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Intel's next-gen Panther Lake chips are packing Xe3 graphics that apparently smoked AMD's Radeon 840M by around 26 percent in early benchmark runs. The test involved a four-core Xe3 iGPU on an engineering sample, and the results hint at better efficiency rather than just throwing more cores at...

INET over in Sweden hit pause on shipping the ASUS ROG Matrix RTX 5090 cards after spotting something weird in the first production batches. The retailer says it is waiting for ASUS to figure out what is up before sending more units out, and early word suggests the problem might be related to...

Nvidia axed support for Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta cards in its new 590 driver branch for Linux, which means the GTX 900 and 1000 series are basically cooked. The 970, 980 Ti, 1060, 1080, and even the ancient 750 Ti got dropped from active development, and anybody trying to run the fresh drivers...

Pulsar Gaming just put out a Bruce Lee-themed peripheral bundle with an 80-percent TKL keyboard, a super-light wireless mouse, and matching mouse pads done up in navy and white. The PCMK 3 HE board runs Gateron magnetic switches that let you dial in actuation from 0.01 mm to 4 mm, and it hits...

ASUS dropped the ExpertCenter P600 AiO with a Ryzen AI 7 350 chip, 32 gigs of DDR5 RAM, and a terabyte SSD crammed into a 23.8-inch touchscreen setup. The thing runs integrated AMD graphics, and it supports VESA mounting if you want to stick it on an arm or slap it against a wall. Gigabit LAN...

President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa told Zanu PF members at the 389th Politburo session to stop chasing personal wins and stick to what the party Constitution says. He gave props to provincial leadership for keeping grassroots structures tight at the cell and village level, and he said...

General Emmanuel Matatu got bumped up to lead the Zimbabwe Defence Forces after General Philip Valerio Sibanda retired, and President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa made it official at State House in Harare. The move is causing some grumbling because both Matatu and Sibanda came out of Zipra during...

DJ Masomere, a ZANU-PF hype man, and his partner Kennedy Sithole are getting hammered over sketchy mining deals tied to a Chinese-registered outfit called Wan Wenjin Jewellers. The government yanked their licenses in Mutasa District after the Mines Minister found registration problems, and Chief...

Delani Moyo dropped a thousand bucks on Siyazama Primary School in Ward 14 and promised another eight grand to get roofs on two classroom blocks that have been sitting exposed since he donated cement during campaign season. The ZANU PF rep for Insiza North also handed out cash prizes to 62...

ASUS just dropped the ROG Azoth 96 HE keyboard with magnetic hall-effect switches that let you tweak actuation distance down to 0.01 mm intervals. The thing pulls 8000 Hz polling whether you plug it in or go wireless, and it connects up to five devices at once through USB-C, Bluetooth, or their...

My Arcade just rolled out a pair of officially licensed Pac-Man gadgets to celebrate 45 years of the yellow dot-muncher. The Mighty Player looks like a tiny arcade cabinet with a 3.5-inch screen and wood-style casing, while the Pocket Player Max is the handheld version for people who want their...

Amazon just dropped its first 3nm chips for AI work in AWS data centers. Trainium2 handles the heavy training stuff with better memory design and more power efficiency, while Graviton5 takes care of regular cloud tasks without needing crazy cooling upgrades. Both chips help AWS pack more compute...

Simon Cowell went from being the mean judge everyone remembers to admitting he was kind of a jerk on American Idol and X Factor after losing his parents, having a kid named Eric with his partner Lauren, and watching Liam Payne die. The music exec talked about how he regrets the harsh stuff he...

Tunisian authorities grabbed opposition lawyer Ayachi Hammami from his house near Tunis after an appeals court hit him with a five-year prison sentence for terrorism charges and plotting against the state. The conviction came from a sketchy mass trial where roughly 40 defendants got slammed with...

Somalia's prime minister basically shrugged off Trump calling Somali immigrants garbage during a cabinet meeting rant, saying it was better to just ignore the insults since America still sends them around 128 million for fighting terrorists. Some Somalis back home were pissed their government...

Algerian actress Biyouna died from lung cancer at age 73, and she became legendary for refusing to bail during the civil war when Islamist groups were murdering artists and threatening women who worked outside traditional roles. The performer got famous playing Fatma on national TV right after...

Trump dropped a pardon for Texas Democrat Henry Cuellar, who was staring down federal charges about taking 600k in bribes from an Azerbaijani oil company and a Mexican bank. The congressman and his wife, Imelda, got hit with bribery and money laundering accusations for allegedly influencing US...

Charles Booker jumped into the Kentucky Senate race to replace Mitch McConnell with a pitch about guaranteed 40k yearly minimum wages and universal childcare, even though the state has not elected a Democratic senator since the 1990s. The progressive former state lawmaker already lost two Senate...

Border Patrol agents rolled into New Orleans and started hitting up Home Depot parking lots where immigrants hang out looking for work, and the whole operation got the cringey nickname Catahoula Crunch from Homeland Security. Gregory Bovino brought his green team after doing similar sweeps in...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth dropped the fog-of-war excuse when talking about a deadly Caribbean boat strike that killed 11 people back in September, claiming he bailed from the control room after the first hit and missed seeing survivors before a second strike took them out. The whole thing...