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Media City Qatar just locked in a deal with AlRayan Bank to give its 300-plus licensed companies easier access to banking services. The agreement sets up a dedicated contact person who will help businesses and their employees get accounts sorted without the usual hassle, and both sides are...

Schneider Electric showed up at the Saudi Industrial Transformation expo in Riyadh and flexed its automation gear aimed at factories trying to hit Vision 2030 targets. The company rolled out its AVEVA Unified Operations Center for real-time process monitoring, EcoStruxure Automation Expert for...

S&P Global just bumped Telkom's credit rating up a notch to BB+ from BB, and the move tracks with South Africa's own sovereign upgrade that dropped a bit earlier. The telecom company sits close enough to the government that its rating basically follows whatever happens with the national fiscal...

AWS rolled out a preview of Interconnect multicloud, which lets companies hook their Amazon VPCs directly to other cloud providers without the usual DIY networking headache. Google Cloud is the first partner on board, and Microsoft Azure will join sometime in 2026. The whole point is giving...

Integrity360 just bought Redshift, a cybersecurity firm based in Johannesburg, and the deal stacks on top of their earlier pickups of Grove Group and Nclose. The acquisition pushes their South African headcount past 230 people spread across Johannesburg and Cape Town, and those offices double as...

Varmilo just dropped foot pedals for gaming, and preorders are live at 39 bucks per unit. The lineup has three configs: a single-pedal version with three keys, another single-pedal model packing four keys, and a multi-pedal setup with four separate pedals. All of them use Cherry silent black...

Asus just teased a white-themed Mini-ITX motherboard under its ROG line, and the preview shot shows that signature 45-degree angled heatsink on the lower-left side. That same design element appears on the STRIX B850-I GAMING WIFI, which runs a 10+2+1 power phase setup and comes with two M.2...

AMD basically leaked its own hardware by shoving a Ryzen 7 9850X3D into driver support pages without saying anything official. The chip showed up next to other Zen 5 desktop parts with 3D V-Cache, but there is zero spec sheet or press release backing it up. Data miners caught the listing the...

Someone dropped a sketchy BIOS for the ASUS GeForce RTX 5090 that lets the card pull 2000 watts, which is way past anything consumer cards should handle. ASUS said they never made this firmware and told people not to touch it because it could fry your hardware instantly. The file probably got...

A new group called Afro Sports Tourism just launched in Harare and wants to turn Zimbabwe into a regional sports hub that pulls tourists and cash. Co-founder Nyasha Sanyamandwe said the country already has solid material across 84 registered sports and recent international events like the Rugby...

Economists torched Zimbabwe's 2026 budget for squeezing citizens harder while pretending to offer breaks. Finance minister Mthuli Ncube dropped IMTT on local currency deals by half a percent but cranked VAT from 15% to 15.5%, which wipes out any gains since VAT hits everyone and poor people...

ZCTU secretary general Tirivanhu Marimo torched the 2026 National Budget for ignoring workers who are getting hammered by rising costs and stagnant pay. The government kept the income tax-free threshold frozen while bumping VAT to 15.5%, slapping a 15% withholding tax on digital services from...

The Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries went after the government for keeping the Intermediated Money Transfer Tax around despite warnings that it wrecks production and makes businesses less competitive. Finance minister Mthuli Ncube dropped the rate on ZiG transactions to 1.5% from 2% but left...

Aurally Sound put out Prism, which is an audio-to-MIDI converter that runs on machine learning and apparently handles polyphonic stuff without falling apart. The plugin works best with solo recordings like guitar, piano, bass, and strings, and it keeps velocity and timing details when it spits...

Sinevibes dropped Cache, which is basically a plugin that records your audio in real time and lets you mess with it through a bunch of buffer-based tricks like looping, reversing, scratching, and time stretching. You can stack up to 12 effects at once and fire them off using MIDI notes with...

Universal Audio just launched Paradise Guitar Studio, a single plugin that crams their whole recording chain into one package. The thing has 11 tube amp models, 35 cabinet and mic setups recorded by pros, and over 25 effects units from classic pedals to studio gear like the 1176 compressor. The...

Neural DSP dropped massive updates for both Quad Cortex and Nano Cortex that bring next-generation capture tech plus a ton of new gear models. The Quad Cortex got 669 fresh V2 captures across 41 different devices, 29 new virtual units like the Dumbbell ODS amp, and improved processing that...

Brian Samuriwo picked up a Lifetime Achievement Award at the National Entrepreneurs and Business Awards in Bulawayo, and the recognition came from his business work, plus community projects through his foundation. The ZANU PF politician runs health expos that give free medical care to older...

A massive crowd showed up in Glen Norah B for the kickoff of Masowe for Economic Development, which is basically a faith group backing President Mnangagwa and ZANU PF economic plans under NAMFED. Harare Province chairman Goodwills Masimirembwa told religious leaders to drop their differences and...

Temba Mliswa went after Fadzayi Mahere for posting about national problems on X instead of handling them in Parliament back when she had the chance. Mahere bailed on her Mt Pleasant seat after winning by over 12,000 votes, saying she refused to work with people connected to what she called a...