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An Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is proving harder to contain than health officials hoped. The Bundibugyo strain, confirmed in Ituri Province after four healthcare workers died within four days, has seen suspected cases multiply rapidly since the alert was raised earlier this month. The remote terrain and strained local infrastructure are making rapid response genuinely difficult.
On the hardware side, Silicon Motion has announced its SM2524XT controller, a six-nanometer chip promising fourteen gigabytes per second read speeds and up to two-and-a-half million random input-output operations per second for mainstream solid-state drives. The company is pitching it hard at AI PC workloads, specifically targeting the kind of low-latency cache access that local AI models demand. It's a sign that even mid-range storage is being reshaped by the AI compute wave.
And for fans of The Witcher Three, developer CD Projekt Red has confirmed that the upcoming Songs of the Past expansion will bring new Gwent cards, and that long-awaited cross-platform mod support is still in active development. The studio offered a straightforward reassurance to players: it is coming.
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