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A federal appeals court shut down the Trump administration's attempt to make Alina Habba the acting US attorney for New Jersey because she had already got nominated for the permanent gig. The Third Circuit said putting her in that spot broke federal vacancy laws, and defendants in two criminal...

African Union leaders rolled up to Algiers to talk reparations and accountability for colonial crimes across the continent. Algeria's foreign minister pushed for legal recognition that colonialism was criminal, plus compensation and return of stolen artifacts that he said international law backs...

A bunch of humanitarian groups went off on Ukraine for bailing on the Ottawa Convention, which is basically the international treaty that banned landmines back in the 90s. The organizations pointed out that the agreement does not let countries just hit pause on their commitments during wars, and...

Russia's top court just slapped a terrorist label on the Anti-Corruption Foundation that Alexei Navalny's crew ran, which means anyone tied to it could face life in prison with no statute of limitations. The group made videos exposing government corruption that racked up millions of views, like...

Thousands of people hit the streets in Manila after a massive corruption scandal blew up around flood-control money that supposedly got funneled to politicians and contractors instead of actual projects. The Catholic Church and opposition groups marched down EDSA Avenue demanding President...

Human Rights Watch dropped a pretty grim assessment about the Central African Republic elections coming up, saying the whole thing looks sketchy with political interference and security issues messing up the legitimacy. The country scrapped presidential term limits through a referendum, which...

Friedrich Graf von Westphalen snagged six partners from ADVANT Beiten's Frankfurt crew, with three landing this month and the other three showing up after the holidays. Gerritt Ponath is the big name after spending 18 years at ADVANT doing private client stuff for rich families dealing with...

DWF grabbed an 11-lawyer transport and marine crew from two German boutique firms and set up shop in Hamburg with them. Marco Remiorz is running the show after bouncing from Arnecke Sibeth Dabelstein, while Philipp Hartmann and Niels Witt came over from SKW Schwarz. The firm's CEO said Germany...

DAC Beachcroft tapped Ben Daniels as their next senior partner, and he takes over from Virginia Clegg when her second five-year stint wraps up. The commercial litigation guy has been grinding at the firm since 2008 and runs their Bristol office while leading the dispute resolution crew there...

German law firm Gleiss Lutz bumped nine people up to partner, which is way more than the two they promoted last year. The new partners are scattered across Frankfurt, Düsseldorf, and Stuttgart offices, and three of them are women. That brings the female partner percentage from 14 to 16 percent...

Linklaters put together a squad of attorneys who got trained up on AI stuff, and they're gonna help other lawyers at the firm figure out how to use the tech for better workflows and client work. The team is pairing up with data science people to find spots where AI makes sense and figure out...

Zanu PF Central Committee member Kudakwashe Tagwirei told party supporters at a provincial conference that President Mnangagwa should stay in power through 2030 to finish his economic transformation plans. Tagwirei pointed to infrastructure upgrades and foreign currency earnings jumping from...

Apple just swapped out its AI chief, John Giannandrea, for Amar Subramanya, who was doing AI research over at Microsoft. Subramanya will report to Craig Federighi as a VP and take over the company's entire AI operation. Tim Cook mentioned that Federighi has been pushing the AI stuff forward...

Amazon locked down two seasons of the God of War show, and Frederick E.O. Toye from Shogun and The Boys is directing the first couple of episodes to set the vibe. Ronald D. Moore is still running the whole thing as showrunner and executive producer, and pre-production already kicked off in...

The Game Awards dropped the first round of voting for Players' Voice, which lets people pick their favorite 10 games out of 30 nominees. Voting closes early next week, and all six Game of the Year contenders made the list alongside a bunch of other stuff nominated elsewhere. A few games like...

NVIDIA still controls most of the discrete GPU market, but both AMD and Intel managed to claw back some ground during the third quarter. AMD's share jumped to 7% while Intel hit 1%, and NVIDIA dropped from 94% to 92% despite being the only company that grew overall GPU market share in the prior...

Arc Games and Cryptic Studios managed to bail out of Embracer Group before getting axed like Volition and Free Radical Design. XD Inc. helped bankroll the buyout, and Arc is back to being an independent double-A publisher without any layoffs or restructuring drama. CEO Yoon Im said the company...

Apple just threw the original iPhone SE onto its obsolete products list along with seven other devices that hit the seven-year mark after getting discontinued. The SE stopped selling back in 2018, and the cutoff clock starts ticking from when Apple pulls something from stores instead of when it...

Samsung and SK Hynix are telling everyone they are not going to ramp up DRAM production like crazy because they got burned during the COVID era when demand tanked. Both companies slashed output back then to deal with oversupply, and right at this moment, their production lines are super...

Dan Houser went off about generative AI again while doing press rounds for his new book, and this time, he is going after the people hyping it up instead of the tech itself. He told Virgin Radio UK that the executives pushing AI as some kind of creativity replacement are not exactly the most...