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GTA VI Trailer Exclusively Premieres on Netflix First

Rockstar Games will debut its next major GTA VI preview exclusively on Netflix, a blockbuster marketing shift that treats the game's final trailer like a premie

Aug 6, 20265 min
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Nintendo Hides $300M Tariff Refund From Buyers

Nintendo booked a massive $902 million quarterly profit, supercharged by a $300 million US tariff refund it has no plans to pass on to the customers who origina

Aug 6, 20267 min
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Chinese Routers Hide Secret Backdoor in 'Maintenance' Firmware

Security researchers found a hidden remote control trojan, dubbed ENDLESSDOORS, embedded in the firmware of over 20 Zbtlink router models, which the Chinese ven

Aug 6, 20266 min
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DHS Hires Bounty Hunters to Collect Deportation Fines

The Department of Homeland Security is hiring private investigators as bounty hunters to find deported immigrants abroad, aiming to collect billions in fines it

Aug 6, 20268 min
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Stripping the Moonshot Mystique from AI Leadership

Google's leadership reshuffle sidelines its premier AI researchers, ending the era of open-ended moonshots to enforce a stricter focus on product integration an

Aug 6, 20266 min
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Block Axes 40% of Staff, Code Output Jumps 150%

Six months after cutting 40% of its workforce, Block's radical AI shift is showing results, with the number of code changes per engineer soaring 150% and featur

Aug 6, 20266 min
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Meta's New AI Builds Six Game Features at Once

Meta launches Muse Code, a terminal agent that autonomously manages complex software engineering tasks, marking a direct push to monetize its AI tech in the com

Aug 5, 20265 min
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Meta's Muse AI Makes 10,000-Line Refactors

Meta has launched Muse Code, an AI agent designed to autonomously handle complex, system-wide engineering tasks across large repositories by using agentic plann

Aug 5, 20266 min
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Meta Betrayed AI's Open Future for Your Code

Meta has abandoned its open-source strategy, launching Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2 as proprietary, cloud-only tools that offer cheap AI in exchange for develop

Aug 5, 20268 min
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Robotaxis Need a Backbone — Moove Just Raised $250M to Build It

Moove raised $250M, pivoting from ride-hailing financing to become the physical backbone for scaling robotaxi fleets, aiming to own the depots and maintenance f

Aug 5, 20265 min
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Why Big VC Hired a Partner over Instagram DM

Lightspeed Venture Partners hired a new partner, Claire Zau, through an Instagram direct message, signaling that distribution and audience reach are becoming th

Aug 5, 20267 min
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Jeff Dean's Departure Evacuates Google's AI Brain Trust

Jeff Dean and other core Google AI architects have left to launch a startup, marking a major institutional brain drain for the tech giant.

Aug 5, 20265 min