop one of its flagship iPhones next year to make room for a foldable model, and the iPhone 18 lineup could get a major facelift with under-display Face ID tech. A leaker on Weibo claims Apple is testing this setup using micro-transparent glass splicing, which would let them ditch...
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    Intel Arc B390 flexes muscle, rivals feeling the heat

    Benchmarks for the Panther Lake Arc B390 integrated GPU just dropped, and the 12-core Xe3 chip is putting up some wild numbers in PassMark. The flagship iGPU scored 9,453 points, beating AMD's Radeon 890M by 16 percent and crushing older Intel Arc chips by huge margins. It even managed to hang...
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    Intel Panther Lake leaks flex fresh scores, rivals left rattled

    Intel's upcoming Panther Lake chips just showed up in PassMark benchmarks, revealing four different Core Ultra Series 3 processors. The leaked CPUs are the Core Ultra 7 366H, Ultra X7 358H, Ultra 7 365, and Ultra 5 332, and they're pulling some surprisingly strong single-thread numbers against...
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    MacBook Pro survives car crush, scratched

    A Reddit user ran over their brand-new M5 MacBook Pro after leaving it on top of their car, and the laptop survived with just minor scratches. The machine was inside a cheap sleeve when it got hit, but the owner found it after searching for half an hour with tire marks on the case. Despite...
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    Ryzen 7 9850X3D leak shows 20 percent boost for gamers

    AMD dropped fresh PassMark benchmarks for the Ryzen 7 9850X3D, and the chip is sitting around 20 percent faster than the older 7800X3D while clocking a modest five percent bump over the current 9800X3D. The new variant packs eight cores with 96MB of L3 cache and hits 5.6GHz boost speeds, which...
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    Intel Battlemage BMG-G31 gets support, GPU launch heats up

    Intel sneakily dropped support for its Arc Battlemage BMG-G31 GPU inside the latest VTune Profiler update, which has people wondering if the big card is actually gonna show up at CES after getting ghosted all year. The changelog mentions Panther Lake CPUs and the BMG-G31 together, and since...
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    TSMC sends US staff to Taiwan, Arizona fabs chase chip edge

    TSMC is shipping a bunch of American engineers back to Taiwan for hands-on training with 3nm and 2nm chip manufacturing since the Arizona facility can't level up without overseas experience. The company already did this back in 2021 when it sent workers abroad for a year and a half, and the...
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    Gigabyte preps Z890 boards, Arrow Lake Plus gets green light

    Gigabyte dropped fresh BIOS updates for Z890 boards that confirm support for the upcoming Arrow Lake Refresh chips, which Intel is branding as Core Ultra 200S Plus. The new firmware packs microcode 0x11B, and ASRock went even harder with 0x11D in their latest release. Both vendors are gearing up...
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    Wreckreation studio faces layoffs, racing dreams stall

    Three Fields Entertainment just put its entire staff on potential layoff after Wreckreation flopped hard at launch despite the studio grinding to fix bugs and add features players wanted. CEO Fiona Sperry said the indie dev won't see any game revenue for a while, and their publisher bailed on...
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    Russia blocks Roblox, citing child safety and LGBTQ+

    Russia just yeeted Roblox off the internet after its media watchdog Roskomnadzor decided the platform was too sketchy for kids. The ban cites abuse reports, predator problems, and LGBT content that supposedly corrupts children's morals, which is pretty on-brand for Russian regulators who have...
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