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This is Miyamoto. I would like to let you know that the worldwide theatrical release date for the live-action film of The Legend of Zelda has been moved up to April 30, 2027, from May 7. The team is working hard to deliver the film to everyone as soon as possible. There’s less than a year to go until release, so thank you for waiting.

📍Africa’s first lithium sulphate: Prospect Lithium has today sent out its first shipment of lithium sulphate from its new US$400M plant at Arcadia Mine. It is the first time this product has been made in Zimbabwe, and in Africa, the company says. This marks a shift toward more local processing of lithium. Says Prospect: “This inaugural shipment represents the first lithium salt ever produced in Zimbabwe and across Africa, marking a major step forward in regional mineral beneficiation and industrialisation.” In 2022, Zimbabwe banned exports of raw lithium. By then, major miners, including Huayou Cobalt’s Prospect, were already processing ore into concentrates. Last year, Zimbabwe raised the value addition bar further: from 2027, miners are expected to export lithium as a sulphate, a higher-value product used in battery materials. A 10% tax on concentrates is in place to push miners to make sulphates. Government suspended concentrate exports in February. It has since allowed limited exports under quotas as miners move production up the value chain.

They killed Lucky Dube thinking he was a Nigerian! Lucky Dube killers admitted they did not realize their victim was Lucky Dube until they read about it in the newspapers the following day. State witnesses and police reports indicated the killers believed Dube was a Nigerian national. They were specifically hunting for a Chrysler 300C to hijack and targeted him because of the vehicle. One of the convicted men, Sifiso Mhlanga, later claimed from prison that he shot because he "panicked," mistakenly thinking Dube was reaching for a gun when he was actually reaching for his car keys Three men! Sifiso Mhlanga, Mbuti Mabe, and Julius Gxowa were sentenced to life imprisonment in April 2009 for the 2007 murder of South African reggae star Lucky Dube. The killers were convicted in the Johannesburg High Court for shooting Dube during a failed hijacking, and were also convicted of related armed robbery charges.

Flying between African cities forces many travelers to transit outside the continent, through London, Paris or Dubai. But a $12.5 billion airport under construction in Ethiopia could help change that. cnn.it/4mLS4Bj

Last night I went to watch the premier of “Michael” at Westgate cinema with my family. After the movie, we couldn’t help but attempt some MJ moves! 🤣🕺🏽💃🏾🎩.

Congratulations on South Africa’s iconic Garden Route being ranked as the world’s best road trip. Stretching along the country’s southern coast, this breathtaking route is renowned for its unique blend of ocean vistas, lush forests and vibrant communities.

I want to thank everyone for the outpouring of love and thank you for believing in me to lead the company that has always put you at the center of our work. This is not goodbye. It’s a hello to John and I can’t wait for you to get to know him like I do! 🙏

Sony spent up to $400 million making a single video game. It sold 25,000 copies in 14 days before Sony pulled it from sale. Cost per copy sold: about $16,000. The studio shut down two months later. The executive who warned them had already been fired for saying no. The game was Concord. The executive was Shuhei Yoshida, who ran Sony's in-house game studios for 11 years and helped ship some of the biggest PlayStation hits ever: God of War, The Last of Us, Uncharted, Ghost of Tsushima. These are games you buy once and finish. Sony made billions on that model. Spider-Man alone generated $315 million in digital sales. The Last of Us 2 pulled nearly $250 million. God of War Ragnarok sold 15 million copies, with $279 million from digital downloads alone. Then in 2019, a new CEO took over PlayStation. Jim Ryan wanted Sony's studios to stop making those kinds of games and chase a different model: live service. Live service is Fortnite's model: games designed to keep you playing and paying forever, earning money through endless small purchases instead of one-time sales. Ryan told his team to ship 12 of these by 2025. Yoshida refused. Ryan removed him from running the studios and gave him a choice: take a smaller role working with indie developers or leave the company. Yoshida took the role and stayed at Sony for another six years. At an industry event in Australia last weekend, he finally said plainly that Ryan fired him from running the studios for refusing to do the 'ridiculous things' Ryan had demanded. Of those 12 live service games, 8 were cancelled before they ever came out. Naughty Dog killed a Last of Us multiplayer game in late 2023. Bend Studio's sci-fi game died in January 2025. Twisted Metal and a London fantasy game were both scrapped in early 2024, and the London studio was closed. Insomniac's Spider-Man multiplayer was abandoned. A God of War live service game was cancelled, then the studio making it (Bluepoint) was shut down this past February. A Destiny spin-off was scrapped. Deviation Games, a studio Sony had partnered with, was shut down before shipping anything. Only one of the 12 actually worked. Helldivers 2 was a big hit. But the studio that made it, Arrowhead, isn't owned by Sony, and they've already said they won't partner with Sony on their next game. The total damage under Ryan: $3.7 billion spent buying Bungie (the studio behind Destiny), up to $400 million written off on Concord, and roughly 1,500 jobs lost across studios that got shut down. The PS5 generation is now short on the kind of games that built PlayStation in the first place. Yoshida was pushed out in 2019 for saying no to one strategy. Five years and a few billion dollars later, Sony's current CEO says the new plan is to 'fail early and fail cheaply.'

@Techzim What is Econet AI?

At the launch of Econet AI. Let’s see what they got in store for us

The Codex promotion for existing Plus subscribers ends today and as a part of this, we’re rebalancing Codex usage in Plus to support more sessions throughout the week, rather than longer sessions in a single day. The Plus plan will continue to be the best offer at $20 for steady, day-to-day usage of Codex, and the new $100 Pro tier offers a more accessible upgrade path for heavier daily use.

I realize yesterday’s Codex reset came in a bit at an unfortunate time given the last one was almost perfectly a week ago. To really celebrate the 3M I’ll reset again tomorrow. Thanks for the feedback!

@andrewjiang that's the $200 plan?

I have literally never ran out of codex tokens I use it every day across maybe 6-8 work trees / repos Incredible value right now

To celebrate 3 million weekly codex users, we are resetting usage limits. We will do this every million users up to 10 million. Happy building!

not gonna lie, on monday like this they would have gotten my ass

2025 winners of the 4 big SF awards.

After 3 years on Netflix, African Folktales Reimagined - the African short films anthology produced by Netflix and UNESCO, is leaving the platform on 28 March. Here's your last chance to watch all the six shorts: •Anyango and the Ogre (Kenya) •Katera of the Punishment Island (Uganda) •Katope (Tanzania) •Halima's Choice (Nigeria) •Enmity Djinn (Mauritania) •MaMlambo (South Africa) For more on what to watch, explore our Cinema & Streaming Guide here: sinemafocus.com/what-to-watch-…

Flights to India are now booked for June!!! everything looks set for me to win my lavish dinner with my Rockstar source regarding GTA 6 for Switch 2. My source(who has gotten various things right) has been saying for months that GTA 6 will arrive day and date for Switch 2 which I thought was utter crap and called him out and he proceeded to double down so we now have this bet going. Rockstar has until early May to announce the Switch 2 version otherwise I win. I will be sure to post photos of the dinner lol.

Everyone’s missing the real story here. Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses need human data annotators to train the AI. When you say “Hey Meta” and ask the glasses to analyze something, that video gets sent to Meta’s servers, then routed to Sama, a subcontractor in Nairobi, Kenya. Workers there manually label objects in your footage. They see everything you recorded, intentionally or not. 7 million pairs sold in 2025 alone. Every single pair generates training data that flows through human eyes in Kenya. Workers told Swedish journalists they see people undressing, using bathrooms, having sex, and accidentally filming bank card details. One worker said “we see everything, from living rooms to naked bodies.” Meta’s automatic face anonymization is supposed to protect people in the footage. Workers say it fails in certain lighting. Faces that should be blurred are sometimes fully visible. The person you recorded without knowing? A stranger in Nairobi can identify them. Buried in Meta’s terms of service is one sentence doing enormous legal work: the company reserves the right to conduct “manual (human) review” of your AI interactions. That’s the legal cover for routing intimate footage from Western homes to a $2/hour labor force operating under NDAs, office surveillance cameras, and a strict no-questions policy. Workers say if you raise concerns about what you’re seeing, you’re fired. This is the same company, Sama, that TIME exposed in 2023 for paying Kenyan workers $2/hour to label graphic content for OpenAI while being billed at $12.50/hour per worker. Workers described the experience as torture. Sama ended that contract, then pivoted to labeling Meta’s glasses footage. Same workforce. Same rates. Meta markets these glasses as “designed with your privacy in mind.” The privacy design is a tiny LED light on the frame that most people don’t notice. The data pipeline behind it routes your bedroom footage to a contractor with a documented history of worker exploitation, failed anonymization, and union-busting lawsuits. And the next generation of these glasses? Meta is planning to add facial recognition. The same system that can’t reliably blur faces in training data wants to start identifying them on purpose. The LED light on the frame is doing about as much for your privacy as the terms of service nobody reads.

A number of Japanese game developers have warned that while there haven't been reports of mass layoffs in Japan like there have in the West, staff reductions are still taking place in less immediately visible ways. vgc.news/news/despite-t…

South African wine exports to Zimbawe have grown to $23.6M, making it the 8th biggest export market. Is this a sign of Zim’s growing economy? Wine is a luxury afterall . A conversation worth having on @fridaydrinks_ . @baba_nyenyedzi @rufarogz . I have witnessed how the wine and food culture has grown over the past 5 years. The demand is very high. There’s a significant majority of people who love and want to drink wine but haven’t had access to wine. Then they’re those who have studied, worked, or lived abroad coming back with altered views, taste and expectations.