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Google unveiled Gemini 3.8 Flash, its third Flash-tier model release in six weeks, alongside a new cybersecurity model for government and enterprise clients. The launch coincided with a federal judge rejecting the Justice Department's demand that Google divest its ad exchange, and with Berkshire Hathaway's Greg Abel publicly praising Alphabet's AI standing.
Roughly 12 terabytes of data from Valve's old Steam2 backend, covering games published between 2003 and 2013, has surfaced online after being left exposed in a public repository. The trove reportedly includes prototype builds like an early version of Left 4 Dead with a different HUD, materials tied to the canceled Half-Life 2: Episode 3, and files from non-Valve titles such as Grand Theft Auto 5. Content creators covering Valve say no hacking was involved, and only game data was exposed, not player information.
Researchers have completed a proof of the sharpness conjecture for percolation on infinite transitive graphs, closing a problem that mathematicians including Itai Benjamini and Oded Schramm had pursued for decades. The result establishes how quickly phase transitions occur in these systems, confirming that above the critical threshold the connected structure behaves like a vast, dominant network rather than scattered isolated clusters.
A 12-terabyte trove of Steam2-era content dating from 2003 to 2013 has appeared online, reportedly containing nearly every uploaded build for that decade, including cut Portal 2 assets, Half-Life 2: Episode 3 files, and beta versions of Left 4 Dead 2, CS:GO, Spore, and Dragon Age: Origins. Researchers say the material came from an unsecured public API tied to Valve's old distribution system, which was replaced by SteamPipe in 2013 and left this data exposed without any password protection.
A massive 12TB torrent dubbed the Steam 'teraleak' has surfaced online, containing thousands of game depots from Valve's old Steam2 content distribution system used between 2003 and 2013. The trove includes public release builds as well as previously unseen prototype, pre-release, and playtest versions of games from Valve and third-party publishers. Data miner Gabe Follower says the material was pulled from a publicly accessible API endpoint, suggesting the exposure originated from Valve's own systems rather than a hack.
An unidentified party leaked over 12TB of Valve's internal builds and unreleased assets, spanning games published on Steam between 2003 and 2013. The trove reportedly includes early versions of Portal 2, Left 4 Dead, CS:GO, and material tied to the canceled F-Stop project and the long-rumored Half-Life 2: Episode 3. Researchers say the data appears to have been exposed via a publicly accessible endpoint, which explains why nothing newer than 2013 has surfaced.
An Android Authority contributor reflects on a decade-plus of Android use, singling out six apps she's kept installed the entire time despite trying countless others. The list features lesser-known picks like the streaming aggregator Just Watch and the productivity tool Notion, alongside other apps not covered in the excerpt, deliberately excluding mainstream staples like Spotify or YouTube.