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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…

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…

Magnetic core memory USB drive transfers files in sneakernet first — text and image files get moved between PCs via hugely constrained archaic memory tech

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Mark Tyson is a news editor at Tom’s Hardware. He enjoys covering the full breadth of PC tech; from business and semiconductor design to products approaching the edge of reason. “,”collapsible”:{“enabled”:true,”maxHeight…

At least three exhibitors got robbed at Gamescom 2026 — laptops and handhelds with unfinished game builds stolen from locked cabinets

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Laley reportedly lost all his laptops from his booth, while iam8bit said in its X post that it’s missing two laptops as well. Meanwhile, Tessera Studios had two laptops and a Steam Deck taken from its cabinet. Laley’s an…

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…