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Exclusive: 'Jason seems quite deadpan and monotone' — Former GTA dev says he wants to see more personality from the GTA 6 protagonist, since Rockstar 'usually gives us characters who are funny and have their own flair'

* Former Rockstar Games developer Mike York says Grand Theft Auto 6's Jason "seems quite deadpan and monotone" * York hopes Jason will show more personality, like Grand Theft Auto 4's Niko Bellic * He also suggests co-protagonist Lucia will contrast Jason's more subdued personality

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OpenAI says it's no longer sponsoring Caltech's math hackathon, where participants use AI to solve research problems, following criticism of “slop mathematics”

Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running

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Ukrainian Conti Ransomware Developer Sentenced to 4 Years in US Prison

A United States court sentenced Ukrainian national Oleksii Oleksiyovych Lytvynenko to four years in prison this week for his role in the Conti ransomware operation. Lytvynenko, 44, was arrested in Ireland in 2023 and extradited to the United States in late 2025. He pleaded guilty to wire fraud in June

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Asus routers escape the US foreign-made router ban, but TP-Link is still waiting

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. What just happened? Good news for fans of Asus routers: the FCC has announced that the Defense Department does not believe they pose a security risk. That means the devices have been granted "

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Insta360 launches a single-lens Osmo Pocket rival you can actually buy in the US

Dominic Preston is a news editor with over a decade’s experience in journalism. He previously worked at Android Police and Tech Advisor. Insta360’s first compact steadicam, the Luna Ultra, made a splash this year by beating DJI to launch with two lenses. Now it’s followed the Ultra

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Thinking like a hacker is key to strengthening resilience

If you've worked in cybersecurity for as long as I have, then you'll know there are a couple of things you can count on. First, the threats that are out there never stop evolving. And second, sooner or later, you're going to be in

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Source and draft press release: the Trump admin will lend $100M to Africell, Africa's only US-owned telecom company, aiming to counter Huawei's Africa expansion

Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running

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Check Point Patches Critical VPN Vulnerabilities

Cybersecurity firm Check Point this week announced patches for two critical-severity vulnerabilities in its gateway and firewall products using VPN functionality. Tracked as CVE-2026-85102 and CVE-2026-85103 (CVSS score of 9.8), both security defects could be exploited without authentication for remote code execution (RCE), Check Point warns. The former is

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AI sovereignty - NVIDIA and Palantir make their pitch With tech sovereignty now firmly established as an enterprise agenda item. NVIDIA and Palantir have announced a new AI collaboration around critical supply chains. Based on Palantir’s Ontology offering, The result is a solution that combines NVIDIA’s Nemotron open

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He’s One of Just 50 People With Olive Garden’s Lifetime Pasta Pass. You Choose What He Eats Next

Everyone knows that when you’re at Olive Garden, you’re family. But in the 44 years since the casual Italian-American restaurant chain was founded, few have embraced it with the ardor that Braden Sinclair has. In fact, way back in his Little League days, a coach named him “Breadsticks.

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Kiteworks Acquires Bonfy.AI to Fill the AI Gap in Data Governance

Kiteworks has announced the acquisition of AI data security company Bonfy.AI, a move aimed at extending real-time policy enforcement over sensitive data exchanged by both human users and AI agents. Kiteworks delivers a content-sharing platform to safeguard sensitive data as it moves across enterprise networks, external organizations, and internal

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Renesas Expands its RZ/G System-on-Chip Family with HMI, IoT-Focused RZ/G3L and RZ/G3SE

Renesas has announced two new entries in its RZ/G family, targeting human-machine interface (HMI) and the edge of the Internet of Things (IoT) respectively: the RZ/G3L and RZ/G3SE, both pin-compatible. "As industrial and IoT devices grow more sophisticated, customers need to balance performance, power consumption, connectivity

Exclusive: 'Jason seems quite deadpan and monotone' &mdash; Former GTA dev says he wants to see more personality from the GTA 6 protagonist, since Rockstar 'usually gives us characters who are funny and have their own flair'

OpenAI says it's no longer sponsoring Caltech's math hackathon, where participants use AI to solve research problems, following criticism of “slop mathematics”

Ukrainian Conti Ransomware Developer Sentenced to 4 Years in US Prison

Asus routers escape the US foreign-made router ban, but TP-Link is still waiting

Insta360 launches a single-lens Osmo Pocket rival you can actually buy in the US

Thinking like a hacker is key to strengthening resilience

Source and draft press release: the Trump admin will lend $100M to Africell, Africa's only US-owned telecom company, aiming to counter Huawei's Africa expansion

Check Point Patches Critical VPN Vulnerabilities

The long and the short of it - the week in digibytes

He’s One of Just 50 People With Olive Garden’s Lifetime Pasta Pass. You Choose What He Eats Next

Kiteworks Acquires Bonfy.AI to Fill the AI Gap in Data Governance

Renesas Expands its RZ/G System-on-Chip Family with HMI, IoT-Focused RZ/G3L and RZ/G3SE

Exclusive: 'Jason seems quite deadpan and monotone' — Former GTA dev says he wants to see more personality from the GTA 6 protagonist, since Rockstar 'usually gives us characters who are funny and have their own flair'