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GTA 6 leaker cashes out in $250,000 crypto rug pull just hours before Rockstar’s official reveal — memecoin crashes as Cyberleek’s ‘anti-corporate’ campaign end

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The final leak, a four-plus-minute cut of protagonist Lucia’s prologue, appeared on August 26, with the same on-screen plea for more leaks in exchange for more trading volume. No new leaks have been posted since the meme…

Motorless solid-state cooler uses heat to cool itself; could recycle processor heat into cooling — shape-memory alloy films could turn data center exhaust into

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The thermal actuator delivered a force-to-displacement ratio of 14.5 N/mm, compared with 1.1 N/mm for a commercial electromechanical actuator the researchers used as a reference. The thin films also provide a high surfac…

Nvidia denies pausing AI cloud commitments initiative after reported partner backlash — report claims company told cloud providers it could only lease its GPUs

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While actual percentages and economic terms have not been disclosed, it should work pretty straightforwardly. Nvidia provides a take-or-pay commitment that it rents, say, 30% of the capacity of a newly built facility and…

DIY archivists push budget Nikons to 902,000 clicks to save 1,800 rare books — team trains neural net on Photoshop edits to process 526,000 scans

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The first challenge was matching the crop borders, easier said than done because “dense Urdu print repeats strokes, words, borders, and column patterns,” meaning that marks from neighboring pages could throw off the meas…

Massive 12TB Steam leak reveals decades of unreleased games — archived files include unseen Half-Life 2: Episode 3 builds and assets

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The archive consists of old Steam content-server data from 2003 to 2013, overlapping with the timeline of the platform’s upgrade from the old Steam2 system to SteamPipe. Valve used to distribute games via proprietary NCF…