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A source identified only as Cyberleek has released a 25-minute gameplay video from Grand Theft Auto VI containing significant story spoilers, as reported by Kotaku. The footage, which also promotes the leaker's memecoin, shows co-protagonist Jason fully nude and appears to suggest the game may be playable in that state. Rockstar has not commented, and the game remains on track for its November 19 release.
Microsoft is testing a redesigned Windows Search built on WinUI 3, featuring faster animations, a large inline preview pane, and improved natural-language matching that tolerates typos and synonyms. Corporate VP Anshul Rawat says early tests show better performance and memory usage, and the new interface lets users preview files like PowerPoint slides and photos, send texts, and perform launcher-like actions directly from search.
Caige Bragg, an 18-year-old from Alabama, won the Strike King Bassmaster High School National Championship held at Paris Landing State Park in Tennessee, beating 213 other teams with a catch weighing 11 pounds, 3 ounces. His prize included a $25,000 boat and a $5,000 college scholarship. Youth participation in organized bass fishing has reportedly doubled over the past decade to about 12,000 members.
Amazon has manufactured its 1,000th Leo (formerly Project Kuiper) satellite at its Kirkland, Washington factory, which it built from an empty building into a production facility in roughly 15 months. Company executive Paul Palcisco said Amazon builds and tests each satellite in a matter of weeks, with the propulsion system developed entirely in-house while other components are sourced externally. Amazon says commercial service rollout is now only weeks away.
A developer released Diffle, an open-source tool that opens Git diffs in the browser for review, letting users comment on lines, blocks or entire files using keyboard shortcuts. Comments can be exported as a prompt for an AI coding agent or submitted as a pending review on GitHub. It installs via pixi, npm, or a standalone binary for Linux, macOS and Windows, and supports various diff modes including PR reviews, commit views and range-diffs.
Florida and Rhode Island have indicated they have no near-term plans to support Apple Wallet digital driver's licenses, even as more US states roll out the feature. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis publicly opposed digital IDs, citing risk of government abuse, after the state discontinued an earlier digital ID program in 2024. In Rhode Island, AAMVA board chair Walter Craddock said he's waiting for broader demand and more places that accept mobile licenses before investing in the technology.
Dubai-based deep-tech firm Xpanceo says it has built 28 working prototypes of AI-powered smart contact lenses, backed by more than 50 patents. Founder Roman Axelrod says the lenses, which pair wirelessly with an external companion device for power and computing, will be revealed at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in March 2027. The lenses contain a screen, biosensors, microbattery and antenna, and could use tear fluid to monitor health.
Security researchers at Bitdefender say firmware on low-cost Android devices using MediaTek chipsets has been shipping with malware that grants system-level control, enabling silent app installs, ad fraud, and turning phones into residential proxies. The campaign has affected thousands of devices across more than 150 countries over roughly two years, hitting models from Doogee and Cubot as well as phones impersonating Samsung and Apple products.
Paramount Pictures is adapting CD Projekt Red's Cyberpunk 2077 video game into a live-action feature film, according to Deadline. Transformers producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura is attached to the project, though no release date or other details have been announced.
Elon Musk publicly accused unnamed 'oligarchs' of blocking Starlink's entry into India to protect a monopoly, then directly asked whether Reliance's Mukesh Ambani is 'the real boss of India.' India's Ministry of Communications rejected the claims, saying Starlink and two other licensed satellite operators are at the same regulatory stage and all face mandatory security assessments before receiving spectrum.
Retraction Watch identified the nonsensical phrase 'vegetative electron microscopy' appearing repeatedly in recent academic papers. The term originated from a faulty optical character recognition scan of a 1959 paper that merged 'vegetative cell' from one text column with 'electron microscopy' from an adjacent column. The phrase has since propagated into databases and, apparently, into AI-generated or AI-assisted manuscripts submitted to journals.
New York's lawsuit against TikTok alleges the company ran experiments in which thousands of users, including teens and children, believed they had activated 'Algo Refresh,' a feature meant to reset their content recommendations, but their feeds never actually changed. Users outside the experiment group who enabled the same feature got a fully working version. The suit is one of more than two dozen state cases accusing TikTok of designing its platform to be addictive to children and misrepresenting its safety tools.